华侨大学考研试题710英语综合.docx

1、华侨大学考研试题710英语综合华侨大学2018年硕士研究生入学考试专业课试卷（答案必须写在答题纸上）招生专业 英语语言文学 科目名称 英语综合 科目代码 710 Part I Vocabulary and Grammar (30 points)Directions: There are THIRTY sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the word or phrase that best completes

2、 the sentence. 1. The cost, he demands should not _our expectation.A. exceeds B. exceeding C. exceed D. exceedingly2. On the _ in the countryside, there are only one-tenth as many doctors as there are in the city. A. averaged B. average C. averagely D. averages3. The writer received a _ amount of pr

3、aise for his newly published novel. A. fantastic B. fantastical C. fantasy D. fantastically4. After the retirement his parents began to _ a small grocery store. A. operate on B. operatic C. operate D. operated 5. None of the servants were _when I wanted to send a message. A. available B. availed C.

4、availing D. availably6. The drought in this area resulted in the _of fruit and vegetable. A. scarcely B. scarcer C. scarch D. scarcity7. His _eyebrows and shining eyes impress us favorably. A. bush B. bushed C. bushy D. bushing 8. The designer suggests we have a curtain to _ the light. A. soft B. so

5、ftness C. soften D. software9. He was so_ when he saw the robbery at the bank. A. terrify B. territorial C. terrified D. terrifying10. Information theory is primarily a _study. A. theory B. theoretical C. therapy D. theoretically11. The United Nations had a strong _to waging a war in Iraq. A. object

6、 B. objection C. objectify D. objected12. Is a questionnaire answered by 500 people truly _of national opinion? A. represent B. representation C. representative D. representational 13. She _ a few words on the paper. A. scrawl B. scrawling C. scrawled D. scrawny14. Dont delay your sending in the _ f

7、orm. A. apply B. applying C. appliance D. application15. Our grateful thanks are _ to the police departments help in the making of this film. A. due B. owing C. owning D. owe16. The guy leaned _ to look at what I was writing for his recommendation letter.A. on B. above C. over D. against 17. Could y

8、ou drop me _ near the post office? A. off B. / C. out D. both A and B18. We were so _ that we couldnt help yawning. A. bore B. boring C. bored D. boredom 19. What you say now is not _with what you said last week. A. consistent B. persistent C. permanent D. insistent20. In addition to rice, we need t

9、o _ our diet with fish, meat and vegetable. A. replace B. supplement C. mix D. replenish21. The survival _ of some wild animals is not very high because they are ruthlessly hunted for their skins. A. degree B. ratio C. scale D. rate22. Tim is good, smart and hardworking. _, I cant speak too highly o

10、f him. A. In a word B. By the way C. As a result D. On the contrary23. What she told me about the affair simply doesnt make any _. A. idea B. meaning C. significance D. sense24. The bank requires that the real estate company naturally serve as a loan _ for its customers. A. guarantee B. guaranteed C

11、. guaranteeing D. guarantor25. He _ as a rich man though he owed more than he owned. A. served B. posed C. pretended D. disguised26. Its maintained that _ in bulk is not good to the goods. A. sending B. communication C. traffic D. transport 27. California has more light than it knows _ to do with, b

12、ut everything else is expensive. A. what B. how C. where D. which28. The solution works only for couples who are self-employed, dont have small children and get along _ to spend most of their time together. A. too well B. well as C. well enough D. so well29. Its easy to blame the decline of conversa

13、tion on the pace of modern life and on the vague changes _ place in our ever-changing world. A. to take B. taking C. taken D. take30. On a rainy day I was driving north through Vermont _ I noticed a young man holding up a sign reading “Boston”. A. when B. which C. what D. that Part II Close Test (20

14、 points) Directions: Decide which of the words given in the below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. A luxury B collect C shower D delicacy E impulse F received G illogical H couple I forgotten J suddenly Kdespised Leverywhere Ma

