MBA全国联考英语模拟试题（4）

Section I  Vocabulary （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 that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 
1. It is wrong for people to think that experts are_____ right when they explain their ideas on some subjects.
A. steadily        B. constantly        C. persistently       D. continuously
2. He _____that a combination of recent oil discoveries and the advance of new technology will lead to a decline in the price of crude oil.
A. predicts          B. compels          C. arranges         D. disputes
3. For these reasons, the newspaper is having _____ problems in the north of the country
A. distribution        B. regulation            C. recognition      D. destruction
4. History has demonstrated that countries with different social systems can join hands in meeting the common challenges to human _____ and development.
A. evolution         B. survival          C. satisfaction       D. damage
5. They have been waiting for many hours. The airplane must have been _____.
A. of schedule                           B. on schedule
C. ahead of schedule                      D. behind schedule
6. The work has_____ the status of a classic among the composer’s admirers.
A. required         B. acquired         C. inquired             D. inspired
7. The young heir was so ____that he gave all his money away in a couple of years.
A. handsome           B. genuine        C. talented           D. generous
8. He should _____be allowed to get up until he has completely recovered from his illness.
A. in case         B. in any case      C. in that case      D. in no case
9. A new system of quality control was      to overcome the shortcomings in the Firm’s  products.
A. invested        B. informed        C. introduced      D. instructed
10. His wife blood transfusion failed because her blood type was not ______ with that of the donor. (供血者)
  A. friendly          B. adaptable       C. consistent   D. compatible
11. Before leaving the house, you should ______ that all doors and windows are locked.
A. assure  B. confirm C. ensure D. reassure
12. This computer program was ______  and improved to suit users’ increasing needs.
   A. replaced          B. transformed     C. renewed   D. updated
13. The ______ team and the guest team won each of the games, so they were even with each other.
A. sponsor           B. host         C. owner    D. landlord
14. We must prevent that kind of disasters at all ______ not only in China but also in other countries of the world. .
    A. chances         B. expenses        C. costs    D. risks
15. He was poor but proud, and ______ every offer to help when he was jobless.
A. broke down       B. turned down       C. laid down   D. taken down
16. Recent court decisions have         the right of all children---disabled or not---to an appropriate education.
   A. conformed       B. complied        C. confirmed   D. comprised
17. If you want to go to the concert, you'll have to make a(n) ______, or there will be no tickets.
A. conservation      B. preservation      C. reservation    D. observation
18. It was yesterday morning that he gave me  a clear ______ to be present at the opening ceremony.
A. compliment   B. commentary  C. commitment  D. complaint
19. The business failed because its assets were not so great as its ______. 
A. burden           B. liabilities         C. compulsion   D. responsibility
20. What is ______rate from Hong Kong dollar to US dollar?
   A. transformation     B. switch           C. shift    D. conversion
Section II  Cloze   ( 10 points )
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.
 Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own.   21   the turn of the century when jazz (爵士乐) was born, America had no prominent   22    of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was   23  , or by whom, but it began to be    24   in the early 1900s. Jazz is America’s contribution to     25    music. In contrast to classical music, which   26    formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free-form. It bubbles with energy,    27    the moods, interest, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz  28    like America, and   29   it does today. The  30   of this music are as interesting as the music   31  . American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz   32  . They were brought to Southern States   33  slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long   34  . When a Negro died his friends and relatives   35   a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the   36  . On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion.   37   on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their   38  , but the living were glad to be alive. The band played   39   music, improvising (即兴表演) on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes   40   at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of jazz.    ( 256 words )
21. A. By B. At C. In   D. On
22. A. music B. song   C. melody  D. style
23. A. discovered B. acted C. invented D. designed
24. A. noticed B. found C. listened D. heard
25. A. classical B. sacred C. popular  D. light
26. A. forms B. follows C. approaches D. introduces
27. A. expressing B. explaining C. exposing D. illustrating
28. A. appeared B. felt C. seemed D. sounded
29. A. as B. so C. either D. neither
30. A. origins B. originals C. discoveries D. resources
31. A. concerned B. itself C. available D. oneself
32. A. players B. followers C. fans D. pioneers
33. A. for B. as C. with D. by
34. A. months B. weeks C. hours D. times
35. A. demonstrated B. composed C. hosted D. formed
36. A. demonstration B. procession C. body D. march
37. A. Even B. Therefore C. Furthermore D. But
38. A. number B. member C. bodies D. relations
39. A. sad B. solemn C. happy D. funeral
40. A. whistled    B. sung     C. presented     D. showed

