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上海外国语大学

2003年攻读硕士学位研究生考试

英语语言文学专业综合能力考试卷

（三小时内完成）满分：150分

QUESTION PAPER

Ⅰ. Fill in each of the blanks below with a word provided in the brackets. The words you put in must be grammatically and semantically appropriate. You can only use the words in the brackets ONCE. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30 points)

(alive, bear, carry, chain, current, early, even, every, follow, general, it, original, previous, since, specific, therefore, up, very, when, with)

The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes from one schoolchild to the next and illustrates a further difference between school lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt in (1)______ childhood, is not usually passed on again until the little listener has grown (2)_______ , and has children of his own, or (3)_______ grandchildren. The period

between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting (4)________ may be anything from twenty to seventy years.(5)______ the playground lore, however, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on

within the (6)________ hour it is learnt; and, in (7)________, it passes between children who are of the same age, or nearly so, (8)_______ it is uncommon for the difference in age between

playmates to be more than five years. If, (9)_________, a playground rhyme can be shown to have been (10)______ for a hundred years, or even just for fifty, it (11)_______ that it had been

retransmitted over and over again; very possibly it has passed along a (12)_______ of two or three hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains (13)_______ after so much handling, let alone that it (14)_______ resemblance to the (15)________ wording.

Ⅱ. This section contains twenty multiple-choice questions on antonyms. Choose the best answer to each question. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet (20 points)

1.COMMOTION:

A. desirability

B. likability

C. changeability

D. tranquility

2.GIST:

A. tangential point

B. tentative explanation

C. faulty assumption

D. meaningless view

3.STABILIZE:

A. penetrate

B. minimize

C. fluctuate

D. isolate

4.RENOV ATE:

A. keep hidden

B. cause to decay