河南省专升本英语考试历年试题失误分析
2016-03-18史晓南河南化工职业学院河南郑州450042
史晓南(河南化工职业学院,河南 郑州 450042)
河南省专升本英语考试历年试题失误分析
史晓南
(河南化工职业学院,河南郑州450042)
摘要:自河南省于2001年采取考试方式选拔优秀专科毕业生到本科院校深造以来,专升本英语考试已经走过了14个年头。其中语法单项选择题所占分值比例一直很大。但由于其出题内容仍然受上世纪八九十年代的规定主义语法的影响,该考试忽视了语法的规定性和用法的灵活性之间的辩证关系并沿袭了陈旧的中考、高考、英语四级和考研英语的语法知识点,成为考题失误出现最多的地方。本文尝试分析这些失误,并对专升本英语考试的改革提出建议。
关键词:专升本英语试题;语法;用法
Abstract:It is fourteen years since Henan Province carried out TOP-UP English Test (the English test for asso-ciate bachelors to enter four-year system colleges and universities and to receive a bachelor's degree), in which sin-gle choice of grammatical points account for a large part in total marks. Influenced by prescriptive grammar in 1980s and 1990s, the test neglects the dialectical relation between grammatical prescriptiveness and flexibility of usages and follows grammatical points in old-fashioned, in which most errors are made. The article tries to analyze those errors in order to put forward suggestions for reform in TOP-UP English Test.
Keywords:TOP-UP English Test ; grammar; usages
一、分析
专升本英语考试的试题失误主要体现在以下几个知识点。
(一)关于no use的用法
It's no use ______.(公共2001,18)
A. compainingB. complainC. to complain D. to be complained
It is no use ______ me not worry about his injury.(公共2008,17)
A. for you to tellB. your tellingC. you tellD. having told
It's no use ______ with him since he has made up his mind.(公共2010,31)
A. to argueB. arguingC. to be arguedD. argued
Michael Swan的《实用英语用法》以及我国的许多英语著作都将It's no use to do视为错误用法,但是It's no use to do的用法也常见于著名作家的著作中,并得到许多语言学家的认可。Erade认为,两种用法都是正确的;其细微的差别仍然可以用传统语法中关于动名词和不定式的区别这一知识点来解释:动名词表示经常的状况,不定式表示某一具体情况。
(二)关于all that和all which的用法
The final examination will cover all ______ taught this term.(公共2002,2)
A. what has beenB. that has beenC. that wasD. which has been
which用作all的关系代词的用法很少见,但也不能算错误,章振邦的《新编英语语法》和薄冰的《英语词汇札记》等权威英语著作已将这种用法视为正确,例如:
This is all which Mr. Black could offer.
That is about all which is necessary to say about the movie.
(三)关于except和except for的用法
______ a young man, the office was empty.(公共2004,2)
A. But forB. Except forC. BesidesD. Ex-cept
His son is quite well now, ______ a slight fever.(公共2005,13)
A. exceptB. besidesC. in addition toD. except for
It was almost dark in the street ______ a few very pow-erful spotlights.(公共2008,18)
A. excludingB. except forC. exceptD. but for
The classroom is quite clean ______ some waste paper on the floor.(专业2005,19)
A. except forB. exceptC. besidesD. without
钱歌川先生在《英文疑难详解》中详细分析了except和except for用法上的区别;……
