2014年考研英语基础备考:模拟题及答案解析(一)
Section I Structure and Vocabulary
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence and put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET (20 points)
1.As scheduled, the communications satellite went into ________ round the earth.
[A] circle [B] orbit [C] path [D] course
2.I don’t want to lend any more money to him; he’s already in debt ________ me.
[A] to [B] for [C] of [D] with
3.________ to speak when the audience interrupted him.
[A] Hardly had he begun [B] No sooner had he begun
[C] Not until he began [D] Scarcely did he begin
4.Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it ____ in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.
[A]is to be analyzed [B]has been analyzed
[C]be analyzed [D]should have been analyzed
5.Humble ____ it may be, there’s no place like home, where he may go.
[A]although [B]as [C] how [D]which
1.B 考查名词辨析。
2.A 考查介词搭配。短语in debt和介词to构成搭配,表示“欠……债”。句子译文:我不想再借钱给他;他已经欠我的债了。
3.A 考查hardly…when结构的倒装形式。
4.正确答案为C项。本题考查名词insistence的用法。按照该词的要求,其后的同位语从句谓语动词使用should+原形,should可以省略。在本句中,动词analyze和主语it(指Afro-American poetry)是被动关系,所以使用被动语态。句子译文:“让·瓦格纳对美国黑人诗歌研究最长远的贡献是,他坚决主张既要用世俗的观点又要用宗教的观点分析美国黑人诗歌。”
5.正确答案为B项。本题考查as引导的让步状语从句的倒装形式。规则为:从句结尾的词置于句首。句子译文:“尽管家很简陋,但无论他走到哪里,也找不到像家这样的地方。”