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2017 年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题 A 卷一、Grammar, Vocabulary and General Knowledge Directions: Find the ONE choice that best completes the sentence（.每小题 1 分，共 40 小题，共 40 分） 1. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT? A. They have enough time to finish the paper. B. Dad says the meat is not enough cooked. C. You are not old enough to buy alcohol. D. She plays well enough for a beginner. 2. In “She felt sick from tiredness”, the italicized word is used to indicate 3. B. purpose. C. cause. A. comparison. Which of the following sentences has an object complement? A. I will buy you a present. B. Mom gave me a necklace. C. I’m going to paint it pink. D. Tom is teaching children Japanese. Smoking is so harmful to health that it kills ____ each year than automobile D. direction. 4. accidents. A. more seven times people C. more people seven times Sorry I’m late. I ____ have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep B. seven times more people D. people seven times more 5. again. B. leave C. is leaving D. are to leave B. should C. mustn’t D. couldn’t A. might Mr. White, together with all his colleagues, ____ for Europe this morning. A. are leaving The new designed bedroom seems to be a great deal larger than ____. A. it is necessary C. to be necessary He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age. A. given Mr. White has become bad-tempered since he indulges in Gambling. He is no longer B. being necessary D. is necessary B. although C. despite D. in spite 6. 7. 8. 9. the man ____ used to be. A. which B. whom C. who D. that 10. You ____ call your father’s name directly. It’s impolite in China. A. oughtn’t B. mustn’t C. needn’t D. wouldn’t 11. It is not ____ much his appearance I like as his personality. A. as B. very C. so D. that 12. There is much chance ____ Bill will recover from his injury in time for the race. A. that B. which C. until D. if 13. They did the experiment ____ their chemistry teacher had instructed. A. as B. though C. until D. when

14. He was listening attentively in class, his eyes ____ on the blackboard. A. fixing B. fixed C. are fixing D. are fixed 15. I don’t think ____ possible to master a foreign language without much memory work. A. that B. this C. you D. it 16. Mary was ____to tears by their criticism. A. sunk B. reduced C. forced D. declined 17. The police fortunately gained the key clew according to the foot mark in the ____ of the road. A. clay 18. These of the people. magnificent laboring B. dirt ____ buildings C. mud demonstrate the great D. soil intelligence A. antique B. ancient C. primitive D. remote 19. I don’t remember meeting him, but the name John Smith rings a bell. The underlined part means ____. A. is omitted familiar B. is warned C. is appearing D. is 20. These goods are ____ for export, though a few of them may be sold on the home market. A. essentially B. completely C. necessarily D. remarkably 21. Food will ____ if the temperature in your freezer rises above 8℃. A. decay B. rot C. spoil D. corrupt 22. The small company isn’t ____ of handling an order that large. A. able B. capable C. competent D. qualified 23. Sometimes it’s good to stop for a while to think about the past and ____ the future. A. contaminate B. contemplate C. consolidate D. contradict 24. School fees, illness, house repairs and other ____ have reduced his bank balance to almost nothing. A. payment B. amount C. figures D. expenses 25. Many people, including college students of all ages, spend little time in ____ of physical fitness. A. search B. view C. light D. pursuit 26. There’s no denying that as we age ____, our body ages right along with us. A. chronologically deliberately B. significantly C. deceptively D. 27. We made an effort not to leave my friend out in the cold when we were planning the birthday party. The underlined part means ____. A. embarrass B. humiliate C. ignore D. exhaust 28. The company has to make its accounts and operations as ____ as possible. A. distinct transparent B. evident C. explicit D.

