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KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENGLISH EXAMINATION FOR MASTER OF METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING Name_________ Grade __________

PAPER ONE

PART Ⅰ VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (15 points, 0.5 points each)

( ) 1. Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.

A)terminal B)benefit C)fate D)estimate

( ) 2. To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.

A)treatment B)delivery C)transmission D)departure

( ) 3. Behind his large smiles and large cigars, his eyes often seemed to______regret.

A)teem with B)brim with C)come with D)look with

( ) 4. The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______of the murder

committed last month.

A)observers B)witnesses C)audiences D)viewers

( ) 5. Politically these nations tend to be ______, with very high birth rates but poor education

and very low levels of literacy.

A)unstable B)reluctant C)rational D)unsteady

( ) 6. The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.

A)take to B)take out C)take away D)take on

( ) 7. “You try to get some sleep. I’ll _____the patient’s breakfast,” said the nurse.

A)see to B)stick to C)get to D)lead to

( ) 8. The London Marathon is a difficult race. _______, thousands of runners participate every

year.

A)Therefore B)Furthermore C)Accordingly D)Nevertheless

( ) 9. Banks shall be unable to_____, or claim relief against the first 15% of any loan or

bankrupted debt left with them.

A)write off B)put aside C)shrink from D)come over

( ) 10. The more a nation’s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country’s

recorded exports will be.

A)lie B)spot C)stand D)locate

( ) 11. Being ignorant of the law is not accepted as an ______for breaking the law.

A)excuse B)intention C)option D)approval

( ) 12. Within two days, the army fired more than two hundred rockets and missiles at military

_____in the coastal city.

A)goals B)aims C)targets D)destinations

( ) 13. It is said in some parts of the world, goats, rather than cows, serve as a vital _____of milk.

A)storage B) source C)reserve D)resource

( ) 14. “This light is too ______for me to read by. Don’t we have a brighter bulb some where”,

said the elderly man.

A)mild B)dim C)minute D)slight

( ) 15. We have arranged to go to the cinema on Friday, but we can be _______and go another

day.

A)reliable B)probable C)feasible D)flexible

( ) 16. We are quite sure that we can ______our present difficulties and finish the task according

to schedule.

A)get across B)get over C)get away D)get off

( ) 17. ______recent developments we do not think your scheme is practical.

A) In view of B)In favor of C)In case of D)In memory of

( ) 18. Jessica was ______from the warehouse to the accounting office, which was considered a

promotion.

A)delivered B)exchanged C)transferred D)transformed

( ) 19. Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was

typing.

A)inject B)install C)invade D)insert

( ) 20. There’s the living room still to be _____, so that’s my next project.

A)abandoned B)decorated C)dissolved D)assessed

( ) 21. By 2015, the university ______20,000 postgraduates.

A)will be trained B)trains C)will have trained D)will be training

( ) 22. After the synthetic ______, engineers had a better choice for materials for construction.

A)had been developed B)had developed C)to be developed D)being

developed

( ) 23. Why is there ______ traffic on the streets in February than in May?

A)less B)fewer C)few D)little

( ) 24. It seems very difficult ______.

A)to stop the child to cry B)stopping the child to cry

C)stop the child crying D)to stop the child crying

( ) 25. Never ______ faith in himself, James Watt went on with his experiment.

A)losing B)to lose C)lost D)to be lost

( ) 26. This house needs ______. I will call the repair company tomorrow.

A)to be paint B)painting C)to painting D)painted

( ) 7. He is the very man ______ we have been looking for.

A)who B)whom C)which D)that

( ) 28. If you don’t like to swim, you _____as well stay at home.

A)should B)may C)can D)would

( ) 29. ______ inspected this radio, he should have put his identification number on the box.

A)That B)No matter who C)Whatever D)Whomever

( ) 30. The problem is ______.

