1、GCT 工程硕士（英语）-试卷 31 及答案解析(总分：134.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Vocabulary and Struc(总题数：11，分数：22.00)1.Part I Vocabulary and StructureDirections: There are ten incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your
2、 answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.（分数：2.00）_2.It has been estimated that the earth“s surface temperature has increased _ one quarter to three fourths of a degree since 1850.（分数：2.00）A.byB.atC.toD.with3.The girl will not become a nurse because she will faint at the _ o
3、f blood.（分数：2.00）A.visionB.eyesC.sightD.view4.I probably know him _ but not _.（分数：2.00）A.by the sight; by nameB.by a sight; by nameC.by sight; by nameD.by the sight; by the name5.The girl will not become a nurse because she will faint at the _ of blood.（分数：2.00）A.visionB.eyesC.sightD.view6.If I hadn
4、“t stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell, you _ now.（分数：2.00）A.wouldn“t be smilingB.couldn“t have smiledC.won“t smileD.didn“t smile7.The_ choice for a consumer, therefore, is the choice among the available ones that will enable him or her to maximize utility.（分数：2.00）A.optimalB.optionalC
5、.opticalD.optimistic8.The local people could hardly think of any good way to _poverty they had endured.（分数：2.00）A.shake offB.ward offC.put offD.take off9.In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern Europe _ Europe into a great war.（分数：2.00）A.insertedB.imposedC.pitchedD.plu
6、nged10.He liked the painting very much, which cost him $1,000. However, he would gladly have paid _ for it.（分数：2.00）A.as much twiceB.much as twiceC.twice as muchD.as twice much11.The issue _ at the conference is very important and it will create a sensation nationwide.（分数：2.00）A.discussedB.being dis
7、cussedC.is being discussedD.has been discussed二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：5，分数：50.00)12.Part II Reading ComprehensionDirections: In this part there are four passages, each followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the b
8、est one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.（分数：10.00）_Imagine a world in which children would be the rulers and could decide not only the outcome of each and every occurrence, but also dictate the very structure and form of the environment. In this world,
9、a child“s wildest thoughts would become reality, limited only by the extent of his or her imagination. While such a world might sound both fantastic and frightening, at least from a logical, adult perspective, it does exist. What“s more, it has been in existence for some time and is populated by hun
10、dreds of thousands of children who spend hours within its boundaries experimenting and learning. This world is not real, at least not in the traditional sense, but exists within a computer and is generated by an educational programming language called LOGO. Unlike other computer languages and progra
11、ms that are designed to test children and provide applications that formally dispense information, LOGO allows children, even preschool children, to be in total control. Children teach the computer to think and as a result develop and sharpen their own reasoning abilities.（分数：10.00）(1).In the imagin
12、ed world _ would restrict children“s wildest thoughts.（分数：2.00）A.the limits of their imaginationB.the structure and form of the environmentC.the reality of lifeD.the rules of the society(2).LOGO is _.（分数：2.00）A.an educational testing programB.a computer languageC.an information dispenserD.an unreal
13、world(3).Children are rulers _.（分数：2.00）A.in the traditional senseB.within the boundaries of LOGO“s worldC.with all computer languages and programsD.in the adult world(4).LOGO is unique because _.（分数：2.00）A.it is an educational programB.it is in total control of human beingsC.it allows children to t
14、each the computer to thinkD.children use it(5).The best title for this passage would be _.（分数：2.00）A.Children Rule the WorldB.Computer LanguagesC.The Unreal World of the Child and LOGOD.Children Learn Reasoning Using LOGOI doubt that any historically valid treatment of that presidential administrati
15、on can emerge for at least another decade, if then. I confess that when I came out of the White House I signed up to do an “insider volume,“ but sober, professional second thoughts have led me to put that project on ice until at least 1980. The problem is that I simultaneously know too much, and not
16、 enough. I know what I thought was happening. But I cannot fully document what happened. And I have seen enough highly classified documents to know that most of what the observers thought was happening was at best half right, at worst dead wrong. This has steered me in a different direction as far a
17、s writing is concerned. I am now preparing what is frankly and unashamedly an ex parte memoir, “My Experiences in Washington, D. C. “ It is based on what I believed to be true, on the picture as I conceptualized it, of the presidential administration under which I worked.（分数：10.00）(1).According to t
18、he speaker, the problem with “insider volumes“ is that they_.（分数：2.00）A.tell things that should not be toldB.lack historical perspectiveC.are too sensationalD.often intentionally distort me truth(2).When the speaker says that he “put mat project on ice,“ he means that he_.（分数：2.00）A.put it in the re
19、frigeratorB.gave up on it completelyC.took a rather cold attitude towards itD.put it aside until later(3).When the speaker says that he simultaneously knew “too much, and not enough,“ he means that he was_.（分数：2.00）A.more perceptive than others who were involved at this timeB.too close to the events
20、 to see them objectivelyC.unable to see any significance in current eventsD.confused by the number of important events that were taking place(4).The speaker“s experience in reading classified documents made him realize that_.（分数：2.00）A.others had been mistaken in interpreting events that they had ob
21、servedB.others knew more about current events than he didC.he was the only responsible person who knew the truth about government affairsD.he was a more impartial observer than anyone else in the government(5).According to the speaker, “My Experiences in Washington,D.C. will deal with_.（分数：2.00）A.se
22、cret documents never before released to the publicB.an insider“s“ conceptualization of the government“s failuresC.his personal view of that presidential eraD.the administrative problems of the presidentAmericans today don“t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers,
