第一部分 基础英语
l. multiple-choice questions (30 points) section a vocabulary(10 points)
directions: in this section there are ten incomplere sentences. Each sentence is followed by four choices labeled [a], [b], [c] or [d]. select the one that best fits in with each context and write your answer sheet.
1. the mayor is a woman with great____and therefore deserves our political and financial support. a.intention b.flourished c.vanished d.intensity 2.the flowers____from lack of water.
a.withered b.flourished c.vanished d.stopped growing
3.one way of cutting down waste is to____such things as glass and paper
a.repeat b.renew c.recycle d.reproduce
4.at the inauguration ceremony. The newly elected president_____his speech with a few words of thanks to his supporters.
a.preceded b.proceeded c.precluded d.advanced
5.the rescue was_____after several attempts because the snowstorm was getting worse. a.deserted b.abandoned c.ceased d.rejected
6.he failed to carry out some of the provisions of the contrast, and now he has to_____the consequences.
a.answer for b.run into c.abide by d.step into
7.l _______with thanks the help of my colleagues in the preparation of this new column. a.express b.confess c.verify d.acknowledge
8.from this material we can_____hundreds of what you may call direct products. a.derive b.discem c.diminish d.displace
9.language, oulture, and personality may be considered_____of each other in thought, but they are inseparable in fact.
a.indistinctly b.separately c.irrelevantly d.independently
10.christmas is a christian holy day usually celebrated on december 25th______the birth of jesus christ
a.in accordance with b.in terms of c.in favor of d.in honor of section b grammatical structure (10 points)
directions: in this section there are ten incomplete sentences, each followed by four possible answer. Choose the one that best completes each sentence and write your answer on the answer sheet. 11.specialization can seen as_____response to_____problem of_____increasing accumulation of scientific knowledge.
a.a:the:the b.a:the:an c./:the:an d.the:the:/
12.one difficulty in translation lies in obtaining a concept match.____this is meat that a concept in one language is lost or changed in meaning in translation. a.in b.for c.by d.with
13.intellect is to the mind______soul is to the body. a.as b.since c.if d.what
14.humans have the ability to modify the environment in which they live, _____other life forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies.
a.subjecting b.to subject c.having subjected d.to have subjected
15.in the early industrialized countries of europe, the process of industrialization was spread over nearly a century, _____a developing nation nowadays underwent the same process in a decade or so.
a.just as b.thereby c.whereas d.nevertheless
16.for there______successful communication, there must be attentiveness and involvement itself by all present.
a.is b.to be c.will be d.being
17.without facts, we cannot form a worthwhile opinion, for we need to have factual knowledge_____our thinking.
a.which to be based on b.which to base on c.upon which to base d.to which to be based
18.sometimes patients suffering from severe pain can be helped by” drugs” that aren’t really drugs at all_____sugar pills that contain no active chemical elements. a.or rather b.rather than c.but rather d.other than
19.five minutes earlier, ____we would have caught the last train. a.and b.or c.but d.so
20.in the course of a day, students do far more than just_____classes a.attend b.attended c.to attend d.attending section c logic and rheroric (10 points)
directions: each of the following sentences contains one underlined part. Beneath each sentence, there are four ways of phrasing the underlined part, labeled [a], [b], [c] or [d]. Select the best version and write your answer on the answer sheet.
21.in the traditional Japanese household. Most clothing could be packed flatly and so it was not necessarv to have elaborate cloaet facilities.
a.flat, and so no elaborate closet facilities were necessary. b.flatly, and so no elaborate closet facilities were needed c.flat, and so there was no need for elaborate closet facilities d.flatly, and so elaborate closet facilities were needless
21.according to his own account, frederic-auguste bartholdi, the sculptor of the statute of liberty, modeled the face of the statue like his mother’s and the bodv like his wife’s. a.modeled the face of the statue like his mother and the body like his wife b.made the face of the statue after his mother and the body after his wife c.modeled the face of the statue after his mother’s and the body after his wife’s d.made the face of the statue like his mother’s and the body like his wife’s
23.a collection of 38 poems by phillis wheatley. A slave. Was published in the 1770’s the first book by a black by a black woman and it was only the second published by an american woman. but by irrigation, large regions now desert could be made fertile, and by improvement in transport, distribution from regions of excess to regions of scarcity could be facilited.
