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华南理工大学2006年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试英语题型

1．英语知识运用：一段文章，共10小题，每小题1分，共10分。2．阅读A：5篇短文，共20小题，每题2分，共40分。

3．阅读B：一篇文章，其中有5个空白，在文章后面的6~7个选段中选择最适合的内容分别填进空白处。每小题3分，共15分。4．英译汉：一篇文章，有5段划线句子，要求译成汉语。每小题3分，共15分。

5．写作：依据所提示信息写一篇200－250词（标点符号不计在内）的短文，20分。

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攻读博士学位研究生入学考试英语样题Part I. Use of English (l0 points)

Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and marked A, B C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.

Unlike many ants, trees grow slowly. Thirty to eighty years are necessary before a tree grows to the right size for harvesting as lumber or pulpwood. But a tree crop can be a good investment for a landowner or farmer, since trees will grow on the parts of his land where ordinary crops will not grow.

Trees 1 much more than provide lumber for home building. They provide raw materials for making paper, plastics, synthetics, turpentine, and other products. Even more important, trees protect the nation‟s water supply by holding 2 erosion and keeping water in the soil.

America once had huge natural forests. To start their 3 , pioneers cleared many trees. Later, logging crews 4 by lumber companies moved into other forests. They cut all the valuable trees, and then moved on..

There were few 5 to protect our forests or to plant new ones until the beginning of the present century. Then, 6 with forest experts, government officials, and landowners, the lumber companies began planning to support the planting of new forests. The American Tree Far System, begun during World War II, is one of the plans that grew 7 this cooperation.

Landowners who wish to establish tree farms can get help from a professional. state-employed forester, or from an association of lumber companies. They can get 8 on what kind of trees to plant and how to care for them. Landowners must protect their trees by keeping grazing animals 9 and by removing dead or diseased trees. They must keep replanting, so that young trees are growing at all times to replace those 10 for cutting.

Some tree farms are small woodlots. Others cover thousands of acres. All together, they are of great value to the United States and its people.

1. A. create B. devote C. have D. do

2. A. on B. down C. back D. off

3. A. production B. farms C. crops D. factories

4. A. controlled B. distributed C. employed D. monitored

5. A. forces B. hardships C. efforts D. struggles

6. A. working B. going C. staying D. together

7. A. out of B. from C. upon D. up

8. A. courage B. advice C. confidence D. lesson

9. A. under B. away C. from D. out

10. A. standing B. caring C. safe D. ready

Part II. Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions: Read the following five texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)

Passage 1

Grandma Moses is among the most celebrated twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she had barely started painting before she was in her late seventies. As she once said of herself: … I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for some one to help me.‟ No one could have had a more Productive old age.

She was born Anna Mary Robertson on a farm in New York State, one of five boys and five girls (…We came in bunches, like radishes‟) At twelve she left home and was in domestic service until, at twenty-seven, she married Thomas Noses, the hired hand of one of her employers. They farmed most of their lives, first in Virginia and then in New York State, at Eagle Bridge. She had ten children, of whom five survived; her husband died in l927.

Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby, but only switched to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time. Her pictures were first sold at the local drugstore and at a fair, and were soon spotted by a dealer who bought everything she painted. Three of the pictures were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1940 she had her first exhibition in New York. Between the 1930‟s and her death she produced so me 2,000 pictures: detailed and lively portrayals of the rural life she had known for so long, with a marvelous sense of color and form. …I think real hard till I