考研英语模拟题14
试卷总分：100答题时间：100分钟
Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) from each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D onANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Valentine’s Day may come from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia. __1__ the fierce wolves roamednearby, the old Romans called __2__ the god Lupercus to help them. A festival in his __3__ was held onFebruary 15th. On the eve of the festival the __4__ of the girls were written on __5__ of paper andplaced in jars. Each young man __6__ a slip. The girl whose name was __7__ was to be his sweetheart forthe year.
Legend __8__ it that the holiday became Valentine’s Day __9__ a Roman priest named Valentine. EmperorClaudius II __10__ the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius felt married soldierswould __11__ stay home than fight. When Valentine __12__ the Emperor and secretly married the youngcouples, he was put to death on February 14th, the __13__ of Lupercalia. After his death, Valentinebecame a __14__. Christian priests moved the holiday from the 15th to the 14th—Valentine’s Day. Nowthe holiday honors Valentine __15__ of Lupercus.
Valentine’s Day has become a major __16__ of love and romance in the modern world. The ancient godCupid and his __17__ into a lover’s heart may still be used to __18__ falling in love or being in
love. But we also use cards and gifts, such as flowers or jewelry, to do this. __19__ to give flower toa wife or sweetheart on Valentine’s Day can sometimes be as __20__ as forgetting a birthday or awedding anniversary.1.
[2分]-----正确答案(B)AWhileBWhenCThoughDUnless
2.
[2分]-----正确答案(A)AuponBbackCoffDaway
3.
[2分]-----正确答案(A)ABCD
4.
honorbeliefhandway
[2分]-----正确答案(C)AproblemsBsecretsCnamesDintentions [2分]-----正确答案(D)ArollsBpilesCworksDslips [2分]-----正确答案(C)AcastBcaughtCdrewDfound [2分]-----正确答案(B)AgivenBchosen
5.
6.
7.
CelectedDdelivered
8.
[2分]-----正确答案(D)AtellsBmeansCmakesDhas
9.
[2分]-----正确答案(A)AafterBsinceCasDfrom
10. [2分]-----正确答案(A)
AorderedBpleadedCenvisionedDbelieved
11. [2分]-----正确答案(C)
Aother
BsimplyCratherDall
12. [2分]-----正确答案(B)
AdislikedBdefiedCdefeatedDdishonored
13. [2分]-----正确答案(D)
AcelebrationBarrangementCfeastDeve
14. [2分]-----正确答案(B)
Agoat
BsaintCmodelDweapon
15. [2分]-----正确答案(C)
AbecauseBmadeCinsteadDlearnt
16. [2分]-----正确答案(D)
Apart
BrepresentativeCjudgementDsymbol
17. [2分]-----正确答案(C)
AstoryBwander
CarrowDplay
18. [2分]-----正确答案(A)
AportrayBrequire
CdemandDalert
19. [2分]-----正确答案(D)
AKeeping
BDisapprovingCSupportingDForgetting
20. [2分]-----正确答案(B)
AconstructiveBdamagingCreinforcingDretorting
Section ⅡReading ComprehensionPart A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark youranswers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Passage 1
One meaning of the Greek word “dran” is to accomplish, and in this meaning lies a further key to thestructure of drama. A play concerns a human agent attempting to accomplish some purpose. In tragedy hisattempt is, in personal terms at least, unsuccessful; in comedy it is successful; in the problem playfinal accomplishment is often either ambiguous or doubtful.
This action, from the beginning to the end of a movement toward a purposed goal, must also have amiddle; it must proceed through a number of steps, the succession of incidents which make up the plot.Because the dramatist is concerned with the meaning and logic of events rather than with their casualrelationship in time, he will probably select his material and order it on a basis of the operation, inhuman affairs, of laws of cause and effect. It is in this causal relationship of incidents that theelement of conflict, present in virtually all plays, appears.
The central figure of the play—the protagonist—encounters difficulties; his purpose or purposesconflict with events or circumstances, with purposes of other characters in the play, or with cross-purposes which exist within his own thoughts and desires. These difficulties threaten the
protagonist’s accomplishment; in other words, they present complications, and his success or failurein dealing with these complications determines the outcome. Normally, complications build through theplay in order of increasing difficulty; one complication may be added to another, or one may grow outof the solution of a preceding one. At some point in this chain of complication and solution, achievedor attempted, the protagonist performs an act or makes a decision which irrevocably commits him to afurther course, points toward certain general consequences. This point is usually called the crisis;the complications and solutions which follow work out the logical steps from crisis to finalresolution, or denouement.
21.According to the first paragraph of the text, a dramatist.[2分]-----正确答案(C)
Aseldom believes what he writes about
Bportrays what he experiences in the drama
Cconcerns himself with the results of human effortDtries to convince his audience of what he believes
22.A drama is arranged mainly in accordance with.[2分]-----正确答案(A)
Athe will of the dramatistBthe sequence of events
Cthe law of dramatic artDthe need of performance
23.A dramatist usually .[2分]-----正确答案(B)
Aclarifies the complicated relationship in his dramaBmakes the relationship in his drama more complicatedChopes to see his protagonist win an easy victoryDlikes to present his protagonist as threatening fellows
24.The word “crisis” (in the last line but one, paragraph 3) most probably implies.
[2分]-----正确答案(C)Aa dangerous momentBthe last decisionCthe crucial pointDa brave engagement
25.In the text, the author mainly deals with.[2分]-----正确答案(D)
Athe necessity of drama in a culture
考研英语模拟题14-考研英语试卷与试题
