2019 年浙江宁波大学基础英语考研真题
Part I Vocabulary & Structure (60 points)
Directions: There are 60 sentences in this part. Beneath each sentence there are
four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best
completes the sentence. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
B. faithful
B. scheduled
B. inquiry
D. emphasis
B. assigning
C. restoring
B. devoted
C. attracted
B. compound
C. sustain
B. presumed
C. consumed
D. resumed
D. concentrated
C. attended
D. postponed
C. confident
D. sensitive
C. embarrassment
1. Liverpool’s first game of the season had to be __________ because of bad weather.
A. determined
2. The new government policy places far greater __________ on recycling and
energy-efficiency.
A. influence
3. Throughout his life Kelvin remained __________ to his fundamental political
principles.
A. interested
4. He paused, drank a glass of wine, reflected a moment, and __________.
A. assumed
5. The soil in this part of the world is not rich enough to __________ a large
population.
A. compromise
6. Andrew was so __________ in the research that he had not time left for recreational
activities.
A. absorbed
7. Some people are in favor of __________ capital punishment for murder.
A. proposing
8. Language problems __________ when families moved to live in other countries.
A. raised
9. This __________ girl is Mary’s cousin.
A. pretty little Swedish
C. Swedish pretty little
10. A __________ person is one who pays too much respect to social status and wealth
or one who looks down on people of a lower social position.
A. modest
D. elegant
11. Many businesses provide a kind of ___________ which is paid until the death of
the former employee.
A. patent
12. In British law, you are __________ innocent until you are proved guilty.
A. ranged
13. In no mirror of those times could you see your __________ as it actually was.
A. complex
14. She felt __________ by her son’s bad behaviors at university.
A. hospitable
15. We tend to __________ our real names from our online friends in case we lose
the safe sense
B. Swedish little pretty
D. little pretty Swedish
C. complexion
D. comparison
C. humiliated
D. hostile
B. rose
C. arose
B. baptized
C. mentioned
D. committing
B. subsidy
C. bargain
D. pension
B. humble
C. snobbish
B. completion
B. humble
of distance.
D. survive
D. aroused
D. presumed
B. conceal
D. sustain
B. write
C. wrote
D. to write
B. corrects
B. pervasive
C. elusive
D. inclusive
B. tolerate
C. permit
C. heighten
D. increase
C. conceive
D. condense
C. afflicted with
D. resulted in
C. in the light of
D. by virtue
B. with the exception of
C. concentrates D. connects
A. concede
16. Literature is my favorite because it shows me sides of human nature and __________
my mind.
A. cultivates
17. The teacher encouraged her students__________ to an English pen-friend.
A. should write
18. Some old people don’t like pop songs because they can’t __________ so much
noise.
A. resist
19. Every man in the country has the right to live where he wants to, __________
the color of his skin.
A. regardless of
of
20. The government is trying to do something to __________ better understanding
between the two countries.
A. raise
B. promote
21. He is such a(n) __________ person; you never know where he is when you want him.
A. impressive
22. They are always __________ the noise made by the passing planes.
A. indicated by B. suffered from
23. A university is a more comprehensive and complex institution than any other kind
of higher education __________.
A. settlement
B. establishment
24. Actually I’m concerned about the whole world—there are no safe __________ from
the global economic storm.
A. segments
25. Tom and Sarah had been living together for years, but finally went through the
marriage ceremony __________ their children.
A. for the sake of
26. Nothing would stop me from __________ my ambition.
A. approaching
27. To travel by jet plane, which used to be __________ by some people as a ridiculous
idea, is now an everyday phenomenon.
A. smiled at
28. There is not enough __________ between the management and the workers.
D. administration
A. sensation
29. When the night falls, the land is __________ in silver moonlight.
A. soaked
30. He lived under constant __________of being robbed by the criminals.
A. intensity
31. Hotel rooms must be ________ by noon, but luggage may be left with the porter.
A. departed
32. The new government policy places far greater __________ on recycling and
energy-efficiency.
C. expenditure
D. structure
B. interaction
C. expectation
C. in relation to
D. in view of
B. in support of
B. completing
C. achieving
D. experiencing
B. abandoned
C. displaced
B. cloaked
C. bathed
C. belief
D. menace
B. havens
C. areas
B. glared at
C. peered at
D. sneered at
D. fields
B. faith
D. coated
D. vacated
B. neared
B. avoid
B. clutched
D. same
D. met
D. wonder
B. inquiry
B. warned
B. much
C. no
C. clasped
D. gripped
B. locking
C. locked
C. dislike
D. object
D. to have locked
C. embarrassment
D. emphasis
B. concluded
C. joined
C. approached
D. drew
C. threatened
D. announced
the front door when I left home this morning.
