1、2007年上海外国语大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷及答案与解析 一、完形填空 0 Fill in each of the blanks below with a word provided in the brackets. You may change the words into their proper forms if needed so that the words you put in will be grammatically and semantically appropriate. You can only use the words in the brackets ONCE
2、. Write your answers on your Answer Sheet.At the White House on New Years Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt set a world record for shaking hands 8,150 of them, according to his biographer Edmund Morris, including those of “every aide, usher and policeman in sight“. Having done his exuberant political du
3、ty, says Morris, Teddy went upstairs and privately, disgustedly, scrubbed himself clean. We may presume that on Inauguration Day in January 2001, President Trump will not try to【 C1】 _Roosevelts record. Trumps views are known: “I think the handshake is【 C2】 _. Shaking hands, you catch the flu, you c
4、atch this, you catch all sorts of things.“ Donald Trump may be right. The more you think about it, the more disgusting the handshake become. Although it is a public gesture, a reflexive【 C3】 _of greeting, the handshake has a clammy dimension of【 C4】 _. The clamminess is illustrated in principle by t
5、he following: a young【 C5】 _ rushed up to James Joyce and asked, “May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?“ Joyce replied, “No. It did lots of other things, too.“ Most of us dont think about it. The handshake is expected and is【 C6】 _automatically in a ritual little babble of nice to meet you how do
6、you do? If you had an attack of fastidiousness and refused to shake someones【 C7】 _hand, then the handshake would become an awkwardness and an issue a refusal being an outright【 C8】 _. Now that he is almost a candidate, how is the fussy, hygienic Donald to keep his【 C9】 _in an election years orgies
7、of grip-and-grin? Mingling with the【 C10】 _, he will presumably shake tens of thousands of germy hands. The most graceful【 C11】 _ the Hindu namaste(slight bow, hands clasped near the hart as in prayer) would not play well in American politics. One【 C12】 _might be to shake your own hand, brandishing
8、the two-handed clutch in font of your face like a champ while looking the voter in the【 C13】 _. No. Too much self-congratulation. A politician mustnt【 C14】 _his narcissism. Best not to think about it. Television has taken so much of the physicality the sheer touch out of politics that we should【 C15
9、】 _the vestigial handshake, the last fleeting, primitive human contact, flesh to flesh, sweat to sweat, pulse to pulse. A true politician loves shaking hands. Study Bill Clinton working a rope line. Greedily, avidly, his long, curiously angled fingers【 C16】 _deep into the crowd to make the touch, an
10、 image that in my mind has some cartoonists【 C17】 _to Michelangelos Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Lyndon Johnson pressed flesh with the same gluttonous physicality, wading into the human surf, clawing and pawing into the democratic mass with an appetite amazing, alarming. On the【 C18】 _side, t
11、he handshake may be a form of souvenir collecting. My father used to keep a framed photograph of himself shaking hands with the young Richard Nixon, the two of them 【 C19】 _at each other; my father posted a little sign at the bottom Of the picture: COUNT YOUR FINGERS.【 C20】 _continuities; Brooke Ast
12、or, now 97, remembers the day when, as a little girl, she shook the hand of Henry Adams. I recall the day when I was a child working for the summer as a Senate page and the aged Herbert Hoover visited the Senate chamber, not a celebrity so much as a【 C21】 _. He looked like a Rotarian Santa Claus. Af
13、ter the Senators and pages all shook his band a dry hand, soft and bony at the same time, like grasping a small, fragile bird another page,【 C22】 _by his (rather forgiving)sense of history, Exclaimed, “Im never going to wash my hand again!“ If the social handshake has its anthropological【 C23】 _in t
14、he idea of primitive man showing he was not carrying a weapon, the political handshake【 C24】 _from long ago when kings touch might do magic and when the power of such connection seemed infinitely more【 C25】 _than the potential germs. To touch was to【 C26】 _somehow maybe even through the germs of the
15、 kings magic. Surely voters will imagine that when they shake hands with Donald Trump, gold will【 C27】_off. (Of course, bad magic may also be communicated. Maybe the handshake with Herbert Hoover many years ago explains why, from time to time, I am visited by a great depression.) If Trump were to th
16、ink about it, he might be grateful that contact with the electorate is not more intimate than it is. Suppose it were【 C28】 _for a politician to kiss not only an occasional baby but also every voter in that mating-goose, cocktail-party way? It could be even【 C29】 _. Among some tribes in the highlands
17、 of Papua New Guinea, men say hello by genially clasping each others genitals. Trump should be【 C30】 _as he wont have to work that kind of rope line. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 11 【 C11】 12 【 C12】 13 【 C13】 14 【 C14】 15 【 C15】 16 【 C16】 17 【 C17
18、】 18 【 C18】 19 【 C19】 20 【 C20】 21 【 C21】 22 【 C22】 23 【 C23】 24 【 C24】 25 【 C25】 26 【 C26】 27 【 C27】 28 【 C28】 29 【 C29】 30 【 C30】 二 、短文改错 30 Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious“ both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed peoples natural relations, loosed
