2015年同等学力申硕英语模拟题精选(3)

　　Passage Two

　　Tens of thousands of 18 year olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won´t look any different from awarded their luckier classmates Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover the these graduates are semiliterate(半文盲)

　　Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational - repair - adult - literacy Programs, such as the one where I teach grammar and writing. There, high school graduates and high school dropouts pursuing graduate equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school, They will discover they have been cheated by our educational system.

　　I will never forget a teacher when a senior had her for English. "He sits in the back of the room talking to his friends ".she told me " Why don´t you move him to the front row?" I urged, believing the embarrassment would get him to settle down. Mrs. Stifter said,"I don´t move seniors. I flunk (使 ┅ 不 及 格) them." Our son´s academic life flashed before my eyes. No teacher had ever threatened him. By the time I got home I was feeling pretty good this. It was a radical approach for these times, but well. Why not ? "She´s going to flunk you " I told my son.

　　I did not discuss it any further. Suddenly English became a priority (头 等 重 要) in his life. He finished out the semester with an A.

　　I know one example doesn´t make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angry for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up. Of average intelligence or better, they eventually quit school, concluding they were too dumb to finish. "I should have been held back" is a comment I hear frequently. Even sadder are those students who are high-school graduates who say to me after a few weeks of class. "I don´t know how I ever got a high-school diploma."

　　Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. We excuse this dishonest behavior by saying kids can´t learn if they come from terrible environments. No one seems to stop to think that most kids don´t put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at risk. They´d rather be sailing.

　　Many students I see at night have decided to make education a priority. They are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one they´ve got. They have a healthy fear of failure.

　　People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Yong people generally don´t have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it. But fear of failure can motivate both.

　　37.What is the subject of this essay?

　　A view point on learning

　　B a qualified teacher

　　C the importance of examination

　　D the generation gap

　　38.How did Mrs. Sifter get the attention of one of the author´s children?

　　A flunking him

　　B moving his seat

　　C blaming him

　　D playing card with him

　　39.The author believes that most effective way for a teacher is to

　　A purify the teaching environments.

　　B set up cooperation between teachers and parents.

　　C hold back student.

　　D motivate student.

　　40. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that the authors´ attitude toward flunking is

　　A negative

　　B positive

　　C biased

　　D indifferent

　　41.Why do the author´s students make education a priority

　　A They are feared about their future.

　　B They have healthy problems.

　　C They need to hold on to the present job.

　　D They want to finish the class with an A

　　42. Judging from the content,this passage is probably written for

　　A administrators

　　B students

　　C teachers

　　D parents

　　Passage Three

　　When Thomas Keller, one of America´s foremost chefs, announced that on Sept. I he would abolish the practice of tipping at Per Se. his luxury restaurant in New York City, and replace it with European-style service charge, I knew three groups would be opposed: customers, servers and restaurant owners. These three groups are all committed to tipping--as they quickly made clear on Web sites. To oppose tipping, it seems, is to be ant capitalist, and maybe even a little French..

　　But Mr. Keller is right to move away from tipping-and it´s worth exploring why just about everyone else in the restaurant world is wrong to stick with the practice.

　　Customers believe in tipping because they think it makes economic sense. "Waiters know that they won´t get paid if they don´t do a good job" is how most advocates of the system would put it. To be sure, this is a tempting, apparently rational statement about economic theory, but it appears to have little applicability to the real world of restaurants.

　　Michael Lynn, an associate professor of consumer behavior and marketing at Cornell´s School of Hotel Administration, has conducted dozens of students of tipping and has concluded that consumers assessments of the quality of service correlate weakly to the amount they tip.

　　Rather, customers are likely to tip more in response to servers touching them lightly and leaning forward next to the table to make conversation than to how often their water glass is refilled--in other words, customers tip more when they like the server, not when the service is good. Mr. Lynn´s studies also indicate that male customers increase their tips for female servers while female customers increase their tips for male servers,.

　　What´s more, consumers seem to forget that the tip increases as the bill increases. Thus, the tipping system is an open invitation to what restaurant professionals call "upwelling": every bottle of imported water, every espresso and every cocktail is extra money in the server´s pocket. Aggressive upwelling for tips is often rewarded while low-key, quality service often goes unrecognized.

　　In addition, the practice of tip pooling, which is the norm in fine-dining restaurants and is becoming more in every kind of restaurant above the level of a greasy spoon, has ruined whatever effect voting with your tip might have had on an individual waiter. In an unreasonable outcome, you are punishing the good waiters in the restaurant by not tipping the bad one. Indeed, there appear to be little connection between tipping and good service.

　　43.It may be inferred that a European-style service______.

　　A. is tipping-free　　　　　　　　　 B. charges little tip

　　C. is the author´s initiative 　　　　　D. is offered at Per-se

　　44. Which of the following is NOT true according to the author.

　　A. Tipping is a common practice in the restaurant world.

　　B. Waiters don´t care about tipping

　　C. Customers generally believe in tipping.

　　D. Tipping has little connection with the quality of service.

　　45.According to Michael Lynn´s studies, waiters will likely get more tips if they______

　　A. have performed good service

　　B. frequently refill customers´ water glass

　　C. win customers´ favor

　　D. serve customers of the same sex

　　46.We may infer from the context that "upwelling"(Line 2, Para 6) probably means ________

　　A. selling something up

　　B. selling something fancy

　　C. selling something unnecessary

　　D. selling something more expensive

　　47.What´s the author´s attitude towards tipping?

　　A. cautious

　　B. indifferent

　　C. generous

　　D. reasonable

　　48. This passage is mainly about __________

　　A. reasons to abolish the practice of tipping

　　B. economic sense of tipping

　　C. consumers´ attitudes towards tipping

　　D. tipping for good service