专    业：英语语言文学、外国语言学与应用语言学               科目代码：32l

研究方向：语言教学、语言学、文学、翻译学                     考试科目：基础英语

 

I. Grammar    (30分)

1. Fill in each blank with a Suitable preposition.

  1) They were mostly elected        the workers.

  2) I want two seats    Romeo and Juliet   Friday night.

  3)“They’ve been working on that building    three years. I thought it was going to be finished    last Christmas:”At the rate they are working, it won’ t be finished      next Christmas.”

  4) Remember to be    good time    the opera because if you’re late they won’t let you in    the end    the act.

5) “The museum is open    the morning    ten    twelve.”

“Is it open again    lunch? “Yes, it stays open    four.”

 

2. Change the following into simple sentences, using infinitives or infinitive constructions to replace clauses.

  1) He has no idea how much longer he should wait for her coming.

  2) It is advisable that they should leave the house separately.

  3) The accused pretended that he didn’t understand the lawyer’s question.

  4) The school library declared that these books were obscene.

  5) It is said that the earth was originally part of the sun.

 

3. Change the Verbs in brackets into the most appropriate form of the conditional.

  1) What you (do) if you (be) in my situation?

  2) Their marriage only, lasted three months? If he (be) less mean, she (not leave) him.

  3) If you (smoke) less, you (have) much more money. But I don’t think you ever will.

  4) If we (lock) the car window, we (not give) them the opportunity to break in.

  5) The film was marvelous. If you (come) with us, you (enjoy) it too.

 

II. Vocabulary  (30 分)

1. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.

  1) On Labour Day the workers wi11 march in       through the town.

       a. process   b. procession    c. progress    d. progression

  2) The ink had faded with time and so parts of the letter were       .

       a. illegible   b. illegitimate    c. inscrutable   d. indelible

  3) He has read widely but seldom thought deeply so his apparent learning is really quite      .

       a. superfluous   b. supercilious   c. superficial    d. supernatural

  4) Driving with       brakes endangers not only yourself but also all other road user. you encounter.

        a. deficient   b. insufficient   c. inadequate   d. defective

  5) Poisons should be kept in a place that is        to children.

        a. inaccessible   b. inapplicable   c. insurmountable   d. impracticable

  6) One of the problems local authorities have to deal with is the       of plastic containers.

        a. disposition    b. disposal     c. dispersal    d. dissolution

  7) The law proved so unpopular that it was       by the Government a year later.

        a. repealed      b. taken back   c. repulsed    d. repelled

  8) The floods did not start to       until two days after the rain had stopped.

        a. retreat        b. retire       c. recede      d. sink

  9) I doubt whether he can keep       his efforts much longer as he looks very tired.

        a. on with       b. on         c. up   d. at

  10) The tenant must be prepared to decorate the property       the terms of the agreement.

        a. in relation to   b, by way of   c. with regard to  d. in accordance with

2. Put the letter in the brackets for the word(s) that expresses tae meaning of the word on the left.

1)   (  )  deviate 2)   (  )  salient 3)   (  )  opt 4)   (  )  boisterous 5)   (  )  diversify 6)   (  )  annihilate 7)   (  )  exasperate 8)   (  )  mold 9)   (  )  obliterate 10)  (  )  spontaneous

a. automatic b. adapt e. wipe out d. noisy e. choose f. give variety to g. abnormal h. prominent i. annoy j. destroy

3. For each of the numbered blanks choose one suitable word from the words given below.

the, for, is, must, attend, school, pleasure, opportunity, their, life, early, with, little, to, theoretical, on, one, countryside, in, up;

 

       (1) accumulation of      (2) knowledge is      (3) part of       (4)education but this kind of learning can be and often       (5) carried       (6) excess in many countries so that      (7) time for other interests is available to young people. Not only       (8) they         (9) school      (10) five-hour periods      (11)six days of the week, studying possibly as many as thirteen different subjects, but      (12) addition they may even go to afternoon institutes for further instruction. They have almost no      (13) of taking       (14) any of       (I5) own hobbies or becoming familiar       (I6) the plants and wild life of the              (17) except during their summer holidays.       (18) youth should be a time of exploration and adventure, of reading books for       (19) as well as study, of freedom to enjoy       (20) before the responsibilities of working for a living and raising a family put an end to study, to freedom and only too often to carefree enjoyment.

 

Ⅲ.  Reading  Comprehension    (45 分)

Read the following three passages and answer the questions:

1.

   On one wall of most of the rooms in a modem house hangs a picture whose subject and composition can be changed instantaneously whenever we wish. Yet it is a meticulously exact rendering of the domestic interior it portrays. Walk a few steps and the softly-gleaming bowl of fruit on the sideboard is replaced by a garden landscape, framed by an open french window with roses and lupins radiant in sunlight. But it is a strange picture, for we ourselves are moving about in it: we can eat that fruit and can walk in a copy of the garden.

