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复旦大学2011年考博英语真题
Part ⅠV ocabulary and Structure （15 points）
Directions：There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰwith a single line through the center.
1. He's color-blind and can't the difference between red and green easily.
A. detect
B. discover
C. distinguish
D. determine
2. As many as 100 species of fish, some to these waters, may have been affected by the pollution.
A. unusual
B. particular
C. typical
D. unique
3. In her bright yellow coat, she was easily in the crowed.
A. accessible
B. identifiable
C. negligible
D. incredible
4. Some people find that certain foods their headaches.
A. introduce
B. trigger
C. summon
D. create
5. The workers chose to their dissatisfaction in a series of strikes.
A. deliver
B. offer
C. manifest
D. indicate
6. Living with a roommate constraint on her ----she couldn't play her trumpet or have parties late at night.
A. imposed
B. illustrated
C. impressed
D. left
7. I don't know how to get there either ---- perhaps we'd better a map.
A. note
B. mark
C. consult
D. draft
8. In the of recent incidents, we asking our customers to take particular care of their belongings.
A. process
B. company
C. light
D. form
9. The police are doing all the can to bring those responsible for the bombing to
A. evidence
B. hearing
C. justice
D. rule
10. The programme aims to make the country in food and to cut energy imports.
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B. self-sufficient
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11. I think I'd like to stay home this evening going out as it is raining so heavily.
A. better than
B. other than
C. rather than
D. sooner than
12.The public can rest that detectives are doing everything possible to find the murderer.
A. assured
B. approved
C. guaranteed
D. convinced
13. The child's bad behavior is often more than a way of trying to his mother's attention away from his sister.
A. reflect
B. catch
C. deflect
D. reduce
14. The small building was marked with a modest brass ,stating the name and the business of the occupiers.
A. plaque
B. plateau
C. plague
D. plaster
15. I don't know what all the was about -----it was a dull sort of a film and there was almost no sex in it.
A. controversy
B. conversation
C. discussion
D. illumination
16. I missed the last flight, and decided to stay the night at the airport.
A. however
B. therefore
C. moreover
D. meanwhile
17. You could be many dangers by traveling alone in that area.
A. subject to
B. immune to
C. sensitive to
D. resistant to
18. She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, the pleasure.
A. delaying
B. prolonging
C. insisting
D. indulging
19. The candidate has an impressively range of interests and experience.
A. diverse
B. vivid
C. mobile
D. alive
20. When I was sent to prison, I really felt I had my parents .
A. let…off
B. let…down
C. let…out
D. let…alone
21. He outrage by calling the TV programmes “talking wallpaper”
A. provoked
B. evoked
C. revoked
D. invoked
22/. The governments is trying to the people into thinking that a war is necessary.
A. enlighten
B. involve
C. orient
D. brainwash
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A. dissolved
B. revolved
C. evolved
D. devolved
24. Make sure you're him before you start sharing a house.
A. synonymous with t
B. compatible with
C. subordinate to
D. autonomous of
25. She said that the treatment she had received in the hospital had completely her os her dignity.
A. thrived
B. suspended
C. deprived
D. contrived
26. She was unimpressed by the actor describing him as “a vain man and dull”
A. intensively
B. intensely
C. downright
D. actual
27. down than the telephone rang.
A. Not until I lay
B. No sooner had I lain
C. Hardly had I lain
D. Scarcely did I lie
28.. I'm sorry I'm late---- I had a mental and forget that we would have a meeting today.
A. aberration
B. perversion
C. imbalance
D. sanity
29. I ignored an old woman who asked me for money in the street yesterday and it's been on my ever since.
A. morality
B. conscience
C. morale
D. rationale
30. He saw university as a community of scholars, where students were by teachers into an appreciation of different philosophical approaches.
A. extracted
B. deducted
C. inducted
D. conducted
Part ⅡReading Comprehension （40 points）
Directions：There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A,B, C and D．Choose the best answer and mark corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰwith a single line through the center.
(1)
I am running down an alley with a stolen avocado, having climbed over a white brick fence
and into the forbidden back yard of a carefully manicured estate at the corner of El Dorado and
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Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, California. I have snatched a rock-hard Fuerte avocado from
one of the three avocado trees near the fence. I have been told that many ferocious dogs patrol
the grounds; they are killers, these dogs. I am defying them. They are nowhere to be found, except in my mind, and I'm out and gone and in the alley with their growls directing my imagination. I am running with fear and exhilaration, beginning a period of summer.
Emerging from the shield of the alley I cut out into the open. Summer is about running, and
I am running, protected by distance from the dogs. At the corner of Crescent Drive and Lomitas
I spot Bobby Tornitzer on a bike. I shout “Tornitzer!”He turns his head. His bike wobbles. An automobile moving rapidly catches Tornitzer's back wheel. Tornitzer is thrown high into the air
and onto the concrete sidewalk of Crescent Drive. The driver, a woman with gray hair, swirls
from the car hysterically and hovers noisily over Tornitzer, who will not survive the accident. I hold the avocado to my chest and stand, frozen, across the street. I am shivering in the heat, and sink to my knees. It is approximately 3:30 in the afternoon. It is June 21, 1946. In seven days,
I will be 8 years old.
