武汉大学研究生英语期末试题 2009级

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English Examination for Graduates (Paper A)

(January 18th, 2010)

I. Listening Comprehension (20%)

Directions: In this part, you are going to listen to four passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passages and the questions will be read only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Then mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

1. A. Because they don’t know the custom.

B. Because they emphasize equality of the sexes.

C. Because it’s customary for ladies to push chairs for men at a dinner table in America.

D. Because usually the host or hostess pushes the chairs for women at a dinner table .

2. A. Americans hold the knife in the right hand and the fork in the left while Europeans do the

opposite.

B. Americans use both hands while Europeans use only one hand when eating.

C. Europeans hold the knife in the right hand and the fork in the left while Americans do the opposite.

D. Europeans keep the knife in the right hand and the fork in the left while Americans use just one hand and keep the other one on their lap.

3. A. Europeans are more apt to drink coffee after the meal while Americans between bites.

B. Americans are more apt to drink coffee after the meal while Europeans between bites.

C. Americans drink coffee before the meal while Europeans after the meal.

D. Europeans drink coffee before the meal while Americans after the meal.

4. A. Leaving a spoon in a soup bowl or a coffee cup.

B. Leaving a spoon in any dish.

C. Putting a coffee spoon on the saucer or a soup spoon on the service table.

D. Putting all the spoons on the tablecloth.

5. A. As long as you like. B. Two or three hours.

C. As long as the host and hostess ask. D. Less than one hour.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.

6. A. Indifferent. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Neutral.

7. A. Discipline, discovery, mutuality, locality, potentiality, enhancement.

B. Discipline, discovery, mutuality, locality, historicity, enhancement.

C. Discovery, mutuality, locality, historicity, potentiality, enhancement.

D. Sustainability, discovery, mutuality, locality, potentiality, enhancement.

8. A. It believes that the community is only a socially constructed experience.

B. It believes that the community is only an ecologically grounded place.

C. It denies conflicts among stakeholder groups.

D. It is a community tourism planning approach uniting the themes of social development and ecological sustainability.

9. A. Because it not only generates hospitality that helps make a community a desirable

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destination, but also helps share scarce resources.

B. Because it helps mitigate conflicts arising over resource distribution and use.

C. Because it respects individual perspectives.

D. Because it provides capital to tourism community.

10. A. Sustainable Tourism. B. Travel Ecology.

C. Sustainable Tourism Models. D. Community Tourism Models.

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.

11. A. Because they don’t know the relationship between tobacco and disease.

B. Because they have a strong inclination to smoke.

C. Because they have been forbidden to smoke by the governments.

D. Because there were no institutions which persuade them not to smoke.

12. A. Because they are unusually subject to cigarette advertising.

B. Because tobacco taxes take up a large part of their revenue.

C. Because they don’t think tobacco can do harm to people’s mind.

D. Because they are innocent of the link between tobacco and disease.

13. A. Cigarette advertising only appeals to the young men.

B. Cigarette advertising appeals to adults.

C. Cigarette advertising is attractive to people who already smoke.

D. Cigarette advertising also appeals to kids.

14. A. Because they regard smoking as a symbol of sexual ability and even success.

B. Because they are addicted to nicotine.

C. Because they want to get more tobacco taxes.

D. Because they regard smoking as a kind of sports.

15. A. Smoking and tobacco taxes. B. Smoking in developing countries.

C. Smoking and cigarette advertising. D. Tobacco industry.

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.

16. A. Putting a roof on a barn. B. Harvesting water reeds

C. Using stone as a building material D. Daily farm operations

17. A. Clay tiles. B. Slate or stone.

C. Wooden shingles. D. Reeds or straw.

18. A. Later colonists did not know how to thatch.

B. Thatching was considered dangerous.

C. Other roofing materials were available.

D. Thatching was unsuitable for the climate.

19. A. It’s manufactured to be strong. B. It bends without breaking.

C. Thatchers nail it down securely. D. The winds can pass through it easily.

20. A. If people had more time to learn how to do it.

B. If its cost went down.

C. If it could make buildings more attractive.

D. If people realized its many advantages.

II. Vocabulary (25%)

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Directions: There are 25 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.

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