大连外院2000年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题  

英语语言文学

综合考试

1 Multiple choice 20%

1 Jane looked at an assortment  necklaces before choosing one with green beads.

a.  inexpensive b. a few pieces of c. multi-coloured  d.  a variety of

2.The letter left him in a thoughtful mood.

  a. plausible b. pensive c.  perpetual d. perilous

3. its therapeutic powers remain.

a. curative  b. destructive  c. creative  d. perilous

4. the irate crowd edged closer to the public barricades.

  a.  calm  b  gawking c .large d  angry  

5. the passengers on the boat were mesmerized by the motion of the sea.

  a. paralyzed  b.  gawking c  large d  angry

6. the college students spoke rather glibly .

  a  sincerely b  fluently c  monotonously d  emotionally

7. Tennessee possesses many caverns with gorgeous rock formations .

  a  beautiful b  large c  significant d  flat

8 they thought that it would probably be very lucrative

  a  impressive b  dangerous c  profitable d  risky

9 madame Philipe”s later design catches on

  a  grows more expensive  b  becomes popular

  c  is disregarded d  proves unsuccessful

10 a recent census of home buying patterns shows that many people under 30 are renting

  a  survey b  group  c  profile d  newspaper

11 it seems as though every third sentence he spoke was a cliché

  a  pun b  innovation c  proverb  d  platitude

12 from then on they lives in an ivory tower

  a  a luxurious life b an alert life

  c  a secluded life d  a comfortable life

13 although she scrubbed the old pot thoroughly ,she could not make it look completely clean

  a  disinfected b  scratched c  rinsed d  scoured

14 it takes 20 men 2whole days to clear away the small refuse left on the beach by holiday –makers on a fine Sunday

15 the model that you want is spoken for , but  I”ll see if I can get another

  a  conserved b  preserved c  deserved d reserved

16 there are fossil remains of dinosaurs in the rocky strata of every continent

  a  layers b  areas c  peaks d canyons

17 after leaving a particularly raucous concert ,some rock music fans

  a  crowded b loud c  unpleasant d  lively

18 the law officers in many early western settlements had to maintain order by means of theirguns

  a priests b  marshals c  physicians d  merchants

19 the adjective used most often to describe lee”s movement was lithe

  a graceful b  clumsy c marvelous d  steamy

20 frostbitten fingers and toes should be treated with lukewarm water

  a  frigid b  tepid c boiling  d steamy

2  miss words 15%



his life fall into three clearly marked periods .__1____,there is the period of work in the Philosophic School of  Plato ,the Academy at Athens ,which covers the 20 years from the age of 17 to that of 37 and only comes to an end with the _2__of Plato . next ,there is the __3___of his Wanderjahre __at Assus,in the south of the Troad ,on the island of Lesbos opposite ,and at the Macedonian court in Pella__which covers the dozen years __4___the age of 37 to the 49 and ends with the accession of his pupil Alexander. __5___there is a second period of work in Athens __a period of work on his own account as the head of the Peripatetic School in the Lyceum ___which covers ,roughly ,___6___dozen years of his life (335___332)and ends with his retirement to Chalcis and his death,These ___7___are not only stages in the external course of a life ,they are___8___stages in the internal development  of a body of liberal thought

Aristotle was from first to last an lonian , an observer of the facts nature ,a man for ____9____no problem was too detailed to whet his ___-10____But the development of his thought probably would have ___11____him to detailed scientific inquiry if he had been born an Athenian or a Theban .By 1300Aristotle was the ___12___ “ master of those who know  ”.For Dante ,indeed he was the “philosopher’ :his views run through the De Monarchia.But ,only in the latter __13___of the 19th century,with the development of biological study ,____14___Aristotle the scientist come to be recognized once more and only in the 20th century did the development of his ___15____and the growth of his philosophy of nature begin to be understood .



3  reading comprehension 15%

  question 1---5 are based on the following passage:

  



Vog noun, the humid ,polluted haze resulting from continuous volcanic eruptions and the venting of lava and noxious gasses : “Peter Young, president of the Kona_Klhala Chamber of Commerce , last week said the /Kilaues/ volcano and its vog… have been a’mixed blessing ‘for the big island .The positive benefits are that it is a draw for the visitor industry and provides recreational opportunities for residents .At the same time , environmentally it has had an impact on the sky and air .We cant rely on waking up in the morning and seeing clear skies any more , Young said ”(Pacific Business News )

