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2015年外国语学院研究生入学考试

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A 卷

I. Synonyms. (30X1’=30 points)

1C 2C 3B 4D 5A 6B 7C 8C 9D 10A 11B 12C 13A 14A 15C 16B 17D 18D 19B 20C 21B 22C 23B 24A 25 D 26D 27C 28A 29D 30B

II. Structure. (15x1’=15 points)

31B 32B 33B 34B 35C 36 C 37B 38D 39C 40A 41D 42A 43A 44D 45A

III. Paraphrase the following sentences. (5X2’=10 points)

46. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last works sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.

Paraphrase: I was on the point of showing my agreement by bowing when I suddenly realized what he meant. His works shocked me out of my sad dreamy thinking.

47. “Today it is the teachers,” he continued, “and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers.”

Paraphrase: “Today the teachers are put on trial because they teach scientific knowledge, ” he continued, “soon the magazines, the books and the news papers are not allowed to express new ideas and to spread knowledge of science.”

48. What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.

Paraphrase: If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally to renew our energy, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers.

49. It was an Australian who had given her such a definition of “The King’s English,” which produced some rather tart remarks about what one could expect from the descendants of convicts.

Paraphrase : When the speaker explained the definition was given to her by an Australian, her listeners immediately made some sharp cutting replies saying it was not surprising to hear Australians talk such nonsense because they are descendants of convicts.

50. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.

Paraphrase: They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.