華宏2004年MBA聯(lián)考[英語]模擬試題（一） PARTⅠListening Comprehension(20%) Section I Listening Comprehension(20 points) Direction: 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. Now look at Part A in your test booklet. Park A Directions: You will hear a passage about community theatres in the United States. Listen to it and fill out the table with the information you’ve heard for questions 1---5, Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice .You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points) Information about Credit Cards shape of credit cards 1 material of credit cards 2 issuers of credit cards 3 charges due to be paid4 on the unpaid charges the customer has to pay5 Part B Direction: You will hear a speech about the brief history of the United States. For questions 6---10,complete the sentences and answer the question while you listen. 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 the question below. (5 points) 6 After the revolution, the United States bought a large section of country from California originally belonged to 7 8 The British and the Americans settled differences in the ownership of the northwestern part of America with 9 The civil war ended in What is the topic of this passage? 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 talk by an advisor at a meeting for new students. You will have 15 seconds to read questions 11----13. 11. What is the main purpose of the talk? A.To help students who are having difficulties with school. B.To assist students in preparing for exams. C.To discuss ways to change negative attitudes. D.To explain a system of time management. 12.Which of the following does the speaker say is important? A.Finish one item before beginning another. B.Only write down those items that you know you can finish easily. C.Try to imagine how long each item will take. D.Go see the student advisor if your list is very long. 13.What are the advisor’s office hours? A.From 1 to 5p.m.Monday, Wednesday, Friday. B.From 10a.m. to 2p.m. every day. C.From 1 to 4 every afternoon. D.From 8 to 12 every morning. Questions 14----16 are based on the following talk about crocodiles. You will have 15 seconds to read questions 14---16. 14.What does the speaker say is the common misconception about crocodile mothers? A.They leave the water. B.They dig a hole in the sand. C.They rip open their nests. D.They eat their babies. 15.Where do the young crocodile eggs hatch? A.In a hole on the beach. B.In the water. C.Under the mother’s tail. D.In the mother’s mouth.. 16.Why does the crocodile put her babies in her mouth? A.To keep them warm. B.To protect them from harm. C.To transport them to the water. D.To clean them. Questions 17----20 are based on the following conversation between a professor and a student. Your will have 20 seconds to read questions 17----20. 17.How did the man find out about the cabin? A.From an ad on the bulletin board. B.From a newspaper ad. C.From a note on Professor Douglas’s office door. D.From a ski resort. 18.How did the man and his friends want to go to the cabin? A.A week from Friday. B.Next weekend. C.This weekend or next weekend. D.Thursday afternoon. 19. Why is the price low? A.Because the professor requires renters to clean up the cabin. B.Because the students are in professor’s class. C.Because the cabin only has two bedrooms. D.Because the students have never been skiing before. 20.What will Professor Douglas give to the man tomorrow? A.Instructions for cleaning up. B.The key, instructions, and a map. C.One hundred dollars. D.Information about skiing. You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. Section II Vocabulary and Structure (10 points) Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. 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 with a pencil. 21. The patients believe that the doctor knows exactly how to put them _______ A. correct B. straight C. right D. well 22. Circus tigers, although they have been tamed, can _______ attack their trainer. A. unexpectedly B. deliberately C. reluctantly D. subsequently 23. Although we had told them not to keep us waiting, they make no ________ to speed up deliveries. A. trial B. attempt C. action D. progress 24. If you had a ________ problem to solve, would you work on the problem alone or work on it as part of a group? A. token B. through C. tentative D. thorny 25. __________ human behavior may be caused by eating substances that upset the delicate chemical balance in the brain. A. Deliberate B. Consistent C. Primitive D. Abnormal 26. It is unfortunate that, owing to lack of money, these experiments must now be _______ before the objective has been achieved. A. transferred B. testified C. terminated D. transformed 27. The bill is __________ at any time up to next Friday. A. payable B. commercial C. luxurious D. enormous 28. I don’t want to lend any more money to him; he’s already in debt ______ me. A. to B. for C. of D. with 29. Stressful environment lead to unhealthy behaviors such as poor eating habits, which _____ increase the risks of heart disease. A. in turn B. in return C. by chance D. by turns 30. Richard doesn’t think he could ever ________ what is called “free-style” poetry. A. take on B. take over C. take to D. take after 31. They __________ to enter the building by the back door; however, the front door was locked. A. weren’t supposed B. wouldn’t be supposed C. were supposed C. would be supposed 32. So confused ____________ that he didn't know how to start his lecture. A. since he became B. would he become C. that he became D. did he become 33. He ___________ another career but, at the time, he didn’t have enough money to attend graduate school. A. might have chosen B. might choose C. had to choose C. must have chosen 34. I will give this dictionary to ________ wants to have it. A. whomever B. someone C. whoever D. anyone 35. After having gone _________ far, George did not want to turn back. A. enough B. much C. such D. that 36. ____________, he does get irritated with her sometimes. A. As he likes her much B. Much though he likes her C. Though much he likes her D. Much as he likes her 37. ________ of the burden of ice, the balloon climbed up and drifted to the South. A. To be