1、工程硕士(GCT)英语-132 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Vocabula(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.Americans eat _ as they actually need every day. A. twice as much protein B. twice protein as much twice C. twice protein as much D. protein as twice much（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.2.There are few electronic applications _ to raise
2、fears regarding future employment opportunities than robots. A. likely B. more likely C. most likely D. much likely（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.3.We had to _ a lot of noise when the children were at home. A. go in for B. hold on to C. put up with D. keep pace with（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.4.This crop does not do well in
3、 soils _ the one for which it has been specially developed. A. outside B. other than C. beyond D. rather than（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.5.“You are very selfish. Its high time you _ that you are not the most important person in the world. “ Edgar said to his boss angrily. A. realized B. have realized C. realiz
4、e D. should realize（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.6.He will surely finish the job on time _ hes left to do it in his own way. A. in that B. so long as C. in case D. as far as（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.7.If this kind of fish becomes _ , future generations may never taste it at all. A. minimum B. short C. seldom D. scarce（分数
5、：2.00）A.B.C.D.8.The same factors push wages and prices up together, the one _ the other. A. emphasizing B. reinforcing C. multiplying D. increasing（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.9.In Disneyland, every year, some 800,000 plants are replaced because Disney refused to signs asking his “guests“ not to step on them. A
6、. put down B. put out C. put up D. put off（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.10._ difficulties we may come across, well help one another to overcome them A. Wherever B. Whatever C. However D. Whenever（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.二、BPart Reading (总题数：4，分数：40.00)Directions:In this part there are four passages, each with four sugge
7、sted answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.When I was still an architecture student, a teacher told me, “We learn more from buildings that fall down than from buildings th
8、at stand up. “ What he meant was that construction is as much the result of experience as of theory. Although structural design follows established formulas, the actual performance of a building is complicated by the passage of time, the behavior of users, the natural elementsand unnatural events. A
9、ll are difficult to simulate. Buildings, unlike cars, cant be crashtasted.The first important lesson of the World Trade Center collapse is that tall buildings can withstand the impact of a large jetliner. The twin towers were supported by 59 perimeter columns on each side. Although about 30 of these
10、 columns, extending from four to six floors, were destroyed in each building by the impact, initially both towers remained standing. Even so, the death toll (代价) was appalling2,235 people lost their lives.I was once asked, how tall buildings should be designed given what wed learned from the World T
11、rade Center collapse. My answer was, “Lower“. The question of when a tall building becomes unsafe is easy to answer. Common aerial fire-fighting ladders in use today are 100 feet high and can reach to about the 10th floor, so fires in buildings up to 10 stories high can be fought from the exterior (
12、外部).Fighting fires and evacuating occupants above that height depend on fire stairs. The taller the building, the longer it will take for firefighters to climb to the scene of the fire. So the simple answer to the safety question is “Lower than 10 stories“.Then why dont cities impose lower height li
13、mits? A 60-story office building does not have six times as much rentable space as a 10-story building. However, all things being equal, such a building will produce four times more revenue and four times more in property taxes. So cutting building heights would mean cutting city budgets.The most im
14、portant lesson of the World Trade Centex collapse is not that we should stop building tall buildings but that we have misjudged their cost. We did the same thing when we underesti-mated the cost of hurtling along a highway in a steel box at 70 miles per hour. It took many years before seat belts, ai
15、r bags, radial tires, and antilock brakes became commonplace. At first, cars simply were too slow to warrant concern. Later, manufacturers resisted these expensive devices, arguing that consumers would not pay for safety. Now we dowillingly.（分数：10.00）(1).The first paragraph tells us that _. A. archi
16、tecture is something more out of experience than out of theory B. architecture depends just as much on experience as on theory C. it is safer for people to live in old buildings D. we learn not so much from our failures as from our success（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What can we learn from the WTC collapse?
17、 A. Although the structure of the two buildings was very strong, the death toll was still very shocking. B. The structure of the two buildings was of the first class. C. The structure of the two buildings was not so strong as people had expected. D. The structure of the two buildings was strong enou
18、gh to withstand any accidents.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Ideally, the policy in city construction should be _. A. lower than ten stories B. the lower, the better C. the higher, the better D. higher than ten stories（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Why are there still high buildings, or even skyscrapers in many cities?
19、 A. Because they are the symbol of modern time. B. Because many cities now lack building space. C. Because high buildings are an important financial source of a citys budget. D. Because high buildings represent the level of a countrys science and technology.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What is the most impo
20、rtant lesson of the WTC collapse? A. We should wear seat belts while driving. B. We should build low buildings just as we should drive slowly. C. We should make building tall buildings illegal. D. We should pay for safety while constructing tall buildings.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.When I was walking down the
21、 street the other day, I happened to notice a small brown leather wallet lying on the sidewalk. I picked it up and opened it to see if I could find out the owners name. There was nothing inside it except some change and an old photographa picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old, w
22、ho looked like the womans daughter. I put the photograph back and took the wallet to the police station, where I handed it to the desk sergeant. Before I left, the sergeant took down my name and address in case the owner might want to write and thank me.That evening I went to have dinner with my aun
23、t and uncle. They had also invited a young woman so that there would be four people at the table. Her face was familiar. I was quite sure that we had not met before, but I couldnt remember where I had seen her. In the course of conversation, however, the young woman happened to mention that she had
24、lost her wallet that afternoon. All at once I realized where I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photograph, although she was now much older. She was very surprised, of course, when I was able to describe her wallet to her. Then I explained that I had recognized her from the photograph I h
25、ad found in the wallet. My uncle insisted on going to the police station immediately to claim the wallet. As the police sergeant handed it over, he said that it was amazing that I had not only found the wallet, but also the person who had lost it.（分数：10.00）(1).The wallet which the writer found _. A.
