2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section I: Structure and Vocabulary Part A Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5 points) Example:
I have been to the Great Wall three times ________ 1979. [A] from [B] after [C] for [D] since
The sentence should read, “I have been to the Great Wall three times since 1979.” Therefore, you should choose [D] Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [■]
1. As I’ll be away for at least a year, I’d appreciate ________ from you now and then telling me how everyone is getting along. [A] hearing [B] to hear
[C] to be hearing [D] having heard
2. Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, ________ to find it locked. [A] just [B] only [C] hence [D] thus
3. Doctors see a connection between increase amounts of leisure time spent ________ and the increased number of cases of skin cancer. [A] to sunbathe [B] to have sunbathed [C] having sunbathed [D] sunbathing 4. Unless you sign a contract with the insurance company for your goods, you are not entitled ________ a repayment for the goods damaged in delivery. [A] to [B] with [C] for [D] on
5. On a rainy day I was driving north through Vermont ________ I noticed a young man holding up a sign reading “Boston”. [A] which
[B] where [C] when [D] that
6. Christie stared angrily at her boss and turned away, as though ________ out of the office. [A] went [B] gone [C] to go [D] would go
7. The roles expected ________ old people in such a setting give too few psychological satisfactions for normal happiness. [A] of [B] on [C] to [D] with
8. Talk to anyone in the drug industry, ________ you’ll soon discover that the science of genetics is the biggest thing to hit drug research since penicillin was discovered. [A] or [B] and [C] for [D] so
9. It wasn’t so much that I disliked her ________ that I just wasn’t interested in the whole business. [A] rather [B] so [C] than [D] as
10. Countless divorced politicians would have been elected out of office years ago had they even thought of a divorce, let alone ________ one. [A] getting [B] to get [C] gotten [D] get Part B Directions:
Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked [A], [B], [C], and [D]. Identify the part of the sentence that is incorrect and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5 points) Example:
A number of [A] foreign visitors were taken [B] to the industrial exhibition, which [C] they saw [D] many new products.
Answer [C] is wrong. The sentence should read, “A number of foreign visitors were taken to the industrial exhibition, where they saw many new products.” So you should choose [C]. Sample Answer [A] [B] [■] [D]
11. Having isolated [A] on a remote island, with [B] little work to occupy [C] them, the soldiers
suffered from boredom and low spirits [D].
12. If the letter to be mailed [A] was placed [B] on the writing table an hour ago, it is [C] certain being [D] there now.
13. The ruling [A] party could even lose its [B] majority in the lower house of parliament, started [C] a period of prolonged struggling [D].
14. The mechanisms at [A] work are manifest [B] in the tendency for such physical activity to [C] utilize the potential [D] harmful constituents of the stress response.
15. In [A] the long run, however, this hurry to shed [B] full-time staff may be more [C] harmful to industry as it is to [D] the workforce.
16. See to it [A] that you include in [B] the examination paper whatever [C] questions they didn’t know the answer [D] last time.
17. Most newspapers, while devoting [A] the major part of its [B] space to recent events, usually manage to find room [C] on the inside pages for articles on [D] some interesting topics.
18. One sign by which [A] you are making progress in an art [B] such as painting or photography is that [C] you begin to realize how much there is [D] to learn.
19. The ideal listener stays both inside and outside [A] the music at the moment it is played and enjoying [B] it almost as much as [C] the composer at the moment he composes [D].
20. Continued [A] exposure to stress has been linked to worsened [B] functioning of the immune system, leaving [C] a person more liable for [D] infection. Part C Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)
Example:
The lost car of the Lees was found ________ in the woods off the highway. [A] vanished [B] scattered [C] abandoned [D] rejected
The sentence should read, “The lost car of the Lees was found abandoned in the woods off the highway.” Therefore, you should choose [C]. Sample Answer [A] [B] [■][D] 21. He spoke so ________ that even his opponents were won over by his arguments. [A] bluntly
[B] convincingly [C] emphatically [D] determinedly
22. France’s ________ of nuclear testing in the South Pacific last month triggered political debates and mass demonstrations. [A] assumption [B] consumption
2000年考研英语真题及答案
