1、宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 1 页 共 9 页I. Vocabulary (30 points)This part consists of two sections.Section ADirections: Choose one of the four alternatives which is closest
2、 in meaning to theunderlined word or phrase and mark the corresponding letter. Please write youranswers on the Answer Sheet.(120 points).1.He avowed his commitment to those ideals.A. acknowledgedB. convertedC. conformedD. renounced2.The political dissident was accused of instigating a plot to overth
3、row the government.A. devisingB. supportingC. fundingD. provoking3.I wish you two would stop bickering.A. complainingB quarrelingC. bargainingD murmuring4.The defendant is facing severe verdict despite the appeal for clemency by his lawyer.A. forgivingB. releaseC. leniencyD. impartiality5.The little
4、 boy listened, enthralled by the Captains story.A. fascinatedB. swindledC. shockedD. bored6.I was impressed by his expertise on landing craft.A. encouragementB. special skillC. shrewdnessD. eloquence7.Your action is a breach of our university regulations.A. observationB. violationC. creationD. attac
5、k8.Subsequent events vindicated his policy.A. predicateB. swingC. dilateD. verify9.Drug smuggling carries a mandatory death penalty in most countries in the world.A. impulsiveB. multicoloredC. obligatoryD. laughable10. Morality, for him, was doing what is expedient.A. undesirableB. unavailableC adva
6、ntageousD. inappropriate11.“The giant was big” is a tautological statement, to say the least.A .tightB. redundantC.illogicalD.relative宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 2 页 共 9
7、页12.There is an embargo on any more video games coming into the custom house.A. landing place B. prohibitionC. violationD. permission13.Youngsters are usually more impetuous than old people.A. impatientB. immatureC. impulsiveD. imperial14.Unfortunately, Ill spend the weekend doing a bunch of prosaic
8、 chores.A. dullB. practicalC. trivialD. rhyming15.The crowd at the town meeting found the mayors assurance too glib.A. sarcasticB. flashyC. maliciousD. readily fluent16.Gazing at the crystalline lake, I decided it was too beautiful to swim in.A. breakableB. futuristicC. delicateD. sparkling17.We can
9、not vacillate on the question of the partys leadership.A. leadB. doubtC. checkD. repeat18.It is more difficult for a chronic smoker to give up the habit than for a novice, but itcan be done.A. constantB. waveringC. disciplinedD. indecisive19.They were furious when one of their best managers was poac
10、hed by another companyA. headhuntedB. punchedC. plunderedD. probed20.The ink had faded with time and so parts of the letter were unreadable.A. indelibleB. inscrutableC. illegibleD. illegitimateSection BThere are ten words or phrases underlined in the following sentences. You arerequired to use other
11、 English words or phrases to explain them with the meaningsthat best suit those sentences (110 points).For example: Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my great eloquence.Answer:quick and witty tongue.1.He was a fool to chuck himself away on such a frivolous woman.2.Yet many Japanese seem m
12、ore at ease with the idea of stately decline and genteel isolation.3.I think I can coax father into increasing my pocket money.4.She grinned derisively while I seethed with rage.宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语
13、语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 3 页 共 9 页5.Now I determined to step in myself and to allay her scruples with a portion of the truth.6.Her comeliness overwhelmed him.7.We respectfully solicit your continuous friendship and patronage.8.The statue has a gentleness, an ambience, a wistful elegance.9
14、.There is a pernicious culture of excellence: everything has to be not merely good but the best.10.Many values taught by religion are reinforced by society through more secular systems.II.Cloze (20 points)Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. You are required to fillthe words
15、 or phrases in them that best complete the passage to make a smooth andlogical reading semantically, syntactically and textually. The words that you use to fillin the blanks can be any that you think are suitable and able to make the passagesmooth in meaning and grammar. Please write your answers on
16、 the Answer Sheet.I find（1） _wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in（2） _ ,even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I（3） _to be alone. I never found thecompanion that was （4）_companionable as solitude. We are for the most part （5）_lonely when we go abroad among men
17、 than when we （6）_in our chambers. Aman thinking or working is always （6）_ , let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured（7）_ the miles of space that intervene （8）_a man and his fellows. The reallydiligent （9） _ in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as （10）_asa derris in the dese
