2011年10月21日基础英语试题.doc

四川外语学院2011基础英语 一．Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the appropriate words derived from the words given in parentheses at the end of the sentences. 1. In Canton, he commented, a common language would have been a more important than race. ( criteria) 2. He had focused upon one contemporary of a fundamental problem, the roots of which are as deep as American history itself.(manifest) 3. Although I have used my understanding of Asian American social history to interpret the literature, I have focused on the evolution of Asian American consciousness and self-image as in the literature. (express) 4. policies and attitudes towards the different groups have often been quite similar, as have the responses to these policies and attitudes among them.(race) 5. One of the fundamental barriers to Asian American literary self-expression has been the existence of race stereotypes about Asians in American popular culture.(understand) 6. By studying Asian American literature, readers can learn about the Asian American experience from the point of view of those who lived it.(have) 7. The inexact and inconsistent translations of Christian missionaries were responsible for many of the odd rendings to the Chinese.(attribute) 8. They tended to depict the Chinese as a helpless and pathetic or enigmatic people, and used Chinese characters primarily to expose the and follies of white men, who were their major concern.(ignore) 9. Just as the portrayal of the helpless Asian heathen serves to illustrate the beneficence and strength of the white missionary, the docile and seductive Asian woman is a foil for the virility and of the white male.(attract) 10. Not only is the white man to the Asian woman in Anglo-American literature ; in several romances and short stories, the Asian man is portrayed as dominated by desire for the unattainable white woman.(desire) 11. While she is plagued by a scene of unworthiness a