2005年全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试英语模拟试题（2）
考生注意事项
1. 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。
2. 答题前，考生应将答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、“考生编号”等信息填写清楚，并与准考证上的一致。
3. 答案必须按要求填涂或写在指定的答题卡上。
（1） 词汇知识、综合填空、阅读理解的答案填涂在答题卡上，英译汉的答案和作文的答案写在答题纸上。
（2） 填涂部分应该按照答题卡上的要求用2B铅笔完成。如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。书写部分（英译汉的答案和作文）必须用蓝（黑）色字迹钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔在答题卡上作答。
4. 答题卡严禁折叠。考试结束后，将答题卡和答题纸一起放入原试卷袋中，试卷交给监考人
员。
Section I Vocabulary
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 that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 （10 points ）
1. Once the profits in one year are not sufficient to pay the dividend, the_______will be paid from the profits of later year.
A. rears B. arrears C. arbitrages D. undue
2. If you want to sell your shop, you must make an/a ____________of the stock in details.
A. inventory B. invention C. payment D. investigation
3. ESPN is a ______ division of ABC, Inc., with the ABC, Inc. owning a 90-percent share of the network.
A. secondary B. dependent C. subsidiary D. supplementary
4. In addition to the ______ owned and operated television networks in the US, there is a public television network free from advertising.
A. financially B. economically C. profitably D. commercially
5. In 1997 Boeing and McDonnell Douglas Corporation ______ into a single company under the Boeing name, creating the world’s largest aerospace company.
A. emerged B. alloyed C. blended D. merged
6. If you draw a(n) ______ between two things, that means the two things are different.
A. prescription B. intersection C. partition D. distinction
7. As computers become part of modem society, computer scientists to invent better methods of solving current problems with it.
A. strive B. stress C. stretch D. strike
8. He has been from Beijing to Shanghai by the company.
A. transited B. transmitted C. transferred D. transformed
9. Before people first attempted cultivation they existed ______ by hunting and gathering food.
A. exclusively B. occasionally C. eventually D. inclusively
10. Their marriage came to an end because they were simply not ______ with each other.
A. comparative B. comparable C. compatible D. competitive
11. For these exceptional children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be ________to those differences.
A. adapted B. adept C. adopted D. added
12. He''s ______ in having a good job, since business is bad nowadays.
A. wealthy B. valuable C. luxurious D. fortunate
13. Walking is a(n) ______ exercise because it is safe, easy and relatively kind to your muscles.
A. advanced B. advantageous C. superior D. progressive
14. As far as I am concerned, it is a __________ choice for you to take part in MBA exam.
A. sensible B. sensitive C. sensory D. sensing
15. The businessman was sent to prison for trying to ______ a tax official with money.
A. corrode B. corrupt C. correlate D. correct
16. They were told to ______ and wait for further instructions during the military training.
A. stand in B. stand out C. stand for D. stand by
17. I suppose Smith is unlikely to ______ a good idea for improving our product.
A. bring forth B. bring into C. bring on D. bring off
18. The following morning he ______ of the hotel and went straight to the airport.
A. checked out B. checked off C. checked up D. checked over
19. Computer software ______ some 70 percent of the company’s products.
A. applies for B. allows for C. accounts for D. answers for
20. We are immediately ______ and hopefully you will have a pleasant time in our hotel.
A. at your service B. in the way C. at your disposal D. by your side
Section II Cloze
Directions: Read the following passage. For each numbered blank, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1. ( 15 points )
A manager hoping to blossom as a business leader must develop the skill to communicate effectively. One of the foremost tasks of a leader is to create __21__ to a cause. To do that he must first communicate to build mutual understanding.
____22__ a manager communicates mostly to __ 23___ information, a leader uses communications to build relationships. A manager overwhelms others with details and still 24_ them cold. A leader ___25___their hearts by combining his vision with their aspirations in a common cause.
Most Asian business leaders are instinctively __26___ relationship building through direct communications. But they don''t use the mass media so well. While face to face communications is ___27__, it''s not enough in today''s big business.
___28__ their western counterparts, they are not so much frightened by mass media''s potential to magnify, distort, and expose. The problem lies more in the lack of professional support ___29___ to them. In most Asian companies the public affairs function either does not exist or is __30__ routine chores removed from helping the CEO to communicate with wide audiences. The reason primarily is that the ___31___ communications officers are placed quite low in the organizational hierarchy.
Asia''s need for business leaders who are ___32___ in using mass media to involve the public in the economic development dream has never been greater. Television and the print media have an enormous __33___ on the public perception of business. Our business leaders have not yet faced an unsympathetic press. They should start now __34___ the day may not be too far away __35__ they are suddenly forced to enter the perilous arena of public communications.
21. A. responsibility B. commitment C. commission D. dedication
22. A. Since B. When C. Because D. While
23. A. transport B. carry C. convey D. express
24. A. leaves B. keeps C. makes D. renders
25. A. moves B. touches C. stimulates D. losses
26. A. good at B. poor in C. excel in D. indifferent to
27. A. vital B. utmost C. ultimate D. chief
28. A. Unlike B. Like C. As D. With
29. A. available B. accessible C. disposable D. transferable
30. A. resigned B. assigned C. awarded D. distributed
31. A. cooperation B. corporate C. incorporate D. cooperate
32. A. competitive B. competitors C. competing D. competent
33. A. affect B. impact C. impetus D. impulse
34. A. now thought B. unless C. though D. as
35. A. whenever B. whichever C. when D. whatever
Section III Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read the following passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing
A. B. C. or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET1. ( 40 points )
Passage 1
Investment in the public sector, such as electricity, irrigation, public services and transport (excluding vehicles, ships and planes) increased by about 10%, although the emphasis moved to the transport and away from the other sectors mentioned. Trade and services recorded a 16% to 17% investment growth, including a 30% increase in investment in business premises. Industrial investment is estimated to have risen by 8%. Although the share of agriculture in total gross investment in the economy continued to decline, investment grew by 9% in absolute terms, largely spurred on by a 23% expansion of investment in agricultural equipment. Housing construction had 12% more invested in it in 1964, not so much owing to increased demand, as to fears of new taxes and limitation of building.
Total consumption in real terms rose by close on 11% during 1964, and per capita personal consumption by under 7%, as in 1963. The undesirable trend towards a rapid rise in consumption, evident in previous years, remained unaltered. Since at current prices consumption rose by 16% and disposable income by 14%, there was evidently a fall in the rate of saving in the private sector of the economy. Once again consumption patterns indicated a swift advance in the standard of living. Expenditure on food declined in significance, although consumption of fruit increased. Spending on furniture and household equipment, health, education and recreation continued to increase. The greatest proof of altered living standards was the rapid expansion of expenditure on transport (including private cars) and personal services of all kinds, which occurred during 1964. The progressive wealth of large sectors of the public was demonstrated by the changing composition of durable goods purchased. Saturation (饱和) point was rapidly being approached for items such as the first household radio, gas cookers, and electric refrigerators, whereas increasing purchases of automobiles and television sets were registered. (310 words )
36. From this passage, we learn that the people ______.
A. spent more money than they earned
B. saved more money than previously
C. invested and consumed at an accelerated pace
D. spent their money wisely
37. The author thinks that the trend towards a rapid rise in consumption was “undesirable” because ______.
A. expenditures on luxuries increased
B. people were wealthy
C. people consumed less
D. people saved less
38. Expenditure increased on all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. food B. automobile C. education D. entertainment