A. influence
33. Roger’s manager __________ to make him stay late if he hadn’t finished the
work.
A. insisted
34. By the time he has finished his week’s work, John has hardly __________ energy
left for the weekend.
A. any
35. As the game ___________ to a close, disappointed spectators started to leave.
A. led
36. I don’t remember__________
A. to lock
37. I__________ to other people borrowing my books: they always forget to return
them.
A. disagree
38. Andrew’s attempts to get into the swimming team have not__________ with much
success.
A. associated
39.Although Harry had obviously read the newspaper article carefully, he didn’t
seem to have__________ the main point.
A. grasped
40. A lot of the views put forward in the documentary were open to__________.
A. enquiry
41. Don’t you think the so-called belief in fate is a ________ excuse for avoiding
responsibility for what happens in your life?
A. lane
42 Evidence came up ________ specific sounds are recognized by babies as young as
six months old.
A. that
43. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorms long before
people ________.
44. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ________ left untreated.
A. while
45. The central provinces have floods in some years and _________.
A. drought in other years
C. while other droughts
46. Do help yourself to some fruit, ________ you?
A. can’t
47. There ________ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an
hour earlier.
A. to be
48. I was very much put ________ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoyed me.
A. over
49. You ________ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.
A. needn’t have told
B. droughts are others
D. others in drought
C. mustn’t have told
D. mustn’t
B. to have been
C. being
B. hear
C.do them
B. limp
C. lime
D. lame
B. don’t
C. wouldn’t
C. though
D. unless
B. needn’t tell
B. where
C. which
D. whose
B. query
C. question
D. hearing it
B. off
C. up
D. by
A. do
B. if
D. won’t
D. be
B. Other
B. come
C. finishing
C. Besides
D. Apart
C. end
D. go
B. complained
C. blamed
B. hasn’t been
B. have finished
C. hadn’t been D. won’t be
B. As I admire him as a writer
D. As much I admire as a writer
tell
50. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there ________ quite such
a crowd of people there.
A. weren’t
51.__________ , I do not like him as a man.
A. I admire him as much as a writer
C. Much as I admire him as a writer
52.__________ from Michael, all the group arrived on time.
A. Except
53. Shirley enjoys science lessons, but all her experiments seem to __________
wrong.
A. turn
54. The students were supposed to __________ their assignment by now.
A. finish
55. She __________ her neighbor’s children for the broken window.
A. accused
56.__________, Gerald would have been a rich man.
A. Was he to enter business
C. Was he entered business
57. The students in the dormitories were forbidden __________ after 11 p.m. unless
they had special passes.
A. staying out
C. to stay out
58. As I had missed the history lesson, my friend went __________ the homework with
me.
A.by
59. Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry
is his insistence that it __________ in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of
reference.
A. is to be analyzed
C. be analyzed
60. Whether she’s a good actress or not is a __________ of opinion.
A. matter
B. has been analyzed
D. should have been analyzed
B. If he was to enter busines
D. Had he entered business
D. from staying out
D. having finished
B. by staying out
B. subject
C. point
B. after
C. over
D. on
D. denied
D. case
Cloze (20 points)
Part II
Directions: Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage
if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
Although most people return from package holidays reasonably satisfied, this is not
always the
. Take, for example, the nightmare experience of a Frenchman who
to Colombia. The hotel in the same Caribbean port was overbooked.
went on
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and breakfast place, when he
was arrested for vagrancy. He was
, where he told the judge that it was the
hotel’s
tourist
. The judge was the hotel-owner’s brother, and he charged the
making false accusations and sent him to prison for eight days.
round the streets, looking for
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65
61
62
66
67
72
68
71
70
, his return flight had left. He had insufficient funds
went to the Post Office to send a telegram to
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before he could send it.
. It was explained that, having missed
, he could no longer be classified as a tourist. He now needed a
. And a
By the time of his
to buy a return ticket,
his home in Montpellier, asking for money. He was
This time he was charged with illegal
his return
work
, but he didn’t have one. He was fined $500 for this
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further $500 when he again blamed the hotel for overbooking. His
confiscated because he couldn’t pay the fines. He hitchhiked to Bogotar
the consulate finally arranged to send him.
