1、 宁波大学宁波大学 2015 年攻读硕士学位研究生年攻读硕士学位研究生 入入 学学 考考 试试 试试 题题(A 卷卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上) 考试科目考试科目: 基础英语基础英语 科目代码：科目代码： 661 适用专业适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学 第 1 页 共 9 页 I. Vocabulary (20 points) Directions: There are two sections in this item, which test your use of vocabulary. Remember to writ
2、e your answers on the Answer Sheet. Section A. Multiple choices. Choose an answer from A, B, C and D that best explains the underlined word or phrase in each of the following sentences (0.5 20 points). 1. Being unique, the biggest and the best, New York didnt have to assert how special it was. A. pr
3、oclaim B. assess C. ensure D. insert 2. Bargaining is the order of the day, and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop. A. ask B. requirement C. routine D. purchase 3. The movement for abolition is headed there by my old friend and publisher, Mr. Victor Gollancz. A. beheaded B. led
4、C. moved D. run 4. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards. A. downward B. wayward C. sideward D. outward 5. What they wanted was an America more sensitive to art and culture, less avid for material gain, and less susceptible to standardization. A.
5、atrocious B. averse C. avaricious D. avowed 6. Just as I was beginning to find the ride long, the taxi screeched to a halt, and the driver got out and went over to the policeman to ask the way. A. gave a sudden screech B. stopped suddenly with a screech C. stopped because it screeched D. screeched a
6、nd had to stop 7. All the processions wound towards the north side of the city, where on the great water-meadow called the Green Fields boys and girls naked in the bright air, exercised their horses before the race. A. thrust B. injured C. hurt D. zigzagged 8. The doctor at my side explained and com
7、mented upon the old mans story. A. novel B. fiction C. experience D. plot 9. Man emerges from nature by mastering her; he develops his power of reason and his sense of beauty. A. nature B. woman C. his wife D. female 10. I got a curious nature, maam. Howd you figure where he was? 宁波大学宁波大学 2015 年攻读硕士
8、学位研究生年攻读硕士学位研究生 入入 学学 考考 试试 试试 题题(A 卷卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上) 考试科目考试科目: 基础英语基础英语 科目代码：科目代码： 661 适用专业适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学 第 2 页 共 9 页 A. number B. say C. guess D. prove 11. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. A. nation B. place C. state D.
9、kingdom 12. With calculated coolness the Duchess reasoned: the situation came down to one essential. A. computed B. counted C. controlled D. amounted 13. In a computer, money is sequences of digital signals endlessly recorded, erased, processed, and reprocessed, and endlessly modified by other compu
10、ters. A. knowledge B. significance C. information D. signs 14. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic. A. appear B. face C. survive D. swim 15. I deposited her at the girls dormitory, where she assured me that sh
11、e had had a perfectly terrif evening, and I went glumly to my room. A. hadback B. gotback C. savedback D. sentback 16. It will be safer to walk the streets because people will not need to carry large amounts of cash; virtually all financial transactions will be conducted by computer. A. practically
12、B. possibly C. probably D. needlessly 17. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. A. devotion B. faith C. determination D. development 18. In the dreary winter of 1864-65 in Angles Camp, Mark Twain, our great writer, k
13、ept a notebook. A. kept money in the book B. kept an exercise book C. kept notes to the book D. kept writing about his experience 19. After a dozen years of devoted work it suddenly drops dead, whereupon its master tips it into the ditch and the village dogs have torn its guts out before it is cold.
