2026年《学位英语》冲刺试卷一

Dialogue One
Diana: Look at those strangely-dressed kids.What are they doing there?
Arthur: Don’t you know? Today is the Halloween Day.（1）________October 31st.The last day in October is a holiday for kids.We call it Halloween.Diana: Halloween! I heard it before,（2）________
Arthur: Children celebrate it by making lanterns that night.Diana: Pardon?
Arthur: Those are lanterns made out of fresh pumpkins with a candle burning inside.Diana: Today I saw some in the street with carved faces on them.Are they all made by children?
Arthur:（3）________You know, it is too hard for them to do it by themselves.Sometimes they are available in various shops too.Diana: They are fascinating.Are you going to any Halloween party tonight?（4）________
Arthur: No problem.

Dialogue Two
Student：I mean I want to do some of these problems.Teacher：Yeah．
Student：But it’s taking time to do them.Teacher：When we cover something in the lesson, （1）________Work out the exercises in it.Erm, when you get a little bit stuck，sort it out yourself, and then think.Student：Yeah.Teacher：I know I see how you do it.And maybe if you’re totally stuck,（2）________
Student：Yeah.Teacher：It’s really the more you do, Mm, on your own.Because（3）________you’re gonna be on your own.Keep working on it and you’ll be okay.

Dialogue Three
Doctor: Well, what can we do for you today?
Patient: Oh, I’m an infection in my gum, Doctor.Doctor: In your gum?
Patient: Up here.I’ve some tablets and, er, I don’t know.Doctor:（1）________Aye, the Sofradex is not doing very much for that, is it?
Patient: I’ve never taken them.I’ve just, I stop taking them.Doctor: Aye, I don’t think they’re doing very much to you.Patient:（9）Doctor.Doctor: Aye.________
Patient: I’m just wondering if it’s my teeth or that it’s just my blood that’s doing it.Doctor: I think it might be the teeth.It’d be worth getting the dentist to have a look at your plate.Patient:（3）________
Doctor: Yes, yes.Keep on with those just now.Patient: Yes.Aye, two four, one or two four times a day.Doctor: Yes, one four times a day.Patient: Fine, yeah.

Washington Irving was America’s first man of letters to be known internationally.His works were received enthusiastically both in England and in the United States.He was, in fact, one of the most successful writers of his time in the country, and at the same time winning the admiration of fellow writers like Scott in Britain and Poe and Hawthorne in the United States.The respect in which he was held partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, his love of both the Old World and the New.Thackeray described Irving as “a gentleman, who, though himself born in no very high sphere, was most finished, polished, witty; socially the equal of the most refined Europeans.” In England he was granted an honorary degree from Oxford—an unusual honor for a citizen of a young, uncultured nation—and he received the medal of the Royal Society of Literature.America made him ambassador to Spain.Irving’s background provides little to explain his literary achievements.A gifted but delicate child, he had little schooling.He studied law, but without zeal, and never did practice seriously.He was immune to his strict Presbyterian home environment, frequenting both social gatherings and the theater.

Traditionally, universities have carried out two main activities: research and teaching.Many experts would argue that both these activities play a critical role in serving the community.The fundamental question, however, is how does the community want or need to be served?
In recent years universities have been coming under increasing pressure from both the governments and the public to ensure that they do not remain “ivory towers(象牙塔)” of study separated from the realities of everyday life.University teachers have been encouraged, and in some cases constrained (强迫), to provide more courses which produce graduates with the technical skills required for the commercial use.If Aristotle wanted to work in a university in the UK today, he would have a good chance of teaching computer science but would not be so readily employable as a philosopher.A post-industrial society requires large numbers of computer programmers，engineers, managers and technicians to maintain and develop its economic growth but “man”， as the Bible says, “does not live by bread alone.” Apart from requiring medical and social services, which do not directly contribute to economic growth, the society should also value and enjoy literature, music and the arts.Because they can also promote economic growth.A successful musical play, for instance, can contribute as much to the Gross National Product through tourist dollars as any other things.

All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun.The sun heats and feeds creatures and mankind.Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored energy from the sun.Some was collected by this season’s plants as carbon compounds.Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago.Even waterpower derives from the sun.Water turned into vapor by the sun fails as rain.It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power.Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun’s outer layer, and much of this energy that is directed towards the earth never arrives.About nine tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth.In fact, the earth itself gets only one half millionth of the sun’s entire output of radiant energy.

Television has changed the lifestyle of people in every industrialized country in the world.In the United States, where sociologists have studied the effects, some interesting observations have been made.Television, although not essential, has become an important part of most people’s lives.It alters people’s ways of seeing the world; in many ways, it supports and sustains(维持)modern life.Television has become a baby-sitter, an introducer of conversations, the major transmitter of culture and a keeper of tradition.Yet when what can be seen on TV in one day is critically analyzed, it becomes evident that television is not a teacher but a sustainer; the poor quality of programming does not elevate(提高)people into greater understanding, but rather maintains and encourages the life as it exists.The primary reason for the lack of quality in American television is related to both the history of TV programming development and the economics of TV.Television in America began with the radio.Radio companies and their sponsors first experimented with television.Therefore, the close relationship which the advertisers had with radio programs became the system for American TV.Sponsors not only paid money for time within programs, but many actually produced the programs.Thus, in American society, television is primarily concerned with reflecting and attracting society rather than experimenting with new ideas.Advertisers want to attract the largest viewing audience possible.To do so requires that the programs be entertaining rather than educational, attractive rather than challenging.Television in America today remains, to a large extent, with the same organization and standards as it had thirty years ago.The hope for further development and true achievement toward improving society will require a change in the entire system.