C H I N A U N I V E R S I T Y O F G E O S C I E N C E S
PhD Entrance Examination in English
14 April 2012
LISTEN TO THIS!
Good morning! You are about to take the English test for people who wish to enter the doctoral program in the earth sciences at this school. The test may be rather different from any exam you’ve taken in the past. The first part is a timed listening exercise. The other four sections test your knowledge of grammar, elementary writing skills and basic vocabulary, plus your reading ability. You can have as much time as you like for the last four parts of the test—within reason, of course.
The test has five sections, worth a total of 130 points in all; the answers in part 5, the reading test, are worth three points each.
The answers for parts 1,2,3 and 5 (in other words, every part except 4) should be marked on your answer sheet. The answers for part 4 should be written directly on this test paper.
Make sure you READ AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS for each part of the test!
The results of this exam will enable us to compare your preparation in English with that of the other candidates. The “passing” grade is relative; in other words, it will depend on the scores for the whole body of test-takers. You should just relax and do as well as you can.
We shall now begin. Turn the page to part 1. Good luck!
PART 1. Imagine that you are on a train to Shanghai. In the seats in front of you there are two foreigners, and you can hear their conversation. One of them is telling the other about his job. He says what he does, not what he is or what field (profession or occupation) he is in.
On your paper you see a list of the names of people in 60 different occupations or professions. As you listen, decide what the speaker is. Then find the correct word on the list and write the number beside it in the proper blank on your answer sheet.
For instance, suppose you hear this: (Speaker P) “Well, I don’t enjoy lecturing very much, especially to younger students, but I do love my research. I’d be so happy if I could spend every day in the lab with my graduate students and postdocs. However, that’s just not the way university departments operate.” You decide that the speaker must be a professor, so you find “a professor”on your list. You see that the number beside it is 61; you then write the number 61 in the blank beside P on your answer sheet.
By the way, in reality there is no P and no 61, and “a professor” is not one of the choices on your list. This is just a theoretical example. You will now have three minutes to read the list. [SILENCE]
All right, now let’s begin! [15 points]
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1an accountant 会计31 a librarian
2an actor 32 a mathematician 数学家
3an airline pilot 民航驾驶员33 a mechanic 机修工（技工）4an architect 建筑师34 a mechanical engineer 机械工程师
5an astronomer 天文学家35 a military officer
6 a biologist 36 a novelist 小说作家
7 a chef 烹调师37 a nurse
8 a civil engineer 土木工程师（建筑）38 a paleontologist 古生物学家
9 a concert pianist 高级钢琴演奏师39 a press photographer 新闻摄影师
10 a construction worker 40 a plumber 管道维修工（水暖工）
11 a corporate executive 企业执行总裁41 a poet 诗人
12 a dentist 牙医42 a police detective 侦探（刑警）
13 a dietician 营养师43 a police patrolman 普通警察（巡警）
14 a diplomat 外交官44 p pop singer 流行歌手
15an electrician 电工45 a postman 邮递员
16 a fashion designer 时装设计师46 a private businessman 私营企业家（个体
商人）
17 a film critic 电影评论家47 a private detective 私人侦探
18 a film director 电影导演48 a psychiatrist 心理医生
19 a flight attendant 飞机乘务员49 a psychologist 心理学家
20 a florist 花店老板50 a publisher 出版商
21 a geologist 51 a radio announcer 电台播音员
22 a geophysicist 52 a schoolteacher (primary)
23 a graphic designer 图形设计员53 a schoolteacher(secondary)
24 a hairdresser 发型设计师54 a software engineer
25 a hardware engineer 硬件工程师55 a store clerk/shop assistant
26 a hotel manager 56 a surgeon 外科医生
27 a journalist 57 a tax official 税务员
28 a judge 法官58 a travel agent 旅行社职员
29 a lab technician 59 a university student
30 a lawyer 60 a vet 宠物医生（兽医）
PART 2. Carefully read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer by drawing a small circle around the letter of the response you have chosen. There are 15 questions in all, but each question is worth two points on this test. Thus the total value of Part 2 is 30 points out of 100 for the test as a whole.
The woman, 69 years old and still active as a professor at Harvard University, told a research team that she had begun to find it hard to recall the names of never faculty members. Not long ago she had forgotten her classroom number when asking for a slide projector to be sent up. She had one anxious question for the research team, assembled to study the normal course of mental aging: “Am I losing my ability to remember, and perhaps even to think clearly?”
