考研英语 水平测试试卷

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华南理工大学

2007

年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷

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科目名称：

英语综合水平测试

适用专业：

英语语言文学

外国语言学及应用语言学

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Part I. Vocabulary (20 marks)

Section One

Directions: In each of the following sentences, there is one word underlined, followed by

three possible choices. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to this word.

(10 marks)

1.

Truth in established fields of science can be provisional and can be proven wrong in

the light of later knowledge.

a.

temporary

b.

prudent

c.

provocative

2.

The current acting versions of many of

Shakespeare‘s

plays are abridgement.

a.

expansion

b.

truncation

c.

revision

3.

You

probably

have

heard

the

charge

of

plagiarism

used

in

disputes

within

the

publishing and recording industries.

a.

intellectual theft

b.

copyright

c.

acknowledgment

4.

Is human language a genetic endowment?

a.

talent

b.

endurance

c.

faculty

5.

My memory is exact and circumstantial.

a.

abridged

b.

complete

c.

reckless

6.

On many occasions, the maxims will be breached.

a.

unified

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b.

observed

c.

violated

7.

She could, when she chose, work with astonishing celerity, which would make me so

pleased.

a.

swiftness

b.

celestial

c.

dilatoriness

8.

Thoughtful ones will assure you that happiness and unhappiness are constitutional, and

have nothing to do with money.

a.

accidental

b.

inborn

c.

alien

9.

Does the discreteness of language depend on the fact that it is arbitrary?

a.

discretion

b.

separateness

c.

providence

10.

Human

children

appear

to

acquire

language

with

impressive

ease,

and

without

the

intensive and directed regime of instruction which the chimpanzees were subjected to.

a.

rules

b.

repetitions

c.

reforms

11.

The tones produced by this piano are very resonant.

a.

resolving

b.

resounding

c.

rewarding

12.

Intuitive, elicited, and observed data all have their own validity.

a.

Instinctive

b.

Intrusive

c.

Invasive

13.

This is a ubiquitous trend in today

‘

s literary studies.

a.

unique

b.

oppressive

c.

omnipresent

14.

There is a palpable chill in the air.

a.

invisible

b.

discernible

c.

intact

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15.

He made strenuous efforts to write his research paper.

a.

stressful

b.

feeble

c.

intense

16.

Using

questionnaires

should

not

be

embarked

upon

lightly,

for

they

are

difficult

to

handle well.

a.

conducted

b.

treated

c.

elucidated

17.

The new resolutions need to be ratified by our committee.

a.

review

b.

discuss

c.

approve

18.

He watched as the spider tried again and again with unremitting patience to weave its

web.

a.

lucid

b.

pervasive

c.

persistent

19.

He vacillated between taking back his offer and urging her to accept.

a.

wondered

b.

hesitated

c.

pondered

20.

We prevailed on him to accept the invitation.

a.

advised

b.

asked

c.

persuaded

Section Two

Directions:

In each

of

the following

sentences,

there

is

one

underline word

or

phrase.

Write down its Chinese equivalent in the answer sheet.

(10 marks)

1.

Many materials formed the fabric of his character.

2.

Anonymity precludes you from using any sort of code number that can lead even you

back to an identity for each respondent.

3.

Gasoline prices started their precipitous rise three months ago.

4.

We have the number of votes requisite for election.

5.

These two papers give a completely different slant on the events of the last week.

6.

His parents inoculate him with a strong desire for knowledge.

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7.

English has a striking diachronic profile, largely because of it political and economic

history.

8.

The student prepared his lessons well and was forward with his answers.

9.

She was talking excitedly and gesticulating with her hands.

10.

We will buy a house on a mortgage.

11.

The scheme reposes on the revival of trade.

12.

She commutes from her home in the suburbs to her office downtown.

13.

He constrained his anger with difficulty.

14.

One drawback with all closed questions is that they can often be so directive as to be

patronizing.

15.

A well- designed corpus must therefore represent the different registers of the language.

16.

This method allows us to investigate a range of lexicographic research questions that

were not feasible before.

17.

We need to analyze a large amount of language collected from many speakers

‘

to make

sure that we are not basing conclusions on a few speakers

‘

idiosyncrasies.

18.

A more substantive way that the samples differ is in the amount of information given

by the tags.

19.

Our views of popular music are concurrent.

20.

There are a few styles to document the sources in writing research papers.

Part II. Reading Comprehension (50 marks)

Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow.

(1)

When

scientists

are

trying

to

understand

a

particular

set

of

phenomena,

they

often

make use of a

< br>―

model.

‖

A model, in the scientists

‘

sense, is a kind of analogy or mental

image of the phenomena in terms of something we are familiar with. One example is the

wave

model

of

light.

