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2014年硕士学位研究生入学考试试题

========================================================================================================= 试题编号： 874 试题名称： 综合英语 （共 6 页） 适用专业： 外国语言文学 说明： 所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试题或草稿纸上无效。

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说明： This paper covers FOUR subjects: (1) A Survey of Great Britain and the United

Part I. Survey of Great Britain and the United States (30 points)

I. Fill in the blanks: Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each two unfinished sentences or questions four suggested choices marked A, B, C, and D are given. Choose the ONE that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of your choice in the corresponding space on your Answer Sheet after the numbers. (10 points)

1. Britain had been one of the most important countries in the world. About 100 years ago, as a result of its ____________, Britain ruled an empire that had 1/4 of the world’s people and 1/4 of the world’s land area. However, ____________ greatly weakened Britain. The British Empire gradually disappeared and it was replaced by the British Commonwealth in 1931.

A. industrialization B. imperialist expansion

C. the two world wars D. independence of India

2. The harsh terms of the Treaty of _________ after WWI had left Germany embittered and unstable. With the coming of Hitler and Nazism in Germany, the treaty arrangements began to crumble. Hitler reoccupied __________ in 1936, and then Austria in 1938.

A. Berlin B. Versailles

C. Sudetenland D. Rhineland

3. At the general election of 1945 _________ was heavily defeated. The British people had suffered the Blitz and the warfare, and they didn’t want Britain to return to the politics of the 1930s and hoped that the _________ Party would sort out the problems of the war-torn country.

A. Churchill B. Chamberlain

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