That question is the principal focus of a new wave of scientific inquiry on the decline in mental ability with age. The finings are challenging some basic assumptions, like the belief that such decline is a natural part of the aging process, irrespective of general health.
From 20 to 30 percent of people in their 80s who volunteer for cognitive testing perform as well as volunteers in their 30s and 40s, who are presumably in their mental prime. The intellectual and creative productivity in later life of certain artists and intellectuals may represent not so much an exception as an ideal, some experts now say.
Dr KW Schaie, a psychologist at Pennsylvania State University, is the director of a major study of normal mental decline in the elderly. For over 35 years, his study has been following more than 5000 men and women who have been tested regularly. Dr Schaie’s investigations seek to fill a gap in gerontological research, which, according to Dr Jack Rowe, president of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a leading expert in the field, has focused on disease and disability, and neglected the prospects of maintaining high functioning in old age. Dr Rowe heads a research network on successful aging sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation. In an interview he pointed out that gerontologists have focused on “ the 6 to 15 percent of the elderly who are frail and then lumped everyone else together as normal. But there is a huge variation from person to person among older people: the older a group gets, the less like each other people in it become.”
Dr Schaie’s most recent findings were reported this month in The American Psychologist. Although the study’s results abilities begins gradually in the middle to late 60s and accelerates in the late 70s,the rate of decline differs for various mental faculties and differs in men and women. The sharpest declines are seen in basic mathematics. By their late 80s, both men and women were only about half as adept in basic math as they had been in their 50s. For men, the least decline shown is in spatial orientation, used, for example, in reading a map correctly. By the late 80s,it had dropped by only about one-eighth on average.
For women, the most enduring mental skill is inductive reasoning, assessing the information in a timetable, for instance. As women reached their late 80s, it had dropped just over one-eighth from its height in middle age. One of the drastic declines for women proved to be in verbal comprehension, while that ability dropped relatively little into the 70s, it plummeted by about one-quarter during the 80s. For men, the decline was slight in those years.
Another study, this one by Dr Richard Mons, a psychologist at Mount Sinai Medical School who is the acting director of a research consortium on normal memory loss and aging sponsored by the Charles A. Dana Foundation, has found that different kinds of memory differ in their vulnerability to aging. “Crystallized” memory, i.e. vocabulary or other knowledge accumulated over the years, holds up very well into old age. “Fluid” memory, on the other hand, the ability to add new information to memory or to recall something that happened recently is more prone to decline, beginning in the 60s. He found little decline in very short-term memory, like remembering a telephone number just looked up.
A pair of Harvard psychologists, Douglas Powell and Kean Whitla, have designed a computerized test of mental skills like long-term and short-term memory, attention, reasoning and calculation, they reported the test in the February issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science. They are the researchers whom the 69-year-old professor spoke with. Their test compares a person’s score with norms for others of the same age, for people who are still in middle age and for others in their own professional group.
Dr Schaie’s study has found certain predictors for good mental function in old age. These include a high level of ability in reading comprehension and verbal fluency, a successful career or some other involvement through life and continuing keen mental interests after retirement. Having a flexible attitude in middle age was also a promising indicator. “There is less mental decline in people who adapt easily to change, who like learning new things and enjoy going to new places,”Dr Schaie observed. The study also found that simply living with someone with these characteristics is beneficial. “It helps to have a high-functioning spouse, since this is your major immediate social environment and support,” Dr Schaie stated.
1.The 69-year-old woman mentioned at the beginning of the passage is finding it increasingly.
