2018年西安建筑科技大学考研专业课真题624英语水平测试.docx
第 2 页第 1 页西 安 建 筑 科 技 大 学2018 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题(答案书写在本试题纸上无效。考试结束后本试题纸须附在答题纸内交回) 共 10 页11. His illness first itself as severe stomach pains and headaches.A. manifested B. displayed C. expressed D. reflected12. The medicine his pain but did not cure his illness.A. activated B. alleviated C. mediated D. deteriorated考试科目: (6 24)英语 水平测试 13. Today, our country is experiencing widespread pain because of that belief.A. substantial B. brutal C. rational D. erroneous适 用 专 业 : 戏 剧 戏 曲 学 14. The bride and groom promised to each other through sickness and health.A. nourish B. nominate C. foster D. cherish15. A membership card the holder to use the clubs facilities for a period of twelve months.A. approves B. authorizes C. rectifies D. endows16. Police fired shots and used teargas to the demonstrators.A. spread B. dispense C. displace D. disperse17. He was a man of decisive action and an adventurous .A. exposition B. tendency C. hazard D. disposition18. The device can between the cancerous and the normal cells.A. diagnose B. discriminate C. acknowledge D. identify19. It is a bitterly view, but that doesnt necessary mean he is wrong.A. conversational B. collaborated C. cynical D. classified20. My grandfather, a retired worker, often the past with a feeling of longing and respect.A. considers B. contemplates C. contrives D. contacts21. On balance, we feel it is more likely to the capital-allocation problem than to solve it.A. accentuate B. influence C. accelerate D. sympathize22. Hollywoods latest for trying to convince men to watch romantic comedies is to deny that the movies are romantic comedies at all.A. target B. tactic C. objective D. taboo23. One very argument against direct reseeding in the spring is that land may be out of production for such a long time.A. coincidental B. coherent C. conscientious D. cogent24. Many big companies periodically need to the sort of patient restructuring that they can only get when they leave public markets.A. undertake B. undergo C. underestimate D. understand25. The amount of water in the pond will as the dry season continues.A. diminish B. disband C. discern D. discharge26. She felt great pressure in this project because she knew failure would definitely her future.A. jeopardize B. justify C. irritate D. irrigateI. Vocabulary (30 points / 1 point each )Directions: There are 30 incomplete statements in this part. You are required to complete each statement by choosing the appropriate answer from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D, and then write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. One of the examination questions me completely and I couldnt answer it.A. baffled B. mingled C. provoked D. diverted2. Because of the shortage of water there is a on the use of hose-pipes.A. ban B. veto C. taboo D. boycott3. You can see clearly from the chart that today mortgage debt is almost about 60% of personal consumption .A. payment B. expenditure C. exposition D. expend4. Over the past few months this has had some successes, which both weaken rivals and tackle some of the more blatant problems with economic management.A. unilateral B. residential C. noteworthy D. curious5. The police were alerted that the escaped criminal might be in the .A. vain B. vicinity C. court D. jail6. Can I apply for the unemployment when I am out of job?A. bonus B. payment C. subsidy D. salary7. He turned suddenly and majestically away.A. sneaked B. stalked C. strayed D. strolled8. Their ideas are often misunderstood by their own generation.A. vocational B. versatile C. visionary D. visible9. He that he would die rather than surrender.A. voted B. vowed C. vetoed D. vented10. The Microscope and telescope, with their capacity to enlarge, isolate and probe, demonstrate how details can be and separated from the whole.A. radiated B. extended C. prolonged D. magnified第 4 页第 3 页西 安 建 筑 科 技 大 学2018 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题(答案书写在本试题纸上无效。考试结束后本试题纸须附在答题纸内交回) 共 10 页 考试科目: (624)英语水平测试 适 用 专 业 : 戏剧戏曲学 For awrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “ ” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank.For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blankprovided at the end of the line.If the line is correct, place a tick “ ”in the blank provided at the end of the line.Write all your answers on the Answer Sheet.It was market day so people and traffic had been pouring into(1) the town from early morning. There was not enough room (1) (2) for all the pedestrians on hte pavements and they overflew (2) (3) into the road, endangered their lives from passing (3) (4) vehicles, the drivers which were constantly blowing their (4) (5) horns to convince people