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专 业：外国语言学及应用语言学

课程名称：基础英语(712)A

说明：答案标明题号写在答题纸上，写在试题纸上的一律无效。

I Vocabulary & Structure (每小题1分，共20分)

Directions: Choose the right one among the four choices.

注意：答案应这样写：1-----5 a b c d a 6-----10 a b c d a 如果写成：1. a 2. c 3. d 等等将视为无效，后果由考生自负。

1. conceivable

A. reasonable B. imaginable C. considerable D. credible

2. sepulchral

A. overwhelmed B. pleasant C. picturesque D. grave-like

3. burnished

A. polished B. published C. burned D. perished

4. cataract

A. cataclysm B. waterfall C. disaster D. flood

5. vestige

A. trace B. vest C. invest D. privilege

6. contagious

A. sensitive B. easy-going C. affective D. contemptuous

7. fortify

A. multiply by forty B. strengthen C. a stronghold D. fortress

8. demolish

A. decrease B. erect C. tear down D. set aside

9. primordial

A. prime B. introductory C. primitive D. element

10. respite

A. postponement B. respect C. in spite of D. despite

11. Mountain life produces a strong, tough and ________ farmer.

A. tricky B. genius C. industrious D. gentle

12.A patient who is dying of incurable cancer of the throat is in terrible pain, which can no longer be satisfactorily ________.

A. diminished B. alleviated C. replaced D. abolished

13. Does brain power_______ as we get older? Scientists now have some surprising answers.

A. collapse B. descend C. deduce D. decay

14. Recently a number of cases have been reported of young children ____a violent act previously seen on television.

A. modifying B. stimulating C. accelerating D. duplicating

15. We are going to the cinema tonight, why don’t you come along ___________?

A. either B. also C. as well D. in addition

16. With the help of a metal detector, they discovered that wreckage laid __________ over a 2000-square-feet area, often buried beneath sand seaweed.

A. scattered B. separated C. dispersed D. distributed

17. _______ before they depart the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful dinner party.

A. Had they arrived B. Were they to arrive

C. Would they arrive D. Have they arrived

18. Studies show that the things that contribute most to a sense of happiness cannot be bought, _____ a good family life，friendship and work satisfaction.

A. as for B. in view of C. in case of D. such as

19. Successful businessmen today are likely to be young , aggressive ,and well-educated ._______, they are willing to take risks to achieve success.

A. After all B. All in all C. Over all D. Above all

20. “I would like to have a look at your cameras before I decide on one..” “We have several models_____ .”

A. for you to choose from B. for your choice C. for the choice of yours D. for you to choose

II Cloze (每空1分，共20分)

Directions: Choose a correct one among the four choices to fill in each numbered blank in the following passage.

The press in America is particularly important because, ___1___than in any other country, it is recognized as having a responsible role to___2___in relation to one aspect of the process of government. The press ____3___ is an American invention, and it began to be important____4____the form of a meeting between President and ____5___ in which the President____6_____questions. Press conferences take place all___7___the world now, but the presidential press conference is an institution ___8___gives us a key___9___the special role America___10___to the press and to the newspapermen. The British parliament has its question time ___11___each day Members of Parliament ___12___ questions to ministers in charge of ___13___departments, and some European parliaments have something of ___14___ kind. There is no possibility ___15___such a device in the United States Congress because heads of executive departments are not members of ___16___ . Thus the executive has no political platform ___17___which to explain its___18___and give information. President Franklin Roosevelt showed the advantages of using the press for such ___19___when he called regular meetings of newspapermen ___20___which he invited questions.

1 A B. more C. rather D. greater

2 A orm B. conduct C. do D. make

3 A. session B. meet C. meeting D. conference

4 A. at B. with C. in D. for

5 A. ministers B. officials C. opponents D. journalists

6 A. replied B. replied to C. answered to D. returned

7 A. over B. round C. up D. through

8 A. where B. what C. which D. it

9 A. for B. at C. towards D. to

10 A. resigns B. assigns C. desidns D. assists

11 A. when B. on C. for D. in

12 A. answer B. respond C. address D. serve

13 A. executive B. management C. execution D. direction

14 A. same B. a same C. the same D. the similar

15 A. for B. to C. about D. of

16 A. it B. them C. importance D. significance

17 A. with B. through C. for D. in

18 A. views B. points C. stands D. locations

19 A. sake B. save C. intentions D. purposes

20 A. in B. on C. at D. for

III. Error Correction (每小题3分，共15分)

Directions: In this passage there are altogether 5 mistakes in the five numbered and underlined sentences. Try to detect the mistakes and write out your corrected answers on the Answer Sheet.

