2015. 05.09学位英语真题
Part I Reading comprehension
Passage 1
Maggie Walker was born in 1976 in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother was once a slave in a rich woman’s hou. When Maggie was very young, a thief killed her father. Her family was impoverished, so Maggies’ mother started doing laundry in her home. Maggie had to help her. She washed clothes every day, but she continued to go to school. She was a very good student, especially in math.
After Maggie graduated from high school, she got a hob as a teacher. In 1886, she married Armistead Walker. T天下兴亡匹夫有责hey had two sons and Maggie stayed home to care for them. She also volunteered to help a social organization called the Order of St. Luke. This organization helped African Americans take care of the sick and bury the dead. Maggie Walker loved the work of the organization. The organization believed that African Americans should take care of each other.
心理健康板报Over the years, Maggie Walker had more and more responsibilities with the organization. In 1895, she suggested that St. Luke begin a program for young people. (76) This program became very popular with schoolchildren. In 1899, Walker became Grand Secretary Treasure of the St. Luke organization. However, becau she was a woman, she received less than half the salary of the man who had the job before her.
The Order of St. Luke had a lot of financial difficulties when Walker took over. It had a lot of unpaid bills and only $31.61 in the bank. But soon Maggie Walker changed all of that. (77) Her idea was to get new members to join the organization. In just a few years, it grew from 3,400 members to 50,000 members. The organization bought a $100,000 office building and incread its staff to 55. Now Walker was ready for her next big step.
相信未来食指
1.Maggie’s father died ___________.
A. when she finished high school B. before she was born
C. when she was very young D. after she got married
2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A.Maggie had two children. B. Maggie was once a slave.
C. Maggie was good at math. D. Maggie taught for a while.
3. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Maggie loved to help other African Americans.
B. Maggie was very popular with schoolteachers.
C. Maggie was the founder of the Order of St. Luke.芋艿的营养价值
D. Maggie was better paid than men as Grand Secretary Treasurer.
4. The word impoverished in Paragraph 1 is clost in meaning to ___________.
A. difficult B. rich C. famous D. poor
5. After Paragraph 4, the author will probably talk about Maggie’s ___________.
A. education B. next project C. pay D. childhood
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Passage 2
When Bill de Blasio ran for New York City mayor last year, he promid to end a controversial (有争议的), citywide cell-phone ban (禁令) in public schools, which is not equally enforced in all schools. Now, under his leadership, the city is preparing to end the ban. It will be replaced by a policy that allows phones inside schools but tells students to keep them packed away during class.
Many schools have a rule about enforcing the ban that says, “If we don’t e it, we don’t know about it.” That means teachers are OK with students bringing in cell phones, as long as they stay out of sight and inside bags and pockets.
But at the 88 city schools with metal detectors, the ban has been strictly enforced. The detectors were installed to keep weapons out of schools, but the scanners (扫描仪) can also detect cell phones. 李贞将军So students at the schools must leave 斑斓是什么意思their phones at home or pay someone to store it for them.
The ban was put into place in 2007 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Ending the ban will also likely end an industry that has sprung up near dozens of the schools that enforce the ban. Workers in vans (厢式货车) that remble food trucks store teens’射人先射马 cell phones and other devices for a dollar a day.
(78) Critics of the ban say cell phones are important safety devices for kids during an emergency. They also say that enforcement of the ban is uneven and discriminatory. Where the ban is enforced, it puts a disadvantage on students who can’t afford to pay to store their phones.
Before putting an official end to the cell-phone ban, city education officials are working on creating a new policy. (79) It will include rules about not using the phones during class or to cheat on tests.
6. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
A. New York City will give financial aid to poor students.
B. New York City plans to restrict cell phone u in libraries.
C. New York City plans to install metal detectors in all public schools.
D. New York City will soon end a ban on cell phones in schools.