A)why the cheapest way is B)that is the cheapest way

C)whichever is the cheapest way D)which is the cheapest way

PART Ⅱ CLOZE (20 points, 1 points each)

As a physician who travels quite a lot, I spend a lot of time on planes listening for that dreaded

reduced amount of oxygen flowing through their blood. in-flight problem is deep venous thrombosis – the so-called economy class syndrome. getting better on the in-flight-emergency front. Thanks to more recent legislation, flights with at

( ) 31. A)called B)addressed C)informed D)surveyed

( ) 32. A)accident B)condition C)incident D)disaster

( ) 33. A)soon B)long C)many D)often

( ) 34. A)confronted B)treated C)identified D)provided

( ) 35. A)for B)to C)by D)through

( ) 36. A)before B)since C)when D)while

( ) 37. A)collected B)conducted C)discovered D)published

( ) 38. A)by B)of C)with D)in

( ) 39. A)amount B)average C)sum D)number

( ) 40. A)significant B)heavy C)common D)serious

( ) 41. A)For B)On C)But D)So

( ) 42. A)require B)inspire C)engage D)command

( ) 43. A)include B)confine C)imply D)contain

( ) 44. A)enjoyable B)stimulating C)tedious D)stressful

( ) 45. A)who B)what C)which D)that

( ) 46. A)harshly B)reluctantly C)easily D)casually

( ) 47. A)ought to B)may C)used to D)need

( ) 48. A)Any B)One C)Other D)Another

( ) 49. A)Whatever B)Whichever C)Whenever D)Wherever

( ) 50. A)most B)worst C)least D)best

PART Ⅲ READING COMPREHENSION (32 points, 2 points each)

Passage One

Just five one-hundredths of an inch thick, light golden in color and with a perfect “saddle curl,” the Lay’s potato chip seems an unlikely weapon for global domination. But its maker, Frito-Lay, thinks otherwise. “Potato chips are a snack food for the world,” said Salman Amin, the company’s head of global marketing. Amin believes there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of a Frito-Lay potato chip.

Frito-Lay is the biggest snack maker in America, owned by PepsiCo, and accounts for over half of the parent company’s $3 billion annual profits. But the U.S. snack food market is largely saturated, and to grow, the company has to look overseas.

Its strategy rests on two beliefs: first, a global product offers economies of scale with which local brands cannot compete, and second, consumers in the 21st century are drawn to “global” as a concept. “Global” does not mean products that are consciously identified as American, but ones that consumers — especially young people — see as part of a modem, innovative world in which people are linked across cultures by shared beliefs and tastes. Potato chips are an American invention, but most Chinese, for instance, do not know that Frito-Lay is an American company. Instead, Riskey, the company’s research and development head, would hope they associate the brand with the new world of global communications and business.

With brand perception a crucial factor, Riskey ordered a redesign of the Frito-Lay logo. The logo, along with the company’s long-held marketing image of the “irresistibility” of its chips, would help facilitate the company’s global expansion.

The executives acknowledge that they try to swing national eating habits to a food created in America, but they deny that amounts to economic imperialism. Rather, they see Frito-Lay as spreading the benefits of free enterprise across the world. “We’re making products in those countries, we’re adapting them to the tastes of those countries, building businesses and employing people and changing lives,” said Steve Reinemund, PepsiCo’s chief executive.

( ) 51. It is the belief of Frito-Lay’s head of global marking that _____.

A) potato chips can hardly be used as a weapon to dominate the world market

B) their company must find new ways to promote domestic sales.

C) the light golden color enhances the charm of their company’s potato chips

D) people the world over enjoy eating their company’s potato chips

( ) 52. What do we learn about Frito-Lay from Paragraph 2?

A) Its products use to be popular among overseas consumers.

B) Its expansion has caused fierce competition in the snack marker.

C) It gives half of its annual profits to its parent company.

D) It needs to turn to the word market for development.

( ) 53. One of the assumptions on which Frito-Lay bases its development strategy is that _____.

