广西民族大学
2017年硕士研究生入学考试初试自命题科目试题
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Part I.Basic English Knowledge(30%)
Section A:Multiple-choice(20%)
Directions:There are forty multiple-choice questions in this ction.Choo the best answer to each question.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1.After people have learned that magnets attract things,centuries pasd____they took note of the fact that magnets sometimes also repel things.
广州有什么特产A.before
B.until
C.after
D.since
2.Most of North America receives_________some form of continuous plant cover except in the arid and miarid Southwest.
B.sufficient moisture to sustain
< sustain sufficient moisture
D.sufficient to sustain moisture
3._________industries,inventions,and communal endeavors of the Shakers,the best known is their fine furniture.
A.Of the many
B.Their many
C.Are the many
D.Many of the
4.A condenr is a heat exchanger_________steam or vapor los heat and returns to liquid form.
A.what
B.in which
C.in who
D.that
5.Settled by English Puritans in1630,Boston became_________.
A.so that the capital of the Massachutts Bay Colony
B.the Massachutts Bay Colony its capital
C.it was the capital of the Massachutts Bay Colony
D.the capital of the Massachutts Bay Colony
6.The scents of the flowers was______to us by the breeze.
A.intercepted
通天门B.detested
C.saturated
D.wafted
7.If you______something,such as food or drink,you reduce its quality or make it weak,for example by adding water to it.
A.adulterate
<
C.vaccinate
D.sue
8.Government loan have been the______of veral shaky business companies.
B.salvation
C.delinquency
9.She made shorthand notes which she later_.
A.inscribed
B.described
C.prescribed
10.He gave me an_either Mary have to leave,or me.
A.ulcer
B.underdog
C.ultimatum
D.underworld
11._____no cau for alarm,the old man went back to his bedroom.
A.There was
B.Since
C.Being
D.There being
12.I have never been to London,but that is the city_______.
A.where I like to visit most
B.I’d most like to visit
C.which I like to visit mostly
D.where I’d like most to visit
13.The experiment requires more money than_______.
A.has been put in
B.being put in
C.have been put in
< be put in
14.Fat cannot change into muscle______muscle changes into fat.
< more than
B.any more than
< less than挂号信查询
D.much more than
15.She managed to save_______she could out of her wages to help her brother.
A.how little money
B.so little money
C.what little money
D.such little money
16.A cinema was burnt out in north London last night.Police suspect_.
A.armpit
B.arnal
C.arson
D.artifact
17.She trimmed the_of the tulips before putting them in a va.
A.sprig
B.spruce
C.stakes
D.stalks
18.It was as a physician that he reprented himlf,and_____he was warmly received.
A.as such
B.such as
C.as that
D.so that
19.While most people would_at the prospect of so much work,Daniels ems to positively enjoy it.
A.accentuate
C.dehumanize
D.blanch
20.Even as a girl,_____to be her life,and theater audiences were to be her best teachers.
A.performing by Melissa were
电汇英文B.Melissa knew that performing was
C.knowing that Melissa’s performances were
D.it was known that Melissa’s performances were
Section B:Proofreading and Error Correction(10%)
Directions:The following passage contains10errors.Each indicated line contains a maximum of
ONE error.In each ca,only ONE word is involved.You should proofread the passage and correct it. Plea write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Many witness concerning the Chine have told the truth,but perhaps
a few of them have succeeded in telling nothing but the truth,and no one of(21)
them has ever told the whole truth.No single individual,whatever the extent
of his knowledge,could by any possible know the whole truth about the(22)
Chine.
The difficulty of comparing Chine with Anglo-Saxons will be more(23)
strongly felt by tho who have attempted.To such it will soon become(24)
evident that many things which em“characteristic”of the Chine are
merely Oriental traits;but in what extent this is true,each reader in the(25)
light of his own experience must judge by himlf.(26) It has been said that in the prent stage of our intercour with Chine
there are three ways in which we can come to some knowledge of their
social life—by the study of their novels,their ballads,and their plays.Each
of the sources of information doubtless have its worth,but there is likewi(27)
a fourth,more valuable than all of them combining,a source not open to every(28)
one who wrote on China and the Chine.It is the study of the family life of(29)
the Chine in their own homes.As the topography of a district can be much
better understood in the country than the city,so it is with the characteristics(30)
of the people.A foreigner may live in a Chine city for a decade,and not gain金志浩
as much knowledge of the interior life of the people as he can acquire by living
twelve months in a Chine village.
Part II.Reading Comprehension(50%)
Section A(30%)
Directions:There are2passages in this ction.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Questions31to39are bad on the following passage.
My Views on Gambling
Most of life is a gamble.Very many of the things we do involve taking some risk in order to achieve a
satisfactory result.We undertake a new job with no idea of the more indirect conquences of our action. Marriage is certainly a gamble and so is the bringing into existence of children,who could prove sad liabilities.A journey,a business transaction,even a chance remark may result immediately or ultimately in tragedy.Perpetually we gamble—against life,destiny,chance,the unknown—call the invisible opponent what we will.Human survival and progress indicate that usually we win.