29. His ability to absorb information was astonishing, but his concentration ____ was short. B. interval C. span D. distance A. gap 30. She is generally ____ as one of the best modern poets. A. classed B. graded C. ranked D. rated 31. ____ is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history. A. The Glorious Revolution C. The Renaissance B. The English Reformation D. The English Civil War 32. In the US, the largest city along the Pacific Coast is ____ B. Los Angeles. C. Seattle. D. Chicago. A. San Francisco 33. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used the technique of ____, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of a character. A. imagism C. naturalism B. stream of consciousness D. symbolism 34. Percy Bysshe Shelley did not write ____ A. Song of Myself. C. Ode to the West Wind. B. Prometheus Unbound. D. Queen Mab. 35. ____ is not a modernist novelist of Britain. A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf C. D.H.Lawrence D. Henry James ____ is the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and case, which don’t change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached. A. Word formation B. Inflection C. Compound D. Derivation 37. One way to analyze lexical meaning is A. predication analysis. C. componential analysis. B. stylistic analysis. D. proposition analysis. 38. ____ is NOT the characteristic of conversational implicature. A. Calculability C. Detachability B. Cancellability D. Non-conventionality 39. A sound pronounced with the vocal cords vibrating is said to be ____ sound. A. voiceless B. voiced C. consonant D. resonant 40. Which function is the major role of language? A. Informative. B. Interpersonal. C. Performative. D. Emotive. 二、Cloze Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A]，[B]，[C] and [D] .You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.（每小题 1 分，共 20 小题，共 20 分） According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium (a period of 1, 000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life. Pearson has __1__ together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a __2__ millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when

we can expect hundreds of key __3__ and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an __4__ life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs __5__ into use between now and 2040. Pearson also __6__ a breakthrough in computer human links. “By linking __7__ to our nervous system, computers could pick up __8__ we feel and, hopefully, simulate __9__ too so that we can start to __10__ full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck,” he says. But that, Pearson points __11__, is only the start of man-machine __12__: “It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will __13__ lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.” __14__ his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no __15__ for when faster-than-light travel will be __16__, or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible. [C] subtle [D] unique [B] findings [C] events [B] extended [C] enlarged [B] pieced [C] kept [D] made [C] carrying [C] predicts [D] incidents [D] enriched [B] becoming [B] plans [B] instantly [B] how [C] what [A] taken [A] complicated [B] delicate [A] breakthroughs [A] expanded [A] being [A] schedules [A] directly [A] that [A] thinking But he does __17__ social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, __18__ problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic __19__ robots will mean people may not be able to __20__ between their human friends and the droids. And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorder-kitchen rage. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. [A] form 11. [A] out [B] at 12. [A] program [B] production 13. [A] finally [B] ultimately 14. [A] Through [B] Though 15. [A] forecasts 16. [A] advisable 17. [A] solve 18. [A] confront 19. [A] lovely 20. [A] distinguish [B] differ [C] experiment [C] utterly [D] absolutely [D] integration [C] stories [D] meetings [C] available [D] valuable [B] articles [B] affordable [C] precisely [D] all [D] coming [D] designs [B] hearing [C] sight [D] feeling [B] likely [C] lifelike [B] cause [C] witness [D] collect [B] develop [C] find [D] undertake [C] diagnose [D] deviate [B] arose [C] exercise [D] expect [D] lively [D] automatically [C] to [D] toward [C] During [D] By 三、Reading Comprehension （选择题每小题 1 分，共 10 小题；填空题每小题 1 分，共 8 小题；简答题每小题 2 分，共 11 小题；共 40 分） PASSAGE ONE