A) consumers worldwide today are attracted by global brands

B) local brands cannot compete successfully with American brands

C) products suiting Chinese consumers’ needs bring more profits

D) products identified as American will have promising market value

( ) 54. Why did Riskey have the Frito-Lay logo redesigned?

A) To suit changing tastes of young consumers.

B) To promote the company’s strategy of globalization.

C) To change the company’s long-held marketing image.

D) To compete with other American chip producers.

Passage Two

Gordon Shaw the physicist, 66, and colleagues have discovered what’s known as the “Mozart effect,” the ability of a Mozart sonata, under the right circumstances, to improve the listener’s mathematical and reasoning abilities. But the findings are controversial and have launched all kinds of crank notions about using music to make kids smarter. The hype, he warns, has gotten out of hand.

But first, the essence: Is there something about the brain cells work to explain the effect? In 1978 the neuroscientist Vernon Mountcastle devised a model of the neural structure of the brain’s gray matter. Looking like a thick band of colorful bead work, it represents the firing patterns of groups of neurons. Building on Mountcastle, Shaw and his team constructed a model of their own. On a lark, Xiaodan Leng, who was Shaw’s colleague at the time, used a synthesizer to translate these patterns into music. What came out of the speakers wasn’t exactly toe-tapping, but it was music. Shaw and Leng inferred that music and brain-wave activity are built on the same sort of patterns.

“Gordon is a contrarian in his thinking,” says his longtime friend, Nobel Prize-winning Stanford physicist Martin Perl. “That’s important. In new areas of science, such as brain research, nobody knows how to do it.”

What do neuroscientists and psychologists think of Shaw’s findings? They haven’t condemned it, but neither have they confirmed it. Maybe you have to take them with a grain of salt, but the experiments by Shaw and his colleagues are intriguing. In March a team led by Shaw announced that young children who had listened to the Mozart sonata and studied the piano over a period of months improved their scores by 27% on a test of ratios and proportions. The control group against which they were measured received compatible enrichment courses ─ minus the music. The Mozart-trained kids are now doing math three grade levels ahead of their peers, Shaw claims. Proof of all this, of course, is, necessarily elusive because it can be difficult to do a double-blind experiment of educational techniques. In a double-blind trial of an arthritis drug, neither the study subjects nor the experts evaluating them know which ones got the test treatment and which a dummy pill. How do you keep the participants from knowing it’s Mozart on the CD?

( ) 55. In the first paragraph Gordon Shaw’s concern is shown over __________.

A) the open hostility by the media towards his findings

B) his strength to keep trying out the “Mozart effect”

C) a widespread misunderstanding of his findings

D) the sharp disagreement about his discovery

( ) 56. Shaw and Leng’s experiment on the model of their own seems to be based on the

hypothesis that _________.

A) listening to Mozart could change the brain’s hardware

B) brain-waves could be invariably translated into music

C) listening to music could stimulate brain development

D) toe-tapping could be very close to something musical

( ) 57. The remarks made by Marti Perl in paragraph 3 about Gordon Shaw could be taken

as________.

A) a compliment B) an outspoken criticism

C) an expression of jealousy D) something a little sarcastic

( ) 58. In the sentence “Maybe you have to take them…” (Para. 4) the word “them” best refers to

_________.

A) neuroscientists and psychologists

B) Shaw and his colleagues

C) the experiments by Shaw and his team

D) Shaw’s findings

( ) 59. The most important condition for the Mozart-trained kids to outsmart the control group is

__________.

A) be particularly trained to tackle math problems

B) listening to a specific Mozart and playing the piano

C) having extra courses designed exclusively for them

D) studying the piano for its breathtaking complexity

( ) 60. According to the author, proof of what Shaw claims is difficult because__________.