A difficult to remember who her colleagues are
B difficult to recall some of her colleagues’ faces
C difficult to remember what some of her colleagues are called
D easy to forget the name of her faculty
E easy to forget what some of her younger colleagues do in the faculty
2.Some artists and intellectuals remain productive to the very end of long lives. The writer of
the passage states that some experts
A believe that such examples are more common than gerontologists formerly supposed
B are certain that such late productivity is impossible for ordinary people in other walks of
life
C are almost certain that in the future such late productivity will become quite ordinary
D suspect that it is wrong to regard such late productivity as abnormal rather than simply
uncommon
E reject the idea that such people can be taken as models for normal human beings
3.Dr Schaie’s findings reveal that
A the pattern of mental decline among men and women is virtually identical
B loss of the ability to calculate is severe in women, but much less so in men
C among older women, inductive reasoning is just as impaired by aging as is basic math
D damage to inductive reasoning among the elderly is about equal for men and women
E loss of the ability to calculate is severe in both men and women
4.Dr Schaie tells us that the average 85-year-old woman is likely to have lost a good deal of her
ability to
A use numbers and understand language
B use numbers and read timetables
C read timetables and use maps
D understand language and read timetables
E learn new facts and use numbers
5.Dr Jack Rowe, in addition to serving as director of a well-known medical school,
A is the head of a foundation that gives money for research on the problems of the elderly
B is one of America’s top gerontologists studying old people with abnormally severe
memory loss
C is the leader of a tightly coordinated research association studying how to remain
healthy in old age
D is responsible for deciding which experts on successful aging will get research grants
from the MacArthur Foundation
E is the leader of a loosely coordinated group of research teams studying how to remain
healthy in old age
6.Dr Rowe says, “… there is a huge variation from person to person among older people: the
older a group gets, the less like each other the people in it become.”This can best be paraphrased (re-stated) as
A The older the people in a group get, the more characteristics they share
B Differences between individuals in a group diminish as age increases
C As people age, certain similarities increase, while others become less marked
D Human individuals are very dissimilar at any age, this is no less true as people grow
older
E Overall resemblances between members of a human group decrease as the years go by
7. Which of these items would Dr Mohs not classify as part of your crystallized memory?
A A headline in last week’s newspaper
B The date of your eldest child’s birth
C Your mother’s name
D The meaning of the English word “geology”
E The formula for finding the area of a triangle
8. What Powell and Whitla have created
A constitutes a great advance in computer software
B compares someone like the 69-year-old woman with other women and with other people
of various ages, but not with other university instructors
C will probably confirm many of Dr Schaie’s findings and invalidate those of Dr Mohs
D should make it easier to determine the relative mental skills of large numbers of people
E will be of little use to Dr Schaie but very valuable for Dr Mohs
9. If you were a young man thinking of getting married and you asked Dr Schaie for advice, he
would probably tell you to
A marry someone quiet and dependable
B seek unity and stability in your marriage
C marry someone lively and curious
D avoid women who are always trying to change their situations
E choose someone who would rather read than travel
10. This article
A is limited to a discussion of Dr Schaie’s recent research
B surveys recent developments in the study of aging and the elderly
C gives an overview of recent advances in the understanding of the relation between old
age and mental activities
D is primarily a criticism of the excessive concentration among earlier gerontologists on
severs memory loss by the elderly
E explains recent advances in scientific understanding of the physical mechanisms of
mental decline among the aged
11. Given that the average person is unlikely to know that geronto--- is the Greek root meaning
“old person” (see line 25), we may reasonably conclude that this article is intended for
A gerontologists interested in recent developments in their field
B schoolchildren being taught how to deal with difficult old people
C doctors who need a technical summary of recent advances in mental research
D university-educated readers curious about recent work in gerontology
E adults with secondary-school educations or less who want to know what will happen to
their memories as they grow older
12. The word challenging in line 11 means
A supporting
B supplying evidence for
C disproving
D bringing into doubt
E suspicious
13. The word cognitive in line 15 is
A an adjective pertaining to the act of knowing and judging
B a verb meaning to invent by suing the power of one’s brain
C a noun related to the word recognize
D an adjective referring to the process of aging
E a noun meaning a mental action, especially one involving recognition
14. The opposite of flexible in line 83 is
A easy
B bending
C difficult
D strong
E rigid
15. The word promising in line 83 means
A indicating a definite result
B productive
C strongly suggesting possible results
D guaranteeing certain results
E guaranteed by the evidence
PART 3. The sentences below contain one or more blanks. Write one appropriate word in each blank. There may be several appropriate choices, but you must write only one. Your choice must be logical, grammatically correct and properly spelled. In other words, it must be acceptable real English. Any answer in good English is correct.
Put only ONE word in each blank. Contractions like he’s or they’ve are considered one word. If you put more than one word in a blank, your answer will automatically be wrong.
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1. Yesterday I gave my mother ___________ orange sweater for _________ birthday.
