1、2011年武汉大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：156.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、选词填空(总题数：1，分数：40.00)Fill in the numbered blanks with proper words. Choose among the listed words below. You can add prefixes or suffixes to the words to make sure they come in correct forms in terms of both grammar and meaning. chant, mistaken, mag
2、ic, venture, deliberate, appropriate, violate, necessary, subdue, communicate, intelligible, nonetheless, resistible, dimension, condition, rage, anticipate, sanctuary, intrinsic, ward, imagine, obvious At the heart of the American Indian oral tradition is a deep and 1belief in the efficacy of langu
3、age. Words are 2powerful. They are 3By means of words can one bring about physical change in the universe. By means of words can one quiet a 4weather, bring forth the harvest, 5off evil, rid the body of sickness and pain, 6an enemy, capture the heart of a lover, live in the proper way, and 7beyond d
4、eath. Indeed there is nothing more powerful. When a person ventures to speak, when he utters a prayer or tells a story, he is dealing with forces that are supernatural and 8He assumes great risks and responsibilities. He is clear and 9in his mind and in his speech; he will be taken at his word. Even
5、 so, he knows that he stands the chance of speaking indirectly or 10, or of 11by his hearers, or of not being heard at all. To be careless in the presence of words, on the inside of language, is to 12a fundamental morality. But one does not 13speak in order to be heard. It is sometimes enough that o
6、ne places one“s voice on the silence, for that in itself is a whole and appropriate expression of the spirit. In the Native American oral tradition expression, rather than 14, is often first in importance. In the Yeibichai of the Navajo, for example, the singers 15in the strange and urgent language
7、of the mountain spirits, a language that is 16to us mortals. Although meaningless in the ordinary sense of the word, the chant is 17deeply moving and powerful beyond question. In this sense, silence too is powerful. It is the 18in which ordinary and extraordinary events take their proper places. In
8、the Indian world, a word is spoken or a song is sung, not against, but within the silence. In the telling of a story there are silences in which words are 19or held on to, heard to echo in the still depths of the imagination. In the oral tradition, silence is the 20of sound. Words are wholly alive i
9、n the hold of silence; there they are sacred.（分数：40.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_翻译2.Paraphrase the underlined idiomatic expressions in the following sentences.(10x1% = 10%) Bargaining i
10、s the order of the day .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.And then Daniel waved and she thought he had done that for no reason and she was in seventh heaven .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.Now politicians, from President Clinton on down, are falling over themsel
11、ves to proclaim support for the new medium.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_6.And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind: spies who might like to keep tabs on the activities of your electronic butlers?（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.John“s father always tells you his opinion; he“s an armchair quarterback .（分数：2.0
12、0）填空项 1:_8.He has lost his pen, and a new one at that .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.But now it is time to look again. Each of those overlapping conflicts has lately begun to peter out .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.I don“t think even those who are in the swim can tell you about it.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Relations between the
13、 two countries appear to be on the rocks .（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_12.Paraphrase the following sentences.(10x2% =20%)The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_13.With a
14、good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_14.It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of these revolting building
15、s.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_15that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_16.It was Bessie Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself mu
16、st have spoken when I was a Pickaninny.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_17.My mania for power can feel no degree of satisfaction until I feel sure I have struck the ultimate of submission and terror in the minds and bodies of my victim.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_18.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. The mo
17、ralizing of his earlier writing had been well padded with humor.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_19.For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_20.I have discarded all usual frailties, and have become incapable of envy, ambition, ma
18、lice, the desire to score off my neighbor.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_21.Developing countries regard a merchant navy as something of a status symbolthe next thing to go for after a national airline.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_三、选择题(总题数：10，分数：20.00)22.Her ex-husband was such_selfish man that he hadn“t_ least concern for oth
19、ers.（分数：2.00）A./, theB.a, /C.a, theD.the, a23.I regret_you that I cannot go to Hainan for a visit next Sunday with you, because I“ve caught a bad cold.（分数：2.00）A.tellingB.having toldC.that I toldD.to tell24.Black people were denied the vote in the U. S. _the 1950s.（分数：2.00）A.inB.untilC.afterD.over25
20、.This performance is a big stride, _, towards adapting the western mind to the traditional Chinese opera.（分数：2.00）A.as it isB.as it wasC.as it wereD.as it has been26._the food and medicines, many people would have died in the famine.（分数：2.00）A.DespiteB.Apart fromC.Without thatD.But for27.Last month,
21、 Mr. Harry Baker was re-elected_president of the company, to the surprise of all those who_his defeat.（分数：2.00）A.a, predictedB.the, had predictedC./, had predictedD./, predicted28.The man had been drinking too much; _, not age, explained his unsteady walk.（分数：2.00）A.thatB.thisC.itD.which29.The decis
22、ion _made, the next step was how to carry it out.（分数：2.00）A.having beenB.beingC.had beenD.was30.The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue_the young.（分数：2.00）A.toB.forC.withD./31.Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and _limits of life, a sense of tragedy.（
23、分数：2.00）A.indefatigableB.inexpressibleC.incorrigibleD.inexorable四、阅读理解(总题数：5，分数：40.00)Our lives are not only dominated by the inanities of our contemporaries but also by those of men who have been dead for generations. This is important to stress because it shows us that even in the areas where soci
24、ety apparently allows us some choice the powerful hand of the past narrows down this choice even further. Let us take for example, a scene in which a pair of lovers are silting in the moonlight. Let us further imagine that this moonlight session turns out to be the decisive one, in which a proposal
