[考研类试卷]2012年南开大学英语专业(基础英语)真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2012年南开大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷

一、选词填空

0 Fill in the blanks with the words given below. Change the form if necessary. Each word can be used only once.

1 Her parents left her nothing but a______old farmhouse.

2 Police are keeping the area under constant______.

3 The administration is still______over the Health Care issue.

4 ______sometimes occurs in politics.

5 A man was______around outside the shop.

6 Lucy had always______after a place of her own.

7 Nothing could______the indignity of being publicly criticized.

8 We______all products tested on animals.

9 Scientists are hoping to find______evidence to confirm their theories.

10 What he enjoys most in life is delicious food, and he is regarded as a______.

11 When colors are______, they become affected in hue.

12 The old man was______passers-by for money.

13 His ambition was______when he won the first prize.

14 The love of poetry was______in him by her teaching.

15 You need______ to be a long-distance runner.

16 The money was given to us by deed of______.

17 The House Judiciary Committee voted that the President should be______.

18 They______their pocket-money away on sweets.

19 Students should know the______of our country, including the system of rivers, mountains, etc.

20 A dealer came to______the furniture.

二、完形填空

20 Culture is activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.

【C1】______of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless 【C2】______on God's earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start【C3】______, and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as 【C4】______. We have to remember that the valuable intellectual development is self-development, and that it【C5】______takes place between that ages of sixteen and thirty. As to training, the most important part is given by mothers before the age of twelve.

In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"—that is to say, ideas that are merely【C6】______into the mind without being utilized, or tested , or thrown into fresh combinations. In the history of education, the most【C7】______phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a craze for genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. The reason is that they are overladen with inert ideas. Except at 【C8】______intervals of intellectual motivation, education in the past has been radically【C9】______with inert ideas. That is the reason why uneducated clever women, who have seen much of the world, are in middle life so much the most cultured part of the community. They have been saved from this horrible burden of inert ideas. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity【C10】______greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas.

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