Hosing, even in the richest countries, is often disastrously inadequare, this could be remedied by a tiny fraction of what is being spent on missiles, education everywhere, but especially in the newly liberated countries of Africa and Asia demands an expenditure many times as great as that which it receives at present. But it is not only greater expenditure that is needed in education, if the t
error of war were removed, science could be devoted to improving human welfare. Instead of to the invention of increasingly expensive methods of mutual slaughter, and schools would no longer think it a part of their duty to promote hatred of possible enemies by means of ignorance tempered by lies.
By the help of modem techniques, the world could enter upon a period of happiness and prosperity far surpassing anything known in previous history. All this is possible. It requires only a different outlook on international affairs and a different state of mind toward these nations which are now regarded as enemies. This is possible, l repeat but it cannot be done all at once to reverse the trend of affairs in the most powerful nation of the world is no light task and will require a difficult process of reeducation.
46.which of the following words can best describe the author? a.utoplan b.radical c.indifferent d.pragmatic 47.according to the text, schools at the present time_____ a.often have ignorant studets
b.have to make uce of enemies for the target of hatred c.have to make use of lies to gain a certain purpose
d.only need more lies to carry out their duty
48.it can be learned from the text that the problem of undemourishment will become______ a.more critical because america destroys it surplus goods b.worse because large regions are desert
c.more critical because the population increases dramatically
d.worse beeause more are spent on preparations for war 49.it can be inferred from the text that_____
a.by diverting some or all of the money spent on preparations for war peaceful purpose can easily be achieved
b.people need to change their present viewpoint so as to line in happiness and harmony in the world
c.science has always been properly applied
d.our world will soon become a more prosperous and happier one 50.the word “rectify” (in line 10, para.1)most probably means______ a.correct b.rely on c.recede d.prove
questions 51 to 55 are based on the following text.
With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely -varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or at least as a distinct even though a slightly disreputable, offshoot of the traditional novel.
The detective story is probably the most respectable(at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime species its creation is often the relaxation of university teachers, literary economists, scientists or even poets, fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen the village, aeaside resort, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends the characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates a story set in a more remote environment African jungle or Australian bush ancient china or gas-lit London, appeals to our interest in geography or history and m
ost detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background t he elaborate carefully assembled plot despised by the modem intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery with its sprinkling of cues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from real life nagging gently, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human detective who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent b.the fact that the guilty are always found out and the innocent cleared c.the existence of a neat closely-knit story
d.the lack of interest in genuine character revelations
54.one of the most incredible characteristics of the hero of a thriller is____ a.his exciting life
b.his amazing toughness
c.his ability to escape from dangerous situations d.the way he deals with his enemies
55.in what way are the detective story and thriller unlike? a.in introducing violence
b.in providing excitement and suspense
c.in appealing to the intellectual curiosity of the reader d.in ensuring that everything comes right in the end questions 56 to 60 are based on the following text.
Of all the American Jewish writers who have poured forth their creative efforts in the golden medina, none has achieved more recognition from his literary peers than saul bellow, bom in Quebec in 1915, raised in Montréal and Chicago, he received a trilingual heritage of Yiddish English and French trained as an anthropologist at northwester and Chicago universities he taught creative writing at Princeton before being appointed to the committee on social thought at the university of Chicago there he has made his home, and his most august works stem from that mid-western locus. A biographical sketch is essential because the reading of Mr. Bellow’s works involves some study in the fields of anthropology, social thought, creative writing and in the various literary cultures of French, English, and Yiddish, the last, the Yiddish culture, bellow’s protestations to the contrary, permeates all his writing he has become the great success that all his less popular and less materially successful Yiddish compatriots tried for, yet failed, as suggested by Cynthia Ozick in her remarkable story envy, or Yiddish in America, because they lacked a good translator, bellow does not need any translator; he represents the generation of American Jews whose secular education was not only as good as their gentile neighbors, but whose digestion and interpretation of American culture was markedly superior. .
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