25、of marriage is made and accepted. They who are dead have long ago written the script for almost every move that is made. The notion that sexual attraction can be translated into romantic emotion was cooked up by misty-voiced minstrels titillating the imagination of aristocratic ladies about the 12th
26、 century or thereabouts. The idea that a man should fixate his sexual drive permanently and exclusively on one single woman, with whom he is to share a bed, bathroom and the boredom of a thousand bleary-eyed breakfasts, was produced by misanthropic theologians some time before that. And the assumpti
27、on that the initiative in the establishment of this wondrous arrangement should be in the hands of the male, with the female graciously succumbing to the impetuous onslaught of his wooing, goes back right to prehistoric times when savage warriors first descended on some peaceful matriarchal hamlet a
28、nd dragged away its screaming daughters to their marital cots. Just as all these hoary ancients have decided the basic framework within which the passions of our exemplary couple will develop, so each step in their courtship has been predefined, prefabricatedif you like, “fixed“. It is not only that
29、 they are supposed to fall in love and to enter into a monogamous marriage in which she gives up her name and he his solvency, but this love must be manufactured at all cost or the marriage will seem insincere to all concerned. Each step in their courtship is laid down in social ritual also, and, al
30、though there is always some leeway for improvisations, too much ad-libbing is likely to risk the success of the whole operation. In this way, our couple progresses predictably from movie dates to church dates to meeting-the-family dates, from holding hands to tentative explorations to what they orig
31、inally planned to save for afterwards, from planning their evening to planning their suburban ranch housewith the scene in the moonlight put in its proper place in this ceremonial sequence. Neither of them has invented this game or any part of it. They have only decided that it is with each other, r
32、ather than with other possible partners, that they will play it. Family, friends, clergy, salesmen of jewelry and of life insuranee, florists and interior decorators ensure that the remainder of the game will also be played by the established rules. Nor, indeed, do all these guardians of tradition h
33、ave to exert much pressure on the principal players, since the expectations of their social world have long ago been built into their own projections of the futurethey want precisely that which society expects of them.（分数：6.00）(1).According to the passage, the writer_.（分数：2.00）A.gives a detailed acc
34、ount of the marriage systemB.criticizes the constraints of traditions on marriageC.describes the marriage system as it isD.explains how our marriage system is working(2).In the sentence “.with whom he is to share a bed, bathroom and the boredom of a thousand bleary-eyed breakfasts., “ the writer use
35、s the literary device_.（分数：2.00）A.alliterationB.ironyC.satireD.metonymy(3).The tone by which the writer wrote this article is_.（分数：2.00）A.ironicalB.traditionalC.seriousD.humorousThe people of Marseille have a tendency to exaggerate, and you can“t spend long there without hearing the story about the
36、sardine which blocked the old harbour, the Vieux Port. In fact such an event really did occur during the French Revolution, though the obstruction was caused not by a fish of the herring family(for the Vieux Port is about 300 yards wide)but by a ship called the Sardine which was placed there by coun
37、ter-revolutionaries blockading the insurgents. Or perhaps it was the insurgents who were blockading the counter-revolutionaries: nowadays most people have forgotten the origins of the story entirely, let alone the details, and the sardine which blocked the Vieux Port now exists mainly as a joking ex
38、ample of the Marseillais habit of presenting facts larger than life-size. Almost as much as exaggeration, they like leg-pulling. I was therefore more than a little skeptical when the other day in Marseille I was told that there was a whale on the beach. Initially I dismissed the story as a piece of
39、out-of-season April foolery. But there it was. When we arrived, the coastguards were winching it up onto the jetty with steel hawsers wrapped around the tail. As it was on its back you could easily see the deep folds along the front that identified it as a Rorqual whale: Balenoptera Physalus, accord
40、ing to Madame Turon of the Marseille Museum of Natural History. Being a whale it was, needless to say, enormous. It weighed 10 tons and was 45 feet long. Even so, the poor thing was only a baby. Madame Turon reckoned it was only a year old, for an adult grows to some 70 feet. She said it had died a
41、natural death, probably as much as a month ago, having somehow been separated from its school and succumbed to thirst and hunger. The body was scratched, presumably by having been washed up against rocks, but at first sight seemed to be in a fairly good state. The smell soon told you otherwise, and
42、the temperature that day was well up. It was an event that aroused a mixture of conflicting feelings: fascination and awe at the close-up spectacle of such a magnificent creature; pity at the lack of dignity with which it was being hauled from its element, backwards and up-side down; self-disgust at
43、 being part of the crowd of gawping camera-clicking onlookers. We left fairly soon, and were glad to have missed the sequel as recorded in the next day“s papers. The whale was being placed in the back of a large lorry, its tail resting on the cabin, its head hanging off the end. It was then driven t
44、o a factory to be cut up for its oils, highly valued in the manufacture of cosmetics. Taking a corner of the Corniche President John Kennedy, its decomposing tongue fell out onto the road. It caused a traffic jam that was unusual even by the standards of Marseille, and one that will doubtless go dow
45、n in legend along with the sardine that blocked the Vieux Port.（分数：6.00）(1).The writer was skeptical about the existence of the whale because_.（分数：2.00）A.the people of Marseille cannot be trustedB.the writer is over cautionsC.the people of Marseille tend to exaggerateD.the writer thought this might
46、be a joke(2).Madame Turon suggested that the whale was only a baby because this whale_.（分数：2.00）A.did not reach the length of an adult whaleB.did not reach the weight of an adult whaleC.was not big enough in its sizeD.was not heavy enough in its weight(3).When watching the dead whale, the writer did
47、 NOT feel_.（分数：2.00）A.very excitedB.reverentC.sorryD.disgustedBarbarra Kingsolver“s last novel, The Poisonwood Bible, was a forest fire of a book about the Belgian Congo“s struggle for independence; gripping, blazingly smart, ferociously angry, out for control at times and, by my count anyway, 129 pages too long. Because Oprah recently smiled on Poisonwoodsending it back up the best-seller list for a return engagementman