14、 A. descends B. falls C. decreases D. reduces 20. In the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in that Westmore land valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion. A. drive B. pluck C. motion D. punch 宁波大学宁波大学 2015 年攻读硕士学位研究生年攻读硕士学位研究生 入入 学学
15、 考考 试试 试试 题题(A 卷卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上) 考试科目考试科目: 基础英语基础英语 科目代码：科目代码： 661 适用专业适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学 第 3 页 共 9 页 Section B. Lexical interpretation. There are ten words or phrases underlined in the following sentences. You are required to use other English words or phrases to expl
16、ain them with the meanings that best suit those sentences (1 10 points). For example: Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. Answer: great eloquence 1. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous poi
17、nt where the ice was thinner. 2. As the wind mounted to a roar, the house began leaking the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. 3. After the preliminary sparring over legalities, Darrow got up to make his opening statement. 4. Later, Grandmother Koshak reflected: We lost practically all o
18、ur possessions, but the family came through it. 5. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation. 6. While the mayor went on with his speech in praise of southern Japanese sea food, I cautiously backed
19、away and headed toward the far side of the room. 7. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. 8. Interactivity may be the biggest buzzword of the moment, but convergence is a close second. It means differen
20、t things to different people. 9. This confused echo of modern literature and modern science defines the choice before us. 10. All languages are dynamic rather than static, and hence a rule in any language can only be a statement of contemporary practice. II. Cloze (20 points) Directions: There are t
21、wenty blanks in the following passage. You are required to fill the words or phrases in them that best complete the passage to make a smooth and logical reading semantically, syntactically and textually. The words that you use to fill in the blanks can be any that you think are suitable and able to
22、make the passage smooth in meaning and grammar. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married the 26-(1)_-old Anne Hathaway. The ceremony may 宁波大学宁波大学 2015 年攻读硕士学位研究生年攻读硕士学位研究生 入入 学学 考考 试试 试试 题题(A 卷卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上) 考试科目考试科目: 基础英语基础英语 科目代码：科目代码： 661 适用专业适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学 第 4 页
23、 共 9 页 have (2) _ arranged in some haste, and six months after the marriage Anne (3) _ birth to a daughter, Susanna (4) _ 1583. Twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later in 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes (5) _ the age of 11 in 1596. After the birth of the (6) _, Sha
24、kespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of (7) _ name in the complaints bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court (8) _ Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 (9) _ 1589. Scholars refer to the years
25、 between 1585 and 1592 (10) _ Shakespeares lost years. Biographers attempting to account (11) _ this period have reported many apocryphal stories. Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeares first biographer, recounted a Stratford legend (12) _ Shakespeare fled the town for London (13) _ escape prosecution for deer
26、 poaching in the estate of local squire Thomas Lucy. Shakespeare is also supposed to (14)_ taken his revenge on Lucy by writing a scurrilous ballad (15) _ him. Another 18th-century story has Shakespeare starting his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London. John Aubrey repor
27、ted (16) _ Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster. Some 20th-century scholars have suggested that Shakespeare may have been employed (17) _ a schoolmaster by Alexander Hoghton of Lancashire, a Catholic landowner (18) _ named a certain William Shakeshafte in his will. Little evidence substantiat
28、es such stories other than hearsay collected (19) _ his death, and Shakeshafte was a common name (20) _ the Lancashire area. III. Error Detection and Correction (20 points) Directions: There are twenty-one errors in the following passage. You may detect and correct either twenty of them or more than
29、 that. When you get more than twenty correct answers, your scores will not surpass twenty. Remember to write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Thomas Hardy is born in 1840 in Higher Bockhampton, where his father Thomas work as a stonemason and local builder. His mother Jemima was good-read, and she
30、educated Thomas until he went to his first school at age eight. For several year he attended Mr. Lasts Academy as Young Gentlemen in Dorchester. Here he learned Latin and demonstrated academic potentially. Because Hardys family lacked the mean for a university education, his formal education ended a
31、t age sixteen, when him became apprenticed to James Hicks, a local architect. Hardy trained as an architect in Dorchester before move to London in 1862; there he enrolled like a student at Kings College London. He winned prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Ass
32、ociation. Hardy was with charge of the excavation of the graveyard of St Pancras Old Church priorly to its destruction when the Midland Railway was extending to a new terminus at St Pancras. But Hardy ever felt at home in London, because he were acutely conscious of class divisions and his social (1