The mirror world is essentially an irrational one. What lies behind us is assembled before our eyes; we gaze critically at a face we shall never be able to see. This awkward world of objects which we fall over and knock into, which have to be lifted and dragged about for cleaning,) becomes a serene, polished mirror-world of the ideal home, or at worst, a scene of casually elegant disorder. In this untroubled other world, live, one feels, creatures of a dream world, who can appear and disappear silently; our other ideal selves, untouched by emotion or human weakness.

1). Please explain the meaning of this phrase: “a picture whose subject and composition can be changed instantaneously whenever we wish” in your own words,

 

 

2). Please explain the meaning of this sentence “In this untouched other world, live, one feels, creatures of a dream world, who can appear and disappear silently; our other ideal selves, untouched by emotion or human weakness” in your own words.

 

2.  In Los Angles.....once a paradise of free beaches, luxurious parks, and “cruising strips”...genuinely democratic space is virtually extinct. The pleasure domes of elite Westside rely upon the social imprisonment of a third-world service proletariat in increasingly repressive ghettos and barrios. In a city of several million aspiring immigrants (where Spanish-surname children are now almost two-thirds of the school-age population), public amenities are shrinking radically, libraries and playgrounds are closing, parks are falling derelict, and streets are growing ever more desolate and dangerous.

Here, as in other American cities, municipal policy had taken its lead from the security offensive and middle-class demand for increased spatial and social insulation. Taxes previously targeted for traditional facilities have been redirected to support corporate redevelopment projects.A pliant city government....in the case ofLos Angeles, one ironically professing to represent a liberal biracial coalition..... has collaborated in privatizing public space and subsidizing new exclusive enclave (benignly called “urban village”). The celebratory language used to describe contemporary Los Angeles.....urban renaissance,” “city of the future.” and so on......is only a triumphal gloss laid over the brutalization of its inner-city neighborhoods and the stark divisions of class and race represented in its built environment. Urban form obediently follows repressive function.Los Angeles, as always in the vanguard, offers an especially disturbing guide to the emerging liaisons between urban architecture and the police state.

1).Please explain the following phrases from the passage in your plain words:

democratic space:

 

increased spatial and social insulation:

 

the stark divisions of class and race:

 

2).What is the main point of this passage?

 

3.    There is some impertinence as well as some foolhardness in the way in which we buy animals for so much gold and silver and call them ours. One cannot help wondering what the silent critic on the hearthrug thinks of our strange conventions—the mystic Persian*, Whose ancestors were worshipped as gods while we, their masters and mistresses, groveled in caves and painted our bodies blue. She has a vast heritage of experience, which seems to brood in her eyes, too solemn and too subtle for expression; she smiles. I often think, at our late-born civilization, and remembers the rise and fall of dynasties. There is something, too, profane in the familiarity, half contemptuous, with which we treat our animals. We deliberately transplant a little bit of simple wild life, and make it grow up beside ours, which is neither simple nor wild. You may often see in a dog’s eyes a sudden look of the primitive animal, as though he were once more a wild dog, hunting in the solitary places of his youth. How have we the impertinence to make these wild creatures forgo their nature for ours, which at best they can but imitate? It is one of the refined sins of civilization.

*Persian: Persian cat.

Please summarize the main idea of this passage and explain the reasons whether you agree or disagree with it.

IV. Translation     (45 分)

 

A. Translate the following into English

照着镜子，看着，究竟镜子里的那个人，是不是我。这是一个疑问!在课室里听讲的我，在院子里和同学们走着谈着的我，从早到晚，和世界周旋的我，众人所公认以为是我的：究竟那是否真是我，也是一个疑问!众人目中口中的我，和我自己心中的我，是否同为一我，也是一个疑问!

    清夜独坐的我，晓梦初醒的我，一年三百六十五天之中偶然有一分钟一秒钟感到不能言说的境象和思想的我，与课室里上课的我，和世界周旋的我，是否同为一我，也是一个疑问。

    这疑问永远是疑问!这两个我，永远不能分析。

    既没有希望分析他，便须希望联合他

    周旋世界的我呵!在纷扰烦虑的时候，请莫忘却消夜独坐的我!   

    清夜独坐的我呵!在寂静清明的时候也请莫忘却周旋世界的我!

    相顾念!相牵引!拉起手来走向前途去!

    

B. Translate the following into Chinese

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in time of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love they have each for a book—just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third. There is an old proverb, “love me, love my dog.”But there is more wisdom in this: “Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.