2007年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试阶段测试题

英  语

（科目代码：201）

北京文登学校隆重推出

编制：文登英语主讲夏徛荣

考生注意事项

1. 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。

2. 答题前，考生应按准考证上的有关内容填写答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、“考生编号”等信息。

3. 答案必须按要求涂写或填写在指定的答题卡上。

(1)英语知识运用和阅读理解A节、B节用2B铅笔涂写在答题卡1上，如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。

(2)阅读理解C节（英译汉）的答案和作文必须用蓝（黑）色字迹钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔写在答题卡2上，要清楚。

4.考试结束，将答题卡1；答题卡2及试题一并装入试题袋中交回。

Section I    Use of English

Directions:  Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, and D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

A study of art history might be a good way to learn more about a culture than that is possible to learn in general history classes. Most (1) ____ history courses concentrate on politics, economics, and war. (2) ____, art history (3) ____ on much more than this because art reflects not only the political values of a people, but also religious belief, (4) ____, and psychology. (5) ____, information about the daily activities of our own can be provided by art. In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a (6) ____ understanding than (7) ____ can be found in most history books.

In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is (8) ____; that is, facts about political are given, but (9) ____ are not expressed. Art, on the other hand, is (10) ____: it reflects emotions and impressions. The great Spanish painter Francisco Goya severely criticized the Spanish government for its (11) ____ of power over people. Over a hundred years later, symbolic (12) ____ were used in Pablo Picasso’s Guemica to express the (13) ____ of war. (14) ____, on another continent, the powerful paintings of Diego Rivera depicted the Mexican artists’ concealed (15) ____ and sadness about social problems.

In the same way, art can (16) ____ a culture’s religious beliefs. For hundreds of years in Europe, religious art was almost the only type of art that existed. Churches and other religious buildings were filled with paintings that depicted people and stories from the Bible. (17) ____ most people couldn’t read, they could still understand biblical stories in the pictures on church walls. (18) ____ contrast, one of the main characteristics of art in the Middle East was (and still is) its (19) ____ of human and animal images. This reflects the Islamic belief that statues are (20) ____.

01. [A] prevalent

[B] comprehensive

[C] superior

[D] typical

02. [A] Indeed

[B] Hence

[C] However

[D] Therefore

03. [A] comments

[B] focuses

[C] depends

[D] imposes

04. [A] emotions

[B] moods

[C] cognitions

[D] insights

05. [A] In addition

[B] In summary

[C] In any case

[D] In effect