上海市2015年硕士研究生入学单独考试英语考试大纲

总则

本考试为上海市各类高等院校招收单独考试硕士研究生而设置。考试主要以《大学英语教学大纲（文、理科本科用）》中对大学英语四级水平的具体要求为根据，测试考生在英语语法、词汇、阅读及翻译等方面的语言应用能力。

考试内容与形式

整份试卷包括试卷一（选择题）和试卷二（非选择题）。

试卷一含以下三个部分：

第一部分词语用法和语法结构(PartI Vocabulary and Structure)

共20题，考试时间为15分钟。本部分全部是多项选择题。跟词语用法相关的题目主要测试考生运用英语词语及短语的能力，考试范围为大学英语四级标准所含的词汇和短语。跟语法结构相关的题目主要测试考生掌握英语语法结构的程度，考试范围包括大学英语四级标准所含的语法内容。答题时，考生需在答题卡上按照要求填涂相应字母。

第二部分阅读理解（PartII Reading Comprehension）

共20题，考试时间为65分钟。要求考生阅读4篇英语文章，总阅读量为1500词左右。每篇文章后有若干问题，考生应根据文章内容从每题四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。

选题的原则是：

1、体裁多样，可以包括叙述文、说明文、议论文等。文章所涉及的背景知识能为普通大学生理解。

2、文章的语言难度相当于国家大学英语四级统考的相应考题，但篇幅略长。无法猜测而又影响理解的关键词，如超出考生应掌握的词汇范围，用汉语注明词义。

阅读理解部分主要测试上述能力：

A.掌握所读文章的主旨和大意；

B.了解说明主旨和大意的事实和细节；

C.既理解字面意思，又能根据所读材料进行一定的判断和推论。

第三部分完形填空（PartIII Cloze）

共20题，考试时间为35分钟。完形填空所用的文章长度为300词左右，难度略低于阅读理解的篇章。文中共有20处空白，每个空白有四个选项。考生需在所给的四个选项中选一个词或词组进行填空。完形填空的目的是测试考生综合应用英语的能力。

试卷二含以下两个部分（在整份试卷中为第四和第五部分）：

第四部分汉译英（PartI Chinese-English Translation）

共5题，考试时间为30分钟。考生需将英语译文写在答题卡相应的位置上。供翻译的中文句子具有以下特点：

1.难度适当，不含冷僻词或专业性过强的单词；

2.长度适中，结构便于考生套用英语常用句型；

3.各题互不相关，内容和句式兼顾文、理各科考生。

汉译英的目的是测试学生的英语书面表达能力。

第五部分英译汉 (PartII English-Chinese Translation)

共5题，句子取自于短文。英译汉所用的短文的长度为300词左右，难度与阅读理解的篇章相同。考试时间为35分钟。考生须在理解短文的基础上，把划线部分的英语句子译成中文，并将中文译文写在答题卡相应的位置上。供翻译的英文句子具有以下特点：

1.难度适当，不含冷僻词或专业性过强的单词；

2.长度适中，结构应是英语常用句型;

3.内容和句式兼顾文、理各科考生。

英译汉的目的是测试学生的理解和表达能力。

答题和计分方法

试卷一中的客观题全部用填涂的方式答题，即要求考生在每题四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上该题的相应字母上填涂。试卷一上选择题的答案必须用2B铅笔涂写。考生必须正确填写答题卡上的姓名和考生编号，并在考生编号下面对应的数字上填涂。如考生李明的考生编号是210318000111111，他的考生编号的填写方法如下：

试卷二翻译题只要将句子写在答题卡相应的位置上即可。

整份试卷的题目数、计分和考试时间列表如下：

附录一

考生注意事项

附录二

试题指令及问题举例

PaperOne

PartI. Vocabulary and Structure (10 points, 15 minutes)

Directions:There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentencethere are four choice marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the ONEanswer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the correspondingletter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Example:

Ihave been to the Great Wall three times ________ 1980.

[A]about[B] during

[C]since[D] for

Thebest choice is “C”, so your answer should be: [A] [B] [C][D]

1.________ Eric started a job, he would not stop ________ it wasfinished.

[A]Once, till[B] Each time, once

[C]Since, when[D] The moment, as

2.The proposed law, while brilliantly ________, has been poorly devisedto do the

jobat hand.

[A]confirmed[B] promoted

[C]deceived[D] conceived

……

Key: 1. A   2. D

PartII. Reading Comprehension (40 points, 65 minutes)

Directions:There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by somequestions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fourchoices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the bestchoice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with asingle line through the center.

(1)

Ifyou’ve been married to the world’s loudest snorer fornearly four decades, you’re either a saint or you’redeaf.

JulieSwitzer is a little of both.

OnJuly 4, the 61-year-old British homemaker will celebrate her 40thanniversary with her husband Mel, a cab driver whose snoring has beenmeasured at 92.5 decibels—louder than a police siren.

Untilhe found a treatment, flight attendants would ask him not to sleep onplanes. Eight of his neighbors sold their homes in one 10-yearperiod. Only his wife stood by his side.

“Mywife and I love ach other,” he says. “And she is deaf inone ear.”

Julie’scondition had no connection to her husband’s strident snoozing(打盹儿).But even with diminished hearing, she found it hard to sleep—andthough to get up each day to get their two boys off to school. “Ijust thought most men sound like a electric saw in the bedroom,”she says.

Aftertwo decades of sleeplessness, Julie entered Mel in a local contest,sponsored by a British newspaper in 1984, to find the loudest snoringhusband in the United Kingdom. Until then, Mel had not realized thescope of his snore.

