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湖南科技大学2020年考研真题：618 综合英语

科目名称：618 综合英语

适用专业：050200 外国语言文学

I. Vocabulary (20 points, 1*20)

Part 1:Choose one of the four alternatives which is closest in meaning to the underlined word and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. This is outside the confines of human knowledge.

A. means

B. approaches

C. limits

D. restricts

2. He lived with his uncle for a long time, so he could mimic his uncle' s voice and gestures perfectly.

A. imitate

B. mock

C. imagine

D. distinguish

3. The Olympic Games organizers are trying to prepare for every conceivable emergency.

A. tangible

B. imaginable

C. substantial 

D. significant

4. With the improvement of living standards, travelling by plane is becoming more prevalent, which is more convenient and time saving.

A. particular

B. primitive

C. panic

D. popular

5. The IT industry is developing so fast that an advanced computer program today may be obsolete next week.

A. desired

B. outdated

C. qualified 

D. freighted

6. The great man is never ostentatious.

A. deficient

B. blushful

C. presumptuous 

D. pretentious

7. The organization appears in a quandary about what to do with the financial problem.

A. deficit

B. ground

C. dilemma

D. situation

8. Don’ t listen to others with a(n) auspicious ear.

A. favorable

B. ordinary

C. dispersed

D. doubtful

9. The public figures are usually circumspect with their privacy.

A. solid

B. foregoing

C. modest

D. cautious

10. He did not want to claim social superiority, and he would not claim intrinsic personal superiority.

A. inherent

B. dependant

C. coherent

D. relevant

Part 2: Choose one from the four alternatives that best completes the sentence and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

1. The automobile plant has a monthly _____ of 500 cars.

A. proficiency

B. capacity

C. strength

D. capability

2. Swarms of wasps are always invading my garden. They are a thorough _____

A. trouble

B. disturbance

C. nuisance

D. annoyance

3. Graduate students have _____ to the rare books in the school library.

A. access

B. entrance

C. way

D. path

4. The Chairman's remarks at the conference were _____ and not planned.

A. spontaneous

B. substantial

C. simultaneous

D. synthetic

5. Some people are _____ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.

A. insensitive

B. infected

C. sensible

D. allergic

6. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seemingly _____ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

A. exploited

B. inexhaustible

C. controversial

D. remarkable

7. Although he has become rich, he is still very _____ of his money.

A. economic

B. frugal

C. thrifty

D. careful

8. The boxer _____ his opponent as hard as he could.

A. whipped

B. slapped

C. knocked

D. punched

9. Please put the cigarette packets in the _____ bins provided.

A. litter

B. junk

C. scrap

D. deposit

10. Human behavior is mostly a product of learning. Whereas the behavior of an animal depends mainly on _____

A. response

B. consciousness

C. impulse

D. instinct

II. Figure of speech: (10 points, 1*10)

Point out what figure of speech is used in each of the following sentences.

1. She had bitter-sweet memories.

2.I was not one to let my heart rule my head.

3. His eloquence would split rocks.

4. He paid the workers 50 dollars per head.

5. My love is like a red, red rose.

6. The rain said to the wind: “You push and I' 11 pelt.

7. Seven days without water makes one weak.

8. They talked to the foreigner in hesitant English.

9. All the world is a stage.

10. When we came back we found him in an armchair, peacefully gone to sleep -- but forever.

III. Reading comprehension (80 points)

Once More to the Lake

----E. B. White

1] One summer, along about 1904, my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for the month of August. The vacation was a success and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like the lake in Maine. We returned summer after summer -- always on August 1“for one month. I have since become a saltwater man, but (1) something in summer there are days when the restless of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods. A few weeks ago this feeling got so strong I bought myself a couple of bass hooks and a spinner and returned to the lake where we used to go, for a week’s fishing and to revisit old haunts.

2] I took along my son, who had never had any freshwater up his nose and who had seen lily pads only from train windows. On the journey over to the lake I began to wonder what it would be like. I wondered how time would have marred this unique, this holy spot - the coves and streams, the hills that the sun set behind, the camps and the paths behind the camps. I was sure the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated. It is strange how much you can remember about places like that once you allow your mind to return into the grooves which lead back. You remember one thing, and that suddenly reminds you of another thing. I guess (2)I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless. Remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen. The partitions in the camp were thin and did not extend clear to the top of the rooms, and as I was always the first up I would dress softly so as not to wake the others, and sneak out into the sweet outdoors and start out in the canoe, keeping close along the shore in the long shadows of the pines. I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.

3] The lake had never been what you would call a wild lake. There were cottages sprinkled around the shores, and it was in farming country although the shores of the lake were quite heavily wooded. Some of the cottages were owned by nearby farmers, and you would live at the shore and eat your meals at the farmhouse. That’ S what our family did. (3) But although it wasn’t wild, it was a fairly large and undisturbed lake and there were places in it which, to a child at least, seemed infinitely remote and primeval.

4] I was right about the tar: it led to within half a mile of the shore. But when I got back there, with my boy, and we settled into a camp near a farmhouse and into the kind of summertime I had known, I could tell that it was going to be pretty much the same as it had been before - I knew it, lying in bed the first morning, smelling the bedroom, and hearing the boy sneak quietly out and go off alone the shore in a boat. I began to sustain the illusion that he was I, and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father. This sensation persisted. and kept cropping up all the time we were there. It was not an entirely new feeling. but in this setting it grew much stronger. I seemed to be living a dual existence. I would be in the middle of some simple act, I would be picking up a bait box or laying down a table fox, or I would be saying something, and suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words or making the gesture. It gave me a creepy sensation.

5] We went fishing the first morning. I felt the same damp moss covering the worms in the bait can, and saw the dragonfly alight on the tip of my rod as it hovered a few inches from the surface of the water. (4)It was the arrival of this fly that convinced me beyond any doubt that everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and there had been no years. The small waves were the same, chucking the rowboat under the chin as we fished at anchor, and the boat was the same boat. the same color green and the ribs broken in the same places. And under the floorboards the same fresh- water leavings and debris -the dead hellgrammite the wisps of 08 the rusty discarded fishhook，the dried blood from yesterday' s catch. We stared silently at the tips of our rods. at the dragonflies that came and went. I lowered the tip of mine into the water. tentatively. pensively dislodging the fly, which darted two feet away, poised, darted two feet back, and came to rest again a little farther up the rod. There had been no year between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one - the one that was part of I my memory. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. I felt dizzy and didn't know which rod I was at the end of.

6] We caught two bass, hauling them in briskly as though they were mackerel, pulling them over the side of the boat in a businesslike manner without any landing net, and stunning them with a blow on the back of the head. When we got back for a swim before lunch, the lake was exactly where we had left it, the same number of inches from the dock, and there was only the merest suggestion of a breeze. (5)This seemed an utterly enchanted sea, this lake you could leave to its own devices for a few hours and come back to. and find that it had not stirred, this constant and trustworthy body of water. In the shallows, the dark, water-soaked sticks and twigs, smooth and old, were undulating in clusters on the bottom against the clean ribbed sand, and the track of the mussel was plain. A school of minnows swam by, each minnow with its small individual shadow, doubling the attendance. so clear and sharp in the sunlight. Sone of the other campers were in swimming, along the shore, one of them with a cake of soap, and the water felt thin and clear and unsubstantial. 0ver the years there had been this person with the cake of Soap, this cultist , and here he was. There had been no years.

7] Summertime, oh summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade- proof lake，the woods unshatterable , pasture with the sweet fern and the juniper forever and ever, summer without end.

1. Answer the following questions in the above passage: (20 points, 4*5)

(1) What is the attitude of the author towards the lake in this passage? Explain.

(2) What does “a saltwater man" mean and what does the author imply by saying “I have since become a saltwater man" ?

(3) What does“ cathedral" refer to in paragraph 2 and what does the author intent to say “I remembered being very careful never to rub my paddle against the gunwale for fear of disturbing the stillness of the cathedral.”

(4) What is common to paragraphs 4, 5，and 6 in this passage? Explain.

(5) What basic information about the author can you infer from this passage? Explain.

2. Translate the underlined parts in the above passage into Chinese. (30 points, 6*5)

3. Write a summary of the above passage in about 500 words. (30 points)

IV. Poem appreciation: (40 points)

Read the following poem and write down your appreciation of it from the perspectives of the images, musical/sound effect and rhetorical devices in no less than 400 words.

Spring

by Thomas Nashe

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year’s pleasant king.

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year’ s pleasant king.

Then blooms each thing. then maids dance in a ring,

Cold doth not sting. the pretty birds do sing.

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, wo-witta-woo!

The palm and may make country houses gay,

Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,

And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay,

Cuckoo，jug-jug, pu- we, wo-witta-woo!

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,

Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,

In every street these tunes our ears do greet ，

Cuckoo, jug- jug, pu- we, wo-witta-woo!

Spring! the sweet Spring!