23、 and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical educationnot to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren“t difficult to find. “Schools have always been in a society where practical
24、is more important than intellectual“, says education writer Diane Ravitch. “Schools could be a counterbalance“. Razitch“s latest bock, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they are anything but a counterbalance to the Amer
25、ican distaste for intellectual pursuits. But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot fully participate
26、in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl Shortis, “We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil society“. “Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege“, writes historian and professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American life, a Pu
27、litzer Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion, and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism. Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence
28、have been considered more noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book. Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 ye
29、ars and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing“. Mark Twain“s Huckleberry Firm exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilizedgoing to school and learning to read so he can preserve his innate goodness. Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is diff
30、erent from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines. School remains a pla
31、ce where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our country“s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise“.（分数：10.00）(1).What do American parent
32、s expect their children to acquire in school?（分数：2.00）A.The habit of thinking independently.B.Profound knowledge of the world.C.Practical abilities for future career.D.The confidence in intellectual pursuits.(2).We can learn from the text that Americans have a history of_.（分数：2.00）A.undervaluing int
33、ellect.B.favoring intellectualism.C.supporting school reform.D.suppressing native intelligence.(3).The views of Ravish and Emerson on schooling are _.（分数：2.00）A.identical.B.similar.C.complementary.D.opposite.(4).Emerson, according to the text, is probably _.（分数：2.00）A.a pioneer of education reform.B
34、.an opponent of intellectualism.C.a scholar in favor of intellect.D.an advocate of regular schooling.(5).What does the author think of intellect?（分数：2.00）A.It is second to intelligence.B.It evolves from common sense.C.It is to be pursued.D.It underlies power.Tony Huesmana heart transplant recipient(
35、接受者)who livcd a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of leukemia(白血病), but his heart will going strong“He had leukemia” his widow Carol Huesmon said“His heartbelieve it or notheld out. His heart never gave up until the endwhen it had to” Huesman got heart transplant in 1978
36、 at Stanford UniversityThat was just 11 years after the world“s first heart trasplant was performed in South AfricaAt his deathHuesman was listed as the world“s longest survivor of a single tranplanted heart both by Stanford and the RichmondVirginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing. “I“m a liv
37、ing proof of a person who can go through a life-threatening illnesshave the operation and return to a productive life” Huesman told The Dayton Daily News in 2006 Huesman worked as marketing director at a sporting-goods storeHe was found to have serious heart disease while in high schoolHis heart att
38、acked by a pncumonia(肺炎)viruswas almost four times its normal size from trying to pump blood with weakened muscles Huesman“s sister, Linda Huesmaa Lambalso was strieken with the same problem and receive a heart transplant in 1983The two were the nation“s first brother and sister heart transplant rec
39、ipientsShe died in 1991 at age 29 Huesman founded the Huesman Heart Foundation in Daytonwhich seeks to reduce heart disease by educating children and offers a nursing scholarship in honor of his sister（分数：10.00）(1).Tony Huesman died from_（分数：2.00）A.heart failureB.heart transplantC.pncumoniaD.non-hea
40、rt-related disease(2).The phrase “held out”(Para.1)probably means“_”（分数：2.00）A.failed suddenlyB.functioned properlyC.expanded gradullyD.shrank progressively(3).After his heart transplant, Tony Huesman_.（分数：2.00）A.lived a normal lifeB.received another donated organC.couldn“t go back to wordD.didn“t l
41、ive as long as expected(4).Tony Huesman died in the year of_（分数：2.00）A.1983B.1991C.2006D.2009(5).Huesman had to receive a heart transplant beacause_.（分数：2.00）A.he had an inherited heart diseaseB.he was born with heart disabilityC.his heart was infected by a virusD.his heart was injured in an acciden
42、t三、Cloze(总题数：2，分数：40.00)13.Part III ClozeDirections: There are ten blanks in the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.（分数：20.00）_Most of the people w
43、ho appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the【31】of t
44、he year, or manured a field; but we know【32】about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【33】so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the great
45、est countries are【34】that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are,【35】they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in【36】an animal or a savage
46、is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【37】them how to do it most efficiently - this, after all, is【38】conquerors and generals have done - is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peopl
47、es ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【39】by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【40】that that side which has killed most has won.（分数：20.00）A.numberB.lengthC.depthD.widthA.allB.wholeC.anythingD.nothingA.manyB.muchC.moreD.littleA.tho
48、seB.theseC.onesD.someA.sinceB.asC.andD.butA.factB.whichC.thatD.whatA.tellB.requestC.tellingD.requestingA.whichB.whatC.thatD.whateverA.thanB.wayC.meansD.methodA.chattingB.talkingC.sayingD.mumbling四、Dialogue Completion(总题数：11，分数：22.00)14.Part IV Dialogue CompletionDirections: In this part, there are ten short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each followed by four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that most appropriately suits the co
