广外考研2005英语水平测试及答案 

广外考研2005英语水平测试及答案

广东外语外贸大学2005年研究生入学考试 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

stay form fictional there Begun classics novel whose published of One related away In After When with most

disliked until hide aboard destroying against But then finished who Rebellion on

Most of Mark Twain‘s books bubbled out 1 him like water out of a fountain.

2 of his gifts was the capacity to take a scene and fill it 3 every sparkling

detail of nature and of human action, to put in every spoken word and accompanying gesture, and to slowly exaggerate the successive moments 4 the whole episode

reached a climax of joyous, sidesplitting laughter. 5 he had trouble weaving his

incidents into meaningful plot patterns. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark

Twain‘s masterpiece, came into __6 slowly. 7 in 1876, immediately after he

had dashed off The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he wrote 400 manuscript pages

quickly and 8 stalled; in disgust he meditated 9 the work. __10 the winter

of 1879-1880 he penned further sections; again the spark of enthusiasm died. __11

taking a journey down the Mississippi River in April, 1882, he quickly completed Lift

on the Mississippi (1883) and with unabated zest 12 the novel. The trip had

reawakened his boyhood memories and suggested new episodes; the two books became 13 , the weaker travel account serving as scaffolding for the great edifice. __14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was 15 in 1884, it met a mixed

reception. A Brooklyn lady protested 16 its presence in the children‘s room of the

public library; the librarian reshelved the volume in the adult area to 17 Huck‘s

and Tom‘s ―mischievous and deceitful practices which made them poor examples for youth.‖ Today the novel is among the world‘s 18 and vies with Nathaniel

Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter (1850) for the position of American‘s _19 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, the 20 name of Mark Twain‘s native

village of Hannibal. For three months Huck had lived with the lady 21 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 22 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 __23 . Huck wanted

adventure. For six months Huck endured starched clothes and virtual imprisonment within the mansion. When Pap returned on April 1 and took Huck 24 from the

Widow, Huck came to prefer his slovenly island home. 25 against Pap‘s cruelty

led Huck to plan his own ―murder‖ and to decamp about two months later. He discovered Jim 26 June 4 and started the rafting trip down the river on June 22. On July 7 he reached the Grangerfords and stayed __27 about a month. On August

the raft; their shenanigans ended at Pikeville 10 the Duke and Dauphin came 28

on September 18. The 29 at Aunt Sally‘s lasted twenty-six days, until October 15.

Then Huck decided to light out for Indian Territory and forever depart from a ―civilization‖ that he 30 .

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:

For a wrong word, write the correct one on Your Answer Sheet. For a missing word, 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. Example

When art museum wants a new exhibit, it 31. _____ , never buys things in finished form and hangs 32. _____ them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it. 33. _____ Write on your Answer Sheet:

II. Proofreading and Error Correction 31. an 32. never 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]___

One source of informations is the effect of the eruption [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