ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAM
FOR NON-ENGLISH MAJOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
TIANJIN UNIVERSITY(Jan26,2007)
PART II:Vocabulary
Directions:In this part,there are20incomplete ntences.For each ntence there are4choices marked A,B,C,and D.Choo the one that best completes the ntence.Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
16．The minister of education recently promid____incentive grants to the teachers who intend to reform their teaching methods.
A.obvious
C.substantial
17.____in the book and reference lending should be given to the doctoral candidates who are to finish their disrtations in their last year’s study.
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A.Promotion
columnmodelB.Preference
C.Precaution
D.Priority
18.Wealthy people often____in winter days to warmer sunnier countries.
B.migrate
C.immigrant
19.To join a fitness program,____must be within a certain height and weight range.
A.voters
B.partners
C.designers
D.participants
20.Some demographers remain____about the population growth and stress that population growth is,at any rate in the long term,a good thing.
A.subjective
B.objective
C.hopeless
D.optimistic
21.The____of undergraduate experience should be assd by the performance of the graduate in the workplace and further education.
B.impact
C.capability
D.proficiency
22.Citizens are now enjoying better dental health,as shown by the declining____of tooth decay.
C.accident
D.incidence
23.The major goal of the tourism department is to____more people to visit its country at the turn of the century.
A.induce
D.arou
24.The workers strongly____their factory director for neglect of duty.
A.indicated
B.demonstrated
C.announced
D.denounced
25.Having shut himlf in his study for a while,he went to a movie to____his mind from his worries.
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C.attract
D.distract
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PART III.CLOZE
Directions:In this part of the test,you’ll read an incomplete passage with10blanks.Read the passage carefully,and choo the best answer from choices marked A,B,C and D.Then on your ANSWER SHEET,find the number of the question and mark your answer with a single line through the center.
Today it can be said that wheels run America.The four rubber tires of the automobile move American through work and pay:wheels_31_,and people drive off to their jobs;_32_turn,and people shop for the week’s food at the big supermarket down the highway;hubcaps whirl,_33_ the whole family spends a day at the lake.Each year more wheels crowd the highways as10 million new cars roll out of the factories._34_every six Americans works at asmbling cars, driving trucks,_35_roads,or pumping gas.America without cars?It’s_36_.
But even though the majority of Americans would find_37_to imagine what life would be like without a car,_38_have begun to realize that the automobile is a mixed blessing.Traffic accidents are increasing steadily,and large cities are_39_by traffic congestion.Worst of all, perhaps,is the air pollution caud by the internal-combustion engine.Every car engine _40_hundreds of gallons of fuel each year and pumps hundreds of pounds of carbon monoxide and other gas into the air.The gas are one_41_of the smog that hangs over large cities. Some of the gas are poisonous and dangerous to one’s health,especially for someone with a _42_heart or a respiratory dia.
One answer to the problem of air pollution is to build a car that_43_pollute.That’s what veral major automobile manufacturers are trying to do.
But building a clean car is_44_said than done.So far,progress has been slow.Another solution is to eliminate car fume altogether by getting rid of the internal-combustion engine. Inventors are now working on turbine-powered cars,as well as on cars powered by steam and _45_.But most of us won’t be driving cars run on batteries or boiling water for a while yet.Many auto makers believe that it will take years to develop practical models that are powered by electricity or steam.
31. A.move B.moving
C.spin
D.spinning
32. A.Cars B.Workers
C.People
D.Tires
33. A.so B.but
C.and
D.as
34. A.Almost B.Among
C.One in
win the dayD.One out
35. A.build B.built
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D.building
36. A.unthinkable B.possible
C.predictable
D.uncertain
37. A.hard B.it hard
C.possible
D.it possible
38. A.some B.few
D.car makers
39. A.embarrasd B.plagued
C.panicked
D.paralyzed
40. A.turns B.fires
google 翻译网C.burns
D.purchas
41. A.type B.resource
C.way
D.source
42. A.weak B.kind
C.strong
D.quick
43. A.does not B.prevents
D.prerves
44. A.often B.easier
C.hardly
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45. A.gas B.electricity
C.turbine
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D.water
PART IV READING COMPREHENSION
Passage1
In April1865,when John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre,the curtain finally fell on a play that had begun almost as soon as the American colonies gained their independence from England.In1776,America’s Declaration of Independence declared that“all men are created equal”;44years later we were wrestling with a question:how can a nation founded on the idea of individual freedom reconcile itlf with the existence of human slavery?
In1819,22states were in the Union,11Free,11Slave.The South’s economy was bad on the growing of cotton,and cotton was profitable only on the back s of slaves.As new states were admitted to the Union,the South wanted as many as possible to be slave states,not only to support their economy,but to prevent the North from obtaining a majority in Congress and quite possibly changing the Constitution to outlaw slavery completely.The issue came to a head when Missouri applied to be admitted as a slave state.Thomas Jefferson called the debate that began with Missouri“like a fireball in the night,which awakened me and filled me with terror.I considered it at once the knell(丧钟)of the nation.”
War was avoided this time as compromi was reached and Missouri would be admitted as a slave state.Maine,the next state admitted to the Union,would be admitted as free,thereby prerving the balance of power in the Congress.
By1860，when the new Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, compromi would no longer work.Lincoln wanted to contain the spread of slavery.With Lincoln’s election in November of that year,the South felt that it was only a matter of time before the Southern States lost their slim Democratic Party majority to tho who wished to abolish slavery.It was in this same year that John Wilkes Booth said that“So deep is my hatred for such men that I wish I had them in my grasp and I the power to crush.”
