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2003年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 专业：英语语言文学 科目代码：321 研究方向：语言学、语言教学、文学、翻译 考试科目：基础英语

I. Grammar 35

1. Insert prepositions to the slots (10):

It is a well-known rule ( ) logic that classification made ( ) the basis of a single attribute are artificial and ( ) limited use. So there must be a cluster of attributes ( ) which a human group is defined, and these must be specific and essential, if they are to serve a useful purpose. Yet what is essential ( ) one observer is not ( ) another. Some would opt ( ) language, others ( ) race, religion, or shared destiny in the past or the present. It is also quite common to find that individuals tend to identify their own community ( ) criteria which may be different from those used ( ) the same purpose by outsiders.

2. Supply an article in the slot when necessary: (10)

All ( ) books are divisible into two kinds: ( ) books of ( ) hour, and ( ) books of all ( ) time. Mark this distinction---it is not one of ( ) quality only. It is not merely ( ) bad book that does not last, and ( ) good one that does. It is ( ) distinction of ( ) species.

3. Supply the proper verb forms in the slots: (10)

Einstein’s connection with the politics of the nuclear bomb __ (be) well known. In 1933 Hitler ___(come) to power. Einstein __ (be) in America, and he __ (declare) he _____ (not return) to Germany. In the face of the Nazi threat, Einstein

__(renounce) pacifism, and eventually,______(fear) that German scientists_____(build) a nuclear bomb, __(propose) that the United States __ (develop) its own. But even before the first atomic bomb had been detonated, he publicly warned of the danger of nuclear war and proposed international control of nuclear weaponry.

4. Read the following passage and answer the attached questions. (5)

To avoid the various foolish opinions, no superhuman genius is required. If the matter (1) What is the anaphoric referent of the word ‘he’?

(2) How shall we analyze the sentence structure ‘Not one of them ...’? Do you agree to the following paraphrase?

‘Because they had never seen one of them, no one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them.

II. V ocabulary 25

1. Choose words from column A to fit the definitions in column B. (6) Example : foreman, forester A.

reluctant, leisure, yearning, entertainer, supersede, rebuff, incompatible, sabbatical (leave),assert, artifact, variable, tramps;

B.

(1). an unexpected or contemptuous refusal:_______

(2). freedom from work:______

(3). insist on one's right:______

(4). one who amuses an audience as a profession:______

(5). a period of paid free time for rest and special study given to a university teacher after a certain length of service:_____

(6). a thing or quantity that is changeable:______