南开大学年英语专业研究生考试基础英语真题

南开大学2010年英语专业研究生考试基础英语真题

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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 that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

1. Sometimes the single building is not particularly historic, but in with other buildings it takes on meaning.

A. distinction

B. correlation

C. design

D. conjunction

2. The interior of the concert hall is a feast, with a modem stateliness of line and color reigning throughout.

A. remarkable

B. visual

C. glowing

D. delicious

3. The accelerated growth of public employment the dramatic expansion of budgets and programs.

A. parallels

B. contains

C. revolves

D. escapes

4. The board of the company has decided to its operation to include all aspects of the clothing business.

A. extend

B. enlarge

C. expand

D. amplify

5.1 would scribble nil over this book than I would write on a valuable painting.

A. rather not

B. no more

C. never

D. not

6. She will see to it that every Party member ___________ a copy of this document.

A. will get

B. get C: would get D. gets

7. Is it true that those old houses are being pulled down new office blocks?

A. to accommodate

B. to provide for

C. to increase

D. to make room for

8. X-rays are able to pass through objects and thus make details that are otherwise impossible to observe.

A. it visible

B. visibly

C. visible

D. they are visible

9. Western Nebraska generally receives less snow than eastern Nebraska.

A. does

B. in

C. it does in

D. in it does

10. A historical novel may do more than mirror history, future events.

A. even influencing

B. it may even influence

C. may even influence

D. that it may even influence

Part II Cloze (10 points)

Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

It has been established beyond a shadow of doubt that readers in general waste a great deal of time and effort. Why is this (1)? Why is it that the poorest readers by (2) standard are often the

ablest______(3)people? Why is it that the majority of students have very (4) idea of how to tackle __________(5) reading? Why is it that a high (6) of readers—not excluding those ________(7) professional work involves a lot of reading—use a technique that is (8) more advanced than (9) they were children?

Or why __________(10) there people—to take an extreme but illuminating_________(11) —who in conversation and

discussion___________(12) sustain a difficult argument with ease and _________(13) who as readers assimilate only factual information,

and__________(14) that with difficulty, so that worthwhile books are virtually_________(15) them? In our opinion, reading presents technical__________(16) of communication that dispose the reader to use (17) methods of assimilation; this, and only__________(18), can provide an adequate__________(19) of why readers___________(20) a class so inefficient..

1. A) it

2. A) any

3. A) competent

4. A) little B)so

B) the

B) sensible

B) good

C)that

C) their

C) in

C) high

D)kind

D) what

D) of

D) low