上海交通大学英语水平考试样题.docx

Part II Integrated Reading (30%)
Section 1 Banked Cloze (10%)
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Give your answers to the questions on your ANSWER SHEET.
Attention:  You need to change the forms of the words in the word bank where necessary.
         (注意：请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)

 A name might tell you something about a person's background. Names can be
1) __________ of class and race. Data show African Americans are far more likely than other 2) __________ groups to give their children uncommon names. White people tend to 3) ________ more familiar names that were formerly popular with more affluent white people.
The new study purports to show a link between name and outcome of life: The more 4) _________ your name, the more likely you are to land in juvenile hall. That's because we know that boys with uncommon names are more likely to come from a socio-economically 5) _________ background, which means that they also are more likely to get involved with crime. Even the researchers readily admit that it's not a name alone that 6）_______ a child's outcome, but rather the circumstance underlying the name.
    The researchers first assigned a popularity score to boys' names, based on how often they showed up in birth records in an undisclosed state from 1987 to 1991. Michael, the No. 1 boy's name, had a Popular Name Index score of 100; names such as Malcolm and Preston had index scores of 1. The researchers then assessed names of young men born during that time who landed in the juvenile justice system. They found that only half had a rating higher than 11. By 7) __________, in the general population, half of the names scored higher than 20. "A 10% increase in the popularity of a name is associated with a 3.7% 8) _________ in the number of juvenile delinquents who have that name."
    Still, the study theorizes that teenagers named Malcolm might also 9) ___________ because their peers treat them differently or they just don't like their names. And since the study's release last week, the name-crime 10) ___________ has been written or talked about in major media outlets.

popular   connect       favorite     race      affect    compare 
decrease    deprivation    act out      signify    effect    derive
increase     major        conclude

Section 2 True or False Judgement & Sentence Completion (10%)
Directions: In this part, you will find 7 statements and 3 incomplete sentences followed by the reading passage.
For questions 1-7, mark
Y (for YES)     if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO)     if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

Attention: For questions 1-7, one more point will be deducted if you don’t answer
 each one correctly.  

(注意: 1-7题中每答错一题倒扣1分, 不答不得分,答对得1分; 请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)

Who are smarter, men or women? It's a topic of common–– and often comic –– contemplation, but it has also become a serious policy issue for colleges and students in the United States.
    After years of concentrated effort to raise the academic achievement of girls, who in previous decades had often received less attention in the classroom and been steered away from college-prep courses, the nation can brag that female students have progressed tremendously. Though still underrepresented in calculus and other advanced-level science and math courses in high school, women now outnumber men applying to and graduating from college –– so much so that it appears some colleges are giving male applicants an admissions boost. As a result, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is examining whether colleges are engaging in widespread discrimination against women in an effort to balance their male and female populations.
Consider some of the numbers at leading schools: At Vassar College in New York State, a formerly all-women's college that is still 60% female, more than two-thirds of the applicants last year were women. The college accepted 35% of the men who applied, compared with 20% of the women. Locally, elite Pomona College accepted 21% of male applicants for this year's freshman class, but only 13% of female applicants. At Virginia's College of William & Mary, 7,652 women applied for this year's freshman class, compared with 4,457 male applicants. Yet the numbers of each who gained admittance were nearly the same. That's because the college accepted 45% of the men and only 27% of the women.
A 2007 analysis by U.S. News & World Report, based on the data sent by colleges for the magazine's annual rankings, found that the admissions rate for women averaged 13 percentage points lower than that for men. But percentages don't tell the whole story. It could be that the men were stronger candidates, or they might have applied in areas of engineering and science where women's numbers are still lower. But such justifications, even if true, are unlikely to fully explain these numbers. At schools such as the University of California, where admissions rely overwhelmingly on statistical measures of academic achievement such as grades and test scores, the disparities don't appear. Far more women than men applied to UCLA –– the UC's most selective campus –– last year. The university accepted about the same percentage of each, with a slight edge to the women. As a result, the freshman class has close to 800 more women than men.
In recent years, several college leaders have admitted that their institutions give a boost to male applicants to maintain gender balance on campus. Most students of either sex, they point out, prefer such balance. If Vassar accepted equal percentages of each sex, women would outnumber men by more than 2 to 1.
    Jennifer Delahunty Britz, the dean of admissions at Kenyon College in Ohio, a formerly all-male school, brought the matter to broad public attention in 2006 with an Op-Ed article for the New York Times describing the dilemma of her admissions office. "What messages are we sending young women that they must . . . be even more accomplished than men to gain admission to the nation's top colleges?" New York Times has long favored allowing colleges to use race as an admissions factor in order to diversify student populations.
She also wrote that exposure to people of different backgrounds and viewpoints better educates all students –– not just those given a leg up. We are not in favor of accepting underqualified or clearly inferior students for the sake of diversity. But most colleges are inundated with applications from students who more than meet their standards; the differences among many of them are slight. It makes sense for colleges to pick a balanced population from within this group. At the same time, admissions officers should avoid rigid notions of what constitutes enough men on campus. It's not harming UCLA, or destroying college social life, to admit somewhat more women than men.
    Even if the Civil Rights Commission finds pervasive gender discrimination in admissions, there's little it could do about the situation. Such discrimination –– though not racial discrimination –– is legal for undergraduate admissions at private, nonprofit colleges, even those that receive federal funding. Commission documents on the inquiry suggest that colleges could find more "gender-neutral" ways of balancing their student numbers, perhaps by offering programs and extracurricular activities that attract men.
Those might work for some schools but won't change the overall scenario. Not with college populations composed of 57% women nationwide. The issue we'd like the Commission on Civil Rights to investigate is: What's happening with the education of U.S. boys? Why are so few of them applying to and graduating from college?
    Theories and arguments abound. Some say that boys are more active and thus less able to sit still for long periods –– and as a result, more likely to be categorized as having attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder or needing special education. A 2008 study by researchers at Northwestern University found that when girls are involved in a language-related task –– such as reading –– they show more activity in areas of the brain involved in encoding language. Boys use more sensory information to do linguistic tasks. The study suggests boys might do better if they were taught language and arts in different ways. Race is a factor as well. The gender gap is starker among African American and Latino students.
There may be no one reason –– or solution. But figuring out ways to help boys achieve in school is a better response to the gender gap than making it easier for them to get into college later. 

