1、桂林理工大学2021年硕士研究生入学考试试题A考试科目代码：630考试科目名称：综合英语（总分150分，三小时答完） 考生注意：请将答题写在答卷纸上，写在试卷上视为无效。Part I Structure and Expression (30分,每题1分) Directions: In this section there are 30 sentences followed by four multiple choices. Choose one to complete the sentences. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. As old
2、proverb goes, the grass is always greener _ the other side. A. with B. for C. on D. than 2. Our success was attributed not so much to your help _ to our cooperation.A. but B. as C. as if D. but also3. Personality is to man perfume is to a flower.A. what B. as C. as if D. like4. In interpreting, word
3、s are _ significant to be left out. A. quite B. very C. so D. too 5. _ all the efforts wed made, we still failed to actualize our potentials. A. For B. With C. On D. Despite 6. Nothing could _ the torpidity of the indifferent audience.A. compel B. expel C. dispel D. excel7. We must _ a sense of duty
4、 in our children. A. distill B. instill C. still D. standstill8. _ physicists from all over the world came to the United States to celebrate the centennial of Einsteins birth.A. Imminent B. Dominant C. Preeminent D. Eminent9. can have tremendous value if you accept the hard-won wisdom and move on wi
5、th life and love.A. Foresight B. Insight C. Hindsight D. Eyesight10. A slowdown in the economy caused us to _ great losses.A. incur B. occur C. concur D. recur11. Money still talks, but in more ways. A. imaginal B. imaginable C. imaginary D. imaginative12. Her membership of the club will _ by the en
6、d of this month. A. collapse B. elapse C. laps D. lapse13. I hope the plan doesnt a second time owing to lack of funds.A. fallen down B. fallen through C. fallen apart D. fallen off14. Its not very wise for one to the past failures.A. dwell at B. dwell down C. dwell in D. dwell on 15. The young scho
7、lar _ home what he wanted to convey to the audience in the lecture.A. hampered B. drove C. sent D. came16. When a debate came to a _, he could quote his authorities with a sureness which withstood reference to the books.A. clinch B. clench C. quench D. stench17. The countrys economy is on the of col
8、lapse. A. edge B. verge C. blink D. threshold 18. Hunger is the best for food.A. relish B. favor C. joy D. delight19. It was a that produced extremely useful results.A. cooperation B. accordance C. line D. collaboration 20. Home and family life has changed in important ways since the of cellphone. A
9、. adventure B. advert C. advent D. advertise21. Most vegetables we buy in winter are in the greenhouse.A. nurtured B. nursed C. fed D. reared22. He declared that he was not for his wifes debts.A. timely B. liable C. simultaneous D. subject23. The new drug can _ his pain to some degree but it does no
10、t cure his illness.B. deteriorate B. motivate C. alleviate D. activate24. There are still large populations of the world who are _ by famine and diseases.A. suffered B. injured C. spoiled D. afflicted 25. The economic _ for Europe is gloomy because of the global financial crisis. A. outlook B. outbr
11、eak C. output D. outcome26. The two approaches are not conflicting but . A. supplementary B. complementary C. subsidiary D. secondary27. There are _ reasons that make the other America an invisible land.A. multitude B. many C. historical D. perennial28. The government tries to _ between the workers
12、and the employers during the strike.A. mediate B. meditate C. reconcile D. compromise29. Such a questionable assertion is sure to criticism.A. inspire B. irritate C. provoke D. advocate30. Investiture is distinct from .A. honor B. love C. attribute D. homagePart II Figure of Speech (10分,每题1分) Direct
13、ions: Identify the figure of speech in each of the following sentences. Choose the best answer in the box and write the corresponding letters of your answers on the Answer Sheet.A. MetaphorB. SimileC. OxymoronD. PersonificationE. AlliterationF. ContrastG. EuphemismH. MetonymyI. Transferred EpithetJ.
14、 Parallelism1. Money makes the mare go. 2. She sat there with embarrassed delight.3. An individual human existence should be like a river.4. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.5. The gentle breeze caressed my cheeks and soothed my anger.6. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. An
15、d faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.7. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air.8. Poetry is the scent of the rose, the lightening in the sky, the gleam of the fly, the sound of the sea.9. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and anot
16、her woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.10. He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health and prophesied the speedy ruin of the empire.Part III Blank Filling (20分,每题1分) Directions: Choose a proper word from the box to fill in each blank in the followi
17、ng passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the corresponding letters of your answers on the Answer Sheet.A. withstandB. hazardousC. properlyD. tackledE. inF. pesticidesG. modifyH. stiffenI. additivesJ. strengthenK. contaminatedL. terrifiedM. grosslyN. carcinogensO. contaminantsP. safetyQ. th
18、atR. tightenS. bluntlyT. warfareMany Americans harbor a (1) distorted and exaggerated view of most of the risks surrounding food. Fergus Clydesdale, head of the department of food science and nutrition at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, says (2) that if the dangers from bacterially (3) chic
19、ken were as great as some people believe, “the streets would be littered with people lying here and there.”Though the public increasingly demands no-risk food, there is no such thing. Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, points out that up to
20、 10% of a plants weight is made up of natural (4). He says, “Since plants do not have jaws or teeth to protect themselves, they employ chemical (5).” And many naturally produced chemicals, though occurring in tiny amounts, prove in laboratory tests to be strong (6) substance which can cause cancer.
