广东外语外贸大学2008年研究生入学考试
英语专业水平考试样题
1. Fill in each of the blanks below with a word provided in the brackets. The words you put in must be grammatically and mantically appropriate. You can only u the words in the brackets ONCE. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30分)
(and, absolute, anticipate, best, breaks, browsing, deliberately, enjoy, differently, feel, health, norm, patterns, potential, some, then, tho, tiredness, well, with)
Be realistic about time in your planning. And suit yourlf-everyone works (1)______, and your personal (2)_______ working patterns may (3)_______ be different from (4)__tho_____ other people might expect from you. The aim should be to develop your own (5)_______, not to regulate your working habits to a conventional (6)_______.
Allow for unexpected (7)________ such as days when libraries are clod, delays while materials arrive through the post, days when you don’t (8)_______ like working, etc. And create breaks (9)_______. For example, you should allow for creating variation in your working (10)________ . Read
for a while, then do some writing or some rearch (11)_______ in a library; this can reduce the effect of strain or (12)_______ with long bouts of writing, something which is particularly important for (13)________ reasons if you work at a computer.
Remember that finishing off always takes longer than you (14)_______ , so allow enough time for this. Be careful with deadlines: some are notional (and extensions are possible); others are fixed and (15)_______ , with the result that noncompletion on schedule can mean failure. Check the rules to find out which of the your deadline is.
II. This ction contains twenty multiple-choice questions on antonyms. Choo the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet (20分)
1. DIVERGE
(A) relay
(B) bypass
(C) enclo
(D) come together
2. LEVY
(A) relinquish
(B) rescind
(C) repatriate
(D) revitalize
3. ANCHOR
(A) unwind
(B) disjoin
(C) dislodge
(D) disrupt
4. FATUOUSNESS
(A) nsibleness
(B) courage
(C) aloofness
(D) obedience
5. GIST
(A) artificial manner
(B) trivial point
(C) eccentric method
(D) singular event
6. PERSEVERE
(A) put into
(B) nd out
(C) give up
(D) take away
7. AMALGAMA TE
(A) parate
(B) terminate
(C) calibrate
(D) correlate
8. ANARCHY
(A) courtesy
(B) hope
(C) neutrality
(D) order
9. HAPLESS
(A) excited
(B) elated
(C) delighted
(D) fortunate
10. ENDORSE
(A) oppo publicly
(B) provoke criticism
(C) receive payment
(D) submit unwillingly
11. EXPIRE
(A) evolve
(B) come to life
(C) grow to fruition
(D) bring to light
12. METAMORPHSIS
(A) relief from strain
(B) cyclical motion
(C) continuation without change
(D) dogmatic persistence
13. FERMENT
(A) solidity
(B) purity
(C) tranquility
(D) transparency
14. PLETHORA
(A) narrowness
(B) dearth
(C) choice
(D) confusion
15. SURCHARGE
(A) discount rebate
(B) liability
(C) decrea
(D) shortfall
16. PROFUSE
(A) rare
(B) flawed
(c) real
(D) scanty
17. SUBSTANTIATION
(A) disnt
(B) delusion
(C) disproof
(D) denial
18. FORESTALL
(A) announce
(B) precipitate
(c) steady
(D) prolong
19. ESTRANGEMENT
(A) reconciliation
(B) dismblance
(C) consolation
(D) negotiation
20. OUTLANDISH
(A) prolific
(B) noticeable
(C) transparent
(D) conventional
III. Read the following passages carefully and complete the tasks. Write your answers an the Answer Sheet (50分)
TEXT A
SOMETHING ABOUT NAPLES just ems made for comedy. The name alone conjures up pizza, and lovable, incorrigible innocents warbling “O Sole Mio”; a nutty little corner of the world where the i
d runs wild and the only answer to the question “Why?” appears to be “Why not?”
Naples: the butter-side-down of Italian cities, where even the truth has a strangely fictitious tinge. One day a car rear-ended one of the city’s minibus. The bus driver got out to investigate.
While he stood there talking, his only pasnger took the wheel and drove off Neither pasnger nor bus was ever en again.
Then there was that busy lunch hour in the central post office when a crack in the ceiling opened and postal workers were overwhelmed by an avalanche of stale croissants. As the cleaners hauled away garbage bags of moldy breakfast, the questions remained: Who? Why? And what el could still be up there?
But Naples actually isn’t so funny. Italy’s third largest city, with 1.1 million people has a much darker side. where chaos reigns: bag snatching and mugging clogged streets of stupefying confusion, where traffic moves to mysterious laws of its own through multiple interctions who traffic lights haven’t functioned for months, maybe years-if they have lights at all. Packs of wild dogs roam the city’s main park. Nineteen policemen on the anti-narcotics squad are arrested for accepting payoffs from the Camorra, the local Mafia.
