2008年研究生英语期末考试题A.doc

考生须知 1．答题前请预先撕下Answer Sheet，并在Answer Sheet上分别填好自己的学号姓名3．答题卡上的准考证号从左至右填、涂4．请将所有的答案都写Answer Sheet和答题卡上如果Answer Sheet不够用，在背面书写。请勿自己填页。 5．考试结束后，答题卡Answer Sheet，请将Answer Sheet对折，并将答题卡夹在Answer Sheet中，一交上试题册单独交。请在监考人员点好所有卷纸后再离开。 请将 ● Part I, II, III的答案涂在答题卡上 ● Part IV, V, VI的答案写在Answer Sheet上 Part I Error Detection (15 points, 1 points per choice) Directions: Each of the following sentences has four blackened parts marked [A], [B], [C], and [D]. Identify the one which is wrong and mark the corresponding letter on the CARD. (You do not have to correct the errors.) 1. When Silvia Geraci goes out to dinner with friend[A], she has a flash of anxiety[B] when the check comes. She can pay her share[C] — her parents give her enough money to cover[D] all her expenses. 2. Poised[A] on the brink of what should be a bright future, Geraci and millions like her face a thorough [B] modern truth: it’s hard to feel like[C] a Master of the Universe when[D] you’re sleeping in your old twin bed. 3. Whether[A] it’s reconverting the guest room back into a bedroom, to pay[B] for graduate school, writing a blizzard[C] of small checks to cover rent and health-insurance premiums or acting as career counselors, parents across[D] the country are trying to provide their twentysomethings with the tools they’ll need to be self-sufficient — someday. 4. For their part, these overgrown[A] kids seem content[B] to enjoy the protection of his[C] parents as they drift from adolescence[D] to early adulthood. 5. Mr. McKee, who have[A] made a healthy living off[B] this market for a decade, specializes[C] in “Story Structure”, the title of his course which[D] is billed as the “world’s ultimate story class”. 6. Campus career counselors report being flooded with calls from parents anxious to participate[A] in their college senior’s job search. Last fall the U.S. Navy began sending[B] letters described[C] their programs to potential[D] recruits — and their parents. 7. But opponents[A] argue — as did many reparation