山东青岛大学基础英语2考研真题.docx

1、山东青岛大学基础英语2考研真题2011年山东青岛大学基础英语(2)考研真题I. Vocabulary and Structure (20 points) Choose one of the four answers that best completes the sentence. 1. The resort encourages visitors to _ the brochure before making a reservation. (A) look through (B) look around (C) look forward to (D) look up to 2. The Gr

2、eat Wall, _ Chinas first line of defense, is now merely a tourist attraction. (A) because of (B) being (C) once (D) before 3. They were giving nothing_ dry bread and water for their evening meal. (A) other than (B) more than (C) less than (D) rather than 4. _ of the grassland dwellers of the North A

3、merica continent is the antelope or pronghorn. (A) Typical (B) Typical is (C) The typical (D) It is typical 5. Since I could not see anything through microscope, _ my careful adjustment, I gave up. (A) for all (B) above all (C) after all (D) in all 6. Bids for the proposals must received _. (A) prio

4、r to the deadline March first (B) the March first deadline prior to (C) to the March first deadline prior (D) prior to the March first deadline 7. Automations programmed to perform a given task _ the flexibility and adaptability of human beings. (A) without (B) lack (C) minus (D) not having 8. Every

5、one in the office was asked to _the gift for the retiring vice-president. (A) look after (B) give over (C) take up for (D) go in for 9. Improved technology is always a source of lower costs and a _ to economic growth. (A) tax (B) spur (C) gem (D) digression 10. There has not been a _ in May since 19

6、08. (A) snowy (B) snowstorm (C) snowing (D) storm of snow 11. Mr. Davidson launched his first successful _ at age of fifteen, when he produced his own radio program. (A) profitability (B) venture (C) equity (D) revenue 12. Many companies believe that their lack of knowledge about global markets is a

7、n insurmountable _. (A) border (B) limit (C) barrier (D) access 13. He is planning another tour abroad, yet his passport will _ at the end of this month. (A) expire (B) exceed (C) terminate (D) cease 14. Automated teller machines enable people to do their banking at anytime, seven days _. (A) weekly

8、 (B) week (C) in a week (D) a week 15. A retirement plan ensures ones well-being in ones _. (A) oldness (B) old age (C) elderly (D) senile 16. According to one belief, if truth is not to be known it will make itself apparent, so one _ wait instead of searching for it. (A) would rather (B) had to (C)

9、 cannot but (D) had best 17. If we _ our relations with that country, well have to find another supplier of raw materials. (A) diffuse (B) diminish (C) terminate (D) preclude 18. Classical acting is characterized by an eternal _ of balance between the natural and the stylized. (A) redundancy (B) que

10、st (C) conflict (D) quality 19. In some corporations, employees _ offices, desks, and room assignments. (A) circle (B) rotate (C) take turns (D) exercise 20. The various countries are striving to defend their_ economics against imperialist trade attacks. (A) respected (B) respectful (C) respectable

11、(D) respective II. Cloze (15 points) There are fifteen blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You must choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cul

12、tures children are expected to care 1 their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who 2 with their parents 3 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live alone. What explains these differences in l

13、iving arrangements 4 cultures? Modernization theory 5 the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving

14、 old people 6 in isolated rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, 7 a strong tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone

15、cannot explain 8 living arrangements. Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance 9 . Under this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then 10 their property when

16、they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, 11 broader social changes brought 12 by industrialization and urbanization, have 13 the tradition. In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent dida figure t

17、hat is still high 14 U. S. standards, but which has been declining steadily. In 5 Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are 15 : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later. Although most elderly Koreans still expect to

18、live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow old. 1. A about B after C for D over 2. A reside B recite C redeem D rebel 3. A amasses B amounts C attains D reaches 4. A over B across C within D above 5. A associated B linked C united D combined 6. A a

19、side B after C over D behind 7. A maintain B promote C reserve D support 8. A appointed B assigned C preserved D preferred 9. A controls B overtakes C predominates D overwhelms 10. A delivers B conveys C conceives D inherits 11. A as well as B might as well C as well D well as 12. A off B up C aroun

20、d D about 13. A undermined B decreased C diminished D defeated 14. A by B on C with D in 15. A receding B removing C invading D eroding III. Error Correction (15 points) The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You

21、 should proofread the passage and correct it in a right 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 the

22、 blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “/ ” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. The pollution of Hong Kongs Beaches by oil from a damaged tanker last year recalls a similar incident which took place in B

23、ritain in1967 when Terrey Canyon, a huge oil tanker, split in two and caused disaster in coastal areas. Shoals of fishes are killed, sea birds hopelessly (1)_ 6 fouled with oil and coastal holiday resort put out of business (2)_ for several weeks. As a result of this particular incident scientists a

24、re becoming restless in the thought of (3)_ Britains inability to cope with national disasters on a large scale. The reason for their concern is that technology is rapidly outstripping mans ability to control it. Oil tankers, for instance, have been allowed to get bigger and bigger without sufficien

25、t thought being given to emergent braking and maneuvering arrangement. (4)_ Collisions at sea continue, but little effect has been made (5)_ to develop safety devices as effective as those used for aircraft. Scientists outspoke in expressing their concern (6)_ during a recent meeting of the British

26、Association. Unanimous approval was voiced when the leading speaker urged that a permanent national rescue services should be established, equipped for any emergency and ready to move immediately. (7)_ Of all the possible disasters mentioned, the one promoting most discussion was a major release of

27、radioactivity from a nuclear power station. One does not need a particularly vivid imagination to visualize the other possibilities discussed. What would be the effect of a jumbo-jet crashing on a large chemical plant handle destroying liquids? (8)_ Could the tapping of natural gas lead to any form

28、of collapse? Suppose a lorry full of a highly poisonous chemical crashed unseen into a large reservoir? Dams can burst, normal (9)_ conditions can lead to massive electrical blackouts An intensive study of such possibilities could at least reduce the effects of future disasters. For example, it woul

29、d mean that a number of technical alternative ( such (10)_ as the choice between detergent or chalk for dispersing oil) could be examined and tested in advance so that especially trained expert would know exactly what action was needed in a given emergency IVPlease read the following passages and ch

30、oose one of the answers that best completes 7 the sentence.( 20 points ) 1. Romanticism: a movement of the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century that exalts individualism over collectivism, revolutionism over conservatism, innovation over tradition, imagination over reason, and spontane

31、ity over constraint. According to romanticism, art is essentially self-expression, a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions. A work of art should exemplify organic form so that the parts and the whole are vitally interdependent. Romanticism strives to heal the cleavage between subject and object, to make the external internal, the internal external, to make nature thought, and thought nature (Samuel Ta