2007年南京财经大学基础英语
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南
京
财
经
大
学
2007
年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试（初试）试卷
考试科目：
613
基础英语
适用专业：
英语语言文学
考试时间：
2007
年
1
月
21
< br>日
8:30
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11:30
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I. Fill in
the blanks with the following words. Make changes
in the word form if
necessary. (10
points)
nurture, foster,
siphon off, lose ground, streamlining,
application, sphere, sustenance,
inexorable, extermination
1.
Farmers
usually
________
insects
in
the
field
by
spraying
insecticide
on
the
crops.
2. The
government took
several big
steps to _________
its organization
in order
to
raise
efficiency
.
3. She _______
the lotion evenly on her face.
4.
Some
people
used
to
predict
that
our
planet
would
not
be
able
to
_______
6
billion people.
5. He was
charged with ________ company money into his
personal account.
6. The conservative
party is _________ in the general
election.
7.
The
mother
tried
to
_________
her
son
‘
s
interest
in
music
by
taking
him
to
concerts when he was
young.
8.
After
listening
to
the
pleas
for
clemency
,
the
judge
was
________
and
gave
the
convicted man the
maximum punishment allowed by law.
9.
Teachers
should
use
interesting
methods
to
_________
good
reading
habits
in
students.
10. A ball is
shaped like a ________.
II.
Paraphrase the following sentences. (10 points)
1.
Work therefore
is desirable,
first and
foremost, as a
preventive of boredom,
for
the
boredom
that
a
man
feels
when
he
is
doing
necessary
though
uninteresting
work
is
nothing
in
comparison
with
the
boredom
that
he
feels
when
he
has
nothing to do with his days.
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2.
The
satisfaction
of
killing
time
and
of
affording
some
outlet,
however
modest,
for ambition, belongs
to
most work, and
is sufficient
to
make even a
man whose
work is dull happier on the average
than a man who has no work at all.
3.
He did not
have much money
, and I do not hold that
against him.
4.
Seen
from
this
perspective,
the
―
swinging
singles
‖
complexes
that
attracted
so
much
gossip a
few years
later are
an elaboration on the Sun City concept
--- the
clustering together
of people of similar ages or outlooks.
5.
…
and
it
is
also
true
that
some
women
are
capable
of
feeling
an
affection
for
children not their own almost as strong
as that which they could feel for their
own.
III.
Grammar and vocabulary. (20 points)
1.
Children with parents whose guidance is firm,
consistent, and rational are inclined
_________ high levels of self-
confidence.
A. possess
B.
have possessed
C.
to possess
D.
possessing
2. Writing pens
are made in _________ of shapes, sizes, and
colors.
A. endless variety an almost
B.
variety an almost endless
C. an almost
endless variety
D. almost variety an
endless
3. Coral reefs are
________ that teem with an abundance of exotic sea
life.
A. when underwater
landscapes
B. landscapes being
underwater
C. underwater the
landscapes
D.
underwater landscapes
4.
Magnesium has a specific gravity of 1.74, which
means that ______ 1.74 times as
much as
an equal volume of water.
A. it is
weighed
B. weighing it
C. its weight
D. it weighs
5.
Perhaps
the
primary
_________
of
adult
education
was
industrialization,
which
accelerated the pace of socioeconomic
change.
A. causes growth
B.
cause of the growth
C. cause was
growing
D. caused the growing
6.
Under
the
guidance
of
choreographers
Martha
Graham
and
Jerome
Robbins,
American dance
__________ new levels of artistic achievement.
A. reaching
B. has reached
C. reach
D. have reached
7. Angiosperms
inhabit
relatively diverse
environments and
may be
found _______
higher plants can survive.
A. there
B. wherever
C . somewhere
D. then
8. True hibernation takes
place only among __________ animals.
A.
whose blood is warm
B. blood warm
C. warm-
blooded
D. they have warm
blood
9.
Like
other
women
_______
in
the
field
of
medicine,
Sara
Mayo
found
the
beginning years difficult.
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A. who they pioneered
B.
they pioneered
C. who
pioneered
D. pioneered
10.
________
as
―
the
census
taker
of
the
sky
‖
,
Annie
Jump
Cannon
contributed
considerably to
the field of astronomy
.
A.
Known
B. Knowing
C.
