07年考研英語專業考前基礎水平模考測試卷二（1）

mportant: This test lasts for three hours. All your answers must be written on a separate sheet called"Answer Sheet". Do not write anything in this test booklet.

In this part you are asked to complete each of the 20 sentences with one out of the four words marked A, B, C, and D that follow each sentence. The Word you choose must fit into the sentence both in form and meaning. For every correct choice, you will get one point

1. I object to you speaking of 'learning French as a second language' in Canada; French is as__ a first language as English.

A. far B. well C. much D. good

2. For this situation, learning and using English for wider communication __ a country, particularly for educational, commercial, and political purposes, English can be referred to as an international language.

A. outside B. within C. with D. of

3. It reveals itself in the assumptions underlying __ , in the planning of a course of study, in the routines of the classroom, in value judgments about language teaching, and in the decisions that the language teacher has to make day by day.

A. learning B. teaching C. theory D. practice

4. The debate on language teaching methods continued into the period between the two world wars, a period which from the point of view of language pedagogy is characterized by the search for realistic solutions to the method __.

A. controversy B. problems C. issues D- crises

5. This conviction led to various experiments, all designed to __ the traditional teacher-centred language class.

A. change B. convert C. modify D. verify

6. The communicative approach, understood in this comprehensive way, has had a _ _ on second language curriculum, on teaching methodology and materials, and also on evaluation.

A. effect B. mark C. bearing D. weight

7. By virtue of their iconicity and their obvious formal aspects, poems are ideally suited to have learners experience early on the two main features of _ experience: distance and relation.

A. literary B. social C. aesthetic D. dialectic

8. Furthermore, being able to recite it from memory enables the teacher to keep eye contact with the students, to anticipate their misunderstandings and respond to their facial

A. responses B. expressions C. performance D. inquiries

9. As translators move from word to word and from sentence to sentence through the text they produce bit by bit

of the original in a different language.

A. replicas B. versions C. relics D. sediments