19、【 M1】_ their responsibilities to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place【 M2】 _ for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances.【 M3】 _ However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the “obvious“ is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you t
20、ypically know a smaller proportion of your neighbors than you if you are a resident【 M4】_ of a smaller community. But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant【 M5】_ consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else. Even in very
21、large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ from more and less urban people. Small-town【 M6】 _ residents are more involved with kin than do big-city residents. Yet city【 M7】 _ dwellers c
22、ompensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Or are residents【 M8】_ of large communities any likely to display psychological symptoms of【 M9】
23、_ stress or alienation than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust【 M10】_ of strangers. 31 【 M1】 32 【 M2】 33 【 M3】 34 【 M4】 35 【 M5】 36 【 M6】 37 【 M7】 38 【 M8】 39 【 M9】 40 【 M10】 三、阅读理解 40 For most of the 20th centur
24、y, the solution to the mystery of the original Americans where did they come from when, and how? seemed as clear as the geography of the Bering Strait, the climate of the last ice age, and the ubiquity of finely wrought stone hunting weapons known as Clovis points. According to the ruling theory, ba
25、nds of big-game hunters trekked out of Siberia sometime before 11,500 years ago. They crossed into Alaska when the floor of the Bering Strait, drained dry by the accumulation of water in a frozen worlds massive glaciers, was a land bridge between continents. And found themselves in a trackless conti
26、nent, the New World when it was truly new. The hunters, so the story went, moved south through a corridor between glaciers and soon flourished on the Great Plains and in the Southwest of what is now he United States, their presence widely marked by distinctive stone projectile points first discovere
27、d near the town of Clovis, New Mexico. In less than 1,000 years, these Clovis people and their distinctive stone points made it all the way to the tip. of South America. They were presumably the founding population of todays American Indians. Now a growing body of intriguing evidence is telling a mu
28、ch different story. From Alaska to Brazil and southern Chile, artifacts and skeletons are forcing archaeologists to abandon Clovis orthodoxy and come to arms with a more complex picture of earliest American settlement. People may have arrived thousands to tens of thousands of years sooner, in many w
29、aves of migration and by a number of routes. Their ancestry may not have been only Asian. Some of the migrations may have originated in Australia or Europe. 41 Which of he following statements best describes the main idea of this passage? （ A） Hunters from Siberia crossed the Bering Strait 11,500 ye
30、ars ago. （ B） The Clovis people may not have been the first to arrive. （ C） Clovis points were first found in New Mexico. （ D） During the last ice age, the Bering Strait was dry land. 42 The word “trekked“ in Line 4 means_. （ A） traveled （ B） swam （ C） sailed （ D） hunted 43 According to this passage
31、, the Clovis people may come to North America from_. （ A） Australia （ B） Chile （ C） Siberia （ D） New Mexico 44 The Clovis people are named after the place where_. （ A） they first camped in North America （ B） their tents and burials were first found （ C） they crossed into North America （ D） their sto
32、ne points were first found 45 Scientists now believe that Native Americans originally came from_. （ A） Siberia in a single migration about 11,500 years ago （ B） all parts of North and South America （ C） Europe only （ D） many places, including Siberia, Europe, and Australia 46 The main purpose of wri
33、ting this passage is to_. （ A） give information （ B） provide vivid descriptions （ C） tell an interesting story （ D） entertain the readers 47 The Clovis people are best known for the type of_. （ A） clothes they wore （ B） stone points they made （ C） animals they hunted （ D） homes they built 47 There i
34、s a battle going in Australia between Aborigines and archaeologists. The Aborigines say that ancient bones and other artifacts should be reburied. The archaeologists say that to do so would mean the end of archaeology. Rocky Satiny, president of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, wants all archa
35、eological excavation in Tasmania stopped. Sainty told The Bulletin: “Aboriginal people know how long weve lived here. We know how we trade. The sites that have been excavated are very significant to us. We couldnt expect someone to go and dig up graves of the Whites at the back of Hobart, well, we h
36、ave the same feelings.“ Last year, Sainty and the council took two La Trobe University archaeologists to court in an effort to have excavated material returned. University of Western Australia archaeologists had already returned some excavated material. The artifacts, 17,000 years old, had been dug
37、up in the King River Valley. After the material was returned to them, the Aborigines scattered it over the lake “to heal the site“. The La Trobe archaeologists, Jim Allen and Tim Murray, were shocked. They refused to hand over the artifacts they had collected until they had finished their analysis.
