大学生世界杯-大学生世界杯
云南师范大学
2013
年硕士研究生入学考试自命题科目试卷
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学科教学（英语）
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高级英语
819
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150
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I.
Vocabulary and Structure (30 points, 1 point each)
Directions:
Choose the best word or phrase to complete each of the following
statements.
1. _ I sympathize, I can't really do
very much to help them out of the
difficulties.
A. As long as
B. As C. While D. Even
2. Do
help yourself to some fruit, you?
A. can't B. don't C. wouldn't
D. won't
3. Fat cannot change into
muscle muscle changes into fat.
A.
any more than B. no more than
C.
no less than D. much more than
4.
Much
as_ ,
I
couldn't
lend
him
the
money
because
I
simply
didn't
have that mucll spare
cash.
A. I would have liked to B. I
would like to have
C. I should have to
like D. I should have liked to
5. The
indoor sWimming pool seems to be a great deal more
luxurious than
__ .
A. is
necessary B. being necessary
C. to
be necessary D. it is necess&-f
6.
I
__ him
the
Christmas
gift
by
because
he
came
home
during
the
Christmas
holidays.
A. ought to have sent B.
couldn't have sent
C. must have sent
D. needn't have sent
7.
The
man
sitting
opposite
me
smiled
dreamily,
as
if
__
something
pleasant
in the past.
A. to remember B. remembered
C. having been remembered D.
remembering
8. in the past, at
the moment it is a favorite choice for wedding
gown.
A. Unpopular has as
white been B. White has been as unpopular
C. Unpopular has been as white D.
Unpopular as white has been
9. for a
long time, the fields are all dried up.
A. There has been no rain B. Having
no rain
C. There having been no rain D.
Therepeing no rain
10. me most
was that the young boY: who had lost both arms in
an
accident could handle a pen with his
feet.
A. That amazed B. It amazed
C. Which amazed D. What amazed
11. My pain __ apparent the moment
I talked into the room, for the
first
man I met asked sympathetically:
A.
must be B. must have been C. had been
D. had to be
12.
It
is
only
when
you_nearly
lose
someone
_
fully
conscious
of
how
much
you value him.
A. do you
become B. then you become
C. that
you become D. have you become
13.
Just as the soil is a part of the earth, __ the
atmosphere.
A. as it is B. so is C.
the same as D. and so is
14. While
driving along the treacherous road, .
A. my right rear tire blew out
B. my right rear tire had a blowout
C. I had a blowout on my right rear
tire
D. I had my right rear tire
blowout
15. Jean Wagner's most enduring
contribution to the study of American
poetry is his insistence that it in
a religious, as well as worldly,
frame
of reference.
A. is to be analyzed B.
has been analyzed
C. be analyzed
D. should have been analyzed
16. These
skills were then handed down to generations of
craftsmen.
A. sequent B. previous
C. distant D. remote
17. People used
to take in watching public hangings.
A. appreciation B. delight C. joy D.
pleasure
18.
A
sudden
shock
could
be to
anyone
with
a
delicate
heart
condition.
A.
virtual B. valuable C. fatal D. wicked
19.
It
was
red-hot
and
all
the
windows
were
closed-she
felt
as
though
she
was
going to __ _.
A. drown B. suicide
C. shock D. suffocate
20. The
festival of
Luchia is
a
dazzling of
the art, music and
dance
of an ancient culture.
A. display B. competition C.
triumph D. victory
21.
On
my
first
day
at
work
I
was with
the
task
of
chairing
a
meeting.
A. conflicted B.
confronted C. involved D. plunged
22. We were thinking of
selling
this old
furniture, but we've
decided to
it. It might be
valuable.
A. hold back B. hold down
C. hold on to D. hold up
23. The
chairman's serious public is in sharp contrast
with that of
his humorous deputy.
A. patience B. passion C. emotion
D. demeanor
24.
We
may
therefore an
extrovert
personality
as
one
whose
interests
are
mainly
directed
outwards
to
the
external
environment
rather
than
inwards
to the thoughts and
feelings of the self.
A. defme B.
confine C. refine D. restrict
25.
Johnson had never been to a big party before and
he was ill .
A. with ease B.
at ease C. of ease D. on ease
26.