Equally passionate,Lincoln held that America was the“Last Best Hope on Earth”for freedom.The United States was unique in the family of nations.Of all the nations in the world, only America was governed by her people.Kings,Queens,Princes or Emperors ruled all the old
countries,where rights held by the government and given to the people.In America,rights were held by the people and given to the government.The irony was that the Old World had done away with slavery decades before,yet here the United State,beacon of Freedom–had human bondage (奴役).Li
ncoln said it himlf,“the nation cannot exist half-slave and half-free,it must be all of one thing or all of the other.”
46.We learn from the first paragraph that________.
A.the eds of the American Civil War were sown when the nation was founded.
B.John Wilkes Booth had plotted to kill Lincoln from the moment America gained its
independence
C.all men in America obtained equal rights with the Declaration of Independence
D.John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln at the end of a performance in Ford’s Theatre.
47.The fundamental conflict between the Union and the South lies in_________.
B.political beliefs
48.It can be inferred from the context of Para.4that________.
A.John Wilkes Booth was one of the firebrands of the south
B.the Democratic Party was strongly oppod to slavery
C.with the election of Lincoln the South lost its majority in Congress
D.the Civil War could have been avoided if Lincoln had not won the election
49.What did Lincoln wish to do when he became President of the United States?
A.Make compromis.
B.Prevent the spread of slavery.
C.Strike a balance.blest
D.Get prepared for war.
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50.In what way was America unique in the family of nations?
A.It was the only nation that allowed the existence of slavery.
B.It was the only nation that existed half-slave and half-free.
C.It was the only nation who government gave rights to the people.
D.It was the only nation who government was elected by the people.
Passage2
Back in1986,Noble Prize winner David Baltimore authored a paper that said that inrting a special mou gene into a certain strain of mice caud changes in the host mou’s antibodies–a finding that promid to be significant for genetic modification of the immune system.
A postdoctoral rearcher in the lab,Margot O’Toole,found she was unable to reproduce some of the reported results in her own experimental mice.Her attempts to resolve the problem with her immediate boss,Dr.Thereza Imanishi-Kari,led O’Toole to suspect defects or errors in the original rearch and she made her suspicions public.
scientOne thing led to another,and in time,O’Toole found herlf in touch with two rearchers at the National Institutes of Health(N.I.H.)Ned Feder and Walter Stewart,who had rin to public prominence in the mid-1980s as fraud-busters.The lf-appointed watchdogs took up her cau with eagerness,and the nature of her complaints began to shift from claims of shoddiness to
accusations of dishonesty and cover-up.
Against a background of public anxiety about fraud in science,the ca came before an N.I.H. scientific panel.The press began to portray（描绘）the idealistic O’Toole as a martyr sacrificed by her scientific niors:it was said,wrongly,that she had lost her job and her home,and had been cold-shouldered by the establishment.The cover letter to a draft report from the N.ittee said Imanishi-Kari was guilty of“rious scientific misconduct”and accud Baltimore of a cover-up.The fact that he had stuck by his co-workers was read as proof of his arrogance and irritation at having his own authority challenged.
The crucial time came in1989when Reprentative John Dingell presd a ries of Congressional hearings.A man dedicated to rooting out the misu of Federal funding,not least by unaccountable scientists,he was handed a gift on a plate when Baltimore lost his cool under questioning,alleging th
at the investigation reprented a threat to scientific freedom and implying that none but scientists had the right to monitor themlves,becau they alone could understand how science works.Dingell then launched a humiliation exerci.He brought Secret Service to examine Imanishi-Kari’s lab notebooks in hopes of uncovering after-the-event tampering.The affair took on the air of a scientific Watergate,and science itlf emed to be on trial.
This could not have come at a wor moment for Baltimore:he had just taken up a highly prestigious appointment as president of Rockefeller University.A whispering campaign,probably involving jealousies,forced Baltimore’s resignation after just18months.
If the ri and fall of Baltimore emed to unfold with all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy, there was,after a fashion,a happy ending.Eventually the pendulum(钟摆)of opinion started to swing.Dingell began to be reprented as a latter-day Joph McCarthy.Imanishi-Kari and Baltimore assumed O’Toole’s role of victim,en as the targets of a new“Galileo trial”or a witch hunt being carried out by the“science police.”When Imanishi-Kari appealed against the findings, a further scientific review board was convened,and she was officially exonerated of(排除…嫌疑) fabrication.She got tenure,and in1997Baltimore,no longer typed as a conceited bigmouth but praid for his loyalty,was appointed president of the California Institute of Technology.
51.The story took place when________.
A.fraud in science was becoming a public concern
B.Baltimore’s honesty as a scientist was being questioned
C.there was a growing awareness of the misu of Federal funds
52.In this story,O’Toole played the role of________.
A.a victim of the witch hunt carried out by Reprentative John Dingell
B.an involuntary accomplice（同犯，帮凶）unfairly ud by the science police
C.an honest rearcher who dared to challenge a Nobel Prize winner
D.a martyr sacrificed by the scientific establishment
53.What was the fatal mistake Baltimore made?
A.He questioned the right of Congressmen to investigate the ca.
B.He stood by Imanishi-Kari and tried to cover up her misconduct.
C.He played into his opponents’hands when he gave O’Toole the cold shoulder.
D.He lost his cool and got irritated when his authority was challenged.
54.Judging from the context,Joph McCarthy was very probably a person who________.
A.was notorious for starting the investigation of Galileo’s ca