33、)_ (2)_ (3)_ (4)_ (5)_ (6)_ (7)_ (8)_ (9)_ (10)_ (11)_ (12)_ (13)_ (14)_ (15)_ (16)_ 宁波大学宁波大学 2015 年攻读硕士学位研究生年攻读硕士学位研究生 入入 学学 考考 试试 试试 题题(A 卷卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上) 考试科目考试科目: 基础英语基础英语 科目代码：科目代码： 661 适用专业适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学 第 5 页 共 9 页 inferiority. However, during this time he
34、became interesting in social reform and the working of John Stuart Mill. He was also introduced by his hometown friends Horace Moule to the works of Charles Fourier and Auguste Comte. Five years later, concerning about his health, he returned home, and decided to dedicating himself to writing. (17)_
35、 (18)_ (19)_ (20)_ (21)_ IV. Sentence Paraphrase (10 points) Directions: There are five long or difficult sentences underlined in the following passage. You are required to paraphrase them in your own words according to the context. Remember to write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (1) The battle
36、that will decide the future of the English is going on all round us. At this time of writing, we in England are in the middle of it. I must add that while Englishness can still fight on, Admass (that is, a system of commercial marketing that attempts to influence great masses of consumers by mass-me
37、dia advertising) could be winning. There are various reasons why this may be happening. (2) To begin with, not all the English hold fast to Englishness. (3) Some important and influential men carefully train themselves out of itpoliticians, academics, bureaucrats, ambitious financiers and industrial
38、ists, can be found among these menand a horde of others, shallow and foolish, wander away from it, shrugging off their inheritance. Englishness is not as strong as it was even thirty years ago. (4) It needs to be nourished by a sense of the dignity and possible destiny of mankind. It must have some
39、moral capital to draw upon, and soon it may be asking for an overdraft. The Zeitgeist (namely, the spirit or thought of the time) seems to be working for Admass. (5) So does most of what we read and what we hear. Even our inflation, which keeps everybody nudging everybody for more money, is often se
40、en not as a warning, not as an enemy of the genuine good life, but as a proof that we need more and not less Admass. V. 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 ans
41、wer to each of the given questions. Section B requires you to read and judge whether the relevant statements are true or false. Section C requires you to read and then write a summary of it. Remember to write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Section A. Read the following passage and provide a brief
42、 answer to the questions after the passage (2.5 4 points). 宁波大学宁波大学 2015 年攻读硕士学位研究生年攻读硕士学位研究生 入入 学学 考考 试试 试试 题题(A 卷卷) (答案必须写在答题纸上) 考试科目考试科目: 基础英语基础英语 科目代码：科目代码： 661 适用专业适用专业: 英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学、翻译学 第 6 页 共 9 页 Christopher Nolans Interstellar fell to Earth at the domestic box of
43、fice over the weekend, but its international ticket sales are rocketing through the stratosphere faster than commentators can rehash space-based idioms to describe its out-of-this-world success. Meanwhile, critics, scientists, and audiences around the world are debating the films artistic and scient
44、ific merit, but all seem to be in general agreement that it is a work of extraordinary spectacle. For all its technical virtuosity, however, one of the films most significant images is also one of its simplest: an American flag. I wont give anything away, but suffice it to say that the titular inter
45、stellar crew has the fate of humanity in their hands, and they are not in the employ of a faceless multinational corporation or a feel-good international coalition. Theyre working for the United States government, specially NASA, and when they land on faraway planets, they carry with them the stars
46、and stripes. That may seem like a trivial detail, but its hard to overstate how important that kind of iconography is in the international arena: Scholarly research overwhelmingly demonstrates that American entertainment exports are essential to the countrys public diplomacy, fundamentally framing i
47、nternational impressions of the U.S. American culture inspired young people behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War a generation ago, and it continues to help bring countries into the American sphere of influence todayeven as geopolitical events rattle our global image. Still, as omnipresent as
48、American entertainment is, in the 21st century it rarely carries an overtly positive message about the country itself. The heroes are almost always American, of course, but even a Hollywood blockbuster with unequivocal political aspirations like Captain America: The Winter Soldier is ambiguous enoug
49、h with its messaging to allow for wildly varied political interpretations. Thats totally fine; nobody likes transparent propaganda, and analyzing the ambiguities of a quality film is one of the great thrills of being an audience member. But at a time when audiences around the world understand Americ
50、an culture to be about little more than violence and sex, it matters when a movie plainly states that American ingenuity can save the world. The film doesnt say so in a remotely jingoistic way; doing so would destroy its universality and core message of humanistic triumphalism. But putting NASA and