So the gambling instinct must be an elemental one.Taking risks achieve something is a characteristic of all form of life,including humanity.As soon as man acquired property,the challenge he habitually issued to destiny found an additional expression in a human contest.Early may well have staked his flint axe,his bearskin,his wife,in the hope of adding to his posssions.The acquirement of desirable but non-esntial commodities must have incread his scope enormously,while the risk of complete disaster lesned.
So long as man was gambling against destiny,the odds were usually in his favor,especially when he ud common n.But as the methods of gambling multiplied,the chances of success decread.A wager against one person offered on average even chances and no third party profited by the transaction.But as soon as commercialized city life developed,mass gambling become common.Thousands of people now compete for large prizes,but with only minute chances of succes
s,while the organizers of gambling concerns enjoy big profits with,in some cas,no risk at all.Few clients of the betting shops,football pools, state lotteries,bingo ssions,even charity raffles,realize fully the flimsiness of their chances and the fact that without fantastic luck they are certain to lo rather than gain.
Little irreparable harm results for the normal individual.That big business profits from the satisfaction of a human instinct is a common enough phenomenon.The average wage-earner,who leads a colorless existence,devotes a small percentage of his earnings to keeping alive with extraordinary constancy the dream of achieving some magic change in his life.Gambling is in most cas a non-toxic drug against boredom and apathy and many well prerve good temper,patience and optimism in dreary circumstances.
A sudden windfall may unbalance a weaker,less intelligent person and even ruin his life.And the lure of something for nothing as an ideal evokes criticism from the more rigidly upright reprentative of the community.But few of us have the right to condemn as few of us can say we never gamble—even it is only investing a few pence a week in the firm’s football sweep or the church bazaar“lucky dip”.
Trouble develops,however,when any human instinct or appetite becomes overdeveloped.Moderate drinking produces few harmful effects but drunkenness and alcoholism can have terrible conquences. With an unlucky combination of temperament and circumstances,gambling can only become an obssion, almost a form of insanity,resulting in the loss not only of a man’s property but of his lf-respect and his conscience.Far wor are the sufferings of his dependents,deprived of material comfort and condemned to watching his deterioration and hopelessness.They share none of his feverish excitement or the exhilaration of his rare success.The fact that he does not with to be cured makes psychological treatment of the gambling addict almost impossible.He will u any means,including stealing,to enable him to carry on.It might be possible to pay what salary he can earn to his wife for the family maintenance but this is clearly no solution.Nothing—education,home environment,other interest,wi discouragement—is likely to restrain the obsd gambler and even when it is he alone who suffers the conquences,his dia is a cruel one,resulting in a wasted,unhappy life.
Even in the ca of the more physically harmful of human indulgences,repressive legislation often increa the damage by causing more vicious activities designed to perpetuate the indulgence in cret.On the whole,though negative,gambling is no vice within reasonable limits.It would still exist in
an ideal society.The most we can hope for is control over exaggerated profits resulting from its business exploitation,far more attention and rearch devoted to the unhappy gambling addict and the type of education which will encourage an interest in so many other constructive activities that gambling itlf will lo its fascination as an opiate to a dreary existence.It could be regarded as an occasional mildly exciting game,never to be taken very riously.
31.According to the author,we gamble regardless of the risk,becau we
A.want to survive.
B.usually win in the gamble.
C.don’t know the indirect conquences of the action.
D.wish to achieve what may bring us satisfaction.
32.The bringing into existence of children is also a gamble becau they may
A.be mentally retarded.
B.become our disappointment.
< against us.
D.become our opponents.
33.According to the passage,we all take risk in gambling becau we are
A.born with the tendency of taking risks.
B.forced to achieve satisfactory result.
C.obliged to achieve what we desire.
D.born with the nature of achieving satisfaction.
34.The gambling instinct,according to the author,is reinforced by human’s desire to
寒假里的一件趣事
A.give up unnecessary property.
B.add more to their material posssion.
< desirable commodities.
D.change their living conditions.
35.Which of the following is true?
A.If we dare to gamble,we will usually win.
B.If we u common n to gamble,we will usually lo.
C.The luck is usually on our side so long as we have the confidence to change our fate.
D.We all have the luck to win the gamble if we u common n.
36.Which of the following is true?
A.The more methods to gamble,the fewer the chances to succeed.
B.Common n plays a role in a gamble.
C.The more methods there are,the less profit we will make.
D.The more methods there are,the more chances for us to win a gamble.
实践课
37.Who get profits from gambling activities with no risks?
A.Tho who organize the activities.
B.Tho who often go to state lotteries.
C.Tho who often go to football pools.
D.Tho who do not take so riously.
38.Many people would like to give away a small sum of money becau they constantly think the donation may
< affect their general income.
B.bring them unexpected big sums of money.
C.help them prerve their temper and patience.
D.bring them some pennies from heaven.
39.According to the author,gambling may lo its fascination if we
B.do not take it so riously.
Canize more other activities.
D.help develop an interest in other activities.
Passage Two
Questions40to45are bad on the following passage.
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