15、ssociate N possession O normallyP brought Q delighted R repulsive S stroll T reluctantly People become quite _(1)_ when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for instance, you would consider octopus a great _(2)_. You would not be able to u

16、nderstand why some people find it _(3)_. On the other hand, your stomach would turn at the idea of frying potatoes in animal fatthe _(4)_ accepted practice in many northern countries. The sad truth is that most of us have been _(5)_up to eat certain foods and we stick to them all our lives.No creatu

17、re has _(6)_ more praise and abuse than the common garden snail. Cooked in wine, snails are a great _(7)_ in various parts of the world. There are countless people who, ever since their early years, have learned to _(8)_ snails with food. My friend, Robert, lives in a country where snails are _(9)_.

18、 As his flat is in a large town, he has no garden of his own. For years he has been asking me to _(10)_ snails from my garden and take them to him. The idea never appealed to me very much, but one day, after a heavy _(11)_, I happened to be walking in my garden when I noticed a huge number of snails

19、 taking a _(12)_ on some of my prize plants. Acting on a sudden _(13)_, I collected several dozen, put them in a paper bag, and took them to Robert. Robert was _(14)_ to see me and equally pleased with my little gifts. I left the bag in the hall and Robert and I went into the living room where we ta

20、lked for a _(15)_ of hours. I had _(16)_ all about the snails when Robert _(17)_ said that I must stay to dinner. Snails would, of course, be the main dish. I did not fancy the idea and I _(18)_ followed Robert out of the room. To our dismay, we saw that there were snails _(19)_: they had escaped fr

21、om the paper bag and had taken complete _(20)_ of the hall! I have never been able to look at a snail since then. Part III Error Correction (15 points)Directions: The passage contains FIFTEEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You sh

22、ould proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way: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 “”sign and write the word you believe to be missing in th

23、e blank provided at the end of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.Example: The cold afternoon sunlight make long shadows behind the trees a. made along the road. Sam Beckett never opened the gate

24、 of the old Higbee b. never place and drove his tractor into field. c. the Things had been moving quickly. Only the night before, Higbee family had 1. _at last stopped quarrel for long enough to agree on a selling price. John 2._Farnham, the real-estate agent, had made a hurry trip to see Beckett th

25、e 3._next morning. Within a few hours Beckett had looked round the property again, the agreement had signed, and he had put his horses into one of the 4._Higbee fields. Now he was starting to plough. Hed work until midnight, or longer if he didnt get too sleep. 5._ Out in the centre of the field the

26、 old house surrounded by big shady 6._trees. A dusty road run through the field to the house from the gate, But 7._Beckett had no use for the big old house. The repairs would cost more than the place was worthy. 8_ He lowered the plough and starting the tractor. As he ploughed, the rich 9._black ear

27、th rolled out in smooth furrows. Low dark cloud moved past 10._overhead, and in the west the setting sun turned the lower parts of the clouds to reddish purple: a southern Californian winter sunset. 11._ The sound of the tractor motor was steady, and the effort of watching the 12._furrows sent Sam B

28、eckett into a dream-like statement. He didnt notice the 13._minutes passing. When it got dark, he turned on the headlights and kept go. 14._The cold night air stung his face and hands, but his eyes remained fixed on the piece of ground among the grass and the ploughed earth. 15._Part IV Reading Comp

29、rehension (55 Points)Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For the first four passages, there are four choices marked A), B), C), and D), and you should decide on the best choice. For the last passage you should answer the

30、 questions about its structure. All of the answers should be written on the answer sheet.Passage 1How good are grades as a method of evaluation if almost everyones GPA is the same? This is where the problem lies. Grade inflation is the term given to the trend in some universities where higher grades

31、 are being given to less deserving students. The problem began in the early 1970s when maintaining good grades in college meant an exemption from the Vietnam draft. Professors didnt want to feel responsible for sending young men into war, especially since college campuses were popular sites of anti-war protest. The letter grade C became rare while the F was actually banned at places like Stanford University in California, and Brown University in Rhode Island.Today, grades are hardly a matter of life and death, but they can mean the difference bet