电子科技大学-621英语水平测试【2015】考研真题
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电子科技大学
2015 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
Oh no, not Anthony Weiner again.
The older generation never gets it. Anthony Weiner, a candidate for mayor of New York,
admitted this week to having sent more snaps of himself to a digital acquaintance. As any youngster
could have told him, the way to find love is to send photos of your face.
Consider Will, a 24-year-old up-and-coming film director in California. He meets potential
dates via a smartphone app called Tinder. It finds potential matches who are nearby—your phone
always knows where you are—and shows him photos from their Facebook profiles. Will can like or
reject each photo. If a woman he likes also likes him, both are alerted and can start chatting.
Tinder is quick (you can scroll through dozens of photos in minutes) and spares your blushes
(you never know if someone rejects you). Will has already had three romantic encounters and
hundreds of matches, he says. Justin Mateen, a co-founder of Tinder, says it has made 100m matches
since its launch in September, and led to 50 marriage proposals. He adds: “The app has only really
been going for nine months. There could be a baby popping out soon.”
Americans are dating longer, which creates opportunities for matchmakers. Some are quite
direct.
Bang with Friends (BWF), another app, allows users to specify which of their Facebook friends
they would like to spend the night with. If both parties feel the same way, BWF notifies them. If not,
no one is any the wiser. BWF was booted from Apple’s app store, but that hasn’t stopped it from
creating 200,000 pairings since its January launch. BWF’s boss, admits he came up with the concept
while “a bit tipsy”.
Such apps make it easier to find potential partners, but don’t seem to have turned America into
a nation of bed-hoppers. Young women claim to have had a median of 3.6 male intimate friends
while young men 6.1 female ones. These figures may be inaccurate—men may exaggerate; women
may undercount—but they have not changed much in years.
Parents fret that staring at screens all day has made youngsters socially inept face-to-face. A
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survey by two dating sites found that 36-38% of Americans aged 21-34 ask for dates by text message.
But when they meet, they must still make their moves in person. Witty joking and a well-placed
wink still have their uses.
1. It can be summarized from the first three paragraphs that _________.
A. we used to judge a potential match by his or her appearance
B. one can find love by sending his photos to a digital acquaintance
C. Anthony Weiner is trying to win more votes from digital friends
D. Tinder will probably replace traditional matchmakers worldwide
2. The sixth paragraph is focused on _________.
A. the huge success that BWF has achieved B. the serious consequence of digital dating
C. the evolution of matchmaking in the U.S. D. the future developments of Facebook
3. The last paragraph implies that _________.
A. excessive use of apps leaves youngsters socially awkward
B. most young people find love through text messages
C. people in love often move their homes before marriage
D. verbal or non-verbal language is still used during dates
4. Potential matches found by Tinder are probably _________.
A. young, single, and nearby B. poor, married, but lonely
C. illiterate, retired, but divorced D. far-away, busy, and happy
Passage 2
The human body contains enormous quantities of energy. In fact, the average adult has as much
energy stored in fat as a one-ton battery. That energy fuels our everyday activities, but what if those
actions could in turn run the electronic devices we rely on? Today, innovators around the world are
banking on our potential to do just that.
Movement produces kinetic energy, which can be converted into power. In the past, devices that
turned human kinetic energy into electricity, such as hand-cranked radios, computers and flashlights,
involved a person’s full participation. But a growing field is tapping into our energy without our
even noticing it.
Consider, for example, a health club. With every step you take on a treadmill and with every
muscle curl, you turn surplus calories into motion that could drive a generator and produce electricity.
The energy from one person’s workout may not be much, but 100 people could contribute
significantly to a facility’s power needs.
That’s the idea behind the Green Microgym in Portland, Oregon, where machines likes
tationary bikes harvest energy during workouts. Pedaling turns a generator, producing electricity that
helps to power the building. For now, body energy supplies only a small fraction of the gym’s needs,
but the amount should increase as more machines are adapted. “By being extremely energy-efficient
and combining human power, solar and someday wind, I believe we’ll be able to be net-zero for
electricity sometime this year,” says the gym’s owner, Adam Boesel. His bikes, by the way, aren’t
the flirts to put pedal power to work. In some parts of the world, cyclists have been powering safety
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lights for years with devices called bicycle dynamos, which use a generator to create alternating
current with every turn of the wheels.
Dance clubs are also getting in on the action. In the Netherlands, Rotterdam’s new Club WATT
has a floor that harnesses the energy created by the dancers’ steps. For now, it’s just enough to power
LED lights in the floor, but in the future, more output is expected from newer technology.
5. Using human body energy as power supplies _________.
A. requires us to be strong B. is a great new idea
C. proves to be difficult D. is increasingly popular
6. It can be learned that the Green Microgym _________.
A. is using human, solar and wind power to produce electricity
B. is the first to use bikes to harvest human body energy
C. will be able to satisfy its power needs by using green energy
D. will introduce the technology to other parts of the world
7. What is the author’s most likely comment on the application of body energy?
A. It is unrealistic at present. B. It has a promising future.
C. Its effect is still unknown. D. It depends on the energy cost.
Passage 3
The first of Laurence Smith’s two weddings was meant to take place in the midwinter snow not
far south of the Arctic Circle. The second foresaw balmy blue skies in Palm Springs, California. As it
turned out, the guests were greeted by rain and slush in the far north, then by a chill and more rain in
the Californian desert.
If the weather is capable of surprising him, why should anyone trust Mr. Smith’s forecast for
2050? Because the growing freakiness of weather is precisely his point. Climate change is one of
four mega-trends, along with globalization, population growth and surging demand for natural
resources, that he thinks will shape the world over the coming decades. The first part of his book The
New North: The World in 2050 is a familiar tale of teeming cities, roaring trade, harder-to-get-at oil
and rising sea levels.
But Mr. Smith comes into his own when he explores the consequences of these trends (climate
change especially) for the quarter of the Earth that lies at latitudes above 45°N. A geographer at the
University of California, Los Angeles, he specializes in the frozen lands of Russia, Canada, Alaska
and Iceland. The region is about to undergo a great transformation.
The planet’s warming may be global, but climate-change models predict it will be amplified in
the north. Permafrost will melt and settlement patterns will change. Inland, construction will become
trickier and ice roads less dependable, so development will gravitate to the coasts. By mid-century
the Arctic Ocean may be briefly free of sea ice in September, a boon to shipping. Crops will spread
north as seal hunters become farmers.
Interest in the region’s vast and increasingly accessible natural resources is already growing,
along with the potential for conflict over the rights to these riches. Mr. Smith believes there is every
chance that the development of the “new north” will be peaceful, thanks to habits of cooperation and
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