北航研究生英语入学考试

北航研究生英语入学考试 北航05年英语专业硕士研究生入学考试英语试及 考生注意:所有答题 务必写在考场提供的答题纸上，写在本试题单上的答题一律无效(本题单不参与 阅卷)。 I( Vocabulary and Structure(40points,1*40) Part 1 Directions: Choose one of the four alternatives which is closest in meaning to the underlined word or phrase and mark the corresponding letter. 1. “The giant was bit” is a tautological statement, to say the least. A tight B redundant C illogical D relative 2. There is an embargo on any more video games coming into the house. A landing place B prohibition C violation D permission 3. Youngsters are usually more impetuous than old people . A impatient B immature C impulsive D imperial 4. Unfortunately, I’ll spend the weekend doing a bunch of prosaic chores. A dull B practical C trivial D rhyming 5. The crowd at the town meeting found the mayor’s assurance too glib. A sarcastic B flashy C malicious D readily fluent 6. Gazing at the crystalline lake, I decided it was too beautiful to swim in. A breakable B futuristic C delicate D sparkling 7. We cannot vacillate on the question of the party’s leadership. A lead B doubt C check D repeat 8.It is more difficult for a chronic smoker to give up the habit than for a novice, but it can be done. A affluent B confirmed C disciplined D indecisive 9. They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by another company A headhunted B punched C plundered D probed 10. The ink had faded with time and so parts of the letter were unreadable. A indelible B inscrutable C illegible D illegitimate 11. She bristled at the suggestion that she had been dishonest. bridled B bridged C breathed D boasted A 12. Investors should study a prospectus before putting money into a big company. A positive outlook B banking agreement C profit-and-loss statement D formal business document 13 .The real hero is never ostentatious. A frivolous B pretentious C presumptuous D ponderous 14. If you have never held a driving license before, you should apply for a provisional license. A providential B temporary C provincial D improvised 15. John Smith is a voracious book collector. A vicious B luxurious C insatiable D valuable 16. I don’t think we should make precipitate decisions. A precipitous B precocious C precarious D precautious 17. You need an excursion to break the monotony. A gaunt B jaunt C vaunt D taunt 18. The government appears in a quandary about what to do with so many people. A border B marshy ground C dilemma D situation 19. It was an auspicious beginning to her career as an author. A unexpected B interesting C favorable D doubtful 20. The governor was usually circumspect when dealing with the media. A skilled B cautious C impatient D obedient Part 2 Directions: Choose one from the four alternatives that best completes the sentence and mark the corresponding letter. 21. The children were having a wonderful time _____ on the frozen lake. A slipping B slithering C skidding D sliding 22. The campers ______ their tent in a sheltered valley. A established B installed C pitched D fixed 23. Human behavior is mostly a product of learning. Whereas the behavior of an animal depends mainly on _____ . A response B impulse C instinct D consciousness 24. The cultural traditions of the invaders slowly ______ the practices of the island dwellers. A spread B perpetuated C permeated D reinforced 25. He had always had a good opinion of himself, but after the publication of his bestselling novel he became unbearable _____ . A bigoted B proud C conceited D exaggerated 26. This is the _____ piano on which the composer created some of his greatest works. A actual B real C original D genuine 27. Although ____, new deposits of oil will be found, sooner or later, the world’s supply will be exhausted. A in all likelihood B in all possibility C in all circumstances D in all conditions 28. I should like to rent a house, comfortable and ___ in a quiet position. A before all B above all C first of all D over all 29. He came to inspect the house ___ buying it. A in the event of B with a view to C in case of D with regard to 30. Let’s not ____ over such a trifle! A fall through B fall off C fall out D fall back 31. He is a clever mimic who can take ____ most of the lectures in this college. A over B down C off D for 32. He tried for forgery in a law court but was lucky enough to _____ . A get on B get off C get through D get out 33. The captain turned ____ early that night, not realizing that the icebergs were so close A in B down C into D OFF 34. You promised you would do it. Why did you go ____ on your word? A back B away C over D by 35. The numerals have become, _____ , his friends, and he knows all their relations and acquaintances. A as it is B as it was C as it were D as they are 36. A safety analysis _____ the target as a potential danger. Unfortunately, it was never done. A would identify B will identify C would have identified D will have identified 37. Jennifer took this opportunity to repay her friends for their kindness ____ , she would have had to entertain them in her small apartment in Charlotte town. A Otherwise B However C But D Nevertheless 38. The window is never opened ____ in summer. A but B except C when D while 39. Generally, prompt cooling and proper refrigeration of foods can hold ____ bacteria in foods to a safe level. A a number of B the number of C an amount of D a quantity of 40. Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that is ____ in religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference. evidence that huge thunderstorms are occurring about the equator of the planet. III. Cloze (10 points, 1*10) Directions: Fill in each underlined space with one word that best suits the context of the following passage. Today it is out of fashion to speak in ___61______ of characters. But there is no more essential aspect of any person. Character is made up of those principles and values that give your __62___ direction, meaning and depth. These constitute your inner sense of ___63_____ is right and wrong based not on laws or rules of conduct ___64____ on who you are. They include ___65____ traits as integrity, honesty, courage, fairness and generosity ------ which arise ___66______ the hard choice we have to _67___ in life. So wrong is simply in doing wrong, not in getting caught. ___68____ some people wonder if our inner values __69_____ anymore. After all, hasn’t our noted bank executive succeeded in every visible way ___70____ his transgressions( 错误，过失)。 VI. Translation from Chinese into English (30 points) 在找工作的过程中，有面试，就有曙光。面试的成功与否，除了面试官如何看 你的条件及个人素质外，主要取决于他们如何评价你在面试中总的现，因此， 有必要把它当作一场演出或比赛来看待，其目的是向面试官推销自己，让他们感 到你是干这项工作的最佳人选。 大多数人在面试中处于被动地位，竭尽全力回答提出的任何问题。一种更好的 方法是控制局面，给面试官提供你想给他们的信息，而不是他们想从你这儿发现 的信息:使他们有信心，绝对相信你是能胜任这项工作的人选，让他们几乎没有 理由相信你不能胜任。信心不仅仅来自你作出的回答，也产生于你的外表以及你 表现出来的热情、精力、自信、个人品质和雄心壮志。 大多数面试者没能得到工作的主要原因就是他们没能使面试官对他们产生信 心。他们败下阵来并非是他们不能胜任这项工作，而是他们对自己能胜任工作的 自信没能在面试中表现出来。他们的自我推销做得还不够。大多数人之所以这样 是因 为他们在面试时很紧张，如果每次面试后都没有得到工作，不少人觉得自己是 失败者并变的更为焦虑。这是不实际的。大多数面试者都将被拘之门外。不要想 自己是否会得到这份工作。只需专心参加面试，并竭尽所能，工作自然就会有着 落了。 V . Translation from English into Chinese. (30 points) It used to be said that English people take their pleasures sadly. No doubt this would still be true if they had any pleasures to take, but the price of alcohol and tobacco in my country has provided sufficient external causes for melancholy. I have sometimes thought that the habit of taking pleasures sadly has crossed the Atlantic, and I have wondered what it is that makes so many English – speaking people somber in their outlook in spite of good health and a good income. In the course of my travels in America I have been impressed by a kind of fundamental malaise which seems to me extremely common and which poses difficult problems for the social reformer. Most social reformers have held the opinion that, if poverty were abolished and there were no more economic insecurity, the millennium would have arrived. But when I look at the faces of people in opulent cars, whether in your country or in mine. I do not see that look of radiant happiness which the aforesaid social reformers had led me to expect. In nine cases out of ten. I see instead a look of boredom and discontent and an almost frantic longing for something that might tickle the jaded (腻烦的)palate. But it is not only the very rich who suffer in this way. Professional men very frequently feel hopelessly thwarted. There is something that they long to do or some public object that they long to work for. But if they were to indulge their wishes in these respects, they fear that they would lose their livelihood. Their wives are equally unsatisfied, for their neighbor, Mrs. So-and-So, has gone ahead more quickly, has a better car , a larger apartment and grander friends. Life for almost everybody is a long competitive struggle where very few can win the race and those who do not win are unhappy. On social occasions when it is de rigueur(按照礼节时尚所要求的)to seem cheerful the necessary demeanor is stimulated by alcohol. But the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who had just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose (泪流满面的) melancholy. One finds this sort of thing only among English speaking people. A Frenchman while he is abusing Government is as gay as a lark. So is an Italian while he is telling how his neighbor has swindled him. Mexicans, when they are not actually starving or actually being murdered, sing and dance and enjoy sunshine and food and drink with a gusto which Is very rare north of the Mexican frontier. When Andrew Jackson conquered Pensacola from the Spaniards, his wife looked out of the widow and saw the population enjoying itself although it was Sunday. She pointed out the scandal to her husband, who decreed that cheerfulness must cease forthwith And it did. When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other. The one that goes least deep is the necessity for )in some large organization. If you are an energetic man with subservience (服从 strong views as to the right way of doing the job with which you are concerned, you find yourself invariably under the orders of some man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical. Whenever you have bright idea, the boss puts a stopper on it. The more energetic you are and the more vision you have, the more you will suffer from the impossibility of doing any of the things that you feel ought to be done. When you go home and moan to your wife, she tells you that you are a silly fellow and that if you became the proper sort of yes-man your income would soon be doubled. If you try divorce and remarriage it is very unlikely that there will be any change in this respect. And so you are condemned to gastric ulcers (胃溃疡) and premature old age. VI. Writing (20 points) Directions: Write an expository composition of no less than 200 words on the topic “My View on a Balanced Personal Development” 参考答案: 1. B 2.B 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. D 7. B 8. B 9. A 10. C 11. A 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. C 16. A 17. B 18. C 19. C 20. B 21. C 22. C 23. C 24. C 25. C 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. B 30. B 31. B 32. B 33. A 34. A 35. A 36. C 37. A 38. B 39. B 40. C 41. B 42. A 43. A 44. D 45. B 46. A 47. A 48. B 49. A 50. B 51. A 52. C 53. A 54. D 55. B 56. A 57. B 58. C 59. D 60.B 1、北航研究生英语等级分为三种，免修，A班和B班。免修顾名思义就是不 用上英语课，A班上一个学期的英语课，B班上一学年的英语课(我就是B班， 好后悔当时没好好好考，LZ加油~) 2、分级考试在开学第一周进行，分级考试也分为两种:一种是考两个小时的， 只有统考英语成绩70+或者保研学生才有资格参加，有听力，没作文，通过的进 入A班，没过的进B班。。。。另一种是考3个小时的，统考英语75+和保研的学 生可以参加，听力、作文都有，考后按成绩可能进入A、B班或者免修(有比例 的，并不是固定的分数线，我猜)，达到免修成绩的同学，要参加口语复试，通 过即可免修英语 3、考试还是有一定难度的，不要轻视(我就是裸考结果落得个B班的下场。。) 4、研究生英语有外教每周上课，因此上个A班学一个学期还是有帮助的，B 班虽然能够上一学年的外教课。。但感觉每周两次英语课有点浪费时间。。。最邪 恶的还是要考试XD