上海海事大学-621综合英语【2014】考研真题
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2014 年上海海事大学攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
重要提示：答案必须做在答题纸上，做在试题上不给分
考试科目代码 621 考试科目名称 综合英语
I. Vocabulary (40*1=40)
Directions: There are forty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A,
B, C and D. Choose one that best complete the sentence or answer the corresponding question.
1. Although she gives badly ____ titles to her musical compositions, they ____ unusual combinations of
materials including Gregorian chant, Asian scale patterns and rhythms, electronic sounds, and bird songs.
A. exotic… belie B. eccentric … deploy C. imaginative… disguise D. conventional… incorporate
2. In arguing against assertions that environmental catastrophe is imminent, her book does not ridicule all
predictions of doom but rather claims that the risks of harm have in many cases been _____.
A. derided B. exaggerated C. scrutinized D. ignored
3. There seems to be no ____ the reading public’s thirst for books about the 1960’s: indeed, the normal level
of interest has ___ recently be cause of a spate of popular television documentaries..
A. ignoring… transformed B. whetting … mushroomed
C. quenching… moderated D. slaking… increased
4. The research committee urged that archaeologist to _____ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was
that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ___.
A. document… conjecture B. undercut… caprice
C. downplay… facts D. withdraw… evidence
5. It is only slight hyperbole to say that Roy Disney averted a cultural tragedy. Select among the following an
antonym of the underlined.
A. understatement B. imprecation C. concession D. obstinacy
6. The bus drivers' union has ______ any involvement in the violence.
A. acknowledged B. disavowed C. instigated D. inculcated
7. The scientist found it puzzling that his theory encountered ____ despite widespread agreement that it was
___
A. dismissal… simplistic B. skepticism… unfathomable
C. opposition… indisputable D. acceptance… comprehensive
8. The meeting on environmental issues produced ____ discussion but no commitment on a plan of action:
the many uncertainties surrounding global climatic change and the huge cost of efforts to limit it made the
policy makers ___.
A. frustrating… affable B. cordial… quarrelsome
C. heated… contentious D. interminable… businesslike
9. Still another possibility is that the United States is heading into an era of political ____ and reform.
A. familiarity B. upheaval C. ennui D. intimacy
10. To explain this seeming ____, let me refer you to a drawing now found in many introductory psychology
textbooks.
A. constraint B. paradox C. bias D. triviality
11. The _____ with which the politician peppers her speeches are so memorable that many people think of her
as being far more _____ than she in fact is.
A. diatribes… censorious B. examples… soporific
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C. pejoratives… optimistic D. superlatives… egalitarian
12. An evaporation system is used to dissipate heat from the sun and protect the shuttle's electronics. Select
among the following an antonym of the underlined.
A. pile up B. sort out C. illuminate D. hasten
13. Although based on an actual event, the film lacks ____: the director shuffles events, simplifies the tangle
of relationships, and _____ documentary truth for dramatic power.
A. conviction… embraces B. realism… substitutes
C. coherence… utilizes D. verisimilitude… sacrifices
14. When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of the New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely
_____ tone, avoiding the _____ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.
A. whimsical… capricious B. dispassionate… shrill
C. argumentative… tendentious D. abstruse… scholarly
15. In linking geographically disparate people, the Internet is arguably helping millions of spontaneous
communities to bloom: communities defined by common interests rather than by the accident of _____.
A. contemporaneousness B. proximity C. compatibility D. affluence
16. Despite the fact that amateur runner trained rigorously for six months before the race, he failed to ____ it:
the course was so _____ that even professional runners struggled to finish.
A. concede… formidable B. win… manageable
C. complete… demanding D. underestimate… unusual
17. Despite the fact that the book’s title suggests _____, the author is not a charlatan claiming to offer a _____;
rather, her book assessed all possible treatments of certain diseases without identifying any cures.
A. fraud… critique B. hyperbole… warning
C. quackery… panacea D. fraud… critique
18. An attempt to smuggle heroin worth £30 million into the country has been _____ by customs officials.
A. colluded B. straightened C. assuaged D. thwarted
19. Even medical care is available on demand at most public hospitals to ____ people with no money..
A. dignity B. indigent C. wealthy D. intelligent
20. My carefully laid plans had already gone ____.
A. staggering B. awry C. recalcitrant D. ineffable
21. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains ______ of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.
A. vestige B. vestiges C. ruins D. wreckage
22. The herb Echinacea seems to _____ the body's immune system.
A. stimulate B. arouse C. incite D. arise
23. On Dec. 13 Landsbergis had announced that a further round of _____ consultations had been postponed
indefinitely by the Soviet side.
A. primary B. rudimentary C. elementary D. preliminary
24. The lost car of the Lees was found _________ in the woods off the highway.
A. vanished B. scattered C. abandoned D. rejected
25. By a strange ____ the king was assassinated on the very spot where his grandfather had been killed.
A. coincidence B. convention C. certainty D. complication
26. The Eskimo is perhaps one of the most trusting and considerate of all Indians but seems to be _________
the welfare of his animals.
A. critical about B. indignant at C. indifferent to D. subject to
27. Using extremely different decorating schemes in adjoining rooms may result in _________ and lack of
unity in style.
A. conflict B. confrontation C. disturbance D. disharmony
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28.
A. trifled with B. scraped through C. stumbled upon D. thirsted for
29. His temper and personality show that he can become a soldier of the top _____.
A. circle B. rank C. category D. grade
30. Local authorities and trade unions will need to respond to gratuitous fault finding and _____ of political
leadership.
A. demonstrating B. undermining C. altering D. determining
31. If 2008 was the year of the banking _____, then 2009 was the year of the stimulus packages.
A. slump B. recession C. meltdown D. decline
32. In 1903 the members of the governing board of the University of Washington, in Seattle, engaged a firm of
landscape architects, specialists in the design of outdoor environments --- Olmsted Brothers of Brookline,
Massachusetts --- to advise them on an appropriate layout for the university grounds.
The word "engaged" is closest in meaning to which of following?
A. trained B. hired C. described D. evaluated
33. John Olmsted did the investigation and subsequent report on Seattle's parks.
The word "subsequent" is closest in meaning to which of following?
A. complicated B. alternate C. later D. detailed
34. With such unparalleled sums at their disposal, with the Olmsted guidelines to follow, and with the added
incentive of wanting to have the city at its best for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, the Parks
Board bought aggressively.
The word "sums" is closest in meaning to which of following?
A. problems B. amounts C. services D. debts
35. Many prehistoric people subsisted as hunters and gatherers. Undoubtedly, game animals, including some
very large species, provided major components of human diets.
The word "Undoubtedly" is closest in meaning to which of following?
A. occasionally B. unexpectedly C. previously D. certainly
36. It is obvious that this new rule is applicable to everyone without _______.
A. exception B. exclusion C. modification D. substitution
37. Most people agree that the present role of women has already affected U.S. society. _______, it has
affected the traditional role of men.
A. Above all B. In all C. At most D. At last
38. As an actor he could communicate a whole _____ of emotions.
A. frame B. range C. number D. scale
39. There has been a collision _______ a number of cars on the main road to town.
A. composing B. consisting C. involving D. engaging
40. _______ elephants are different from wild elephants in many aspects, including their tempers.
A. Cultivated B. Regulated C. Civil D. Tame
II. Reading Comprehension (40*1=40)
Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished
statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits
best according to the information given in the passage.
Text 1
An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half. In
the internet age, at least in theory, this fraction can be much reduced. By watching what people search for,
click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.
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