2012 年广东暨南大学英语水平考试考研真题
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:
Beneatheachofthefollowingsentences,therearefourchoicesmarkedA,B,Cand
D.Choosetheonethatbestcompletesthesentenceorbestexplainstheunderlined
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
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
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
indicatedlinecontainsamaximumONEerror.Ineachcase,onlyONEwordisinvolved.
You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word
Underline the wrong and write the correct one in the
blank provided on the answer sheet.
For a missing word
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.
For an unnecessary word
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,
1. _________
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
2. _________
example, was due to natural causes, although people did their best
3. _________
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
4. _________
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
5. _________
to keeping each other live. Having destroyed harvests, dismantled
6. _________
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
7. _________
the economic system was in normal working order. As this
8. _________
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
9. _________
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
10. ________
both.
Part III Cloze (20 points)
Directions:
Thereare20blanksinthefollowingpassage.Foreachblanktherearefourchoices
markedA),B),C)andD)attheendofthepassage.YoushouldchoosetheONEthat
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
15multiple-choicequestions.Readthepassagesandthenwriteyouranswersonthe
answer sheet.
Passage 1
As the 21st century begins, a number of leaders in politics, education, and other
professions believe that the United States must adopt some new values to go along
the older traditional ones. What new values should Americans adopt? This is a very
difficult question to answer. Certainly, a greater value should be placed on the
conservation of natural sources; Americans should learn to use less and waste less.
But conservation has never been a strong value to Americans, who have believed that
their country offered an endless, abundant supply of natural resources. Recently,
progress has been made – more and more Americans are recycling their paper, cans,
bottles, and other goods – but old wasteful habits die hard. Furthermore, their
need to protect the environment may conflict with the need for job, as in the
Northwest, where conservationists battle lumber companies that want to cut down
ancient redwood trees. A belief in the value of conservation is still weak compared
with other American values; it can become stronger only as Americans see the need
for it more clearly.
In addition, Americans may need to place a stronger value on cooperation on a