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1、目录 2007年外交学院英语系313基础英语考 研真题 2004年外交学院英语系313基础英语考 研真题（含答案） 2003年外交学院英语系313基础英语考 研真题（含部分答案，试题不完整） 2007年外交学院英语系313基础英语考研真题 基础英语（代码313） This examination paper consists of 3 sections: Section A tests your mastery of English vocabulary, usage and grammar; Section B tests your ability to understand English
2、 in context; and Section C tests your reading comprehension SECTION A: VOCABULARY, USAGE, although these were not taxes in the strict sense, since they were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amount, they were high in yield.Unfortunately, they pushed up prices.Thus, regrettably, the Tokugawa shogu
3、ns search for solvency for the government made it increasingly difficult for individual Japanese who lived on fixed stipends to make ends meet. 1.Which of the following financial situations is most analogous to the financial situation in which Japans Tokugawa shoguns found themselves in the eighteen
4、th century? A A small business borrows heavily to invest in new equipment, but is able to pay off its debt early when it is awarded a lucrative government contract. B Fire destroys a small business, but insurance covers the cost of rebuilding. C A small business is able to cut back sharply on spendi
5、ng through greater commercial efficiency and thereby compensate for a loss of revenue. DA small business has to struggle to meet operating expenses when its profits decrease. 2.According to the passage, the major reason for the financial problems experienced by Japans feudal overlords in the eightee
6、nth century was that Aprofits from mining had declined Bspending had outdistanced income Cthe samurai had concentrated in castle-towns Dthe coinage had been sharply debased 3.The passage implies that individual samurai did not find it easy to recover from debt for which of the following reasons? A T
7、axes were irregular in timing and arbitrary in amount. B The Japanese government had failed to adjust to the needs of a changing economy. C There was a limit to the amount in taxes that farmers could be made to pay. D The domains of samurai overlords were becoming smaller and poorer as government re
8、venues increased. 4.The passage suggests that, in eighteenth-century Japan, the office of the tax collector Aremained within families Bwas regarded with derision by many Japanese Cwas a source of personal profit to the officeholder Dtook up most of the officeholders time 5.According to the passage,
9、the actions or the Tokugawa shoguns in their search for solvency for the government were regrettable because those actions A resulted in the exhaustion of the most easily worked deposits of silver and gold B raised the cost of living by pushing up prices C were far lower in yield than had originally
10、 been anticipated D acted as deterrent to trade Passage 2 Questions 6-10 are based on the following passage: 1Many people today refer to the time in which we live as the age of globalization, and for most Americans, it has brought enormous benefits. In the eight years when I served as president, rou
11、ghly one-third of U.S. growth came from trade. Our countrys enormous increase in productivity was in on small part fueled by the application of information technology across all sectors of the economy, the continued outreach to people throughout the world and the openness of our borders to immigrant
12、s who continued to replenish the energy of our entrepreneurial system. It worked for us. But interdependence is not, by definition, good or bad. It can be either, and it can be both. 2 On Sept.11,2001,A1 Qaeda terrorists used the forces of interdependenceopen borders, easy travel, easy immigration,
13、easy access to information and technologyto turn jet airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, killing 3,100 people including hundreds from 70 foreign countries who were in America looking for positive interdependence. More than 200 of those killed were Muslims, indicating the racial
14、and religious diversity of the positive side of this equation. 3 My basic premise is this: The interdependent world, for all of its promise, is inevitably unsustainable, because it is unstable. We cannot continue to live in a world where we grow more and more interdependent and have no over-arching
15、system to make the positive elements of interdependence outweigh the negative ones. 4 So I believe all thinking people, particularly Americans, must ask and answer three questions: What is my vision of the 21st-century world? What do we have to do achieve it? And what does America have to do? 5 Ithi
16、nk the great mission ofthe 21st-century is to create a genuine global community, to move from mere interdependence to integration, to a community that has shared responsibilities, shared benefits and shared values. How would we go about building that king of world? 6 One ofthe most important shared responsibilities is to fight for security: against terror, weapons of mass destruction, organized crime and narcotics traffickers, for restarting the Middle East peace process, for resolving the nu
