广东外语外贸大学考研试题英语水平考试.docx

1、广东外语外贸大学考研试题英语水平考试广东外语外贸大学生2006年研究生入学考试英语水平考试试题I.Cloze(30%) Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.innate from can exert which choiceswho meant control instance age grantedsoon to whose unless with As easier than mu

2、ch according if byon such Though without daughters of Marianne Montgomery was timid and undventurous, her vitality consumed by physical activity and longing, her intelligence_1_indecisiveness, but this had less to do with the _2_ characteristcs of the weaker sex (as her father, Creighton Montgomery,

3、 called it ) than _3_ the enfeebling circumstances of her upbringing. Creighton Montgomery, had enough money _4_ mould his daughters _5_ to his misconceptions:girls were not _6_ to fend for themselves, so he protected them from life, which is to say that Marianne Montgomery grew up without making an

4、y vital _7_for herself. Prevented_8_acquiring the habits of freedom and strength of character _9_ grow from decision-making,very rich girls,10 paents have menas to protect them in such a crippling fashion, are the last representatives _11_ Victorian womanhood._12_ they may have the boldest manners a

5、nd most up-to-date ideas, they share their great-grandmothers humble dependence.Most parents these days have to rely _13_their force of personality and whatever love and respect they inspire to _14_influence over their children at all, but there is still an awful lot of parental authority that big m

6、oney can but. Multi-millionaires have more of everything_15_ordinary mortals, including more parent power, and their sons and_16_have about as_17_opportunity to develop according to their own inclinations as they would have had in the age of absolute monarch.The rich still have families. The great d

7、ivide between the generations, which is so much taken for_18_ that no one remakes on it longer, is the plight of the lower and middle classes, whose children begin to drift away as_19_as they are old enough to go to school. The parents cannot control the school, and have even less say to what compan

8、y and ideas the child will be exposed to; nor_20_they isolate him from the public mood, the spirit of the_21_. It is an often heard complaint of the middle-class mother, for_22_ that she must let her children watch television for hours on end everyday_23_she is to steal time for herself. The rich ha

9、ve no_24_problem; they can keep their offspring busy from morning to night_25_being near them for a minute more than they choose to be,and can exercise almost total_26_over their environment. _27_for schooling, they can hand-pick tutors with sound views to come to the children, _28_may never leave t

10、he grounds their parents own, in town, in the country, by the sea,_29_for an exceptionally secure boarding school or a well-chaperoned trip abroad. It would have been_30_for little Marianne Montgornery to go to Cairo than to the nearest newsstand.II.Proof-reading and Error Correction(30%) The follow

11、ing passage contains FIFTEEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should correct in the following way. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.For a _wrong_ word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the

12、 end of the line.For a _missing_ word, mark the position of the missing word with a”sign and wirte the word you belive to be Missing in the blank provided in 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 en

13、d of the line.Example When art museum wants a new exhibit, 1._an_ It never buys things in finished form and hangs them 2._never_ on the wall. When a natrual history museum wants an_exhibition_, 3._exhibit_ it must often build it.It is often said that learning is a two-ways street. The teacher 1._can

14、 teach all day, but there is no response on the part of the 2._student then no learning will take place. In the traditionalclassroom it is possible for the student to aviod dialogicalprocession, but on the computer it is no. It is indeed no 3._incident that the premier computer eucation system in 4.