提示： 没有拼写和标点符号错误。

Sample test: He commenced helping the poor. →commenced to help

To be elected president in the Provincetown Playhouse at our International Conference in New York this past June was a special thrill, and it's a privilege to be succeeding such accomplished O'Neillians as Laurie Porter, Brenda Murphy, and Steve Bloom, just to name the most recent. (1) I feel lucky to have a turn at leading this organization with its collegial, erudite, and distinguishing group of scholars, teachers, and dedicated enthusiasts of the life and works of Eugene O'Neill. And congratulations to Jeff Kennedy, the tireless creative force behind the New York conference and our new vice president. (2) Just as O'Neill himself was usually convinced that his most recent play was his greatest, sometimes correctly, I can't help to think that our most recent gathering this June set a new high mark even among all the terrific international conferences that the Society has sponsored over the past few decades.

By day I am the associate dean of Arts and Sciences at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, and though I enjoy budget spreadsheets and curriculum oversight as much as the next guy, (3) the excuse to linger in Seattle for MLA, or run off to San Francisco in May for our annual Society meeting at ALA, give me a special sense of purpose and adventure that, frankly, administrative life sometimes lacks. Though handicapped by a reasonably happy childhood, I came to appreciate O'Neill in graduate school while studying his plays at Boston University, a couple of blocks down Bay State Road from where he died in 1953. A coincidence, probably, but I should also note that my wife Rita attended Connecticut College in New London, a primary locus of O'Neill studies (and just maybe the site of our next big gathering--stay tuned); my mother-in-law was actually a young girl in Provincetown during those special years when O'Neill was a fledgling playwright and family man there. In January, I look forward to returning to Seattle, my own home town and O'Neill's home for a few months in 1936 when he learned he'd won the Nobel Prize, where I'll be moderating the O'Neill Society session at the 2012 MLA convention. I suppose being an O'Neillian requires a certain belief in the convergent power of fate.

(4) Our future looks bright, with so much continuing interest in O'Neill and his circle, so I'm sure that like many of you I'm having some difficulty imagining life after Diane Schinnerer steps down this winter after twelve peerless years as our secretary-treasurer. Fortunately we have Beth Wynstra stepping into that role, and I'm sure she'll be channeling Diane when necessary while putting her own fresh stamp on the operation.

The other major transition, of course, is the succession of the editorship of The Eugene O'Neill Review from Zander Brietzke to William Davies King, (5) with the journal moving from its original home at Suffolk University to the Penn State University Press, there it will be published twice-yearly and available online through JSTOR and Project MUSE. Zander, succeeding founding editor Fred Wilkins, cultivated many important new voices and directions in O'Neill scholarship. It will be exciting to see where Dave and the supportive folks at PSUP take the journal from here. So it's a good time to be an O'Neillian, and I hope to continue seeing many of you at Society-sponsored events, and to encourage new O'Neill scholars and fans to join us.

IV. Read the following passage and fulfill the tasks according to the requirements. (共95分)

The Good Short Life

by Dudley Clendinen

(From the New York Times)

1. I have wonderful friends. In this last year, one took me to Istanbul. One gave me a box of handcrafted chocolates. Fifteen of them held two rousing, pre-posthumous wakes for me. Several wrote large checks. Two sent me a boxed set of all the Bach sacred cantatas. And one, from Texas, put a hand on my thinning shoulder, and appeared to study the ground where we were standing. He had flown in to see me.

2. “We need to go buy you a pistol, don’t we?” he asked quietly. He meant to shoot myself with.

3. “Yes, Sweet Thing,” I said, with a smile. “We do.”

4. I loved him for that.

5. I love them all. I am acutely lucky in my family and friends, and in my daughter, my work, and my life. But I have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, more kindly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, for the great Yankee hitter and first baseman who was told he had it in 1939, accepted the verdict with such famous grace, and died less than two years later. He was almost thirty-eight.

