北京语言大学外语专业综合水平测试英语历年真题

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Network Education College, BLCU

Language Proficiency Test for

Graduates Majoring in English

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试题卷

Part I Reading Comprehension (1.5 * 20)+5=35%

Section A (30%)

Directions：There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A），B），C）and D）．You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Text A

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker. He was described by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as

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“the best and most just and wisest man.” Yet, the same man was condemned to death for his belief.

The man was the great philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.

Socrates’method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teachings had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, for all his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word.

Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced. Yet, many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.

Socrates had the right to ask for lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as affirm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death sentence. So, he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison hemlock in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.

1. In the first paragraph, the word “yet” is used to introduce_________.

[A] contrast

[B] a sequence

[C] emphasis

[D] an example

2. Socrates was condemned to death because he __________.

[A] believed in law

[B] was a philosopher

[C] published outspoken philosophical articles

[D] advocated original opinions

3. The word “unsurpassed” in the third paragraph is close in meaning to

________.

[A] untold

[B] unequaled

[C] unnoticed

[D] unexpected

4. By mentioning that Socrates himself never wrote anything, the writer

implies that __________.

[A] it was surprising that Socrates was so famous

[B] Socrates was not so learned as he is reputed to have been

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