复旦大学2011 年考博英语真题 ~,WG284
Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15 points) ig5
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Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices I`^
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marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the 7g8}]\i+
corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center. HQJ_:x
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1. He’s color-blind and can’t the difference between red and green easily. tgSl(.
A. detect B. discover C. distinguish D. determine 1O]'iS"
2. As many as 100 species of fish, some to these waters, may have been affected by the @E;'Ffo
pollution.
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A. unusual B. particular C. typical D. unique y.(Yh1
3. In her bright yellow coat, she was easily in the crowed. KX D&FDkF
A. accessible B. identifiable C. negligible D. incredible N4]QmRX/j
4. Some people find that certain foods their headaches. qM=
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A. introduce B. trigger C. summon D. create wCw-EGLR
5. The workers chose to their dissatisfaction in a series of strikes. `Sgj!/!F
A. deliver B. offer C. manifest D. indicate & mwQj<Z
6. Living with a roommate constraint on her---- she couldn’t play her trumpet or have parties E[q:65xl
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A. imposed B. illustrated C. impressed D. left ~Cc%!4f'
7. I don’t know how to get there either—perhaps we’d better a map. 9Rl-Jz8g
A. note B. mark C. consult D. draft &\tD$g~"
8. In the of recent incidents, we asking our customers to take particular care of their belongings. .TZ0FxW
A. evidence B. company C. light D. form O&BNhuW2
9. The police are doing all the can to bring those responsible for the bombing to Q^13KWvuV
A. evidence B. hearing C. justice D. rule c{.y9P6
10. The programme aims to make the country in food and to cut energy imports. 'O>p@BEK
A. self-confident B. self-sufficient C. self-satisfied D. self-restrained <MK4#I1I
11. I think I’d like to stay home this evening going out as it is raining to heavily. M2Q*#U>6r
A. better than B. other than C. rather than D. sooner than WAq)1gwN
12. The public can rest that detectives are doing everything possible to find the murderer. 7sypU1V6
A. assured B. approved C. guaranteed D. convinced 7Eb |AR
13. The child’s bad behavior is often more than a way of trying to his mother’s attention away `L~gERW#
from his sister. 7QSrC/e
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14. The small building was marked with a modest brass , stating the name and the business of ]?p 9)d=%<
the occupiers. Yt]Y(
A. plaque B. plateau C. plague D. plaster ATRB9
15. I don’t know what all the was about----it was a dull sort of a film and there was almost no r..&6-%:N
sex in it. . E8Gj'yO
A. coutroversy B##### C.### D.##### s2=`haYu
16. I missed the last flight, and declded to stay the night at the airport. wXR7Ifrv
A. however B. therefore C. moreover D. meanwhile ^7Z#g0{^w
17. You could be many dangers by traveling alone in that area. z:1"d
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A. subject to B. immune to C. sensitive to D. resistant to 6Pp3*O`/V
18. She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, the pleasure. O'r
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A. delaying B. prolonging C. insisting D. indulging F[q)ME+`)
19. The candidate has an impressively range of interests and experience. X_HU?Q_N
A. diverse B. vivid C. mobile D. alive sgLw,WZ:
20. When I was sent to prison, I really felt I had my parents . pQ,|l$^m
A. let…off B. let…down C. let…out D. let…alone f7_V ]
21. He outrage by calling the TV programmes “talking wallpaper” Zdfruzl&`
A. provnked B. evoked C. revoked D. invoked mYx6JU*`
22.The governments is trying to the people into thinking that a war is necessary. 2F&VG|"
A. enlighten B. involve C. orient D. brainwash jp+s[rRc\{
23. All the questions around what she had been doing on the night of the robbery. pqF!1
A. dissolved B. revolved C. evolved D. devolved c BcZ@e;
24. Make sure you’re him before you start sharing a house. 'z9}I
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A. synonymous with B. compatible with C. subordinate to D. autonomous of xLShMv}
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dignity. nPR*mbW
A. thrived B. suspended C. deprived D. contrived "'3QKeM1
26. She was unimpressed by the describing him as “a vain man and dull” 'wA4yJ<
A. intensively B. intensely C. downright D. actual /B!Ik:c}
27. down than the telephone rang. .+A2\F.^
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C. Hardly had 1 lain D. Searcely did 1 lie nV/;yl4e{
28. I’m sorry I’m late ----I had a mental and forget that we would have a meeting today. R ~? 9+
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ever since.