18、rt. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods （11）_ day, hoeingor chopping, and not feel lonesome, （12） _ he is employed; but when he comes home at nighthe（13） _sit down in a room alone, at the mercy（14） _his thoughts, but mustbe where he can see the folks, and recreate, and, as he thinks,
19、 remunerate himself（15） _hisdays solitude; and hence he wonders（16） _ the student can sit alone in the house all night andmost of the day without ennui and the blues; （17） _ he does not realize that the student, （18）_ in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his （19）_ , as the fa
20、rmer inhis, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a（20）_condensed form of it. （from “Solitude ” by H. D. Thoreau)宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语
21、言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 4 页 共 9 页III. Error Detection and Correction (20 points)Directions: There are twenty errors in the following passage. Youshould detectand correct all the errors. Please write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Marxist Criticism is a criticism based on the historical, economic, an
22、d sociology1theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. According to Marxism, the conscious2of a given class in a given historical moment derives modes of material production.3The set of beliefs, values, attitudes, and ideas that constitute the consciousness of this4class forms a ideological superstru
23、cture, and this ideological superstructure is5shaped and determined by the material infrastructure and economic base. Hence the6term historic materialism. Marxism assumes the ontological priority of matter7above mind and sees mind as the product of historical forces. There is thus a dialectical8rela
24、tionship between the literature work and its socio-historical background.9Dialectical criticism focuses on the causal connections of the content or form10of the work and the economic, class, social, or ideological factors that shape and11determines that content and form. Bourgeois writers, for examp
25、le, inevitably propagate a12bourgeois ideology that seeks to universalizing the status quo, to see it as natural rather13than historical. The notion that there is a one-to-one correspondence to the class14consciousness of the writer, the ideology of the work, and the society-historical15background o
26、ut of which it emerges is often labeled vulgarly Marxism, even by16Marxists themselves. Sophisticated Marxism, however, like Fredric Jameson17points out, is concerned with the influence of the given social raw material, not only18on the content, but on the very form of the work themselves. The diale
27、ctical19interaction of work and background, this fact of sheer interrelationship, is prior of20any of the conceptual categories, such as causality, reflection, or analogy,subsequentlyevoked to explain it.宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称
28、：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 5 页 共 9 页IV. Reading Comprehension (30 points)Directions: There are three sections in this item with a passage in each section.Section A requires you to read a passage and provide a brief answer to each of thegiven questions. Section B re
29、quires you to read and judge whether the relevantstatements are true or false. Section C requires you to read and then write asummary of it. Remember to write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Section A. (10 points)By the mid-century there emerged a trend in writing that favored a new approach to con
30、structingthe novel that abandoned many of the time-honored traditions of form. Indeed, there has been debateabout whether many of the works of the times should rightly be considered novels at all. Although notall writers of the period pursued experimental methods, two of them, William Burroughs and
31、HenryMiller, served as exemplary figures.William Burroughs published journals depicting his travels through South America and NorthAfrica. He was heavily influenced by his encounter with foreign languages and associations with strangecustoms. The impact of his experiences on his writing led to a uni
32、quely detached style. Often it isdifficult to determine who is telling the stories, or where the characters have come from. In his mostcelebrated work Naked Lunch, Burroughs is said to have physically cut up the manuscript and pasted itback together, to further disturb the conventional notion of nar
33、ration. Although these writing techniquesdid not boost initial sales of his works, American academia accepts him as an important practitioner ofliterary theory.Henry Miller wrote about his personal life in a depth that previous authors had avoided. In order tobetter expose compulsive desires, he use