2. I was hungry, _________ I went into a restaurant and ordered ________food. The waiter
_______ a long time to bring me _______ I had ordered. When he finally brought it, he _______for the delay.
3. Someone________ just given me a typewriter. Do you think you could _______me to type?
4. Look at the time! It’s already 5:10, and we have to be at the station by 5:45! If we don’t
_______ up, we’ll _________ our train.
5. The stores are so crowded today and the file at the theatre is terrible. _______ just stay
home and ________television instead. Of course, if you’d really ________ go out, we can do that. I’ll leave it up to you.
6. These documents are all in Chinese. We need to _______them translated _______ English in
time _________ the meeting with the foreign businessmen _________ Friday.
7. My parents have been __________ me to ___________married for the last two years, but I
still haven’t made up my ___________.
8. __________ to the weather report on the radio, it’s raining in Shanghai , but that ________
be true. I was just on the phone to shanghai and the _________ I spoke with said it was sunny there.
9. After I ________ the university entrance exam I was extremely upset, because I was almost
sure I had _________ the test. To my ________, it __________ out that I had gotten the highest score in the province!
10. This man claims that he’s from Beijing, but he speaks with a strong southern ________. It’s
obvious that he is just ________ to be from Beijing. I ________ where he’s really from. 11. I __________ to speak Russian fluently, but that’s not true now. In fact, I can no
________carry on even a simple conversation in the language. I _________be able to get back my former fluency if I stayed in Russia for a __________ months.
12. Our research team is _________ to complete a major project. Our findings will be
_________in a series of articles scheduled to appear next year. I will also _________ the results at a conference being _________ in Sydney later this year.
13. We are having some _________ with the machine that we imported__________ Japan last
year. It has __________down twice already. Each time we have ________to ask a technician to come to Beijing to __________it. The good news is that our technicians have__________
completed their training in Tokyo. The next time we have a __________ , we won’t need to send for a Japanese specialist.
14. __________ he studied in America for three years, he can’t write English very well. He is
rather embarrassed by this now. He _________ he had spent more time ___________his written English while he was abroad.
15. You and I don’t need anyone else’s assistance. We can solve these problems by __________.
北京大学考博英语模拟题14 Part ⅠVocabulary 1. The attack of the World Trade Center will leave a ______ impression on those who have witnessed the explosion. A.long B.forever https://www.doczj.com/doc/0a16497604.html,sting D.lively 答案：C [解答] 本题空格处是说留下持久的印记。long的意思是“长期的”；forever的意思是“永远”；lasting的意思是“持久的”；lively的意思是“活泼的，逼真的”。四个选项中只有C项符合题意。 2. The magician picked out several persons ______ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance. A.by accident B.on average C.on occasion D.at random 答案：D by accident偶然的。on average平均的。on occasion有时。at random随意的。 3. British hopes of a gold medal in the Olympic Games suffered ______ yesterday, when Hunter failed to qualify during the preliminary heats. A.a sharp set-back B.severe set-back C.a severe blown-up D.sharp blown-up
2018年地大（北京）英语考博翻译试题 Social impacts of technology Although affordances and constraints of technological products are not objective features of them, they can be correlated with objective material features in them. For example, the physical constitution of speed bumps physically prevents cars from speeding without damage to the car or major inconvenience. The physical procedure of fertilization in IVF affords pregnancies without prior physical intercourse. In a particular context of use, these physical features translate into new social realities (new behaviors, new social arrangements, new perceptions and beliefs) that can be identified as impacts of a technological product. Social impacts of technology can be identified at different levels of social analysis, including the micro-level of individuals and their interactions, the meso-level of groups and organizations and their interactions, and the macro-level of social structures, cultural systems and social institutions and their dynamics. For the study of the role of technology in a good society, which is an issue that plays out at the macro-level, macro-level impacts of technology are obviously the most important to consider. However, micro- and meso-level impacts may also need to be considered in order to properly identify and understand macro-level impacts. At the micro-level, technological products may influence their immediate context of use in at least three ways. First, they may affect the behavior of users and the social roles and relations that users build in relation to others. For example, the possession of an automobile may influence where people live and what places they visit, and may also signal social status and identity. Second, technological products will not fit every user profile equally well, meaning that some users will not be able to use them well, or not at all, because they lack the required physical characteristics, knowledge, skills, interests, or access to resources. As a consequence, the introduction of a new technological product will affect potential users in different ways, benefiting some while excluding or marginalizing others. Third, technological products often require the presence of material and social contextual background conditions for them to function well. For example, for automobiles to function well as vehicles for transportation, there must be material and social infrastructure present, such as roads, traffic lights, police, ambulance services, and so forth. The introduction of new technological products will therefore often stimulate the creation of appropriate background conditions for them to function well. This is also a way in which technological products have social impacts. These three types of affordances and constraints, concerning influence on behavior and social roles, selection of user profiles, and selection of material and social background conditions, also play out at the meso-level of groups and organizations.