Section III  Reading Comprehension       ( 40 points )
Directions: Read the following passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing
A. B. C. or D. Mark your answers on  ANSWER SHEET1.
Passage 1 
Publicity offers several benefits. There are no costs for message time or space. An ad in prime-time television may cost 500,000 or more per minute, whereas a five-minute report on a network newscast would not cost anything. However, there are costs for news releases, a publicity department, and other items. As with advertising, publicity reaches a mass audience. Within a short time, new products or company policies are widely known.
    Credibility about messages is high, because they are reported in independent media. A newspaper review of a movie has more believability than an ad in the same paper, because the reader associates independence with objectivity. Similarly, people are more likely to pay attention to news reports than to ads. For example, Women's Wear Daily has both fashion reports and advertisements.  Readers spend time reading the stories, but they flip through the ads. Furthermore, there may be 10 commercials during a half-hour television program or hundreds of ads in a magazine. Feature stories are much fewer in number and stand out clearly.
     Publicity also has some significant limitations. A firm has little control over messages, their timing, their placement, or their coverage by a given medium. It may issue detailed news releases and find only portions cited by the media and media have the ability to be much more critical than a company would like.
     For example, in 1982, Protect & Gamble faced a substantial publicity; problem over the meaning of its 123-year-old company logo, A few ministers and other private citizens believed that the symbol was sacrilegious. These beliefs were covered extensively by the media and resulted in the firm receiving 15,000 phone calls about the rumor in June alone. To combat this negative publicity, the firm issued news releases featuring prominent clergy that refuted the rumors, threatened to sue those people spreading the stories, and had a spokesperson appear on Good Morning America. The media cooperated with the company and the false rumors were temporarily put to rest. However, in 1985, negative publicity became so disruptive that Protect & Gamble decided to remove the logo from its products.
A firm may want publicity during certain periods, such as when a new product is introduced or new store opened, but the media may not cover the introduction or opening until after the time it would aid the firm. Similarly, media determine the placement of a story; it may follow a report on crime or sports. Finally, the media ascertain whether to cover a story at all and the amount of coverage to be devoted to it. A company-sponsored job program might go unreported or receive three-sentence coverage in a local newspaper.  （ 441 ）

41. The author mentions all of following advantages of publicity except _____.
   A. having no costs                  B. having attentiveness
   C. having high credibility             D. having high profitability
42. The second paragraph indicates that people are more likely to believe stories ____.
   A. in a newspaper than in a women's daily
   B. in a newspaper than in a magazine
   C. in an independent newspaper than in a dependent newspaper
D. in a magazine than in a local newspaper
43. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. A firm can control and time publicity accurately.
B. A firm can neither control nor time publicity accurately.
C. A firm can either control or time publicity accurately.
D. In most cases a firm can control and time publicity accurately.
44. The example in Paragraph 4 is intended to demonstrate _____.
   A. the power of publicity                  B. the victim publicity
C. the terrible effect of rumors              D. the vulnerability
45. The passage implies that _____.
A.the placement of a story is not quite important
B. the report of a crime may not be true
C. local newspapers are not interested in company-sponsored program
D. publicity is not always necessary

Passage 2   
 Opportunities for rewarding work become fewer for both men and women as they grow older. After age 40, job hunting becomes even more difficult. Many workers stay at jobs they are too old for rather than face possible rejection. Our youth-oriented, throw-away culture sees little value in older people. In writer Lilian Hellman’s words, they have “the wisdom that comes with age that we can’t make use of.”
 Unemployment and economic need for work is higher among older women, especially minorities, than among younger white women. A national council reports these findings: Though unemployed longer when seeking work, older women job-hunt harder, hold a job longer with less absenteeism (缺勤), perform as well or better, are more reliable, and are more willing to learn than men or younger women. Yet many older women earn poor pay and face a future of poverty in their retirement years. When “sexism meets ageism, poverty is no longer on the doorstep — it moves in,” according to Tish Sommers, director of a special study on older women for the National Organization for Women.
 Yet a 1981 report on the White House Conference on Aging shows that as a group, older Americans are the “wealthiest, best fed, best housed, healthiest, most self-reliant older population in our history.” This statement is small comfort to those living below the poverty line, but it does explode some of the old traditional beliefs and fears. Opportunities for moving in and up in a large company may shrink but many older people begin successful small businesses, volunteer in satisfying activities, and stay active for many years. They have few role models because in previous generations the life span was much shorter and expectations of life were fewer. They are ploughing new ground.
 Employers are beginning to recognize that the mature person can bring a great deal of stability and responsibility to a position. One doesn’t lose ability and experience on the eve of one’s 65th or 70th birthday any more than one grows up instantly at age 21.  （ 348 words ）
46. After the age of 40, ______.
   A. most workers are tired of their present jobs
   B. many workers tend to stick to their present jobs
   C. people find their jobs more rewarding than before
   D. people still wish to hunt for more suitable jobs
47. From Heilman’s remark, we can see that ______.
   A. full use has been made of the wisdom of older people
   B. the wisdom of older people is not valued by American society
   C. older people are no less intelligent than young people
   D. the wisdom of older people is of great value to American society
48. Tish Sommers argues that ______.
   A. older women find it hard to escape poverty
   B. older women usually perform better in their jobs
   C. the major cause of the poverty of older women is sexism
   D. more people have come to believe in sexism and ageism
49. According to the third paragraph, it can be seen that older Americans ______.
   A. have more job opportunities than young people
   B. live below the poverty line
   C. have new opportunities to remain active in society
   D. no longer believe in the promise of a happy life upon retirement
50. It can be concluded from the passage that the writer ______.
   A. calls attention to the living conditions of older Americans
   B. believes that the value of older people is gaining increasing recognition
   C. attempts to justify the youth-oriented, throw-away culture of the United States
   D. argues people should not retire at the age of 65 or 70