free B. Freeing C. To free D. Freed 38. The business of each day, _______ selling goods or shipping them, went quite smoothly. A. it being B. be it C. was it D. it was 39. Water will continue to be _______ it is today---next in importance to oxygen. A. how B. which C. as D. what 40. There seemed little hope that the explorer, ______________ in the tropical forest, would find his way through it. A. to be deserted B. having deserted C. to have been deserted D. having been deserted 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 I. The key to the industrialization of space is the U.S. space shuttle. ___41____ it, astronauts will acquire a workhouse vehicle ___42____ of flying into space and returning many times. ___43____ by reusable rockets that can lift a load of 65,000 pounds, the shuttle will carry devices for scientific inquiry, as ___44___ as a variety of military hardware. But more significantly, it will ___45____ materials and machines into space for industrial purposes ___46____ two decades ago when “sputnik”(artificial satellite) was ___47____ to the vocabulary. In short, the ultimate importance of the shuttle lies in its ___48____ as an economic tool. What makes the space shuttle unique is that is takes off like a rocket but lands like an airplane. ____49_____, when it has accomplished its ____50______, it can be ready for another trip in about two weeks. The space shuttle, the world’s first true spaceship, is a magnificent step in making the impossible for the benefit and survival of man. 41. A. In B. On C. By D. With 42. A. capable B. suitable C. efficient D. fit 43. A. Served B. Powered C. Forced D. Reinforced 44. A. far B. well C. much D. long 45. A. supply B. introduce C. deliver D. transfer 46. A. unimagined B. unsettled C. uncovered D. unsolved 47. A. attributed B. contributed C. applied D. added 48. A. promise B. prosperity C. popularity D. priority 49. A. Thus B. Whereas C. Nevertheless D. Yet 50. A. venture B. mission C. commission D. responsibility 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 four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET I with a pencil. Questions 51 to 54 are based on the following passage. “Why aren’t our workers more like the Germans?” How many times have British or American managers asked that question? The Germans used to be renowned for their work ethic. But today the world’s highest –paid workers prefer to work as little as possible. Despite their long holidays, frequent visits to health spas(療養(yǎng)勝地) and constant exercise, Germans appear to be among the world’s sickliest workers. They take more time off than their peers in any of the other six big G7 industrialized countries. In 1990 the average German engineering-worker reported “sick” on 18 days, compared with 11 days in Britain and America. A 1991 survey of 498 firms found that, on any one day, 7% of all workers are ill. Suspiciously, the “sickness ”rate jumps sharply on Fridays and Mondays. Government bureaucrats have long been notorious for being unavailable on Friday afternoons, but now the disease has spread to industry. Two-thirds of companies suspect cheating. If account is also taken of the fact that Germans have the shortest working week of the big economies, plus a generous six weeks of annual holiday, then the average German works only 1550 hours a year compared with an average 1800 hours worked in American and 2100 hours worked in Japan. Having reached a high standard of living, Germans prefer to spend Fridays in the sun guzzling beer rather than working harder. But can the country with the laziest workers remain one of the world’s most successful economics? Germany still boasts a high level of labor productivity, but it has been slipping down the league. It had the fastest productivity growth of the four biggest European countries in the 1970s; in the 1980s it had the slowest. Within Europe, the Dutch, the Norwegians and the Swedes are even more work-shy than the Germans. The average Swede was off sick 27 days in 1990.At the other extreme, a Japanese government survey seems to suggest that Japanese workers are never sick. This sounds too good to be true, even for Japan, and it is. The survey questionaire did not list illness as a separate reason for taking time off from work, lumping it in with vacation and “other family conditions”. Clever people. 51. Which of the following statements is true? A.The Germans are trying to work harder when they have the most successful economy. B.In the 1980s, Germany had the fastest growth of productivity. C.German labor productivity is decreasing. D.Japanese workers are more work-shy than their German counterparts. 52. German government bureaucrats are hard to find A.on Mondays mornings. B.on Friday afternoons. C.on Saturdays. D.on Sundays. 53. According to the passage, the “sickness” disease started in A.government. B.industry. C.hospital. D.household. 54. What is the author’s attitude towards the Japanese government survey which suggests Japanese workers are never sick? A.Approval. B.Enthusiastic. C.Suspicious and ironic. D.Totally indifferent. Questions 55-58 are based on the following passage. As American battles to remain competitive in the global marketplace, the single most important determinant of economic growth is people. What a waste it is that the country consigns half its high school students to a vocational dustbin. There are 20 million Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 who don’t go to college, yet American educational system is geared to produce candidates for college. Part of the problem is a career-illiterate cadre of teachers who give short shift to the value and dignity of blue-collar work, while knowing little or nothing about it. The result is that for the million-plus high school graduates who don’t go on to college each year, there is little link between school and works. The U.S. needs a national system to help noncollege youths acquire skills and get channeled into stable, well-paying jobs. This notion is advocated by groups in and out of government. Some experts advocate an Americanized version of the well-known German national apprenticeship program, which accounts for more than 60% of all German employees. To