2017年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题A卷

2017 年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题 A 卷 一、Grammar, Vocabulary and General Knowledge Directions: Find the ONE choice that best completes the sentence （.每小题 1 分，共 40 小题， 共 40 分） 1. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT? A. They have enough time to finish the paper. B. Dad says the meat is not enough cooked. C. You are not old enough to buy alcohol. D. She plays well enough for a beginner. 2. In “She felt sick from tiredness”, the italicized word is used to indicate A. comparison. B. purpose. C. cause. D. direction. 3. Which of the following sentences has an object complement? A. I will buy you a present. B. Mom gave me a necklace. C. I’m going to paint it pink.D. Tom is teaching children Japanese. 4. Smoking is so harmful to health that it kills ____ each year than automobile accidents. A. more seven times peopleB. seven times more people C. more people seven times D. people seven times more 5. Sorry I’m late. I ____ have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep again. A. might B. should C. mustn’t D. couldn’t 6. Mr. White, together with all his colleagues, ____ for Europe this morning. A. are leaving B. leave C. is leaving D. are to leave 7. The new designed bedroom seems to be a great deal larger than ____. A. it is necessary B. being necessary C. to be necessary D. is necessary 8. He was determined to sail around the world ____ his illness and old age. A. given B. although C. despite D. in spite 9. Mr. White has become bad-tempered since he indulges in Gambling. He is no longer the man ____ used to be. A. which B. whom C. who D. that 10. You ____ call your father’s name directly. It’s impolite in China. A. oughtn’t B. mustn’t C. needn’t D. wouldn’t 11. It is not ____ much his appearance I like as his personality. A. as B. very C. so D. that 12. There is much chance ____ Bill will recover from his injury in time for the race. A. that B. which C. until D. if 13. They did the experiment ____ their chemistry teacher had instructed. A. as B. though C. until D. when 14. He was listening attentively in class, his eyes ____ on the blackboard. A. fixing B. fixed C. are fixing D. are fixed 15. I don’t think ____ possible to master a foreign language without much memory work. A. that B. this C. you D. it 16. Mary was ____to tears by their criticism. A. sunk B. reduced C. forced D. declined 17. The police fortunately gained the key clew according to the foot mark in the ____ of the road. A. clay B. dirt C. mud D. soil 18. These magnificent ____ buildings demonstrate the great intelligence of the laboring people. A. antique B. ancient C. primitive D. remote 19. I don’t remember meeting him, but the name John Smith rings a bell. The underlined part means ____. A. is omitted familiar B. is warned C. is appearing D. is 20. These goods are ____ for export, though a few of them may be sold on the home market. A. essentially B. completely C. necessarily D. remarkably 21. Food will ____ if the temperature in your freezer rises above 8℃. A. decay B. rot C. spoil D. corrupt 22. The small company isn’t ____ of handling an order that large. A. able B. capable C. competent D. qualified 23. Sometimes it’s good to stop for a while to think about the past and ____ the future. A. contaminate B. contemplate C. consolidate D. contradict 24. School fees, illness, house repairs and other ____ have reduced his bank balance to almost nothing. A. payment expenses B. amount C. figures D. 25. Many people, including college students of all ages, spend little time in ____ of physical fitness. A. search B. view C. light D. pursuit 26. There’s no denying that as we age ____, our body ages right along with us. A. chronologically deliberately B. significantly C. deceptively D. 27. We made an effort not to leave my friend out in the cold when we were planning the birthday party. The underlined part means ____. A. embarrass exhaust B. humiliate C. ignore D. 28. The company has to make its accounts and operations as ____ as possible. A. distinct transparent B. evident C. explicit D. 29. His ability to absorb information was astonishing, but his concentration ____ was short. A. gap B. interval C. span D. distance 30. She is generally ____ as one of the best modern poets. A. classed B. graded C. ranked D. rated 31. ____ is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history. A. The Glorious Revolution B. The English Reformation C. The Renaissance D. The English Civil War 32. In the US, the largest city along the Pacific Coast is ____ A. San Francisco B. Los Angeles. C. Seattle. D. Chicago. 33. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used the technique of ____, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of a character. A. imagism B. stream of consciousness C. naturalism D. symbolism 34. Percy Bysshe Shelley did not write ____ A. Song of Myself. B. Prometheus Unbound. C. Ode to the West Wind. D. Queen Mab. 35. ____ is not a modernist novelist of Britain. A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf C. D.H.Lawrence D. Henry James ____ is the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of affixes, such as number, person, finiteness, aspect and case, which don’t change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached. A. Word formation B. InflectionC. Compound D. Derivation 37. One way to analyze lexical meaning is A. predication analysis. B. stylistic analysis. C. componential analysis. D. proposition analysis. 38. ____ is NOT the characteristic of conversational implicature. A. Calculability B. Cancellability C. Detachability D. Non-conventionality 39. A sound pronounced with the vocal cords vibrating is said to be ____ sound. A. voiceless B. voiced C. consonant D. resonant 40. Which function is the major role of language? A. Informative. B. Interpersonal. C. Performative. D. Emotive. 二、Cloze Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A] ， [B] ， [C] and [D] .You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. （每小题 1 分，共 20 小题，共 20 分） According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these are among the developments scheduled for the first few decades of the new millennium (a period of 1, 000 years), when supercomputers will dramatically accelerate progress in all areas of life. Pearson has __1__ together to work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a __2__ millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key __3__ and discoveries to take place. Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an __4__ life expectancy and dozens of artificial organs __5__ into use between now and 2040. Pearson also __6__ a breakthrough in computer human links. “By linking __7__ to our nervous system, computers could pick up __8__ we feel and, hopefully, simulate __9__ too so that we can start to __10__ full sensory environments, rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck,” he says. But that, Pearson points __11__, is only the start of man-machine __12__: “It will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will __13__ lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.” __14__ his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, there are still no __15__ for when faster-than-light travel will be __16__, or when human cloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible. But he does __17__ social problems as a result of technological advances. A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example, __18__ problems in 2010, while the arrival of synthetic __19__ robots will mean people may not be able to __20__ between their human friends and the droids. And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorderkitchen rage. 1. [A] taken [B] pieced [C] kept [D] made 2. [A] complicated [B] delicate[C] subtle [D] unique 3. [A] breakthroughs [B] findings[C] events [D] incidents 4. [A] expanded [B] extended [C] enlarged [D] enriched 5. [A] being [B] becoming [C] carrying [D] coming 6. [A] schedules [B] plans [C] predicts [D] designs 7. [A] directly [B] instantly [C] precisely [D] automatically 8. [A] that [B] how [C] what [D] all 9. [A] thinking [B] hearing [C] sight [D] feeling 10. [A] form [B] develop[C] find [D] undertake 11. [A] out [B] at [C] to [D] toward 12. [A] program [B] production [C] experiment [D] integration 13. [A] finally [B] ultimately [C] utterly [D] absolutely 14. [A] Through [B] Though [C] During [D] By 15. [A] forecasts [B] articles [C] stories [D] meetings 16. [A] advisable [B] affordable [C] available [D] valuable 17. [A] solve [B] arose [C] exercise [D] expect 18. [A] confront [B] cause [C] witness [D] collect 19. [A] lovely [B] likely [C] lifelike [D] lively 20. [A] distinguish [B] differ [C] diagnose [D] deviate 三、Reading Comprehension （选择题每小题 1 分，共 10 小题；填空题每小题 1 分，