華宏2004年MBA聯(lián)考[英語]模擬試題（三） Section I：Listening Comprehension (20 points) Directions: This Section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. (20 points) Now look at Part A in your test booklet. Part A Directions: For Questions 1—5, you will hear a talk about the beauties of Hawaii. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you’ve heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points) Hawaii the number of the islands in Hawaii1 the average temperature of the water at Hawaii Beach2 the second beauty of Hawaii3 the Polynesians have lived in Hawaii forabout ___ years4 the number of the races in Hawaii5 Part B Directions: For questions 6—10, you will hear a woman talk about her shopping experience. While you listen, complete the sentences or answer the questions. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and questions below. (5 points) The woman wanted to purchase some things for6 When did the store promise to send the items? 7 What color did the woman order for her curtains?8 How did the woman feel after she opened the items delivered by the store?9 How long has it been since the woman complained but no one came to deal with the problem?10 Part C Directions: You will hear three pieces of recorded material. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only. (10 points) Questions 11—13 are based on the following dialogue. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11—13. 11. According to the woman, how extensively were the apartments damaged?�� A. One was damaged more severely than some others.�� B. All the apartments were completely destroyed.�� C. There was one thousand dollars of damage.�� D. All the twenty apartments suffered some damage.�� 12. What did the man say about some of the apartment residents?�� A. They were killed.�� B. They were taken to the hospital.�� C. The damage to the apartments was more serious than the harm to the residents.�� D. They weren’t frightened.�� 13. What is the topic of this conversation? A. Fire damage to some apartments.�� B. How to prevent fires.�� C. An apartment fire and what one can learn from it.�� D. An early morning news story. Questions 14—16 are based on the following dialogue. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14—16. 14. Why did the woman open the door when someone knocked on it? A. Because she knew the men.B. Because she thought it was her husband. C. Because she was waiting for them.D. Because she was afraid of them. 15. Which of the following is NOT among the things taken by the robbers? A. A camera.B. A wallet with ＄200 in it. C. A watch.D. Some jewelry. 16. Why didn’t the woman report soon after the robbers ran off? A. Because she fainted.B. Because she was too scared. C. Because her husband didn’t allow her to.D. Because she was bound and gagged. Questions 17—20 are based on the following monologue. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17—20. 17. What made Herman Melville leave school? A. The poverty. B. The business failure and the death of his father. C. The change of residential places. D. The new job he got. 18. Which book concerns about the sufferings of a young gentleman among brutal sailors? A. Redburn.B. Moby Dick. C. The Confidence Man.D. Billy Budd. 19. What theme is a prominent one in Melville’s works? A. The theme of a youth dealing with brutal sailors. B. The theme of a youth’s unhappy experiences. C. The theme of a youth meeting unexpected with realities and evils. D. The theme of a youth’s sailing experiences. 20. Where did Melville gain the information about whaling? A. In the Marquesa Islands.B. On an Australian ship. C. On an American ship.D. On a whaling ship to South Sea. You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET. THIS IS THE END OF SECTION I Section II: Vocabulary and Structure (10 points) Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET 1 with a pencil. 21. At the beginning of the match the football team seemed to be ______, but they won in the end. A. failingB. defeatingC. losing D. conquering 22. This novel is so badly written that I can hardly ______ what the writer is trying to say. A. fill outB. find outC. think outD. figure out 23. The ______ thus incurred will be payable by the ship, freight, and cargo in proportion to their respective value. A. investmentB. consumption C. expenditure D. cost 24. It is ______ of you to turn down the radio while your sister is ill in bed. A. considerableB. considerateC. concernedD. careful 25. The survival ______ of some wild animals is not very high as they are ruthlessly hunt. A. rateB. degreeC. ratioD. scale 26. The clothes a person wears may express his ______ or social position. A. curiosityB. status C. determinationD. significance 27. The success of the film shows that the reviewer’s fears were completely ______. A. misfired B. misunderstood C. misguidedD. unjustified 28. The same factor pushed wages and prices up together, the one ______ the other. A. emphasizingB. reinforcing C. multiplyingD. increasing 29. Your bill, including room service and the meals you had here, ______ one hundred and forty-five dollars. A. adds up toB. makes upC. counts upD. gets together 30. All the students were excited at the ______ of a weekend sports competition. A. opinionB. view C. ideaD. thoughts 31. Now that small country has taken a more independent stand ______. A. as it had been beforeB. as it did before C. than it had been a few years agoD. than it did a few years ago 32. He wasn’t appointed chairman of the committee ______ not very popular with all its members. A. to be consideredB. consideringC. being consideredD. having considered 33. ______ the door when a gust of wind blew out the candle on the desk. A. He had no sooner openedB. Hardly had he opened C. Scarcely did he openD. No sooner did he open 34. If the law and order ______, neither the citizen nor his property is safe. A. is not preserved B. have not been preserved C. won’t be preservedD. are not preserved 35. We agree to accept ______ they thought was the best tourist guide. A. whateverB. whomeverC. whicheverD. whoever 36. I advised her that in the presence of the princess she should not say anything until ______. A. being askedB. askedC. to be askedD. having being asked 37. My son’s new school bag cost me ______ the one that I bought last year. A. three times as more asB. three times as many as C. three times as much asD. as much three times as 38. ______ the people have become masters of their own factory ______ the system can really serve the people. A. It is only then/thatB. It was that/when C. It was when/thenD. It is only when/that 39. The young woman didn’t go to the party, but she does wish she ______ there. A. would beB. has beenC. would have beenD. had been 40. When they went into the shop and asked to look at the engagement rings the girl brought out the cheaper ones, ______ she had arranged with James. A. which was thatB. what was that C. which was whatD. that was that Section III: Cloze (5 points) Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 1. What valuable resources can be used at no cost to the user, markets will not 41 efficient use of them. Our natural environment is a frequent victim of this kind of market failure. 42 of the most serious forms of environmental degradation is acid rain. Policymakers are still struggling to 43 coherent and effective approaches to deal with this externality. In 44 , the solution is simple. Allowable levels of contributing emissions should be reduced until the marginal benefit from further reduction no longer exceeds the marginal 45 of reducing emissions. Implementing this rule is tough. As always, politics can 46 when one constituency will be hurt even though society as a whole will 47 . The tougher issues, though, are as ones of measurement. Estimating the benefits of lower health risks from environmental population is hard. An accurate assessment of the 48 link between acid rain and damaged forests would involve more scientific information than we have. These two 49 in evaluating the benefits of pollution reduction are 50 difficult and controversial. 41. A. makeB. takeC. wantD. put 42. A. ManyB. AllC. OneD. Some 43. A. haveB. findC. deserveD. reach 44. A. briefB. practiceC. effectD. theory 45. A. debtB. feeC. costD. expense 46. A. disturbB. interfereC. interruptD. affect 47. A. gain B. obtainC. receiveD. gather 48. A. closeB. firmC. casualD. moderate 49. A. stepsB. cataloguesC. functionsD. ways 50. A. undoubtedlyB. unavoidablyC. unfortunatelyD. uncertainly Section IV: Reading Comprehension (40 points) Part A Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are for choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET 1 with a pencil. Questions 51 to 54 are based on the following passage: It’s only natural to look forward to something better. We do it all our lives. Things may never really improve, but at least we always hope they will. It is one of life’s great ironies that the longer we live, the less there is to look forward to. Retirement may bring with it the fulfillment of a lifetime’s dreams. At last there will be time to do all the things we never had time for. From then on, the dream fades. Unless circumstances are exceptional, the prospect of growing really old is horrifying. Who wants to revert to that most dreaded of all human conditions, a second childhood? Well, it seems that everybody wants to. The Biblical span of three score years and ten is simple not enough. Medical science is doing all it can to extend human life and is succeeding brilliantly. Living conditions are so much better, so many diseases can either be prevented or cured that life expectation has increased enormously. No one would deny that this is a good thing－provided one enjoys perfect health. But is it a good thing to human suffering, to prolong life, not in order to give joy and happiness, but to give pain or sorrow? Take an extreme example. Take the case of a man who is so senile that he has lost all his faculties. He is in hospital in an unconscious state with little chance of coming round, but he is kept alive by artificial means for an indefinite period. Everyone, his friends, relatives and even the doctors agree that death will bring release. Indeed, the patient himself would agree－if he were in a position to give voice to his feelings. Yet everything is done to perpetuate what has become a meaningless existence. The question of euthanasia raises serious moral issues, since it implies that active measures will be taken to terminate human life. And this is an exceedingly dangerous principle to allow. But might it not be possible to compromise? With regard to senility, it might be preferable to let nature take its course when death will relieve suffering. After all, this would be doing no more than was done in the past, before medical science made it possible to interfere with the course of nature. There are people in Afghanistan and Russia who are reputed to live to a ripe old age. These exceptionally robust individuals are just getting into their stride at 70. Cases have been reported of men over 150 years old. Under such exceptional conditions, who wouldn’t want to go on living forever? But in our societies, to be 70, usually means that you are old; to be 90, often means that you are decrepit. The instinct for self-preservation is the strongest we possess. We cling dearly to life while we have it and enjoy it. But there always comes a time when we’d be better off dead. 51. What is the biggest irony in life? A. People always look forward to something better. B. The older one becomes, the more capable one will be. C. The longer our life, the less hope there is. D. One will never realize his or her dream when young. 52. Which one of the following factors is irrelevant to one’s life according to the passage? A. Natural environment.B. Medical science. C. Living conditions.D. Religious belief. 53. What does “faculty” (Para. 4) refer to ______. A. the old man’s friends B. the old man’s colleagues C. the old man’s memoryD. the old man’s body functions 54. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? A. People will be regarded as the old at the age of 70. B. All the people in Afghanistan and Russia are long-living. C. Most people in the world want to live as long as possible. D. The oldest person in the world is approximately 150 of age. Questions 55 to 58 are based on the following passage: Today, in America, those with disabilities certainly live in a far more “handicapped-friendly” environment than they used to do when I was growing up there during the sixties. Today American public restrooms have extra-wide stalls to allow people in wheelchairs to use their facilities. All public buildings have ramps, in addition to stairs, to allow people in wheelchairs access. Public buses have special lifting platform at the entrance to help people in wheelchairs get on board. In fact my search on the relevant Internet web pages revealed that special arrangements for the handicapped now include far more than these highly visible measures. All of these improvements—and some of them are obviously very expensive to implement—did not come about simply because of someone’s magnanimity, but rather because providing access to all people including those who suffer a disability is a matter of Federal Law. Last July 26, America celebrated the tenth anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which provided the legal basis for bringing about the changes listed above. Professor Gordon S. Wood of Brown University points out that within a decade or two around the American Revolution, Americans ceased to feel psychologically that they were members of a hierarchical world—i.e., one of “dependency” on their social and economic “betters”—but instead were “as good as the next fellow”. This reflects the implicit American value that everyone ought to advance in life on his own efforts, and that it is “bad” in an important sense to have had someone else’s help (especially one’s family’s help) in becoming successful. The flip side of this is that it is equally “bad” to not be able to make it on your own because you happen to be born with, or suffer from, a disability. It is part of the “radicalism” of the American experience to believe very strongly that “I’m just as good as everyone else” and everyone should therefore have an equal opportunity to be successful. In an important sense, Americans tend to look at success in life as a kind of game in which there will be big winners, small winners, and even a few losers. Implicit in the nature of games, however, is that they are played fairly. As children, Americans detest the sandbox bully who plays by his own rules and spitefully takes his toys home when other will not abide by them. All of this brings me back to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Its point is to provide equal opportunity for those who have been with the disability, or having suffered, a serious disability not of their own making. We scold our children when they point or stare at strangers who appear different. Implicit, I guess, Americans feel that even the act of pointing at a stranger is in some way a diminution of his or her fundamental status as an equal human being. 55. Why is so much improvement for the disabilities implemented in America? A. Because the American law regulates it. B. Because American people are forced to do it. C. Because American people are ready to help the handicapped. D. Because all Americans are generous. 56. All of the following reveal the disabilities’ living environment EXCEOT ______. A. extra-wide stalls are available in toilets B. public buses have special lifting platform for the disabled C. webpages provide them with some special arrangements D. all public buildings have special ramps for wheelchairs to go through 57. The passage mainly tells us ______. A. equality is the core of what it feels like to be an American B. all the disabled are well treated in America C. the memorial of American Disabilities Act D. the improvement for the disabled in America 58. What can be inferred from the Americans’ attitude towards life? A. Americans always hope to be the final winner. B. They believe people should have equal opportunity to succeed. C. They think everyone ought to advance in life on his own efforts. D. Every American likes to control others. Questions 59 to 62 are based on the following passage: In cities all over the United States, workers spend several hours a day in cars crawling along in traffic to get to offices many miles from home. They experience stress, waste time, and pay a lot for gas, car maintenance, and parking. Once they get to work, they make their way through a maze of cubicles, each with its computer, phone, and file cabinet. Nancy Alley, human resources manager at TBWA Chiat/Day, doesn’t. She stays at home in her pajamas with a pile of resume, talking with managers over the phone and faxing in paperwork. Instead of walking down the hall to chat with coworkers, she e-mails them. Nance is a telecommuter, someone who works some or all of the time at home, and she is part of a trend. Since 1990, the number of U.S. telecommuters has grown from 4.2 million to 9.2 million, and by the turn of the century, 55 million people worldwide have been telecommuting. Highway congestion, the high cost of office space, federal clean-air laws, reduced work forces, and lifestyle needs all these factors contribute to the growth of telecommuting. What makes it possible is technology. Desktop and laptop personal computers, networking, videoconferencing, fax machines, E-mail, and multiple phone lines provide the fast and efficient communication required for telecommuting. The experiences of many companies suggest that telecommuting can increase workplace flexibility and enhance productivity. At Georgia Power Company, for example, a pilot telecommuting project was so successful that the company decided to triple its number of telecommuters. The