中国地质大学考博英语真题部分解析 34.A解析：例证题。题目“Toyota Motor是一个_______的例子”。定位到末段，末段主要提到热情的消费者可能会号召其他人抵制某个产品，威胁到产品所属公司的名声，这时公司的回应有可能不够迅速、周到。这是本段的核心信息。接下来就拿Toyota Motor举例，举例中提到这个公司在公司名声遇到如上提到的危机情况时作出的反应，且成功减轻了危害程度。由此可知，例子是对本段中心句的一个反面例子论证公司对hijacked media 的反应。故选项[A](有效地回应被劫持利用的媒体)为正确答案。 干扰项：[B]persuading customers into boycotting products(劝说消费者抵制产品)，文中末段第一句提到了消费者可能会劝说其他人抵制某些产品，故为张冠李戴。[C]cooperating with supportive consumers(与支持自己的消费者合作)，在例子中提到Toyota Motor公司缓解危机的方式是与消费者直接沟通，这首先属于例子内的信息，不符合例证题的解题思路，其次沟通交流不等于合作，故排除。[D]taking advantage of hijacked media(利用被劫持的媒体)，文中是消除被劫持媒体带来的危害，而非去利用被劫持的媒体，故排除。 （PS:The way to contact yumingkaobo TEL:si ling ling-liu liu ba-liu jiu qi ba QQ:772678537) 35.A解析：主旨题。题目“这篇文化在那个主要讲述的是______”。本文首段第三句就提出文章中心“companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media”，即虽然传统收费媒体仍在发挥重大作用，但是现今的公司可以去选择其他媒体形式。后文主要是介绍其他可选择的媒体形式，并对其作出评论。故选项[A]Alternatives to conventional paid media(与传统收费媒体对应的其他媒体形式)为正确答案。 干扰项：[B]Conflict between hijacked and earned media(被劫持媒体和免费媒体之间的冲突)[C]Dominance of hijacked media(被劫持媒
Part Two:Structure and Written Expression(20%) Directions:For each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked、Mark your choices on the Answer Sheet、 11. Whether the extension of consciousness is a “good thing”for human being is a question that a wide solution、 A.admits of B、requires of C、needs of D、seeks for 12.In a culture like ours, long all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that the medium is the message、 A.accustomed to split and divided B.accustomed to splitting and dividing C.accustomed to split and dividing D.accustomed to splitting and divided 13.Apple pie is neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value、 A、at itself B、as itself C、on itself D、in itself 14. us earlier, your request to the full、 A、You have contacted…we could comply with B、Had you contacted…we could have complied with C、You had contacted…could we have complied with D、Have you contacted…we could comply with 15.The American Revolution had no medieval legal institutions to or to root out, apart from monarchy、 A、discard B、discreet C、discord D、disgorge 16、Living constantly in the atmosphere of slave, he became infected the unconscious their psychology、No one can shield himself such an influence、 A、on…by…at B、by…for…in C、from…in…on D、through…with…from 17、The effect of electric technology had at first been anxiety、Now it appears to create 、 A、bore B、bored C、boredom D、bordom 18、Jazz tends to be a casual dialogue form of dance quite in the receptive and mechanical forms of the waltz、 A、lacked B、lacking C、for lack of D、lack of 19、There are too many complains about society move too fast to keep up with the machine、 A、that have to B、have to C、having to D、has to 20、The poor girl spent over half a year in the hospital but she is now for it、 A、none the worse B、none the better C、never worse D、never better 21、As the silent film sound, so did the sound film color、 A、cried out for…cried out for B、cry out for…cry out for C、had cried out for…cried out for D、had cried out for…cry out for 22、While his efforts were tremendous the results appeared to be very 、 A、trigger B、meager C、vigor D、linger 23、Western man is himself being de-Westernized by his own speed-up, by industrial technology、 A、as much the Africans are detribalized B、the Africans are much being detribalized C、as much as the Africans are being detribalized D、as much as the Africans are detribalized 24、We admire his courage and self-confidence、 A、can but B、cannot only C、cannot but D、can only but 25、In the 1930’s, when millions of comic books were the young with fighting and killing, nobody seemed to notice that the violence of cars in the streets was more hysterical、
北京大学2007年博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part One: Listening Comprehension略 Part Two: Structure and Written Expression (20%) Directions: For each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Mark your choices on the ANSWER SHEET. 21._________ before we leave the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful time together. [A] Had they arrived [B] Would they arrive [C] Were they arriving [D] Were they to arrive 22._________ last year and is now earning his living as an advertising agent. [A] He would leave school [B] He left school [C] He had left school [D] He has left school 23.Some people viewed the findings with caution, noting that a cause-and-effect relationship between passive smoking and cancer remained _________. [A] to be shown [B] to have been shown [C] to have shown [D] being shown 24.