1、2007年武汉大学英语专业（基础英语）真题试卷及答案解析(总分：94.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、选词填空(总题数：1，分数：30.00)Fill in the numbered blanks with proper words. Among the 20 expressions given, only 15 should be used. Make sure the words come in correct forms in terms of both grammar and meaning. （分数：30.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填
2、空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_翻译Paraphrase the following idiomatic expressions.（分数：10.00）(1).Pull one“s leg（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(2).Make both ends meet（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).If a donkey brays at you don“t bray at him.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).Eleventh hour（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5)
3、.Homer sometimes nods（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_Paraphrase the following sentences.（分数：10.00）(1).The seller, on the other hand, makes a point of protesting that the price he is charging is depriving him of all profit, and that he is sacrificing this because of his personal regard for the customer.（分数：2.00）填空项
4、1:_(2).From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(3).The president is the source of all Navy regulations and can tailor them to his desires.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(4).There is no worse conversationa
5、list than the one who punctuates his words as he speaks as if he were writing, or even who tries to use words as if he were composing a piece of prose or print.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_(5).I remember a time. when every artist thought he owed it to himself to turn his back on the Eiffel Tower, as a protest ag
6、ainst the architectural blasphemy with which it filled the sky.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_三、阅读理解(总题数：5，分数：40.00)Man is a gregarious creature. Companionship plays an important role in human development at all stages in life. The hours that a child plays in company with his peers expand his life space, help him
7、to develop his physical skills, and provide him with experience in getting along with others. Contact with peers becomes the primary means for the adolescent to achieve independence from parents and the attainment of status as an individual in his own right. Finding a congenial social group is one o
8、f the major development tasks of adulthood. In the later years of life, the loss of the loved ones through death, the preoccupation of sons and daughters with their own adult problems, the decline of physical powers, and the loss of occupation all serve to make the search for companionship of lifelo
9、ng importance in the satisfaction of fundamental psychological needs. As long as one lives, adjustment will be conditioned by the capacity for, and skill in the conduct of companionship. It is necessary that you practice effective means for getting along with your peers so that negative attitude wil
10、l not be aroused in others. The capacity for establishing effective relationships with others results from social contacts, not primarily from what one learns out of books. You need to preserve friendships. In college this means the participation in at least one club or organization and in at least
11、some extracurricular campus activities. This participation will aid you in improving your social skills and will provide you with desirable companionship. In seeking satisfaction from companionship, you also need to cultivate a deep friendship with several special persons with whom you can share you
12、r triumphs and disappointment. It is a psychological fact that telling your troubles to another person affords release from psychological tensions, provides feedback so as to give you a truer and more valid perspective of your problems, and aids you in more realistically resolving your problems. Tru
13、e, special friends will overlook your shortcomings and at the same time assist you in evaluating and overcoming your difficulties. The benefits of such special companionship cannot be all one-sided or there would be no friendships. Your special friends have the right to expect and receive these same
14、 satisfactions from you. This being so, you are contributing to their mental health at the same time that they are contributing to yours. Thus, from such close companionship you receive the double benefit of feeling that you are worthy and have personal significance and that your need to help others
15、 is being met. Social competence fosters economic and occupational efficiency because our work is surrounded and conditioned by the existence of others. You will recall that the chief reason for job failure is not lack of knowledge of how to do the job but inability to get along well with others.（分数
16、：8.00）(1).The passage is concerned mainly with_.（分数：2.00）A.the importance of companionship in one“s developmentB.the capacity for companionshipC.the skills in conduct of companionshipD.cultivation of a deep friendship with special persons(2).Which of the following is not true?（分数：2.00）A.Companionshi
17、p helps young people shape their character.B.Companionship helps adults succeed in their career.C.Books will help you to develop your capacity for companionship.D.The best way to find a good friend is to be one(3).According to the author, companionship can enrich personal satisfactions by all the fo
18、llowing EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.affording emotional releaseB.providing an opportunity to care about othersC.creating a feeling of true significanceD.improving your social contacts(4).Which of the following would be suitable title for the passage?（分数：2.00）A.Man, a Social CreatureB.Companionship, a Basic P
19、sychological NeedC.Friendship, a Mutual RelationshipD.Personal Satisfaction and CompanionshipWhat causes a crisis? Such a question may at first seem unanswerable because there are so many different kinds of unpleasant situations into which we humans can get ourselves. In one word, however, the real
20、culprit is probably ignorance. Ignorance, as used here, does not imply a lack of formal education. Since one frequently sees highly educated persons getting into serious personal crises. Real ignorance is a lack of understanding of the law of cause and effect in our own lives. Many of us seem to thi
21、nk that we can do whatever feels goodacquire wealth, achieve status, pursue romantic conquests, eat heartily, and so forth often at the expense of others, without ever having to concern ourselves with the consequences of such living. We foolishly ignore the karmic wisdom expressed in those popular p
22、hrases: “What goes around comes around.“ And “Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.“ Pain, unpleasant as it may be, is our stem benefactor. It teaches us vital lessons as to the conduct of our lives. Feeling pain means that something just isn“t working and that it“s time to change ourselve
23、s or get help through another“s experience Getting help is a wise first step toward overcoming ignorance. When we hurt and really need the help, we listen attentively with mind and heart. We begin to learn those lessons which will prevent us from getting into similar predicaments later on. Some of u
24、s have to suffer consequential pain over an over before we are finally ready to seek out its causes. But eventually we say “Enough!“ and get to work. What if the crisis is not our fault, we might ask. Frequently a crisis victim who thinks himself to be blameless will lash out at society, chance, God
