2020 年广西桂林理工大学综合英语考研真题
Part I Structure and Expression (30 分,每题 1 分)
Directions: In this section there are 30 sentences followed by four multiple choices.
Choose one to complete the sentences. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. A child with healthy appetite rarely dislikes food _____ it is badly cooked.
A. unless
B. until
C. if
D. in that
2. No one can be _____ hasty in making the decision as it is such a critical case.
A. very
B. so
C. too
D. that
3. _____ students have certain “gift” in common, they should be grouped together.
A. While
B. Where
C. When
D. As
4.
his graduation, he found a job with a decent income.
A. At
B. During
C. With
D. Upon
5. If these human initiatives are aided by special quality-control instruments,
machines, and scientific sampling procedures, _______.
A. so much the better
be it the better
B. the much better
C. so it’ll be better
D.
6.
writers, like Flaubert, will spend days trying to get one or two sentences
exactly right.
A. Careful
B. Cautious
C. Scrupulous
D. Prudent
7. And the polluted water does not merely
the life of the sea but threatens
the people who inhabit and visit its shores.
A. stiff
C. stifle
B. strife
D. strive
8. Such diseases as typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, polio, viral hepatitis and
_______ in the area, and there are periodic outbreaks
food poisoning are
of cholera.
A. epidemic
B. endemic
C. rife
D. rampant
9. An even greater risk
in the ageing underground gas-pipes.
A. larks
B. lures
C. lurches
D. lurks
10. Anti-materialists tent to
A. derive
B. deride
the importance of things.
D. drive
C. deprive
11. Later school start time’s contribution to teenagers’ academic performance is
not an
A. suspicious
one.
C. equivocal
12. The undeveloped technology of the period
B. vague
D. equivalent
the construction of more
delicate walls.
A. secluded
B. precluded
C. concluded
D. deluded
13. Human beings feature their creative ability to
trivial impulses into
momentous consequences.
A. transform
B. translate
C. transmute
D. transmit
14. Hypocrisy is the
that vice pays to virtue.
A. contribute
B. attribute
C. distribute
D. tribute
15. Most of his study time is _____ by computer games.
A. absorbed
16. Mary is very
B. ingested
as she is constantly changing her mind.
C. digested
D. devoured
A. suspicious
B. capricious
C. delicious
D. precarious
17. The rich ___ themselves from contact with the poor.
A. resided
B. retreated
C. secluded
D. groped
18. He found it hard to choose furniture that was ____ with the modern style of the
house.
A. constant
B. consistent
C. consequent
D. constituent
19. One’s _____ remark at the wrong moment could ruin the whole plan.
A. indiscreet
D. impossible
20. The average Chinese people will _____ themselves for years to buy a house.
C. inappropriate
B. improper
A. sting
B. stink
C. stint
D. stir
21. Our progress was _____ by the extreme weather.
C. stopped
B. forbidden
A. hampered
D. suspended
22. The negotiation had reached a(n)_____, with both parties refusing to make
compromise.
A. dilemma
B. difficulty
C. embarrassment
D. impasse
23. This new laser printer is _____ with all leading software.
A. comparable
B. competitive
C. compatible
D. cooperative
24. Problems have been _____ by long neglect.
A. evacuated
B. agitated
C. decapitated
D. aggravated
25. A visitor must _____ to the customs of the country where he lives.
A. inform
B. conform
C. confirm
D. affirm
26. It is far too difficult for the young adult to _____ between truth and falsehood.
A. discern
B. discard
C. disperse
D. disregard
27. In the _____ light I could hardly make out the way home.
A. frail
B. failing
C. failed
D. fail
28. Drinking water before your meal will take the _____ off your hunger.
A. edge
B. edict
C. edible
D. eddy
29. Those who are _____ of profits will not always be happy.
A. insatiable
B. fond
C. insane
D. critical
30. It _____ on me that Johnson had been making us nobody but a fool all along.
A. dwelt
B. dawned
C. rested
D. lay
Part II Figure of Speech (10 分,每题 1 分)
Directions: Identify the figure of speech in each of the following sentences. Choose
the best answer from the box and write the corresponding letters of your answers
on the Answer Sheet.
