2011年山东青岛大学基础英语(1)考研真题
PART I
VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE (40 points)
Choose one of the four answers that best completes the sentence.
1.
The English language contains a
comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation.
A. latitude B. multitude C. magnitude
of words which are
D. longitude
2.
Jack is not very decisive, and he always finds himself in a
if he doesn’t know what he really wants to do.
A. fantasy
C. contradiction
D. conflict
B. dilemma
as
Psychologists have done extensive studies on how well patients
3.
with doctors’ orders.
A. comply
B. correspond
C. interfere D. interact
4.
5.
The politician says he will
A. prey on
B. take on
C. get at
the welfare of the people.
D.
see to
The famous scientist
A. imparted
B. granted
his success to hard work.
C. ascribed D. acknowledged
6.
The
everybody.
A. conversion
7.
The medicine
A. activated
8.
from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for
B. transition C. turnover D. transformation
his pain but did not care his
illness.
D. deteriorated
B. alleviated C. mediated
Up until that time his interest had
mastering the skills and techniques of his craft.
A. restrictively B. radically
C. inclusively
focused almost on fully
D. exclusively
9.
After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally
D. drained
C. dissipated
B. dispersed
.
A. deteriorated
10.
No one can function properly if they are
A. deprived
C. stripped
B. ripped
of adequate sleep.
D. contrived
11.
12.
13.
14.
The prospect of increased prices has already
A. provoked
B. irritated C. inspired
D. hoisted
worries.
be an effective
Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers
could
to creating a safer workplace, especially
in the case of employers with poor safety records.
A. alternative B. addition C. deterrent D. incentive
The disjunction between educational objectives that stress
independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to
rules and cooperation with others reflects a
values on which these objectives are based.
that arises from the
A. conflict B. redundancy
C. gain
D. predictability
A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence
structure
mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more
ideas.
the
A. complicated
B. elementary
C. fanciful D. inconsequential
15.
16.
17.
When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he
selects
people
A. at length
and ask them questions.
C. in essence
B. at random
D. in bulk
In fact as he approached this famous statue, he only barely resisted the
to reach into his bag for his camera.
A. impatience
B. impulse
C. incentive D. initiative
Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this
only
the crisis.
A. precedes
B. prevails
C. ascends
D. accelerates
Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered
because its subject was very
.
A. obscure B. indefinite C. dubious D. intriguing
Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by conscious
objectivity,
science
persistence in spite of mistakes.
A. controls
D. calculations
C. deductions
B. hunches
accidents,
through
error,
often
operates
happy
and
Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
Island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most
people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.
A. tranquil
D. recognized
C. declining
B. clannish
David likes country life and has decided to
A. go in for
B. go back on
C. go through with D. go along with
farming.
subway
modernization
program intended to
A
ranging from dangerous tracks to overcrowded stairwells has failed to
meet its schedule for repairs.
A. initiate B. deplore
D. eliminate
C. disclose
a host of problems
Challenging James Baldwin, who wrote of Black Americans as being in a
perpetual state
of
beings could
rage, Mr.
Cose
remarks
that
few
the psychic toll of uninterrupted
human
anger.
A. enhance
B. refine C. survive
D. refute
A diligent scholar, she devoted herself
book.
A. assiduously B. ingenuously
C. theoretically D. sporadically
to the completion of the
A hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it
must also be
A. interrupted
by continued observation.
C. discredited
B. verified
D. refuted
A leading philosopher of our time, Ludwig Wittgenstein, laid down a
rule to which good historians
: “ Of that of which nothing is
known nothing can be said.”
A. protect
D. succumb
C. adhere
B. amend
A
27.
in the then-current system of food inspection.
major outbreak of food poisoning in 1993 underlined the serious
28.
29.
30.
31.
A. expectations
B. innovations
C. deficiencies
D. objectivity
A man incapable of
something that he had not worked up beforehand, fashioning it with
lengthy care.
A. self-conscious
action, he never had an opinion about
B. spontaneous
D. calculated
C. coherent
A sense of fairness dictates that the punishment should fit the
crime, yet in
actual
practice,
criminal offense.
A. coincide
C. compromise
B. simplify
decisions
judicial
D. vary
greatly for the same type of
According to the Senator, it was not hypocrisy for a politician in search
of votes
to
sound
political common sense.
A. ridicule B. intimidate C. compliment D. Evaluate
a mother on the beauty of her plain child; it was merely
Although a few of her contempories
or mocked it.
her book, most either ignored it
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
A. dismissed B. appreciated C. disregarded D. deprecated
Although he had the numerous films to his credit and a reputation for
technical expertise, the moviemaker lacked originality, all his films
were sadly
of the work of others.
A. independent B. derivative C. unconscious D. contradictory
Although, as wife of President John Adams, Abigail Adams sought a greater
voice for women, she was not a feminist in modern sense, she
the
traditional view of women as “ beings placed by Providence” under male
protection.
A. anticipated B. regretted C. accepted D. repudiated
now
culture
stigmatizes,
American
behavior that was once taken for granted: overt racism, cigarette smoking
the use of sexual stereotypes.
A. penalizes B. advocates C. ignores D. advertises
sometimes
heavily
even
and
scientist
have established
Social
the
appropriate behavior of children and adults, but there seem to be
confusion about what constitutes appropriate behavior for adolescents.
A. functions
C. regulations
D. rigidity
clear-cut
B. norms
fairly
that describe
After reading numbers of biographies recounting dysfunctions and
disasters,
marriages
careers, Joyce Carol Oates
failed
describe the genre: pathography, the story of diseased lives.
A. dismissed
B. hypothesized
D. reiterated
C. coined
failed
and
a word to
37.
