| 在职申硕英语考试易错题（2019/10/24） |
| 第1题： Woman: When's a good time to get together to discuss our history project Man: Other than this Wednesday, one day's as good as the next. Question: What does the man mean A．He can meet the woman on Wednesday. B．He won't be ready until next week. C．He's available any day except Wednesday. D．He needs to do the history project before Wednesday. |
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第2题：No one would object to (see) these problems (solved) if the solutions were simple and (fully) (in accord) with social norm.
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| 第3题：Woman: Grey says he's going to take three extra classes. Man: He's got to be kidding. Question: What does the man mean A．He thinks Grey is too young. B．He thinks it's a good decision. C．He's surprised. D．He is angry. |
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| 第4题：I have an infatuation (迷恋) with autumn. The colors of the season, and the smells, have always thrilled me. I have always found joy in this time of year. The last few autumns of my life, however, I recollect in shades o gray rather than cheerful oranges and yellows. When I became a single mother, every aspect of life took on new meaning. Since I was used to carrying out most of the parental duties without much help during my marriage, I truly did not foresee how different parenting would become after the marriage was over.But suddenly I realized I was a statisti C、The daily routine was not changed so much; it was the angle at which I had begun to look at life. I believed my ex-husband’s lawyer was tracking every grade the children made, and I was under a microscope in this new town where the children and I moved our "broken home. " I feared having to eventually establish my family with each new teacher and each new term as a single-parent family. I just wanted to be us again, without the stigma (特征) of the label that put on us. During those few gray years, I would reassure myself that soon things would be better, and that I would someday be able to feel whole again. There is no mathematical equation of adults proportioned to children to equal a stable, loving family.Every family has its strengths. In fact, studies show that in families who read together, eat together and communicate openly, children are likely to succeed academically, as well as socially and emotionally. I am sure these habits are just as effective when practiced in single-parent families. I realize now that I am not a statisti C、We are an active, vital family in this charming community, where we are not marked by any stigma of any statistics of any focus groups. We are given opportunity, all of us. We are surrounded by beauty and immersed in possibility. There is joy to be found here, in what we see around us and in creating our own rendition of how we want to be seen. There is strength and grace in our own willingness to break free from conformity without falling behind the barriers of self-imposed limitations or preconceived notions of where we should fit in this world according to research. What is the author’s main pointA．Every family has its happiness and unhappiness. B．Her family has suffered a lot. C、Her ex-husband is not a good man. D．Every family has its strength and can create its happiness. |
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| 第5题：{{B}}Passage Five{{/B}} Hawking hasALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neuromuscular disease that progressively weakens muscle control. He gets around in a wheelchair, and after completely losing the use of his vocal chords in an operation to assist his breathing in 1985, he communicates through a computer.A、speech synthesizer "speaks" for him after he punches in what he wants to say, selecting words in the computer software by pressing a switch with his hanD、Unfortunately, it makes him sound like he has anAmerican accent, he says. Despite his humorous, self-effacing manner, Hawking is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists. Many consider him to be the most brilliant sinceEinstein. Since 1979, he’s held the post of Lucasian professor of mathematics atCambridge University—which was once held by Isaac Newton no less—and has twelve honorary degrees. He’s also a best-selling author. His book,A、Brief History of Time ,has been translated into 33 languages and has sold nine million copies. For much of his academic life, Hawking has been among a group of theoretical physicists searching for a "theory of everything’—one unified scientific theory that explains the big cosmological questions like How did the universe begin Why is the universe the way it is and How will it end You are probably familiar with the existing theories, such as theBigBang theory. However, these theories are inconsistent with each other. So Hawking—among a group of theoretical physicists—has been on a quest to come. up with a theory of quantum (量子)gravity that would incorporate these theories—the theory of everything (TOE、—which would solve the problem of what caused the universe to start expanding. How successful have the world’s leading cosmologists been Hawking predicts we’ll have the TOE、in the next 20 years. |