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1、1四川大学四川大学“英语专业基础英语专业基础”参考样题（参考样题（2011）2011-12-31考试科目：英语专业基础 适用专业：英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学 研究方向：英美文学、美国文化研究、加拿大文化研究、欧洲文化研究、现代英语及 语言理论、英语翻译理论与实践、现代外语教育及教育技术 （注意：答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试题上不给分）Part One: Reading Comprehension (40 points)I. Cloze Test (10 points) Choose one of the four answers marked A, B, C, D to comple
2、te the article. Write your answer on the answer sheet. Be sure that the number of the answers is in agreement with the number of the blanks. Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own. At the turn of the century when jazz was born, America had no prominent 1 of its own. No o
3、ne knows exactly when jazz was 2 , or by whom. But it began to be heard in the early 1900s.Jazz is Americas contribution to popular music. In contrast to classical music, which 3 formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free form. It bubbles with energy, 4 the moods, interests, and emotio
4、ns of the people. In the 1920s jazz 5 like America, and as it does today. The 6 of this music are as interesting as the music itself. American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz 7 . They were brought to Southern States as slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and force
5、d to work long hours. When a Negro died, his friends and relatives 8 a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the procession .On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion. But on the way home the mood changed. Sp
6、irits lifted. Death had removed one of their 9 , but the living were glad to be alive. The band played happy music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes 10 at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of jazz.1. A music B song C melody D style2.
7、 A discovered B acted C invented D designed3. A forms B follows C approaches D introduces4. A expressing B explaining C exposing D illustrating5. A appeared B felt C seemed D sounded6. A origins B originals C discoveries D resources27. A players B followers C fans D pioneers8. A demonstrated B compo
8、sed C hosted D formed9. A number B members C body D relations10. A whistled B sung C presented D showed II. Reading comprehension: (30 points) In this section there are three passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and write your answer on the answer shee
9、t.Passage 1 Lloyds TSB, the UKs biggest high street bank, is being forced to withdraw a memo which orders its branch staff not to switch customers into accounts that would pay them higher rates of interest. The bank will today write to every one of its 2,600 branches to “clarify” the contents of an
10、internal memo, which tells staff it is “unacceptable” to inform current account customers that they could make better return by shifting spare cash into accounts with higher returns. The average balance in a Lloyds TSB account is understood to be 2,000 and if half of every balance was moved into an
11、alternative instant access account operated by Lloyds, the bank would have to pay an estimated $160 million in additional interest in a year. Lloyds, which has 7 million customers and last year made more than $3 billion profit, pays 0.3 per cent interest on its current account. Its instant access ac
12、count offers 3.4 per cent. The memo told staff they could lose out on incentive scheme rewardsincluding cash bonuses and foreign holidaysif they were caught switching cash out of low interest accounts. A spokeswoman for Lloyds TSB said the memo, entitled Key Sales and Service Objectives, was designe
13、d to improve service levels and had been “quoted out of context”. It was written by Mike Mitchell, the banks national sales manager, and circulated in January. It was designed to stop its staff opening new accounts merely to receive incentive scheme points. Staff are allowed, however, to make other
14、suggestions to customers, including selling them financial services such as unit trust investments and private health insurance, which generate substantial profits for the bank. Branch workers who successfully sell such products receive incentive scheme rewards, directly related to how much profit t
15、he bank makes from them. The banks spokeswoman said: “The spirit of this memo, of putting customers first, has been obfuscated by sentences which are meant to say one thing but may be interpreted as saying another.” In some cases, she claimed, those with high sums to invest can get better returns from their existing current accounts because the interest rate rises as the balance goes up. But she admitted that the memo tells staff that all current account switches “must be initiated by the cu
