电子科技大学-621英语水平测试【2014】考研真题
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电子科技大学
2014 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
考试科目：621 英语水平测试
注:无机读卡， 所有答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上无效.
Part I Reading Comprehension (40 points).
Directions: In this part there are 5 passages, each with some questions or incomplete statements.
Read them carefully and then choose from the four suggested answers marked A. B. C. and D to
answer the questions or complete the statements. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
First, the university will take on an even larger role in assisting pre-college education in
preparing students for study and work. Success on college is greatly impacted by student preparation.
Thus, the university will need to take more responsibility in guiding the process in college
preparation.
Partnerships with corporations and businesses will become a greater part of university
involvement. The 21st century will see expansion of partnerships of this type particularly with
research universities. These will take on different forms. They will involve collaboration for
education of an older workforce, collaboration for organizational and process improvement in both
types of organizations, agreements for special consideration in student recruitment and internships,
and employment and funding between the partners. Each will need to undergo some modification of
culture as these changes occur.
The convener role involves bringing people to campus to address certain important issues. It
means identifying experts around the world to join with those on campus to seek understanding and
actions for change. This conference sponsored by Peking University is an example of the convener
function. It also involves bringing people together to learn about modern approaches to the latest and
important issues in many different fields. This role has been served for many years in agriculture,
education and engineering. Others are emerging, and the future will have universities serving even
broader roles as convener of experts in many different areas.
The world role for universities is another that is evolving rapidly. It is being driven by
increasing ease of communication worldwide, the connectivity of economies of countries around the
world, the opening up of greater opportunities for trade, and the increasing prevalence of
multinational corporations.
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1. In what way will the university play a larger role in the future?
A. Helping students find jobs.
B. Helping students prepare for study and work.
C. Arranging the process of college preparation.
D. Ensuring every student achieves success in study.
2. Which of the following is NOT true of the research universities in the 21st century?
A. They will offer education to an older workforce.
B. They will make organization and process improvement.
C. They will modify the culture they are in.
D. They will collaborate with corporations and business in students’ employment and funding.
3. The passage is organized by ________.
A. making a list of the roles played by the university in the 21st century
B. comparing and contrasting several roles played by the university
C. introducing a phenomenon first and then analyzing its reasons
D. preparing a problem first and then its solutions
Passage 2
Each year in the never-ending cycle of death and regeneration, the rains sweep across southern
Asia. Between June and October strange sea winds surge over the land, drenching the earth with
torrential downpours. This is the monsoon—a familiar word often taken to mean a violent
windstorm, but in fact referring to a tumultuous season of recurring rains.
The monsoon is close to the very soul of the people it touches; it permeates the lives of the
people and affects everything they do. India is especially dominated by it. For three months before
the monsoon rains arrive, the heat is intense, unbearable: the earth itself is dead; farmers cannot
work the stone-hard fields; bare subsistence is difficult. With the rains, everything suddenly
changes—India bursts into life again; fields that seemed hopelessly barren turn green and grow
wildly.
The rich new season is one of beauty, but to the peasant it is a beauty shot through with possible
disaster. Overflowing with the great rains, the Ganges River moves relentlessly to the sea, hiding
beneath its shining but deceptive calm the horror of fields and homes overcome by flood. The horror
of flood and cyclone rides always with the monsoon clouds when they come to redeem the land. The
peasants have no resource but resignation.
4. The monsoon is correctly described as a ________.
A. torrential downpour B. violent windstorm
C. season of recurring rains D. violent thunderstorm
5. The monsoon is said to be “close to the very soul of the people it touches” because ________.
A. it plays a significant role in Asian religions B. it is destructive
C. the people are resigned to it D. it affects all aspects of their lives
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6. The peasant’s reaction to the monsoon is ________.
A. resignation B. hope that the next year will be better
C. Joy D. relief
7. Which of the following is implied but not stated?
A. India is the only country affected by the monsoon.
B. Monsoons seldom affect people in temperate climates.
C. After the floods subside, the great heat will begin again.
D. The monsoon completely permeates the lives of people.
Passage 3
A recent history of the Chicago meat-packing industry and its workers examines how the
industry grew from its appearance in the 1830s through the early 1890s. Meat- packers, the author
argues, had good wages, working conditions, and prospects for advancement within the
packing-houses, and did not cooperate with labor agitators since labor relations were so harmonious.
Because the history maintains that conditions were above standard for the era, the frequency of labor
disputes, especially in the mid. 1880s, is not accounted for. The work ignores the fact that the 1880s
were crucial years in American labor history, and that the packing-house workers’ efforts were part
of the national movement for labor reform.
In fact, other historical sources for the late-nineteenth century record deteriorating housing and
high disease and infant mortality rates in the industrial community, due to low wages and unhealthy
working conditions. Additional data from the University of Chicago suggest that the packing-houses
were dangerous places to work. The government investigation commissioned by President Theodore
Roosevelt which eventually led to the adoption of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act found the
packing-houses unsanitary, while social workers observed that most of the workers were poorly paid
and overworked.
The history may be too optimistic because most of its data from the 1880s, at the latest, and the
information provided from that decade, is insufficiently analyzed. Conditions actually declined in the
1880s and continued to decline after the 1880s, due to a reorganization of the packing process and a
massive influx of unskilled workers. The deterioration in worker status, partly a result of the new
availability of unskilled and hence cheap labor, is not discussed. Though a detailed account of work
in the packing-houses is attempted, the author fails to distinguish between the wages and conditions
for skilled workers and for those unskilled laborers who comprised the majority of the industry’s
workers from the 1880s on While conditions for the former were arguably tolerable due to the
strategic importance of skilled workers in the complicated slaughtering, cutting, and packing process
(though worker complaints about the rate and conditions of work were frequent), pay and conditions
for the latter were wretched. The author’s misinterpretation of the origins of the feelings the
meat-packers had for their industrial neighborhood may account for the history’s faulty
generalizations.
The pride and contentment the author remarks upon were, arguably, less the products of the
industrial world of the packers—the giant yards and the intricate plants—than of the unity and
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