6. I sometimes call it Lou, in his honor, and because the familiar feels less threatening. But it is not a kind disease. The nerves and muscles pulse and twitch, and progressively, they die. From the outside, it looks like the ripple of piano keys in the muscles under my skin. From the inside, it feels like anxious butterflies, trying to get out. It starts in the hands and feet and works its way up and in, or it begins in the muscles of the mouth and throat and chest and abdomen, and works its way down and out. The second way is called bulbar, and that’s the way it is with me. We don’t live as long, because it affects our ability to breathe early on, and it just gets worse.

7. At the moment, for sixty-six, I look pretty good. I’ve lost twenty pounds. My face is thinner. I even get some “Hey, there, Big Boy,” looks, which I like. I think of it as my cosmetic phase. But it’s hard to smile, and chew. I’m short of breath. I choke a lot. I sound like a wheezy, lisping drunk. For a recovering alcoholic, it’s really annoying.

8. There is no meaningful treatment. No cure. There is one medication, Rilutek, which might make a few months’ difference. It retails for about $14,000 a year. That doesn’t seem worthwhile to me. If I let this run the whole course, with all the human, medical, technological, and loving support I will start to need just months from now, it will leave me, in five or eight or twelve or more years, a conscious but motionless, mute, withered, incontinent mummy of my former self. Maintained by feeding and waste tubes, breathing and suctioning machines.

9. No, thank you. I hate being a drag. I don’t think I’ll stick around for the back half of Lou.

10. I think it’s important to say that. We obsess in this country about how to eat and dress and drink, about finding a job and a mate. About having sex and children. About how to live. But we don’t talk about how to die. We act as if facing death weren’t one of life’s greatest, most absorbing thrills and challenges. Believe me, it is. This is not dull. But we have to be able to see doctors and machines, medical and insurance systems, family and friends and religions as informative—not governing —in order to be free.

11. And that’s the point. This is not about one particular disease or even about Death. It’s about Life, when you know there’s not much left. That is the weird blessing of Lou. There is no escape, and nothing much to do. It’s liberating.

12. I began to slur and mumble in May 2010. When the neurologist gave me the diagnosis that November, he shook my hand with a cracked smile and released me to the chill, empty gray parking lot below.

13. It was twilight. He had confirmed what I had suspected through six months of tests by other specialists looking for other explanations. But suspicion and certainty are two different things. Standing there, it suddenly hit me that I was going to die. I’m not prepared for this, I thought. I don’t know whether to stand here, get in the car, sit in it, or drive. To where? Why? The pall lasted about five minutes, and then I remembered that I did have a plan. I had a dinner scheduled in Washington that night with an old friend, a scholar and author who was feeling depressed. We’d been talking about him a lot. Fair enough. Tonight, I’d up the ante. We’d talk about Lou.

14. The next morning, I realized I did have a way of life. For twenty-two years, I have been going to therapists and twelve-step meetings. They helped me deal with being alcoholic and gay. They taught me how to be sober and sane. They taught me that I could be myself, but that life wasn’t just about me. They taught me how to be a father. And perhaps most important, they taught me that I can do anything, one day at a time.

15. Including this.

16. I am, in fact, prepared. This is not as hard for me as it is for others. Not nearly as hard as it is for Whitney, my thirty-year-old daughter, and for my family and friends. I know. I have experience.

17. I was close to my old cousin, Florence, who was terminally ill. She wanted to die, not wait. I was legally responsible for two aunts, Bessie and Carolyn, and for Mother, all of whom would have died of natural causes years earlier if not for medical technology, well-meaning systems, and loving, caring hands.

18. I spent hundreds of days at Mother’s side, holding her hand, trying to tell her funny stories. She was being bathed and diapered and dressed and fed, and for the last several years, she looked at me, her only son, as she might have at a passing cloud.

19. I don’t want that experience for Whitney—nor for anyone who loves me. Lingering would be a colossal waste of love and money.

20. If I choose to have the tracheotomy that I will need in the next several months to avoid choking and perhaps dying of aspiration pneumonia, the respirator and the staff and support system necessary to maintain me will easily cost half a million dollars a year. Whose half a million, I don’t know.

