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考试年度：2007年 考试科目代码及名称：513-高级英语 试卷编号：B 卷 适用专业：英语语言文学

Your answers to the questions must be done on the answer sheet. Remember to write down the question numbers.

Part I. Proofreading and Error Correction（20% 15 minutes）

Directions: The following passage contains Ten errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it. Write down your corrections on the answer sheet.

The grammatical words which play so large a part in English

grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from

the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may

seem the most obvious is that grammatical words have “less (1) ________ meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them (2) ________ “empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But (3) ________ this is a rather misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a (4) ________ word like the is not the name of something as man is, it is very

far away from being meaningless; there is a sharp difference in (5) ________ meaning between “man is vile” and “man is vile”, yet the is the

single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical (6) ________ words differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning (7) ________ they have, even in the lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical

words has been “little words”. But size is by no mean a good criterion for (8) ________ distinguishing the grammatical words of English, when we consider that

we have lexical words as go , man say, car. Apart from this, however, there (9) ________ is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly do create

a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is illustrated not (10) _______ only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of telegrams and

newspaper headlines.

Part II. Reading Comprehension （30% 30 minutes）

Directions: Read the passage and answer questions. Write your answer on the answer sheet.

A euphemism is commonly defined as an auspicious or exalted term (like “sanitation engineer”) that is used in place of a more down-to-earth term (like “garbage man”). People who are partial to euphemisms stand accused of being “phony” or trying to hide what it is they are really talking about. And there is no doubt that in some situations the accusation is entirely proper. For example, one of the more detestable euphemisms I have come across in recent years is the term “Operation Sunshine,” which is the name the U.S. Government gave to some experiments it conducted with the hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific. It is obvious that the government, in choosing this name, was trying to expunge the hideous imagery that the bomb evokes and in so doing committed, as I see it, an immoral act. This sort of process –giving pretty names to essentially ugly realities—is what has given euphemizing such a bad name. And people like

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