2023年上海考研英语考试真题卷（7）

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1、2023年上海考研英语考试真题卷（7） 本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。 一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.Text 3When the first white men arrived in Samoa, they found blind men, who could see well enough to describe things in detail just by holding their hands over objects. In France,

2、Jules Roman tested hundreds of blind people and found a few who could tell the difference between light and dark. He narrowed their photosensitivity(感光灵敏度) down to areas on the nose or in the finger tips. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl in Virginia and found that, even with thick bandages ov

3、er her eyes, she was able to distinguish different colours and read short sections of large print.Rosa Kuleshova, a young woman in the Urals, can see with her fingers. She is not blind, but because she grew up in a family of blind people, she learned to read Braille to help them and then went on to

4、teach herself to do other things with her hands. She was examined by the Soviet Academy of Science, and proved to be genuine, Shaefer made an intensive study with her and found that, securely blindfolded with only her arms stuck through a screen, she could tell the difference between three primary c

5、olours. To test the possibility that the cards reflected heat differently, he heated some and cooled others without affecting her response to them. He also found that she could read newsprint under glass, so texture was giving her no clues. She was able to identify the colour and shape of patches of

6、 light projected on to her palm or on to a screen. In rigidly controlled tests, with a blindfold and a screen and a piece of card around her neck so wide that she could not see round it, Rosa read the small print in a newspaper with her elbow. And, in the most convincing demonstration of all, she re

7、peated these things with someone standing behind her pressing hard on her eyeballs. Nobody can cheat under this pressure.Which of the following statements is true（） A．The men in Samoa were not quite blind. B．A girl called Virginia could read newsprint even when she was blindfolded. C．Rosa'

8、s ability to see was confined to her fingers. D．The result of the last test on Rosa was least doubtable. 2.Text 3When the first white men arrived in Samoa, they found blind men, who could see well enough to describe things in detail just by holding their hands over objects. In France, Jules Roman

9、tested hundreds of blind people and found a few who could tell the difference between light and dark. He narrowed their photosensitivity(感光灵敏度) down to areas on the nose or in the finger tips. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl in Virginia and found that, even with thick bandages over her eyes,

10、 she was able to distinguish different colours and read short sections of large print.Rosa Kuleshova, a young woman in the Urals, can see with her fingers. She is not blind, but because she grew up in a family of blind people, she learned to read Braille to help them and then went on to teach hersel

11、f to do other things with her hands. She was examined by the Soviet Academy of Science, and proved to be genuine, Shaefer made an intensive study with her and found that, securely blindfolded with only her arms stuck through a screen, she could tell the difference between three primary colours. To t

12、est the possibility that the cards reflected heat differently, he heated some and cooled others without affecting her response to them. He also found that she could read newsprint under glass, so texture was giving her no clues. She was able to identify the colour and shape of patches of light proje

13、cted on to her palm or on to a screen. In rigidly controlled tests, with a blindfold and a screen and a piece of card around her neck so wide that she could not see round it, Rosa read the small print in a newspaper with her elbow. And, in the most convincing demonstration of all, she repeated these

14、 things with someone standing behind her pressing hard on her eyeballs. Nobody can cheat under this pressure.Which of the following makes the demonstration most persuasive（） A．To read through glass, blindfolded. B．To identify the eol0ar and shape of light on a screen while securely blindfolded.

15、 C．To carry out the test with someone pressing on her eyeballs. D．To work from behind a screen, blindfolded and with a card round her neck. 3.Text 4The U.S. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earth

16、quake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions:1. Can we predict earthquakes2. Can we control earthquakesTo answer the first question, scientists are looking very closel

17、y at the most active fault systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a break between two sections of the earth’s surface. These breaks between sections are the places where earthquakes occur.Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that a

18、n earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately and the control of earthquakes is even farther away.Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development c

19、oncerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was pat into a layer of rocks 4,000 metres below the surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water, there was a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into the rocks worked like

20、oil on each other. When the water oiled the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released.Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between the injection of the water and the earthquake activity.

21、 They have suggested that it might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big, destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists Could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.What can be said about the experime

22、nts at Rocky Mountain Arsenal（） A．They have no practical value in earthquake prevention. B．They may have practical value in earthquake prevention. C．They are certain to have practical value in earthquake prevention. D．The article does not say anything about their practical value in earthquake

23、prevention. 4.Text 4The U.S. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to

24、 help discover the answer to these two questions:1. Can we predict earthquakes2. Can we control earthquakesTo answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a break between two se

25、ctions of the earth’s surface. These breaks between sections are the places where earthquakes occur.Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately and the control

26、of earthquakes is even farther away.Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was pat into a layer of rocks 4,000 metres below the surface of the gr

27、ound. Shortly after this injection of water, there was a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into the rocks worked like oil on each other. When the water oiled the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released.Scienti

28、sts are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between the injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that it might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big, destructive earthquakes, that is, scien

29、tists Could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.Earthquake belts are （） A．maps that show where earthquakes are likely to occur B．zones with a high probability of earthquakes C．breaks between two sections of

30、the earth's surface D．the two layers of earth along a fault 5.Text 4The U.S. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where government is

31、spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions:1. Can we predict earthquakes2. Can we control earthquakesTo answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault systems in the country, such as the San Andreas f

32、ault in California. A fault is a break between two sections of the earth’s surface. These breaks between sections are the places where earthquakes occur.Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before w

33、e can predict earthquakes accurately and the control of earthquakes is even farther away.Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was pat into a la

34、yer of rocks 4,000 metres below the surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water, there was a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into the rocks worked like oil on each other. When the water oiled the fault, the fault became slippery

35、 and the energy of an earthquake was released.Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between the injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that it might be possible to use this knowledge to prev