A) the control group will also enjoy the same kind of Mozart

B) some educational techniques need re-evaluation

C) the double-blind experiment is not reliable and thus rejected by Shaw

D) participants cannot be kept from knowing what is used in the best

Passage Three

Like almost no one before or since, the Romans thought big and built to last. Exploring their lives and achievements with this superb taped course is a wonder and a joy. As you learn from these 48 enthralling, easy-to-use lectures on The History of Ancient Rome by Professor Garrett Fagan, the Roman’s magnificent cultural legacy is all around us still in our art, architecture, language, literature, engineering, law, government, and religion.

How did the Romans build an empire that ran from Syria to Scotland and lasted for nearly a millennium? How did a tiny group of hamlets on the Tibet become a colossus that bestrode the known world and left such a deep impression on history?

To answer these and other fascinating questions, Professor Fagon draws on a wealth of sources, including recent archaeological findings. You’ll learn about famous events and personalities, the great landmarks and towering figures of Roman history. And you’ll aslo explore life, including such fabled Roman customs as gladiatorial combat, public bathing, and chariot racing.

With The History of Ancient Rome , as with all of The Great Courses , you get guaranteed teaching excellent. The Teaching Company scouts America from coast to coast searching for the best college lecturers, who can be identified most surely by teaching awards and consistently outstanding marks on independent student evaluations. We found Professor Fagan through these exacting processes, and we promise that he will not disappoint. To back up that promise, we give you our Lifetime Satisfaction Guarantee with this and every course we sell.

The History of Ancient Rome tells a complex story that is sometimes horrifying, sometimes glorious, and never less than hugely intriguing. Even at the remove of many centuries, its epoch-making significance leaps from the annals of our common history and shines through many of the finest achievements of our civilization. It is eminently worth knowing, which is why The Teaching Company is so proud to offer this course to all who desire to understand.

( ) 61. What is the purpose of this passage?

A) To plan for a course.

B) To advertise a course.

C) To administer a course.

D) To evaluate a history course.

( ) 62. Which of the following is NOT ture about the course?

A) It is organized by the Teaching Company.

B) It is given by one of the best teachers in the country.

C) It is entitled The History of Ancient Rome.

D) It is only open to university students.

( ) 63. What is the rhetorical function of the author’s raising questions in the second paragraph?

A) To show the outline of the article.

B) To expect accurate answers.

C) To provide course details.

D) To test one’s knowledge.

( ) 64. One advantage of the course is that_________.

A) it is more flexible than courses taken in tranditional ways.

B) history lessons are important to everyone

C) it is shorter than other courses

D) you can get course credits within one semester

( ) 65. How accessible are Professor Fagon’s lectures?

A) You can buy the tapes.

B) You can go to his classes at school.

C) You can pay for the distance course.

DYou can wait till his tour comes to your place.

( ) 66. The last paragraph intends to________.

A) inform the readers of the complexity of the course

B) show the best achievements of ancient civilizations

C) emphasize the worth of the course content

D) criticize the historians for their negligence of the Roman history PAPER TWO

PART Ⅳ TRANSLATION: PLEASE TRANSLATE THE UNDERLINED SENTENCES INTO CHINESE. (15 points, 3 points each)

Are you really in love? How do you know the difference between love and infatuation? This is often difficult to determine, for there are no set rules surrounding the definitions of love or infatuation. Romantic love is very much a part of the American way of life and many expect that some day “it” is going to hit them and they will know they are in love. a person to the imperfections of the loved one. We tend to think of the loved one as “perfect”, “ideal”, or some other divine image. Real love sees the total person------both the “perfection” and the imperfection. Infatuation, then, is a sudden, emotional sense that one has discovered the “perfect” lover. On the other hand, love realizes imperfections and grows with the acceptance of

those imperfections. together” is the feeling of love, rather than “please love me because I need you.” lose him?” and “I wonder if she really means it when she says she loves me?” express the feelings of infatuation. In such a setting a lasting love does not have a chance to develop. that concern for the other person evolves naturally.

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PART Ⅴ WRITING (18 points)

Directions ：Write an essay of no less than 200 words on the topic given below.

Some people think that material wealth is a sign of success in China today. Do you agree or disagree? State your opinion and give good reasons.

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