BACKGROUND: We have more than 50 citations for vog ,a blend of volcanic and fog or smog , the earliest taken from the August ,1984,issue of Life Vog ,thought to be mainly composed of sulfur dioxide oxidized into sulfates,obstructs the sun’s rays, products acid rain ,generates fly ash ,and can be dangerous to health,especially to people already experiencing respiratory problem.In January of this year the Hawaii County Council formed the Hawaii County Vog Authority ,a panel of medical and volcanicexperts and government leaders convened to deal with the severe problems engendered by the continuous eruption of Kilaues, which has caused vog to spread over the islands as far as Honolulu,150mils from the site of the eruption ,

White __coat hypertension ,noun a transitory elevation in brood pressure thought to be caused by anxiety related to the presence physician or other health _care professional .Also called cuff hypertension ,office hypertension, “you may be suffering “whitecoat hypertension”. That means your blood pressure goes up in the presence of your doctor ”(Springfield , Mass. Union News)21% of 292 patients with untreatederline  hypertension …were found to have normaldaytime ambulatory pressures … These patients were defined as having white coat hypertension (Journal of the American Medical Association )

BACKGROUD : A review of the citations that we have accrued for this term from the medical literature suggests that the incidence of white-coat hypertension may vary according to a number of factors ,including the gender, race and status of the attending health-care professional .The article in JAMA also indicates that white-coat hypertension more commonly seen in patients who are “female and younger,…weighless and were recently diagnosed ”than it is in other patients .

1.  vog , blend of volcanic and fog ,_________

A has both favorable and unfavorable

B has provided many jobs for the people nearby

C is a pure blessing to the people nearby

D is a disaster to the people nearby

2.  the Hawaii Country Council has taken actions against vog because _____

A  it will exhaust natural resources  B it is dangerous to health

C  it causes airbrush it does harm to the car D it does harm to the car  

3 which of the following is not true about white-coat hypertension?

A Hypertension caused anxiety in the presence of the doctor is called white-coat hypertension

B White-coat hypertension is an elevation of blood pressure caused by white clothes people wear .

C Hypertension is transitory  

D women and young people are apt to suffer hypertension

4  Both vog and white-coat hypertension have thins in common ,for instance

A  Both have sth concerning health B  both deal with anxiety both are common on medicine  C both are written by experts

5  this passage can best be included in a dictionary of ________

A  etmology B  fables C  idioms  D  word usage







Questions 6----10are based on the following passage
By far most important products of New Zealand are those of its pasture fields . Its mild ,most climate is favourable to the growth of grass ,and enables both cattle and sheep to feed out –of –doors all the year round .The favourable climate,then,makes the industry possible.The soils too are generally favourable .On the other hand ,the raising of great number of animals and the export of  their products was not profitable until two handicaps were overcome. New Zealand is far from the lands that might consume its meat and butter. The use of refrigeration overcame this difficulty . Secondly,the native grasses sown instead .This has much improved the pastures .

  Generally speaking, sheep are chiefly found in the drier eastern districts Canterbury

Plains,Otago,Hawke Bay. Their wool used to be most important product of the islands ,the merino breeds being specially valuable for this purpose .Since refrigeration was introduced the carcases of the sheep and lambs have became a valuable part of the product of the flocks,and for this purpose other breeds have partly replaced the merino .In North Island the English Romney Marsh type is the commonest .In earlier times there were more sheep in the South  than in the North ;now with increasing attention to cross-bred flocks ,the reverse is the case .Few men are needed to look after great flocks of sheep ,so the sheep farms are very large and the homes very scattered, especially in the hillier districts .Most of the farmers keep flocks of at least a thousand sheep .Shearing is done in the spring and early summer by expert shearers who go from farm to farm .With the aid of their electrically-operated clippers they can shear as many as fifteen to twenty sheep each per hour.The animals for export are mainly lambs which have been bought from the breeders and fattened on the smaller and richer valley farm.they are brought to the ports ,mainly by train and there slaughtered under the supervision of government inspectors .Only approved carcases are allowed to be exported , and of some seven million sent away each year more than six and a half come to Britain.