36、ent very big, destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists Could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.What did scientists learn about earthquakes at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal（） A．They occur at about 4,000 metr

37、es below ground level. B．The injection of water into earthquake faults prevents earthquakes from occurring. C．They are usually caused by the oil in the faults. D．Harmful earthquakes earl be possibly prevented by causing small, harmless earthquakes. 6.Text 4The U.S. government has recently helped

38、 people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions:1. Can we p

39、redict earthquakes2. Can we control earthquakesTo answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a break between two sections of the earth’s surface. These breaks between se

40、ctions are the places where earthquakes occur.Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately and the control of earthquakes is even farther away.Nevertheless, there have

41、 been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was pat into a layer of rocks 4,000 metres below the surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection of water, there was a sma

42、ll number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into the rocks worked like oil on each other. When the water oiled the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released.Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes

43、. They have realized that there is a connection between the injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that it might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big, destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists Could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults

44、 and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.The San Andreas fault is （） A．an active fault system B．a place where earthquakes have been predicted accurately C．a place where earthquakes have been controlled D．the location of the Rocky Mountain 7.Text 4The U.S. go

45、vernment has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help discover the answer to the

46、se two questions:1. Can we predict earthquakes2. Can we control earthquakesTo answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a break between two sections of the earth’s surf

47、ace. These breaks between sections are the places where earthquakes occur.Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes accurately and the control of earthquakes is even farther a

48、way.Nevertheless, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was pat into a layer of rocks 4,000 metres below the surface of the ground. Shortly after this injecti

49、on of water, there was a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into the rocks worked like oil on each other. When the water oiled the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was released.Scientists are still experimenting at t

50、he site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between the injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that it might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big, destructive earthquakes, that is, scientists Could inject some kind of

51、fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.What is the most appropriate title for the passage（） A．Dangers of Earthquakes. B．Earthquake Belts and Prediction. C．Earthquake Prediction and Control. D．Earthquake Engineering in California.

52、 8.Text 3When the first white men arrived in Samoa, they found blind men, who could see well enough to describe things in detail just by holding their hands over objects. In France, Jules Roman tested hundreds of blind people and found a few who could tell the difference between light and dark. He

53、narrowed their photosensitivity(感光灵敏度) down to areas on the nose or in the finger tips. In 1960 a medical board examined a girl in Virginia and found that, even with thick bandages over her eyes, she was able to distinguish different colours and read short sections of large print.Rosa Kuleshova, a y

54、oung woman in the Urals, can see with her fingers. She is not blind, but because she grew up in a family of blind people, she learned to read Braille to help them and then went on to teach herself to do other things with her hands. She was examined by the Soviet Academy of Science, and proved to be

55、genuine, Shaefer made an intensive study with her and found that, securely blindfolded with only her arms stuck through a screen, she could tell the difference between three primary colours. To test the possibility that the cards reflected heat differently, he heated some and cooled others without a

56、ffecting her response to them. He also found that she could read newsprint under glass, so texture was giving her no clues. She was able to identify the colour and shape of patches of light projected on to her palm or on to a screen. In rigidly controlled tests, with a blindfold and a screen and a p

57、iece of card around her neck so wide that she could not see round it, Rosa read the small print in a newspaper with her elbow. And, in the most convincing demonstration of all, she repeated these things with someone standing behind her pressing hard on her eyeballs. Nobody can cheat under this press

58、ure.From the first paragraph we can learn that （） A．very few people have the sensitivity of the blind' B．blind people can manage to see things, but not clearly C．not everybody sees with his eyes D．it is possible to narrow the photosensitive areas of the body 9.Greg Focker, played by Ben S

59、tiller, represents a generation of American kids (1) in the 1980s on the philosophy that any achievement, however slight, (2) a ribbon. (3) replaced punishment; criticism became a dirty word. In Texas, teachers were advised to (4) using red ink, the colour of (5) . In California, a task force was se

60、t up to (6) the concept of self worth into the education system. Swathing youngsters in a (7) shield of self-esteem, went the philosophy, would protect them from the nasty things in life, such as bad school grades, underage sex, drug abuse, dead-end jobs and criminality.(8) that the ninth-place ribb

61、ons are in danger of strangling the (9) children they were Supposed to help. America’s (10) with self-esteemlike all developments in psychology, it gradually (11) its way to Britainhas turned children who were (12) with (13) into adults who (14) at even the mildest brickbats. Many believe that

62、 the feel-good culture has risen at the (15) of traditional education, an opinion espoused in a new book, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, or Add, by the conservative commentator Charles Sykes.Not only that, but the foundations (16)

63、 which the self-esteem industry is built are being (17) as decidedly shaky. Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University and once a self-esteem enthusiast, is now (18) a revision of the populist orthodoxy. After all these years, I’m sorry to say, my recommendation is thi

64、s: forget about self-esteem and (19) more on self-control and self-discipline, he wrote recently. Recent work suggests this would be good for the individual and good for societyand might even be able to (20) some of those promises that self-esteem once made but could not keep.Read the following text

65、. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.1（） A．reproach B．apprehension C．error D．mistake 10.Greg Focker, played by Ben Stiller, represents a generation of American kids (1) in the 1980s on the philosophy that any achievement, however slight, (2

66、) a ribbon. (3) replaced punishment; criticism became a dirty word. In Texas, teachers were advised to (4) using red ink, the colour of (5) . In California, a task force was set up to (6) the concept of self worth into the education system. Swathing youngsters in a (7) shield of self-esteem, went the philosophy, would protect them from the nasty things in life, such as bad school grades, underage sex, drug abuse, dead-end jobs and criminality.(8) that the ninth-place ribbons are in danger of str