2007年天津工业大学基础英语汉语考研真题

2007

年天津工业大学基础英语汉语考研真 题

I. Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: Fill in the following blanks by choosing A, B, C or D. There is only

ONE answer for each

blank, write the letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.

1.

The

tulip

grower

owns

a

house

in

Iceland,

50-acre

vineyard

in

France

and

two

luxury

_____

moored at a harbour in Spain.

A. yachts B. woodpeckers C. visas D. steeds

2.

It

’

s

better

to

be

happy

with

what

you

have

got

than

to

be

always

______

towards

something you can

’

t have.

A. wringing B. wrestling C. zooming D. yearning

3. I give you my ______ that I

’

ll never mention the matter again.

A. utterance B. word C. underwriter D. latent

4. Wheat, rice, corn, and oats are ______.

A. pancakes B. pickles C. cereals D. luncheons

5. Neither the monk nor the nuns were utterly _______ witnesses because they had

not seen the

accident themselves.

A. dogmatic B. credible C. serial D. open-minded

6. The tradesman was arrested after being discovered with packets of cocaine sewn

into the ______ of his cap.

A. timing B. telexing C. typewriting D. lining

7.

Rather

than

enhancing

a

country

’

s

security,

the

successful

development

of

nuclear

weapons could serve at first to increase that country

’

s ______.

A. vulnerability B. boldness C. responsibility D. influence

8. She was on _______ for a long time after her husband passed away.

A. tumour B. twilight C. twig D. tranquilizer

9. He dropped a _______ on us on the first of March when he told us that we were

bankrupt.

A. warship B. fireplace C. thunderbolt D. poppy

10. All of the following are nice food except the ________.

A. muffin B. pudding C. pineapple D. sweetheart

11.

A

______

is

the

office

or

people

responsible

for

the

management

of

an

organization,

particularly an international or political one, such as the United Nations.

A.

showcase B. signpost C. secretariat D. lookout

12.

The

Prime

Minister

of

the

United

Kingdom

was

received

with

all

the

traditional

______ and

ceremony that is laid on for visiting heads of government.

A. pomp B. sunflower C. sunlight D. fever

13. The bees carry the _______ from one flower to another.

A. honeymoon B. pollen C. petal D. pier

14.

The

_______

is

usually

put

on

top

of

the

postage

stamp

so

that

the

stamp

cannot

be used more than once.

A. post-office B. personage C. postmark D. prose

15.

An

investigation

that

is

_______

can

occasionally

yield

new

facts,

even

notable

ones, but typically the appearance of such facts is the result of a search in a

definite direction.

A. uncomplicated B. subjective C. unguided D. timely

16. The _______ stretches as far as the eye can see.

A. portfolio B. prairie C. earthworm D. electrode

17. The natural balance between prey and predator has been increasingly _______,

most frequently by human intervention.

A. disturbed B. celebrated C. questioned D. observed

18. In that war thousands and thousands of people were put to the _______.

A. yearbook B. sword C. walnut D. witch

19. Do you see _______ cloud that is almost in the shape of a clown?

A. audio B. dwarf C. weighty D. yonder

20. In Britain, judges wear white _______ in court.

A. wigs B. willows C. widower D. whirlwind

II. Reading Comprehension Part One

Directions: Read the following passage and write T for True if the statement is

true,

F

for

False

if

the

statement

is

not

true

based

on

the

passage

you

have

read.

Write your answers on the ANSWER

SHEET.

Dreams

have

always

held

a

universal

fascination.

Some

primitive

societies

believe

that the soul

leaves

the body and visits the scene

of the dream. Generally, however, dreams are

accepted

to

be

illusions,

having

much

in

common

with

day- dreams the

fantasies

of

our waking life. When

dreaming, however, one tends to believe fully in the reality of the dream world,

however inconsistent, illogical and odd it may be.

Although

most

dreams

apparently

happen

spontaneously,

dream

activity

may

be

provoked by

external

ation

dreams

are

connected

with

the

breathing

difficulties

of

a

heavy

cold,

for

instance.

Internal

disorders

such

as

indigestion

can cause vivid dreams, and dreams of racing fire-engines may be caused by the

ringing of an alarm bell.

