广东商学院英语水平测试考研2008(复试)年考研试题.doc

2008年广东商学院英语水平测试考研复试试题 一、完形填空（ 1篇，每空1分，共15分） I. Cloze Test (15 points, 1 for each, 15%) Directions: In this part, there are two passages with fifteen blanks. There are 20 words given here and you can choose any 15 words to fill in the 15 blanks. (entire aside to engage unsteady titter gilded remade great avenged over wife string higher grabbed hate blackboard instant happy upon ) Now the master, mellow almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair 1 , turned his back to the audience, and began to draw a map of American on the 2 , to exercise the geography class upon. But he made a sad business of it with his 3 hand, and a smothered 4 rippled over the house. He knew what the matter was and set himself to right it. He sponged out lines and 5 them; but he only distorted them more than ever, and the tittering was more pronounced. He threw his 6 attention upon his work, now as if determined not to be put down by the mirth. He felt that all eyes were fastened 7 him; he imagined he was succeeding, and yet the tittering continued; it even manifestly increased. And well it might. There was a garret above, pierced with a scuttle 8 his head and down through this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws 9 keep her from mewing; as she slowly descended she curved upward and clawed at the 10 , she swung downward and clawed at the intangible air. The tittering rouse higher and 11 ----the cat was within six inches of the absorbed teacher’s head----down, a little lower, and she 12 his wig with her desperate claws, clung to it, and was snatched up into the garret in an 13 with her trophy still in her possession! And how the light did blaze abroad from the master’s bald pate----for the sign painter’s boy had 14 it! That broke up the meeting. The boys were 15 . Vacation had come. 二、阅读理解 （ 4题，每篇5题，每题2分，共40分） II. Reading and Comprehension (40%) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed