北京环球时代英语专业考研 MTI 翻译硕士 专四专八 日语考研等2013 年基础英语模拟题IVocabulary and Written Expressions.(10 Points) Directions; Write in the blank the letter of the item which best completes each sentence.1. Tough-talking ward councilor Tony Jones warned yesterday that the drive to clean up the Oxford Road area is beingby the criminal justice system itself.A. hamperedB. prohibited C. restrictedD. reserved2. It is a source of continuing frustration that sometimes, after huge amounts of resources have gone into securing successful, career criminals often seem to be free after little more than a third or half of their sentences.A. convictionsB. decisionsC. vanquisherD. agreements3.The police and others are doing their best to clamp down on crime and disorder the intrusion of burglary, the source of drug dealers ruining lives, the threat of intimidation, violence and petty .A. violationB. vandalismC. vanquisherD. variance4.At a meeting attended by more than 600 lecturers and support staff last week, workers passed a vote of noin senior management.A. consensusB. objectionC. confidenceD. continuation5.At the height of her fame during the Second World War, she was one of the worlds most influential women. But in later years, a gaunt relic of her former , she was a forlorn propagandist for her husbands ostracized and diminished regime.A. reputationB. celerityC. backgroundD. celebrity6.That he was able tohis responsibilities with such competence and apparent ease was partly due to his experience in the Royal Navy.A. dischargeB. chargeC. obtainD. answer7.The Galbraiths were a gregarious andfamily, probably descended from the Ancient British royal house of Strathelyde.A. proliferate B. promotive C. prolificD. propagable8. In 1945 he worked for Hambros Bank, touring the Middle East to report on _diamond trading.A. elicit B. illiberal C. illuminant D. illicit9.Despite his professional and his strength of character, he had a warm sensitivity for the feelings of others, partly stemming from his memories of hardship at Dartmouth.A. imminenceB. immanence C. emanationD. eminence10. Opposite the Italian journalists, Vladimir Putin, _dressed and statesmanlike, answered a question about one of the countrys notorious billionaires.A. immaculatelyB. immeasurablyC. justifiablyD. unkemptlyII. Error Correction (20 Points) Directions: In this passage there are altogether 10 mistakes. Try to detect the mistakes and write out your corrected answers in the numbered brackets.It used to be supposed that changes in the moral climate took decades to occur. Ideas filters down from whichever opinion makers were possessed of social influence; ( 1 ) or they were imposed by those charged of social control who had the confidence or the capacity to determine public attitudes. ( 2 ) The introduction of mass education initially made little change here, since the content of the education, and the surviving social deference of the recipients, secured a continuing measure of stability.Moral ideas and moral practice are not, anyway, in a precise correlation: statistics of illegitimate births from preceding centuries, as moral declamation was universally adverse, indicate a gap between prescribed teaching and human practice. ( 3 ) But moral change was slow and ordered; it took a very long time for that was conventionally acceptable to change witness the stigma attached to divorce only 50 years ago. ( 4 ) Now that has all changed. The reason is to be sought not so little in the collapse of institutional religion or in the moral incoherence 北京环球时代英语专业考研 MTI 翻译硕士 专四专八 日语考研等of the western liberal intelligentsia whose ideals have no discernible philosophical basis so much as the means now available for the dissemination of ideas of all sorts. ( 5 ) It is due to the power of television. Ideas and moral precept are abstract, the nightly presentation, in dramas and analysis of public events by selected experts, is not. ( 6 )Both on the screen and in the classroom a version of unstructured Humanism would seem to prevail: moral virtue determined by whatever current educated opinion deems conducive to modern canons of politically correct ideas. ( 7 ) Soaps are extremely effective means of conveying moral propaganda, modern morality plays which link day-to-day developments in particular lives-lives which are, like in the entertainments of the past, to be followed or avoided, according the assigned roles in the tension of good and evil. ( 8 )The great difference from the past is that there is now so much entertainment which it is immediately available, and that it falls upon people with no other source of moral exhortation. ( 9 ) The heroes are the tolerant, commonsense moralists who ostensibly respect all viewpoints and decry old-fashioned moralists with their outmoded restrictions. The demons are those practitioners of whatever, for the moment, attract public