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中国人民大学 2008 年博士生入学考试英语试题
中国人民大学 2008 年博士生入学考试英语试题 kdNo<x1o Part I. Vocabulary (20%) t1 3V>9to H*W>v[> Directions: Choose the best answer (from A, B, C and D) to complete each of the following sentences. Mark your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. ~gI%lORqN M$K%e 1. Let's give a big _____to tonight's prize-winner. g>/Y}{sL- 6W
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h} 3 KS_+R@3Z A. dismiss B. dispose Jt$YSp=!! g1t6XVS$9 C. dispel D. disrupt A f`Kg-c_( RLf-Rdx/ 8. Schools and colleges have no right to use our public money to promote conduct that is _____to the religious and moral values of parents and taxpayers. ?e9tnk3 ?;tPqOs& A. conducive B. comparable EC,,l'%a|/ Yo %U{/e Caponizing D. offensive %Z6Q/+#fn 59nRk}^$se 9. The old farmer his wife, living until 105 years of age. r(^00hvH RZW=z}T+H A. beat B. survived (H:c80/V _sy{rnaqvb C. lasted D. endured w,P@@Q E ];5J 10. He didn't know anything about business, so starting his own was______ wai3g-` FKL4`GEm . A. a climb to power B. a leap in the dark F,vkk{Z> +VVn@=&? C. a run on the bank D. a step backwards w!UF^~ h`U-{VIrqi 11. Public attitudes toward business regulations are deeply _______ most people resent intensive government rules, yet they expect government to prevent business from defrauding, exploiting the public. 6EC',=)6R OK4r) A. hostile B. emotional Fepsa;\sU @Yt394gA%\ C. ambiguous D. cynical zgFL/a< MO0t 12. Ever since the TV show came off the air, there has been _______ that a movie might be made of the show. Finally in autumn 2007, news broke that filming had started. IS"[< M*k,M=sX A. specification B. suspicion Y;Nq ( H%vgPQ8 C. simulation D. speculation V|A)f@ Fs C'@I!m._i 13. A quick wit and a warm smile were the salesman's stock______. pcv\|)&} <IIz-6*V A. in trade B. in reserve !>'A2V~F ##By!FTP C. in effect D. in business $@s-OQ} AxEdQRGk 14. Innovative product platforms like the portable transistor radio and the_____ walkman the digital lifestyle era. h}|
.#!C3 q-^{2.ftcx A. set the Stage for B. shed light on 4,@jSr|I3i +PBl3 C. made sense of D. gave a hand to L_T+KaQCH >'#vC]@ 15. Successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of _____, is the first step in learning to be creative. f#Ud=& >j /\qzTo A. resolution B. elegance i{9.bpp/ qOmL\'8 C. aspiration D. originality 63'%+ "*HEXru#B 6i+AJCkC 16. Our parents love us because we are their children, and this is an fact. so that we feel safer with them than with anyone else. Zqf
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:RDk{^b) C. unalterable D. unintentional \'zloBU \d.\M 17. As a journalist Hemingway trained himself in of expression. His deliberate avoidance of very attractive adjectives is some of the traces of his early journalistic practices. |F\fdB}?S: jT]R"U/Q A. economy B. elegance 7'8G,|&:* ./zzuKO8XK C. depth D. neatness W@zxGH$z> 6shN% 18. It is the vast number of irresponsible dog owners which has roused public and demands for tighter controls. }Q9+krrow ,jW a&7 A. obsession B. apprehension BbCW3!( sUQ
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-."F A. displace B. disarm "~zLG" sV0NDM0 C. discharge D. dispatch e_l|32#/ C7AD1rl 21. Many people are to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital. j0Cj&x%qF} rR/{Yx4 A. insensitive B. allergic C. sensible D. infected 5yj# 9H A@:U|)+4 22. When you're driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___ 1*6xFn Wl+spWqW A. way B. track C. road D. lane $Xu/P5 d.Ccc/1- 23. The motorist had to ____ to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road. O.\\)8xA 19[!9ci A. swerve B. twist C. depart D. swing rz`"$g+# x&+&)d 24. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from on icy roads. l,3,$ 62Tel4u A. skating B. skidding C. sliding D. slipping 9HPwl yh|+Usa 25. This project would __ a huge increase in defense spending.