Like the sheep,cattle are kept for two purposes ,for their meat and for the milk products the living animals provide.They are much more numerous in the north Island than in the South Island .Those intended for beef can be raised for a time on the coarser tussock grasses ,but are brought down to be fattened on richer food before being slaughtered . Some crops ,such as maize and Lucerne,are specially grown for this purpose .The dairy cattle ,however,get the pick of the pasture land .They call,too,for more attention than either sheep or beef cattle , and so the dairy farms are less extensive and closer together. Billages and small market towns are much more numerous than in other parts of the Dominion/Machinery is useed to lessen the labour of milking so that three or four men can tend a herd of about a hundred cows ..The cream is usually separated from the milk on the farm and sent to a local factory where the produce from all the farms in the district is made into butter . These factories are similar to the creameries of Ireland .The factory is usually owned cooperatively by the farms , and , of course ,they share its profits .The butter is packed uniformly in 50pound boxes and kept in cold storage till sent to the port for shipment .Here it is government inspected and ,if approved the cases are stamped and placed at once in the cold chambers of the exporting vessel .Some of the factories make cheese as well as butter,and these two products together have sometimes rivaled meat and wool for the leading place among new Zealand exports .

6  The products of the pastoral industry are mainly _______

  A  meat of sheep and cattle  B meat of sheep and milk

D  wool and milk  D both A and C

7  Before they could make money from raising larger numbers of animals and exporting their products , the new Zealanders had to overcome two difficulties .They are -------------.

A The use of refrigeration and improvement of the pastures

B The breeding of dairy cattle and sheep  

C the shearing of sheep and the changing of grass

D the changing the climate and introduction  of machines

8  In  New Zealand ,products ________

A are exported to England for nothing  

B can’t be exported without the inspection of government officials concerned  

C are consumed at home

C are sold together with milk powder

9  Shearing and milking in new Zealand ________

A are done by machines now B are done in an ancient way

C  are half done  by machines D are done by experts

10  Which of the following statements is not true of the last paragraph

A  Cattle are kept for meat and milk products .

B  Some special crops are grown to fatten cattle for beef

C  Every butter box weighs 50 pounds

D  There is a heated competition for exports in new Zealand

Questions 11--------15are based on the following passage
At last she spoke to me . when she addressed the first words to me I was So confused that I did not know what to answer .  she asked me if I was going to Araby . I forgot whether I answered yes or no . it would be a splendid bazaar ,she said she would love to go .

“And why cant you? ”I asked .

while she spoke she turned a silver bracelet round and round her wrist .She could not go ,she said ,because there would be a gathering for prayer and meditation in her convent school .Her brother and two other boys were fighting for their caps and I was alone at the railings .She held one of the spikes ,bowing her head towards me .the light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck ,lit up her hair that rested there and ,falling ,lit up the hand upon the railing .It fell over one side of her dress and caught the white border of petticoat ,just visible as she stood at ease .

It’s well for you , she said .

If I go , I said , I will bring you sth

What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening ! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days .i chaffed against the work of school .at night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and page I strove to read . the syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me .i asked for leave to go to the bazaar on Saturday night . my aunt was surprised . I answered few questions in class . I watched the master’s face pass from amiability to sternness. He hoped  I was not beginning to idle . I could not call my wandering thought together . I had hardly and patience with serious work of life which ,now that it stood between me and my desire , seemed to my child’s play , ugly monotonous child’ s play  .

11.From the passage we can infer that the girl who spoke to the narrator was ______

A  the narrator’s girl friend

B  the person the narrator had a crush on

C  the narrator’s sister

D  the narrator’s lover

12. Why did the narrator wish to annihilate the tedious intervening days

  A because he could not sleep after evening

B because he lost his patience with the girl

C because he wanted to go school

D because he was very anxious to go to the bazaar to buy sth for the girl

13. The statement that  “at night in my bedroom and by day in the classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read ”indicates________

A the girl tried to stop his reading

B the narrator was thinking of going to Araby all the time

C the narrator was distracted

D Araby cast Eastern enchantment over him

14. Serious work of life in the last sentence of the passage refers to ________

A  his studies at school  

B  his love affairs with the girl

C the child’s play

D going to Araby to buy sth for the girl

15.  From the passage we can infer that _________

A  the girl is from a religious family

B  the girl is older than the narrator

C  the girl is the narrator’s classmate

D  the girl loves narrator very much

4  : Translate the following into Chinese : 25%

  miss Emily had been a tradition ,aduty ,and a care ; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town ,dating from that day in 1894when Colonel Sartoris , the mayor ---he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the street without an apron ___remitted her taxes ,the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity .not that miss Emily would have accepted charity .Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town ,which the town ,as a matter of business, preferred this way of replaying only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented it ,and only a woman could have believed it

5 Writing 25%
Advantages and disadvantages of Chinese Value “Harmony”

Write a passage of about 200 words . in the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details .  in the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary or suggestion . Marks will be awarded for organization as well as for syntactic variety and appropriate word choice .