英语专业考研考前基础英语水平模考测试卷一

1. Basic English: (100/150)

I. In each of the following sentences, four words or phrases have been underlined. Choose the one word or phrase that would not be appropriate in standard English. Write your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. (10/150)

1. Two police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car’s registration had outdated.

A B C D

2. I would rather you can give me an exact number of the people present at the meeting.

A B C D

3. What a mistake! You haven't paid the least attention to the spelling.

A B C D

4. The slave would do anything his master asked him, for he is habitually obedient to his master.

A B C D

5. Today's plentiful supply of graduates mean increasing competition for jobs, disappointment for many in terms

A B C D

of pay or type of work and, for some, no job at all.

6. How good we are educated is simply a matter of how well we have adjusted ourselves to our lives and our

A B C D

environment.

7. Despite our mass attendance at college and our mass exposure on culture, education remains an individual

A B C D

achievement.

8. Many argue that even college had no impact on that part of your life, it would still be a good investment.

A B C D

9. In our generation American women are shaping new goals which are well reflected in the fiction on many

A B C

contemporary woman writers.

D

10. There are many interrelationships among philosophy, politics, economics and the science of

A B C D

II. Find the one choice that best completes the sentence. Write your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. (10/150)

1. The food made for pregnant women is easy_________.

A. to be digested B. digested C. to digest D. digesting

2. Buy your wife a present on her birthday, ________she should get angry.

A. lest B. otherwise C. however D. perhaps

3. The juvenile offender was released from custody on condition that he ________ out of trouble for six months.

A. would stay B. stays C. could stay D. stay

4. Jane has recently bought_________

A. a new beautiful green Hong Kong jacket

B. a beautiful new Hong Kong green jacket

C. a new green beautiful Hong Kong jacket

D. a beautiful new green Hong Kong jacket

5. In vain ________to engage him in our group activities, and he didn't show the least interest.

A. have we tried B. we tried C. did we try D. we had tried.

6. His success could not shield him from the racial prejudice _________rampant in those days.

A. being B that C. as D. so

7. As she grows her happy ______grew sour, and she often flew into violent rages.

A. disposition B. personality C. character D. temper

8. The typhoon could sweep off all the things in the village, _________.

A. whether they are high trees and buildings

B. be they high trees or buildings

C. should they be high trees or buildings

D. they are high trees or buildings

9. I prefer _________the examination today rather than ________ it for a whole week.

A. taking ... postponing B. to take ... postpone

C. taking ... postpone D. to take ... to postpone

10. The boy anticipates ________the first prize in the contest.

A. to win B. winning C. his winning D. to have won

III. Proofreading: (15/150): (Do it in on the ANSWER SHEET)

The following passage contains 12 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error, and three are free from error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "∧" and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash , "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

If the line is correct, place a tick "√" in the blank at the end of the line.

Example: It is impossible ∧ any sentence in one language to have exactly (1)____for_____

the same meaning as any single sentence in another language. It is also (2) ____single__

impossible for any sentence in a particular language to have exactly (3) ____√_____

the same meaning as the other sentence in that same language. (4) any_____

The motion of the sun along the ecliptic is, of course

merely a reflection of the revolution of the earth . (1) __________

around the sun, but the ancients believed earth was

fixed and the sun had an independent motion of its (2) __________

own, eastward among the stars. The glare of sunlight

hide the stars in daytime, but the ancients were aware (3) __________

that the stars were up there even at night, and the slow

eastward motion of the sun around the sky, in the (4) __________

rate of about thirty degrees each month, cause different

stars to be visible at night at different times of the (5) __________

year. The moon, revolves around the earth each month,

also has an independent motion in the sky. (6) __________

The moon, however, changes its position relatively

rapid. Although it appears to rise and set each (7) __________

day, as is nearly everything else in the sky, we

can see the moon changing position during as short (8) ___________

an interval as a hour or so. The moon's path around

the earth lies nearly in the same plane as the earth's (9) ___________

path around the sun, so the moon is never seen very

far from the ecliptic in the sky. There are five other (10) __________

objects visible to the naked eye that also appear to

move in respect to the fixed background of stars (11) __________

on the celestial sphere. These are the planets Mercury,

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and the Saturn. All of which (12) __________

revolve the sun in nearly the same plane as the

earth does, so they, like the moon, always appear (13)__________

near the ecliptic. Because we see the planets

from the moving earth, however, they behave in a (14)__________

complicated way, with their apparent motions on the

celestial sphere reflecting both their won dependent (15)__________

motions around the sun and our motion as well.

IV. Academic Reading: (12/150)

Asian Economies Not as Vulnerable as Before

A. Central bank governors from the Asia-Pacific region, at a recent meeting warned that the global trade environment is much tougher for their countries now than during the Asian crisis of four years ago. Singapore is in recession, and South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Philippines have sharply slowing growth. The only bright spot is China, which has maintained brisk output growth because stronger investment and household spending have more than offset the regional export slowdown.

B. However, a new financial crisis does not seem to be looming for the region, as some remarkable changes have taken place over the past four years. These changes mean that the region's economies are likely to experience slower but still positive growth this year, and stronger growth next year. The first change is that the economies of Korea, Thailand the Indonesia can no longer be broken by a stampede of foreign bank lenders. The hot money has already gone. According to the most recent International Monetary Fund statistics, net international bank claims in East Asia have fallen by US$354 billion over the last four years. Loans have been repaid by stronger flows of foreign direct investment, by lending from international institutions and by the reemergence of a bond market in the first half of last year, as well as through large trade surpluses resulting from imports growing more slowly than exports. In the four years from 1997 to 2000, these economies accumulated current account surpluses of US$239 billion, compared to a cumulative deficit of US$88 billion during the five years from 1992.

C. Large current account surpluses have seen not only foreign debt reduced, but also big reserves accumulated. These reserves are seen as a cushion against future financial shocks. The reserves in Southeast Asia have increased by US$214 billion in recent years. The central banks of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan hold most of this sum. Moreover, the central banks of the region have agreed on swap arrangements, which could allow the reserves for one currency to be used in the defense of another in case of the threat of another Asian financial crisis. As noted by a report prepared by the regional central banks, intervention is most effective when coordinated.

D. These changes defend against a stampede and contagion, but do not, in themselves, encourage growth. That depends on the regional shift toward more flexible exchange rates. Although far form floating freely, most regional exchange rates are no longer hostage to unhedged US dollar bank debt or to entrenched convictions that exchange rate stability is essential. Managed floats have been adopted in most regional economies. Responding to the stronger US dollar, falling exports and slowing imports, these exchange rates have been depreciating. For example, the Singapore dollar recently reached a ten-year low, while the Taiwan dollar reached a 15-year slow.

E Foreign direct investment is slowing, and exports are tumbling, but with room to expand domestic demand there are good reasons to think that the region will get through the most serious global downturn in a decade. Foreign investment flows and domestic reconstruction will maintain China's growth. Even South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan—all highly dependent on technology exports to the US—are now buttressed by trade surpluses, huge reserves and flexible exchange rates. All these factors are favorable for expanding domestic demand.

F The perennial problems of the Philippines apart, the economies at the greatest risk are those of Thailand and Malaysia, because they are attempting to sustain pegged exchange rates, and this weakens their ability to respond to sudden strains on their currencies. Although Thailand has sharply reduced its foreign debt, it has pegged its US dollar exchange rate at about 45 baht. Without strong capital controls, the informal peg limits Thailand's freedom to ease interest rates. As for Malaysia, its peg depends on its reserves, which have fallen by US$ billion during the past year as the country has defended an exchange rate appreciating against those of its neighbors.