__________ that should be given priority to. [A] It is the committee has decided [B] It is only the committee has decided [C] It is what the committee has decided [D] It is what has the committee decided 25. The most interesting new cars may owe __________ the simple wisdom of hiring a few talented people and allowing them to work. [A] less local free-spiritedness than [B] less local free-spiritedness than to [C] to less local free-spiritedness than to [D] less to local free-spiritedness than to 26. Over the years, Jimmy Connors __________ phenomenal displays of tennis and temper—and at the U.S. Open last week, he exhibited both again. [A] has treated spectators with [B] has treated spectator for [C] has treated spectators [D] has treated spectators to 27. Summer holidays spent on the hot ghetto streets are __________ the time middle-class students devote to camps, exotic vacations and highly organized sports. [A] as hardly culturally enriching as [B] as hardly enriching culture as
北京大学考博英语真题常见句子翻译方法近期很多考生问关于条件状语从句的分析和翻译问题，在此，育明考博老师结合同学提出的两个典型问题为大家分析条件状语从句，并给出相应的参考译文。 一、问题：请分析并翻译：If you are part of the group which you are addressing,you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. 解析：很多考生看到这样一句从横三、四行的长句会心生畏惧，对自己没有信心，自然也就无法理清这句中的各种枝节。拿到这样的一个句子，最主要的仍然是先把主干找到，然后再看其他部分和主干的关系。需要各大院校历年考博英语真题及其解析请加扣扣七七二六七八五三七或二八九零零六四三五一，也可以拨打全国免费咨询电话四零零六六八六九七八享受考博辅导体验。 句子主干：you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties 主干是由两个并列的分句组成的，第一个分句是you will be in a position to know the experiences主系表结构，第二个分句是it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties形式主语+系表结构+不定式作真正的主语。
北京大学英语2002年博士研究生入学考试试题huazi 发表于2007-1-20 11:00:00 推荐 北京大学2002年博士研究生入学考试试题 Part One: Structure and Written Expression Direction: In each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably comp lete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Put the letter of your choice in the AN SWER SHEET. (20%) 1 . The doctor's ___ is that she'll soon be as good as new if she takes insul in and watche s her diet. A.agnosticism B. anticipation C. diagnosis D. prognosis 2.It is understood by all concerned that the word no one who visits him ever breathe a syllable of m his hearing wi11 remain forever unspoken. A.uncommunicatively B. acceptab1y C. tacitly D. taciturnly 3. ___ springs not out of true and deep admiration, but more often out of a self-seeking wish to identify with someone important or famous. A. A compliment B. An adulatory C. Flattery D. Praise 4.Leaving for work m plenty of time to catch the train will _____ worry about being late. A.rule off B. prevent C. avoid D? obviate 5.Nicholas Chauvin, a French soldier, aired his veneration of Napoleon Bonaparte so and unceasingly that he became the laughingstock of all people in Europe. A. vociferously B. patriotically C. verbosely D. loquaciously 6.People suffering from prefer to stay shut in their homes and become panic-stricken m 1arge public buildings and open fields.
C H I N A U N I V E R S I T Y O F G E O S C I E N C E S PhD Entrance Examination in English 21April 2003 LISTEN TO THIS! Good morning! You are about to take the English test for people who wish to enter the doctoral program in the earth sciences at this school. The test may be rather different from any exam you’ve taken in the past. The first part is a timed listening exercise. The other four sections test your knowledge of grammar, elementary writing skills and basic vocabulary, plus your reading ability. You can have as much time as you like for the last four parts of the test—within reason, of course. The test has five sections, worth a total of 130 points in all; the answers in part 5, the reading test, are worth three points each. The answers for parts 1,2,3 and 5 (in other words, every part except 4) should be marked on your answer sheet. The answers for part 4 should be written directly on this test paper. Make sure you READ AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS for each part of the test! The results of this exam will enable us to compare your preparation in English with that of the other candidates. The “passing” grade is relative; in other words, it will depend on the scores for the whole body of test-takers. You should just relax and do as well as you can. We shall now begin. Turn the page to part 1. Good luck!
