2015年同等学力申硕英语模拟题精选(3)

　　Passage Four

　　"I promise." "I swear to you it´ll never happen again." "I give you my word." "Honestly. Believe me." Sure, I trust. Why not? I teach English composition at a private college. With a certain excitement and intensity. I read my students´ essays, hoping to find the person behind the pen. As each semester progresses, plagiarism(剽窃)appears. Not only is my intelligence insulted as one assumes I won´t detect a polished piece of prose from an otherwise-average writer, but I feel a sadness that a student has resorted to buying a paper from a peer. Writers have styles like fingerprints and after several assignments, I can match a student´s work with his or her name even if it´s missing from the upper left-hand corner.

　　Why is learning less important than a higher grade-point average(GPA)? When we´re threatened or sick, we make conditional promises. "If you let me pass math I will …." "Lord, if you get me over this before the big homecoming game I´ll…." Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises. Human nature? Perhaps, but we do use that cliché(陈词滥调)to get us out of uncomfortable bargains. Divine interference during distress is asked; gratitude is unpaid. After all, few fulfill the contract, so why should anyone be the exception. Why not ?

　　Six years ago, I took a student before the dean. He had turned in an essay with the vocabulary and sentence structure of PhD thesis. Up until that time, both his out-of-class and in-class work were borderline passing.

　　I questioned the person regarding his essay and he swore it I´d understand this copy would not have the time and attention an out-of-class paper is given, but he had already a finished piece so he understood what was asked. He sat one hour, then turned in part of a page of unskilled writing and faulty logic. I confronted him with both essays. "I promise…., I´m not lying. I swear to you that I wrote the essay. I´m just nervous today."

　　The head of the English department agreed with my finding, and the meeting with the dean had the boy´s parents present. After an hour of discussion, touching on eight of the boy´s previous essays and his grade-point average, which indicated he was already on academic probation(留校察看), the dean agreed that the student had plagiarized. His parents protested, "He´s only a child" and we instructors are wiser and should be compassionate. College people are not really children and most times would resent being labeled as such…. Except in this uncomfortable circumstance.

　　49. According to the author, students commit plagiarism mainly for_____.

　　A.money B.degree C.higher GPA D.reputation

　　50.How does the author know that his students are cheating?

　　A. He insulted the students

　　B. He compares the handwriting of his students´ signatures

　　C. He knows the students´ writing style

　　D. He discovers the missing names from the upper left-hand cover

　　51.the sentence " Once the situation is behind us, so are the promises´ implies that_________.

　　A.students usually keep their promises

　　B.some students tend to break their promises

　　C.the promises are always behind the situation

　　D.we cannot judge the situation in advance, as we do to the promises

　　52.The "borderline passing"(Line 3,Para.3)probably means____________.

　　A.fairly good B.extremely poor

　　C.above average D.below average

　　53.The boy´s parents thought their son should be excused mainly because_______________.

　　A.teachers should be compassionate

　　B.he was only a child

　　C.instructors were wiser

　　D.he was threatened

　　54. Which of the following might serve as the title of this passage?

　　A.Human Nature B.Conditional Promises

　　C.How to Detect Cheating D.The Sadness of Plagiarism

　　Passage Five

　　Names have gained increasing importance in the competitive world of higher education. As colleges strive for market share, they are looking for names that project the image they want or reflect the changes they hope to make. Trenton. State College, for example, became the College of New Jersey nine years ago when it began raising admissions standards and appealing to students from throughout the state.

　　"All I hear in higher education is, ´Brand, brand, brand´ " said Tim Westerbeck, who specializes in branding and is managing director of Lipman Hearne, a marketing firm based in Chicago that works with universities and other nonprofit organizations. "There has been a sea change over the last 10 years. Marketing used to be almost a dirty word in higher education."

　　Not all efforts at name changes are successful, of course. In 1997, the New School for Social Research became New School University to reflect its growth into a collection of eight colleges, offering a list of majors that includes psychology, music, urban studies and management. But New Yorkers continued to call it the New School.

　　Now, after spending an undisclosed sum on an online survey and a marketing consultant´s creation of "haming structures." "brand architecture" and " identity systems," the university has come up with a new name: the New School. Beginning Monday, it will adopt new logon (标 识), banners, business cards and even new names for the individual colleges, all to include the words "the New School."

　　Changes in names generally reveal significant shifts in how a college wants to be perceived. In altering its name from Cal State. Hayward, to Cal State, East Bay, the university hoped to project its expanding role in two mostly suburban countries east of San Francisco.

　　The University of Southern Colorado, a state institution, became Colorado State University at Pucblo two years ago, hoping to highlight many internal changes, including offering more graduate programs and setting higher admissions standards.

　　Beaver College turned itself into Arcadia University in 2001 for several reasons: to break the connection with its past as a women´s college, to promote its growth into a full-fledged(完 全 成 熟 的) university and officials acknowledged, to eliminate some jokes about the college´s old name on late-night television and "morning zoo" radio shows.

　　Many college officials said changing a name and image could produce substantial results. At Arcadia, in addition to the rise in applications, the average students´ test score has increased by 60 points, Juli Roebeck, an Arcadia spokeswoman said.

　　55. which of the following is NOT the reason for colleges to change their names?

　　A They prefer higher education competition

　　B They try to gain advantage in market share.

　　C They want to project their image.

　　D They hope to make some changes.

　　56. It is implied that one of the most significant changes in highter education in the past decade is

　　A the brand.

　　B the college names

　　C the concept of marketing

　　D list of majors.

　　57.The phrase "come up with"(Line 3 Para 4)probably means

　　A catch up with

　　B deal with

　　C put forward

　　D come to the realization

　　58 The case of name changing from Cal State Hayward to Cal State indicates that the university

　　A is perceived by the society

　　B hopes to expand its influence

　　C prefers to reform its reaching programs

　　D expects to enlarge its campus

　　59.According to the spokeswoman the name change of Beaver College

　　A turns out very successful

　　B fails to attain its goal

　　C has eliminated some jokes

　　D has transformed its status

　　60.What is the attitude of the author toward name change?

　　A neutral B indifferent

　　C suspicious D objective