青岛科技大学基础英语考研真题Word格式.docx

1、 Part I Vocabulary （15 points） Directions: In this part, there are 15 sentences with 15 blanks. You are required to choosean appropriate word from the list to fill in each of the blanks. Change the form wherenecessary. Use each word only once.prejudice spectacle reverie linger humiliate oblivious gi

2、gantic demolish renowned erect martyr incessant shiver agitate heinous 1. In those strange old times, when fantastic dreams and madmens _were realized among the actual circumstances of life, two persons met together at an appointed hour and place.2. However wet the road, whatever the visibility in m

3、ist or fog, some motorists drive at ridiculous speeds _of police warnings or speed restrictions.3. Early Christians saw Valentines Day as a way to honor St. Valentine, who was _ on February 14 because he outlawed marriage for young men - his crop of potential soldiers.4. Severe snowstorms have wreak

4、ed havoc on traffic throughout the country, creating _passenger backups, spawning accidents and leaving at least 24 people dead.5. _and discrimination are part of American history, however, this prejudicial treatment of different groups is nowhere more unjust than with black Americans.6. You who hav

5、e eyes can see any you like. How many of you, I wonder, when you gaze at a play, a movie, or any _, realize and give thanks for the miracle of sight which enables you to enjoy its color, grace, and movement?7. Twelve hours a day for twenty years together. The poor ballet dancer must devote years of

6、_ toil to her profitless task before she can shine in it.8. Winter often _; autumn could be ushered in by severe frost. For good measure, during the spring and summer, drought, heat, hail, grasshoppers, and other frustrations might await the wary grower. 9. The fight reaches a climax; the despairing

7、 slave meets his destined death giving one last _of agony as his blood stains the stage.10. During this controversy Edward appeared restless and impatient, _ by some internal feeling, but whether of joy, grief, or expectation, his face did not expressly declare.11. “To ensure the narrators thoughts

8、and languages flowed smoothly, I avoided any questions suggestive of my own opinion.” the writer says. His book won support from a host of _writers and veteran journalists.12. During times of stress, daydreaming _a temporary shield against reality, in much the same way that building a house protects

9、 our bodies from the natural surroundings. 13. Animal cruelty is a _act punishable by law in every state, but in recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the link between animal cruelty and violence to other humans as well.14. Nothing has ever equaled the magnitude and speed with which

10、 the human species is altering the physical and chemical world and _the environment. 15. One must not _people-that is the chief thing. Better say to man My angel than hurl Fool at his head-though men are more like fools than they are like angels.Part II Cloze （15 points） In this part, you will read

11、a passage with 15 marked blanks. For each blank, there will be four possible words or phrases to fill in. Choose the best one and write your choice on the Answer Sheet. The homeless make up a growing percentage of Americas population. _1_ homelessness has reached such proportions that local governme

12、nts cant possibly _2_. To help homeless people toward independence, the federal government must support job training programs, _3_ the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing._4_ everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates _5_ anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million. _6_ t

13、he figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless is _7_. One of the federal governments studies _8_ that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.Finding ways to _9_ this growing homeless population has become increasin

14、gly difficult. Even when homeless individuals manage to find a _10_ that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day _11_ the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significan

15、t number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others, while not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday _12_ skills needed to turn their lives around. Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are _13_ programs that address the

16、many needs of the homeless. As Edward Zlotkowski, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts, _14_ it, “There has to be _15_ of programs. Whats needed is a package deal.”1. A. Indeed B. Likewise C. Therefore（A） D. Furthermore2. A. stand B. cope C. approve（B） D. retain3. A. rai

17、se B. add C. take（A） D. keep4. A. generally B. almost C. hardly（D） D. not5. A. cover B. change C. range（C） D. differ6. A. Now that B. Although C. Provided（B） D. Except that7. A. inflating B. expanding C. increasing（C） D. extending8. A. predicts B. displays C. proves（A） D. discovers9. A. assist B. tr

18、ack C. sustain（A） D. dismiss10. A. lodging B. shelter C. dwelling（B） D. house11. A. searching B. strolling C. crowding（D） D. wandering12. A. life B. existence C. survival（C） D. maintenance13. A. complex B. comprehensive C. complementary （B）D. compensating14. A. puts B. interprets C. assumes（A） D. ma

19、kes15. A. supervision B. manipulation C. regulation（D） D. coordinationPart III Identifying Rhetorical Devices （10 points） In this part, there are 10 sentences for identification of the rhetorical means employed in them. You are required to choose the correct rhetorical device used in each of the fol

20、lowing sentences or the underlined parts and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. It is now an axiom in many fields of science that more new and important discoveries have taken place in the last ten years than in the entire previous history of science. A. Loose Sentence B. Periodical Sentence

21、C. Parallel Structure D. Transferred Epithet 2. Energy costs will be cut by a computerized device that will direct heat to living areas where it is needed, and turn it down where it is not. A. Metonymy B. Metaphor C. Antithesis D. Pun 3. Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithso

22、nian antique. A. Antonomasia B. Onomatopoeia C. Euphemism D. Paradox 4. The American society saw a gnawing poverty during the year of the Great Depression. A. Simile B. Alliteration C. Transferred Epithet D. Synecdoche 5. The gentleman in me made me stand up to go away, but the journalist in me made

23、 me stand still. A. Understatement B. Paradox C. Pun D. Synecdoche 6. Then clatter, clatter up the stairs. Jonnie knocked at her door. A. Antonomasia B. Metaphor C. Onomatopoeia D. Pun 7. My car was really stubborn this morning. She refused to start. A. Synecdoche B. Metonymy C. Personification D. I

24、rony 8. If you love her, bring her to New York, for it is a Heaven. If you hate her, bring her to New York, for it is a Hell. A. Climax B. Alliteration C. Antithesis D. Inversion 9. We are poor, we are very poor, we are very, very poor, as poor as a church mouse. A. Climax B. Antithesis C. Paralleli

25、sm D. Metaphor 10. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with Gods help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke. A. Parallelism B. Onomatopoeia C. Antithesis D. Rhyme Part IV Reading Comprehension （40 points）

26、 In this part, there are four passages. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A）,B）,C） and D）. Choose the best choice and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage OneIs language, like food, a basic human need without

27、 which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederickin the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. All the infants died bef

28、ore the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, som

29、e children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and the language might n

30、ever be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late

31、 in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.Rece