The case was until next week
A.
adjourned B. adjoin C. adjudge D. adhere
sat there on whether life worth
living.
A. babbling. B. brooding
C. beckoning D. breeding
28. If l am
once , it is difficult to recapture the same
train of
thought.
A.
contracted B. disappointed C. distracted
D. retracted
29. The queen always
appeared when receiving her subjects.
A. humble B. timid C. bold D.
haughty
30. The couple has h8.d to
adopt children.
A. sterile B.
contemptuous C. warmhearted D. fertile
II. Reading Comprehension (50 points, 2
points each)
Directions
:
In this part, there are 5 short
passages. Read each passage carefully,
and choose the best answer for each
question that follows.
Passage 1
The
sun
was
nearly
setting,
Gerard
had
now
for
some
time
been
hoping
to find an
inn in which to spend the night. Black clouds were
gathering
over
the
sky.
Gerard
began
to
run.
But
it
was
too
late.
Down
came
the
rain.
He could hardly see now,
for the rain seemed to have put out the sun,
already almost gone. Gerard walked on
through the darkness and rain in
an
unknown country.
The
darkness
grew
thicker.
He
was
entering
a
forest.
Great·
branches
lay
across the narrow road, and he felt his way
through what seemed to
be
an
endless
dark
cave
with
a
rough
floor
on
which
he
fell
again
and
again.
At last, in
the center of the forest he found a. house with
light,
and loud voices inside it. He
went to the door, opened it slowly and put
his head in. He drew his head back
quickly, as if something had hit him
in
the face; and he stepped back into the rain and
darkness.
He
had
looked
into
a
large
but
low
room,
in
the
center
of
which
was
a great round fireplace. Around this
fireplace clothes were hanging up
to
dry; some were hanging on ropes,and some were
hanging on the persons
to
whom
they
belonged-farm
laborers.
These
clothes,
carrying
in
them
the
rain
of one day, but the dirt of a whole lifetime, gave
out a terrible
smell in thick clouds.
Gerard was like most poets and workers
in the fine arts; his eyes
saw more
than other eyes did, and his nose smelt more than
other noses!
But the rain poured down
on him, and the light of the fire looked very
pleasant.
He could not force
his way in all at once through the thick air,
but he returned to it again and again
as a bird circling round a light.
At
last
he
discovered
that
the
various
smells
did
not
entirely
mix.
Smell
of family was strongest
in the two
corners;
boiled
fann laborer held
the
center; and
food was ruler among the noisy company by the
window. This
last was the smallest as
well as least powerful smell.
1. Gerard
began to run because
A. it was
nearly dark'
R it was raining
C. it looked as if it was going to rain
D. he wanted to find an inn in which to
spend the night
2. When Gerard said,
A. he was afraid of the darkness
B. he was worried by his new situation
C. he was angry at being wet from the
rain
D. he did not like being in a
foreign country
3. When Gerard found
the house __ _
A. he rushed in because
he was so happy to find an inn.
B. he
went in but came out quickly when something hit
him in the face
C. he did not dare go
in
D. he took a careful look inside
4. The drying clothes smelt terrible
because
A. they had never been
washed
B. they belonged to farm
laborers
C. Gerard's nose smelt more
than other noses
D. wet clothes always
do smell badly when drying out on people's bodies
5. From the description of the smells,
we can deduce that ___ _
A. there were
some young children in the room
B. the
people were the kind who eat human flesh
C. the people there were all farm
laborers
D. customers got very little
to eat
Passage 2
I don't like long-standing engagements.
How can you tell whether on
a certain
day t
hree or four weeks ahead you will wish · td ·dine with
a
certain
person?
The
chances
are
that
in
the
interval
something
will
turn
up that you would much
sooner do and so long a notice foretells a large
and formal party. But what help is
there? The date has been fixed thus
far
away so that the guests invited may be certainly
disengaged and it needs a very adequate
excuse to prevent your refusal
from
seeming
rude.
You
accept,
and
for
a
month
the
en_gagement
hangs
over
you with
gloomy danger. It interferes with your cherished
plans. It
disorganizes your life. There
is really only one way to cope with the
situation and that is to put yourself
off at the last moment. But it is
one
that I have never had the courage or the want of
unwillingness
to adopt.