All things
it is safer to “do it yourself!” And the advantages of planning your holiday
yourself are
good
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. If it is well-planned, an independent holiday can usually be
, I would prefer to plan my holiday independently.
for money.
my view,
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was
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79
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occurrence
package
strolling
accommodation
taken to court
B. situation
C. state
D. case
B. holiday
C. festival
D. celebration
B. stepping
B. hotel
C. wandering
C. bed
D. patrolling
D. lodging
taken to the reform school
B. brought to the police station
D. sent to prison
61. A.
62. A.
63. A.
64. A.
65. A.
C.
66. A.
67. A.
68. A.
69. A.
70. A.
71. A.
72. A.
73. A.
74. A.
75. A.
76. A.
77. A.
78. A.
79. A.
80. A.
fault
beyond
freedom
and
fined
citizenship
trip
license
crime
luggage
when
considered
To
considerable
B. blame
C. duty
D. responsibility
B. with
C. between
D. against
B. departure
C. release
D. independence
B. though
C. but
D. so
B. re-arrested
C. convicted
D. punished
B. naturalization
B. ticket
C. migration
C. flight
C. load
D. immigration
D. journey
D. permit
B. allowance
B. offence
B. belongings
B. after
B. being considered C. were considered D. considering
B. In
C. fault
C. thing
C. where
D. possession
D. error
D. while
D. With
C. By
B. thinkable
C. considerate
D. imaginable
bargain
B. buy
C. sale
D. value
Part III Reading Comprehension (20 points)
Directions: In this section there are 3 passages, each followed by several questions
or unfinished statements and with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose
the one that you think is the best answer. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
Passage 1
By far the most common snake in Britain is the adder. In Scotland, in fact, there
are no other snakes at all. The adder is also the only British snake with a poisonous
bite. It can be found almost anywhere, but prefers sunny hillsides and rough open
country, including high ground.
Most people regard snakebites as a fatal misfortune, but not all bites are serious,
and very few are fatal. Sometimes attempts at emergency treatment turn out to be
more dangerous than the bite itself, with amateurs heroically, but mistakenly,
trying do-it-yourself surgery and other unnecessary measures.
All snakes have small teeth, so it follows that all snakes can bite, but only the
bite of the adder presents any danger. British snakes are shy animals and are far
more frightened of you than you could possibly be of them. The adder will attack
only if it feels threatened, as can happen if you take it by surprise and step on
it accidentally or if you try to catch it or pick it up, which it dislikes intensely.
If it hears you coming, it will normally get out of the way as quickly as it can,
but adders cannot move very rapidly and may attack before moving if you are very
close.
The effect of a bite varies considerably. It depends upon several things, one of
which is the body-weight of the person bitten. The bigger the person, the less harmful
the bite is likely to be, which is why children suffer far more seriously from snake
bites than adults. A healthy person will also have better resistance against the
poison.
Very few people actually die from snakebites in Britain, and though these bites can
make some people very ill, there are probably just as many cases of bites having
little or no effect, as there are of serious illness.
B. poisonous including the adder
D. friendly towards human beings
D. When you try to pick it up.
B. in Scotland and nowhere else
B. When you are some distance away from it.
81. Adders are most likely to be found ___________.
A. in wilder parts of Britain and Ireland
C. on uncultivated land throughout Britain D. in shady fields in England
82. We are told that British snakes are ___________.
A. afraid of human beings
C. dangerous except the adder
83. When will the adder NOT attacking you?
A. When you try to catch it.
C. When you happen to step on it.
84. If an adder hears you coming, it will usually __________.
A. attack you immediately
C. wait to frighten you
85. According to the passage, a snake bite is __________.
A. less harmful to a sick man than to a healthy man
B. more harmful to a child than to an adult
C. much more dangerous than any serious illness
D. always fatal in Britain
Passage 2
Around the world, people gather to explore their emotions through dance. The dances
are created as part of celebrations, as religious services, as preparation for
challenging hunts and warfare and to express sorrow (less often than the other
situations). Indeed, dance does play an important role within a culture and reveals
B. move very quickly
D. get out of the way
a wide range of information about the characteristics of a culture. Three of the
most revealing aspects of dance are the nature of the culture's symbols and art forms
revealed in costumes and equipment, the body language (moves and gestures) which
give information about social contact behaviors and frequently the style of
preferred music for the culture.
