南京财经大学2008年基础英语考研真题.doc

南 京 财 经 大 学 2008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： 2008年1月 20上午8：30—11:30 注意事项：所有答案必须写在答题纸上，做在试卷或草稿纸上无效。 I. Paraphrase the underlined part of the following sentences. (10 points) 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 2. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, and above them won by observation. 3. Unless the man exploit others, he has to work in order to live. Howerver simple and primitive his production may be, he has risen above the animal kindom; rightly has he been defined as “animal that produces”. 4. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. 5. Even philosophy divorced from theology and from the knowledge of life and ascertainable facts, is but a famishing pabulum, or a draught stimulating for a moment, leaving behind drought and disillusion. II. Vocabulary and General Knowledge. (20 points) 1. It was found the diet of older people is often ________in vitamins. A. shot B. inadequate C. deficient D. failing 2. Your story about the frog turning into a prince is ______ nonsense. A. sheer B. shear C. shield D. sheet 3. I understand ______preparation that staff must put in under pressure to meet the deadline. A. more than the enormous amount of B. better than most the enormous number of C. better than most the enormous amount of D. fewer than the number of 4. From the available data it may fairly be ______ that the writer flourished in the 15th century. A. presupposed B. presumed C. assumed D. supposed 5. I ______ to one daily newspaper and one weekly magazine. A. prescribe B. subscribe C. decretive D. transcribe 6. Her enthusiasm, and her violent likes and dislikes, _____ herself in all the everyday occupations of life. A. inserted D. counseled C. asserted D. discerned 7. Communication satellites contain special instruments which can pass on or ______ ra