2001年上海外国语大学英语综合以及答案.doc

上海外国语大学 2001年攻读硕士学位研究生考试 英语语言文学专业 综合能力考试卷 1 Cloze 1 or 2 physically 3 and 4 acquire 5 sex 6 each 7 own 8 to 9 but 10 differences 11 as 12 but 13 never 14 as 15 femininity 2 Sentence matching 1-l 2-d 3-f 4-a 5-e 6-I 7-h 8-g9-j 10-c 3 Writing summary There’re two different attitudes toward hand shaking, pro and con. Some celebrities like Theodore Roosevelt and Donald Trump don’t like handshake as they thought it’s not hygienic. But in certain occasions, you have to shake hands with other people otherwise the refusal is an outright insult. Concerning that, handshaking cannot be substituted. But on the receiving part, many people deem shaking hands with celebrities as a souvenir and honor. However, it is said that a political handshake enables the receiving part to share the magic (good and bad) of those pig potatoes. Concerning this, those who don’t like handshaking should be grateful. Actually the situation could be worse as in other places grabbing genitals is how people say hello. 4 Reading comprehension 1 B 2 D 3 D 4 C 5 C 6 D 7 C 8 D 9 A 10 D 11 C 12 C 13 C 14 C 15 B 16 D 17 D 18 D 19 D 20 D 5 Writing Topic: History is a little more than a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. What’s history? In my opinion, history first has to be about past people and their deeds. What happens today or will happen should not be taken into the category. Some people once said that history is just the genealogy of royal families. In other words, for them those historic records of ancient times are the result of intentional choice and omission of past things by ancient recorders. This sounds reasonable as we often found that there’re different versions of records on the same events. Sometimes those official evidences are in no ways similar to civilians’ records. Besides, what we called history should be of historic meanings. For example, the mere record of a common people’s breakfast is of no meaning at all. If historians try to figure out the economic stand