1、2011 年武汉大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷及答案与解析一、选词填空0 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, magic, venture, deliberate, appropriat
2、e, violate, necessary, subdue, communicate, intelligible, nonetheless, resistible, dimension, condition, rage, anticipate, sanctuary, intrinsic, ward, imagine, obviousAt the heart of the American Indian oral tradition is a deep and【K1 】_belief in the efficacy of language. Words are【K2】_powerful. The
3、y are【K3】_By means of words can one bring about physical change in the universe. By means of words can one quiet a【K4】_weather, bring forth the harvest, 【K5】_off evil, rid the body of sickness and pain, 【K6】_an enemy, capture the heart of a lover, live in the proper way, and【K7】_beyond death. Indeed
4、 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【K8】_He assumes great risks and responsibilities. He is clear and【K9】_in his mind and in his speech; he will be taken at his word. Even so, h
5、e knows that he stands the chance of speaking indirectly or【K10 】_, or of【 K11】_by his hearers, or of not being heard at all. To be careless in the presence of words, on the inside of language, is to 【K12 】_a fundamental morality.But one does not【K13】_speak in order to be heard. It is sometimes enou
6、gh that one places ones 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【K14】 _, is often first in importance. In the Yeibichai of the Navajo, for example, the singers【K15】_in the strange and u
7、rgent language of the mountain spirits, a language that is【K16】_to us mortals. Although meaningless in the ordinary sense of the word, the chant is【K17】_deeply moving and powerful beyond question.In this sense, silence too is powerful. It is the【K18】_in which ordinary and extraordinary events take t
8、heir proper places. In 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【K19】_or held on to, heard to echo in the still depths of the imagination. In the oral tradition, silence is the 【K20】_of s
9、ound. Words are wholly alive in the hold of silence; there they are sacred.1 【K1】2 【K2】3 【K3】4 【K4】5 【K5】6 【K6】7 【K7】8 【K8】9 【K9】10 【K10】11 【K11】12 【K12】13 【K13】14 【K14】15 【K15】16 【K16】17 【K17】18 【K18】19 【K19】20 【K20】二、翻译21 Paraphrase the underlined idiomatic expressions in the following sentences.(
10、10x1% = 10%)Bargaining is the order of the day.22 She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes.23 And then Daniel waved and she thought he had done that for no reason and she was in seventh heaven.24 Now politicians, from President Clinton on down, are falling over themselves to proclaim support
11、 for the new medium.25 And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind: spies who might like to keep tabs on the activities of your electronic butlers?26 Johns father always tells you his opinion; hes an armchair quarterback.27 He has lost his pen, and a new one at that.28 But now it is
12、time to look again. Each of those overlapping conflicts has lately begun to peter out.29 I dont think even those who are in the swim can tell you about it.30 Relations between the two countries appear to be on the rocks.31 Paraphrase the following sentences.(10x2% =20%)The charm of conversation is t
13、hat 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.32 With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love.33 It is as if some titanic and
14、aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of these revolting buildings.34 .that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.35 It
15、was Bessie Smith, through her tone and her cadence, who helped me to dig back to the way I myself must have spoken when I was a Pickaninny.36 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 vict
16、im.37 Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. The moralizing of his earlier writing had been well padded with humor.38 For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.39 I have discarded all usual frailties, and have be
17、come incapable of envy, ambition, malice, the desire to score off my neighbor.40 Developing countries regard a merchant navy as something of a status symbolthe next thing to go for after a national airline.三、选择题41 Her ex-husband was such_selfish man that he hadnt_ least concern for others.（A）/, the（
18、B） a, /（C） a, the（D）the, a42 I regret_you that I cannot go to Hainan for a visit next Sunday with you, because Ive caught a bad cold.（A）telling（B） having told（C） that I told（D）to tell43 Black people were denied the vote in the U. S. _the 1950s.（A）in（B） until（C） after（D）over44 This performance is a b
19、ig stride, _, towards adapting the western mind to the traditional Chinese opera.（A）as it is（B） as it was（C） as it were（D）as it has been45 _the food and medicines, many people would have died in the famine.（A）Despite（B） Apart from（C） Without that（D）But for46 Last month, Mr. Harry Baker was re-electe
20、d_president of the company, to the surprise of all those who_his defeat.（A）a, predicted（B） the, had predicted（C） /, had predicted（D）/, predicted47 The man had been drinking too much; _, not age, explained his unsteady walk.（A）that（B） this（C） it（D）which48 The decision _made, the next step was how to