Passage 3 
 Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experiences. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows ,winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal（名人轶事的）reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, “Never was so dull a boy.” Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.
 Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: “Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach.” As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats’s level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to conflicts with teachers.
 When highly gifted students is any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy（神童）studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades. ( 377 words )
51. The main point the author is making about schools is that  .
 A. they should satisfy the needs of students from different family backgrounds
 B. they are often incapable of catering to the needs of talented students
 C. they should organize their classes according to the students’ ability
 D. they should enroll as many gifted students as possible
52. The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmith’s teachers  .
 A. to provide support for his argument
 B. to illustrate the strong will of some gifted children
 C. to explain how dull students can also be successful
 D. to show how poor Oliver’s performance was at school
53. Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who   .
 A. paid no attention to their teachers in class
 B. contradicted their teachers much too often
 C. could not cope with their studies at school successfully
 D. behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers
54. Many gifted people attributed their success   .
A. mainly to parental help and their education at home
B. both to school instruction and to their parents’ coaching
C. more to their parents’ encouragement than to school training
D. less to their systematic education than to their talent
55. The root cause of many gifted students having bad memories of their school years is that   .
 A. their nonconformity brought them a lot of trouble
 B. they were seldom praised by their teachers
 C. school courses failed to inspire or motivate them
 D. teachers were usually far stricter than their parents

Passage 4
 In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
 The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
 Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again — by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.
 Am I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system for a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities — those of love and of reason — are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.
56. By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to render the idea that man is ______.
A. a necessary part of the society though each individual’s function is negligible
B. working in complete harmony with the rest of the society
C. an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society, though functioning smoothly
D. a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly
57. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ______.
A. they are likely to lose their jobs
B. they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life
C. they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence
D. they are deprived of their individuality and independence
58. From the passage we can infer that real happiness of life belongs to those ______.
A. who are at the bottom of the society
B. who are higher up in their social status
C. who prove better than their fellow-competitors
D. who could keep far away from this competitive world
59. To solve the present social problems the author suggests that we should ______.
A. resort to the production mode of our ancestors
B. offer higher wages to the workers and employees
C. enable man to fully develop his potentialities
D. take the fundamental realities for granted
60. The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of ______.
A. approval B. dissatisfaction B. suspicion D. tolerance
 
Section IV  Translation  ( 20 points )
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.  
 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 a growing mobility of people since World War II. 61. 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. 62. 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.
 63. 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. 64.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 move people.
 In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. 65.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.             ( 405 words )

Section VI  Writing  ( 20 points )
Directions:  In this section, you are required to write a composition entitled “On Studying Abroad” You should write more than 150 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. 
 Outline：1.  Advantages of Studying abroad
          2.  Disadvantages of studying abroad
          3.  Your opinions

Section  I  Vocabulary and Structure   ( 20x0.5= 10 points )
   1--5:    BAABD                6--10:  BDDCD        
11--15:  CDBCB                16--20:  CCCBD
Section  II  Cloze  (20 x 0.5 =10 points)
21-- 25  ADCDC             26—30  BADAA
31-- 35  BDBCD             36—40  BDDCC
Section  III  Reading Comprehension  ( 20x2=40 points )
   41--45: BCDAD  46--50: BBACB  51--55: BACAC  56—60 CDDCB
Section  IV  Translation  ( 5x4 = 20 points )
61. 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，他们不可能在需要时即能获得信息而且是值得相信的、可依赖的信息了。
62. 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。
63. 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。
64. 专门技术可以通过电子会议让全球共享，有争议的问题可以不需参与者离家和/或工作来到一个遥远的会议地点就可得到解决。
65. 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。