Experiments

have

been

carried

out

to

investigate

the

connection

between

deliberately inflicted

pain and dreaming. For example, a sleeper pricked with a pin perhaps dreams of

fighting

a

battle

and receiving

a severe

sword

wound.

Although

the

dream

is

stimulated by the physical discomfort, the actual events of the dream depend on

the associations of the discomfort in the mind of the sleeper.

A dreamer

’

s eyes often move rapidly from side to side. Since people born blind

do not dream

visually

and

do

not

manifest

this

eye

activity,

it

is

thought

that

the

dreamer

may

be scanning the scene depicted in his dream. A certain amount of dreaming seems

to

be

a

human

requirement if

a

sleeper

is

roused

every

time

his

eyes

begin

to

move

fast,

effectively

depriving

him

of

his

dreams,

he

will

make

more

eye

movements

the

following night.

People

differ

greatly

in

their

claims

to

dreaming.

Some

say

they

dream

every

night,

others only

very

occasionally.

Individual

differences

probably

exist,

but

some

people

immediately forget dreams and others have good recall.

Superstition and magical practices thrive on the supposed power of dreams to

foretell

the

future.

Instances

of

dreams

which

have

later

turned

out

to

be

prophetic

have often been recorded, some by men of the highest intellectual integrity.

Although

it

is

better

to

keep

an

open

mind

on

the

subject,

it

is

true

that

the

alleged

power of dreams to predict future events still remains unproved.

Everyone knows that a sleeping dog often behaves as though he were dreaming, but

it is

impossible

to

tell

what

his

whines

and

twitches

really

mean.

By

analogy

with

human

experience,

however, it

is reasonable to suppose

that

at least the higher animals

are capable

of dreaming. Of the many theories of

dreams, Freud

’

s is probably the

best known.

According

to

Freud,

we

revert

in

our

dreams

to

the

modes

of

thought

characteristic

of

early

childhood.

Our

thinking

becomes

concrete,

pictorial,

and

non-logical,

and

expresses ideas and wishes we are no longer conscious of. Dreams are absurd and

unaccountable

because

our

conscious

mind,

not

willing

to

acknowledge

our

subconscious

ideas,

disguises

them.

Some

of

Freud

’

s

interpretations

are

extremely

fanciful,

but

there

is

almost

certainly

some

truth

in

his

view

that

dreams

express

the subconscious mind.

21.____ A sleeper pricked with a pin may dream that he has been stabbed.

22.____ Sighted people and those who have never been able to see dream in exactly

the same way.

23.____ There is plenty of proof available that dreams foretell the future.

24.____ Dreams in sleep are quite different from day-dreams.

25.____ Dreams may be caused by an upset stomach.

26.____ Dreaming is probably unnecessary.

27.____ Everyone knows that dogs dream just like human beings.

28.____ Because human beings dream, so may the more intelligent animals.

29.____ Dreams are not easy to interpret because the original thoughts and ideas

are disguised.

30.____ It is almost certainly true that dreams express the subconscious mind.

Part Two

Directions: Read the following passages and choose A, B, C or D for the correct

answer for each

question. There is only ONE answer for each question, write the letter A, B, C or

D on the ANSWER

SHEET.

Passage One

Why

should

anyone

buy

the

latest

volume

in

the

ever- expanding

Dictionary

of

National

Biography? I do not mean that it is bad, as the reviewers will agree. But it will

cost you 65 pounds. And have you got the rest of volumes? You need the basic 22

plus the largely decennial supplements

to bring the total to 31. Of course, it will be answered, public and academic

libraries will want the new volume. After all, it adds 1,068 lives of people who

escaped

the

net

of

the

original

compilers.

Yet

in

10

years

’

time

a

revised

version

of the whole caboodle, called the New Dictionary of National Biography, will be

published. Its editor, professor Colin Matthew, tells me that he will have room

for

about

50,000

lives,

some

13,000

more

than

in

the

current

DNB.

This

rather

puts

the 1,068 in Missing Persons in the shade.