ensure that high school students acquire basic academic skills, all students would be treated no later than age 16 on their ability to read, write, compute, and perform at class level. Centers would be set up to help dropouts and those who fail the test, while the rest either go into university preparation or into an apprenticeship program, always retaining the option to switch from one to the other. The students who decide on vocational study continue two to four more years of schooling, combining on-the-job training in part—time job with classes at high schools. Graduates would be certified in one or more skills based on nationwide standards for occupational skills set by a nation board. But little if any of this can be accomplished by government decree or federal legislation. When the national debates on competitiveness begins, both business and labor will have to agree on any national apprenticeship program for it to be workable. Only then can it be put in place with the help of education and politician. 55. According to the passage, American educational system is designed to A.train blue-collar workers. B.produce candidates for college. C.increase American economic growth. D.help America remain in the global marketplace. 56. According to the author, the problem of American education is that there is little link between A.business and government. B.business and education. C.government and education. D.schools and work. 57. Some experts think that A.German national apprenticeship program is practical in America. B.Americanized German national apprenticeship program in operative in America. C.America should not have a national apprenticeship program. D.Noncollege youths should solve their own problems on their own. 58. The author emphasizes that high school students should have the option A.to switch from university preparation to apprenticeship program. B.to remain in school or to get a job in a business firm. C.To follow a writing career or to follow an artist career. D.To support a national education system or to oppose that system. Questions 59-62 are based on the following passage. Fashions come and go quickly in technology. Five years ago artificial intelligence (AI)was supposed to be the computer industry’s next entrepreneurial pot of gold. Today many of the firms struggling to survive in the young AI industry predict its imminent disappearance. They may well be right. The irony is that their technology has never been more popular. Artificial intelligence is the name given to computer techniques which make machines think more like people. Such technologies enable computers at Reuters to classify the news stories speeding over its wires – so that , say, a commodity dealer does not have to wade through a heap of stories about corporate finance to find the news that interests him most. AI techniques also help auditors monitor foreign-exchange risks at Manufacturers Hanover Bank. They plan production at Ford and Boeing. And they help maintenance workers at New York city’s electric utility distinguish false alarms from real power failures. Such successes are inspiring , but they have not made AI companies rich. That is because, though necessary, AI is only one, relative small, element in the computer systems needed to solve intricate business problems. Fuelled by eager venture capitalists, the first generation of AI companies sprang from university labs in the mid-1980s. AI software companies are now trying to make it easier for every body to create a blends of AI and conventional computing. AI technology will become another computer tool, so commonly used as to be virtually indistinguishable from other types of software. Some of today’s AI companies will vanish because they have merged into the industry’s mainstream. Others will simply vanish. 59. Artificial intelligence is on its way to A.disappear. B.become more popular. C.out of fashion. D.create its second generation. 60. Which of the following conclusions can we draw from the passage? A.AI companies have struck oil. B.AI companies have made a fortune. C.AI companies are loaded with money. D.AI companies have not been successful economically. 61. Artificial intelligence is widely used, its application can be found in A.data classification. B.production planning. C.risk management. D.All above. 62. According to the author, AI companies will disappear because A.they have merged into the computer industry’s mainstream. B.they will go bankruptcy. C.AI is only one, relative small, element in the computer systems. D.AI can not solve the intricate business problems. Questions 63-65 are based on the following passage. Action learning is a process that young children use continuously: they learn by doing something, by testing it out. They learn to walk by taking the risk of testing what it’s like to stand hazardously on two legs, and not four! Later, they learn to ride a bicycle. But they only learn when they get on it and try out the balance, veer around crazily, probably fall off, and thus, through practice, they soon get to the stage of being so good at balancing that they can steer without even having their hands on the handlebars! But as we get older, our learning by doing seems to get shelved, shunted to the sidelines. Instead, we read, we listen to others(for example, lectures)talk about things. Gradually, we begin to believe that because we have taken information/knowledge in cognitively, we have learned. And so we have, at one level. We now know about; but this doesn’t mean we know how, and when, and what if. Hands-on experience is in the end the only way to acquire the answers to questions. Craftspeople take this approach when they learn a skill; training for certain processions(for example, doctors)contains elements of this approach to learning. But training for the rest of us has been slow in taking up this practical approach. Instead, we go on one and two-day courses or workshops which may even include some role-play to consolidate and anchor our learning. But when we return to work, we are often still left with those nagging questions about how we can really apply what we’ve learnt, still feel there are questions we have which weren’t covered, or parts of the course that we didn’t write down sufficiently clearly in your notes. We try out some of the new ideas we’ve memorized, and if we’re lucky, we feel we’ve been successful. On the other hand, we may not achieve what we hoped to, but don’t quite understand why. And at the back of our mind is a series of gnawing questions. But what can we do about them? Who can we ask? Too often, the temptation is to put this newly acquired theoretical knowledge into a metaphorical drawer, file the beautiful binder we were given during the course on a bookshelf, and carry on as before. 