北京大学考博英语历年试题综合分析 导言：考博英语真题的重要性 全国各大院校在制定本校英语专业考试大纲时，对英语的考核基本上不指定参考书，考生在备考时往往感到漫无目的，无所适从，所以对各大院校的考博英语历年真 题分析则显得尤为重要。华慧考博英语教研中心在历时8年的教学研究的过程中，总 结国内50多所重点院校的考博英语试题的出题特点与规律，认为考生精研各院校的历年试题对考出良好的成绩有非常大的帮助。 考博英语试题的独特性 众所周知，英语类的考试，如高考、大学英语四六级、专业四八级考试、研究生 入学考试等均由统一的命题组人员统一命制试题，命题组阵容强大，且耗费的人力、物力也不在少数，其题目基本是原创题目。而考博英语却并非这样，因此，考博英 语有其自身的独特性，考博英语的独特性主要表现在其命题方式与题目来源两方面。 首先，从命题方式来看，博士考试中，要求考生达到英语的最低分数线，这一要 求就注定了各大考博院校的英语试题的命题方式，各大考博院校不会花费大量的人力、物力及时间原创一套考博英语试题。并且各大院校为了保证其试题的准确性，一般会 选择已经考过的各类相关难度的试题，这样就可以避免出现大量的因个人学术水平方 面而引起的错误和争议。 其次，从题目来源看，各大院校的考博英语试题基本来自专四、专八、六级、杂 志文章或其它考博院校的原题，极少出现原创题目。因其题目来源的独特性，我们研 究各大院校的考博英语试题就显得非常有必要且益处极大。如果考生在考前了解了这 一情况，且充分重视这个规律，那么获得考博英语高分不是什么难事。所以考生考前 精研考博英语真题是非常有必要的。
考博英语试题的作用 考博英语试题的作用主要有三个，即指导、规划与调控作用。 指导作用。通过研读历年的考博英语试题，考生可以了解该院校的题目类型、题目来源、 题目难度等，指导考生在较短的时间内找到正确的复习方法，获得自己满意的成绩。 规划作用。考生在宏观把握所报考院校的英语试题的出题规律后，结合自身的英语情况，对自己的英语备考做出一个正确且切合实际的复习规划。 调控作用。通过研读历年的考博英语试题，以所报考院校的英语真题为标杆，随时监控与调节自己的复习计划，使自己的复习计划在最短的时间内获得满意的成绩。 由此可知，研究真题对于考生在较短时间内提升成绩是有很大帮助的。因此，华慧考博英语研究中心对北京大学历年的考博真题进行了细致且深入的研究，将北京大学考博英语的出题特点、题目类型等进行了详细论述，对下一年度的考博英语命题趋势进行了预测，并提出了针对北京大学考博英语的备考方法，让考生的复习备考更加具有针对性，让考生少走弯路，快速提高考试成绩。 以下是华慧考博英语研究中心对北京大学考博英语历年试题详细分析。 一、北京大学考博英语试题的考核要求 北京大学博士研究生非英语专业入学考试是学校为招收博士研究生而设置的选拔性考试。教育部颁布的《硕士、博士研究生英语教学大纲》规定：“博士生入学其英语水平原则上应达到或略高于硕士生的水平”。根据这一规定，并结合历年招收博士研究生的具体情况，我校博士生入学英语考试既考查考生的语言知识，又注重测试考生的语言应用能力。
历年真题 2000年北京大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题 PartⅡStructure & Written Expression Directions: In each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Put the letter of your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (25%) 1．Thomas Wolfe portrayed people so that you came to know their yearnings, their impulses, and their warts-this was effective______． A．motivation B．point of view C．characterization D．background 2．The appeal to the senses known as______is especially common in poetry． A．imaginative B．imaginable C．ingenious D．imagery 3．If you've got a complaint, the best thing is to see the person concerned and______with him．A．tell it B．have it out C．say it D．have it known 4．There have been several attempts to introduce gayer colors and styles in men's clothing, but none of them______． A．has caught on B．has caught him out C．has caught up D．take roots 5．The retired engineer plunked down＄50,000in cash for a mid-size Mercedes as a present for his wife______a purchase with money made in the stock market the week before． A．paid off B．paid through C．paid out D．paid for 6．He has courage all right, but in matters requiring judgment, he has often been found sadly______． A．lack it B．absent C．in need of it D．wanting 7．Danis Hayes raised the essential paradox and asked how people could have fought so hard against environmental degradation______themselves now on the verge of losing the war． A．only found B．finding only C．only to find D．have only found 8．The once separate issue of environment and development are now______linked． A．intangible B．indispensable C．inextricably D．incredibly 9．The need to see that justice is done______every decision made in the courts． A．implants into B．imposes on C．impinges upon D．imprecates upon 10．Two thirds of the U. S. basketball players are black, and the number would be greater______the continuing practice of picking white bench warmers for the sake of balance． A．was it not because of B．had it not been for C．were it not for D．would it not have been for 11．No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything______going on in the world． A．it is B．there is C．as is D．what is 12．If there is the need to compete in a crowd, to battle______the edge the surest strategy is to develop the unexpected． A．on B．for C．against D．with 13．Just as there are occupations that require college or even higher degrees, ______occupations for which technical training is necessary． A．