2001年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

Section I: Structure and Vocabulary

Part A

Directions:

Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5 points)

1. If I were in movie, then it would be about time that I ________ my head in my hands for a cry.

[A] bury  [B] am burying  [C] buried（C）  [D] would bury

2. Good news was sometimes released prematurely, with the British recapture of the port ________ half a day before the defenders actually surrendered.

[A] to announce  [B] announced  [C] announcing（B）  [D] was announced

3. According to one belief, if truth is to be known it will make itself apparent, so one ________ wait instead of searching for it.

[A] would rather  [B] had to  [C] cannot but（D）  [D] had best

4. She felt suitably humble just as she ________ when he had first taken a good look at her city self, hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed.

[A] had  [B] had had  [C] would have and（A）  [D] has had

5. There was no sign that Mr. Jospin, who keeps a firm control on the party despite ________ from leadership of it, would intervene personally.

[A] being resigned  [B] having resigned  [C] going to resign（B）  [D] resign

6. So involved with their computers ________ that leaders at summer computer camps often have to force them to break for sports and games.

[A] became the children  [B] become the children  [C] had the children become（D）

[D] do the children become

7. The individual TV viewer invariably senses that he or she is ________ an anonymous, statistically insignificant part of a huge and diverse audience.

[A] everything except  [B] anything but  [C] no less than（D）  [D] nothing more than

8. One difficulty in translation lies in obtaining a concept match. ________ this is meant that a concept in one language is lost or changed in meaning in translation.

[A] By  [B] In  [C] For（A）  [D] With

9. Conversation becomes weaker in a society that spends so much time listening and being talked to ________ it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself.

[A] as  [B] which  [C] that（C）  [D] what

10. Church as we use the word refers to all religious institutions, ________ they Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish, and so on.

[A] be  [B] being  [C] were（A）  [D] are