1. As a result of the effort to raise the academic achievement of the girls for years, the girls have exceeded boys tremendously in all courses in colleges except calculus and other advanced-level science and math courses.   

2. Female students are facing the low admission rate because some colleges are engaging in discrimination against women to achieve the balance of their male and female populations.     

3. Although the men were traditionally considered stronger candidates in areas of engineering and science, the admission rate for men in these areas is still lower than that for women. 

4. Women have outnumbered men in gaining admittance in UCLA’s freshman class this year because their admissions greatly rely on grades and test scores of their applicants.

5. Some college leaders hold that most college students prefer their policy of maintaining gender balance by admitting equal percentages of each sex.    

6. The dilemma of the dean of admissions at Kenyon College is whether to use gender as an admissions factor in order to achieve gender balance or use race as an admissions factor in order to diversify student populations.  

7. According to Jennifer Delahunty Britz, it is reasonable for colleges to pick a balanced population from the candidates who more than meet their standards.

8. Actually the Civil Rights Commission can do little to change the situation of discrimination in college admission because such discrimination is ____________________________________________________________________.

9. The study shows that in doing linguistic tasks the boys use more sensory information, the girls show more _________________________________________.

10. Despite various theories and arguments about why so few boys apply to and graduate from college, the better solution to the problem is to ____________________________________________________________________.

Section 3 Cloze (10%)
Directions: In this section there are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Give your answers to the questions on your ANSWER SHEET.
(注意：请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)

We form many of our opinions 1_____ our favorite books. The author whom we prefer is our most potent teacher; we look at the world 2______ his eyes. If we habitually read books that are elevating in tone, pure in style, 3______ in reasoning, and keen in insight, our minds 4______ the same characteristics. If, 5_________, we read weak or vicious books, our minds contract the faults and vices of the books. We cannot escape the influence of what we read any more 6_______ we can escape the influence of the air that we breathe.
 The best books are 7______ which stir us up most and make us the most 8______ to do something and be something ourselves. The best books lift us to a higher plane 9_____ we breathe a purer atmosphere. As we should associate with people who can inspire us to nobler deeds, 10______ we should only read those books which have an uplifting power, and 11______ stir us to make the most of ourselves and our opportunities.
 …
 Good books elevate the character, 12_______ the taste, take the attractiveness out of low pleasures, and lift us upon a higher plane of thinking and living. It is not easy to be 13______ directly after reading a noble and inspiring book. The conversation of a man who reads for improvement or pleasure will be flavored 14______ his reading; but it will not be about his reading.
 15_______ you read, read with enthusiasm, with energy, read with the whole mind, if you would increase your mental stature. Learn to absorb the mental and the moral life of a book, and assimilate 16______ into your life. 17_____ is the best reader who consumes the most knowledge and converts it 18______ character. Mechanical readers remember words, the husks of things, but digest 19_______. They cram their brains but starve their 20______. If you are getting the most out of a book, you will feel a capacity for doing things which you never felt before.

1.      A) by         B) with
C) from        D) in
2.      A) with        B) through
C) in          D) inside
3.      A) sound       B) good
C) beautiful     D) hard
4.      A) have        B) with
C) being        D) develop
5.      A) on the contrary   B) however
C) on the other hand D) anyway

6.      A) however        B) than
C) as             D) but

7.      A) them          B) they
C) theirs          D)  those
8.      A) determining   B) determine
C) determined D) being determined
9.      A) which       B) where
C) while        D) when

10. A) as           B) and
C) so           D) also
11. A) they         B) books
C) those         D) which

12. A) pure         B) purify
C) pore         D) pear

13. A) mean        B) meaningful
C) meanwhile    D) meaning

14. A) with         B) of
C) by           D) after

15. A) What       B) That
C) Books      D) Whatever

16. A) them          B) it
C) which         D) life
17. A)  It             B) He
C) None          D) Everyone
18. A) by            B) with
C) in             D) into
19. A) things         B) something
C) nothing        D) anything
20. A) hearts         B) stomachs
C) minds         D) tastes

Part III Writing (30%)
Section A (10%)
In this Section,, you have 15 minutes to write an essay on the following topic. You should write at least 100 words.（请务必写在答题卷上，否则以零分处理）

    Your cousin, Ming Zhang, is going to take thenational entrance examination to college in June. However, he is under great pressure and simply can’t concentrate on his study. Please drop him a note of about 100 words, giving him some tips as to how todeal with this situation.

Section B (20%)
In this Section, you have 30 minutes to write an essay on the following to