南开大学基础英语1997(试题与答案)考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题
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南开大学1997年硕士研究生入学考试试题
考试科目：基础英语
I. Words. （20%）
A. Directions ：From the choices given below, select （underline ）an appropriate
synonym for the italicized word in each sentence.
1. The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you back thousands of years.
pharmacy theatre market stadium
2. This is a personal day, a terrible day , the day to which his entire sojourn has been
tending.
plan visit focus life
3. New York is no longer the leading city in the United States, at least if it is measured
by who begets the styles and sets the trends.
forgets produces abuses respects
4. In that city, helpfulness is often delivered as a taunt.
gibe welcome whiplash attack
5. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise
through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and
adventure.
happy poetic deplorable timeless
6. This is a remarkably large and beautiful animal, and sagacious to an astonishing
degree.
vicious shrewd loathsome awkward
7. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife.
obscene harsh vague lurid
8. I looked upon my future felicity as secured.
madness leisure happiness misery
9. Having procured mortar, sand, and hair, with every possible precaution, I prepared a
plaster which could not be distinguished from the old, and with this I very carefully
went over the new brick-work.
acquired stolen concealed mixed
10. Escorted by Churchill, the President hobbled alt the way across the deck, and sat. walked sauntered ran limped
B. Directions: Briefly explain the differences between the following pairs.
1. glare brightness
2. huge large
3. accuse charge
4. common popular
5. complex complicated
II. Cloze. （20%）
Directions: Fill in the following blanks with appropriate words. The first letter of each
word has already been given.
Americans have a s _______of space, not of place. Go to an American home in exurbia,
and almost the first thing you do is drift toward the picture window. How curious that the
first compliment you p_____your host inside his house is to say how lovely it is o____ his
house! He is pleased that you should admire his vistas. The distant horizon is not m____a line
separating earth from sky, it is a symbol of the future. The American is not r____ in his place,
however lovely: his eyes are drawn by the expanding space to a point on the horizon, which is
his future.
By contrast, c____the traditional Chinese home. Blank walls e_____ it. Step behind the
spirit wall and you are in a courtyard with perhaps a miniature garden around a corner. O____ inside his private compound you are wrapped in an ambiance of calm beauty, an