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2006年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题

试题编号：221 试题名称：英语二外 注意：答题一律答在答题纸上，答在草稿纸或试卷上一律无效

Part I Cloze Test (20 points)

Section A

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose the best one from the four choices marked A, B, C and D to fill in each blank. ( 10 points)

Americans today believe that acceptable social behavior follows effortlessly from personal virtue. The 1)______ between morals and manners has become blurred (模糊). All you need is a good heart, most people assume, and the rest will take care of itself. You don ’t have to write thank-you notes.

Many Americans believe that natural behavior is beautiful. The “natural ” 2)_____ to human relations presumes that to know any person well enough is to love him, that the only human problem is a communication problem. This 3)_____ that people might be separated by basic genuinely irreconcilable （不可调和的） differences --- philosophical, political, or religious --- and assumes that all such differences are 4)_____ misunderstandings.

Indeed, it has never been easier to insult people inadvertently （非故意地）. A gentleman opens a door for a lady because his mother taught him that ladies 5)_____ such courtesies, but this one turns around and spits in his eye because he has insulted her womanhood. A young lady 6)_____ her seat in a crowded bus to an elderly, frail gentleman, and he gives her a dirty look because she has insulted his manhood. 7)_____ you, those are just people trying to be nice; the only problem is that they are operating on different systems of etiquette.

Curiously, it has never been 8)_____ to insult people intentionally. If you say, “You are nasty and I hate you, ” the person is apt to reply, “ Oh, you ’re feeling 9)_____; I ’ll wait until you feel better. ”

The idea that people can behave “naturally ” without resorting to an artificial code tacitly （心照不宣地） agreed upon by their society is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by using a language without 10)_____ accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

1） A. instinct B. distinction C. intuition D. similarity

2) A. road B. way C. approach D. means

3) A. approves B. denies C. supports D. disagrees

4) A. no more than B. not more than C. a bit more than D. much more than

5) A. dislike B. approve C. thank D. appreciate

6) A. offering B. offered C. offers D. offer

7) A. Mind B. Warn C. Beware D. Notice

8) A. better B. easier C. worse D. harder

9) A. friendly B. terrible C. disgusting D. hostile

10) A. superficially B. profoundly C. commonly D. individually

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