39. It can be inferred from the increase of fruit consumption that ______.
A. people had to spend more on transportation and furniture
B. the price of fruit dropped dramatically
C. people were more money conscious
D. people were more health conscious
40. The word “registered” in the last line most probably means ______.
A. expected B. approached C. listed D. booked
Passage 2
Among all the changes resulting from the massive entry of women into the work force, the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not the least important. They see themselves in a new light, for they have discovered that they can just do as well as men in any profession. Some of them have gone to the top: the chief economist of General Motors is a woman, and so is the president of the great filmmaking company 20th Century Fox. Such successes have given women pride and self confidence. Of course, the picture is not perfect. In the first place, a very large number of women do not even try to enter “male” professions because they lack the necessary training or because they are not bold enough to venture on new paths. For one woman executive or one woman judge there are still countless typists and saleswomen who struggle through their day without any sense of victory. Besides, many of their braver sisters, who are daring to compete with men in higher fields, find that male opposition is still strong, and that society is still ready to explain a woman’s success by reasons that women are now free to enter any career that attracts them. The situation has improved, and the tide is not likely to turn back.
Women have gained pride, self-confidence, and independence. Have they gained happiness? Each working woman would have to give her personal answer to that question. Many women are too exhausted by their double career (home and office) to enjoy either one. Many feel guilty about leaving their children to the care of strangers, about neglecting all the small things that non-working homemakers do for their family and their house. For women, taking a profession involves sacrifice –-- they have to make a difficult choice. Perhaps, the real progress is that the choice exists. In their grandmothers’ time, it did not. （319 words ）
41. The word “transformation” in Paragraph 1 probably implies ______.
A. women have overestimated themselves in abilities
B. women can be more successful than men if they try
C. women’s attitudes towards their social roles
D. women’s idea that they consider themselves the equal to men
42. The word “picture” in the first paragraph means ______.
A. the photos of the contemporary women
B. the present situation for women
C. the story of women
D. the massive entry for women
43. The first paragraph implies that ______.
A. many women are very successful in their professions
B. women are equally as successful as men
C. many women have come to the top leaderships
D. only a small number of women are successful in their professions
44. The sentence “the tide is not likely to turn back” in the first paragraph means that ______.
A. the massive entry of women into the work force is bound to develop further
B. women will have more chances to be promoted
C. women have to go back to their house chores
D. men will still play the dominant role in leadership
45. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The achievement women have made in their professions.
B. The pride of women in their achievement.
C. Women’s professions have changed a lot.
D. The present social status of women and problems they are faced with.
Passage 3
Computers manipulate information, but information is invisible. There’s nothing to see or touch. The programmer decides what you see on the screen. Computers don’t have knobs like old radios. They don’t have buttons, not real buttons. Instead, more and more programs display pictures of buttons, moving even further into abstraction and arbitrariness (抽象和任意). I like computers, but I hope they will disappear, that they will seem as strange to our descendants as the technologies of our grandparents appear to us. Today’s computers are indeed getting easier to use, but look where they started: so difficult that almost any improvement was welcome.
Computers have the power to allow people within a company, across a nation or even around the world to work together. But this power will be wasted if tomorrow’s computers aren’t designed around the needs and capabilities of the human beings who must use them -– a people-centered philosophy, in other words. That means retooling computers to mesh with human strengths –- observing, communicating and innovating -– instead of asking people to conform to the unnatural behavior computers demand. That just leads to error.
Many of today’s machines try to do too much. When a complicated word processor attempts to double as a desktop publishing program or a kitchen appliance comes with half a dozen attachments, the product is bound to be burdensome. My favorite example of a technological product on just the right scale is an electronic dictionary. It can be made smaller, lighter and far easier to use than a print version, not only giving meanings but even pronouncing the words. Today’s electronic dictionaries, with their tiny keys and barely legible displays, are primitive but they’re on the right track.
Now imagine a host of specialized devices replacing a single powerful computer that tries to do a little of everything. Imagine a pocket checkbook, a drawing pod, a file-folder-size spreadsheet (报表). Each would be self-contained but would communicate with the others through infra-red light beams or radio links. The word I just looked up in the dictionary would be inserted into the letter I am writing; the right picture or spreadsheet calculation would become part of a report I’m doing for work.