To many Italians, particularly tho in the wealthy, industrialized north, none of this is surprising. To them Naples means political corruption, wasted federal subsidies, rampant organized crime, appallingly large families, and cunning, lazy people who prefer to do something shady rather than honest work.
Nepolitans know their reputation, “People think nothing ever gets done here,” said a young professional woman “Sometimes they say, “Surely you come from Milan. You come from Naples? Naples?”
Giovanni del Form, an insurance executive, told me about his flight home from a northern. Italian city, the plane waited on the began to bear the comments around me: ‘Well here we are in Naples,’” he said with a wince. “The comments make me suffer”.
Neapolitans may complain, but most can’t conceive of living anywhere el. The city has the intimacy, tension, and craziness of a large but intenly devoted family. The people have the same perver pride as New Yorkers. They love even the things that don’t work, and they love being Neapolitans. They know outsiders don’t get it. and they don’t care. “Even if you go away” one woman said, “you remain a prisoner of this city. My city has many problems, but away from it I feel bad.”
This is a city in which living on the brink of collap is normal. Naples has survived wars revolutions, floods, earthquakes, and eruptions of nearby Vesuvius. First a wealthy, colony founded by the Greeks (who called it Neapolis, or “new city”), then a flourishing Roman resort, it lived through various incarnations under dynasties of Normans, Swabians, Austrians, Spanish, and French, not to mention a glorious period as the resplendent capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
It was a brilliant, cultivated city that once ranked with London and Paris. The Nenziatella, the oldest military school in Italy, still basks in its two centuries of historic glory, the Teatro San Carlo remains one of the greatest opera hous in the world. The treasures of Pompeii grace the National Muum. Stretched Iuxuriantly between mountains and a along the curving coast of the Bay of Naples, full of ornate palaces, gardens, churches, and works of art, with its mild climate and rich folklore, Naples in the last century was beloved by artists and writers. The most famous respon to this magnificence was the comment by an unknown admirer, “See Naples and die.”
Today that remark carries less poetic connotations. The bombardments of World War II were followed by the depredations of profiteers and politicians-for-rent who reduced the city to a demoralized shadow of itlf, surviving on government handouts, Until five years ago city
governments were cobbled together by warring political factions; some mayors lasted only a few months. A cholera outbreak in 1973 was followed in 1980 by a major earthquake. Its famous port has Withered (though the U.S. Sixth Fleet command is still bad just up the coast), industries have failed, tourists have fled, natives have moved out-it ems that only drug trafficking is booming “Unlivable,” the Neapolitans say.
1. The two examples in the cond and third paragraphs intend to show that
(A) Naples has a high incidence of traffic accidents.
(C) people there love to store food for years.
(D) everything appears to be on the wrong side.
2. The fallowing words are appropriate to describe traffic conditions in Naples EXCEPT
(A) disorder.
(B) overcrowding.
(C) incurity.
(D) inefficiency.
3. It can be concluded from the passage that the Northerners
(A) are critical of what Naples reprents.
(B) sympathize with Neopolitans.
(C) share many thins with Neopolitans.
(D) make every effort to shun Neopolitans.
4. The author implies that Neopolitans’ affection for the city
(A) was unrealistic.
(B) went a bit too far.
(C) was extraordinary.
(D) gave ri to concern.
5. When the author says “Today that remark carries less poetic connotations.” he actually means that
(A) the city can now boast very few poets.
(B) artists and writers have left for London and Paris.
(C) the city underwent heavy bombing during the War.
(D) The city’s prent problems obscured its glorious past.
TEXT B
Once found almost entirely in the western United States and in Asia, dinosaur fossils are now being discovered on all ven continents. A host of new revelations emerged in 1998 that promi to reshape scientists views of dinosaurs, including what they looked like and when and where they lived.
It is doubtful that Tyrannosaurus Rex had lips or that Triceratops had cheeks, says Lawrence Wittrier, an assistant professor of anatomy at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Witmer was a leading
rearcher for a study on dinosaur anatomy that was prented at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, which concluded on October 3 in Snowbird, Utah.
Witmer’s study reached its conclusions by using high-tech computerized axial tomography (CT or CA T) ans along with comparative anatomy studies. For example, the theory that Triceratops and similar dinosaur species had cheeks was bad on past comparisons with mammals such as sheep. But Witmer’s careful analysis found the structure of the triceratops jaw and skull made it more likely that Triceratops had a beak like that of an eagle. Witmer said that