To know
D. Knowledge
11. In copper engraving and etchings,
________ caused by
the edges of
the plate
is
clearly visible on the paper.
A. the impression is
B. if the
impression
C. impressions
D. the
impression
12. ________ all data into
electronic pulses.
A.
The computer input unit changes
B.
Changing
input, the computer unit
C.
Which changes the computer input unit
D.
Changes in the
computer input units
13. In central
Georgia,
archaeological evident
indicates that Native
Americans
first
inhabited the area _________.
A. since thirteen centuries
B. thirteen centuries
ago
C. the previous thirteen
centuries
D. thirteen
centuries were before
14.
The
large
compound
eyes
of
the
dragonfly
_______
to
see
moving
objects
almost eighteen feet away.
A. to enable it
B. enabling it
C. it enables
D. enable it
15. With affection and humor, poet
Phyllis McGinley ________ of ordinary
life.
A. the virtues were
praised
B.
praised the virtues
C. she
praised the virtues
D. her praise of the
virtues
16. In which of the
following works, Hemingway presents
his philosophy about
life
and death through the depiction of the
bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa.
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
C. To Have and Have Not.
D. Death in the Afternoon.
17. ________ is often
acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
C. William
Faulkner
D. Ezra Pound
18. Which of
the following figures does not belong to
―
The Lost
Generation
‖
?
A.
Ezra Pound.
B. William Carlos Williams.
C. Robert Frost.
D. Theodore
Dreiser.
19. Which of the
following statements about language is NOT true?
A. Language is a system.
B.
Language is symbolic.
C.
Animals also have language.
D. Language is
arbitrary
.
20.
What are the dual structures of language?
A. Sounds and letters.
B. Sounds and
meaning.
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C. Letters and meaning.
D. Sounds and symbols.
IV
.
Error Correction. Choose the one word
or phrase that must be changed in
order
for the sentence to be correct. (10
points)
1.
Regulation of public utilities in the
United States is carried out by locally, state,
A
B
C
D
and federal
governments.
2. The poet Marianne Moore
was initially associated with the imagist
movement, but
A
later develops her own
rhyme patterns and verse forms.
B
C
D
3.
Studies of
either vision and physical
optics began almost as early as
A
B
C
civilization itself.
D
4.
James Whitcomb
Riley
, the
―
Hoosier
Poet
‖
, wrote many of his
work in standard
A
English, but he wrote his most popular
poems in the dialect of
his
home state.
B
C
D
5.
Pumps can
operate under pressure ranging between a fraction
of a pound to
A
B
C
more than 10,000 pounds per square
inch.
D
6.
Approximately fifty percent of the
package utilized in the United States are for
A
B
foods and beverages.
C
D
7.
In some occupations, the computer has
already replaced the motor vehicle as the
A
B
C
principal conserver of time and
laboring.
D
8.
Farming becomes more expensive when
farmers are forced to apply greater
A
quantities of costly
fertilizers for to sustain yields.
B
C
D
9. Booker T.
Washington, an educational leader, worked
throughout the lifetime to
A
B
C
improve
economic conditions
for
Black people in the United States.
D
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10.
In the Middle Ages, books called
bestiaries were prepared in an attempt to
A
describe animals, real or imagine, that
exemplified human traits.
B
C
D
V
. Reading Comprehension (30
points)
TEXT
A
They
sparkle
and
glitter
in
the
light.
No
other
rocks
are
so
hard.
They
are
very
valuable. It
might cost
thousands and
thousands of dollars to buy just one. Most are
found
in
the
ground.
The
largest
ore
ever
discovered
is
as
big
as
a
man
‘
s
fist.
But
most
are tiny.
They
‘
re diamonds!
For
hundreds
of
years
men
have
risked
their
lives
searching
for
diamonds.
To
many
the
discovery
of
this
glittering
treasure
has
seemed
more
important
than
the
discovery of new lands.
Fairy stories tell of brave knights who battled
fierce dragons
and
evil
wizards
to
win
kingdom
rich
with
diamonds.
In
the
Tower
of
London
in
England, there is a very
special room protected by guards. There, inside a
thick glass
case, are jeweled crowns
once worn by kings and queens. People
from all over the
world
come
to
see
the
shimmering
diamonds
and
other
precious
stones
that
shine
from behind the glass.