38、The courts, however, ordered Allen and Murray to return the material to Tasmania. A track was needed to transport the 500,000 items. Allen is angry. “This decision means I will never again excavate on a site in Australia, because it would carry at least the potential problem weve encountered there.
39、It would be unethical to take any material out of the ground knowing that it could be vandalized in this way somewhere down the track.“ His colleague, Tim Murray, believes the irony of the current situation is that the work of archaeologists has given Aborigines a new sense of pride. “Archaeologists
40、 provide a service both to Aboriginal people and the general Australian public,“ Murray says. “We found the way of making meaningful a whole history of this country before the arrival of Europeans. If that becomes more and more difficult, then the kind of silence that existed before the development
41、of Aboriginal history will return.“ 48 The passage focuses on two competing_. （ A） scientific observations （ B） archaeological methods （ C） attitudes toward the past （ D） efforts to build for the future 49 According to the passage, what the archaeologists view as science the aborigines see as_. （ A）
42、 disrespect （ B） disbelief （ C） magic （ D） religion 50 Rocky Saintys statement about digging up graves of Whites(Lines 3-4, Para. 2)is used as_. （ A） a threat to activities of the archaeologists （ B） a parallel to the actions of the archaeologists （ C） an excuse for the Aborigines behavior （ D） a jo
43、ke at the expense of the archaeologists 51 Why does Jim Allen intend not to excavate in Australia any more? （ A） He fears that he could not retain possession of the artifacts. （ B） He does not have enough financial support （ C） It would be too difficult to transport the items to his university. （ D）
44、 All the interesting material has already been dug up by the Aborigines. 52 Tim Murray feels that the whole situation is ironic because archaeologists_. （ A） have begun to explain Aboriginal beliefs to Europeans （ B） are partly responsible for the Aborigines feelings for their past （ C） have adopted
45、 the religious attitudes of the Aborigines （ D） have previously enjoyed the support of the Aborigines 53 As a result of the controversy between Aborigines and archaeologists, Tim Murray believes that （ A） more excavations will be undertaken without official permits （ B） Aborigines will be obliged to
46、 undertake their own excavations （ C） archaeologists may be obliged to find new methods of excavating （ D） Aboriginal history may be neglected in the future 53 Before whenever we had wealth, we started discussing poverty. Why not now? Why is the current politics of wealth and poverty seemingly about
47、 wealth alone? Eight years ago, when Bill Clinton first ran for president, the Dow Jones average was under 3,500, yearly federal budget deficits were projected at hundreds of billions of dollars forever and beyond, and no one talked about the “permanent boom“ or the “new economy“. Yet in that more s
48、traitened time, Clinton made much of the importance of “not leaving a single person behind“. It is possible that similar “compassionate“ rhetoric might yet play a role in the general election. But it is striking how much less talk there is about the poor than there was eight years ago, when the coun
49、try was economically uncertain, or in previous eras, when the country felt flush. Even last summer, when Clinton spent several days on a remarkable, Bobby Kennedy-like pilgrimage through impoverished areas from Indian reservations in South Dakota to ghetto neighborhoods in East St. Louis, the administratio