to get out of the way. (5) (6) Yet it was a colorful view. Peasants swayed along the (6) (7) street, their heads being piled high with baskets or (7) (8) beautifully woven blankets which they hoped to sell to (8) (9) the townsfolks. Men with barrows forced their way along (9) (10) shouting their wares at the tops of their voices. They (10) (11) were selling peaches, melons and grapesharvest (11) (12) of their fields. Through it, women in bright summer (12) (13) clothes threaded their way, laughing and chattering (13) (14) but children darted in and out of the crowds shrieking (14) (15) with laughter or sobbing with fear because they lost (15) (16) The noise went onall the day. People did not even (16) (17) stop for every meal. The rubbish from all the (17) (18) activities of the day began to collect in the street (18) (19) Finally, when night came, the street was emptied and (19) (20) only the rubbish remained sad blowing in the cool night wind. (20) IV. Reading Comprehension (50 points)Directions: In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 17 questions. Read the passages and then answer the questions briefly. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage 1“History is written by the victors.” This famous phrase reverberates throughout the halls of history, constantly reminding us to take all that we learn with a grain of salt, knowing that the information provided for our dissemination was provided, shaped and influenced by those left to hold the pen that27. Good benefits and a cash bonus should new graduates to accept the job here.A. loom B. loot C. lure D. limp28. A person weighs facts carefully and he would not feel defected for bad news and exult over unpredictable auspicious.A. justice B. jungle C. judicial D. judicious29. Arrows would continue to fly forward forever in a straight line were it not for , which brings them down to earth.A. gravity B. gratuity C. granite D. geography30. Color has a profound, though often influence on our senses and moods.A. subliminal B. convict C. solicit D. vulgarII. Paraphrase (20 points / 2 points each)Directions: Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.1. So far, however, we seem oblivious of the fragility of the earths natural systems.2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.3. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.4. Bargaining is the order of the day.5. We shall be strengthened not weakened in determination and in resources.6. “No” is a word the world never learned to say to her.7. The cab drivers door popped open at the very sight of a traveler.8. By a shade of a shade, Roosevelt looked like Number One.9. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.10. Well, that is California all over.III. Proofreading and Error Correction (20 points / 1 point each)Directions: The following passage contains 17 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error, and three are free from error. In each case only one word is involved, You are required to proofread the passage and correct them in the following way:第 6 页第 5 页西 安 建 筑 科 技 大 学2018 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题(答案书写在本试题纸上无效。考试结束后本试题纸须附在答题纸内交回) 共 10 页 考试科目: (624)英语水平测试 适 用 专 业 : 戏剧戏曲学 Passage 2What can rigid, cold calculating mathematics possibly have in common with subtle, creative, lofty, imaginative art? This question faithfully mirrors the state of mind of most people, even of most educated people, when they regard the numbers and symbols that populate the world of mathematics. But the great leaders of mathematics thought have frequently and repeatedly asserted that the object of their pursuit is just as much an art as it is a science, and perhaps even a fine art. Maxime Bocher, eminent mathematician living at the beginning of last century, wrote: “I like to look at mathematics almost more as an art than as a science; for the activity of the mathematician, constantly creating as he is, guided although not controlled by the external world of the senses, bears a resemblance, not fanciful, I believe, but real, to the activities of the artistof a painter, let us say. Rigorous deductive reasoning on the part of the mathematician may be likened here to the technical skill in drawing on the part of the painter. Just as one cannot become a painter without a certain amount of skill, so no one can become a mathematician without the power to Reason accurately up to a certain point.” “Yet these qualities, fundamental though they are, do not make a painter or a mathematician worthy of the name, nor indeed are they the most important factors in the case. Other qualities of a far more subtle sort, chief among which in both cases is imagination, go into the making of a good artist or a good mathematician.”If