上海交通大学英语水平考试2005及答案2005考研真题考研试题试卷

上海交通大学

2005硕士研究生入学考试试题

contains questions. You are supposed to write all your answers in a separate booklet named “Answer Booklet”. Write in dark ink.

I. Multiple Choice: (30 points)

Each of the following sentences demands one word for its completion. Your task is to pick from the four choices a word that you think may fit in the blank in the sentence. Write the letter that corresponds to your choice in the answer booklet.

1. The appeal of the heist film, according to director Brett Ratner, is that “everyone dreams of stealing something and getting away ________ it.”

A. by

B. from

C. with

D. for

2. Yes, we’ve all got a little criminal in us, daring us to take something we’re not _______ to, whether it’s pens and legal pads from the supply room at work or a priceless Monet from the Met.

A. designed

B. supposed

C. made

D. tempted

3. Ratner’s latest film, “After the Sunset,” ________ Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek as jewel thieves who have retired directly into La Casa de Good Life on a beach in the Bahamas, reminds us once again how much more enjoyable our lives could be if we only had the guts to make the Big Score.

A. regarding

B. transforming

C. representing

D. starring

4. Like other recent caper films, including Brosnan’s turn as the title character in “The Thomas Crown Affai r” (1999), “Sunset” sells the seductive, charming, even amusing________ of crime.

A. part

B. point

C. layer

D. side

5. We admire the master thief who calls his own shots and takes pride in his work, and cannot help but _______ the audacity of criminals of vision who set out to do the impossible, to breach the impenetrable.

A. denouce

B. applaud

C. doubt

D. challenge

6. We swoon for their unflappable calm under extreme pressure - as we know so well from our own mismanaged lives, you can lay down the most meticulous and intricate plans _________ , but the real trick is how cool you remain when Fate and Chaos kick in the door.

A. undesirable

B. imaginable

C. practicable

D. irritable

7. Most heists aren’t going after the little guy or pinching morn and pop’s nest egg-they’re stealing from________ of vice such as casinos or racetracks, from corporate banks, or from other thieves.

A. palaces

B. places

C. comers

D. institutions

8. Let’s tango back to the sun, where we can blissfully project our larcenous daydreams ________ stars a bit more suave and better-looking than ourselves.

A. into

B. onto

C. through

D. like

9. I picked up a fork and explained that as________ as I used it for eating, the fork would last indefinitely. However, if I began to use it to drive nails or dig trenches, it would soon break.

A. soon

B. well

C. long

D. far

10. The look in his eyes told me he ________ it, but I still went on to say that people are like the