[考研类试卷]2011年武汉大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷
一、选词填空
0 Fill in the numbered blanks with proper words. Choose among the listed words below. You can add prefixes or suffixes to the words to make sure they come in correct forms in terms of both grammar and meaning.
chant, mistaken, magic, venture, deliberate, appropriate, violate, necessary, subdue, communicate, intelligible, nonetheless, resistible, dimension, condition, rage, anticipate, sanctuary, intrinsic, ward, imagine, obvious
At the heart of the American Indian oral tradition is a deep and【K1】______belief in the efficacy of language. Words are【K2】______powerful. They are【K3】______By means of words can one bring about physical change in the universe. By means of words can one quiet a【K4】______weather, bring forth the harvest, 【K5】______off evil, rid the body of sickness and pain, 【K6】______an enemy, capture the heart of a lover, live in the proper way, and【K7】______beyond death. Indeed there is nothing more powerful. When a person ventures to speak, when he utters a prayer or tells a story, he is dealing with forces that are supernatural and【K8】______He assumes great risks and responsibilities. He is clear and【K9】______in his mind and in his speech; he will be taken at his word. Even so, he knows that he stands the chance of speaking indirectly or【K10】______, or of【K11】______by his hearers, or of not being heard at all. To be careless in the presence of words, on the inside of language, is to 【K12】______a fundamental morality.
But one does not【K13】______speak in order to be heard. It is sometimes enough that one places one's voice on the silence, for that in itself is a whole and appropriate expression of the spirit. In the Native American oral tradition expression, rather than
【K14】______, is often first in importance. In the Yeibichai of the Navajo, for example, the singers【K15】______in the strange and urgent language of the mountain spirits, a language that is【K16】______to us mortals. Although meaningless in the ordinary sense of the word, the chant is【K17】______deeply moving and powerful beyond question.
In this sense, silence too is powerful. It is the【K18】______in which ordinary and extraordinary events take their proper places. In the Indian world, a word is spoken or a song is sung, not against, but within the silence. In the telling of a story there are silences in which words are【K19】______or held on to, heard to echo in the still depths of the
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imagination. In the oral tradition, silence is the 【K20】______of sound. Words are wholly alive in the hold of silence; there they are sacred.
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2 【K2】
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18 【K18】
19 【K19】
20 【K20】
二、翻译
21 Paraphrase the underlined idiomatic expressions in the following sentences.(10x1% = 10%)
Bargaining is the order of the day.
22 She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes.
23 And then Daniel waved and she thought he had done that for no reason and she was in seventh heaven.
24 Now politicians, from President Clinton on down, are falling over themselves to proclaim support for the new medium.
25 And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind: spies who might like to keep tabs on the activities of your electronic butlers?
26 John's father always tells you his opinion; he's an armchair quarterback.
27 He has lost his pen, and a new one at that.
28 But now it is time to look again. Each of those overlapping conflicts has lately begun to peter out.
29 I don't think even those who are in the swim can tell you about it.
30 Relations between the two countries appear to be on the rocks.
31 Paraphrase the following sentences.(10x2% =20%)
The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
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[考研类试卷]2011年武汉大学英语专业(基础英语)真题试卷.doc
