北京外國(guó)語(yǔ)大學(xué)
2014 年基礎(chǔ)英語(yǔ)考試試題
Part Ⅰ GRAMMAR (30 Points)
Correct Errors
The passage contains ten errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, copy the wrong word to your answer sheet and write the correct one after it.
For a missing word, write ∧ on the answer sheet followed by the word after the missing word, and then write the word which you believe is missing.
For an unnecessary word, copy the unnecessary word to your answer sheet and cross it with a slash /.
In Hardy’s fiction and poetry, letters are ready sources of excitement and
suspense, harbingers of loss and disappointment. They go missing, fall to 1.
the wrong hands, or arrive too lately. Most famously. Tess's letter of 2.
confession, hastily pushed not just under the door but under the carpet too.
remains unread by the priggish Angel Clare, as Hardy delivers his most
powerful attack of the Victorian sexual double standard. 3.
Hardy's own letters were places for quite reflection and deepening 4.
emotional tics, for occasional advice, details to visitors of the times of the
Waterloo trains, and for public protests towards the iniquity of war 5.
and against cruelty to animals. They ensured regular contact with their 6.
friends and the publishing world, contained correctives to readings of
his work. More than any other form, letters make insight into Hardy's 7.
many-sidedness. Writing in 1907 to the poet Elspeth Grahame,
he expressed admiration, and not little surprise, that she had written 8.
verses on the top of an omnibus. Commiserating with one of his American
admirers. Rebekah Owen, for having to get in a plumber, he suggested
that she took up plumbing herself. Such solid practical advice exists 9.
alongside Hardy the natural modernist, wrote to tell Arthur Symons that 10.
he liked his poem “Haschisch” (the world is “the phantom of a haschisch
dream”), discussing tuneless reality and the nature of matter at the drop of a hat