上海外国语大学英语专业2008年考研试题.doc

上海外国语大学英语专业2008年考研试题-基础英语 I. CLOZE (30 points)Fill in each of the blanks below with a word provided in the brackets. You may change the words into their proper forms if needed so that the words you put in will be grammatically and semantically appropriate. You can Only use the words in the brackets ONCE. Write your answers oh your Answer Sheet.(cherish??????? reach???? receive???????? rub??????? beam???? curious???????? history????????? overcome???? extendkinship????????? break??? intimate origin???? enthusiastic?? barbaric insulting????? eyes????? ceremonyexecute????????? unwashed??? pertinent??? sanity??? substitute??? relief?? worse??? partake??? custom????????? advertisement???? alternative???? spring)At the White House on New Years Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt set a world record for shaking hands—8,150 of them, according to his biographer Edmund Morris, including those of every aide, usher and policeman in sight. Having done his exuberant political duty, says Morris, Teddy went upstairs and privately, disgustedly, scrubbed himself clean.We may presume that on Inauguration Day in January 2001, President Trump will not try to (1) _______ Roosevelts record. Trumps views are known; 1 think the handshake is (2)_______ Shaking hands, you catch the flu, you catch this, you catch all sorts of things.Donald Trump may be right. The more you think about it, the more disgusting the handshake becomes. Although it is a public gesture, a reflexive (3) _______???? of greeting, the handshake has a clammy dimension of (4) _______. The clamminess is illustrated in principle by the following: a young (5) _______ rushed up to James Joyce and asked, May 1 kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?” Joyce replied, No. It did lots of other things, too.Most of us dont think about it. The handshake is expected and is (6) _______ automatically in a ritual little babble of nicetomeetyouhowdoyoudo? If you had an attack of fastidiousness and refused to shake someones (7) _______ hand, t