The Work-Life Balance This month the TUC is campaigning against, what it calls, Britain's "long hours culture". But do the British actually work too long? And if we do, is it doing us, or society at large, any harm? Over the past 150 years working hours across the developed world have been falling. In the mid-nineteenth century men in Britain, in paid employment, worked for at least 55 hours per week. Hours worked then began a steady drop -- the rise of trade unionism is one explanation, but then, after the First World War they plateaued. From 1951 onwards they dropped again but this fall was brought to a sudden halt in 1981 with the onset of the deregulatory economic policies of the Thatcher years. Working hours reached a high in 1997 when the UK average number of hours worked hit 45.8 per week, falling to 44.3 hours per week in 2004. The main reason for this recent decline has been the impact of EU's Working Time Directive which stipulated that no one could work more than 48 hours in a week, unless special exemption had been jointly applied for by both employers and employees. Nonetheless, in European terms, we are still doing badly in terms of hours worked -- British workers are at the top, or bottom, of the hours charts, depending on your point of view. In 2004 British workers put in almost two and a half hours more per week than the average European worker -- although that was an improvement on 2001 when the gap was three and a quarter hours. In terms of actual hours worked, for those fortunate enough to be living and working in the Netherlands the average was just 38.8 hours a week, whilst for those unfortunate enough to be working in Britain, the average was 43.5 hours. Workers in our closest European competitors, France and Germany, worked 38.9 hours and 39.6 hours per week respectively. And yet, according to research both French and German workers are around 20% more productive than their British counterparts. And we do equally badly when it comes to holidays. The European average for annual paid leave is 26.5 days per year -- again the UK is near the bottom of the league with an average of 24.5 days of annual leave. However, these raw figures don't tell the whole story. During the 1980s and 1990s it was fashionable to predict that the "revolution in work" had begun. Business gurus were forecasting that the then current work norm, in which the majority of the workforce were in full-time employment at places of work away from home would give way to the majority having portfolios of part-time, temporary jobs, with many working either from home or from mobile office environments. This would result in a blurring between work and home, leisure, and employment -- thus concerns about hours worked would become little more than of historical interest. This view is backed up by Michael Moynagh in Working in the Twenty-First Century. After examining trends in working time over the past twenty years, and casting their findings forward, they conclude: "On balance it is likely that contracted working

time will continue to drop, if slowly and intermittently". According to the research project "The Future of Work" led by Professor Peter Nolan of Leeds University, the notion that the nature of work is changing radically is systematically demolished. Based on a nationwide survey of employees Professor Nolan reports that the project found that, contrary to this conventional wisdom, the "end of work" scenario had not come to pass. In fact the 1990s had seen a growth, not a contraction, in the proportion of employees in full-time permanent jobs. In 2000, 92% of workers were in permanent work compared with 88% eight years earlier. And in 2000 only 5.5% said they were working on a temporary contract, compared with 7.2% in 1992. "Such startling figures do not suggest Britain is rapidly developing a more flexible labour market when measured by the extent of employment stability. Indeed, the permanent job remains very much the overwhelming norm and this is true across every occupational category." Nor was the notion of "going to work" in decline. The researchers found that most people still leave their homes for paid employment, only 3% of employees said they worked partly at home and a further 1.1% said they worked solely or mainly at home. Thus, arguments about working time are still very central to debates about the nature of the work experience. The Future of Work survey found that dissatisfaction with the hours that people were having to work had increased dramatically. In 1992 35% of men were satisfied with their hours, by 2000 this had fallen to 20%; the decline among women employees was even sharper, down from 51% in 1992 to 29% in 2000. And this decline was, in terms of social class, across the board. Professor Jonathan Gershuny is an expert on the work-life balance. He paid particular attention, not just to paid work but to two related issues -- women's unpaid work and leisure time. Gershuny notes how leisure time itself has become increasingly congested as people have less and less time to "consume" more and more leisure. He quotes from American sociologist Steffan Linder, who noted that as part and parcel of their "success" the harried executive might buy themselves a yacht; and yet the time they make available to enjoy their leisure activities diminishes the more successful they become. Gershuny paints a picture of the harried executive having to plan their leisure time almost as rigorously as they plan their working day. He also casts his eye over the unpaid work that is mainly done by women in the home. He notes how, despite the spread of "labour-saving" devices, the time women spend on domestic chores had not reduced, if anything it had gone up. This is because, as domestic work has become easier so "standards" have risen -- rooms that were