25、, fate, the system, his family, or whatever other abstraction it is most convenient to blame. But the threads of cause and effect are many and multicolored. Our puny minds can hardly know for sure how or when an effect will blossom from a previous cause, nor what combinations of circumstances are be
26、ing dealt to us by our own past choices. We are the masters of our future because we are free beings, but we are equally the slaves of our past and must pay folly“s price. Helpers in many different roles are available to give us the timely aid we need when in crisis. There are friends, psychiatrists
27、, pastors, counselors, teachers, crisis line operators, doctors, nurses, social workers, and numerous other sources of reeducation when we are up against a wall. If we will only ask them, they can help us overcome that ignorance which has, at least in part, caused us our present agony. Situations ar
28、e many and varied, but it is safe to say that a situation never becomes a crisis until it involves pain. Pain spurs us on to ask, and exactly at that point where solid and beneficial learning can begin. Whatever our diplomas and degrees, this is the only real learning. It is this learning that sets
29、us free. Ignorance, mistakes, pain, learning, freedomso goes the eternal cycle of human evolution.（分数：8.00）(1).People get serious crisis because_.（分数：2.00）A.they have received too much formal educationB.there are many unpleasant situationsC.they want to do whatever feels goodD.they don“t understand
30、the law of cause and effect(2).Pain is benefactor in that_.（分数：2.00）A.something is not working properlyB.it is where knowledge comes into beingC.we begin to learn how to deal with our crisisD.we eventually get back to our work(3).Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A
31、.A psychiatrist might help one suffering from a crisis.B.Ignorance is obviously the only factor resulting in a crisis.C.Some people attribute their crisis to their bad fortune.D.We must be responsible for our own past choices.(4).Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?（分数：2.0
32、0）A.Crisis: Its Causes and EffectsB.Ignorance: an Inevitable Step to FreedomC.Education: the Only Solution to a CrisisD.Human Evolution: the Eternal CycleIn the United States alone at the beginning of the 1990s, roughly one third of the school-age population was children of color. This percentage is
33、 expected to increase to somewhere between 44% and 48% by the year 2025. Complicating this issue is the fact that relatively few of those in the teaching force represent minority populations. As of the late 1980s, roughly 88% of teachers in the United States represented the majority culturethat is,
34、white, Anglo, and middle class, with about two thirds of those being women. This figure, too, is expected to increase resulting in approximately 94% of the American reaching force representing a rather homogeneous, privileged, and cross culturally inexperienced majority. This pattern of increased di
35、versity in the classroom with an increasingly homogeneous teaching force is being mirrored in many nations of the world, including Canada, Australia, Israel, Great Britain, and New Zealand. The United States has prior experience integrating significant numbers of immigrants, albeit with mixed reacti
36、on and success. During the early part of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants entered he country through Ellis Island in New York. Although the road for new immigrants into the United States(or any country for that matter)has never been an easy one, the majority of the immigra
37、nts in the early part of the century having come from Europe could “fit“ the human landscape, so to speak, once they learned the English language. The physical features they exhibited were not all that different from those of the majority of the people already here. Assimilationist ideology was easy
38、 to defendpeople could conceivably “melt“ into the greater pot called “America“. Those entering the United States today come from a much greater diversity of nations and backgrounds. Immigrants from the many diverse countries of Central and Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East are not uncommon.
39、Into the schools they bring not only different ways of thinking and behaving but also diverse ways of communicating. Such diverse languages as Vietnamese, Cambodian, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese are found in American schools with increasing regularity. In Florida“s schools, for instance, a
40、t least 84 different languages are spoken and the schools are actively working to provide educational services in 50 of these. And they are coming into that state in such great numbers that in 1989, as an example, enough children from Nicaragua alone were entering Dade County to support the building
41、 of a new elementary school each month. Of course, no such massive building efforts were undertaken, and few of the badly needed teachers were recruited. Increasingly across the country, children are speaking a language other than English at home. Between 30% and 50% of children in such cities as Ne
42、w York, Santa Fe, Hartford, and Providence speak languages other than English. In Miami, nearly three quarters of the residents speak a language other than English at home, with 67% saying they don“t speak English very well. The United States is now the fourth largest Spainsh-speaking country in the
43、 world! Although bilingualism is increasing among the American population in general(even given the English-as-an-Official-Language movement currently under way!)only 5% of our nation“s teachers are themselves truly bilingual.（分数：6.00）(1).According to passage, the greatest challenge facing the Ameri
44、can educational system is_.（分数：2.00）A.only a small proportion of the school-age children are children of colorB.women teachers in the profession are rather inexperienced cross-culturallyC.the teaching profession is not prepared for the growing diversityD.more and more immigrants from Asia speak lang
45、uages other than English(2).It can be inferred from the passage that_.（分数：2.00）A.a great majority of the immigrants into the US in the early 20th century were whiteB.the early part of the 20th century was a time for legal immigrants to enter the USAC.most of the immigrants into the United States tod
46、ay come from Latin AmericaD.it is commonly accepted that the teaching profession should be more homogeneous(3).Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?（分数：2.00）A.Bilingualism or multilingualism is a fact among the American population,B.Immigrants of greater diversity have come to
47、 the southern part of the United States.C.Bilingualism or multilingualism is not common among the teachers of the nation.D.Florida is building more elementary schools for immigrants from Nicaragua.Suppose you are in love with a great guy who happens to be twenty-two years older than you you are thir
48、ty-one and he“s fifty-three. He“s been married and divorced, and has children not much younger than you are. You might ask your friends: “Am I being naive to think our age differences don“t matter?“ Yes, you“re naive if you think your age differences don“t matter. They do, but so do all the other differences in your circumstances and personalities. So ignoring this issue, or any issue, won“t work, the more you insist that there aren“t
