中国人民大学2008年英语专业考研试题I. Sentence Completion (30 points)Directions: Write in the blank the letter of the item which best completes each sentence.1. Jean ______her mother in character.a. takes afterb. inheritsc. initiatesd. embarrasses2. They reported the loss and gave all the necessary ______to the police.a. happeningsb. qualificationsc. characteristicsd. particulars3. Generous public funding of basic science would ______considerable benefits for the country's health, wealth and security.a. result fromb. settle downc. lie ind. lead to4. When people become unemployed, it is ______which is often worse than lack of wages.a. lazinessb. povertyc. idlenessd. inability5. National poverty was ______by rapid population growth.a. strengthenedb. reinforcedc. aggravatedd. reduced6. What a sad sight, with all the shops ______and the people gone.a. shuttledb. shutteredc. shuttlesd. shutters7. The carpenter helped me to _______the cabinet at the base to keep it from tipping.a. wedgeb. wrenchc. yoked. tuck8. The dentist had to _______ the tooth as it was badly decayed.a. pull offb. releasec. extractd. alleviate9. Children and old people do not like having their daily _______upset.a. habitb. practicec. routined. custom10. ________when she started complaining.a. Not until he arrivedb. No sooner had he arrivedc. Hardly had he arrivedd. Scarcely did he arriveII. Error Correction (20 points)Directions: In the passage below, there are ten extra words, which are either are either grammatically incorrect or do not fit in with the meaning of the passage. Read the passage carefully and cross out those extra words.We are proud to present with this Management Development Program as a five-day opportunity to improve your personal and the interpersonal management skills. 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Nine people were injured and a fireman suffered second-degree burns after being hit _______(5) the face by a petrol bomb.Two car showrooms, two schools and a sports hall were ______(6) alight, while rioters ransacked a police station, a fire station, a council office, a shopping center and a train station.The ruling UMP failed to conceal its differences over how to deal ______(7) a crisis that has exposed supposedly model suburbs as ghettos of unemployment, resentment of authority, drug dealing and crime. Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, told the senate: "I refuse to accept that organized gangs are laying ________(8) the law in certain neighborhoods."But ________(9) a UMP working session at the National Assembly, party members and mayors of several suburban towns ________(10) by riots snubbed the prime minister, even accusing his camp of pandering to the "louts".IV. Reading Comprehension (20 points)Passage IDirections: Read the article below and choose the best sentence from the list that follows to fill each of the gaps. Write one letter (A-H) for each gap. Do not write any letter twiceAre your paper towels honestly the most absorbent money can buy? Do physicians truly prefer your pain medication to all others? (1)_____. Well,that's what the ads say.Advertising claims are everywhere, but it's not enough to say that your paper towels are the most absorbent. Unless it's really true, there's a good chance someone especially a competitor - is going to make you prove it. It's a little-known fact of business life, but advertising is challenged all the time.(2)_______ . For over 30 years, the organization's advertising experts have examined the wording in ads to answer such questions as: Is it true that Color Stay makeup "won't rub off on your collar"?To test this claim, a leading competitor asked hundreds of women to wear white shirts, spend the day doing what they usually do, and wear Color Stay makeup. (3)______.The competitor claimed that its results showed that ColorStay makeup actually does rub off. But ColorStay's manufacturer also conducted its own test on hundreds of women. (4)______. The testers found that the makeup stayed on during normal use.The contradictory tests impressed the Council of Better Business Bureau's advertising division. It concluded that the questions came down to how viewers would interpret the word ""rub". (5)________ .The company revised its advertising claim to include the words "under normal conditions". The advertising division of the Council of Better Business Bureau was created in 1971 by advertisers in the U.S. as a way to regulate themselves.(6)________ .This was the finding regarding the TV commercial for a new brand of pain medication. Orudis KT. The ad claimed: "There are many prescriptions of pain medications, and a doctor can prescribe any of them.(7) _________."Literally true, the advertising division decided. The doctors had prescribed Orudis at least once during their lifetimes. (8)_______.The manufacturer objects to the decision, though it agreed to take the advertising division's comments into account in its future advertising of Orudis KT. It noted that the company had already discontinued the ads.A. Since then, numerous cases have come to the advertising division to show how a truth - improperly presented can create the wrong impression.B. One of the leading judges of such challenges is the national advertising division of the Council of Better Business Bureau.'C. Its results were the opposite.D. Will your makeup really not rub off on your clothes?E. The company wanted to test ColorStay's claim for itself.F. The advertising division concluded, however, that the way the statement was worded created the false impression that doctors had chosen Orudis over other pain medications.G. It decided that ColorStay's manufacturer had proved the makeup effectively resists rubbing off during "normal use".H. Yet, 82 percent of doctors surveyed have prescribed Orudis.V. Translate the following passage into English (30 points).北京航空航天大学外语系（简称北航外语系），前身为基础课部外语教研室，1978年开始招收英语专业本科生，1985年正式成立外语系，同年开始招收英语硕士研究生。