Most
diamonds
seem
to
flash
with
a
kind
of
white
fire.
But
there
are
diamonds
that sparkle in
other colors, too. Sometimes diamonds are
discovered in gravel at the
bottom
of
rivers
and
streams.
(To
get
these
diamonds,
the
gravel
is
sucked
up
through
giant hoses that act like vacuum cleaners.)
Diamonds are found in rivers, on
land,
and
in
great
stretches of
hot desert
sand.
A
few small
ones are even
found or
near meteorites that strike the ground
from outer space.
But
most diamonds are
found
in rocks deep
inside the diamond
mines of
Africa.
The
diamonds
were
made
millions
and
millions
of
years
ago
when
flaming
volcanoes
melted a
mineral called carbon which was a part
of
these rocks. Gigantic
earthquakes shook the rock and pressed
them tightly together. The hot melted carbon
in the rock squeezed at the same
time
—
squeezed so tightly
that by the time it cooled,
it had
changed into the lovely hard gems called diamonds.
To
get
at
these
valuable
diamond
rocks,
workers
ride
in
an
elevator
that
goes
down
into
the blackness
far below
the
ground.
Tunnels connect
this deep
shaft
with
the openings
–
called pipes
–
inside the ancient
volcanoes.
When
they are
first dug
from the
mines, diamonds
don
‘
t
glitter or
sparkle as they
do when we see them in
rings or other jewelry. They look more like dull
bits of glass.
A man who knows all
about diamonds
–
a diamond
cutter
–
must cut them just
right.
Diamonds are so hard that
nothing can cut them except the edge of another
diamond.
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Using
his diamond-edged
tools,
the diamond cutter carefully removes
tiny pieces
so
that
the
diamond
will
have
many
sharp
edges
and
smooth
surfaces
—
like
little
windows.
It
is
because
of
these
shaft
edges
and
smooth
surfaces
that
the
diamond
reflects
light, sparkles and
flashes
with
tiny burst of color, and seems
almost ablaze
with
fire.
Diamond
cutters
often
use
diamond
saws.
The
fine
power
—
diamond
dust
—
that
is
left
after
the
sawing
is
done
can
be
used
in
a
kind
of
sandpaper
to
polish the sparking gems.
Not all
diamonds are clear enough or pretty enough or
large enough
to be
made
into
jewelry
. But because they are so hard,
they can be used for other things, such as
points
for drills and
needles
for
record player.
These
diamonds are called
industrial
diamonds.
Some
of
them
are
man
made.
Carbon
is
heated
until
it
is
hot
and
then
squeezed.
If
men
ever
learn
how
to
make
it
hot
enough
and
to
squeeze
it
tightly
enough,
they
will
probably
be
able
to
make
big
diamonds.
Then
maybe
diamonds
will be cheap enough to use as buttons
on your shirt or coat!
1.
The following are the characters of
diamonds EXCEPT _________.
A. they
sparkle and glitter in the light
B. they are very
hard
C. they are very
valuable
D. they are tiny
2.
Why knights
fought bravely to win kingdoms rich with diamonds?
A. Diamonds are very valuable.
B. They want to become the richest man.
C. They think it is more important to
discover diamonds than to discover new
lands.
D.
They are eager for jeweled crowns.
3.
Most diamonds
can be found ___________.
A. in Africa
B.
in gravel at the bottom of rivers and streams
C. in desert sand
D. in or near
meteorites
4.
Diamonds are so hard that only ________
can cut it.
A. a man who knows all
about diamonds
B.
diamond-edged tools
C. a special cutter
D. diamond cutter
5.
Except
jewelry
, diamonds can be used as
_______.
A. crown
B.
industrial diamonds
C. shirt
D. coat
TEXT
B
Author
Emma Heathcote-James
has spent
nine
years
looking
into real-life
ghost
stories, collecting tales from hundreds
of people who claim to have seen evidence of
an
afterlife.
The
27-year-old
started
her
research
at
university
and
her
thesis
was
turned
into
a
BBC
documentary
that
she
re-wrote
as
her
debut
bestseller
Seeing
Angels.
The
book
prompted
so
many
people
to
write
to
her
with
their
ghostly
experiences
that
she
used
them
for
a
second
book
After
Death
Communications,
which has
just been released in paperback.
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