2015年学位英语考试冲刺试题及答案（第五套）
Passage 3
Twenty-six years ago, Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economics teacher, was visiting a vil-lage when he met a woman who made bamboo baskets. She couldn't afford to buy the bamboo to makethe baskets, so she had to borrow the money from the bamboo sellers and then pay them a large part ofthe profit from each one she sold. There was so little money left for her to keep that she couldn't affordto buy more bamboo, so she had to borrow more money. And so the cycle continued with no way outfor her.
She couldn't borrow money from friends or family because they were as poor as she was. Shecouldn't borrow from the bank because she had no land to guarantee that she would pay back the loan.Yunus went around the village and found 41 people who were in the same position--trapped in a cycleof poverty with no escape. When he added up the amount of money that they needed to break free fromthe cycle, it came out to just twenty seven dollars. As Yunus says, -- I felt ashamed of myself for be-ing part of a society which could not provide even 27 dollars for 41 hard-working, skilled human be-ings.
He lent them the money and told them to pay it back whenever they could. He got all of it back, so he went to other villages and did the same thing. He always got his money back. The official banks didn't want to get involved in what he was doing, so Yunus started his own bank. The Grameen bank was born, and with it there is a new approach to lending money -- micro-credit.
The bank now lends over a billion dollars to more than two million borrowers,96% of them women, and involving more than half of the villages in Bangladesh. The repayment is 99%. The rural economy of the country has improved greatly since the bank started. And the success has spread. This year it was estimated that there are now over 7,000 micro-credit organizations in the world, lending to over 16 million of the poorest people.
26. The women couldn't find a way out of the cycle of poverty because__________.
A. she was not hardworking enough
B. she couldn't borrow enough money
C. she was exploited by the bamboo seller too much
D. the profit of selling the baskets was little
27. The underlined word" it" in Paragraph 3 refers to__________.
A. Grameen bank
B. a new approach
C. micro-credit
D. the money
28. It can be inferred from the passage that__________.
A. the women couldn't get rid of the poverty trouble unless she borrowed the money from her friends
B. Yunus wanted to lend them the money because he found he could earn a large part of the profit they made
C. the new bank can get back all of the loan money
D. Yunus found it is his responsibility to help the forty-one people out of the poverty circle
29. __________is(are) the largest beneficiary of the Grameen bank in Bangldesh.
A. Government
B. Basket makers
C. Villagers
D. Bamboo sellers
30. The best title for this passage is"
A. Mubammed Yunus' Experience
B. Grameen Bank and Micro-credit
C. Money Loan
D. Villagers in Bangladesh
Passage 4
Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with your eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your fingertips.
With existing medical knowledge and skills, two thirds of the world's 42 million blind should no theve to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries posses most of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.
ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world's only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.
ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical pro-grams. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs in China so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye car eservice to Shanxi Province. ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.
For just $ 38,you can help one person see ; for $ 380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training program me for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again. Your money can open their eyes to the world. Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.
31. The first paragraph is intended to__________.
A. introduce a new way of reading
B. advise the public to lead a simple life
C. direct the public's attention to the blind
D. encourage the public to use imagination
32. What do we learn about existing medical knowledge and skills in the world?
A. They are adequate.
B. They have not been updated.
C. They are not equally distributed.
D. They have benefited most of the blind.
33. ORBIS aims to help the blind by__________.
A. teaching medical students
B. training doctors and nurses
C. running flying hospitals globally
D. setting up non-profit organization
34. What does the author try to do in the last paragraph?
A. Appeal for donations.
B. Make an advertisement.
C. Promote training programs.
D. Show sympathy for the blind.
35. What can be the best title for the passage?
A. ORBIS in China.
B. Fighting Blindness.
C. ORBIS Flying Hospital.
D. Sight-seeing Techniques.
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