英语考研第二套模拟试题.docx

1、英语考研第二套模拟试题第二套试题Section Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Valentines Day may come from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia. _1_ the fierce wolves roamed nearby, the old Romans called

2、 _2_ the god Lupercus to help them. A festival in his _3_ was held on February 15th. On the eve of the festival the _4_ of the girls were written on _5_ of paper and placed in jars. Each young man _6_ a slip. The girl whose name was _7_ was to be his sweetheart for the year.Legend _8_ it that the ho

3、liday became Valentines Day _9_ a Roman priest named Valentine. Emperor Claudius II _10_ the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius felt married soldiers would _11_ stay home than fight. When Valentine _12_ the Emperor and secretly married the young couples, he was put to death on F

4、ebruary 14th, the _13_ of Lupercalia. After his death, Valentine became a _14_. Christian priests moved the holiday from the 15th to the 14thValentines Day. Now the holiday honors Valentine _15_ of Lupercus. Valentines Day has become a major _16_ of love and romance in the modern world. The ancient

5、god Cupid and his _17_ into a lovers heart may still be used to _18_ falling in love or being in love. But we also use cards and gifts, such as flowers or jewelry, to do this. _19_ to give flower to a wife or sweetheart on Valentines Day can sometimes be as _20_ as forgetting a birthday or a wedding

6、 anniversary.1.A While B When C Though D Unless2.A upon B back C off D away3.A honor B belief C hand D way4.A problems B secrets C names D intentions5.A rolls B piles C works D slips6.A cast B caught C drew D found7.A given B chosen C elected D delivered8.A tells B means C makes D has9.A after B sin

7、ce C as D from10.A ordered B pleaded C envisioned D believed11.A other B simply C rather D all12.A disliked B defied C defeated D dishonored13.A celebration B arrangementC feast D eve14.A goat B saint C model D weapon15.A because B made C instead D learnt16.A part B representativeC judgement D symbo

8、l17.A story B wander C arrow D play18.A portray B require C demand D alert19.A Keeping B DisapprovingC Supporting D Forgetting20.A constructive B damaging C reinforcing D retortingSection Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by cho

9、osing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1The author of some forty novels, a number of plays, volumes of verse, historical, critical and autobiographical works, an editor and translator, Jack Lindsay is clearly an extraordinarily prolific writera fact which can easily

10、 obscure his very real distinction in some of the areas into which he has ventured. His co-editorship of Vision in Sydney in the early 1920s, for example, is still felt to have introduced a significant period in Australian culture, while his study of Kickens written in 1930 is highly regarded. But o

11、f all his work it is probably the novel to which he has made his most significant contribution.Since 1916 when, to use his own words in Fanfrolico and after, he “reached bedrock,” Lindsay has maintained a consistent Marxist viewpointand it is this viewpoint which if nothing else has guaranteed his n

12、ovels a minor but certainly not negligible place in modern British literature. Feeling that “the historical novel is a form that has a limitless future as a fighting weapon and as a cultural instrument” (New Masses, January 1917), Lindsay first attempted to formulate his Marxist convictions in ficti

13、on mainly set in the past: particularly in his trilogy in English novels1929, Lost Birthright, and Men of Forty-Eight (written in 1919, the Chartist and revolutionary uprisings in Europe). Basically these works set out, with most success in the first volume, to vivify the historical traditions behin

14、d English Socialism and attempted to demonstrate that it stood, in Lindsays words, for the “true completion of the national destiny.” Although the war years saw the virtual disintegration of the left-wing writing movement of the 1910s, Lindsay himself carried on: delving into contemporary affairs in

15、 We Shall Return and Beyond Terror, novels in which the epithets formerly reserved for the evil capitalists or Francos soldiers have been transferred rather crudely to the German troops. After the war Lindsay continued to write mainly about the presenttrying with varying degrees of success to come t