We

cannot

see

light

as

if

it

were

made

up

of

waves

because

experiments on light indicate that it behaves in many respects as water waves do.

The purpose of a model is to give us a mental or visual picture

–

something to hold

onto

–

when

we

cannot

see

what

is

actually

happening.

Models

often

give

us

a

deeper

understanding:

the

analogy

to

a

known

system

(for

instance,

water

waves

in

the

above

example) can suggest new experiments to perform and can provide ideas about what other

related phenomena might occur.

1.

The author is concerned with an explanation of the term _________.

a.

wave

b.

model

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c.

analogy

d.

light

2.

Another example of a scientific model would be _________.

a.

a map

b.

a paper airplane

c.

an atom

d.

a light bulb

3.

Why are models necessary?

a.

They connect invisible phenomena to those we are familiar with.

b.

Scientists could not experiment without them.

c.

They give scientists a sense of security.

d.

They provide deeper insight into the workings of the human mind.

4.

Models provide us with deeper understanding because _________.

a.

they make us think about our universe

b.

they were used to represent some other phenomenon

c.

they are more precise than theories

d.

they indicate further directions and help us make predictions

5.

An analogy is __________.

a.

the study of the universe

b.

a comparison

c.

the study of light waves

d.

the result of scientific investigation

(2)

The

blues

is

the

root

and

foundation

upon

which

all

jazz

has

developed.

Indeed,

without the blue there would be no jazz as we know it today. Every style of jazz, even the

avant-garde, has been found to have a heritage in the blues.

Work songs were structurally simple two-harmony songs that we sung by a leader and

responded to by other workers. Another kind of song, the

―

country blues,

‖

was developed

at the same time, however. The first blues songs were sung by itinerant male signers in the

South and Southwest who went to bars and social gatherings singing songs full of earthy

lyrics in exchange for liquor. Early blues singers drank, danced, and mingled freely with

the patrons and guests, and their music was informal, unrestrained, and often improvised

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(composed on the sport). The themes of these songs concerned the basic human problems

of sex and love, poverty and death.

6.

Which of the following statements is true?

a.

Without jazz, the blues would not exist.

b.

The blues grew out of jazz.

c.

The blues underlies all forms of jazz.

d.

The blues and jazz are avant-garde musical forms.

7.

Early country blues can best be characterized as __________.

a.

itinerant

b.

amusing

c.

depressing

d.

not rigid

8.

__________ would be the most appropriate topic for a country blues song.

a.

The birth of a child

b.

The death of one

‘

s lover

c.

The wedding of a relative

d.

The theft of one

‘

s guitar

9.

The singers of the first blues songs __________.

a.

stayed in one place

b.

sang for alcohol

c.

were immortal

d.

were urban sophisticates

(3)

Many of the domestic plants originated from obvious and well-known wild ancestors.

Both wheat and barley, for example, come from wild grasses that still grow in parts of the

Near East. There are still mysteries, however, about the origins of some domestic plants.

Where corn came from has been a puzzle for generations, and the question still proves a

battleground

for

botanical

camps

armed

with

research,

and,

sometimes,

invectives.

Corn

has become so highly domesticated that it is even more a captive of man than the lap dog.

Left alone, a field of maize would fail to produce new plants within a season or two; and, if

we should ever lose our struggle for survival, corn will perish with us. The reason is that in

becoming so well suited as a food plant, corn has lost the means to disperse its seeds and

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must depend on being sowed for its survival.

10.

The primary focus of this passage is __________.

a.

wheat and its relationship to corn

b.

where corn comes from

c.

types of corn

d.

botany and the origins of plants

11.

Unless tended, a corn field would ________.

a.

yield for years

b.

perish in a year or two

c.

reproduce itself

d.

become overgrown

12.

The reason corn is compared to a lap dog is that it is __________.

a.

totally dependent on man

b.

domestic

c.

useful

d.

a good friend to man

13.

We can infer from the passage that ________.

a.

there has not been much research into the origins of corn

b.

there is considerable harmony among botanists regarding the origins of corn

c.

we will never know where corn came from

d.

rival botanists sometimes use insulting language in defending their theories about

corn

14.

Which of the following is the primary reason corn would perish if mankind perished?

a.

Only man eats corn.

b.

Fertilization is important.

c.

Corn no longer spreads its seeds independently.

d.

Corn only grows in maize fields.

(4)

MEXICO CITY

—

In 2000, I served on a joint U.S.-European Union Biotechnology

Consultative

Forum

—

appointed by President Clinton and Romano Prodi, President of

the European Commission

—

to look at the full range of issues that have polarized thinking

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