考博语法练习

语法部分

Part One Multiple Choice
1. are an effective means by which advocacy groups can bring inequalities to the attention of local, state, and federal officials.
A. Demonstration public B. Demonstrations public
C. Demonstration publics D. Demonstrations publics
2. The magnificent temple was constructed by the Chinese.
A. eight-centuries-old B. eight-century-old
C. eight-century’s-old D. old-eight-centuries
3. I have been to Tibet .
A. a hundred time B. hundred times
C. hundreds of times D. hundred of times
4. Since 1974 there have been two in this city.
A. woman mayors B. woman mayor
C. women mayor D. women mayors
5. It’s by coach from Melbourne to Sydney.
A. a nine hour’s journey B. a nine hour journey
C. a nine hours’ journey D. a nine-hours journey
6. Because they are generally taken simply to obtain a recognizable and relatively clear image, most nonprofessional photographs demand equipment.
A. few B. a little
C. a few D. little
7. To the finalists, , the last high jump was the most exciting as well as the most difficulty.
A. Bob and I B. Bob and me
C. I and Bob D. me and Bob
8. Even if they are on sale, these refrigerators are equal in price to, if not more expensive than, at the other store.
A. anyone B. the others
C. that D. the ones
9. You don’t think we were all careless, do you?
A. as B. this
C. such D. that
10. That concept implies educational opportunity for all children—the right of each child to receive help in learning to the limits of his or her capacity, that capacity small or great.
A. be B. being
C. were D. are
11. The school board listened quietly as John read the demands that his followers for.
A. be demonstrating B. demonstrate
C. had been demonstrating D. have demonstrated
12. Having spent his last penny for the cheese, he was determined to eat it all, even though it tasted
to him.
A. bitterly B. bitter
C. bitterness D. bitterlier
13. His desire to be a psychiatrist was born of his sympathy with .
A. the mental ill B. the ill mentally
C. the mentally ill D. the mental illness
14. General George Brown was older in his regiment, but he was unwilling to retire from military service.
A. than any other officer B. than any officers
C. than other officers D. than any other officers
15. According to the time table, the aeroplane for San Francisco at eight o’clock in the morning.
A. will leave B. is going to leave
C. has left D. leaves
16. As automation increases, the problems of unemployment will become more serious unless more men and women the training necessary for white-collar positions.
A. have been given B. are given
C. will be given D. would be given
17. Talk to anyone in the drug industry, you’ll soon discover that the science of genetics is the biggest thing to hit drug research since penicillin was discovered.
A. or B. for
C. and D so
18. We can’t give you a room now unless you reservations.
A. made B. will make
C. have made D. are making
19. Immanuel Kant was so regular in his habits that until the day he died people their watches by his actions.
A. have set B. had set
C. have been setting D. set
20. By the year 2000, scientists probably a cure for cancer.
A. will be discovering B. are discovering
C. will have discovered D. have discovered
21. They told me that Professor Smith here for twenty years by this winter.
A. would have been teaching B. had been teaching
C. had taught D. will have taught
22. For centuries large communities of people on houseboats in parts of the world where the climate is warm and waters are calm.
A. have been living B. had been living
C. are living D. were living
23. A thousand miles no longer much to us today, for modern jets can easily get us over this distance within a matter of a few hours.
A. meant B. mean
C. means D. will mean
24. The vice-president and production director of the company the welcoming ceremony held by the Capital Hill this evening.
A. were to attend B. are to attend
C. is to attend D. have attended
25. An iron and steel works, together with some satellite factories, to be built here.
A. is B. are
C. have D. has been
26. A large collection of contemporary photographs, including some by Edward Steichen, on display at the museum.
A. are B. is
C. have been D. to be
27. That intelligence tests actually give a measurement of the intelligence of individuals by some psychologists.
A. are questioned B. have been questioned
C. is questioned D. has questioned
28. The advent of low-cost, high-speed data processing facilities school administrators with resources not available a few years ago.
A. have provided B. has provided
C. have been provided D. has been provided
29. Water is the only substance that at ordinary temperatures in all three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.
A. occurs B. occur
C. will occur D. has occurred
30. He is the only one of my friends who to settle abroad.
A. is B. are
C. has been D. to be
31. If the United States had built more homes for poor people in 1955, the housing problems now in some parts of this country so serious.
A. would have been B. wouldn’t be
C. had been D. should have been
32. The million of calculations involved, had they been done by hand, all practical value by the time they were finished.