^^n (s_g gq4X(rsyD A. result B. assure C. entail D. accomplish l[%=S! Br{(sL0e 26. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed. >M##q?. W:9l"' A. distant B. slim C. unlikely D. narrow ufw[Ei$I: jP2#w{xq 27. We should make a clear ___ between "competent" and "proficient" for the purposes of our discussion. Fq
oh!F } *C A. separation B. division C. distinction D. difference agkKm?xIL &RI;!qn6( 28. In the present economic we can make even greater progress than previously. |B'4wF> myqwU`s A. air B. mood C. area D. climate kd]CV7(7 .=d40m 29. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards__ it should rank high on any list of science fiction. ab.B?bx 5~im.XfiVx A. consistently B. consequently C. invariably D. fortunately ?_p!teb Zg>]!^X8 30. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seemingly source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized. BSJS4+,E 2+C:Em0yI A. exploited B. controversial C. inexhaustible D. remarkable 6X?:mn'%QF o`7 Z<HF 31. his expenditure on holidays and luxuries is rather high in to his income. 5ug|crX | WTWj A. comparison B. proportion C. association D. calculation 1w7XM0SHcn N7
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35. The hook was a work of such that it took 20 years to write. }|N88PN V"2 G A. magnitude B. extent C. degree D. amount 5K682+^5 :D;pD l 36. The police have offered a large for information leading to the robber's arrest. r$'.$k\ OI78wG A. award B. compensation C. prize D. reward NjA[(8\: {<gX~./]c 37. I arrived at the airport so late that I missed the plane. (: kn) v6Y[_1 A. only B. quite C. narrowly D. seldom 9HiyN>( Q=vo5)t 38. The popularity of the film shows that the reviewers' fears were completely ___. d)D!np= 9IrCu?n9b A. unjustified B. unjust C. misguided D. unaccepted YGs'[On8 }NGP! 39. The head of the Museum was ___ and let us actually examine the ancient manuscripts. ~)>.%`v& v*.iNA;&i A. promising B. agreeing C. pleasing D. obliging \w1',"l` aaN/HE_ 40. The multi-national corporation was making a take-over ___ for a property company. n5BD0q Y}s6__ A. application B. bid C. proposal D. suggestion
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} /38I(0 Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern M2d&7>N woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of s"w^E\>6 work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value, like toys for 0.nkh6? adults. It is certainly less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time 'Z9UqEGV saved does not really amount to much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes kRb JK have to be carefully sorted out first, stains removed by hand, buttons pushed and D8PC;@m
water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to 4oryTckS pack it all off to a laundry and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital 9kqR-T|Q investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make P_8!Gp cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of the q *Hg-J} woman in the women's magazine with the goods advertised by those periodicals, one _Ye.29 realizes how useful a projected image can be commercially. A careful balance has to -wl&~}%M be struck: if you show a labor-saving device, follow it up with a complicated recipe c~OPH
0, on the next page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, }|[0FP]v but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, emphasizing the creative aspect of &sBD0R(a
her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg i1KjQ1\a + herself, to produce .. that lovely home-baked. flavor the family love" , and knitting 4tUt"N patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became ZHeq)5C ;f tremendously fashionable when they were first introduced. Automatic cookers are #<sK3 PT advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by 4t/ ?b professional women presetting the dinner before leaving home for work. )Td{}vbIh 3c wBPqH 41. According to the passage, many of the home electric goods which are supposed to l=Pw
yJ liberate women ;YMg4Cs L;{{P7 A. remove unpleasant aspects of housework. Fi;OZ>;a 83'+q((< B. save the housewife very little time. whP5u/857 ]$^HGmP C. save the housewife's time but not her money. _G.!^+)kEm l;R8"L:,p\ D. have absolutely no value for the housewife. $ywROa] W$;qhB 42. According to the context, "capital investment" refers to money HyKA+7} $G }9iV7 A. spent on a washing machine. B. borrowed from the bank. 34k>O L%{YLl-zf] C. saved in the bank. D. lent to other people." S-~)|7d. WwtVuc| 43. The goods advertised in women's magazines are really meant to h7TkMt[l ZUS5z+o A. free housewives from housework. B. encourage housewives to go out to Ty~z%=H work. %,
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