2012年暨南大学英语语言文学706外语水平硕士研究生入学考试真题
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学科、专业名称：英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学
研究方向：各方向 考试科目名称：外语（英）水平考试 考试科目代码：706 考生注意：所有答案必须写在答题纸（卷）上，写在本试题上一律不给分。 Part I Grammar and Vocabulary (30 points) 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 or best explains the underlined word. Write your answer onto the answer sheet. 1. Money and beauty, fame and status, ______ for quite a long time vanished in the blink of an eye. A. he had possessed B. that he had possessed C. and he had possessed D. those he had possessed 2. A series of high technology products ______ in the exhibition. A. has been laid out B. have been laid out C. has laid out D. have laid out 3. The teacher, along with all his students, ______ have a picnic this weekend. A. are going to B. is going to C. they will D. who will 4. The Titanic turned just in time, ______ the immense wall of ice. A. narrow missed B. narrow missing C. narrowly missed D. narrowly missing 5._______, ideas can be expressed accurately and effectively. A. Used simple sentences B. Using simple sentences C. You use simple sentences D. Use simple sentences 6. The largest collection ever found in England was one of about 200,000 silver pennies, _______. A. all of them were over 600 years old B. all of whom were over 600 years old C. all of them over 600 years old D. all of that was over 600 years old 7. On Sundays there were a lot of children playing in the park, _______. A. their parents seat together joking B. their parents seated together joking C. their parents seating together joking D. their parents were seated together joking 8. I programmed my computer to scan for viruses _________. A. every time it turns on B. every time when it turns on 考试科目：外语（英）水平考试 共 10 页 第 1 页
C. every time turning on D. every time turned on 9. Food is to men _______. A. like oil is to machine B. as oil to machine C. oil is to machine D. what oil is to machine 10. _______ may reflect the cultural differences from one aspect. A. A fashion differs from country to country B. That fashion differs from country to country C. This Fashion differs from country to country D. The fashion differs from country to country 11. _______ is the lotus plants growing in the water. A. What makes the river more beautiful B. That makes the river more beautiful C. Making the river more beautiful D. Made the river more beautiful 12. Jack rose to fame swiftly after a boxing match ________. A. when he is only sixteen years old B. when being only sixteen years old C. when only sixteen years old D. when been only sixteen years old 13. _______, he was quickly forgotten. A. After he had defeated by Jackson B. He was defeated by Jackson C. After defeated by Jackson D. After defeated Jackson 14. No one can settle the question _______. A. whether the new rule should be adopted B. that the new rule should be adopted C. what the new rule should be adopted D. the new rule should be adopted 15. The lights were high up on the cliffs ________. A. , thus she knew she was near the shore B. thus she knew she was near the shore C. , thus, she knew she was near the shore D. ; thus, she knew she was near the shore 16. However, at intervals of 10 to 100 years, these glaciers move forward up to 100 times faster than usual. A. records B. speeds C. distances D. periods 17. In the United States, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1843-1933) was the most noted exponent of this style, producing a great variety of glass forms and surfaces, which were widely copied in their time and are highly prized today A. valued B. universal C. uncommon D. preserved 18．They offer sympathy when someone experiences difficulties or is subjected to discipline, are quick to lighten a serious moment with humor, and try to resolve issues that threaten to divide the group. A. avoid repeating B. talk about C. avoid thinking about D. find a solution for 19. Since then, over 100 tons of fossils, 1.5 million from vertebrates, 2.5 million from invertebrates, have been recovered, often in densely concentrated tangled masses. A. buried beneath B. twisted together C. quickly formed D. easily dated 考试科目：外语（英）水平考试 共 10 页 第 2 页
20. The asphalt at La Brea seeps to the surface, especially in the summer, and forms shallow puddles that would often have been concealed by leaves and dust. A. highlighted B. covered C. transformed D. contaminated 21. The ocean bottom --- a region nearly 2. 5 times greater than the total land area of the Earth --- is a vast frontier that even today is largely unexplored and uncharted, until about a century ago, the deep-ocean floor was completely inaccessible, hidden beneath waters averaging over 3,600 meters deep. A. unrecognizable B. unreachable C. unusable D. unsafe 22. The DSDP's drill ship, the Glomar Challenger, was able to maintain a steady position on the ocean's surface and drill in very deep waters, extracting samples of sediments and rock from the ocean floor. A. breaking B. locating C. removing D. analyzing 23. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada's population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. A. new B. extra C. accelerating D. surprising 24. When the prairies were being settled, undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950's supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. A. tendency B. aim C. growth D. directive 25. It was eventually to be overtaken by a new school of thought known as Functionalism that had been present since the turn of the century. A. surpassed B. inclined C. expressed D. applied 26. The purpose of an advertisement is to make people respond --- to make them react ______ an idea, such as helping to prevent forest fires, or to make them want to buy a certain product or service. A. against B. with C. to D. for 27. To find proof, you have only to _______ a magazine or newspaper or count the radio or television commercials that you hear in one evening. A. put up B. keep up C. take over D. leaf through 28. Whatever the government and parents decide, though, it is really the children who have to ______ their decisions! A. live up to B. live to C. live with D. live on 29. To communicate, the man often resorts ______ body language. A. to B. into C. over D. with 30. Motives or reasons for changing careers vary widely, but many people move because they feel stale or ______ a grinding or dull routine. A. bound to B. fed up with C. filled with D. accustomed to Part II Proof-reading and Error Correction (10 points) Directions: Proofread the given passage as instructed. The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: 考试科目：外语（英）水平考试 共 10 页 第 3 页
For a wrong word For a missing word For an unnecessary word Underline the wrong and write the correct one in the blank provided on the answer sheet. Mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided on the answer sheet. Cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blank provided on the answer sheet. The misfortunes of human beings may be divided into two classes: Firstly, those inflicted by the non-human environment and, second, those inflicted by other people. As mankinds have progressed in knowledge and technique, the second class has become continually increasing percentage of the total. In old times, famine, for example, was due to natural causes, although people did their best to combat it, large numbers of them died of starvation. At the present moment large parts of the world are faced the threat of famine, but although natural causes have contributed to the situation, the principal causes are human. For six years the civilized nations of the world devoted all their best energies to kill each other, and they find it difficult suddenly to switch over to keeping each other live. Having destroyed harvests, dismantled agricultural machinery, and disorganized shipping, they find it no easy matter to relieve the shortage of crops in one place by mean of a superabundance in another, as would easily be done if the economic system was in normal working order. As this illustration shows, it is now man that is man's worst enemy. Nature, it is true, still sees to that we are mortal, but with the progress in medicine it will become more and more common for people to live until they have had their fill of life. We are supposed to wish to live for ever and to look forward to the unending joys of heaven, of which, by miracle, the monotony will never grow stale. But in fact, if you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a 'new boy' in another. For the future, therefore, it may be taken that much the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. Part III Cloze (20 points) Directions: 考试科目：外语（英）水平考试 共 10 页 第 4 页
1. _________ 2. _________ 3. _________ 4. _________ 5. _________ 6. _________ 7. _________ 8. _________ 9. _________ 10. ________ There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) at the end of the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Nowadays, more people are living closer together, and they use machines to produce leisure. As a result, they find that their leisure, and even their working hours, become (1)_____ by a byproduct of their machines, (2)_____, noise. Noise is in the news; it has acquired political (3)_____, and public opinion is demanding, more and more (4)_____, that something (5)_____ about it. To control noise is to demand much (6)_____ (annoyance arises often from (7)_____ of common courtesy), a sense of proportion (there is usually a (8)_____ of interest if a noise is to be stopped), the (9)_____ of money (and it is far more economical to do this early (10)_____ than late), and, finally, technical knowledge. Though the (11)_____ cure for noise is to stop it at its source, this may in many (12)_____ be impossible. The next (13)_____ is to absorb it on its way to the ear. Domestic noises may be controlled by forethought and (14)_____, and industrial noises by good planning and technical (15)_____. But if we are going to (16)_____ fast motor-cycles and heavy (17)_____ lorries to pass continuously through residential and business (18)_____, the community must decide (19)_____ the control it needs to (20)_____, for in the long run it has got to pay for it. 1. a. damaged b. spoilt c. destroyed d. interfered 2. a. unexpectedly b. namely c. ideally d. swiftly 3. a. standard b. status c. position d. situation 4. a. persistently b. permanently c. insistently d. stubbornly 5. a. be done b. to be done c. is done d. being done 6. a. self-confidence b. self-reliance c. self-discipline d. self-respect 7. a. reason b. lack c. virtue d. deficiency 8. a. controversy b. contrast c. contradiction d. conflict 9. a. accumulation b. expenditure c. depreciation d. distribution 10. a. other b. more c. rather d. better 11. a. hopeful b. definite c. ideal d. expected 12. a. cases b. conditions c. presentations d. circumstances 13. a. remedy b. solution c. method d. procedure 14. a. courtesy b. meditation c. politeness d. precaution 15. a. perfection b. improvement c. acknowledgement d. adoption 16. a. allow b. let c. prohibit d. approve 17. a. decent b. diesel c. decibel d. datum 18. a. regions b. districts c. zones d. territories 19. a. for b. at c. with d. on 20. a. practice b. exercise c. obtain d. acquire Part IV Reading Comprehension (30 points) Directions: In this part of the test there are three reading passages followed by a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then write your answers on the answer sheet. 考试科目：外语（英）水平考试 共 10 页 第 5 页
2012年暨南大学英语语言文学706外语水平硕士研究生入学考试真题 - 图文
