天津外国语学院2009年攻读英语语言文学专业硕士学位研究生入学考试样题.doc

天津外国语学院 2009 年攻读英语语言文学专业硕士学位研究生入学考试样题考试科目：基础英语+汉语 （考试时间 180 分钟 总分 150 分） 注：本试卷为水平考试，分别考查学生的词汇量、语法结构、阅读理解、翻译以及汉语等方面的水平和能力，为所有报考我校英语专业硕士研究生的必答题以下是样题，并不是试题全部I. Vocabulary (20points )Directions: Choose the answer that best explains the underlined word or phrase or best fills in the blank in the sentence. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (20points for 20 questions) The following are ten sample questions.1.You talk about it as if it were a grammar school instead of a leading university. A. very largeB. very seriousC. very prestigiousD. very fundamental 2. During the war, the shipping lanes proved vulnerable to attack. A. susceptibleB. futileC. feasibleD. venerable3. Affluent nations have an obligation to help their neighbors.A. large B. wealthyC. advancedD. industrialized4. Companies will address this situation through methods like on-site counseling and the development of special programs.A. go to the spotB. rememberC. recordD. deal with 5. I got out thanks to a college scholarship and because I was a little more articulate than the average.A. able to do addition effectivelyB. able to express one’s thoughts effectivelyC. able to write effectivelyD. able to initiate things effectively 6. Her letter was in such a casual scrawl, and in such pale ink, that it was__________.A. unintelligibleB. eligibleC. ambiguousD. illegible7. The children performed a very________ dance.A. distracting B. graceful C. graciousD. precise8. The room was ________ of furniture.A. absentB. devoidC. inadequateD. scanty9. What he has been saying is completely _____to what we are discussing.A. detachedB. exceptionalC. impertinentD. irrelevant10. The funeral will be _______, and only members of the dead man’s family will attend.A. aloneB. personalC. peculiarD. privateII. Grammatical Structures. (10 points) Directions: In each of the following sentences there are four underlined parts marked A, B ,C and D. Identify the part that is grammatically incorrect.1. We advised him giving up smoking and to do a lot of exercises. A B C D2. If the policeman would have arrived earlier, he would have seen the accident. A B C D3. Malnutrition is a major cause of death in those countries where the cultivation of rice has A B impeded by recurrent drought. C D4. The people along the river survived the recent flood without scarcely any serious casualties or A B Closs of property.D5. Most mammals to maintain a relatively constant body temperature, regardless of what the air A B Ctemperature might be. DIII. Cloze Test (20 points)Directions: There are two short passages in this section. In each passage, ten words or phrases are missing. Fill in each blank with an appropriate word or phrase that best suits the context to complete the passage. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)As a doctor who travels quite a lot, I spent a lot of time on planes listening for that dreaded “Is there a doctor on board?” announcement. I lave been called only once for a woman who had merely fainted. But the __1__ made me quite ___2__ how often this kind of thing happens. I wonder what I would do if confronted with a real midair emergency without access by a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment. So when the New England Journal of Medicine last week published a study about in-flight medical events, I read it with __3__.The study estimated that there are an average of thirty in-flight medical emergencies on US flights every day. Most of them are not __4__. __5__ 13% of them are serious enough to require the pilot to change course. The most common emergencies __6__ heart trouble, stroke and difficulty in breathing.Let’s face it: plane rides are stressful. For starters, cabin pressures at high altitude are set roughly what they would be if you lived at 5000 to 8000 feet above sea level. Most people can __7__ these pressures, but passengers with heart disease __8__ experience chest pain. Another problem is deep venous thrombosis—the so-called economic class syndrome. ___9_ happens, do not panic. Thanks to more recent legislation, __10___ with just one attendant are starting to install emergency medical kits to treat heart attacks. IV. Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions : Read carefully the following passage(s) and then answer the questions. (40 points for 20 questions). The following is a sample passage with five sample questions.Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics—the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is 。