21、Mushrooms might be banned if they were judged by the same standards that apply to food (7). “Weve got far worse natural chemicals in the food supply than anything man-made”, declares Christina Stark, a nutritionist at Cornell University, Yet the issues are not (8) simple. While Americans have no rea
22、son to be (9) to sit down at the dinner table, they have every reason to demand significant improvements in food and water (10). They unconsciously and unwillingly take (11) too much of too many dangerous chemicals. If food already contains natural carcinogens, it does not make much sense to add doz
23、ens of new man-made ones. Though most people will (12) the small amount of (13) generally found in food and water, at least a few individuals will probably get cancer one day because of what they eat and drink.To make good food and water supplies even better, the Government needs to (14) its regulat
24、ory standards, (15) its inspection program and (16) its enforcement policies. The food industry should (17) some long-accepted practices or turn to less (18) alternatives. Perhaps most important, consumers will have to do a better job of learning how to handle and cook food (19). The problems that n
25、eed to be (20) exist all along the food-supply chain, from fields to processing plants to kitchens.Part IV Paraphrase (20分,每题2分) Directions: Explain the following sentences in your own words and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. He notes that speedy action can be embarrassing or extremely co
26、stly.2. The news media seem to operate on the philosophy that all news is bad news.3. When battling a recalcitrant problem, he worried it as an animal worries its prey.4. The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place.5. The exact use of language gives us mastery over
27、 the material we are dealing with. 6. So, for me, one of the keenest pleasures of appetite remains in the wanting, not the satisfaction.7. For all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul.8. In unskilled or uncaring hands a handmade basket or boat can
28、 fall apart as quickly as basket or boats made by machines.9. It attacks the best minds, and gradually destroys the critical faculties, making it impossible for the sufferer to detect gibberish in his own writing or in that of others.10. The most disquieting thing about the scofflaw spirit is its ex
29、treme infectiousness. Only a terminally foolish society would sit still and allow it to spread indefinitely.Part V Word Formation (10分,每题1分)Directions: Write out the full form of the following words and write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. ASEAN 2. APEC 3. CIIE 4. BRICS 5. WHO 6. globesity 7. s
30、mog 8. agritainment 9. infonomics 10. examPart VI General Knowledge (10分,每题1分) Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the 10 multiple-choice questions. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. Which of the following nicknames does not refer to the U.S.A.? _.A. Uncle Sam B. Brother Jonathan C.
31、 Yankee D. John Bull2. British recorded history begins with the _ invasion.A. Roman B. Viking C. Anglo-Saxon D. Norman3. The largest university in Canada is _.A. Laval University B. The University of Toronto C. McGill University D. Simon Fraser University4. _ is the common factor of the three sounds
32、: p, t, k.A. voiceless B. spread C. voiced D. nasal5. There are_ morphemes in the word “undesirables”.A. twelve B. sixC. five D. four6. Which of the following designed features of human language does this sentence “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” refer to? _.A. Arbitrariness B. Dualit
33、y C. Cultural transmission D. Displacement7. “To be or not to be, that is the question.” This quote is from Shakespeares _.A. Merchant of Venice B. King Lear C. HamletD. Much Ado about Nothing8. The Catcher in the Rye was written by _.A. J.D. Salinger B. Jack London C. Flannery OConnor D. Saul Bello
34、w9. Robinson Crusoe was written by _A. Henry Fielding B. Jonathan Swift C. Samuel Richardson D. Daniel Defoe 10.Scarlet Letter is one of the greatest American novels. It was written by _.A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Wallace StevenC. Francis Bacon D. Willa CatherPart VII Proof Reading and Error Correcti
35、on (10分,每题1分) Directions: The following passage contains 10 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.For a wrong word, underline the wrong wo
36、rd and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ ” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimatel
37、y have political and economical causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writers. But an effect can become a cause, reinforce the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take drink because he feels him
38、self to be a failure, and then fail all the most completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the sloven of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The p
39、oint is that the process is irreversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and think clearly is a necessary
40、 first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concerning of professional writers. I will come back to this present, and I hope that by that time the meaning of what I have said here will have become clearer.1. _2. _3. _4.
41、_5. _6. _7. _8. _9. _10. _Part VIII Reading Comprehension (40分,每题2分) Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of twenty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.TEXT A“There is one and only one social responsibility
42、 of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” But even if you accept Friedmans premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders money, thing
43、s may not be absolutely clear-cut. New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies - at least when they are prosecuted for corruption. The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting fir
44、m. This could add value to their businesses in three ways. First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a companys products are of high quality. Second, customers may be willing to buy a companys products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps. And third, through a mor
45、e diffuse “halo effect”, whereby its good deeds earn it greater consideration from consumers and others. Previous studies on CSR have had trouble differentiating these effects because consumers can be affected by all three. A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under Americas Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a companys products as part of their investigatio