We would no longer have to learn the arbitrary ways of the computer. We could simply learn the tools of our trade –- sketch pads, spreadsheets, schedules. How wonderful it would be to ignore the capricious(反复无常的) nature of technology –- and get on with our work. ( 420 words )
46. The passage talks about ______.
A. changes computers should be made to conform to people
B. shortcomings of computers
C. demonstration of future computers
D. development of computers
47. The sentence “I hope they will disappear, that they will seem as strange to our descendants as the technologies of our grandparents appear to us.” in Paragraph 1 means ______.
A. our descendants may not use computers any more
B. the use of computers should be simplified and our descendants will not use the present computers any more
C. some technologies our grandparents used will not exist in the future
D. computers appear out of date to our generation
48. The word “machines” in Paragraph 3 means ______.
A. word processors B. electronic dictionaries
C. computers D. kitchen appliances
49. From the passage, those about computers are true EXCEPT ______.
A. people have to do what computers requested to get information
B. pictures of buttons in computer programs are not easy to use as knobs on radios
C. today’s computers try to do a little of everything, which makes them not easy to use
D. programmers manipulate and show you information in computers
50. According to the author, the future computer should be ______.
A. not too big and not too heavy
B. one device, one chore
C. A and B
D. multi-purpose
Passage 4
It is obvious that the old get sick more frequently and more severely than the young, and 86 percent have chronic (慢性的) health problems of varying degree. These health problems, while significant, are largely treatable and for the most part do not impair the capacity to work. Medicare (医疗保险制度) pays for only 45 percent of older people''s health expenses; the balance must come from their own incomes and savings, or from Medicaid, which requires a humiliating means test. A serious illness can mean instant poverty. Drugs prescribed outside of hospitals, hearing aids, glasses, dental care and podiatry (脚病学) are not covered at all under Medicare. There is prejudice against the old by doctors and other medical personnel who don''t like to bother with them. Psychiatrists (精神病医师) and mental-health personnel typically assume that the mental problems of the old are untreatable. Psychoanalysts, the elite (精英分子) of the psychiatric profession, rarely accept them as patients. Medical schools and other teaching institutions find them uninteresting. Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping (倾销，倾倒) the “Medicare patient” into municipal hospitals; municipal hospital in turn funnel (使集中) them into nursing homes, mental hospitals and chronic disease institutions without the adequate diagnostic (诊断) and treatment effort which might enable them to return home. Persons who do remain at home while in ill health have serious difficulties in getting social, medical and psychiatric services brought directly to them.
Problems large and small confront the elderly. They are easy targets for crime in the streets and in their homes. Because of loneliness, confusion, hearing and visual difficulties they are prime victims of dishonest door-to-door salesmen and fraudulent advertising, and buy defective hearing aids, dance lessons, useless “Medicare insurance supplements,” and quack (骗人的) health remedies. Persons crippled by arthritis (关节炎) or strokes are yelled at by impatient bus drivers for their slowness in climbing on and off buses. Traffic lights turn red before they can get across the street. Revolving doors move too quickly. Subways usually have no elevators or escalators (电动扶梯).
Old women are worse than old men. Women have an average life expectancy of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so two thirds (six million) of all older women are widows. When widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives (特权) as older men to date and marry those who are younger. As a result, they are likely to end up alone --- an ironic turn of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider marriage the only acceptable state. The income levels of older working women are generally lower than those of men; many never worked outside the home until their children were grown and then only at unskilled, low-paying jobs. Others who worked all their lives typically received low wages, with lower Social Security and private retirement benefits as a result. Until 1973, housewives who were widowed received only 82.5 percent of their husbands’ Social Security benefits even though they were full-time home-makers. (514 words)
51. What''s the main idea of this passage?
A. The old are much more vulnerable to serious diseases than the young.
B. Old people are more likely to become victims of crimes and commercial frauds.
C. Women have an average life expectancy of seven years longer than men.
D. The aged people are confronted with many problems and thus need more care.
52. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Medicare is far from enough for the aged to keep healthy.
