2022年考博英语-西北师范大学考试题库及模拟押密卷（含答案解析）1. 单选题Although they lost their jobs, savings and unemployment benefits allow the couple to（ ）their comfortable home.问题1选项A.come in forB.catch up withC.look forward toD.hold on to【答案】D【解析】考查词组辨析。A选项come in for“受到”；B选项catch up with“赶上”；C选项look forward to“期待”；D选项hold on to“维持”。句意：虽然他们失去了工作，但储蓄和失业救济使这对夫妇能够继续维持他们舒适的家庭。本句表示维持家庭，因此D选项正确。2. 单选题In international matches, prestige is so important that the only thing that matters is to avoid（ ）.问题1选项A.from being beatenB.being beatenC.beatingD.to be beaten【答案】B【解析】考查动词搭配辨析。句意：在国际比赛中，声望是如此重要，唯一重要的就是避免被击败。avoid后面接动名词，avoid doing，避免做某事，排除A，D；被击败应该是被动语态，beating是动名词的主动式，排除C。因此B选项正确。3. 单选题（ ）the opportunity, he might well have become an outstanding cartoonist.问题1选项A.GivenB.To giveC.GivingD.Being given【答案】A【解析】考查过去分词作状语。given the opportunity是过去分词短语作状语，相当于一个与过去情况相反的虚拟条件句，等于if he had been given the opportunity。句意：如果有机会，他很可能会成为一位杰出的漫画家。因此A选项正确。4. 单选题Which of the following italicized phrases indicates CAUSE?问题1选项A.Why dont you do it for the sake of your friends?B.I wish I could write as well as you.C.For all his efforts, he didnt get an AD.Her eyes were red from excessive reading.【答案】D【解析】考查词组辨析。A选项“你为什么不为你的朋友着想呢？”for the sake of意为“为了”；B选项“我希望我能写得像你一样好。”，as well as意为“和一样”；C选项“尽管他很努力，他还是没有得到A。”，for在句中表示转折，与all连用表示“虽然，尽管”；D选项“她看书看得太多，眼睛都红了。”，from在句中表示“因为，出于”。因此D选项正确。5. 单选题In most of the human civilization of which we have any proper records, youth has drawn on either art or life for models, planning to emulate the heroes depicted in epics on the shadow play screen or the stage, or those known human beings, fathers or grandfathers, chiefs or craftsmen, whose every characteristic can be studied and imitated. As recently as 1910, this was the prevailing condition in the United States. If he came from a nonliterate background, the recent immigrant learned to speak, move, and think like an American by using his eyes and ears on the labor line and in the homes of more acculturated cousins, by watching school children, or by absorbing the standards of the teacher, the foreman, the clerk who served him in the store. For the literate and the literate children of the nouliterate, there was artthe story of the frustrated artist in the prairie town, of the second generation battling with the limitations of the first. And at a simpler level, there were the Western and Hollywood fairy tales which pointed a moral but did not, as a rule, teach table manners.With the development of the countermovement against Hollywood, with the efflorescence of photography, with Time-Life-Fortune types of reporting and the dead-pan New Yorker manner of describing the life of an old-clothes dealer in a forgotten street or of presenting the “accurate”, “checked” details of the lives of people whose eminence gave at least a sort of license to attack them, with the passion for “human documents” in Depression daysa necessary substitute for proletarian art among middle class writers who knew nothing about proletarians, and middleclass readers who needed the shock of verisimilitudea new era in American life was ushered in, the era in which young people imitated neither life nor art nor fairy tale, but instead were presented with models drawn from life with minimal but crucial distortions. Doctored life histories, posed carelessness, “candid” shots of people in their own homes which took hours to arrange, pictures shot from real life to scripts written months before supplemented by national polls and surveys which assured the reader that this bobby soxer did indeed represent a national norm or a growing trendreplaced the older models.1.This article is based on the idea that（ ）.2.Stories of the second generation battling against the limitations of the first were often responsible for（ ）.3.The countermovement against Hollywood was a movement（ ）.4.The author attributes the change in attitudes since 1910 to（ ）.5.The word “distortions” at the end of the 1st sentence in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to（ ）.问题1选项A.people today no longer follow modelsB.people attach little importance to whoever they followC.people generally pattern their lives after modelsD.people no longer respect heroes问题2选项A.inspiring literate immigrantsB.frustrating educated immigrantsC.preventing the assimilation of immigrantsD.instilling into immigrants an antagonistic attitude toward their forebears问题3选项A.toward realismB.toward fantasyC.against the teaching of moralsD.away from realism问题4选项A.a logical evolution of ideasB.widespread moral decayC.the influence of the pressD.a philosophy of plenty问题5选项A.presentationsB.misinterpretationsC.influencesD.limitations【答案】第1题:C第2题:A第3题:A第4题:D第5题:B【解析】1.主旨大意题。由题干可以定位到