四川外语学院二外英语考研真题.docx

1、四川外语学院二外英语考研真题四川外语学院2011年二外英语考研真题. Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked , , and Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (15)1. Charles Babbage is generally considered _the first computers. A. to invent B. inventing C

2、to have invented D. having invented 2. _was once regarded as impossible has now become a reality. A. What . That . Which . As3. _from the top of the hill, the lake scenery is beyond description. A. To see . Seeing . Seen . Having4. Three days later word came _our country had sent up another man-made

3、 satellite. A. when . which . that . where5. The reason _he gives for being absent from todays meeting is unacceptable. A which . for which . in which . why6. If you need further information, please_ our office. A. constant . construct . contact . contain 7. But for the rain, we _a nice holiday. A.

4、should have . would have had . would have . will have had8. It was not until mid-night _their way out of the forest. A. when they found . that they foundc. did they find . that they didnt find9. John complained to the bookseller that there were several pages_ in the dictionary. A. missing . losing .

5、 dropping . leaking10. _you were busy, I wouldnt have bothered you with my questions. If I realized . Had I realized. Did I have realized that . As I realized11. _, he felt tired out after the eight-hour long journey. . Strong as he is . The stronger he is. Strong man that he is . For he is strong 1

6、2. Well have to finish the job, _. . long it takes however . it takes however long . long however it takes . however long it takes13. Is this museum _some of your friends visited last month? that . where in which . the one14. She failed to call the doctors assistant to _her appointment. . greet . mi

7、ss ruin . cancel15. I decided to stop and have a drink, _I was feeling quite thirsty. . for . moreover consequently . whereas. . Each of the following sentences contains one mistake. Among the four choices marked , , and , choose the one in which you think the mistake is and write your answers on th

8、e ANSWER SHEET. (10)1. We feel comfortable with people with physical qualities similar as ours. A B C D2. Childhood is a time that there are few responsibilities.A B C D3. Thomas Malthus published his “Essay on the Principle of Population” almost A200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters have bei

9、ng warning that worldwide famine B Cwas just around the next corner. D4. I think even teachers of language, while recognizing the importance of a good Aaccent, tend to neglect, in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerning B Cwith speaking the language. D5. The president of the company

10、, together with the workers, are planning a A Bconference for the purpose of solving financial problems. C D6. We strongly suggest that Henry is told about his physical condition as soon A B C Das possible. 7. When a man grows up, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, A Bhis clothes, a

11、nd his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortable. C D8. An explosive eruption occurred in the morning of 14 July, following 2 hours A B Cof very low seismic activity. D9. Life insurance is financial protection for dependents against loss resulting fromA B Cthe bread winners death. D10. P

12、eople who live in small towns often seem to be friendlier than those living A B Cin densely populated areas. D. Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question, there are four choices marked a, b, c and d. Choose the best one and write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (25

13、)Passage OneNo one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada. In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some d

14、isability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will become less mobile, hard of hearing or have failing eyesight. Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled

15、as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a mental illness. All are affected by peoples attitude towards them. Disabled people fac

16、e many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice

17、can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual pe

18、rson and their ability, not their disability, which counts. 1. The first paragraph points out that_. A. there are many disabled people in the worldB. the number of disabled people in India is the greatestC. India has much more disabled people than CanadaD it is impossible to get an exact figure of t

19、he worlds disabled people2. The last word of the passage “counts” most probably means_. A. is most importantB. is consideredC. is includedD is numbered3. Which of the following statements is not true?A. even the able-bodied many lose some of their body functions when they get older. B. there are abo

20、ut l0 percent disabled persons in the UK. C. the whole society, should pay due attention to the barriers faced by the disabled peopleD. there still exists prejudice against the disabled which results mainly from ignorancePassage TwoOn Thursday afternoon Mrs. Clarke, dressed for going out, took her h

21、andbag with her money and her key in it, pulled the door behind her to lock it and went to the over-60s Club. She always went there on Thursdays. It was a nice outing for an old woman who lived alone. At six oclock she came home, let herself in and at once smelt cigarette smoke. Cigarette smoke in h

22、er house? How? How? Had someone got in? She checked the back door and the windows. All were locked or fastened, as usual. There was no sign of forced entry. Over a cup of tea she wondered whether someone might have a key that fitted her front door-“a master key” perhaps. So she stayed at home the fo

23、llowing Thursday. Nothing happened. Was anyone watching her movements? On the Thursday after that she went out at her usual time, dressed as usual, but she didnt go to the club. Instead she took a short cut home again, letting herself in through her garden and the back door. She settled down to wait

24、. It was just after four oclock when the front door bell rang. Mrs. Clarke was making a cup of tea at the time. The bell rang again, and then she heard her letter-box being pushed open. With the kettle of boiling water in her hand, she moved quietly towards the front door. A long piece of wire appea

25、red through the letter-box, and then a hand. The wire turned and caught around the knob on the door-lock. Mrs. Clarke raised the kettle and poured the water over the hand. There was a shout outside, and the skin seemed to drop off the fingers like a glove. The wire fell to the floor, the hand was pu

26、lled back, and Mrs. Clarke heard the sound of running feet. 4. Mrs. Clarke looked forward to Thursday because_. A. she worked at a club on that dayB. she visited her relatives on ThursdaysC. she visited a club on ThursdayD a special visitor came on Thursday5. If someone had made a forced entry_. A.

27、Mrs. Clarke would have found a broken door or windowB. he or she was still in the houseC. things would have been thown aboutD. he or she would have needed a master key6. On the third Thursday Mrs. Clarke went out_. A. because she didnt want to miss the club againB. to see if the thief was hanging ab

28、out outsideC. to the club but then changed her mindD. in an attempt to trick the thief7. The wire fell to the floor_. A. because Mrs. Clarke refused to open the doorB. when the mans glove dropped offC. because it was too hot to holdD. because the man just wanted to get awayPassage ThreeThe economy o

29、f the United States after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people. Despite occasional alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom. An economic survey of the year 1955, a typical year of the 1950s, may be typical as illustrating the rapid e

30、conomic growth of the decade. The national output was valued at l0 percent above that of 1954(1955 output was estimated at 392 billion dollars). The production of manufacturers was about 40 percent more than it had averaged in the years immediately following World War Two. The countrys business spen

31、t about 30 billion dollars for new factories and machinery. National income available for spending was almost a third greater than it had been in 1950. Consumers spent about 256 billion dollars; that is about 700 million dollars a day, or about twenty-five million dollars every hour, all round the clock. Sixty-five million people held jobs and only a little more than two million wanted jobs but could not find them. Only agriculture complained that it was not sharin