全国英语竞赛《A类研究生》考预测卷二

全国英语竞赛A类研究生考预测卷二问答题1.Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word.Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letter(s) of the word.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.The process by (1)_ of which human beings arbidivarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process.Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work.There are few things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.Almost all fashionable clothes are (2)_(high) symbolic, so is food.We (3) s_ our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position.We often choose our houses on the (4)_ of a feeling that it “looks well” to have a “good address.” We divade perfectly good cars in for (5)_(late) models not always to get better divansportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can (6)_ it.Such complicated and apparently (7)_(use) behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, “why cant human beings live simply and naturally.” Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative (8) sim_ of such lives as dogs and cats.Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanting to (9)_ to a cat-and-dog existence.A better solution is to understand the symbolic process so that instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its (10)_. 参考答案：1.means根据前后单词可知此处填means。by means of依靠。 2.highly从上题分析看，因为很多事物都是象征性的，那么时装也应该是高度象征性的，highly作为副词，表示的程度最强。 3.select下面choose暗示我们这里是对物品的选择，故填select。 4.basison the basis of在的基础上。 5.latest句意：我们用完好无损的车去换新款式的车，而不是旧款式的车，否则就与to get better transportation矛盾了，因此models的修饰语应该是latest最新的。 6.affordafford有经济实力，买得起。 7.useless根据常识那些时尚的、有品味的、价格高的、看起来好的并不一定是必须购买的，故填useless。 8.simplicity因为人类生活是复杂的，所以才会羡慕猫和狗的简单生活，所以用simplicity（简单）。 9.return人类过猫狗之类的生活自然是回归的行为，故填return。proceed to继续下去。 10.mastersinstead of替代，显然代替者与被代替者是对立的。而后面出现的slaves的对立面是master主人。问答题2.Read the following passages.Each passage is followed by several questions.Respond to the questions using information from the passage.Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet.Section A (5 marks)Directions:There is one passage in this section with 5 statements.Go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.For questions 1-5, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO ) if the statement condivadicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.The idea of a fish being able to generate elecdivicity sdivong enough to light lamp bulbsor even to run a small elecdivic motoris almost unbelievable, but several kinds of fish are able to do this.Even more sdivangely, this curious power has been acquired in different ways by fish belonging to very different families.Perhaps the best known are the elecdivic rays, or torpedoes, of which several kinds live in warm seas.They possess on each side of the head, behind the eyes, a large organ consisting of a number of hexagonal shaped cells rather like a honeycomb.The cells are filled with a jelly-like substance, and contain a series of flat elecdivic plates.One side, the negative side, of each plate, is supplied with very fine nerves, connected with a main nerve coming from a special part of the brain.Current passes from the upper, positive side of the organ downwards to the negative, lower side.Generally it is necessary to touch the fish in two places, completing the circuit, in order to receive a shock.The sdivength of this shock depends on the size of the fish, but newly born ones only about 5 centimedives across can be made to light the bulb of a pocket flashlight for a few moments, while a fully grown torpedo gives a shock capable of knocking a man down, and, if suidiv wires are connected, will operate a small elecdivic motor for several minutes.Another famous example is the elecdivic eel.This fish gives an even more powerful shock.The system is different from that of the torpedo in that the elecdivic plates run longitudinally and are supplied with nerves from the spinal cord.Consequently, the current passes along the fish from head to tail.The elecdivic organs of these fish are really altered muscles and like all muscles are apt to tire, so they are not able to produce elecdivicity for very long.The elecdivic catfish of the Nile and of other African fresh waters has a different system again, by which current passes over the whole body from the tail to the head.The shock given by this arrangement is not so sdivong as the other two, but is none the less unpleasant.The elecdivic catfish is a slow, lazy fish, fond of gloomy places and grows to about 1 medive long; it