It
was with a faint sense of resentment then that one
June evening
towards half past eight I
left my lodgings in Half Moon Street to walk
round
the
comer
to
dine
with
the
Macdonalds.
I
arrived
a
little
late,
which
is
almost
inevitable
when
you
live
so
near
the
house
you
are
going
to
that
it is not worthwhile to take a taxi,
and the room into which I was shown
was
filled
with
people,
I
knew
few
of
them
and
my
heart
sank
as
I
saw
myself
laboriously making conversation through
a long dinner with two total
strangers.
It was a relief to me when I saw Thomas and Mary
Warton come
in and· an unexpected
pleasure when I found on going in to dinner that
I had been placed next to Mary.
Thomas
Warton
was
a
portrait-painter
who
at
one
time
had
had
considerable
success,
but
he
had
never
fulfilled
the
promise
of
his
youth
and
had long ceased to be taken seriously by the
critics. He made an
adequate
income,
but
at
the
Private
View
of
the
Royal
Academy
no
one
gave
more than a passing glance
at the dull but conscientious portraits of
fox-hunting squires and prosperous
merchants which with
unfailing
regularity he sent to the annual exhibition. One
would have
liked to admire his work
because he was a gentle and kindly man. If you
happened to be a writer he was so
genuinely enthusiastic over anything
you
had
done,
so
charmed
with
success
you
might
have
had,
that
you
wished
your conscience would allow you to
speak with decent warmth of his own
productions.
It
was
impossible
and
you
were
driven
to
the
last
protection
of the
portrait painter's friend.
likeness,
6. The author does
not approve of invitations to a dinner party three
or
four weeks ahead because
A. you might not feel like eating on
that day
B. it is impossible to refuse
an invitation so far ahead
C. you might
get an invitation to something preferable
D. it makes you feel gloomy for the
whole period
7. How does the author
react to such invitations?
A. He
accepts and goes.
B. He finds an
adequate excuse and refuses to go.
C.
He hopes that something better will turn up.
D. He accepts but finds an excuse at
the last moment.
8. His heart sank when
he was shown into the room because
A.
he
imagined
himself
sitting
next
to
two
people
he
didn't
know
at
dinner.
B. he got involved in a boring
conversation with two strangers.
C. the
room was full ofpeoplehe didn't know.
D. he realized it would be a long
dinner.
9. From this passage we can
learn that Thomas Warton
A. was
a successful painter
B. had shown great
talent when younger
C. painted fox-
hunting scenes and prosperous merchants
D. held an annual exhibition of his
work
10. In the last paragraph of this
passage, the comment
it were a
marvelous likeness
A. Thomas Warton was
a good painter
B. his portraits were
'an excellent likeness of person he was painting
C. it was a way of being kind to him
D. it was. a way of encouraging him to
be successful
Passage 3
Are burgers and fries a product of the
profound social changes of
the past 50
years, or were they to a large extent responsible
for them?
The
author
of
this
diatribe
against
multinational
restaurant
brands
opts
for the
latter explanation.
food nation that
surrounds us,
and its imitators was by
no means pre-ordained.
happened
nevertheless and~ in his view, it is to be blamed
for many of
the
evils
of
modern
America
and
their
global
spread.
The
emergence
of
the
corporate
colossus,
followed
ably
by
its
deionization,
is
a
familiar pattern in American business
history.
The modern phenomenon of fast
food originated in California just
before
the
Second
Word
War.
Its
first
manifestation
was
kerb
service,
with
meals
delivered to
motorists by handsome young carhops. Richard and
Maurice McDonald,
who ran a drive-in burger bar in San Bernardino
near
Angeles, became tired of having
constantly to replace their carhops and
wash
up
crockery
and
dishes.
In
1948
they
decided
to
make
customers
serve
themselves, while restricting the menu
to items that
could
be
prepared
by unskilled
cooks
and
eaten
without
plates, knives
or
forks.
The McDonald brothers were soon bought
out by the entrepreneurial
Ray Kroc,
who franchised their name and techniques so
successfully that
there is now scarcely
a corner of the world that is free from their
trademark golden arches, invariably
spawning a cluster of rival chains
selling
hamburgers,
pizzas,
or
fried
chicken
handed
out
by
smiling
teenagers
willing
to
accept
minimal
pay.
They
are
cheap,cheerful,
popular,