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Oxymoron
D. Personification
E. Alliteration
F. Contrast
G. Euphemism
H. Metonymy
I. Transferred Epithet
J. Parallelism
1. I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats over valleys and hills.
2. The mother is undergoing the joyful pain, and the painful joy of childbirth.
3. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
4. A thousand mustaches can live together, but not four breasts.
5. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its
shoes.
6. He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his
health and prophesied the speedy ruin of the empire.
7. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going
backwards.
8. The American society saw a gnawing poverty during the tears of the Great
Depression.
9. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
10. Nest to health, heart, home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the
automobile.
Part III Blank Filling (20 分,每题 1 分)
Directions: Choose a proper word from the box to fill in each blank in the following
passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the corresponding letters of your
answers on the Answer Sheet.
A. fit
F. without
K. appeal
B. their
G. little
L. its
P. disregarding
Q. no
C. therefore
D. risks
E. requirements
H. partly
I. out of
J. basis
M. majority
N. however
O. job
R. consideratio
n
S. Moreover
T. occupation
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Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally,
should be made even before choice of a curriculum
, most people make several job choices during their
because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve
enter
them for a field of work rather
therefore, the choice of an
in high school. Actually,
working lives,
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into a broad flexible training program that will
than for a single
position. The “one perfect job” does not exist. Young people should
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3
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.
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. Some drift from job to job. Others
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans
benefit of help
from a competent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing
about the
occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on
a hit-or-miss
to work in which they
are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an
real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students --
occupation for
or their parents for them -- choose the professional field,
both the relatively
small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational
. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a
and personal
“White-collar” job is
,
these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are
in mechanical and manual work, the 17
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to these fields.
15 good reason for choosing it as life’s work.
of young people should give serious
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Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of
what he wants 19
life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people
desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security;
others are willing to take
its demands as well as its rewards.
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for financial gain. Each occupational choice has
Part IV Paraphrase (20 分,每题 2 分)
Directions: Explain the following sentences in your own words and write your answers
on the Answer Sheet.
1. A word that is more or less right, a loose phrase, an ambiguous expression, a
vague adjective, will not satisfy a writer who aims at clean English.
2. This knack for going instinctively to the heart of a matter was the secret of
his major scientific discoveries.
3. Much of human existence consists of efforts aimed at making sure that things
don’t go wrong, fall apart, break down, or stop running until a decent interval
has elapsed after manufacture.
4. The idea of using a product once or for a brief period and then replacing it,
runs counter to the grain of societies or individuals steeped in a heritage of
poverty.
5. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must
be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.
6. Finally, with both of us combining our linguistic and imaginative resources,
finally, after what seems another hour, we decode it.
7. Associating beauty with women has put beauty even further on the defensive,
morally.
8. So, for me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in the wanting,
not the satisfaction.
9. Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since the initial outlay upon
equipment or through hiring it, the total expense can be far less than the cost
of hotels.
10. For all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive
a creative soul.
Part V Word Formation (10 分,每题 1 分)
Directions: Write out the full form of the following words and write your answers
on the Answer Sheet.
1. ASEAN
2. APEC
6. e-cigar
10. ecotourism
8. Brexit
9. motel
7. radar
3. CIIE
4. BRICS
5. NBC
Part VI General Knowledge (10 分,每题 1 分)
Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the 10 multiple-choice questions.
Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. _____is the capital of Canada.
A.Vancouver
B. Ottawa
C. Montreal
D.York
2. U.S. presidents normally serve a (n) _____ term.
A. two-year
B. four-year
C. six-year
D. eight-year
3. Which of the following cities is NOT located in the Northeast, U.S.?
A. Huston.
B. Boston.
C. Baltimore.
D. Philadelphia.
4. _____is the state church in England.
A. The Roman Catholic Church
C. The Protestant Church
B. The Baptist Church
D. The Church of England
5. The novel Emma is written by_____.
A. Mary Shelley
B. Charlotte Brontë
C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell
D. Jane
Austen
6. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?
A. William Wordsworth.
C. George C. Byron.
B. George Elliot.
D. Percy B. Shelley.
7. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for _____.
A. his poems
B. his plays
8. Syntax is the study of _____.
C. his short stories
D. his novels
A. language functions
C. textual organization
B. sentence structures
D. word formation
9. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive feature of human language?