so too there are B．so also there are C．so there are too D．so too are there 14．It is a myth that the law permits the Food and Drug Administration to ignore requirements for______drugs while brand-name drugs still must meet these rigid tests． A．specific B．generic C．intricate D．acrid 15．The very biggest and most murderous wars during the industrial age were intra-industrial wars that______Second Wave nations like Germany and Britain against one an other． A．pitted B．drove C．kept D．embarked 16．The private life of having each individual make his or her own choice of beliefs and interest______without the overarching public world of the state, which sustains a structure of law appropriate to a self-determining association． A．is not possible B．would not be possible C．will not be possible D．cannot be possible 17．From Christianity and the barbarian kingdoms of the west emerged the medieval version of politics______in tum evolved the politics of our modern world． A．of which B．from which C．on which D．by which 18．The Portuguese give a great deal of credit to one man for having promoted sea travel that
Part Two：Structure and Written Expression（20%） Directions：For each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Mark your choices on the Answer Sheet. 11．Whether the extension of consciousness is a “good thing”for human being is a question that a wide solution. A．admits of B. requires of C. needs of D.seeks for 12．In a culture like ours, long all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that the medium is the message. A．accustomed to split and divided B．accustomed to splitting and dividing C．accustomed to split and dividing D．accustomed to splitting and divided 13．Apple pie is neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value. A. at itself B. as itself C. on itself D. in itself 14．us earlier, your request to the full. A.You have contacted…we could comply with B.Had you contacted…we could have complied with C.You had contacted…could we have complied with D.Have you contacted…we could comply with 15．The American Revolution had no medieval legal institutions to or to root out, apart from monarchy. A. discard B. discreet C. discord D. disgorge 16. Living constantly in the atmosphere of slave, he became infected the unconscious their psychology. No one can shield himself such an influence. A. on…by…at B. by…for…in C. from…in…on D. through…with…from 17. The effect of electric technology had at first been anxiety. Now it appears to create . A. bore B. bored C. boredom D. bordom 18. Jazz tends to be a casual dialogue form of dance quite in the receptive and mechanical forms of the waltz. A. lacked B. lacking C. for lack of D. lack of 19. There are too many complains about society move too fast to keep up with the machine. A. that have to B. have to C. having to D. has to 20. The poor girl spent over half a year in the hospital but she is now for it. A. none the worse B. none the better C. never worse D. never better 21. As the silent film sound, so did the sound film color. A. cried out for…cried out for B. cry out for…cry out for C. had cried out for…cried out for D. had cried out for…cry out for 22. While his efforts were tremendous the results appeared to be very . A. trigger B. meager C. vigor D. linger 23. Western man is himself being de-Westernized by his own speed-up, by industrial technology. A. as much the Africans are detribalized B. the Africans are much being detribalized C. as much as the Africans are being detribalized D. as much as the Africans are detribalized 24. We admire his courage and self-confidence. A. can but B. cannot only C. cannot but D. can only but 25. In the 1930’s, when millions of comic books were the young with fighting and killing, nobody seemed to