A. could lose C. ought to have lost
C. would have lost D. might lose
33. Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it
in a religious, as well as worldly, frame of reference.
A. is to be analyzed B. has been analyzed
C. be analyzed D. should have been analyzed
34. Every attention must be paid to him, lest he that he is inferior to my other guests.
A. would feel B. feels
C. felt D. feel
35. John wants to see me today, but I would rather he tomorrow than today.
A. came B. had come
C. would come D. should come
36. I would have gone to visit you but I in touch with you while I was in Boston.
A. couldn’t get B. hadn’t got
C. couldn’t have got D. shouldn’t have got
37. My phone call to the electrician as I subsequently discovered my wife had phoned.
A. needn’t be made B. shouldn’t be made
C. needn’t have been made D. didn’t have to be
38. From the tears in Nedra’s eyes we can deduce that something sad ____.
A. must have occurred B. would have occurred
C. might be occurring D. should occur
39. Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, to find it locked.
A. just B. only
C. hence D. thus
40. More than a quarter of the smokers in last year’s survey said they had begun smoking regularly while in college.
A. having questioned B. questioned
C. to be questioned D. questioning
41. There was no sign that Mr. Jospin, who keeps a firm control on the party despite from leadership of it, would intervene personally.
A. being resigned B. having resigned
C. going to resign D. resign
42. London Bridge was then rebuilt as part of a tourist attraction.
A. It was sold to an Arizona entrepreneur
B. Sold to an Arizona entrepreneur
C. Having sold to an Arizona entrepreneur
D. Selling to an Arizona entrepreneur
43. When Richard Nixon became president, he was quite familiar with the White House, an eight-year term as vice president under Eisenhower.
A. has served B. serving
C. to have served D. having served
44. The local health organization is reported twenty-five years ago when Dr. Audon became its first president.
A. to have been set up B. to be set up
C. being set up D. having been set up
45. They exchanged views on the questions of .
A. electing whom B. whom to elect
C. whom to be elected D. to elect whom
46. The students expected there more reviewing classes before the final exams.
A. is B. have been
C. being D. to be
47. A few years ago, through Italy, the idea for a history of Florentine architecture occurred to him.
A. traveling B. to travel
C. when he was traveling D. traveled
48. While by the side of a hot dog stand, an airplane flew over our head with such a deafening roar that we almost choked with the soda we were drinking.
A. to stop B. we stopped
C. having stopped D. stopped
49. First designated in 1970, Earth Day has become an annual international event concerns about environmental issues such as pollution.
A. dedicated to raising B. dedicated to raise
C. dedicating to raising D. to be dedicated to raising
50. A new technique , the yields as a whole increased by 20 per cent.
A. working out B. having been worked out
C. having worked out D. to have been worked out
51. They have worked out a method the agricultural production could be raised on a large scale.
A. to which B. with which
C. by which D. of which
52. It is useful to be able to predict the extent which a price change will affect supply and demand.
A. from B. with
C. to D. for
53. There is no material will deform more or less under the action of forces.
A. who B. but
C. as D. that
54. Settlers of the western United States had a sense of equality in the face of hardship, led to democratic political practices.
A. which B. what
C. that D. who
55. The village is no longer a remote and backward place it used to be.
A. where B. what
C. which D. that
56. The laser beam is also different from ordinary light beams in the way .
A. on which it travels B. by which it travels
C. through which it travels D. it travels
57. No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything going on in the world.
A. it is B. as is
C. there is D. what is
58. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much encourages aggressive patriotism.
A. which B. that
C. what D. whose
59. The policemen went into action they heard the alarm.
A. promptly B. presently
C. quickly D. directly
60. We hope the measures to control prices taken by the government will succeed.
A. when B. as
C. since D. after
61. is generally accepted, economical growth is determined by the smooth development of production.
A. What B. That
C. It D. As
62. Scientists say it may be five or ten years ____ it is possible to test this medicine on human patients.
A. when B. after
C. before D. since
63. Many patients insist on having watches with them in hospital, they have no schedules to keep.
A. even though B. for
C. as if D. since
64. ____, he always tries his best to complete it on time.
A. However the task is hard B. However hard the task is
C. Though hard the task is D. Though hard is the task
65. Although many people view conflict as bad, conflict is sometimes useful ____ it forces people to test the relative merits of their attitudes and behaviors.
A. by which B. in that
C. to which D. so that
