广西民族大学基础英语考研真题B卷Word下载.docx

1、_.A. galaxies B. ornaments C. utensils D. gadgets4.Running for president is _ demanding , emotionally draining, and physically taxing.A. incoherently B. intellectually C. intimately D. invalidly 5. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event is equal to theprobability that it wil

2、l not occur. A. occurring B. occurred C. occurs D. occur 6.State leaders of each generation have to think about how to _complicated economic issues.A. adore B. assemble C. address D. alienate7.In 2008, Sarkozy threatened to boycott the Olympic Games in Beijing, _kowtow shortly afterwards by promisin

3、g never to interfere with Chinas affairs.A. only to B. so as to C. as to D. prior to8.New methods of irrigation can reduce water consumption by roughly 30%_conventional systems.A. but for B. compared with C. related to D. other than9.As long as you are pursuing your dream, your efforts will eventual

4、ly _.A. wear off B. pay off C. ward off D. turn off10. The younger you begin _, the easier it is to remain physically active throughout your life. A. setting out B .figuring out C. running out D. working out11. The Maori people are natives of_. A. Australia B. Canada C. Ireland D. New Zealand12. The

5、 British monarch is the Head of_. A. Parliament B. State C. Government D. Cabinet13. Americans celebrate Independence Day on_. A. July 4th B. October 11th C. May 31st D. September 6th14. Canada is bounded on the north by_. A. the Pacific Ocean B. the Atlantic Ocean C. the Arctic Ocean D. the Great L

6、akes 15. Who is the author of The Waste Lana? A. George Bernard Shaw. B. W.B. Yeats. C. Dylan Thomas. D. T.S. Eliot. 16. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury? A. William Faulkner. B. Ernest Hemingway. C. Scott Fitzgerald. D. John Steinbeck. 17. The lettuce was lonely without

7、 tomatoes and cucumbers for company is an example of_. A. exaggeration B. understatement C. personification D. synecdoche 18.In English if a word begins with a l or a r, then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a （n）_.A. assimilation rule B. sequential ruleC. deletion rule D. grammar rule19. Whi

8、ch of the following is an example of clipping?A.APEC. B.Motel. C.Xerox. D.Disco.20.The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of situation is called_.A. register B. dialect C. slang D. varietyII. ClozeDirections: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. 15 Choice

9、s marked from A to O are provided .You should choose 10 suitable answers for these 10 blanks.（共 10 小题，每小题 2 分，共 20 分）Americas most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yetto set out

10、 plans for a pay wall around its digital offering, 21 the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered”model at the beginning of 2011. Readers

11、 will be required to pay when they have 22 aset number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper onthe charging side of an 23 wide chasm （ 鸿沟） in the media industry. But others,including the Guardian, have said they will not 24 internet readers. The New YorkTimes

12、 publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 25 that the move is a gamble. Boasting a print2.of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays. The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, the New York Ti

13、mes is among the few that can claim3.scopeas well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But like many in the publishing industry,the paper is in the grip of a 28 financial crisis. Its parent company, the New YorkTimes Com

14、pany, has 15 papers, but 29 a loss of $70 million in the nine months toSeptember and recently accepted a $250 million 30 from a Mexican billionaire, CarlosSlim, to strengthen its balance sheet. A. national B. interactively C. circulation D. loan E. crude F. exceeded G. charge H. ascend I. abandoning J. suffered K. serious L. deducting M. increasingly N. e