上海大学公共英语秋试卷A

上海大学2013 ～2014学年秋季学期研究生试题A卷

课程名称：写作1 课程编号：001704G2学分：0.5

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Part One: Diction （20%）（10—20%可以来自于课本）

Directions: Choose the right one from the following two choices marked A or B.

1.The argument can only be settled by someone who is __________.

A. disinterested

B. uninterested

2.This is an interesting book with vivid account of __________ events and people.

A. historic

B. historical

3.The information was __________ as a result of various experiments.

A. obtained

B. acquired

4.If no one takes the __________ and plan for the trip, we will never leave home.

A. initial

B. initiative

5.From her conversation, I __________ that she had a happy family.

A. induce

B. deduce

6.I don’t know the results of the tests yet. __________, why are you so interested in them?

A. Somehow

B. Anyhow

7. He gave his clearest _____ yet that he will keep racing.

A. indication

B. prediction

8．He hoped the firm would _____ him to the Paris branch.

A. transmit

B. transfer

9. Jim Lovell talked about the current situation at NASA during an _____ to mark the fortieth anniversary of Apollo Thirteen.

A. event

B. incident

10. A good scientist is highly __________ since he often has to look for relations in data which are often

complex and incomplete.

A. imaginative

B. imaginary

11. I seem to have _____ myself in something I don’t understand.

A. evolved

B. involved

12. I'm very sorry to have _____ you with so many questions on such an occasion.

A. interfered

B. bothered

13. When you have filled in the questionnaire, copy it and send the _____ to your employer.

A. original

B. initial

14. People don’t like to ask questions for fear of app earing _____.

A. illiterate

B. ignorant

15. From Mexico, President Obama traveled Friday to the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago for the Fifth _____ of the Americas.

A. Conference

B. Summit

16. She was a woman of _____ talent and determination.

A. single

B. unique

17. FM radio stations _____ in a range of frequencies between eighty-eight and one hundred eight megahertz.

A. transport

B. transmit

18. Police are still trying to _____ the identity of the dead man.

A. establish

B. find

19. We all need the _____ escape route from the boring, routine aspects of our lives.

A. occasional

B. incidental

20. I work very _____ and am decisive, and accurate in my judgment.

A. effectively

B. efficiently

Part Two Sentence (20%) （80%--90%来自于课本）

Section A. Combine the following sentences into compound or complex sentences or sentences with participial, prepositional, or other phrases. (10%)

1.She appeared on the stage. A stormy applause broke forth.

st night was a wild night. The thunder roared. The wind blew a gale. The rain fell in torrents.

3. He heard that his father was ill. He was anxious to go home to see him. He went to the station early

in the morning to buy a ticket.

4. There were over two hundred passengers on board the plane. About one third of them were

foreigners.

3. The new workers are young and inexperienced. They are eager to learn from the veteran workers. Section B Rewrite the following sentences to make them unified or coherent or concise. (10%)

1. To get ready for the trip, all the things she needed were put into a suitcase.

2. A well-dressed man admitted us to the house, and we later learned that he was a thief.

3. I lost some important documents and found them five days later. The police had helped me.

4. The plane circled around the airport for about ten minutes or so and then disappeared and could no

longer be seen.

5. The students promised to be careful and that they would return home early.

Part Three: Paragraph (20%) 课外

Section A: Read the following paragraph and identify the topic sentence. (5%) Most of us have been taken in by the notion that speed of reading is a measure of our intelligence. There is no such thing as the right speed for intelligent reading. Some things should be read quickly and effortlessly, and some should be read slowly and even laboriously. The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read different things differently according to their worth. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through you —how many you can make your own. A few friends are better than a thousand acquaintances. If this be your aim, as it should be, you will not be impatient if it takes more time and effort to read a great book than it does a newspaper.

Topic Sentence:

Section B: Fill in the blanks with appropriate transitional words from the box. (10 %)

Task 1

(1) ________ Harold Krents was totally blind by his eighth birthday, his achievements are extraordinary. Life is not easy when one’s vision is impaired. When he was in high school, Krents’classmates elected him president of his school. (2) ________ Krents was brilliant, he was accepted by