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appreciation of different philosophical approaches. |>/m{L[
A. extracted B. deducted C. inducted D. conducted [_-[S
Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points) ih=O#f|
Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some U>hpYqf_
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. SnVb D<
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I am running down an alley with a stolen avocado, having climbed over a white brick fence and into the forbidden back yard of a carefully manicured estate at the comer of E1 Dorado and Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, California. I have snatched a rock-hard Fuerte avocado from one of the three avocado trees near the fence. I have been told that many ferocious dogs patrol the grounds; they are killers, these dogs. I am defying them. They are nowhere to be found, except in my mind, and I’m out and gone and in the alley with their growls directing my imagination. I am running with fear and exhilaration, beginning a period of summer. "R0(!3
Emerging from the shield of the alley I cut out into the open. Summer is about running, and I am running protected by distance from the dogs. At the corner of Crescent Drive and Lomitas I spot Bobby Tomitzer on a bike. I shout “Tomitzer!” He turns his head. His bike wobbles. An automobile moving rapidly catches Tomitzer’s back wheel. Tomitzer is thrown high into the air and onto the concrete sidewalk of Crescent Drive. The driver, a woman with gray hair, swirls from the car hysterically and hovers noisily over Tomitzer, who will not survive the accident. I hold the avocado to my chest and stand, frozen, across the street. I am shivering in the heat, and sink to my knees. It is approximately 3:30 in the aftemoon. It is June 21,1946. In seven days, I will be 8 years old. *?~&O.R"
31. The best title for this story could be -Mzm~@_s]
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C. My Eighth Birthday X\1.,]O >
D. The Alley Q#PkfjXS
32. The main image in paragraph 1 is of a young boy ^=ar Kp,?5
A. climbing a white brick fences \t
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D. defying femcious dogs do DpTwvh
33. The main image in paragraph 2 is of Yu:!l>
A. Tomitzer riding his bike %b>Ee>rdD
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C. the 7-year-old emerging from the alley <P_B|Y4N/
D. the hysteria of the woman driver XXy&1C
34. The story start with the feeling of and ends with the feeling of . 2`pg0ciX (
A. joyful action…horrified inaction 4||dc}I"E
B. being alone…standing 8B;HMD
C. being alone…being with others kqZ+e/o>O9
D. being alone in the open… shivering in the heat \*\ )zj*r
35. The phrase “shivering in the hest”(near the end of this passage) dramatically describes shock Fjw+D1q.
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A. the use of minute detail :|N(:W>=$Y
B. the unexpected combination of hot and cold HG&rE3@
C. its implied reference to the word‘frozen’ B8NMo5a
D. the contrast of death and play C n.x:I@r
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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the 1{?5/F \ +
process and the innards are discouraging to and but the pure scientific mind. In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had became the ace soap bubble blower of }o7"2hht
America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was , it anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A human frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming hysterical and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit. One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they really very sad people—clown with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, bur it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorist fatten on trouble. The have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, /EV _Y|(-
suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boots (or as Josh Billing wittily called them, “the” boots). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparkling surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe. ?U(`x6\:
36.The central theme of this essay is: #_'|
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B. Humor can be dissected like a frog. E\vW>g*W
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D. Humorists need to compensate for the pain they have suffered. .y>G
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B. The bubble blowing performance was a repulsive sight. Kd;)E 9Ti
C. Humor is fragile. v_I)eac z
D. Laughter is not a measure of humor. UBM:.*wN
38. Why does the author feel that when humor is dissected, it dies in the process? .{4U]a;[
A. The fun in humor lies in examining its contents VTJxVYE
B. Humor must tantalize the senses on impact----if it has to be explained, it loses its effect. hv#|dI=kZR
C. Humor is best enjoyed by people with scientific minds. h4tAaPcS+
D A good humorist should explain his or her joke to make sure everyone understands it.
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39. The word “melancholy” in paragraph 3 probably means . L<Q>:U.@\
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floor becomes a bank. f7?IXDQ>!
The reason for this is that banks are the only ones who can afford the rent for the ground floor of
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usually takes an option for the street-floor facilities. pYz\GSd
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for Bank Birth Control. F}c}I8Ao
This is how Huddlestone Hubbard, the BBC’s chairman, explained it. ;}}k*<
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“whenever you see an building torn down,” Hubbard said, “you usually see a candy store, a dry u{5+hZ
cleaner, a delicatessen, and possibly a florist torn down with it. These shops are all replaced in the Y+ !z]S/x
new buildings with a beautiful glass, aluminum, wall-to wall-carpeted money factor.” JVR,Py:%G
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delicatessen and a florist. But from a practical point of view, it’s a sheer disaster. If you want a mOfTq]
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newspaper, a candy bar or a chocolate milk shake, you can’t get it a bank. Nor can you run out to a <