swept once a week are now swept once a day and meals that were cooked simply to be nourishing now had to be "interesting" as well. Gershuny reports that women on average spend 45-hours a week on unpaid domestic work; but where they had a full-time job this time went down to 22 hours a week. For men, his research showed that irrespective of whether or not they were in full-time work they spent an underwhelming 30 minutes a day on domestic chores. No doubt many of those same men would privately applaud the sentiments expressed in a Japanese research report that concluded: "Housewives by nature enjoy doing housework. For housewives, it is difficult to distinguish between housework and leisure." Then again, perhaps not, as times have moved on somewhat. Questions 1-4 Choose the best answer. 1. Which statement best describes the change of British working hours? A. Over the past 150 years, British working hours fluctuated by as long as 10 hours. B. British workers worked 3 hours longer every week than their European counterparts in 2001. C. British workers worked longer than French and German workers with higher productivity. D. British workers have the least annual paid leave. 2. What does the sentence "thus concerns about hours worked would become little more than of historical interest" imply? A. Since there is no wild change in British working hours, the forecasting of work norm lost meaning. B. There is no point in concerning about working hours since it is hard to separate employment and leisure. C. The notion that the nature of work has changed is not right. D. The end of work scenario makes research impossible. 3. What can we see from the research findings of Michael Moynagh and Peter Nolan? A. They agreed that in the future, contracted working time will decrease. B. They agreed that more British would like to work from mobile office environments. C. They have different conclusions and forecasts about British working time. D. Both are against conventional wisdom that the end of work has come. 4. Professor Jonathan Gershuny notes that ______. A. men take over most housework when women are in full-time work B. people work harder in free time to consume what they produce in work time C. if you are top managers, you have more leisure time available D. women spend less time on domestic chores lately Questions 5-9 Answer the following questions briefly by using NO MORE THAN TEN words.

5. What is the result of working from home or mobile office environments? 6. What are the percentages of people working partly at home and solely at home respectively? 7. What is the dominant working norm? 8. Which phrase expresses the meaning that both managers and manual workers complain about the long hours culture? 9. What is one of the two issues that Professor Jonathan Gershuny paid special attention to. Questions 10-12 Complete the following sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE words. 10. According survey, Work of to the ______________________ dissatisfied with their working hours. Future women are 11. The more successful people are, the _____________________ time they have to enjoy themselves. 12. The appearance of _____________________ actually increased time of doing domestic chores. PASSAGE TWO Already penitent for his angry action, but too stubborn to make amends, Mason toiled on at the head of the cavalcade, little dreaming that danger hovered in the air. The timber clustered thick in the sheltered bottom, and through this they threaded their way. Fifty feet or more from the trail towered a lofty pine. For generations it had stood there, and for generations destiny had had this one end in view--perhaps the same had been decreed of Mason. He stooped to fasten the loosened thong of his moccasin. The sleds came to a halt, and the dogs lay down in the snow without a whimper. The stillness was weird; not a breath rustled the frost-encrusted forest; the cold and silence of outer space had chilled the heart and smote the trembling lips of nature. A sigh pulsed through the air--they did not seem to actually hear it, but rather felt it, like the premonition of movement in a motionless void. Then the great tree, burdened with its weight of years and snow, played its last part in the tragedy of life. He heard the warning crash and attempted to spring up but, almost erect, caught the blow squarely on the shoulder. The sudden danger, the quick death--how often had Malemute Kid faced it! The pine needles were still quivering as he gave his commands and sprang into action. Nor did the Indian girl faint or raise her voice in idle wailing, as might many of her white sisters. At his order, she threw her weight on the end of a quickly extemporized handspike, easing the pressure and listening to her husband's groans, while Malemute Kid attacked the tree with his ax. The steel rang merrily as it bit into the frozen trunk, each stroke being accompanied by a forced, audible respiration, the 'Huh!' 'Huh!' of the woodsman. At last the Kid laid the pitiable

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