2018宁波大学661基础英语初试试卷(A卷)考研真题

宁波大学2018年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题(A卷)

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科目代码： 661 总分值： 150 科目名称： 基础英语

I. Vocabulary (30 points) This part consists of two sections. Section A Directions: Choose one of the four alternatives which is closest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase and mark the corresponding letter. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.(1×20 points). 1. The intellect is always held in abeyance by the spirit of reasonableness, and still more by the writer's artistic sensibility. A . suspension B. approval C. continuation D. antidote 2. She smiled the credulous smile of ignorant innocence and pulled the gate open. A. sophisticated B. naive C. deceiving D. guilty 3. We can trace the rudimentary roots of all our values and limits back in our childhood anecdotes. A. salient B. deep C. fundamental D. far-fetched 4. Alexander envisioned a cosmopolitan culture in his new empire. A. local B. endemic C. provincial D. universal 5. Perhaps the first thing any cynic will note about these pledges is that they are devoid of any self-sacrifice. A. realist B. faultfinder C. optimist D. pessimist 6. When the winds blew through the holes, the rocks emitted an eerie keening sound, like a dirge of lost souls. A. elegy B. song C. eulogy D. tribute 7. I am blessed with a buoyant temperament and enjoy the pleasures of this earth. A. lighthearted B. depressed C. disheartened D. glad 8. He saw the hideous, obscure shape rise slowly to the surface. A. beautiful B. unclear C. repulsive D. ambiguous 第 1 页 共 13 页

宁波大学2018年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题(A卷)

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科目代码： 661 总分值： 150 科目名称： 基础英语

9. Jim likes to gloat over all the sports prizes he has own, which he keeps in a glass case. A. revel B. lament C. survey D. scan 10. It would be unwise to pretend that it does not happen and dishonest to disavow it in any circumstances. A. claim B. renounce C. confess D. plead 11. His rubicund face expressed consternation and fatigue. A. rough B. robust C. ruddy D. dark 12. Going higher-end also means Microsoft would dodge a potential threat to Amazon and Google. A. duck B. form C. propose D. profile 13 . Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. A . exhaustion B. regulator C. monitor D. refresher 14. When my play was with thee I never questioned who thou wert. I knew nor shyness nor fear, my life was boisterous A. controllable B. disorderly C. wild D. unruly 15. He had plenty of feedback and plenty of time to mitigate this issue, but he can be stubborn. A . alleviate B. shorten C. increase D. revise 16. The eggs are packed in cartons lined with shockproof corrugated paperboard. A. smooth B. horizontal C. silky D. ribbed 17. In the East he succeeded in establishing Byzantine hegemony over the crusading states. A. overthrow B. conquest C. supremacy D. subjugation 18. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. A. labour B. journey C. pilgrimage D. wretchedness 19. He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. A. cynic B. pessimist C. dogmatist D . fascist 20. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a blur of movement on the other sideof the glass A. clarity B. haziness C. shape D. transparency 第 2 页 共 13 页

宁波大学2018年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题(A卷)

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科目代码： 661 总分值： 150 科目名称： 基础英语

Section B There are ten words or phrases underlined in the following sentences. You are required to use other English words or phrases to explain them with the meanings that best suit those sentences (1×10 points). For example: Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with great eloquence Answer: quick and witty tongue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. While his intentions are to save lived and prevent injuries, this manger is perceived as vindictive, uncaring and self-serving. It is not to shame you that I write these things but to admonish you as my beloved children. All the people in the party were disgusted with his bawdy jokes. His aesthetic and ideology have seeped into the very fabric of American theater. This magnifies US cultural advantages because the market into which artists from other countries must sell is often abysmal. Violent storms wreaked havoc on the French Riviera, leaving three people dead and dozens injured. 7. I seemed to discern some signs of emotion upon the butler's whiteface. 8. Critics of the scheme take a less benign view. 9. The crux of the matter is not shortage of time, but shortage of work. 10. He speaks many languages including Arabic, so he was assigned to dangerous covert operations. II. Cloze (20 points) Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. You are required to fill the words or phrases in them that best complete the passage to make a smooth and logical reading semantically, syntactically and textually. The words that you use to fill in the blanks can be any that you think are suitable and able to make the passage smooth in meaning and grammar. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. （1x20 points） 第 3 页 共 13 页

宁波大学2018年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题(A卷)

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科目代码： 661 总分值： 150 科目名称： 基础英语

Shakespeare’s sonnets are very different from Shakespeare’s plays, but they do contain _____1_____elements and an overall sense of story. Each of the poems__2____with a highly personal theme, and each can be __3___ on its own or in relation to the poems around it. The sonnets have the feel of ___4___ poems, but we don’t know whether they deal with real events or not, because no one knows ___5___ about Shakespeare’s life to say whether or not they deal with real events and feelings, so we tend to refer to the voice of the sonnets as “the speaker”—as ___6___ he were a dramatic creation like Hamlet or King Lear. There are certainly a number of intriguing ____7__ throughout the poems. The first 126 of the sonnets seem to be ___8___ to an unnamed young nobleman, whom the speaker loves very much; the rest of the poems (except for the last two, which seem generally unconnected to the __9___ of the sequence) seem to be addressed to a mysterious __10___ , whom the speaker loves, hates, and lusts for simultaneously. The two addressees of the sonnets are usually__11___ to as the “young man” and the “dark lady”; in summaries of individual poems, I have also called the young man the “beloved” and the dark lady the “lover,” especially in cases where their ____12__ can only be surmised. Within the two mini-sequences, there are a ____13___ of other discernible elements of “plot”: the speaker _ 14__ the young man to have children; he is forced to __15__ a separation from him; he competes with a__16___ poet for the young man’s patronage and affection. At two points in the sequence, it seems that the young man and the___17__lady are actually lovers themselves—a state of affairs with which the speaker is none too ___18___ . But while these continuities give the poems a narrative flow and a helpful frame of reference, they have been frustratingly_19____ for scholars and biographers to pin __20___ . In Shakespeare’s life, who were the young man and the dark lady?

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宁波大学2018年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题(A卷)

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科目代码： 661 总分值： 150 科目名称： 基础英语

III. Error Detection and Correction (20 points) Directions: There are twenty errors in the following passage. You should detect and correct all the errors. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Prose by its very nature is longer than verse, and the virtues peculiar with it manifest themselves gradually. If the cardinal virtue of poetry is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is just; and, whereas love makes you act and speak in the spur of the moment, justice needs inquiry, patient and a control even of the noblest passions. To justice, here I do not mean justice of ideas, but a habit of justice in all processes of thought, the style only to particular people tranquillized and a form moulded to that habit. The master of prose is not cold, and he will not let any word or image inflame him with a heat irrelevant with his reject all beauties that are not germane to it; making his own beauty out of the purpose. Unhasting, unresting, he pursues them, subduing all the riches of his mind on it, very accomplishment of it. out of the whole work and its proportions, so as you must read to the end before you know that it is beauty. But he has his reward, for his is trusted and convinces, as those that are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for be hardly noticed. In the best prose, whether narrative and argument, we are so led on as we read, that we do not stop to applauding the writer, or do we stop to question him. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 第 5 页 共 13 页