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青岛大学2014年硕士研究生入学试题 科目代码：__642___ 科目名称：基础英语(1) (共16页) 请写明题号，将答案全部写在答题纸上，答在试卷上无效

PART I SENTENCE COMPLETION (25 points)

Choose the word or the set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

1. Known for her _____, Miranda eagerly welcomes anyone into her home.

A. cowardice B. prudence C. hospitality D. loyalty

2. The ambassador argues that, in diplomacy, there is a subtle but important difference between a country’s showing a willingness to _____ and a too-obvious readiness to make_____.

A. negotiate…concessions B. antagonize…friends

B. dominate…inquiries D. equivocate…denunciation

3. Lewis Latimer’s inexpensive method of producing carbon filaments ____the nascent electric industry by making electric lamps commercially____.

A. cheapened…affordable B. transformed…viable

C. provoked…improbable D. stimulated…inaccessible

4. The prose of Richard Wright ’ autobiographical Black Boy (1945) ___, free of stylistic tricks or evasiveness.

A. imprecise B. straightforward C. deficient D. elliptical

5. It seemed from the size of the crowd, which was ____, and the resonance of its cheers, which were ____, that the team was experiencing a resurgence of popularity.

A. vast…hollow B. unimpressive…muted

C. enormous…deafening D. negligible…rousing

6. Evidence that the universe is expanding ____ our perception of the cosmos and

thus caused a ____in astronomical thinking.

A. advanced…setback B. altered…revolution

C. reinforced…crisis D. halted…breakthrough

7. Physicists rejected the innovative experimental technique because, although it ___

some problems, it also produced new ____ .

A. clarified…data B. eased…interpretations 1