南京财经大学英语语言文学专业基础英语.docVIP

南 京 财 经 大 学 2009年硕士研究生入学考试（初试）试卷 613 基础英语 适用专业： 英语语言文学 考试时间： 2009年1月 11上午8：30—11:30 I. Rewrite the following sentences, making use of the words or expressions in parentheses. (10 points) 1. The decision to build a nuclear disposal centre has triggered off a great deal of protest from local residents. (a profusion of) 2. It is found in a recent survey that sexism still has a strong influence in many regions in the world. (hold fast) 3. The successful release of her debut album gave the singer much confidence and encouraged her to achieve more. (propel somebody to do…) 4. To solve the deficit problem the Prime Minister proposed a tax reform, but the Parliament’s decision to withdraw its support greatly discouraged his effort. (be a damper on… ) 5. How to reform the country’s educational system has basically become a social and political problem. (in essence) II. Paraphrase the underlined part of the following sentences. (10 points) 1. The satisfaction of killing time and of affording some outlet, however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is sufficient to make even a man whose work is dull happier on the average than a man who has no work at all. 2. The power to produce great art is very often, though by no means always, associated with a temperamental unhappiness, so great that but for the joy which the artist derives from his work, he would be driven to suicide. 3. The nation has entered a period in which many houses are distinguished less by their lingering similarities than by how they diverge both from one another and from homes of the past. 4. Seen from this perspective, the “swinging singles” complexes that attracted so much gossip a few years later are an elaboration on the Sun City concept—the clustering together of people of similar ages or outlooks. 5. Never mind, these days it was always a good thing to have an overseas relative or friend fall into one’s lap. III. Vocabulary and General Knowledge. Choose from t