15、_the world is named as PLATO after that famous teacher 5._who believed in drawing learning out for the student 6._through dialogue. Not only the student learn through 7._.computer dialogue,but the instructor, in writing a computer dialogue,learns similarly more than the student uses 8._it. In the pr

16、ocess of building a dialogue, the instructor 9._must visualize the lesson from the students eye and 10._must think about program responses to all possible wronganswers as well as responses to all right answers. In the 11._fact, in writing a good dialogue, the insructor will likely 12._spend more tim

17、e dealing with wrong answers than right 13_onces. This can be a really learning experience even 14._so an instructor who is an “expert” 15._III.Gap-filling(30%) Fill in the following blanks with the CORRECT WORDS or CORRECT FORMS of the given according to the MEANINGS of the sentences. Mark your ans

18、wers on your ANSWER SHEET. Example Prolong, refuse, delay, postpone, lengthen I hope the _of the appointment will not cause you much inconvenience. The correct answer is postponement.1.fancy, fantasy, revierie, dreamNo one moved in the bushes; it was only your imagination. Was it fact or _?2.continu

19、e, endure, survive, perslst, lastHis _ efforts to better himself from his first job as an office-boy to his evetual position as managing director are admired by every one in our company.3.inner, interior, internal, inwardLast year we bought the house, but we did not move in because we havent finishe

20、d decorating the _of the house.4.accomplishment, achievement, attalnment, involvementProfessor Johnson is a famous pianinst who is able to _ the difficult passages in the sonata with ease and brilliace.5.capable, possible, likely, probable Xiao Chen has been studying English for two years, but she i

21、s still _ of misspelling longer words.6.data, fact, information, intlligenceWe have sent many people to enquire about your family members in different places and we will keep you _ if we have any news.7.normal, natural, ordinary, regularAfter the great earthquake, the government tried to bring thing

22、s back to _ and people were settled down in their new homes.8.obedient, dutiful, subservient, well-behavedThe new teacher congratulated himself on having a class that he considered more than usually_9.openent, adversary, antagonist, competition, rivalThe two men were not only _ for the same job but

23、also for the same girl, a situation which caused an extreme amount of ill will between them.10.priase, acclaim eulogize, extol, laudDuring the meeting, the parliament carried a motion by_.11.orign, basis cause, root ,sourceKeatss poetry, characterized by exact and closely-knit construction, sensual

24、description and _ thoughts, gives ttanscendental values to the physical beauty of the world.12.beliel , creed , religion, faithThe _collision that started from the early nineteenth century continued and was intensifled by the dispute over evolutionary science.13.solution, decision, determination, re

25、soleIf the police had acted more _, the disaster could have been prevented.14.feeling, percept, perception, sense, sensationLast night I heard a _ news report that a kind of mysterious disease was spreading in the country.15.accord, award, confer, grantThe Administrative Department of Students Dormi

26、tory _ male students the privilege of entertaining women in their rooms during certain hours of the day.IV. Reading Comprehension (60%) In this sections, there are six reading passage followed by a total of thirty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then mark your answers on y

27、our ANSWER SHEET. Text A Population groups can be distinguished from one another biologically, but some of the old “racial traits “ do not stand up to scientific testing. Perhaps the most notorious of these is skin colder. There are too many non-biological factors that may account for the color of a

28、 persons skin to make it standard of much use in distinguishing between populations. Other traits, like hair type, physical measurement, the form of the eyes, nose,etc. do have more validity as such standards. But here, too, external factors may modify basic biological tendencies. Scientists need so

29、mething more precise upon which to base their conclusions. One answer to this need can be found in genetics. Anyones physical apperance is, after all, partly the result of genetic determiantion. What we see is called a phenotype, and the genetic constitution that lies behind it is called a genotype.

30、 Genetic bioligist seek to know the genotypes assosiated with racial differences, because the genes are the actual location of whatever diffrences we think we can see in phenotypes.1.Phenotype is another word for_A.physical appearanceB.genetic constitutionC.racial traitsD.biological endencises2.It m

31、ay be inferred from the passage that the author_A.judges people by their phenotypesB.believes skin color is a valid basis for determining raceC.believes basic biological tendencies dont changeD.would not judge on the basis of phenotypes3.The shape of the eyes, nose, the type of hair, etc_A.are not influenced by outside factorsB.are a precise means of differentiating between racesC.can be standards in distinguishing between populationsD.are determined completely by genetics4.The passage deals mainly with_A.the difference between phe