B. Many old people can not receive proper treatment and care when ill.
C. Old people usually suffer loneliness, confusion, hearing and visual difficulties.
D. Old widowed women usually enjoy more social prerogatives than old men.
53. Psychoanalysts rarely accept old people as patients because ________.
A. they have too many patients and are often very busy
B. they don''t know how to cure the old people''s diseases
C. they believe that old people''s mental diseases can not be cured
D. mental problems are not covered under Medicare
54. The word “fraudulent” (Line 3, Para.2) most probably means ________.
A. honest B. deceitful C. attractive D. pleasant
55. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Inequality between men and women is still a cause of women’s unhappiness.
B. Women''s longer life expectancy is the source of their loneliness at the old age.
C. Old women have as many problems as old men do.
D. Before 1973, women received only 82.5 percent of men’s Social Security benefits.
Section IV Translation
Directions: In this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined
into Chinese and write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. ( 15 points)
In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. Many of life’s problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today.
In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World II.56. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus, things once learned subconsciously through the casual communications of the extended family must be consciously learned.
Adding to societal changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. 57.The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming.
58.Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. 59.Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people.
In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. 60.Those people who have accurate, reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. “Knowledge is power” may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people.
Section VI Writing
Directions: In this section, you are required to write a composition entitled “Which Is Your Favorite Choice: Famous University or Specialty” You should write more than 150 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. ( 20 points )
Outline:
1. 目前，在报考大学时，有的人选择名校，有的人选择热门专业；
2. 如果二者无法兼顾，你首选哪个？为什么？
2005年全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试
英语模拟试题答案（2）
Mock Test
Section I Vocabulary and Structure (20x0.5= 10 points )
1--5: BACDD 6--10: DACAC
11--15: ADBAB 16--20: DAACA
Section II Cloze ( 15 x 1=15 points)
21--25 BDCAB 26--30 AAAAB
31—35 BDBDC
Section III Reading Comprehension ( 20x2=40 points )
36--40: CDADC 41--45: DBDAD
46--50: ABCDC 51--55: DDCBA
Section IV Translation ( 5x3 = 15 points )
56. 当人们离开他们长期居住的社区，多年的朋友和大家庭时，非正式的信息流通渠道被切断了，同时，他们也失去了这种信心，即信息在需要时即能获得而且这些信息是值得相信的、可依赖的。
57. 现在的人可得到的信息比任何一代都要多，找到与他或她的具体问题相关的某条信息的任务是复杂的，费时的，有时甚至让人喘不过气来（不知所措）。
58. 与信息量持续增长相伴的是技术的发展，它使得人类能够以比以前任何可能手段都更快的速度存储和运送更多的信息到更多的地方。
59. 专门技术可以通过电子会议被全球共享，有争议的问题可以不需参与者闻开家和/或工作来到一个遥远的会议地点却可被解决。
60. 那些拥有准确、可靠、最新信息来解决日常生活问题，生意、社会和家庭上的关键问题的人会得以生存并成功。
Section V Writing (20 points) （略）
参考范文：
When asked about which is more important; university or specialty, different candidates often offer different answers. An overwhelming majority of students would like to give first priority to famous university, while other candidates usually regard specialty as their favorite instead of famous university.
Those who choose famous university as their priority believe that the famous university is of the following advantages. First of all, famous university will help them gain a more splendid future.
At least, it can make the students easy to find a satisfied and high-paying job, what’s more, it goes without saying that famous university has a long history with rich cultures. It enjoys a greater prestige both in China and in the world. It can provide students with many opportunities such as academic exchange with other foreign universities and so on. Even though, some candidates still regard specialty as their favorite. In their opinion, only specialty can stimulate their study interests and develop their special talents fully. Especially in market economy society, specialty sometimes appears more important than famous university.
From what has been discussed above, I think that there may be some truth in both choices. If I am allowed to make a decision, I would prefer famous university to specialty out of the following consideration. Famous university generally possesses first-class professors and sophisticate facilities with a large and beautiful campus. Not only can it enable us to study well but also help us enjoy the college life. ( 243 )
(如果题目为： which is your priority: famous university or specialty 可以在第一段的基础上直接选择一种描述其好处即选择的理由。画线部分可以省略)
