2013年同等学力人员申请硕士学位英语真题.doc

C. devised D. simplified 15. John ’s application for admission to graduate studies in the School of Education has been approved. A. entrance B. acceptance C. experience D. allowance 16. Most college students in the United States live away from home. A. apart B. down C. elsewhere D. along 17. The pursuit of maximum profit often drives manufacturers to turn out things that can do harm to people ’s health. A. preserve B. promote C. process D. produce 18. Many different parts make up an airplane: the engine(s), the wings, the tail, and so on. A. compose B. decorate C. construct D. derive 19. You make it sound as ifI did it on purpose . A. carefully B. unwillingly C. incredibly D. deliberately 20. He could never have foreseen that one day his books would sell in millions. A. understood B. explained C. expected D. believed Part III prehension (25 points) Section A Directions: In this section, there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers A, B,C and D. Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet Passage One Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate intensely on one task, causes us to miss just about everything else. Because we can ’t see what we can ’t see, our lecturer was determined to catch us in the act . He had us watch a video of six people tossing basketballs back and forth, three in white shirts and three in black, and our task was to keep track only of the tosses among the people in white. The tape rolled, and everyone began counting. Everyone except me, I’m dyslexic ( 有阅读障碍的), and the moment I saw that grainy tape with the confusing basketball tossers, I knew I wouldn ’t be able to keep track of their movements, soI let my mind wander. My curiosity was aroused, though, when about 30 seconds into th