66. It was training that he had as a young man ____ made him such a good engineer.
A. has B. later
C. which D. that
67. Physics is the present-day equivalent of used to be called natural philosophy, from which most of present-day science arose.
A. that B. all
C. which D. what
68. Intelligence is to the mind ____ sight is to the body.
A. what B. as
C. that D. like
69. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true it comes to classroom tests.
A. when B. since
C. before D. after
70. I had just started back for the house to change my clothes ____ I heard voices.
A. as B. when
C. after D. while
71. much is known about what occurs during sleep, the precise function of sleep and its different stages remains largely in the realm of assumption.
A. Because B. For
C. Since D. While
72. We agreed to accept ____ they thought was the best tourist guide.
A. whatever B. whomever
C. whichever D. whoever
73. Output is now six times it was before 1990.
A. that B. what
C. for which D. of that
74. Only then aware of the fact that there were more difficulties ahead than he had expected.
A. he became B. did he became
C. did he become D. he becomes
75. , but it also filters out harmful sun rays.
A. The atmosphere gives us air to breathe
B. Not only the atmosphere gives us air to breathe
C. The atmosphere which gives us air to breathe
D. Not only does the atmosphere give us air to breathe
76. Beneath the streets of a modern city of walls, columns, cables, pipes, and tunnels required to satisfy the needs of its inhabitants.
A. does the network exists B. exist the network
C. exists the network D. the network exists
77. is a wealth of gold, silver, copper and lead.
A. Hidden underground B. underground hidden
C. It is hidden underground D. Underground it is hidden
78. is a stream named Peach Brook.
A. Across it runs B. Running across it
C. It runs across D. Running across
79. The air inside a house or office building often has higher concentrations of contaminants heavily polluted outside air.
A. than does B. like of
C. more D. can some that are
80. Tired he was, he insisted on going ahead with the plan at once.
A. while B. as
C. although D. despite
81. The experiment requires more money than .
A. have been put in B. being put in
C. has been put in D. to be put in
82. In the course of a day students do far more than just classes.
A. attend B. attended
C. to attend D. attending
83. It is often more difficult to find trained men than for a research project.
A. get financial support B. to get financial support
C. getting financial support D. to getting financial support
84. It is not so much the language the cultural background that makes the book difficult to understand.
A. nor B. neither
C. as D. other than
85. It is not an agreement , but it will serve as one.
A. on such B. for such
C. as such D. in such
86. Fat cannot change into muscle ____ muscle changes into fat.
A. any more than B. no more than
C. no less than D. much more than
87. The heart is ____ intelligent than the stomach, for they are both controlled by the brain.
A. not so B. not much
C. much more D. no more
88. Language belongs to each one of us, to the flower-seller to the professor.
A. as much as B. as far as
C. the same as D. as long as
89. Just as the builder is skilled in the handling of his bricks, the experienced writer is skilled in the handling of his words.
A. as B. thus
C. so D. like
90. Alone in a deserted house, he was so busy with his research work that he felt ____ lonely.
A. nothing but B. anything but
C. all but D. everything but
91. There is no reason they should limit how much vitamin you take, they can limit how much water you drink.
A. much more than B. no more than
C. no less than D. any more than
92. ____ can help but be fascinated by the world into which he is taken by the science fiction.
A. Everybody B. Anybody
C. Somebody D. Nobody
93. Tom better than to ask his brother to help at such a critical moment.
A. shall B. has known
C. shouldn’t D. should have known
94. , he never alters a decision.
A. Come what may B. What may come
C. May what come D. May come whatever
95. for the timely investment from the general public, our company would not be so thriving as it is.
A. Had it not been B. Were it not
C. Be it not D. Should it not be
96. The number of registered participants in this year’s marathon was half ____.
A. of last year’s B. those of last year’s
C. of those of last year D. that of last year’s
97. There was a knock at the door. It was the second time someone ____ me that evening.
A. had interrupted B. would have interrupted
C. to have interrupted D. to interrupt
98. I cannot be grateful for his kindness.
A. very B. quite
C. so D. too
99. “I can’t praise his work .” George said.
A. enough B. greatly
C. yet D. also
100. I tried to relax because I knew I would use up my oxygen sooner _____.
A. the more excited I got B. I got excited more
C. and more I got excited D. and I got more excited

评价一下你浏览此帖子的感受

精彩

分享到： QQ空间新浪微博腾讯微博人人网网易微博

回复引用

举报顶端

hongxuan1

级别: 初级博友

显示用户信息

沙发发表于: 2009-04-12

只看该作者 ┊ 小中大

da an?

回复引用

举报顶端

上一主题下一主题

考博论坛 » 考博见面礼

http://freekaobo.com
访问内容超出本站范围，不能确定是否安全
继续访问	取消访问

快速回复
	限 100 字节进入高级模式加粗字体颜色背景颜色插入链接图片验证问题: 免费考博论坛网址是什么? 正确答案:freekaobo.com 按"Ctrl+Enter"直接提交	上一个下一个