All critics have agreed that the opera’s score is , but
curiously ,no two critics have agreed which passages to praise and
which to damn.
A. intolerable
C. conventional
B. unsurpassed
D. uneven
38.
39.
of a cultural phenomenon is usually a logical
The
consequence of some physical aspect in the life style of the
people.
A. implementation
B. manifestation C. demonstration
D. expedition
Although Henry was not in general a sentimental man, occasionally he
would feel a touch of
making a brief
for the old days and would contemplate
excursion to Boston to revisit.
A. anxiety B. aspiration C. nostalgia D. inspiration
40. Although Josephine Tey is arguably as good a mystery writer as Agatha
clearly far less than Christie, having only written
is
Christie, she
six books in comparison to Christie as sixty.
A. coherent B. prolific C. equivocal D. Pretentious
PART II WRITTEN EXPRESSION (10 points)
Directions: Each sentence in the following has four underlined words or
phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C),
(D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in
order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, write down
your answer.
Example
Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important
United A
B
States politician.
D
C
The sentence should read, “Serving several terms in Congress, Shirley
Chisholm became an important United States politician.” Therefore, you
should choose (B).
1. The main attractive at Sequoia National Park is thirty-five
groves of giant A
B
C
sequoias, the largest living things in the world.
D
2.
In films, optical printing can be combined with blue-screen photography
for
produce such special effects as characters seeming to fly through the air.
A
B
C
D
3.
The developed countries of the world are using up valuable resources at a
rate
A
B
C
unprecedented human history.
D
4. Over the entirely surface of the Earth, there is not a cubic inch of air
nor an ounce
A
B
C
of soil in which water is not present.
D
5.
Periods of sleep are necessary for the preservation of life, and while
such periods
A
B
the body apparently recuperates from the effects of waking activity.
C
D
6. Electricity is the phenomenon associated with positively and
negatively A
particles charged of matter at rest and in motion, either individually or
in great numbers.
B
C
D
7. The Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s largest medical center, was founded
in 1889
A
in Rochester, Minnesota, as a voluntary association of physicians.
B
C
D
8.
The planet Venus is comparing with Earth in terms of size, mass, and
density, but A
B
has a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, a slow rotation, and no moon.
C
D
9.
Art criticism of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century North
America examined the degree to which sculpture embraced the spiritually
values that were A B
ideal for that period.
C
D
10. Fewest of her poems were published during her lifetime, but when
C
they were A
B
rediscovered in the 1920’s, Emily Dickinson became known as a major
writer.
PART III READING COMPREHENSION (30 Points)
D
In this section there are three reading passages followed by a total of
fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then write your
answers on your answer sheet.
Passage 1
Social critics and the general public in the United States have blamed
television for every social ill from declining academic performance to
juvenile delinquency. Concentrating on the negatives, however, sometimes
leads people to ignore the equally important questions about the positive
contributions television does make or could make. Clearly, the content of
television can be beneficial or harmful. What about the medium of television
itself?
as
a
that
Some
medium
contend
engenders
television
intellectual
passivity, displaces creative and intellectually demanding activities, and
interferes with schoolwork. The evidence does not support the worst fears of
television's critics. Television displaces some activities, but primarily
those that are functionally similar to it. Television viewing is associated
with low school achievement and low reading ability, but these effects
appear to be due to or confounded by other variables such as time spent
viewing. On the positive side, properly designed television can teach
reading skills and motivate children to read.
can
watch
People
actively
television
Television does not inherently encourage passivity, intellectual or
physical.
Young
children's patterns of attention and learning from television demonstrate
that when they are absorbed in television they are mentally active and
selective. They think about and evaluate what they are seeing. However, the
predominance of "pure entertainment" on television in the United States
eventually leads viewers to adopt an attitude that television requires
little mental effort because they believe the medium is undemanding and
are
passively.
or
confirmed in this view by the banal nature of many programs.
Television formats, forms, and production techniques can be used to
stimulate viewers to think actively about what they are viewing or to
interact with the program. Children learn to "read" the production cues
denoting interesting and comprehensible content. Well-placed special effects
can direct attention, formats can signal important content, and production
features can emphasize content messages. These techniques are used in good
educational programs to maximize viewer involvement.
1. The author mentions "declining academic performance" in line 2 in order to
A. describe how it contributes to juvenile delinquency.
B. argue that television causes a reduction in brain cells.
C. support teachers' efforts to limit television viewing.
D. give an example of a consequence attributed to television viewing.
2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as an effect of
excessive television viewing?
A. Neglect of schoolwork
B. Replacement of more challenging activities
C. Intellectual passivity
D. Damage to eyesight
3. The author suggests that children who learn to read through
television.
A. absorb more information from television than from schoolwork.
B. are more sight-oriented than sound-oriented.
C. watch television more actively than is commonly believed.
D. have a difficult time transferring their reading skills to books.
4. The author believes that viewers have a negative opinion of television in
the United States because
A. it tends to shorten the attention span of children.
B. it is largely devoted to entertaining programming.
C. its programs are frequently interrupted by technical problems.
D. it contributes to low self-esteem.
5. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Educational programs are difficult to produce.
B. Television formats have undergone few changes in the past decade.
C. Television programming can be designed to increase viewer involvement.
D. Special effects on television have replaced the role of the
imagination.
Passage 2
In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so
come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is
not even questioned. There are countries where the white man imposes his
rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by
setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on
both sides, who would in other respects, appear to be reasonable men, get up
and calmly argue in favor of violence – as if it were a legitimate solution,
like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you
with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have
made no actual progress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-
paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the
recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence,
has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence
never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the
bloodshed, the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever comes to light the
morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what
hit us.
The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding
it
harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and
even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently
outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into
violent acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at cleaning