21. I’d rather die. I respect the wishes of people who want to live as long as they can. But I would like the same respect for those of us who decide—rationally—not to. I’ve done my homework. I have a plan. If I get pneumonia, I’ll let it snuff me out. If not, there are those other ways. I just have to act while my hands still work: the gun, narcotics, sharp blades, a plastic bag, a fast car, over-the-counter drugs, oleander tea (the polite southern way), carbon monoxide, even helium. That would give me a really funny voice at the end.

22. I have found the way. Not a gun. A way that’s quiet and calm.

23. Knowing that comforts me. I don’t worry about fatty foods anymore. I don’t worry about having enough money to grow old. I’m not going to grow old.

24. I’m having a wonderful time.

25. I have a bright, beautiful, talented daughter who lives close by, the gift of my life. I don’t know if she approves. But she understands. Leaving her is the one thing I hate. But all I can do is to give her a daddy who was vital to the end, and knew when to leave. What else is there? I spend a lot of time writing letters and notes, and taping conversations about this time, which I think of as the Good Short Life (and Loving Exit), for WYPR-FM, the main NPR station in Baltimore. I want to take the sting out of it, to make it easier to talk about death. I am terribly behind in my notes, but people are incredibly patient and nice. And inviting. I have invitations galore.

26. Last month, an old friend brought me a recording of the greatest concert he’d ever heard, Leonard Cohen, live, in London, three years ago. It’s powerful, haunting music, by a poet, composer, and singer whose life has been as tough and sinewy and loving as an old tree.

27. The song that transfixed me, words and music, was “Dance Me to the End of Love.” That’s the way I feel about this time. I’m dancing, spinning around, happy in the last rhythms of the life I love. When the music stops—when I can’t tie my bow tie, tell a funny story, walk my dog, talk with Whitney, kiss someone special, or tap out lines like this—I’ll know that Life is over.

28. It’s time to be gone.

Task One: Paraphrasing (每小题2.5分，共15分)

Directions: Paraphrase the following sentences on the basis of the text. REMEMBER to write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. Fifteen of them held two rousing, pre-posthumous wakes for me.

2. I sometimes call it Lou, in his honor, and because the familiar feels less threatening.

3. I hate being a drag. I don’t think I’ll stick around for the back half of Lou.

4. ..., he shook my hand with a cracked smile and released me to the chill, empty gray parking lot below.

5. I don’t want that experience for Whitney—nor for anyone who loves me. Lingering would be a colossal waste of love and money.

6. I want to take the sting out of it, to make it easier to talk about death.

Task Two: Questions on contents and style (每小题5分，共25分)

Read the passage carefully and then answer the following questions. When answering question, you are supposed to come to the point at once and then try to elaborate it. REMEMBER to write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

(注意：回答每个问题简明扼要，开门见山，不超过50个单词，切记标清题号)

1. Why does the author say the song "Dance Me to the End of Love" transfixed him?

2. By saying "I have experience" in paragraph 16, what does the author mean?

3. Why is ALS widely named as Lou Gehrig’s disease?

4. Beginning paragraph of 11 with "and that is the point", what does the author want to emphasize?

5. Finishing reading the essay, what do you think is the tone of this essay?

Task Three: Translating from English into Chinese (每小题5分，共25分)

Directions: Your translations supposed to equivalent in meaning and style. REMEMBER to write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. It’s powerful, haunting music, by a poet, composer, and singer whose life has been as tough and sinewy and loving as an old tree.

2. I respect the wishes of people who want to live as long as they can. But I would like the same respect for those of us who decide—rationally—not to.

3. There is no meaningful treatment. No cure. There is one medication, Rilutek, which might make a few months’ difference.

4. From the inside, it feels like anxious butterflies, trying to get out. It starts in the hands and feet and works its way up and in, or it begins in the muscles of the mouth and throat and chest and abdomen, and works its way down and out.

5. He had confirmed what I had suspected through six months of tests by other specialists looking for other explanations. But suspicion and certainty are two different things.

Task Four: English composition (共30分)

Directions: After reading the passage above, write on Answer sheet an essay of more than 300 words with the Following Title. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Smile to Life and Death