南京财经大学2008年基础英语考研真题

南 京 财 经 大 学

2008年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试考试科目: 613 基础英语 适用专业: 英语语言文学

考试时间: 2008年1月 20上午8:30—11:30

注意事项:所有答案必须写在答题纸上,做在试卷或草稿纸上无效。

I. Paraphrase the underlined part of the following sentences. (10 points) 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

2. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, and above them won by observation.

3. Unless the man exploit others, he has to work in order to live. Howerver simple and primitive his production may be, he has risen above the animal kindom; rightly has he been defined as ―animal that produces‖.

4. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

5. Even philosophy divorced from theology and from the knowledge of life and ascertainable facts, is but a famishing pabulum, or a draught stimulating for a moment, leaving behind drought and disillusion.

II. Vocabulary and General Knowledge. (20 points)

1. It was found the diet of older people is often ________in vitamins. A. shot B. inadequate C. deficient D. failing

2. Your story about the frog turning into a prince is ______ nonsense. A. sheer B. shear C. shield D. sheet

3. I understand ______preparation that staff must put in under pressure to meet the deadline.

A. more than the enormous amount of B. better than most the enormous number of C. better than most the enormous amount of D. fewer than the number of

4. From the available data it may fairly be ______ that the writer flourished in the 15th century.

A. presupposed B. presumed C. assumed D. supposed

5. I ______ to one daily newspaper and one weekly magazine. A. prescribe B. subscribe C. decretive D. transcribe

6. Her enthusiasm, and her violent likes and dislikes, _____ herself in all the everyday

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occupations of life.

A. inserted D. counseled C. asserted D. discerned

7. Communication satellites contain special instruments which can pass on or ______ radio and television programs or telephone messages from one station to another. A. relay B set C return D. emit

8. One of the attractive features of the course was the way the practical work had been _____ with the theoretical aspects of the subject.

A. alternated B. integrated C. adjusted D. embraced

9. It is hoped that the prisoner will be released through the _______ of the president himself.

A. convention B. prevention C. intervention D. interference

10. They began constructing the bridge in 1960, but several years _______ before the project was completed.

A. elapsed B. advanced C. proceeded D. compromise

11. James Boswell is famous for his biography of _____. A. General Paoli B. Samuel Johnson C. Lord Chesterfield D. Bertrand Russell

12. Which one of the following books is not written by Jane Austen? A. Pride and Prejudice B. Persuasion C. Emma D. Mrs. Dalloway

13. Sigmund Freud is a _____. A. neuropsychologist B. writer C. biologist D. anthropologist

14. Who wins Nobel Prize Laureate for literature among the following people? A. Johannes Kepler B. Enric Fermi C. Samuel Beckett D. Sigmund Freud

15. The author of The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is _____.

A. Henry James B. Mark Twain C. Thomas Carlyle D. C. S. Lewis

16. Which one of the following events was not a part of civil rights movement in 1960s? A. anti-terrorist B. women‘s liberation movement C. the drug culture D. the Vietnam War

17. Jean-Paul Sartre is the foremost exponent of _____.

A. modernism B. postmodernism C. intuitionism D. existentialism

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18. The Greening of America is written by _____. A. Thorstein Veblen B. Charles Reich C. Joseph Brodsky D. Saul Bellow

19. Eskimos call their houses as _____.

A. tepees B. igloos C. huts D. cottages

20. The author of The Scarlet Letter is _____. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Kenneth Clark C. Herman Melville D. Ernest Hemingway

III. Error Correction. (10 points)

1. Massachusetts was first explored in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the

A B D first permanent settlement at Plymouth in 1620. D

2. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II brought to the musical A

Oklahoma! extensive musical and theatrical background as well as familiar with the B C traditional forms of operetta and musical comedy. D

3. Harvesting of grain is affected by annual changes in temperature or the amount of moisture,

A B C but both. D

4. A patent gives inventors exclusive rights to their inventions for a fix period of time. A B C D

5. The economy of Litue Rock, Arkansas, is basing primarily on manufacturing, wholesale and

A B retail trade and government functions. C D

6. How many people realize that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings‘ The Yearling is a minor literary

A B

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classic and an important contribute to regional literature? C D

7. Dams vary in size from small rock barriers to concrete structures many feet height. A B C D

8. Scientists estimate that as many as two hundred millions visible meteors enter the Earth‘s

A B C atmosphere every day. D

9. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in the

A

fact that in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles. B C D

10. Government money appropriated for art in the 1930‘s made possible hundreds of murals and

A B

statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States. C D

IV. Reading Comprehension (40 points) TEXT A

A few common misconception. Beauty is only skin-deep. One‘s physical assets and liabilities don't count all that much in a managerial career. A woman should always try to l**st.

Over the last 30 years, social scientists have conducted more than 1,000 studies of how we react to beautiful and not-so-beautiful people. The virtually unanimous conclusion: Looks do matter, more than most of us realize. The data suggest, for example, that physically attractive individuals are more likely to be treated well by their parents, sought out as friends, and pursued romantically. With the possible exception of women seeking managerial jobs, they are also more likely to be hired, paid well, and promoted.

Un-American, you say, unfair and extremely unbelievable? Once again, the scientists have caught us mouthing pieties (虔诚) while acting just the contrary. Their typical experiment Works something like this. They give each member of a group — college students, perhaps, or teachers or corporate personnel mangers — a piece of paper

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