1、杭 州 师 范 大 学 硕 士 研 究 生 入 学 考 试 命 题 纸杭 州 师 范 大 学 2017 年招收攻读硕士研究生入学考试题 考试科目代码： 243 考试科目名称： 二外英语 说明：考生答题时一律写在答题纸上，否则漏批责任自负。Part I Reading Comprehension（Skimming and Scanning）(210=20 points)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on the A
2、nswer Sheet.For questions 1 - 7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 8 - 10, complete the senten
3、ces with the information given in the passage.Is Your Life Worth 30 Minutes a Day? Dont be afraid of the E word it could mean your survival. People who arent engaging in regular exercise can reap significant health benefits if they accumulate 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity most d
4、ays of the week. What can help prevent stroke (中风), heart disease and some cancer? What can lift depression，ease arthritis (关节炎) pain and increase both the length and quality of life to name just a few of its benefits? “If packed into a pill,” sums up Dr. Robert Butler, former director of the Nation
5、al Institute on Aging, “it would be the single most widely prescribed (写处方) and beneficial medicine in the nation. “ Best of all, it is free and available to everyone.”Exercise Can Help People Stay Healthy Give up? The answer is the E word: exercise. But you dont have to change into gym shorts or, h
6、eaven forbid, sweat for an hour. Instead, the U.S. Surgeon Generals report Physical Activity and Health offers this simple exercise prescription: people who arent engaging in regular exercise can reap significant health benefits if they accumulate 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity m
7、ost days of the week.Americans Expend Much Less Energy and Time on Exercise Americans today expend much less energy than did previous generations, perhaps as much as a few hundred calories per day less. All the “advances” that make our lives easier like e-commerce (电子商务) , and automatic doors contri
8、bute to the current epidemic (流行病) of obesity (肥胖) and related disease. Experts say that if you expend just ten extra calories a day by being more active, over a year you can lose a pound mostly fat. And if you burn 150 extra calories a day the equivalent of a 30-minutes walk in a year thats ten pou
9、nds. (If you also eat 150 calories less thats about half a candy bar you could lose an additional ten pounds.) The sad fact is that only about 15 percent of American adults engage regularly in vigorous physical activity for at least 20 minutes three times a week. More than 60 percent are not regular
10、ly physically active, and 25 percent are totally sedentary (久坐的).The Benefit of Moderate ExerciseYet the benefits of moderate exercise are amazing. Consider how exercise helps the following: diabetes (糖尿病). The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has increased six fold since 1958, to a recor
11、d high of ten million presented by . This alarming rise is linked to our expanding waistlines, junk food diet and inactivity. Some experts feel that the most common form of diabetes is preventable with a proper diet and regular activity. In diabetics, the hormone insulin (荷尔蒙胰岛素) does not properly r
12、egulate glucose (葡萄糖) levels in the blood. When people exercise, the body fuels the activity by taking glucose out of their blood to use for energy.Exercise Can Help Patients Suffering from the Following Diseases Heart Attacks and Stroke. One of the simplest, safest, least expensive and most effecti
13、ve strategies for improving heart health is frequently neglected: exercise. It reduces blood pressure and can help raise the level of “good” cholesterol (胆固醇)， while lowering “bad” cholesterol when combined with dietary changes. Remember: for every one percent reduction in blood cholesterol, the occ
14、urrence of coronary (冠状动脉的) heart disease is reduced by two percent. Moreover, people who exercise one hour per day cut their risk for stroke nearly in half, according to a study of 11,130 Harvard University alumni (男女校友).Mental Health. When asked why she started swimming during her freshman year at
15、 Boston University, world-class endurance swimmer Julie Ridge replied, “It was a mental thing.” While sedentary people may assume that working out is about looking good，habitual exercisers like Ridge know that it is largely about feeling good. A growing body of research shows that physical activity
16、does, indeed, exert a “feel good” effect that can work as a powerful treatment for depression.Arthritis. Many people including some physicians still havent heard the new message that exercise can help people with arthritis now affecting nearly 43 million Americans. “Weve come from thinking that phys
17、ical fitness was impossible for people with arthritis to know that exercise is one of the best ways to manage their disease and minimize their disability,” says Marian Minor, an associate professor of Physical therapy at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Exercise can reduce pain by keeping joint
18、s (关节) flexible and the muscles around the joints strong. A person with arthritis who has other medical conditions or a lot of pain should get a physicians referral (建议) to a physical therapist who can design an individualized exercise program. Cancer. Each year over a million Americans learn they h
19、ave cancer the second leading cause of death in the Unites States after heart disease. In 1996 the American Cancer Society added regular physical activity to the list of preventive measures it advocates. According to one large study of people at various levels of fitness, the least fit men died from
