广外英语考研真题2005英语水平测试

05年英语专业水平考试试题

I. Cloze (30 points, 1 point for each)

Read the following passage and choose a proper word from the Word List to fill in each of the blanks in the passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the words you choose for each blank on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:

Example

I. Cloze

1. paper 2. continuously 3. …

Now, do the Cloze.

WORD LIST

Most of Mark Twain’s books bubbled out of his gifts was the capacity to take a scene and fill it sparkling detail of nature and of human action, to put in every spoken word and accompanying gesture, and to slowly exaggerate the successive moments the whole episode reached a climax of joyous, sidesplitting laughter. he had trouble weaving his incidents into meaningful plot patterns. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s masterpiece, came into in 1876, immediately after he had dashed off The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he wrote 400 manuscript pages quickly and the winter of 1879-1880 he penned further sections; again the spark of enthusiasm died. taking a journey down the Mississippi River in April, 1882, he quickly completed Lift on the Mississippi (1883) and with unabated the novel. The trip had reawakened his boyhood memories and suggested new episodes; the two books became The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, it met a mixed reception. A Brooklyn lady protested its presence in the children’s room of the public library; the librarian reshelved the volume in the adult area Huck’s and Tom’s “mischievous and deceitful practices which made them poor examples for

youth.” Today the novel is among the world’s and vies with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) for the position of American’s artistic work of fiction.

The reader is reminded at the outset that in 1850 Huck Finn had been a playmate of Tom Sawyer in St. Petersburg, Missouri, of Mark Twain’s native life he had saved, the Widow Douglas, “fair, smart, and forty”; her hill mansion was “the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities” that the town could boast. The lad had run away from elegance was again a candidate for the major role in a rags-to-riches tale. Huck wanted it otherwise. Like Tom, whose name turns up throughout the . Huck wanted adventure. For six months Huck endured starched clothes and virtual imprisonment within the mansion. When Pap returned on April 1 and took from the Widow, Huck came to prefer his slovenly island home. against Pap’s cruelty led Huck to plan his own “murder” and to decamp about two months later. He discovered June 4 and started the rafting trip down the river on June 22. about a month. On August 10 the Duke and Dauphin at Pikeville on September 18. The Then Huck decided to light out for Indian Territory and forever depart from a

II. Proofreading and Error Correction (30 points, 2 points for each)

The following passage contains fifteen errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. Correct the errors and write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:

write the correct one on Your Answer Sheet.

write the missing word with a “∧” sign before it on Your Answer

Sheet.

For an unnecessary word, write the unnecessary word with a deleting line on it on Your

Answer Sheet.

For a wrong word, For a missing word,

Example

When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, it

them on the wall. When a natural history museum

31. _____ 32. _____ 33. _____

Write on your Answer Sheet:

II. Proofreading and Error Correction

31. ∧ an 32. 33. exhibit

Now, do the Proofreading and Error Correction.

Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in the

world average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, [31] ___

ecologists have turned to historical datum in relation to [32] ___

especially huge volcanic eruptions. They suspect that volcanoes

affect weather changes that are similar to air pollution. [33]___

[34]__

of Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, the Dutch East Indies, in

April 1815. The largest recorded volcano eruption, Tambora [35]___

threw 150 million tons of fine ash into the stratosphere. The

ash from a volcano spreads around worldwide in a few days [36] ___

or remains in the air for years. Its effect is to turn incoming [37] ___

solar radiation into the space and thus cool the earth. For [38]___

example, records of weather in England shows that between [39] ___

April and November 1815, the average temperature had fallen

4.5° F. During the next twenty-four months, England suffered

one of the coldest periods of their history. Farmers’ records [40]___

from April 1815 to December 1818 indicate frost throughout

the spring and summer and sharp decreases at crop and [41]___

livestock markets. Since there was a time lag of several years

between cause and effect, by the time the world agricultural cause.

Ecologists today warn that we face a twofold menace. The

ever-present possibility of volcanic eruptions, such as those of Mt. St. Helens in Washington, added man’s pollution of [44]___

the atmosphere with oil, gas, coal, and other polluting

substances, may bring us increasingly colder weather. [45]___

III. Gap-filling (30points, 2 points for each)

Fill in the following banks with the correct words and the correct forms of the words given according the meanings of the sentences. Write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:

Example

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