Thecontest turned out to be the best thing she ever did. In one bravestroke, Julie turned her husband into an international celebrity ofsorts. Suddenly, she and Mel were flying to Japan, so that doctorscould measure his snoring on national TV.

“Iguess there are better reasons to be famous,” Mel says. “Butif people are sending you to Tokyo, why fight it?”

Thefolks at Guinness were quick to certify him, and all the attentionbrought hundreds of would-be remedies—including one thatfinally worked.

Aboutfour years ago, New York entrepreneur Robert Ross gave Mel a Chineseherbal concoction that he now markets throughout North America asY-snore.

Y-snorechanged the Switzers’ life. Just a few drops in the nose andMel is silent as a lamb. Finally, a peaceful night for his wife.

1.Julie Switzer is considered somewhat a saint because ________.

[A]she has been an excellent homemaker all the time

[B]she has been married to Mel for 40 years

[C]she turned a deaf ear to her husband’s snoring

[D]she tolerated the loudest snoring in the world for more than 40 years

2.What did Julie think of her husband’s snoring before sheentered him in a local contest?

[A]She thought it was as loud as a police siren.

[B]She felt bored.

[C]She thought it was just a normal phenomenon.

[D]She was anxious to find a cure for her husband’s snoring.

3.Entering her husband in the snoring contest was the best thing Julieever did

because________.

[A]Mel became a famous person as a result of the contest

[B]Mel became rich after winning the first prize

[C]then she began to know how loud her husband’s snoring was

[D]she managed to prove to the world that her husband was a very braveman

4.What does Mel think of his own success in the contest?

[A]He believes that it is a great victory.

[B]He is glad to take the opportunity to travel.

[C]He feels embarrassed to be known as “the world’s loudestsnorer.”

[D]He feels proud of himself and his wife.

5.According to what is said in the passage, Y-snore is ________.

[A]an interesting question Robert Ross asked Mel

[B]a Japanese medical instrument that Mel bought in Japan

[C]the name of a Chinese drug store that can be found in North America

[D]a kind of medicine that stops snoring effectively

 ……

Key:1. D   2. C   3. A   4. B   5. D

PartIII. Cloze (20 points, 35 minutes)

Directions:In this part there is a passage with 20blanks. For each blank there are four choices of words (phrases)marked A), B), C), and D). You are asked to choose the ONE word(phrase) that best fits into the passage. Then mark the correspondingletter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Atthe moment some 170,000 young people throughout Britain are sufferingwhat is potentially the most tense and anxious time of their lives.That is the ___1___ of students currently preparing to ___2___ theirA-levels–examinations which will decide ___3___ a studentproceeds smoothly on to the next step of the academic ___4___ orwhether six years of work at secondary –school will be spent inthe bitter disappointment of failure. ___5___ the medical“stress-charts” examinations ___6___ somewherebehind a death ___7___, a divorce or even the loss of a job; ___8___the symptoms of anxiety are all the more weakening ___9___ they arebefore the event ___10___ after it, and may ___11___ themselves beenough to ___12___ the student’s worst fears failing.

  ……

1.A)amountB) numberC) accountD) members

2.A)sit uponB) sit downC) sit forD) sit over

3.A)howB) whatC) whyD) whether

4.A)careerB) purposeC) projectD) ladder

5.A)AtB) AboveC) WithinD) In

6.A)successB) rankC) line upD) link

7.A)in the houseB) at homeC) in the familyD) in homes

8.A)thereforeB) thusC) butD) as a result

9.A)soB) becauseC) whenD) if

10.A)more thanB) even moreC) rather thanD) less than

11.A)ofB) onC) inD) from

12.A)bring backB) bring aboutC) bring alongD) bring through

  ……

Key:

1.B  2. C  3.D   4. D   5. D 6. B

7.C 8. C   9. B   10. C   11. C  12. B  

PaperTwo

PartIV Chinese-English Translation (15 points, 30 minutes)

Directions:Translate the following sentences into English and write yourtranslation on Answer Sheet 2.

1.我们不要把关心老人只停留在口头上，要办实事帮助他们解决困难。

2.一个人的成功在于勤奋，也在于机会。杰佛逊（Jefferson）就是一个很好的例

子。

3.使用一个普通灯泡时，只有5%的电转化为光，其余的都作为热量浪费掉了。

……

Key:

1.We should do more than talk to care for the old, and take actualmeasures to help

themsolve their difficulties.

2.One’s success lies in diligence, as well as in opportunities.Jefferson is a case in

point.

3.With a standard bulb, only 5% of the electricity is converted tolight—the rest is

wastedaway as heat.

PartV English-Chinese Translation (15 points, 35 minutes)

Directions:There is one passage in this part. Read the passage and translate theunderlined sentences into Chinese. Write your translation on AnswerSheet 2.

Geniuseslook at problems in many different ways. Genius often comes fromfinding a new perspective that no one else has taken. Leonardo DaVinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem,you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways.He felt that the first way he looked at a problem by looking at itfrom on perspective and move to another perspective and stillanother. (1) With each move, his understandingwould deepen and he would begin to understand the essence of theproblem.

Geniusesmake novel combinations. Like the highly playful child with a bucketof building blocks, a genius is constantly combining and recombiningideas, images, and thoughts into different combinations in theirconscious and subconscious minds. Consider Einstein’s equation,E=mc². Einsteindid not invent the concepts of energy, mass, or speed of light. (2)Rather, by combining these concepts in a novelway, he was able to look at the same world as everyone else and seesomething different.

……

Key

1.每更换一次视角，他的理解就会加深，并开始领悟问题的实质。

2.事实是，通过用一种新颖的方式来组合这些概念，他能够在同其他人审视同一个世界时，看到一些与众不同的东西。

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