26、 was empty B. had some money in it C. had a few coins and a photograph in it D. had an old photograph in it（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The writer opened the wallet because he wanted to _ in it. A. find some money B. find some gold C. find the owners name D. find the owners photograph（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Th
27、e writer recognized the young woman because _. A. he had met her somewhere before B. she was the old woman in the photograph C. she often had dinner with his aunt and uncle D. she looked like the young girl in the photograph（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The young woman told of her loss of the wallet _. A. at
28、 the beginning of the dinner B. during the conversation C. as soon as she saw the writer D. after the dinner（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The story was amazing because _. A. the writer found both the wallet and its owner B. the finder and the loser of the wallet were old friends C. the finder and the loser o
29、f the wallet met at the police station D. the woman knew the writer and his uncle（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.Fear and its companion pain are two of the most useful things that men and animals possess, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play it until their hands were b
30、urnt away. Similarly, if pain existed but fear did not, a child would burn itself again and again, because fear would not warn it to keep away from the fire that had burn it before. A really fearless soldierand some do existis not a good soldier because he is soon killed; and a dead soldier is of no
31、 use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which men and animals might soon die out.In our first sentence we suggested that fear ought to be properly used. If, for example, you never go out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a
32、car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not absolutely safe: an airplane may crash on your house, or ants may eat away some of the beams in your roof so that the latter falls on you, or you may get cancer!The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but instead to
33、 use fear as your servant and guide. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to take. In many cases, you can take quick and successful action to avoid the danger. For example, you see a car coming straight towards you; fear warns you, you jump out of the way, and all is we
34、ll.In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to avoid the danger. For example, you cannot prevent an airplane crashing onto your house. In this case, fear has given you its warning; you have examined it and decided on your course, of action, so fear of this particular
35、danger is no longer of any use to you, and you have to try to overcome it.（分数：10.00）(1).Children would play with fire until their hands were burnt away if _. A. they were given no warning beforehand B. they had never burnt themselves C. they had no sense of pain D. they were fearful of the fire（分数：2
36、.00）A.B.C.D.(2).A really fearless soldier _. A. is of little use to the army B. is without equal C. is nothing but a dead soldier D. easily gets killed in a battle（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).Fear should be used properly because _. A. an airplane may crash on your house B. you may get cancer C. fear can onl
37、y be used as a servant and guide D. men are now letting fear rule them too much（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).People sometimes succeed in timely avoiding danger because _. A. they have gained experience B. they jump out of the way in time C. they are calm in face of danger D. they are warned of the danger and
38、 can take quick action（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Implied but not stated: _. A. Fear is always something helpful B. Too much fear is harmful C. Fear ought to be used as a servant and guide D. Fear is something unprofitable（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.Why does cream go bad faster than butter? Some researchers think the
39、y know the answer, and it comes down to the structure of the food, not its chemical compositiona finding that could help rid some processed foods of chemical preservatives.Cream and butter contain pretty much the same substances, so why cream should sour much faster has been a mystery. Both are emul
40、sions-tiny globules (小球) of one liquid evenly distributed throughout another. “The difference lies in whats in the globules and whats in the surrounding liquid“, says Brocklehurst, who led the investigation. In cream, fatty globules drift about in a sea of water. In butter, globules of a watery solu
41、tion are locked away in a sea of fat. The bacteria which make the food go bad prefer to live in the watery regions of the mixture. “This means that in cream, the bacteria are free to grow throughout the mixture“, he says. When the situation is reversed, the bacteria are locked away in compartments (
42、密封仓) buried deep in the sea of fat. Trapped in this way, individual colonies cannot spread and rapidly run out of nutrients. They also slowly poison themselves with their waste products. “ In butter, you get a selflimiting system which stops the bacteria growing“, says Brocklehurst. The researchers
43、are already working with food companies keen to see if their products can be made resistant to bacterial attack through alterations to the foods structure. Brocklehurst believes it will be possible to make the emulsions used in salad cream, for instance, more like that in butter. The key will be to
44、do this while keeping the salad cream liquid and not turning it into a solid lump.（分数：10.00）(1).The significance of Brocklehursts research is that _. A. it suggested a way to keep some foods fresh without preservatives B. it discovered tiny globules in both cream and butter C. it revealed the secret
45、 of how bacteria multiply in cream and butter D. it found that cream and butter share the same chemical composition（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to the researchers, cream sours faster than butter because bacteria _. A. are more evenly distributed in cream B. multiply more easily in cream than is bu
46、tter C. live on less fat in cream than in butter D. produce less waste in cream than in butter（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to Brocklehurst, we can keep cream fresh by _. A. removing its fat B. killing the bacteria C. reducing its water content D. altering its structure（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).The word
47、 “colonies“ (Line 6, Para. 3) refers to _. A. tiny globules B. watery regions C. bacteria communities D. little compartments（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).Commercial application of the research finding will be possible if salad cream can be made resistant to bacterial attack _. A. by varying its chemical comp
48、osition B. by turning it into a solid lump C. while keeping its structure unchanged D. while retaining its liquid form（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.三、BPart Cloze/(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Directions:For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.Educational attitudes in a country may be a U U 1 /U /Uby which its basic cul
