2005年——2010年华中科技大学博士研究生英语试题与答案

2005年春季华中科技大学博士研究生英语入学考试试题

I. Cloze (1x10=10%)

Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

to the new freedom that they acquire when they leave or not you want to go to class. However, this responsibility comes with a great price. If you do not go to class, you may miss an important lecture and these are very critical when it comes time for the test that is fifty percent of your grade. With this responsibility I have learned how to manage my time more school is worth my time. I do not dread going to class. Yes, it is boring some of the time but since I only have two to four classes as high school. Also many of my writing papers and reading books. These to this routine, I have been able to investigate and 1. A) content B) to adopt C) finding D) adjusting

2. A) where B) when C) whether D) if

3. A) effective B) efficiently C) effort D) affect

4. A) Instead of

5. A) for B) Rather than C) Instead C) as D) Other than D) with B) upon

6. A) should like B) feel like C) look like D) would like

7. A) unpleasant B) pleasant C) enjoyable D) misfortune

8. A) answered

9. A) in B) answer B) for C) answering C) up D) to answer D) about

10. A) likely B) prepared C) ready D) readily

II. Reading comprehension (20x2=40%)

Directions: There are four passages in this part. After each passage, there are five questions. You are to choose the best answer for each question. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

Passage 1

Extremely refined behaviour, cultivated as an art of gracious living, has been characteristic only of societies with wealth and leisure, which admitted women as the social equals of men. After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.

Provence had become wealthy. The lords had returned to their castles from the crusades, and there the ideals of chivalry grew up, which emphasized the virtue and gentleness of women and demanded that a knight should profess a pure and dedicated love to a lady who would be his inspiration, and to whom he would dedicate his valiant deeds, though he would never come physically close to her. This was the introduction of the concept of romantic love, which was to influence literature for many hundreds of years and which still lives on an a inferior form in simple popular songs and cheap novels today.

In Renaissance Italy too, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a wealthy and leisured society developed an extremely complex code of manners, but the rules of behaviour of fashionable society had little influence on the daily life of the lower classes. Indeed many of the rules, such as how to enter a banquet room, or how to use a sword or handkerchief for ceremonial purposes, were irrelevant to the way of life of the average working man, who spent most of his life outdoors or in his own poor hut and most probably did not have a handkerchief, certainly not a sword, to his name.

Yet the essential basis of all good manners does not vary. Consideration for the old and weak and the avoidance of harming or giving unnecessary offence to others is a feature of all societies everywhere and at all levels from the highest to the lowest. You can easily think of dozens of examples of customs and habits in your own daily life which come under this heading.

11．Etiquette cultivated as an art of gracious living ______.

A. has been typical of rich and leisured societies

B. advocates that women are the same as men

C. began in nineteenth-century Provence

D. looks down on extremely refined behaviour

12．The ideals of chivalry demanded that ______.

A. a knight should never have physical relationships with women

B. a knight should inspire his lady to valiant deeds

C. a knight should dedicate his valiant deeds to a woman

D. romantic people should influence literature

13．The rules of etiquette in Renaissance Italy ______.

A. were chiefly concerned with the correct use of one’s sword or handkerchief

B. were practiced by the majority of society

C. did not apply to a large section of society

D. were fairly simple to follow

14．The average working man in fifteenth-century Italy ______.

A. spent all his life outdoors

B. spent all his life in his own poor hut

C. had better social manners than workers today

D. was unlikely to have possessed a sword

15．Consideration for the old and weak and the avoidance of giving unnecessary offence to

others are ______.

A. the essential basis of all systems of good manners

B. not a universal feature of etiquette

C. taught to the lower classes by the upper classes

D. often neglected by polite society

Passage 2

One day Mr Kerry was walking along the Strand in London, killing time, when his eye was caught by an enormous picture displayed upon the wall of a house. It represented a human figure covered with long, dark hair, with huge nails upon his hands and a most fearful expression. On coming nearer, he heard a man call out "Walk in, ladies and gentlemen, the most wonderful curiosity ever exhibited ——only five pence the wild man from Africa —— he eats raw food, and many other pleasing and surprising performances." Mr kerry paid his money and was admitted. At first the crowd prevented his seeing anything, for the place was full to suffocation (窒息), and the noise awful. At last, Mr Kerry obtained, by means of squeezing and pushing, a place in the front, when to his horror, he saw a figure that was f …… 此处隐藏：35926字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……