21、carry it out.（A）having been（B） being（C） had been（D）was49 The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue_the young.（A）to（B） for（C） with（D）/50 Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and _limits of life, a sense of tragedy.（A）indefatigable（B） inexpressible（C） incorr
22、igible（D）inexorable四、阅读理解50 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 society apparently allows us some choice the powerful hand of
23、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 of marriage is made and accepted. They who are dead have l
24、ong 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 century or thereabouts. The idea that a man should fixate
25、 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 assumption that the initiative in the establishment of this wondro
26、us 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 and dragged away its screaming daughters to their marital c
27、ots.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 they are supposed to fall in love and to enter into a mono
28、gamous 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, although there is always some leeway for improvisations, too m
29、uch 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 originally planned to save for afterwards, from planning their e
30、vening 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, rather than with other possible partners, that they will play
31、 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 have to exert much pressure on the principal players, since t
32、he 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.51 According to the passage, the writer_.（A）gives a detailed account of the marriage system（B） criticizes the constraints of traditions on mar
33、riage（C） describes the marriage system as it is（D）explains how our marriage system is working52 In the sentence “.with whom he is to share a bed, bathroom and the boredom of a thousand bleary-eyed breakfasts., “ the writer uses the literary device_.（A）alliteration（B） irony（C） satire（D）metonymy53 The
34、 tone by which the writer wrote this article is_.（A）ironical（B） traditional（C） serious（D）humorous53 The people of Marseille have a tendency to exaggerate, and you cant spend long there without hearing the story about the sardine which blocked the old harbour, the Vieux Port. In fact such an event re
35、ally 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 counter-revolutionaries blockading the insurgents. Or perhaps it was the insurgents
36、 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 example of the Marseillais habit of presenting facts larger than life-size.Almost
37、 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 out-of-season April foolery.But there it was. When we arrived, the coastguards w
38、ere 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, according to Madame Turon of the Marseille Museum of Natural History.Being a whale it w
39、as, 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 natural death, probably as much as a month ago, having somehow been separated from
40、 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 the temperature that day was well up. It was an event that aroused a mixture of con
41、flicting 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 being part of the crowd of gawping camera-clicking onlookers.We left fairly soon,
42、and were glad to have missed the sequel as recorded in the next days 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 to a factory to be cut up for its oils, highly valued in the manufacture of cosmetics.
43、 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 down in legend along with the sardine that blocked the Vieux Port.54 The writer was skep
44、tical about the existence of the whale because_.（A）the people of Marseille cannot be trusted（B） the writer is over cautions（C） the people of Marseille tend to exaggerate（D）the writer thought this might be a joke55 Madame Turon suggested that the whale was only a baby because this whale_.（A）did not r
45、each the length of an adult whale（B） did not reach the weight of an adult whale（C） was not big enough in its size（D）was not heavy enough in its weight56 When watching the dead whale, the writer did NOT feel_.（A）very excited（B） reverent（C） sorry（D）disgusted56 Barbarra Kingsolvers last novel, The Pois
46、onwood Bible, was a forest fire of a book about the Belgian Congos 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 r
47、eturn engagementmany readers will come to Kingsolvers latest novel, Prodigal Summer, fresh from Africa, with visions of dead children and red ants still marching through their heads. When they encounter the first pages of the new book, theyll breathe easy. Compared with Poisonwood, its literally a w
48、alk in the woods.Prodigal Summer tells three interwoven tales, all love stories of a sort, all set on or around Zebulon Mountain in southern Appalachia and all attacking the arrogance with which mankind presides at the top of the food chain. A strident forest ranger named Deanna Wolfe falls for a hu
49、nky young hunter who she suspects is only using her to track and kill her beloved coyotes. Two elderly neighborsan organic grower named Nannie Rawley and a grumpy old man named Garnett Walker bicker about pesticides. And, in the most resonant strand here, a frazzled twenty-something widow named Lusa Maluf Landowski tries to make a go of her farm after her husbands truck jackknife
