2009首都师大考研基础英语真题

首都师大2009年基础英语

Part One. Vocabulary (30points, 25minutes)

A. Choose the best one.

1,The life _____of a whale varies depending on the species but can be between

30 and 80 years.

a. expectancy

b. limit

c. period

d. restriction

2. Thanks to its very elastic skin , animated by a complex musculature capable of an enormous range of ______ movements ,the human face can quickly display a whole array of contrasting emotions.

a. intransigent

b. incomparable

c. invincible

d. intricate

3. Benchill’s children who have a session on anger management are not more angry than children at other schools in the city ,and the lesson was just part of a scheme intended to help children indentify and ______with the rages that life in the classroom and playground can provoke.

4. French schools took a great interest in Arabic culture and medicine , and Arabic words were_____ to the language.

a. added

b. implemented

c. substituted

d. applied

5. At the turn of 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of movement and his pictures of a runner _____ in every history of photography.

a. demonstrate

b. feature

c. show

d. exhibit

6. The distinguished doctor now faced a _____because he didn’t know whether he should tell the cruel truth to the patient or not .

a. digestion

b. disgust

c. dilemma

d. diploma

7. With the ____ of new technology, companies are insisting that secretarial staff should already be highly trained in ,or at least familiar with ,a range of word processing packages.

a. approach

b. entrance

c. advent

d. opening

8.For those people who go out in search of adventure , a long-distance flight in a hot-hair balloon is a particularly exciting____.

a, engagement b. motion c. prospect d. campaign

9.Some economists ____ much of the rising wage inequality in this country to the shift in favor of the most skilled workers.

a. oblige

b. devote

c. contribute

d. attribute

10. After he committed the crime ,his mother gently persuaded him to do the right thing and come back to _____.

a. bear a grudge

b. speak his mind

c. face the music

d. make a bolt

11.Even the most ____person may become furious when he gets only a pittance for his hard work.

12. William was born with a (an)_____curiosity about the working of nature in every form.

a. insatiable

b. inconsistent

c. dissatisfied

d. irrational

13.The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s quickly alarmed the popular imagination, but the precise significance of the scrolls is still _____ by scholars .

a. perceived

b. debated b. obscured

c. understood

14.Soon after adopting a syllabic system of writing, the Greeks made the final step to a phonetic alphabet ,dividing the consonants from the vowels and writing each _____

a. formally

b. separately

c. accurately

d. abstractly

15.As the nature of inside dealing changed ,there was a corresponding need to _____ other legal doctrines to fit the abuse .

a. adapt

b. adept c adopt d . abject

16 If car owners are taxed too much ,people will no longer be motivated to buy a new car, with the result that incomes from car taxation might actually_____.

a. sink

b. shrink

c. delay

d. disperse

17.Granted that Janice is extremely ____; still , it is difficult to imagine her as a professional comedian.

18.In the dim light the ship seemed to float ____ on the banks of the Nile , among gardens of swaying palms and ferns .

a. transparently

b. taciturnly

c. tenaciously

d. tranquilly

19. I used to go to church under false _____. I never wanted to go but my mother forced me .

a. appearances

b. disguises

c. pretences

d. garments

20. We only managed to get halfway down the mountain before the mist ____.

a. closed up

b. closed in

c. closed off closed down

B，Complete the sentences

1.He hates to make mistakes at any time and since he is such a ________ that

sometimes his friends find it hard to please him.(perfect)

2.She’s such an intelligent home designer that she can decorate every part of

the new house _________ (imagine)

3.Football market in China obviously declined in recently years because the

football __________have deceased greatly.(attend)

4.Fashion may designate innovations in dress that are more _________than

simple fads.(endure)

5.The politician insisted that she was addressing the audience in her _______ as

a mother and not as a Member of Parliament .(capacious)

6.There was plenty of room on the course and it was relatively easy to ______it

enough to test the professional.(length)

7.Jennifer says from then on Robert has been a changed man _____and

completely unapproachable.(withdraw)