mathematics wants to lay claim to being an art, however, it must show that it possesses and makes use of at least some of the elements that go to make up the things of beauty. Is not imagination, creative imagination, the most essential element of an art? Let us take a geometric object, such as the circle. To the ordinary man, this is the rim of a wheel, perhaps with spokes in it. Elementary geometry has crowded this simple figure with radii, chords, sectors, tangents, diameters, inscribed and circumscribed polygons, and so on.Here you have already an entire geometrical world created from a very rudimentary beginning. These and other miracles are undeniable proof of the creative power of the mathematician; and, as if this were not enough, the mathematician allows the whole circle to “vanish”, declares it to be imaginary, then keeps on toying with his new creation in much the same way and with much the same gusto as he did with the innocent little thing you allowed him to start out with. And all this, remember please, is just elementary plane geometry. Truly, the creative imagination displayed by the mathematician has nowhere been exceeded, not even paralleled, and, I would make bold to say, now even closely approached anywhere else. In many ways mathematics exhibits the same elements of beauty that are generally acknowledged to be the essence of poetry. First let us consider a minor point: the poet arranges his writings on the page in verses. His poem first appeals to the eye before it reaches the ear or the mind; and similarly, the mathematician lines up his formulas and equations so that their form may make an aesthetic impression. Some mathematicians are given to this love of arranging and exhibiting their equations to a degree that borders on a fault. Trigonometry, a branch of elementary mathematics particularly rich in formulas, offers some curious groups of them, curious in their symmetry and their arrangement.recorded it. In that respect, one of the worst crimes against history is the revision of it, the altering of therecord of the past so as to reflect the viewpoint of a biased group who stand to benefit from the altered version.By revising the lens by which history is judged, valuable information is lost, to the detriment of both students of the field as well as the awareness that comes from experience. Without an accurately recorded account to serve as a guiding light, nations and societies are left to stumble their way about their affairs, ignorant of what has and hasnt worked before, and unaware of what past events shaped and determined their present situation. Such dismal situations emerge from simple pride, as well as the desire of the revisionists to depict themselves in a better light to posterity or to cover up an embarrassing legacy, no matter the cost to the future.Recent attempts by nations involved in the Second World War to minimize or erase altogether certain shameful incidents from their history textbooks have been met with international outrage and protest, and rightly so. By allowing future generations to forget or never even learn about how their ancestors stumbled on the path to progress, the experiences of those who suffered as a result of those mistakes are trivialized and made to be in vain. Also, a false sense of national identity emerges, inconsistent and inaccurate in its formation. Both are heinous results for both nationals of that particular nation as well as those of the international community, whose stories intertwine to form the larger picture.When a single string in the tapestry of world history is unraveled by revision, the entire piece becomes a weaker one, subject to additional modification at the whim of those who would like to use history as a tool for their own purposes, even if it means fundamentally changing it. His outcome must be avoided at all costs, firstly by not allowing a precedent to be established that makes it acceptable, even in a single case, to commit the revision. Otherwise, humans as a race will fall prey to yet another oft-quotedphrase: “History, if forgotten, is doomed to be repeated.”1. What is the authors view of the revision of history? (5 points)2. What is the meaning of the statement “When a single string in the tapestry of world history is unraveled by revision, the entire piece becomes a weaker one” in paragraph 4? (3 points)3. What is implied in the statement that “History is written by the victors” in paragraph 1? (3 points)第 8 页第 7 页西 安 建 筑 科 技 大 学2018 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题(答案书写在本试题纸上无效。考试结束后本试题纸须附在答题纸内交回) 共 10 页 考试科目: (624)英语水平测试 适 用 专 业 : 戏剧戏曲学 Passage 3Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turned out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect