2015年同等学力在职申硕已经结束,报考在职研究生的考生们都陆陆续续的开始准备2016年同等学力在职申硕考试,下面是同等学力在职申硕考试英语真题。
【高频词汇】
decade
英 ['dekeɪd; dɪ'keɪd] 美 ['dɛked]·n.十年,十年间;十个一组;十年期
·词根词缀:dec(a)- 表“十”=ten,如decametre 十米
·复数:decades
·词组:over the past decade 在过去的十年里。
【真题出处】
Even as the financial-literacy movement has gained steam over the past decade, scores have been falling on tests that measure how well students learn about things such as budgeting, credit cards,insurance and investment. A recent survey of college students conducted for the JumpStart Coalitionfor Personal Financial Literacy found that students who’d had a personal-finance or money-management course in high school scored no better than those who hadn’t.
By saying that “the financial-literacy movement has gained steam”(Para.3),the author means that the movement______D______.
A.has gone through financial difficulties
B.has received much criticism
C.has been regarded as imaginative
D.has been more and more popular
【词汇突破】
steam 蒸汽,精力
budget 预算
credit 信用
insurance 保险
investment 投资
conduct 引导
coalition 联合
imaginative 虚构的;富于想象的
【答案解析】
本题答案定位已经很明确,即划线句子附近,gain steam表面意思是获得蒸汽/精力,在这里表示动力十足、富有活力,如果知道这个意思,则很容易选出答案D(越来越流行/受欢迎);如果不认识gain steam在职申硕英语,则只有通过上下文猜测语义,关键词为下半句的been falling on,意为在某方面是失败的,又由句首的Even可知上下句是转折关系,那么既然后半句表达失败,则前半句一定表达成功,四个选项中只有D表达正面的成功意义。
【参考译文】
即使在过去的十年中,金融学改革进行的如火如荼,然而学生还是无法通过做预算在职申硕英语,使用信用卡,买保险、投资的能力测试。在最近一项叫做“跳跃式启动个人经济素养联盟”的对学生的调查发现,在高中时上过个人理财或金融管理课程的学生并不比那些没上过的学生在此方面强多少。
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