1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题.docx

1、1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I: Structure and VocabularyIn each question, decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Put your choice in the brackets on the left. (10 points)EXAMPLE:I was caught _ the rain ye

2、sterday.A inB byC withD atANSWER: A1. The skyscraper stands out _ the blue sky.A inB againstC underD beneath2. They have always been on good _ with their next-door neighbors.A friendshipB relationsC connectionD terms3. Hello! Is that 21035? Please put me _ to the manager.A acrossB upC throughD over4

3、. Why do you look so _? You never smile or look cheerful.A miserableB unfortunateC sorryD rude5. Eggs, though nourishing, have _ of fat content.A large numberB a large numberC the high amountD a high amount6. Jim always _ his classmates in a debate.A backs outB backs awayC backs upD backs down7. Mos

4、t of the people who _ two world wars are strongly against arms race.A have lived outB have lived throughC have lived onD have lived off8. There are many inconveniences that have to be _ when you are camping.A put upB put up withC put offD put away9. Is it true that those old houses are being pulled

5、down _ new office blocks?A to accommodateB to provide forC to increaseD to make room for10. Being in no great hurry, _.A we went the long route with sceneryB the long, scenic route was our preferenceC we took the long scenic routeD our preference was taking the long, scenic routeSection II: Reading

6、ComprehensionEach of three passages below is followed by five questions. For each question there are four answers, read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each of the question. Put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)Text 1For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flig

7、ht. In 400 A.D. Chinese children played with a fan-like toy that spun upwards and fell back to earth as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci conceive the first mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix,” which could carry man straight up, but was only a design and was never tested.The ancient-dream was fi

8、nally realized in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft of steel tubing with a rotating fan on top. It rose awkwardly and vertically into the air from a standing start, hovered a few feet above the ground, went sideways and backwards, and then settled back to earth. The vehicl

9、e was called a helicopter.Imaginations were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own personal helicopters. People anticipate that vertical flight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today. Such fantastic expectations were not fulfilled.The helicopter has now

10、become an extremely useful machine. It excels in military missions, carrying troops, guns and strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in police work, construction and logging companies employ them in various ad

11、vantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use them as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies. Any urgent mission to a hard-to-get-to place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of

12、used: deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work, and aid in the search for missing or wanted persons.11. People expect that _.A the airliners of today would eventually be replaced by helicoptersB helicopters would someday be able to transport large number of people

13、from place to place as airliners are now doingC the imaginations fired by the Russian engineers invention would become a reality in the futureD their fantastic expectations about helicopters could be fulfilled by airliners of today12. Helicopters work with the aid of _.A a combination of rotating de

14、vices in front and on topB a rotating device topsideC one rotating fan in the center of the aircraft and others at each endD a rotating fan underneath for lifting13. What is said about the development of the helicopter?A Helicopters have only been worked on by man since 1940.B Chinese children were

15、the first to achieve flight in helicopters.C Helicopters were considered more dangerous than the early airplanes.D Some people thought they would become widely used by average individuals.14. How has the use of helicopters developed?A They have been widely used for various purposes.B They are taking

16、 the place of high-flying jets.C They are used for rescue work.D They are now used exclusively for commercial projects.15. Under what conditions are helicopters found to be absolutely essential?A For overseas passenger transportation.B For extremely high altitude flights.C For high-speed transportat

17、ion.D For urgent mission to places inaccessible to other kinds of craft.Text 2In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local ch

18、aracter, became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B.C. The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thou

19、sands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of events uncertain, but events included boys gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field event

20、s, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modern Olympic Games.On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive leaves placed on their heads. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. Althou

21、gh Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394

22、A.D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics: the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over 1,500 years before anot

23、her such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing courtiers pay their own athletes expenses.The Oly

24、mpics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the suns rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideals, and it burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The we

25、ll-known Olympic flag, however, is a modern conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.16. In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games _.A were merely national athletic festivalsB were in the nature of a national event with a strong relig

26、ious colourC had rules which put foreign participants in a disadvantageous positionD were primarily national events with few foreign participants17. In the early days of ancient Olympic Games _.A only male Greek athletes were allowed to participate in the gamesB all Greeks, irrespective of sex, reli

27、gion or social status, were allowed to take partC all Greeks, with the exception of women, were allowed to compete in GamesD all male Greeks were qualified to compete in the Games18. The order of athletic events at the ancient Olympics _.A has not definitely been establishedB varied according to the

28、 number of foreign competitorsC was decided by Zeus, in whose honor the Games were heldD was considered unimportant19. Modern athletes results cannot be compared with those of ancient runners because _.A the Greeks had no means of recording the resultsB they are much betterC details such as the time

29、 were not recorded in the pastD they are much worse20. Nowadays, the athletes expenses are paid for _.A out of the prize money of the winnersB out of the funds raised by the competing nationsC by the athletes themselvesD by contributionsText 3In science the meaning of the word “explain” suffers with

30、 civilizations every step in search of reality. Science cannot really explain electricity, magnetism, and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature no more is known to the modern scientist than to Thales who first looked into the nature of the electrification of a

31、mber, a hard yellowish-brown gum. Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces “really” are. “Electricity,” Bertrand Russell says, “is not a thing, like St. Pauls Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave. When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to tell.” Until recently scientists wo