When Dr. Nicholls wrote to The Spectator in 1989 asking for names of people whom

readers had

looked

up

in

the

DNB

and

had

been

disappointed

not

to

find,

she

says

that

she

received

some 100,000

suggestions. ( Well, she had written to

“

other quality newspapers

”

, too. ) As

soon

as

her

committee

had

whittled

the

numbers

down,

the

professional

problems

of

an

editor

began.

Contributors

didn

’

t

file

copy

on

time;

some

who

did

sent

too

much:

50,000 words instead of 500 is a record, according to Dr.

Nicholls.

There remains the dinner-party game of who

’

s in, who

’

s out. That is a game that

the reviewers

have

played

and

will

continue

to

play.

Criminals

were

my

initial

worry.

After

all,

the

original

edition

of

the

DNB

boasted:

Malefactors

whose

crimes

excite

a

permanent

interest have received hardly less

attention than benefactors. Mr. John Gross clearly had similar anxieties, for he

complains that, while the murderer Christie is in, Crippen is out. One might say

in

reply

that

the

injustice

of

the

hanging

of

Evans

instead

of

Christie

was

a

force

in the repeal of capital punishment in Britain, as Ludovie Kennedy ( the author

of Christie

’

s entry in Missing Persons ) notes. But then Crippen was reputed as

the first murderer to be caught by telegraphy ( he had tried to escape by ship to

America).

It is surprising

to find Max Miller excluded when really not

very

memorable names

get in. There

has

been

a

conscious

effort

to

put

in

artists

and

architects

from

the

Middle

Ages.

About their lives not

much is always known.

Of Hugo of Bury St Edmunds, a 12th-century illuminator whose dates of birth and

death are not

recorded, his biographer comments:

“

Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the

records

of

his

activities

as

carver

and

manuscript

painter

attest

to

his

versatility.

”

Then there had to be more women, too ( 12 per cent, against the

original

DBN

’

s

3

),

such

as

Roy

Strong

’

s

subject,

the

Tudor

painter

Levina

Teerlinc,

of whom

he remarks:

“

Her most characteristic feature is a head attached to a too

small,

spindly

body.

Her

technique

remained

awkward,

thin

and

often

cursory.

”

It

doesn

’

t seem toqualify her as a memorable artist. Yet it may be better than the

record of the original DNB, which

included lives of people who never existed ( such as Merlin ) and even managed to

give thanks to J. as a contributor, though, as a later edition admits a

shamefaced footnote,

“

except for the entry in the List of contributors there is

no trace of J. W. Clerke.

”

31.

The

writer

suggests

that

there

is

no

sense

in

buying

the

latest

volume

________.

A. because it is not worth the price

B. because it has fewer entries than before

C. unless one has all the volumes in his collection

D. unless an expanded DNB will come out shortly

32. On the issue of who should be included in the DNB, the writer seems to suggest

that ________.

A. the editors had clear rules to follow

B. there were too many criminals in the entries

C. the editors clearly favored benefactors

D. the editors were irrational in their choices

33. Crippen was absent from the DNB ________.

A. because he escaped to the U.S.

B. because death sentence had been abolished

C. for reasons not clarified

D. because of the editors

’

mistake

34. The author quoted a few entries in the last paragraph to ________.

A. illustrate some features of the DNB

B. give emphasis to his argument

C. impress the reader with its content

D. highlight the people in the Middle Ages

35. Throughout the passage, the writer

’

s tone towards the DNB was ________.

A. complimentary B. supportive C. sarcastic D. bitter

Passage Two

When

literary

periods

are

defined

on

the

basis

of

men

’

s

writing,

women

’

s

writing

must be

forcibly

assimilated

into

an

irrelevant

grid:

a

Renaissance

that

is

not

a

Renaissance

for women, a

Romantic

period

in

which

women

played

very

little

part,

a

Modernism

with

which

women

conflict. Simultaneously, the history of women

’

s writing has been suppressed,

leaving large, mysterious gaps in accounts of the development of various genres.

Feminist

criticism

is

beginning

to

correct

this

situation.

Margaret

Anne

Doody,

for

example,

suggests

that

during

“

the

period

between

the

death

of

Richardson

and

the

appearance of the novels of Scott and Austen,

”

which has

“

been regarded as dead