Section I Structure and Vocabulary
Part A
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5 points)
Example:
考研英语1真题I have been to the Great Wall three times ________ 1979.
[A] from
[B] after
[C] for
[D] since
The sentence should read, “I have been to the Great Wall three times since 1979.” Therefore, you should choose [D].
Sample Answer
[A] [B] [C] [■]
1. If I were in movie, then it would be about time that I ________ my head in my hands for a cry.
[A] bury
[B] am burying
[C] buried
[D] would bury
2. Good news was sometimes released prematurely, with the British recapture of the port
________ half a day before the defenders actually surrendered.
[A] to announce
[B] announced
[C] announcing
[D] was announced
3. According to one belief, if truth is to be known it will make itself apparent, so one ________
wait instead of searching for it.
[A] would rather
[B] had to
[C] cannot but
[D] had best
4. She felt suitably humble just as she ________ when he had first taken a good look at her city
self, hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed.
[A] had
[B] had had
[C] would have and
[D] has had
5. There was no sign that Mr. Jospin, who keeps a firm control on the party despite ________
from leadership of it, would intervene personally.
[A] being resigned
[B] having resigned
[C] going to resign
[D] resign
6. So involved with their computers ________ that leaders at summer computer camps often have
to force them to break for sports and games.
[A] became the children
[B] become the children
[C] had the children become
[D] do the children become
7. The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is ________ an anonymous,
statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.
[A] everything except
[B] anything but
[C] no less than
[D] nothing more than
8. One difficulty in translation lies in obtaining a concept match. ________ this is meant that a
concept in one language is lost or changed in meaning in translation.
[A] By
[B] In
[C] For
[D] With
9. Conversation becomes weaker in a society that spends so much time listening and being talked
to ________ it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself.
[A] as
[B] which
[C] that
[D] what
10. Church as we use the word refers to all religious institutions, ________ they Christian, Islamic,
Buddhist, Jewish, and so on.
[A] be
[B] being
[C] were
[D] are
Part B
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose t
he one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the rackets with a pencil. (10 points)
Example:
The lost car of the Lees was found ________ in the woods off the highway.
[A] vanished
[B] scattered
[C] abandoned
[D] rejected
The sentence should read. “The lost car of the Lees was found abandoned in the woods off the highway.” There fore, you should choose [C].
Sample Answer
[A] [B] [■][D]
11. He is too young to be able to ________ between right and wrong.
[A] discard
[B] discern
[C] disperse
[D] disregard
12. It was no ________ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery.
[A] coincidence
[B] convention
[C] certainty
[D] complication
13. One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships ________ follow
traffic rules in busy harbors.
[A] cautiously
[B] dutifully
[C] faithfully
[D] skillfully
14. The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting and considerate of all Indians but seems to be
________ the welfare of his animals.
[A] critical about
[B] indignant at
[C] indifferent to
[D] subject to
15. The chairman of the board ________ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the
firm can no longer afford to employ.
[A] compelled
[B] posed
[C] pressed
[D] tempted
16. It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with
________.
[A] for long
[B] in and out
[C] once for all
[D] by nature
17. Using extremely different decorating schemes in adjoining rooms may result in ________ and
lack of unity in style.
[A] conflict
[B] confrontation
[C] disturbance
[D] disharmony
18. The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern
states in which it once ________.
[A] thrived
[B] swelled
[C] prospered
[D] flourished
19. However, growth in the fabricated metals industry was able to ________ some of the decline in
the iron and steel industry.
[A] overturn
[B] overtake
[C] offset
[D] oppress
20. Because of its intimacy, radio is usually more than just a medium; it is ________.
[A] firm
[B] company
[C] corporation
[D] enterprise
21. When any non-human organ is transplanted into a person, the body immediately recognizes it
as ________.
[A] novel
[B] remote
[C] distant
[D] foreign
22. My favorite radio song is the one I first heard on a thick 1923 Edison disc I ________ at a
garage sale.
[A] trifled with
[B] scraped through
[C] stumbled upon
[D] thirsted for
23. Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for
any common second language could ________.
[A] descend
[B] decline
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