20、 cancer at a rate more than three times higher than that of the most fit men. And, notes Informed Decisions, the American Cancer Societys guide to the disease, an earlier study found “the least fit women had fully16 times the cancer death rate of the most fit women.”Scientists still dont know the pr
21、ecise mechanisms by which exercise appears to exert an “anticancer” effect, but current thinking points to physical activitys effect on the immune and endocrine (内分泌的) system.So Choose to Move. Stop viewing exercise as a “workout” and start thinking of it as play a welcome daily recess (暂歇) that fre
22、es your body from the confines of its workaday routines. And if you have any health concerns, you should, of course, consult a physician first.1. Americans today expend more energy than their forefathers in the past.2. In a way, some modern conveniences result in peoples obesity and related diseases
23、.3. Exercise is a free and available way for people to be away from illness.4. Exercise can help increase blood pressure and lower the level of “good” cholesterol while raising “bad” cholesterol when combined with dietary changes.5. More and more American adults take part in physical activity regula
24、rly.6. Regular and moderate physical activity has beneficial effect on peoples health.7. Exercise can help smokers and drinkers get rid of cigarette smoking and drinking.8. One of the simplest, safest, least expensive and most effective strategies for improving heart health is _.9. If a persons bloo
25、d cholesterol is reduced one percent, his possibility of suffering from coronary heart disease will be reduced by _.10. Exercise can help people with arthritis to reduce pain by _ and _.Part II Vocabulary and Structure (130=30 points)Directions: Choose the best answer you think fit to fill in the ga
26、ps of each sentence with the items given. Please write down the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.11.Usually we wouldnt mind _. A)her to stay away C)she stayed away B)her staying away D)she staying away 12. She feels _ now, said the doctor. She will be _ from now on. A)good. alright C)good. a
27、ll right B)well. alright D)well. all right 13. The Headmaster said that if they failed again, they _ another school. A)have had to find C)would have to find B)had had to find D)would have had to find 14. Since you are to catch the early train tomorrow morning, we _ now. A)had better to leave C)might
28、 as well leave B)must have left D)should have to leave 15. There will come a day when we will be living in cities quite unlike _ of the present. A)that C)ones B)those D)others 16. Is the matter _ that you wouldnt even stop for just one minute to consider it? A)of so little importance C)so little imp
29、ortant B)such little important D)such little importance 17. Sams father sent him a _ car as a birthday present. A)red sports new C)new sports red B)sports new red D)new red sports 18. _ what is generally assumed, the adjustment to this kind of work is relatively easily made. A)Contrary to C)Like B)A
30、s D)Rather than 19. _ his arrival at the airport, he made a long distance call to his wife at home. A)Upon C)Since B)As soon as D)Till 20. Jim had to be called two or three times _ he would come to his dinner. A)until C)in order that B)so that D)before 21. Be sure to _ your work at the end of the ex
31、am. A)look over C)set aside B)hang up D)catch sight of 22.To our great disappointment, many things did not _ quite as satisfactory as we had expected. A)set out C)come down B)turn out D)result in 23.The twin brothers were so much alike that even their own parents _ one _ the other sometimes. A)longe
32、d -for C)pulled-into B)mistook -for D)took-over 24.Wages should be increased to _ the rise in prices. A)keep up with C)look into B)come up with D)depend on 25.Xiao Li found a _ of keys in the corridor, which turned out to be mine. A)bunch C)few B)series D)pair 26.The student who was kicked out of sc
33、hool for cheating at an exam has brought _ on the whole family as well as himself. A)reaction C)implication B)disgrace D)benevolence 27.As the clouds drifted away, an even higher peak became_to the climbers. A)in sight C)obvious B)visible D)apparent 28.Please dont _ the murder before our children in
34、 case theyll be frightened. A)chatter C)mention B)interrupt D)fortify 29.Her fear of making mistakes has caused her great difficulty in _ with others in English. A)organizing C)retreating B)communicating D)researching 30.Before she went up to give her talk, the new monitor tried to _ her feelings of
35、 nervousness by taking a deep breath. A)fortify C)prohibit B)disturb D)relieve 31.The woman told the truth to her lawyer without _ because he was the only person she could rely on. A)impression C)foundation B)reservation D)combination 32.The man was severely injured in last weekends tragic car accid
36、ent and died _afterwards, A)hardly C)easily B)shortly D)mostly 33.Mr. Smiths work in Hong Kong is just _. He will go back to the U.S. next month. A)temporary C)liberal B)rural D)conscious 34.Sophia _ with anger when she saw her boyfriend kissing an attractive girl. A)exploded C)relaxed B)defeated D)
37、collided 35.Dr. Frasers new book is a collection of his _ of the daily life of tribal people in Africa. . A)interferences C)preventions B)substitutions D)observations36.Age is not so important. Its brains and knowhow that _. A)count C)impress B)judge D)survive 37 .That small country has _ independence. A)ordered C)performed B)exclaimed D)declared 38.The escaped murderer lives in _ fear of being discovered. A)eternal C)continual B)perpetual D)prolonged 39.To carry out the plan successfully, we have to get well prepared _. A)in detail
