【英语专业考研科目】07英语专业考研重点院校基础英语真题自测(2)

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北京师范大学2003年研

I. Grammar                                                                                                    

1. Insert prepositions in the slots.  

It is a well-known rule (     ) logic that classifications made (     ) the basis of a single attribute are artificial and (     ) limited use.  So there must be a cluster of attributes (     ) which a human group is defined, and these must be specific and essential, if they are to serve a useful purpose. Yet what is essential (     ) one observer is not (     ) another. Some would opt (     ) language, others (     ) race, religion, or shared destiny in the past or the present. It is also quite common to find that individuals tend to identify their own community (     ) criteria which may be different from those used (     ) the same purpose by outsiders.

2.       Supply an article in the slot when necessary.

All ( ) books are divisible into two kinds; ( ) books of ( ) hour, and ( ) books of all ( ) time. Mark this distinction —it is not one of ( ) quality only. It is not merely ( ) bad book that does not last, and ( ) good one that does. It is ( ) distinction of (     ) species.   

3、 Supply the proper verb forms in the slots.                                

Einstein"s connection with the politics of the nuclear bomb       (be) well known. In 1933 Hitler     (come) to power. Einstein       (be) in America, and he_      (declare) he     (not return) to Germany. In the face of the Nazi threat, Einstein        (renounce) pacifism, and eventually         __   (fear) that German scientists      (build) a nuclear bomb,     (propose) that the United States       (develop) its own. But even before the first atomic bomb had been detonated, he publicly warned of the danger of nuclear war and proposed international control of nuclear weaponry.

Ⅱ. Vocabulary    

1. Choose words from column A to fit the definitions in column B.   

Example: foreman, forester     

  a man who is in charge of a group of workmen: foreman

A. reluctant,  leisure,  yearning,  entertainer,  supersede,  rebuff, incompatible, sabbatical leave, assert, artifact, variable, tramps;    

B.  (1) an unexpected or contemptuous refusal:      

(2) freedom from work:          

(3) insist on one"s right;          

(4) one who amuses an audience as a profession:      

(5) a period of paid free time for rest and special study given to a university teacher after a certain length of service;     

(6) a thing or quantity that is changeable;     

     (7) people who roam the streets to find what they can:        

(8) strong longing, feeling or desire for:           

(9) anything made by human work or act:                    

(10) opposed in character; unable to exist in harmony;   

(11) unwilling, not wanting to do something:         

(12)take the place of because better or more important;   

2. Complete the following paragraph by filling in the blanks with appropriate words from the list below, modifying their form where necessary.

immune, little, to roam, against, to pronounce, astound, away, austere, to slice, outburst, to have, to hunt, outset, to promote;

We were strolling through Oxford"s old buildings as he was   1  these words. I had often   2    round the outside looking up at the   3    walls, and imagining the opulent interiors. But  4  lived here now for some years, I had grown   5  to its beauty. At the 6 of my walk with the Professor, we had talked a little about the country"s economy, but this sudden 7   against our society did not just   8  me but left me quite flabbergasted. I  9 in my mind for something non-committal to say.  "Is it really possible to   10   our society down the middle like that?" I asked. "I mean," I said, panicking a  11  lest I had offended this eminent man, "is it really as bad as all that? Shouldn"t we be trying to 12   understanding between people, rather than setting them up  13  one another?" I hunted in my mind for a way of turning the conversation  14  to less troubled waters.

3.  Choose the word from A, B or C that best completes the sentence.

1.  National and international efforts should give    to action programs integrating population and development.  

A. privilege     B. priority   C. principle    

2. At Golden State Power we are accused of the same thing for     reasons.

A. identical     B. optional      C. original

3.  Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door,    to find it locked.

A. just       B. only     C. hence

4.  On a rainy day I was driving north through Vermont     I noticed a young man holding up a sign reading "Boston".

A. where    B. which      C. when

5.  The remarkable    of life on the Galopagos Island inspired Darwin to establish his theory of evolution.

A. variety       B. celebrity     C. diversity

6.  If you want to set up a company, you must     with the regulations laid down by the authorities.

A. confirm      B. accord       C. comply

7.  A wage-earner has to make    for his/her old age by putting aside enough money to live on when old.

A. supply B. provision    C. assurance        

8.  We all know that the farmers are more anxious for rain than the people in the city because they have more at           

A. stake   B. loss          C. danger

9.  The pollution question as well as other issues is going to be discussed when the Congress is in     again next spring.

A. assembly    B. conference C. session 

10. To survive in the intense trade competition between countries, we must    the qualities and varieties of products we make to world market demand.   

A. improve     B. enhance       C. gear     

11.An important property of a scientific theory is its ability to    further research and further thinking about a particular topic. 

A. advocate    B. arouse C. stimulate

12. Language, culture, and personality may be considered     of each other in thought, but they are inseparable in fact.

A. independent       B. instinctive   C. separate    

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