company reduced the cost of leased office space by $100,000 a year, increased productivity among the telecommuting employees of its customer service center, and saved the workers a combined 750 commuter miles a day. Telecommuting, however, is not without its obstacles. At one computer software firm, the information systems manager offered telecommuting as an option to her 100 person staff. After three months, the staff members reported that being away from the office was counterproductive to their work. Programmers missed being able to drop by analysts cubicles with questions, and everyone reported they were interrupted at home more often. As part of its cost-cutting initiative, Nestle required 140 sales employees to telecommute. Facing many technical problems with telephone lines and frustratingly slow computer networking, most of these telecommuters found it an aggravating experience. Telecommuting also makes many employees feel isolated and out of touch, leading to decreased motivation and less, not more productivity. By blurring the barriers between work and family, telecommuting often leads to more work hours and more interference with family life. Telecommuting is not universally applicable. Jobs and individuals must be suitable, and staff must be capable of managing telecommuters. In addition, technological improvements, such as high-speed modems, are crucial. Few people expect to conduct business regularly from a tropical island or mountain resort any time soon. 59. The following statements are true EXCEPT that ______. A. telecommuting saved a lot of time on the way to work B. telecommuting reduced the cost of office space C. telecommuting left employees more leisure time D. telecommuting was suitable for customer service 60. In what way can we make telecommuting more acceptable? A. By publicizing the advantages of telecommuting. B. By increasing the number of telecommuters. C. By training employees to be more communicative. D. By solving technological problems. 61. The word “aggravating” (Para. 4 ) most probably means ______. A. annoyingB. interestingC. aggressiveD. memorable 62. The author writes the passage to ______. A. introduce a new way of working B. discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working at home C. discuss the possibility of replacing traffic with telecommuting D. illustrate that telecommuting needs to be perfected Questions 63 to 65 are based on the following passage: Management skills training is usually reserved for those who supervise other employees. It is frequently tied to managerial career development. At Whirlpool Corporation and many other large organizations, management training is linked directly to the succession planning process, as managers are recommended for training based on the need to build their competencies for specific future career moves. Digital Equipment Corporation has developed such a career-focused curriculum for HR professionals. Entry-level education includes overviews of HR functional areas, as well as discussions of consulting skills and valuing differences. At mid-level, the curriculum includes prevention skills, creating and maintaining positive business partnerships, and implementing strategic plans. At the senior level, the curriculum includes international business acumen, valuing difference leadership, and strategic organizational consulting. Increasingly, companies customize management programs to focus on actual issues facing the organization, rather than sending managers to the large university-sponsored management development programs. The dean of MIT’s Sloan School says executive education is outmoded, and the process should be called organizational transformation. At Weyerhaeuser, they train spouses of executives using outdoor team building exercises and business games in which the spouses run a simulated business. Perhaps Weyerhaeuser believes that such training fosters the kind of partnership that Bill and Hillary Clinton have developed. If you train the spouse, why not include the children, too? Creativity is a topic more frequently included in management training. At Texas Utilities Mining Company, an executive and a 10-year-old played with ring-shaped magnets on wooden dowels. Sometimes the magnets repel, leaving one suspended above its neighbor. The boy tells the manager, “it seems to me that you could replace a hydraulic suspension system with a magnetized system like this, and it would last forever. There are no parts to wear out.” The executive, stunned, says, “that’s a multibillion-dollar idea. Do you mind if I use it?” The kid shrugs, “Nah. Go ahead. I’ve got lots of ideas.” 63. The passage mainly concerns with ______. A. succession planning processB. actual issues facing organization C. management trainingD. managerial career development 64. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Valuing difference leadership is one of the curriculums set in mid-level education. B. Many companies like to send their manager to join the small university-sponsored management development programs. C. Weyerhaeuser has a good relationship with Bill and Clinton. D. Managers want to have training because they develop their abilities for their future promotion. 65. The ten-year-old is mentioned in the passage to tell us ______. A. he has a multibillion-dollar idea B. he knows a lot about hydraulic system C. management training is important for children D. creativity is part of management training Part B Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then give short answers to the five questions. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 2. The US Supreme Court has just stepped into a public debate about the relationship between property and creativity in the information age. The Court’s decision to hear an obscure copyright case looks certain to fuel a debate that could have lasting implications for the publishing and entertainment industries and for individuals ranging from artists to scientists. Its examination of the limits of intellectual property will elevate to national prominence, a debate previously limited to academics, intellectuals and the occasional computer geek. The case in question tests the constitutionality of what opponents call the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act”, the 1998 copyright extension law that saved Disney’s cartoon character from imminent death, in copyright terms. The justices must decide whether the US Congress exceeded its authority when it used that law to extend copyright protection by twenty years. Beyond the semantics lies a much more important public debate about the nature of property on the Internet. In a world where the theft of copyrighted property has been rendered effortless by technology, how can creators be rewarded without stifling the flow of ideas necessary to feed future creation? How can society balance private and public rights in ideas? The issue was forced to the justices’ attention by a group of academics campaigning to defend the “public domain”. James Boyle, an intellectual property theorist and Duke University professor, paints this domain as a kind of creative common land where we all graze for inspiration. Last November, Prof. Boyle brought together an elite group of intellectuals and scientists (and computer geeks) at Duke, hoping to launch a movement to protect domain. He argues that the inexorable advance of intellectual property law in recent years constitutes a “second enclosure movement” to parallel the 18th century enclosure of English common lands. The case now before the court is part of the anti-enclosure campaign. It was the brainchild of Lawrence Lessig, legal theorist of the Internet, who argues that the essence of the Internet is the freedom to innovate. 66. The debate mentioned seems to have an impact on ______. 67. What saved the Disney’s cartoon character? 68. What is the aim of the case before the court? 69. The expression “public domain” (Para. 3) refers to ______. 70. What is the topic of the passage? Section V: Translation (10points) Directions: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET 2. Economic growth involves increases over time in the volume of a country’s per capita gross national product (GNP) of goods and services. 71. Such continuing increases can raise average living standards substantially and provide a stronger base for other policy objectives such as national defense, various kinds of capital investments, and public welfare services. It is only in the last two centuries that continued growth in living standards has been realized for a number of now-developed countries, and this process has broadened in the 20th century to include a number of developing countries. However, the fairly steady expansion in the third quarter of the 20th century gave way to a period of slower and more erratic growth for both high-income and low-income countries, while some of the economically poorest countries were thus far unable to establish a self-sustaining pattern of development. It also became increasingly evident that there were serious environmental problems associated with some types of growth in production. 72. This article examines the record of economic growth and development, some explanations for the changes involved, and the attempts by governments to plan these changes; five major issues are involved. The first is why economic growth occurs more quickly in some countries and periods than in others. It is the increase in the size and quality of the factors of production that underlies growth, but certain forces—innovations and entrepreneurship, the part played by governments, and the role of investment as distinct from consumption—deserve special attention. A variety of models of economic growth give expression to the understanding of these forces. Increasing attention has been paid in these models and in policy to the international aspects of growth. This trend is partly a reflection of the growing internationalization of economic activity. It also reflects a number of potentially destabilizing changes in the international economy that became evident during the 1970s. 73. While the precise nature of their effects is open to debate, among these changes should be noted the transition to more flexible exchange rates, the supply shocks in petroleum and other products, the growth of international debt, and the development of several major centers of economic power. The second issue is the challenges facing the lower-income countries, namely, to move from subsistence levels of per capita income to a level that would generate self-sustaining growth and also to reduce the gap between themselves and the higher-income countries. Differences among the lower-income countries warn against making sweeping generalizations on the development process, but three topics have attracted much attention. 74. One is how far existing private and public organizations must be changed so as to institutionalize development; a second is the view that, particularly for manufactures and for smaller markets, reliance on import substitution should give way fairly quickly to export development. The third is the impact of population growth on both development and living standards. The uneven patterns of growth and development have led to many strains. 75. In the case of higher-income countries these have appeared particularly as declines and failures in some of their older industries in the face of increased competition among themselves and with the newly industrializing countries. In many developing countries there have been repeated calls for a new organization of world institutions geared to a more equitable distribution of wealth. Section VI: Writing (15 points) 76. Directions: For this part, you are asked to write a composition on the topic The Income Gap. You should write no less than 120 words and you should base your composition on the outline given below: 1．現(xiàn)在，社會上存在貧富不均的現(xiàn)象； 2．分析造成這種現(xiàn)象的原因； 3．你的評論。