北京科技大学研究生考试真题618基础英语.docx

1、北京科技大学研究生考试真题618基础英语北 京 科 技 大 学2011年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题=试题编号： 618 试题名称： 基础英语 （共 10 页）适用专业： 外国语言文学（包括外国语言学及应用语言学和英语语言文学） 说明： 所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。=Part Vocabulary (30 minutes, 30 points, 1 point each)Section ADirections: There are fifteen incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there ar

2、e four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. 1. Part of Doraemons particular appeal is that he is ready to take every situation and likely, somehow, to get it wrong. A. down B. on C. out D. away2. When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it

3、hard to lay them . A. off B. aside C. out D. down3. His should not be confused with miserliness; he has always been willing to assist the poor. A. frugality B. diffidence C. intolerance D. intemperance4. She decided to accept his offer of marriage after he her for months with flowers and expensive p

4、resents. A. wrung B. wiggled C. wonted D. wooed5. During his years in Congress he has with the chemical, drug and power companies on behalf of the ordinary persons right to breathe clean air. A. tussled B. actuated C. capsized D. fidgeted6. Most banks offer facilities to students, to help them when

5、they run short of money. A. oversight B. overdraft C. overdose D. overseeing7. Much of what he said was beyond her comprehension, but she understood the of his remarks. A. tack B. tact C. tanner D. tenor8. He is an exceedingly insular man, as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist. A. su

6、ch a deep private B. so deep a private C. privately deep so D. so deeply private9. It involves the study of the human heart which leads us through devious mazes of passion, it is difficult to find our way. A. into which B. through which C. from which D. out of which10. The future of this company is

7、: many of its talented employees are flowing into more profitable net-based businesses. A. at odds B. in trouble C. in vain D. at stake11. Its nave to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with . A. for long B. in and out C. once for all D. by nature12. Life insuran

8、ce is financial protection for dependents against loss the bread-winners death. A. at the cost of B. on the verge of C. as a result of D. for the sake of 13. Im very glad to know that my boss has generously agreed to my debt in return for certain services. A. take away B. cut out C. write off D. cle

9、ar up14. Life is a candle to burn ever brighter. A. being meant B. meaning C. to mean D. meant15. While in London, we paid a visit to the hospital founded the nurse Florence Nightingale. A. in line with B. in favor of C. in honor of D. in place ofSection BDirections: There are ten sentences in this

10、section with one word or phrase underlined in each sentence. From the four choices given, choose one that best explains or defines the underlined part in each sentence. 16. Nick had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding. A. doubt B. inspect C. prospect

11、 D. retaliate17. At first, John thought that Jenny was full of hot air, but soon he realized that she was not building castle in the air. A. telling lies B. daydreaming C. irritated D. talking nonsense18. Very large animals, with their relatively low metabolic rates, can survive well on a sporadic f

12、ood supply. A. scanty B. infrequent C. concentrated D. relative19. Scientists discovered that this particular variety of rabbit was susceptible to a fatal virus disease. A. dangerous B. promoting C. dubious D. responsive20. Peters request to his employer to have the next day off met with a blunt ref

13、usal. A. was politely turned down B. was politely refusedC. was obscurely turned down D. was flatly refused21. Jeeps increasingly became a vital part of Postal Service fleet because they were strong and agile. A. nimble B. attractive C. preferred D. cheaper22. The British, the French and the Dutch a

14、re old sparring partners who know each others little ways. A. cooperative B. generous C. quarrelsome D. ambitious23. Researchers have discovered that dolphins are able to mimic human speech. A. import B. imitate C. impair D. humor24. The criminal insinuated that he had been roughly treated by the ar

15、resting officer. A. suggested indirectly B. denied positively C. argued convincingly D. stated flatly25. Londons Victoria and Albert Museum, according to newspapers, is getting ready to unveil a big exhibition of potter drawings. A. display B. demonstrate C. organize D. authorizeSection CDirections:

16、 Each of the following five sentences below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Beneath the sentence are five lettered or sets of words. Choose the word or set of words for each blank that best fits the meaning of the sentence. 26. This new government is faced not

17、only with its economy but also with implementing new rural development programs to the flow of farm workers to the city.A. managing stem B. offsetting harnessC. bolstering transmitD. challenging measure27. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it some problems,

18、it also produced new .A. clarified dataB. eased interpretationsC. resolved complicationsD. caused hypotheses28. It is no accident that most people find Davis book disturbing, for it is to undermine a number of beliefs they have long .A. calculated cherished B. annotated assimilatedC. intended denied

19、 D. anxious misunderstood29. Several surgeons cautioned against the new procedure, that patients had been kept in dark too long about its possible catastrophic consequences. A. eschewing pondering B. adopting complainingC. publicizing adding D. revising advocating30. To believe that a cultures achie

20、vement can be measured by the of its written material requires one to accept that a page of junk mail is as as a page of great literature.A. volume valuable B. nature readableC. quality prevalent D. timelessness understandablePart Proofreading and error correction (20 minutes, 20 points, 2 point eac

21、h)Directions: The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should 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 bl

22、ank 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 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 blan

23、k provided at the end of the line. ExampleWhenart museum wants a new exhibit, 1. an it never buys things in finished form and hangs 2. never them on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition, it must often build it. 3. exhibit This book is about adult learning and some factors that

24、can influence it. Our present behavior is largely the consequence of our pastlearning. Indeed learning is sometimes defined as the process which leads to relative permanent changes in our potential for performance as 1. the result of our past interaction to the environment. It would be 2. possible t

25、o write this book as a series of case studies illustrating the way in which limited number of adult learners have assimilated new ideas and 3. skills into their already existing repertoire of behavior and try to come to an understanding of the process of adult learning in this way. Thus, this 4. app

26、roach would be only limited use to the teacher or administrator faced 5. with attempting to foster the learning of many unique individuals each with different past learning experiences and backgrounds. For this book to be useful to people engaged in the business of fostering learning it must attempt

27、 to do generalizations both 6. about the nature and progress of adult learning and about those factorsinternal and external to the learner, which are likely to advance their 7. development.To generalize about adult learning, we should first understand adult. Adult is one phase in the human life cycl

28、e that covers a lengthy 8. section of the life span. It is a phase that sees the individual to pass 9. through many stages in biological and environmental terms. What we were in the past very largely determines what we are now and in 10. turn will very largely determine what we will become.Part Read

29、ing Comprehension (50 minutes, 40 points, 2 points each)Directions: There are four passages in this part. Read each passage carefully and answer the questions following each passage as you are required. Passage One1 Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in tile history of human k

30、nowledge. For many thousands of years it was the field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of pre-industrial societies that still exist, a deta

31、iled learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and a great many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jungles of