南开大学2017年博士研究生招生考试试题
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Section II Structure and Vocabulary ( 15 points ) Directions: In this part, there are fifteen incomplete sentences. For each sentence four alternatives A, B, C or D are given. Decide which of the alternatives best completes the sentence and mark the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET. 1. ______ excessive consumption of fried foods has serious consequences as has been proved. A. Theoretically B. Presumably C. Incredibly D. Practically 2. The ______ language of local officials makes them seem very ignorant and rude. A. artificial B. lively C. indecent D. humorous 3. Many of the local residents left homes to ______ the danger of flooding. A. encounter B. enclose C. shake off D. ward off 4. We have done all we could and now our cherished project is ______ our new CEO. A. on the agenda of B. in the power of C. under the guidance of D. with the guidance of 5. She was delirious last night, but she seems quite ______ this morning. A. insane B. lucid C. patient D. messy 6. Ploughs and other agricultural ______ were on display at the recent exhibition. A. machinery B. playthings C. implements D. appliances 7. If we don’t stop flirting with those deathly nuclear weapons, the whole globe will be ______. A. contaminated B. polluted C. annihilated D. invaded 8. When in his rebellious years, that is when he was sixteen or eighteen, Frank Anderson ______ going around with a strange set of people and staying out very late. A. took to B. took on C. took up D. took in 9. The waste pipe is blocked; try ______ it out with hot water, or just call the plumber to do it. A. flushing B. blushing C. brushing D. crushing 10. She was so ______ in her work that she didn’t notice me when I came in the room. A. immersed B. obsessed C. submerged D. suffocated 11. I ______ you that the goods will be delivered next week. A. ensure B. assure C. confirm D. insist 12. As a lawyer ______ for his good judgment and eloquence, he is often invited to those grand banquets and meets those distinguished people from all circles. A. noticeable B. notorious C. nasty D. notable 13. Our journey was slow because the train stopped ______ at different villages. 第 1 页 共 8 页
昆明理工大学2015年博士研究生招生考试试题 A. constantly B. continually C. continuously D. gradually 14. He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a ______ of Henry Kissinger. A. dissection B. dissertation C. necessity D. casualty 15. At first Jackie prayed, frozen in fear, but gradually his terror ______ curiosity. A. gave away to B. gave way to C. go away to D. lived up to Section III. Reading Comprehension ( 40 points ) Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the BEST choices and then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. Passage 1 At all ages and at all stages of life, fear presents a problem to almost everyone. \largely the playthings of our fears,\ago. \fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness--for all of us our particular creature waits in a hidden place.\ Fear is often a useful emotion. When you become frightened, many physical changes occur within your body. Your heartbeat and responses quicken; your pupils expand to admit more light; large quantities of energy-producing adrenaline (肾上激素) are poured into your bloodstream. Confronted with a fire or accident, fear can fuel life-saving flight. Similarly, when a danger is psychological rather than physical, fear can force you to take self-protective measures. It is only when fear is disproportional to the danger at hand that it becomes a problem. Some people are simply more vulnerable to fear than others. A visit to the newborn nursery of any large hospital will demonstrate that, from the moment of their births, a few fortunate infants respond calmly to sudden fear-producing situations such as a loudly slammed door. Yet a neighbor in the next bed may cry out with profound fright. From birth, he or she is more prone to learn fearful responses because he or she has inherited a tendency to be more sensitive. Further, psychologists know that our early experiences and relationships strongly shape and determine our later fears. A young man named Bill, for example, grew up with a father who regarded each adversity as a temporary obstacle to be overcome with imagination and courage. Using his father as a model, Bill came to welcome adventure and to trust his own ability to solve problem. Phil's dad, however, spent most of his time trying to protect himself and his family. Afraid to risk the insecurity of a job change, he remained unhappy in one position. He avoided long vacations because \Phil naturally learned to become fearful and tense. 16. In the last sentence of Paragraph 1, \A. fear of something B．public ridicule C．physical pain D．a fierce beast 第 2 页 共 8 页
昆明理工大学2015年博士研究生招生考试试题 17. Fear can be a useful emotion to us because it can ______. A. quicken our heartbeat and responses B. help us respond quickly to danger and protect ourselves C. stimulate many physical changes within our body D. pour large quantities of adrenaline into our bloodstream. 18. Fear becomes a problem only when ______. A. one cannot sand the danger B. one is not well prepared for it C. the danger is more psychological than physical D. the danger is thought greater than it really is 19. Different responses of newborn infants to a loudly slammed door imply that ______. A. people sometimes seem to turn a deaf ear to noise B. some people seem to be very sensitive to noise C. some people are inherently more easily affected by danger D. people’s response to stimuli is not an inherited feature 20. Psychologists have found that our later fears are determined largely by our ______. A. parents’ lifestyle B. early experiences C. school education D. home education Passage 2 The close relationship between poetry and music scarcely needs to be argued. Both are aural modes which employ rhythm, rime, and pitch as major devices; to these the one adds linguistic meaning, connotation, and various traditional figures, and the other can add, at least in theory, all of these plus harmony, counterpoint (对位), and orchestration techniques. In English the two are closely bound historically. Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry seems certainly to have been read or chanted to a harpist's (竖琴师) accompaniment; the verb used in Beowulf for such a performance, the Finn episode (逸事), is singan, to sing, and the noun gyd, song. A major source of the lyric tradition in English poetry is the songs of the troubadours. The distance between the gyd in Beowulf and the songs of Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan may seem great, but is one of time rather than aesthetics. The lyric poem as a literary work and the lyrics of a popular song are both still essentially the same thing: poetry. Whether the title of the work be \criteria for evaluating the work must remain the same. The most important prerequisite (先决条件) for both a significant poem and significant lyrics in a popular song is that the writer be faithful to his own personal vision or to the vision of the poem he is writing. Skill and craft for writing poetry are indeed necessary because these are the only means by which a poet can preserve the integrity of this vision in the poem. A poet must not, either because of lack of skill or because of worship of popularity, wealth, or critical acclaim, go outside of his own or his own poem's vision - on pain of writing only the derivative派生物 or the trivial. Historically, the writers and singers of the lyrics of popular songs have seemed often to be incapable of personal vision, and to have confused both originality and morality with a servile (奴性的) compliance to popular taste. 第 3 页 共 8 页