陕西师范大学在读教育硕士期末考试题目英语一

陕西师范大学

2012级免费师范教育硕士英语试题

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Part I Vocabulary and Structure (20%)

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.

1.My job varies between the extremely tedious and the annoyingly busy. ______ I think

I am happier during the real busy times: no time to think about how bored I am.

A. On balance

B. In addition

C. Furthermore

D. Aside from

2.We are all in favor of your proposal that the meeting ______.

A. is called off

B. should call off

C. is to be called off

D. be called off

3.______, I walked my dear father.

A. Exhausted and hungry

B. Having been exhausted and hungry

C. Being exhausted and hungry

D. To be exhausted and hungry

4.I stood still, trying to ______ a plausible excuse.

A. create

B. produce

C. invent

D. design

5. A new technique ______ out, the output as a whole increased by 15 percent.

A. working

B. having worked

C. having been worked D to have been worked

6.She thinks it‟s time we ______ free school meals.

A. did for

B. did with

C. did without

D. did away with

7.He never regretted paying 300 Yuan for the bookcase. As a matter of fact he would

gladly have paid ______ for it.

A. as much twice

B. twice as much

C. much as twice D as twice much

8.He was attending a meeting, ______ come to your birthday party then.

A. unless he would have

B. or he would

C. nevertheless he did not D or he would have

9.He ______ the job ______ because it involved too much traveling.

A. turned…down

B. turned…away

C. turned off D turned…over

10. They have made changes in their plans for a new science park as you .

A. suggested

B. have suggested

C. had suggested

D. suggest

11．In some areas of northwest China, intensive farming has brought about severe_____ of the land, which accounted for poor harvest in recent years.

A. deforestation

B. dejection

C. delectation D degeneration

12．The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always_____ the scientist‟s time-keeping methods.

A. at the mercy of

B. in accordance with

C. under the guidance of

D. by means of 13．Manufacturers raised the price of this product to ______ the increased cost of material.

A. write off

B. offset

C. make for

D. abstain from

14．Among other things was the discussion to reach a_______ trade agreement between the two countries.

A. reciprocal

B. merged

C. marketable

D. mature

15．Nowadays more Chinese would like to hold their reunion dinner in posh restaurants, despite the______ costs. They find it more enjoyable and physically less demanding.

A. hyperbolic

B. inexorable

C. exorbitant

D. protean