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武汉大学
2004 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
科目名称：基础英语与英汉互译 科目代码：434
(注意：答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试卷和其它地方成绩无效)
Part One: (75 points)
I. Cloze (1×15)
Fill in each numbered blank with ONE word given below, paying attention to the following:
A) 20 words are given, but only 15 (no more, no less) should be used and each can be used
once only.
B) Forms should be corrected.
1. prison 2. reflection 3. contemplative 4. burden 5. community 6. culture 7. event 8.
contact 9. aspect 10. imprison 11. immediate 12. communion 13. respect 14. set
15. incident 16. claim 17. mood 18. talk 19. imagine 20. travel
Reading or the enjoyment of books has always been regarded among the charms of a 1
life and is respected and envied by those who rarely give themselves that privilege. This is easy to
understand when we compare the difference between the life of a man who does no reading and
that of a man who does. The man who has not the habit of reading is 2 in his immediate
world in respect to time and space. His life falls into a 3 routine; he is limited to 4 and
conversation with a few friends and acquaintance, and he sees only what happens in his 5
neighborhood. From this prison there is no escape. But the moment he takes up a book, he
immediately enters a different world, and if it is a good book, he is immediately put in touch with
one of the best 6 of the world. This talker leads him on and carries him into a different country
or a different age, or 7 to him some of his personal regrets, or discusses with him some
special line or aspect of life that the reader knows nothing about. An ancient author puts him in
8 with a dead spirit of long ago, and as he reads along, he begins to 9 what that ancient
author looked like and what type of person he was. Both Mencius and Seema Chien, China‟s
greatest historian, have expressed the same idea. Now to be able to live two hours out of twelve in
a different world and take one‟s thoughts off the 10 of the immediate present is, of course, a
privilege to be envied by people shut up in their bodily prison. Such a change of environment is
really similar to 11 in its psychological effect.
But there is more to it than this. The reader is always carried away into a world of thought
and 12 . Even if it is a book about physical events, there is a difference between seeing such
events in person or living through them, and reading about them in books, for then the 13
always assume the quality of the spectacle and the reader becomes a detached spectator. The best
reading is therefore that which leads us into this contemplative 14 , and not that which is
merely occupied with the report of events. The tremendous amount of time spent on newspapers I
regard as not reading at all, for the average readers of papers are mainly concerned with getting
reports about events and happenings without 15 value.
II. Paraphrase (2×20=20%)
Paraphrase the following sentences, paying attention to the connotation each of them suggests.
1. Let bygones be bygones.
2. The best is often the enemy of the good.
3. Circumstances alter cases.
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