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1、2022年考博英语-中南大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of（ ）, is the first step in learning to be creative.问题1选项A.eleganceB.resolutionC.sympathyD.originality【答案】D【解析】考查名词辨析。A选项elegance“典雅；高雅”；B选项resolution“分辨率；解决；决心”；C选项sympathy“同情；赞同
2、”；D选项originality“创意；独创性；原始”。句意：许多艺术家认为，成功的模仿远不是缺乏 的表现，而是学会创造的第一步。句中出现的“模仿”、“学会创造”表明，此处应表示“模仿成功不是缺乏创造力的表现”。D选项正确。2. 单选题Often be before computer, the eye is a bit （ ）urticant a bit better with the sort of eye-drop, stimulation is small.问题1选项A.acheB.feverC.acerbityD.sore【答案】C【解析】考查名词辨析。ache 疼痛； fever发烧
3、；acerbity酸，涩；sore 溃疡，痛处。句意：经常在电脑前，眼睛有点痒，有点涩，用那种眼药水比较好，刺激小。C项符合句意。3. 单选题But McConnell Moore has always drawn great strength from such cartoonish （ ）, which he collects and then displays on his Senate office wall.问题1选项A.applausesB.vituperationsC.condemnsD.appraisals【答案】B【解析】考查名词辨析。applause “欢呼；鼓掌欢迎”；v
4、ituperation “谩骂；坏话”；condemn “谴责；声讨”；appraisal “评价；估计”。句意：但McConnell Moore总是从此类的卡通谩骂中汲取巨大的力量，他将其收集后展示在他参议院办公室的墙壁上。由关键词but及cartoonish可知空格处应填贬义词，卡通谴责不能搭配，故 B项正确。4. 单选题The English novelist William Thackeray considered the cult of the criminal so dangerous that he criticized Dickens Oliver Twist for maki
5、ng the characters in the thieves kitchen so （ ）.问题1选项A.threateningB.rivetingC.connivingD.fearsome【答案】B【解析】考查形容词词义辨析。threatening “危险的；胁迫的；凶兆的”；riveting “非常迷人的；吸引人的”；conniving “纵容的；默许的”；fearsome “可怕的；害怕的”。句意：英国小说家威廉萨克雷认为对罪犯的狂热崇拜是相当危险的，所以他批评狄更斯的雾都孤儿让小偷厨房中的人物是如此吸引人。由considered the cult of the criminal s
6、o dangerous可知B项符合语境。正是由于作品中塑造的人物具有吸引力才让人崇拜。5. 单选题An innovator, ballerina Augusta Maywood was （ ）a traveling company.问题1选项A.to form the firstB.the first to formC.who formed the firstD.forming the first【答案】B【解析】考查序数词的用法。句意：作为一个改革者，芭蕾舞女演员Augusta Maywood是第一个成立旅游公司的人。 由句意及序数词的用法可知B项正确。The+序数词+to do sth。6
7、. 翻译题Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.Whats the best teacher? Experience, of course! Its priceless. It comes from what you yourself have seen, heard, tasted, smelled and felt what you yourself have lived through.Take a closer look. Look at
8、 our limitations.No wonder experience is so precious in that we cant begin to get enough of it, even cannot experience again what we just lived through. Were not born with instant replay. We cant actually relive any moment. And, obviously, were limited to one lifetime.Space and time! How they limit
9、us. Who has a time machine to carry him back into history? No one. Its the same with space. We cant literally be in two places at the same time. Right now, you cant be sitting where you are and at the same time be strolling down the famed Champs Elysees in Paris (巴黎香榭丽舍大道).And theres so much experie
10、nce we need. Whats it really like to work on an assembly line? Whats it really like to be a secretary?Heres where reading fits. It can bring us, personally, almost unlimited additional experience; to be sure, its secondhand experience. But its often so, vivid it seems firsthand, just as if were livi
11、ng through it ourselves, being moved to tears, laughter or suspense. That rich range of experience provides the ideal supplement to our own limited experience; by doing so, reading becomes one of our most profound mind-shaping activities.Furthermore, all this experience is available when we want it.
12、 Books never impose on us. When we want them, we reach out and pull them off the shell or table. At our convenience we invite them to share their unbelievable wealth with us.【答案】它（经验）来自于你自己的经历，自己看到、听到、尝到、闻到和感觉到的东西。由于我们无法在一开始得到足够的经验，甚至不能再次经历刚经历过的事情，使得经验如此宝贵。我们不能同时出现在两个地方。现在，你不可能坐在你现在的位置，且同时漫步在巴黎著名的香榭
13、丽舍大街上。它能给我们个人带来几乎无限的额外经验；当然，这是间接的经验。丰富的经验为我们有限的经验提供了理想的补给；通过这样做，阅读成为我们最深刻的思想塑造活动之一。7. 单选题The origin of the theory that major geologic events may occur at regular intervals can be traced back not to a study of volcanism or plate tectonics but to an investigation of marine extinctions. In the early 19
14、80s,scientists began to look closely at the question of how these extinctions occur. Two paleontologists, Raup and Sepkoski, compiled a master list of marine species that died out during the past 268 million years and noted that there were brief periods during which many species disappeared at once.
15、 There mass extinctions occurred at surprisingly regular intervals.Later studies revealed that extinctions of terrestrial reptiles and mammals also occurred periodically. These findings, combined with the research of Raup and Sepkoski, led scientists to hypothesize the existence of some kind of cyclically recurring force powerful enough to affect living things profoundly. Speculation that so powerful a force might affect geologic events as well led geologists to search for evidence of
