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浙江大学考博英语2012年真题

(总分80,考试时间90分钟)

Section Ⅰ Listening Comprehension

(略)

Section Ⅱ Vocabulary

Directions: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four

choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that **pletes the sentence.

1. He was unable to endure the torture of the enemy and surrendered. He ______ **rades.

A. revealed B. suspended

C. exposed D. betrayed

2. On the side of the hill, there is a ______ which was once the entrance to a gold mine.

A. deep hole in ground

B. hole deep in ground

C. deep hole in the ground

D. deep in the ground hole

3. She"s got so ______ to light music that it has become a **panion of her life.

A. use to listen

B. used to listen

C. used in listening

D. used to listening

4. Classroom testing, if well done, most certainly ______ a stimulus to study and real learning.

A. acts for B. acts on

C. acts as D. acts to

5. I feel quite confident in ______ Mr. Jackson to you for the vacant post of research assistant.

A. submitting B. proclaiming

C. recalling D. recommending

6. A poor man has to ______ many things which a rich man regards as almost necessaries in life.

A. go through B. go without

C. go over D. go about

7. One of the attractive features of the course was the way the practical work had been ______

with the theoretical aspects of the subject.

A. embraced B. alternated

C. adjusted D. integrated

8. Topics of conversation should be ______ to the experiences and interests of the students.

A. rigid B. rigorous

C. relevant D. remarkable

9. They did considerable work to ______ the masses of the United States with the elementary

problems of Latin America.

A. instruct B. acquaint

C. impart D. dictate

10. Only the Chinese have successfully ______ pandas and raised their babies in captivity.

A. bred B. expanded

C. exerted D. availed

11. The purpose of the official inquiry is to ______ the true facts leading to the loss of the ship at

sea.

A. come at B. come for

C. come into D. come over

12. The chairman made a(n) ______ statement before beginning the main business of the meeting.

A. intensive B. intermediate

C. preliminary D. operational

13. Only in recent years ______ begun to realize that wild dogs, kept within bounds, often do

more good than harm.

A. people have B. since people have

C. have people D. people who have

14. At the **mittee meeting, the motion that the club ______ open until midnight was defeated.

A. remains B. remain

C. remained D. would remain

15. I don"t think Johnson will succeed in his new job, for he is not ______ to do that type of work.

A. compatible B. convenient

C. consistent D. competent

Section Ⅲ Close Test

Directions: There are 20 blacks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices

marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.

From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of

ourselves and the world about us. When humans first 1 , they were like newborn children,

unable to use this 2 tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kind"s

future 3 and cultural growth increased.

Many linguists believe that evolution is 4 for our ability to produce and use language. They 5

that our highly evolved brain provides us with a(n) 6 language ability not found in lower

organisms. Supporters of this innateness theory say that our 7 for language is inborn, but that

language itself develops gradually, as a function of the growth of the brain during childhood.

Therefore there are critical 8 times for language development.

Current 9 of innateness theory are mixed; however, evidence 10 the existence of some

innate abilities is undeniable. Indeed, more and more schools are discovering that foreign

languages are best taught in 11 grades. Young children often can learn several languages by

being 12 to them, while adults have a much 13 time learning another language once the

rules of their first language have become firmly fixed.

14 some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically

in a vacuum. Children who have been 15 from other human beings do not possess language.

This demonstrates that 16 with other human beings is necessary for proper language

development. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language 17 than

any innate capacities. These theorists view language 18 imitative, learned behavior. 19 ,

children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their child"s