2011年山东青岛大学基础英语(1)考研真题
PART I
Choose one of the four answers that best completes the sentence.
VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE (40 points)
1. The English language contains a
of words which are
comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. A. latitude B. multitude C. magnitude D. longitude
2. Jack is not very decisive, and he always finds himself in a as
if he doesn’t know what he really wants to do. A. fantasy B. dilemma C. contradiction D. conflict
3. Psychologists have done extensive studies on how well patients with doctors’ orders. A. comply B. correspond C. interfere D. interact
4. The politician says he will A. prey on
the welfare of the people.
B. take on C. get at D. see to
5. The famous scientist 6. The his success to hard work. A. imparted B. granted C. ascribed D. acknowledged
from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for
everybody.
A. conversion B. transition C. turnover D. transformation
his pain but did not care his illness.
A. activated B. alleviated C. mediated D. deteriorated
7. The medicine 8. Up until that time his interest had focused almost on fully mastering the skills and techniques of his craft.
A. restrictively B. radically C. inclusively D. exclusively
9. After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally . A. deteriorated B. dispersed C. dissipated D. drained
10. No one can function properly if they are A. deprived A. provoked
B. ripped
C. stripped
of adequate sleep. D. contrived
11. The prospect of increased prices has already worries.
B. irritated C. inspired D. hoisted
12. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers
could be an effective to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of employers with poor safety records. A. alternative B. addition C. deterrent D. incentive
13. The disjunction between educational objectives that stress
independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with others reflects a that arises from the values on which these objectives are based.
A. conflict B. redundancy C. gain D. predictability
14. A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence
structure
mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more ideas.
A. complicated B. elementary C. fanciful D. inconsequential selects people and ask them questions.
A. at length B. at random C. in essence D. in bulk
the
15. When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he
16. In fact as he approached this famous statue, he only barely resisted the
to reach into his bag for his camera.
A. impatience B. impulse C. incentive D. initiative
17. Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this
only the crisis.
A. precedes
B. prevails C. ascends
D. accelerates
18. Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered
because its subject was very .
A. obscure B. indefinite C. dubious D. intriguing
19. Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by conscious
objectivity,
science often operates through error, happy accidents, and persistence in spite of mistakes.
A. controls B. hunches C. deductions D. calculations
20. Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a
Island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.
A. tranquil B. clannish C. declining D. recognized
21. David likes country life and has decided to farming.
A. go in for B. go back on C. go through with D. go along with a host of problems
ranging from dangerous tracks to overcrowded stairwells has failed to meet its schedule for repairs.
A. initiate B. deplore C. disclose D. eliminate
22. A subway modernization program intended to 23. Challenging James Baldwin, who wrote of Black Americans as being in a perpetual state of rage, Mr. Cose remarks that few human beings could the psychic toll of uninterrupted anger.
A. enhance B. refine C. survive D. refute
to the completion of the book.
A. assiduously B. ingenuously C. theoretically D. sporadically
24. A diligent scholar, she devoted herself 25. A hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it
must also be by continued observation.
A. interrupted B. verified C. discredited D. refuted
26. A leading philosopher of our time, Ludwig Wittgenstein, laid down a
rule to which good historians : “ Of that of which nothing is known nothing can be said.” A. protect B. amend C. adhere D. succumb
27. A major outbreak of food poisoning in 1993 underlined the serious in the then-current system of food inspection.
A. expectations B. innovations C. deficiencies D. objectivity
28. A man incapable of
action, he never had an opinion about something that he had not worked up beforehand, fashioning it with lengthy care.
A. self-conscious B. spontaneous C. coherent D. calculated
29. A sense of fairness dictates that the punishment should fit the
crime, yet in
actual practice, judicial decisions greatly for the same type of criminal offense.
A. coincide B. simplify C. compromise D. vary
30. According to the Senator, it was not hypocrisy for a politician in search
of votes to a mother on the beauty of her plain child; it was merely sound
political common sense.
A. ridicule B. intimidate C. compliment D. Evaluate
31. Although a few of her contempories or mocked it.
her book, most either ignored it
A. dismissed B. appreciated C. disregarded D. deprecated
32. Although he had the numerous films to his credit and a reputation for
technical expertise, the moviemaker lacked originality, all his films were sadly of the work of others.
A. independent B. derivative C. unconscious D. contradictory
33. Although, as wife of President John Adams, Abigail Adams sought a greater
voice for women, she was not a feminist in modern sense, she the traditional view of women as “beings placed by Providence” under male protection.
A. anticipated B. regretted C. accepted D. repudiated
34. American culture now stigmatizes, and sometimes even heavily behavior that was once taken for granted: overt racism, cigarette smoking the use of sexual stereotypes.
A. penalizes B. advocates C. ignores D. advertises
that describe
the
appropriate behavior of children and adults, but there seem to be
confusion about what constitutes appropriate behavior for adolescents. A. functions B. norms C. regulations D. rigidity
35. Social scientist have established fairly clear-cut 36. After reading numbers of biographies recounting dysfunctions and
disasters,
failed marriages and failed careers, Joyce Carol Oates describe the genre: pathography, the story of diseased lives. A. dismissed B. hypothesized C. coined D. reiterated
a word to
37. All critics have agreed that the opera’s score is , but curiously ,no two critics have agreed which passages to praise and
which to damn.
A. intolerable B. unsurpassed C. conventional D. uneven
38. The of a cultural phenomenon is usually a logical
consequence of some physical aspect in the life style of the people.
A. implementation B. manifestation C. demonstration D. expedition would feel a touch of making a brief
for the old days and would contemplate
39. Although Henry was not in general a sentimental man, occasionally he
excursion to Boston to revisit.
A. anxiety B. aspiration C. nostalgia D. inspiration
40. Although Josephine Tey is arguably as good a mystery writer as Agatha
Christie, she is clearly far less than Christie, having only written six books in comparison to Christie as sixty.
A. coherent B. prolific C. equivocal D. Pretentious
PART II WRITTEN EXPRESSION （10 points）
Directions: Each sentence in the following has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, write down your answer. Example
Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United A B C States politician.
D
The sentence should read, “Serving several terms in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United States politician.” Therefore, you should choose (B).
1. The main attractive at Sequoia National Park is thirty-five
groves of giant A B C
sequoias, the largest living things in the world.
D
2. In films, optical printing can be combined with blue-screen photography
for
A B
produce such special effects as characters seeming to fly through the air.
2011年山东青岛大学基础英语(1)考研真题
