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对外经济贸易大学2005攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试

361 基础英语试题

Please write ALL your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

I. Choose from A, B, C, or D the one that best completes each sentence. (15%)

1.Literature may ______ and inform, entertain, express personal joy or reflect religious devotion, glorify a nation or hero, or ______ a particular point of view-- whether it ______ political, social, or aesthetic.

A. inspire; love; describe; is B. instruct: pain; advocate; be

C. convince; hatred; reveal; were D. alert; pleasure; explain; has been

2. Critics see Wal-Mart as an anti-union predator whose ______ price-cutting actually hurts the towns where it by driving out other traders and imposing such low wages that many employees have to rely on welfare to their income.

A. relentless; operates; supplement B. lenient; runs; increase

C. vindictive; contrives: step up D. provocative; prospers; add to

3.Alcohol, virtually ______ to Indians north of Mexico _______European contact, is ______ for a high rate of automobile accidents and homicide.

A. unknown: before: responsible B. accustomed; since; reasonable

C. allergic; for: accountable D. conducive; despite; liable

4. Moral virtue, according to Aristotle, choosing the right action to perform in a given situation, that is, the relative ______ between two extremes.

A. consists in; position B. consists of; mean

C. entails; ground D. implies; proportion

5. By the time people______ adulthood they usually have acquired a large ______ of subtle body expressions, may be used to manipulate others.

A. reach; repertory; which B. approach; pool; and

C. celebrate; repository; or D. approximate; inventory; which

6. Scientists in Britain, Germany, France, the USSR, and the United States to early experiments in television, but ______ Britain, the United States, and Japan that solved the problems ______ to a full television service.

A. ascribed; for; providing B. committed; there were; contributing

C. dedicated; only; relating D. contributed; it was; leading

7.Vitamins exist in our_____ in very tiny amounts, and care has to be taken that we do not lose by letting our food stand to air or by cooking______ too long.

A. foods; them; exposure; it B. food; it; exposing; them

C. foods; them; exposed; it D. food; them; expose; them

8. If data ______ the suggestion that brain activity is more balanced when we dream, it be that we are tapping the potential of our entire brain, only part of it, to solve a problem.

A. bear with; should; other than B. bear on; must; less than

C. bear out; may; rather than D. bear in; could; more than

9. ______ the forces of production develop, particularly under the aegis of capitalistic production, the individual control of his life circumstances to the dominating influences of machines and markets.

A. As; cedes B. While; abandons

C. Although; relinquishes D. In case; subjects