34、d very graphic language to describe the details of his intimaterelationships. His books Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer were banned in some states whenthey were first published. Although there are disagreements about Millers moral positions, he isacknowledged as an important contributor to
35、mid-twentieth century American fiction.1. What is the main topic of this passage?2. What did the passage preceding this one probably discuss?3. What can we assume about Burroughs earlier works?4. What is the most difficult aspect of reading the book Naked Lunch?5. What can we infer about the works o
36、f the two men?宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 6 页 共 9 页Section B.( 10 points)Shakespeares sonnets are very different from Shakespeares plays, but they do contain dramaticelem
37、ents and an overall sense of story. Each of the poems deals with a highly personal theme, and eachcan be taken on its own or in relation to the poems around it. The sonnets have the feel ofautobiographical poems, but we dont know whether they deal with real events or not, because no oneknows enough
38、about Shakespeares life to say whether or not they deal with real events and feelings, sowe tend to refer to the voice of the sonnets as “the speaker”as though he were a dramatic creation likeHamlet or King Lear.There are certainly a number of intriguing continuities throughout the poems. The first
39、126 of thesonnets seem to be addressed to an unnamed young nobleman, whom the speaker loves very much;the rest of the poems (except for the last two, which seem generally unconnected to the rest of thesequence) seem to be addressed to a mysterious woman, whom the speaker loves, hates, and lusts fors
40、imultaneously. The two addressees of the sonnets are usually referred to as the “young man” and the“dark lady”; in summaries of individual poems, I have also called the young man the “beloved” andthe dark lady the “lover,” especially in cases where their identity can only be surmised. Within thetwo
41、mini-sequences, there are a number of other discernible elements of “plot”: the speaker urges theyoung man to have children; he is forced to endure a separation from him; he competes with a rivalpoet for the young mans patronage and affection. At two points in the sequence, it seems that theyoung ma
42、n and the dark lady are actually lovers themselvesa state of affairs with which the speakeris none too happy. But while these continuities give the poems a narrative flow and a helpful frame ofreference, they have been frustratingly hard for scholars and biographers to pin down. InShakespeares life,
43、 who were the young man and the dark lady?Of all the questions surrounding Shakespeares life, the sonnets are perhaps the most intriguing.At the time of their publication in 1609 (after having been written most likely in the 1590s and shownonly to a small circle of literary admirers), they were dedi
44、cated to a “Mr. W.H,” who is described asthe “onlie begetter” of the poems. Like those of the young man and the dark lady, the identity of thisMr. W.H. remains an alluring mystery. Because he is described as “begetting” the sonnets, andbecause the young man seems to be the speakers financial patron,
45、 some people have speculated thatthe young man is Mr. W.H. If his initials were reversed, he might even be Henry Wriothesley, theEarl of Southampton, who has often been linked to Shakespeare in theories of his history. But all ofthis is simply speculation: ultimately, the circumstances surrounding t
46、he sonnets, their cast ofcharacters and their relations to Shakespeare himself, are destined to remain a mystery.宁波大学宁波大学 20172017 年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题年硕士研究生招生考试初试试题( (B B 卷卷) )(答案必须写在考点提供的答题纸上)科目代码科目代码:661科目名称：科目名称：基础英语基础英语适用专业适用专业:英语语言文学英语语言文学 外国语言学及应用语言学外国语言学及应用语言学 翻译学翻译学第 7 页 共 9 页Decide whether the f
47、ollowing statements are true (T) or false (F).1.According to this passage, Shakespeares sonnets might have contained a continuity of love story.2.The speaker of Shakespeares sonnets is perfectly happy with both the young noble man and the“dark lady”, according to the passage.3.Shakespeares sonnets w
48、ere dedicated to a “W.H.”, who must be Henry Wriothesley, the Earl ofSouthampton.4.It could be inferred from the passage that most life stories about Shakespeare are conjectures.5.Shakespeare wrote 153 sonnets, all of which have the feel of autobiographical poems.Section C ( 10 points)Read the follo
49、wing passage and write a summary of it within 200 words.Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to heras gently as possible the news of her husbands death.It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in
50、halfconcealing. Her husbands friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in thenewspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallards nameleading the list of killed. He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second te