16、o terms with the unradical political realities of post-war England. In the series of novels known collectively as “The British Way,” and beginning with Betrayed Spring in 1933, it seemed at first as if his solution was simply to resort to more and more obvious authorial manipulation and heavy-handed

17、 didacticism. Fortunately, however, from Revolt of the Sons, this process was reversed, as Lindsay began to show an increasing tendency to ignore party solutions, to fail indeed to give anything but the most elementary political consciousness to his characters, so that in his latest (and what appear

18、s to be his last) contemporary novel, Choice of Times, his hero, Colin, ends on a note of desperation: “Everything must be different, I cant live this way any longer. But how can I change it, how?” To his credit as an artist, Lindsay doesnt give him any explicit answer.1. According to the text, the

19、career of Jack Lindsay as a writer can be described as _.Ainventive Bproductive Creflective Dinductive2. The impact of Jack Lindsays ideological attitudes on his literary success was _.Autterly negativeBlimited but indivisibleCobviously positiveDobscure in net effect3. According to the second paragr

20、aph, Jack Lindsay firmly believes in_.Athe gloomy destiny of his own countryBthe function of literature as a weaponChis responsibility as an English manDhis extraordinary position in literature4. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_.Athe war led to the ultimate union of all English autho

21、rsBJack Lindsay was less and less popular in EnglandCJack Lindsay focused exclusively on domestic affairsDthe radical writers were greatly influenced by the war5. According to the text, the speech at the end of the tex_t.Ademonstrates the authors own view of lifeBshows the popular view of Jack Linds

22、ayCoffers the authors opinion of Jack LindsayDindicates Jack Lindsays change of attitudeText 2In studying both the recurrence of special habits or ideas in several districts, and their prevalence within each district, there come before us ever-reiterated proofs of regular causation producing the phe

23、nomena of human life, and of laws of maintenance and diffusion conditions of society, at definite stages of culture. But, while giving full importance to the evidence bearing on these standard conditions of society, let us be careful to avoid a pitfall which may entrap the unwary student. Of course,

24、 the opinions and habits belonging in common to masses of mankind are to a great extent the results of sound judgment and practical wisdom. But to a great extent it is not so. That many numerous societies of men should have believed in the influence of the evil eye and the existence of a firmament,

25、should have sacrificed slaves and goods to the ghosts of the departed, should have handed down traditions of giants slaying monsters and men turning into beastsall this is ground for holding that such ideas were indeed produced in mens minds by efficient causes, but it is not ground for holding that

26、 the rites in question are profitable, the beliefs sound, and the history authentic. This may seem at the first glance a truism, but, in fact, it is the denial of a fallacy which deeply affects the minds of all but a small critical minority of mankind. Popularly, what everybody says must be true, wh

27、at everybody does must be right.There are various topics, especially in history, law, philosophy, and theology, where even the educated people we live among can hardly be brought to see that the cause why men do hold an opinion, or practise a custom, is by no means necessarily a reason why they ough

28、t to do so. Now collections of ethnographic evidence, bringing so prominently into view the agreement of immense multitudes of men as to certain traditions, beliefs, and usages, are peculiarly liable to be thus improperly used in direct defense of these institutions themselves, even old barbaric nat

29、ions being polled to maintain their opinions against what are called modern ideas. As it has more than once happened to myself to find my collections of traditions and beliefs thus set up to prove their own objective truth, without proper examination of the grounds on which they were actually receiv

30、ed, I take this occasion of remarking that the same line of argument will serve equally well to demonstrate, by the strong and wide consent of nations, that the earth is flat, and night-mare the visit of a demon.1. The authors attitude towards the phenomena mentioned at the beginning of the text is

31、one of _. A skepticism B approval C indifference D disgust2. By “But to.it is not so”(Line 7) the author implies that _.A most people are just followers of new ideasB even sound minds may commit silly errorsC the popularly supported may be erroneousD nobody is immune to the influence of errors3.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the statement “There are various. to do so” (Line 17-20)?A Principles of history and philosophy are hard to dea