63. What is the main idea of this passage? A.The young and the old learn in different ways. B.Action learning is important only for children. C.Hands-on experience is also a key part of learning for adults. D.Theoretical knowledge is what the older people should acquire. 64. As people get older, __________________ . A.they only know about; but doesn’t know how, and when and what if. B.they are still keen on learning by doing something. C.they know how to put theoretical knowledge into practice. D.they still have the strong desire to learn how to deal with practical problems. 65. What is true of knowledge acquired cognitively? A.It is acquired through practical training. B.It needs to be consolidated in action learning. C.It is gained through hands-on experience. D.It must be the knowledge from lectures. 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. Andrew Baker is the CEO( Chief Executive Officer) of Castle Computer Corporation, a successful computer company. He is well known in the computer field as a brilliant and creative executive, but he is also known as a disorganized and last minute-type person, perhaps because he is a procrastinator. As a result, company employees are always in a state of confusion and instability, and deadlines for production schedules are almost never met. The fourth-quarter earnings statement has just come out, and profits are way down. Deborah Jackson, who has been Mr. Baker’s executive assistant for one year, recently attended a two-day time management workshop. She had hoped to discuss the concepts of effective time management with Mr. Baker, but when she brought up the subject, he laughed and said time management was the least of his problems. He was working on a plan for test – marketing the new Castle laptop computer, which Marcia Lee, the Marketing and Sales Vice President, had asked him to revise. In addition, he was redesigning the new laser printer that the Research and Development Division had just developed, and solving a personnel problem that the Director of Human Resources and Administration had brought to him. Deborah knows that Mr. Baker, who has been with the company since its founding, likes to keep an eye on every department and stay in daily contact with all his division managers. However, she can see the results of Mr. Baker’s “micromanagement” style and poor time management. In fact, she is considering asking for a meeting with the Chief Operating Officer of Castle Computer Corporation, Harry Webb, to voice her concerns about the future of the company under Mr. Baker’s leadership. Although Deborah has a great deal of respect for Mr. Baker, she is completely worn out from her daily struggle to keep him on schedule. If only Mr. Baker would delegate some of his responsibilities and set priorities. In Deborah’s eyes, Castle Computer Corporation is being underled and overmanaged. 66. Why did Deborah hope to discuss the effective time management with Mr. Baker? 67. Why did Mr. Baker say that time management was the least of his problems? 68. What is Mr. Baker’s work style? 69. What was Deborah’s purpose when she was considering to ask for a meeting with the Chief Operating Officer? 70. According to Deborah, what is the problem of Castle Computer Company? Section V Translation(10 points) 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. Most people would agree that, although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no correlative increase in wisdom. But argument ceases as soon as we attempt to define “wisdom” and consider means of promoting it. There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom. (71) Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. To take a spectacular example, which is in everybody’s mind at the present time: You study the composition of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and incidentally place in the hands of powerful lunatics the means of destroying the human race. (72)In such ways the pursuit of knowledge may become harmful unless it is combined with wisdom; and wisdom in the sense of comprehensive vision is not necessarily present in specialists in the pursuits of knowledge. It is not only in public way, but in private life equally, that wisdom is needed. It is needed in the choice of ends to be pursued and in liberation of personal prejudices. (73)Even an end which it would be noble to pursue if it were attainable may be pursued unwisely if it is inherently impossible of achievement. Many men in the past ages have devoted their lives to a search for the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life. (74)Now doubt, if they could have found them, they would have conferred great benefits upon mankind, but as it was their lives were wasted. To descend to less heroic matters, consider the case of two men, Mr. a and Mr. B, who hate each other and, through mutual hatred, bring each other to destruction. (75) If, with sufficient patience and sufficient persuasiveness, you have succeeded in convincing each that the other has only the normal share of human wickedness and that their hatred is harmful to both, then you will have injected some fragment of wisdom. Section VI Writing(15 points) 76. Directions: In this section, you are asked to write a composition entitled The Importance of Self-confidence. Your composition should be based on the outline given below. Your composition should be about 120 words. Remember to write clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Outline: 1.Lacking self-confidence is a very common experience. 2.Confidence can help people succeed in their work and life. 3.Your ways to establish self-confidence.