2011年山东青岛大学基础英语(1)考研真题

2011年山东青岛大学基础英语(1)考研真题

PART I

Choose one of the four answers that best completes the sentence.

VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE (40 points)

1. The English language contains a

of words which are

comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. A. latitude B. multitude C. magnitude D. longitude

2. Jack is not very decisive, and he always finds himself in a as

if he doesn’t know what he really wants to do. A. fantasy B. dilemma C. contradiction D. conflict

3. Psychologists have done extensive studies on how well patients with doctors’ orders. A. comply B. correspond C. interfere D. interact

4. The politician says he will A. prey on

the welfare of the people.

B. take on C. get at D. see to

5. The famous scientist 6. The his success to hard work. A. imparted B. granted C. ascribed D. acknowledged

from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for

everybody.

A. conversion B. transition C. turnover D. transformation

his pain but did not care his illness.

A. activated B. alleviated C. mediated D. deteriorated

7. The medicine 8. Up until that time his interest had focused almost on fully mastering the skills and techniques of his craft.

A. restrictively B. radically C. inclusively D. exclusively

9. After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally . A. deteriorated B. dispersed C. dissipated D. drained

10. No one can function properly if they are A. deprived A. provoked

B. ripped

C. stripped

of adequate sleep. D. contrived

11. The prospect of increased prices has already worries.

B. irritated C. inspired D. hoisted

12. Imposing steep fines on employers for on-the-job injuries to workers

could be an effective to creating a safer workplace, especially in the case of employers with poor safety records. A. alternative B. addition C. deterrent D. incentive

13. The disjunction between educational objectives that stress

independence and individuality and those that emphasize obedience to rules and cooperation with others reflects a that arises from the values on which these objectives are based.

A. conflict B. redundancy C. gain D. predictability

14. A misconception frequently held by novice writers is that sentence

structure

mirrors thought: the more convoluted the structure, the more ideas.

A. complicated B. elementary C. fanciful D. inconsequential selects people and ask them questions.

A. at length B. at random C. in essence D. in bulk

the

15. When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he

16. In fact as he approached this famous statue, he only barely resisted the

to reach into his bag for his camera.

A. impatience B. impulse C. incentive D. initiative

17. Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops, but this

only the crisis.

A. precedes

B. prevails C. ascends

D. accelerates

18. Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered

because its subject was very .

A. obscure B. indefinite C. dubious D. intriguing

19. Contrary to the popular conception that it is powered by conscious

objectivity,

science often operates through error, happy accidents, and persistence in spite of mistakes.

A. controls B. hunches C. deductions D. calculations

20. Contrary to the antiquated idea that the eighteenth century was a

Island of elegant assurance, evidence reveals that life for most people was filled with uncertainty and insecurity.

A. tranquil B. clannish C. declining D. recognized

21. David likes country life and has decided to farming.

A. go in for B. go back on C. go through with D. go along with a host of problems

ranging from dangerous tracks to overcrowded stairwells has failed to meet its schedule for repairs.

A. initiate B. deplore C. disclose D. eliminate

22. A subway modernization program intended to 23. Challenging James Baldwin, who wrote of Black Americans as being in a perpetual state of rage, Mr. Cose remarks that few human beings could the psychic toll of uninterrupted anger.

A. enhance B. refine C. survive D. refute

to the completion of the book.

A. assiduously B. ingenuously C. theoretically D. sporadically

24. A diligent scholar, she devoted herself 25. A hypothesis must not only account for what we already know, but it

must also be by continued observation.

A. interrupted B. verified C. discredited D. refuted

26. A leading philosopher of our time, Ludwig Wittgenstein, laid down a

rule to which good historians : “ Of that of which nothing is known nothing can be said.” A. protect B. amend C. adhere D. succumb

27. A major outbreak of food poisoning in 1993 underlined the serious in the then-current system of food inspection.

A. expectations B. innovations C. deficiencies D. objectivity

28. A man incapable of

action, he never had an opinion about something that he had not worked up beforehand, fashioning it with lengthy care.

A. self-conscious B. spontaneous C. coherent D. calculated

29. A sense of fairness dictates that the punishment should fit the

crime, yet in

actual practice, judicial decisions greatly for the same type of criminal offense.

A. coincide B. simplify C. compromise D. vary

30. According to the Senator, it was not hypocrisy for a politician in search

of votes to a mother on the beauty of her plain child; it was merely sound

political common sense.

A. ridicule B. intimidate C. compliment D. Evaluate

31. Although a few of her contempories or mocked it.

her book, most either ignored it

A. dismissed B. appreciated C. disregarded D. deprecated

32. Although he had the numerous films to his credit and a reputation for

technical expertise, the moviemaker lacked originality, all his films were sadly of the work of others.

A. independent B. derivative C. unconscious D. contradictory

33. Although, as wife of President John Adams, Abigail Adams sought a greater

voice for women, she was not a feminist in modern sense, she the traditional view of women as “beings placed by Providence” under male protection.

A. anticipated B. regretted C. accepted D. repudiated

34. American culture now stigmatizes, and sometimes even heavily behavior that was once taken for granted: overt racism, cigarette smoking the use of sexual stereotypes.

A. penalizes B. advocates C. ignores D. advertises

that describe

the

appropriate behavior of children and adults, but there seem to be

confusion about what constitutes appropriate behavior for adolescents. A. functions B. norms C. regulations D. rigidity

35. Social scientist have established fairly clear-cut 36. After reading numbers of biographies recounting dysfunctions and

disasters,

failed marriages and failed careers, Joyce Carol Oates describe the genre: pathography, the story of diseased lives. A. dismissed B. hypothesized C. coined D. reiterated

a word to

37. All critics have agreed that the opera’s score is , but curiously ,no two critics have agreed which passages to praise and

which to damn.

A. intolerable B. unsurpassed C. conventional D. uneven

38. The of a cultural phenomenon is usually a logical

consequence of some physical aspect in the life style of the people.

A. implementation B. manifestation C. demonstration D. expedition would feel a touch of making a brief

for the old days and would contemplate

39. Although Henry was not in general a sentimental man, occasionally he

excursion to Boston to revisit.

A. anxiety B. aspiration C. nostalgia D. inspiration

40. Although Josephine Tey is arguably as good a mystery writer as Agatha

Christie, she is clearly far less than Christie, having only written six books in comparison to Christie as sixty.

A. coherent B. prolific C. equivocal D. Pretentious

PART II WRITTEN EXPRESSION （10 points）

Directions: Each sentence in the following has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), (D). Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Then, on your answer sheet, write down your answer. Example

Serving several term in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United A B C States politician.

D

The sentence should read, “Serving several terms in Congress, Shirley Chisholm became an important United States politician.” Therefore, you should choose (B).

1. The main attractive at Sequoia National Park is thirty-five

groves of giant A B C

sequoias, the largest living things in the world.

D

2. In films, optical printing can be combined with blue-screen photography

for

A B

produce such special effects as characters seeming to fly through the air.