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宁波大学
2018
年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题
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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

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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

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2018
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661

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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
）

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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 h
ave
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 Shakespe
are’s life, who were
the young man and the dark lady?

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2018
年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题
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)

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661

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150
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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




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2018
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661

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基础英语

IV. Reading Comprehension (30 points)
Directions:
There
are
three
sections
in
this
item
with
a
passage
in
each
section.
Section A requires you to read a passage and provide a brief answer to each of the
given
questions.
Section
B
requires
you
to
read
and
judge
whether
the
relevant
statements
are
true
or
false.
Section
C
requires
you
to
read
and
then
write
a
summary of it. Remember to write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Section A. (10 points)

Why the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination
of
Greek
civilization,
advanced
so
slowly
for
two
thousand
years
—
and
why
in
the
following
two
hundred
years
a
knowledge
of
natural
and
mathematical
science
has
accumulated,
which
so
vastly
exceeds all that was previously known that these sciences may be justly regarded as the products of our
own times
—
are questions which have interested the modern philosopher not less than the objects with
which
these
sciences are
more
immediately
conversant.
Was
it
the
employment
of
a
new
method
of
research, or in the exercise of greater virtue in the use of the old methods, that this singular modern
phenomenon had its origin? Was the long period one of arrested development, and is the modern era
one of normal growth? Or should we ascribe the characteristics of both periods to so-called historical
accidents
—
to the influence of conjunctions in circumstances of which no explanation is possible, save
in the omnipotence and wisdom of a guiding Providence?


The explanation which has become commonplace, that the ancients employed deduction chiefly in
their scientific inquiries, while the moderns employ induction, proves to be too narrow, and fails upon
close examination to point with sufficient distinctness the contrast that is evident between ancient and
modern scientific doctrines and inquiries. For all knowledge is founded on observation, and proceeds
from
this
by
analysis,
by
synthesis
and
analysis,
by
induction
and
deduction,
and
if
possible
by
verification, or by new appeals to observation under the guidance of
deduction
—
by steps which are indeed correlative parts of one method; and the ancient sciences afford
examples of every one of these methods, or parts of one method, which have been generalized from the
examples of science.
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