Ethnic dances, and certainly popular dancing, anywhere around the world have
associated preferences for costumes and special clothing. Through dancing, the
participants are able to reveal and express their chosen role in the garments they
choose; social roles in the dance are shown public ally to the observers as well
as the other dancers. Frequently dancers utilize objects like swords or sticks or
hoops or musical instruments to further reveal information about their role in the
social story portrayed in the dance. Items such as special headwear and jewelry are
further examples of the garments that in general express preferences and culturally
significant details about the particular culture.
Dancers, by the very nature of the activity, physically express beliefs and attitudes
associated with their specific culture. In many dances the participants are modeling
typical activities of their culture and thus imparting instructions and historical
information to the audience. In other dances, one can see expressions of deep emotion:
love, worship, grief, strength, anger, etc. and thus obtain clues about the inner
feelings of the culture's individuals. Dance provides an opportunity for others to
witness some of the special behaviors associated with activities in the culture.
Also, dance is a (usually) public statement so that observers can see how members
of the culture treat those who are older members of the opposite sex, more respected
members, etc.
The third aspect of dance that reveals much about a culture is the music or singing
that is typically a part of the event. Observers can see evidence of the types of
instruments characteristics of the culture, and who plays these instruments as well
as how they are used -- instruments may be associated only with special events and
thus transmit valuable cultural information. Frequently singing is part of a dance
program, and again an observer has an opportunity to observe who is singing and the
nature of the voices. I found this aspect of dance particularly fascinating during
a brief time I spent in a rural village in Zimbabwe a few years ago.
Dancing is indeed a very important aspect of any culture. It provides a communal
opportunity for members of the culture to artistically express emotions while acting
out typical activities and concerns in their world. For outsider observers, many
valuable details about the culture are revealed.
86. People around the world use dance for the following purposes EXCEPT __________.
A. as part of celebration
C. to express sorrow
B. as part of religious services
D. to build one’s body
87. Which of the following statement is NOT true of ethnic dance?
A.
B.
Ethnic dances have been associated with special costumes and clothing.
Dancers usually wear ornamental objects to indicate their social role in the
portrayed story.
C.
D.
the particular culture.
Ethnic dances are always symbols of oncoming warfare.
Dancers’ special headwear and jewelry are culturally significant details about
88. Through dancing, dancers can __________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
show their respect to other members of their society
fall in love with his/her partner
exercise their muscles
exhibit their body
89. Which of the following aspects is NOT true about the music or singing?
A. The types of instruments used are typical of the culture.
B. The ways that the types of instruments are used reveals cultural information.
C. The music or singing is only found in remote rural villages.
D. The instruments may be associated only with special events.
90. From the last paragraph we can infer that __________.
A.dances are not important in a nation’s culture
B.few people like to observing ethnic dances
C.ethnic dances are one of the ways of communicating between cultures
D.there are people who dance just for fun
Passage 3
Rose Saxon, the Queen of Romance Comics, was at her drawing board in the garage of
her house in Bloomtown, New York.
Miss Saxon was at work on the text of a new story, which she intended to begin laying
out that night after her son went to bed. It would be the lead story for the June
issue of Kiss Comics. She planned to call it “The Bomb Destroyed My Marriage.”
The story would be based on an article that she had read in Redbook about the humorous
difficulties of being married to a nuclear physicist employed by the government at
a top-secret facility in the middle of the New Mexico desert. She was not writing
so much as planning out her panels, one by one, at the typewriter. Over the years,
Sammy’s scripts had grown no less detailed but looser; he never bothered with
telling an artist what to draw. Rosa couldn’t operate that way; she hated working
from Sammy’s scripts. She needed to have everything figured out in
advance—storyboarded, they called it in Hollywood—shot by shot, as it were.
Rosa had gotten her start in comics soon after Sammy’s return to the business, after
the war. Upon taking over the editor’s desk at Gold Star. Sammy’s first move had
been to clear out many of the subcompetents who littered the staff there. It was
a bold and necessary step, but it left him with an acute shortage of artists, in
particular of inkers.
Tommy had started kindergarten, and Rosa was just beginning to understand the true
horror of her destiny, the arrant purposelessness of her life whenever her son was
not around, one day when Sammy came home at lunch, harried and frantic, with an