A. Arbitrariness.
C. Cultural transmission.
B. Productivity.
D. Finiteness.
10. The speech act theory was first put forward by _____.
A. John Searle
B. John Austin
C. Noam Chomsky
D. M.A.K. Halliday
Part VII Proof Reading and Error Correction (10 分,每题 1 分)
Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each line contains a maximum
of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage
and correct it in the following way. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank
provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ ^ ” and
write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of
the line.
What is corporate culture? At its most basic, it’s described
the personality of an organization, or simply as “how
done around here.” It guides what employees think,
like
things are
act, and feel.
Corporate culture is a wide term used to define the unique
personality or character of a particular company or organization,
and include such elements as core values and beliefs, corporate
ethics, and rules of behavior. Corporate culture can be expressed
in the company’s mission statement and other communications, in
the architectural style or interior decoration, by what people
wear to work, by how people address to each other, and in the titles
given to various employees. How do you uncover the corporate
culture of a potential employer? The truth is that you will never
really know the corporate culture after you have worked at the
1. _______
2. _______
3. _______
4. _______
5. _______
6. _______
company for a number of months, but you can get close to it through
research and observation. Understanding culture is a two-step
process, starting with the research before the interview and
ending with observation at the interview. The bottom line is that
you are going to spend a lot of time on the work environment and
to be happy, successful, and productive, you will want to be in
a place where you fit for the culture, a place where you can have
voice, be respected, and have opportunities for growth.
7. _______
8. _______
9. _______
10. _______
Part VIII Reading Comprehension (40 分,每题 2 分)
Directions: In this section there are five reading passages followed by a total
of twenty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and mark your answers on
the Answer Sheet.
TEXT A
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry -- William Shakespeare
-- but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There
is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the
plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk
who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their
revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards
and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that
Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did
his share of noise-making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus
-- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side -- don’t usually
see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford.
However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing.
It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue
because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into
the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of
town by nightfall.
The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute
directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor
traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or
cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will
be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting
Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.
Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs
a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row.
Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’
ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices
have stayed low.
It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the
young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely
for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from
all over) -- lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their
buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy
the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them
when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.
1.
From the first two paragraphs, we learn that ________.
A. the townsfolk deny the RSC’s contribution to the town’s revenue
B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage
C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms
D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism
2.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that ________.
A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately
B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers
C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers
D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater
3.
By saying “Stratford cries poor traditionally” (Line 2, Paragraph 4), the
author implies that ________.
A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects
B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties
C. the town is not really short of money
D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid
4.
According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because ________.
A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending
B. the company is financially ill-managed
C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable
D. the theatre attendance is on the rise
5.
From the text we can conclude that the author ________.
A. is supportive of both sides
B. favors the townsfolk’s view
C. takes a detached attitude
D. is sympathetic to the RSC
TEXT B
Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this:
artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones
that feel bad.
This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music,
are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere from the 19th century onward,
more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring,
as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times
have seen so much misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual
war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the
opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated
to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly
tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which
happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until
exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass
communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which
reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday
be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer
too.
Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious
but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers,
all smiling, smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy
families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda -- to lure us
to open our wallets -- they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.
“Celebrate!” commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found
out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
But what we forget -- what our economy depends on us forgetting -- is that
happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest
joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded
by promises of easy happiness, we need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento
mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes
not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than
a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
6.
By citing the examples of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends
to show that ________.
A. poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music
B. art grows out of both positive and negative feelings
C. poets today are less skeptical of happiness
D. artists have changed their focus of interest
The word“bummer”(Line 5, paragraph 5) most probably means something ________.
A. religious
In the author’s opinion, advertising ________.
A. emerges in the wake of the anti-happy art
B. is a cause of disappointment for the general public
C. replaces the church as a major source of information
D. creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself
We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes ________.
A. happiness more often than not ends in sadness
B. the anti-happy art is distasteful but refreshing
C. misery should be enjoyed rather than denied
D. the anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms
C. entertaining
B. unpleasant
D. commercial
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8.
9.
10. Which of the following is true of the text?
A. Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery.
B. Art provides a balance between expectation and reality.
C. People feel disappointed at the realities of modern society.
D. Mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.