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1、英语专业水平考试试题样题I.Cloze (30 points, 1 point for each)Read the following passage and choose a proper word from the Word List to fill in each of the blanks in the passage. Each word can be used only once. Write the words you choose for each blank on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:ExampleI. Cloze1.
2、 paper 2. continuously3. Now, do the Cloze.WORD LISTstay form fictional there Begun classicsnovel whose published of One related away In After When with most disliked until hide aboard destroying againstBut then finished who Rebellion on Most of Mark Twains books bubbled out 1 him like water out of
3、a fountain. 2 of his gifts was the capacity to take a scene and fill it 3 every sparkling detail of nature and of human action, to put in every spoken word and accompanying gesture, and to slowly exaggerate the successive moments 4 the whole episode reached a climax of joyous, sidesplitting laughter
4、. 5 he had trouble weaving his incidents into meaningful plot patterns. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twains masterpiece, came into _6 slowly. 7 in 1876, immediately after he had dashed off The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he wrote 400 manuscript pages quickly and 8 stalled; in disgust he me
5、ditated 9 the work. _10 the winter of 1879-1880 he penned further sections; again the spark of enthusiasm died. _11 taking a journey down the Mississippi River in April, 1882, he quickly completed Lift on the Mississippi (1883) and with unabated zest 12 the novel. The trip had reawakened his boyhood
6、 memories and suggested new episodes; the two books became 13 , the weaker travel account serving as scaffolding for the great edifice._14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was 15 in 1884, it met a mixed reception. A Brooklyn lady protested 16 its presence in the childrens room of the public librar
7、y; the librarian reshelved the volume in the adult area to 17 Hucks and Toms “mischievous and deceitful practices which made them poor examples for youth.” Today the novel is among the worlds 18 and vies with Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter (1850) for the position of Americans _19 artistic w
8、ork of fiction.The reader is reminded at the outset that in 1850 Huck Finn had been a playmate of Tom Sawyer in St. Petersburg, Missouri, the 20 name of Mark Twains native village of Hannibal. For three months Huck had lived with the lady 21 life he had saved, the Widow Douglas, “fair, smart, and fo
9、rty”; her hill mansion was “the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities” that the town could boast. The lad 22 had run away from elegance was again a candidate for the major role in a rags-to-riches tale. Huck wanted it otherwise. Like T
10、om, whose name turns up throughout the _23 . Huck wanted adventure. For six months Huck endured starched clothes and virtual imprisonment within the mansion. When Pap returned on April 1 and took Huck 24 from the Widow, Huck came to prefer his slovenly island home. 25 against Paps cruelty led Huck t
11、o plan his own “murder” and to decamp about two months later. He discovered Jim 26 June 4 and started the rafting trip down the river on June 22. On July 7 he reached the Grangerfords and stayed _27 about a month. On August 10 the Duke and Dauphin came 28 the raft; their shenanigans ended at Pikevil
12、le on September 18. The 29 at Aunt Sallys lasted twenty-six days, until October 15. Then Huck decided to light out for Indian Territory and forever depart from a “civilization” that he 30 . II.Proofreading and Error Correction (30 points, 2 points for each) The following passage contains fifteen err
13、ors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. Correct the errors and write the answers on YOUR ANSWER SHEET in the following way:For a wrong word, write the correct one on Your Answer Sheet.For a missing word, write the missing word with a “” sign
14、 before it on Your Answer Sheet.For an unnecessary word, write the unnecessary word with a deleting line on it on Your Answer Sheet.ExampleWhen art museum wants a new exhibit, it31. _ never buys things in finished form and hangs32. _ them on the wall. When a natural history museumwants an exhibition
15、, it must often build it.33. _ Write on your Answer Sheet:II. Proofreading and Error Correction31. an32. never33. exhibitNow, do the Proofreading and Error Correction.Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in theworld average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, 31 _ ecologists have turned to historical datum in relation to 32_especially huge volcanic eruptions. They suspect that volcanoesaffect weather changes that ar
