1997年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题及参考答案

Section B
Directions: Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A),B),C)andD). Identify the part of the sentence that is incorrect and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (5 points)

Example:
A number of A) foreign visitors were taken B) to the industrial exhibition which C) they saw D) many new products.
Part C) is wrong. The sentence should read, “A number of foreign visitors were taken to the industrial exhibition where they saw many new products.” So you should choose C).

Although Professor Green's lectures usually ran over A) the fifty minute B) period, but none C) of his students even D) objected as they found his lectures both informative and interesting.

When A) Edison died, it was proposed that the American people turned off B) all power C) in their homes, streets, and factories for several minutes in honor of D) this great man.

They pointed out A) the damage which B) they supposed that C) had been done by last night's D) storm.

Because of A) the recent accidents, our parents forbid my brother and me from swimming B) in the river unless C) someone agrees to watch D) over us.

A great many A) teachers firmly B) believe that English is one of the poorest taught C) subjects in high schools at present. D)

In this way these insects show an efficient use of their soundproduced A) ability, organizing B) two sounds delivered C) at a high rate as one call. D)

I thought the technician was to blame A) for the blowing
B) of the fuse, but I see now how C) I was D) mistaken.

For him to be re elected, A) what is essential is not that his policy works, B) but that C) the public believe that it is. D)

As far as A) I am concerned, his politics are B) rather conservative compared C) with other politicians. D)

I'd say whenever you are going A) after something that is belonging B) to you, anyone who is depriving C) you of the right to have it is criminal. D)