中科院博士英语考试入学试题

中科院博士英语考试入学试题

中科院博士英语考试入学试题

PAPER ONEPAPER ONE

PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each)

1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place,

but ______and more gradually than

now seems desirable.

A: reluctantly

B: unwittingly

C. impulsively

D: anxiously

2. In fear for their lives and in ______of their freedom,

thousands of enslaved women and children

fled to the Northern States on the eve of the American Civil

War. A. Way

B. view

C. vision

D. pursuit

3. If I could ensue a reasonably quick and comprehensive

solution to the crisis in

Iraq, t would not have entitled my speech “the______

problem.”

A. Instant

B: Inverse

C. Insoluble

D. Intact

4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______

in the man and woman who had

eased their suffering. A. confide

B. ponder

C. well

D: reflect

5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what

the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy.

A: urge

B. force

C. spur

D. rush.

6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which

the human species is altering the

physical and chemical world.

A. concern

B. magnitude

C. volume

D. carelessness

7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a

rhythmic drive that was ______

called "hot" and later "swing."

A. shortly

B. initially

C. actually

D. literally

8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth

of

one's one?s experience

A. tempo with

B. time with

C. place of D. proportion to

9. Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the

reprocessing plant, though, he would

never allow his personal feelings to ______ with an assignment.

A. interrupt

B. bother

C. interfere

D. intervene

10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. A.

imagination

B. invocation

C. observation

D. obsession

11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. A.

vulnerable

B. allergic

C. inclined

D. hostile

12. Some of the words employed by Shakespeare in his works

have

become______ and are no longer used in the present days. A.

obsolete

B. obscene

C. obvious

D. oblique

13. One of the main ways to stay out of trouble with

government agents is to keep a law______

away from those situations wherein you call attention to

yourself. A. manner

B. position C. profile

D. station

14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that

book is indeed a ______ success.

A. provisional

B. sensational

C. sentimental

D. potential

15. As the core of the management hoard, he can always

come up with

______ ideas to promote

the corporation's marketing strategies.

A. integral

B. instinctive

C. intangible

D. ingenious

l6. They speak of election campaign polls as a musician might

of an orchestra ______, or a painter of defective paint.

A. in pace

B. out of focus

C. in step

D. out of tune

17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money

from: what ______much is what they do with it.

A. taunts for

B. asks for

C. consists of

D. approves of

l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as

fire, flood and breakage. A. in B. against

C. raft

D. of

19. As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already

knew the media______. A. to and fro

B. upside and down

C. inside and out

D. now and then

20. There was little, if any, evidence to substantiate the gossip

and, ______, there was little to disprove it.

PART II CLOZE TEST (15 minutes, 15 points)

There is a closer relationship between morals and

architecture and interior decoration______21, we suspect. Huxley

has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths

______22 they were afraid to see their own naked bodies, and this

moral concept delayed the______23 of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand, ______24 in

the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little

consideration for human______ 25 only when we realize the

Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese

redwood Furniture was designed for people to sit______26 in,

because that was the only posture approved by society.

Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a (n) ______27 on which

I would not think of______28 for more than five minutes, and for

that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra

went about______29 on a couch carried by servants,

because______30 she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius

should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have struck

her shins with a stick, as he did______31 one of his old disciples,

Yuan Jiang, when the latter was found sitting in