31. The best title for this story could be
A. Summer
B. Killer Dogs
C. My Eighth Birthday
D. The Alley
32. The main image in paragraph 1 is of a young boy
A. climbing a white brick fences
B. snatching avocados
C. running with fear and exhilaration
D. defying ferocious dogs
33. The main image in paragraph 2 is of
A. Tornitzer riding his bike
B. exhilaration turning into horror
C. the 7-year-old emerging from the alley
D. the hysteria of the woman driver
34. The story start with the feeling of and ends with the feeling of .
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A. joyful action…horrified inaction
B. running…standing
C. being alone…being with others
D. being alone in the open…shivering in the heat
35 The phrase “shivering in the heat”(near the end of this passage) dramatically describes shock through
A. the use of minute detail
B. the unexpected combination of hot and cold
C. its implied reference to the word ‘frozen'
D. the contrast of death and play
(2)
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap
bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had became the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won't stand much blowing up, and it won't stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery.
A human frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming hysterical and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they really very sad people---clown
with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, bur it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone's life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorist fatten on trouble. The have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You 精品文档．
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find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boots( or as Josh Billing wittily called them, “tite”boots). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparkling surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
36. The central theme of this essay is:
A. There is little humor in old newsreel.
B. Humor can be dissected like a frog.
C. Humor is essentially a mystery, and because humorists are more aware of melancholy,
they seem sadder than most people.
D. Humorists need to compensate for the pain they have suffered.
37. The main idea of paragraph 2 is:
A. The author once saw a picture of the largest soap bubble ever made
B. The bubble blowing performance was a repulsive sight.
C. Humor is fragile.
D. Laughter is not a measure of humor.
38. Why does the author feel that when humor is dissected, it dies in the process?
A. The fun in humor lies in examining its contents
B. Humor must tantalize the senses on impact---if it has to be explained, it loses its effect.
C. Humor is best enjoyed by people with scientific minds.
D. A good humorist should explain his or her joke to make sure everyone understands it.
39. The word “melancholy”in paragraph 3 probably means
A. joy
B. sadness
C. hysteria
D. exhilaration
40. In his final sentence, the author is evoking an image of
A. the ocean
B. sparkling germs
C. high tide
D. flowing water
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Every time an old building is torn down in this country, and a new building goes up, the ground floor becomes a bank.
The reason for this is that banks are the only ones who can afford the rent for the ground
floor of the new buildings going up. Besides, when bank loans someone money to build a new building, it usually takes an option for the street-floor facilities.
Most people don't think there is anything wrong with this and they accept it as part of the American free-enterprise system. But there is s small group of people in this country who are fighting for Bank Birth Control.
This is how Huddlestone Hubbard, the BBC's chairman, explained it.
“whenever you see an old building torn down,”Hubbard said, “you usually see a candy store, a dry cleaner, a delicatessen, and possibly a florist torn down with it. These shops are all replaced in the new buildings with a beautiful glass, aluminum, wall-to wall-carpeted money factor.
“Now from an aesthetic viewpoint, a bank looks better than a fry cleaner, a candy store, a delicatessen and a florist. But from a practical point of view, it's a sheer disaster. If you want a newspaper, a candy bar or a chocolate milk shake, you can't get it a bank. Nor can you run out to a bank for a pound of Swiss cheese and a six-pack of beer when have guests coming over.
“A bank is great if you want to buy a car, but it's useless if you want to have your dress cleaned.
“And while a bank might buy flowers to give itself a human image, it doesn't sell any when
you want to make up with your wife.”
“What you're saying then, Mr. Hubbard, is that every time a bank goes up, something in all
of us dies.”
“Exactly. One of the reasons kids are getting in so much trouble these days is that there are candy stores to hang around anymore. When tear down a delicatessen, the tangy smell of potato salad, corned beef and dill pickles are lost forever. Unless you're trying to make a loan, no one ever salivates in a bank.
“It is true,”I said.
“The situation is more crucial than anyone thinks,”Hubbard said. “at the rate they're tearing down consumer stores and replacing them with banks, we estimate that in ten years it will be
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impossible to buy a loaf of bread in the country. What good is it to get 7 percent on your money if you starve to death?”
“Then what you're saying is that it isn't a question of not taking it with you. It's question of staying alive while you have it,”I said.
“Something like that,”Hubbard agreed. “we're tying to get the public to wake up to e fact it's better to have a store that sells screwdrivers than a bank that gives away alarm clocks.”
“What's the solution?”
“A government decree that a bank has to supply the same services of the stores it tore down
on the same property. If it's a bakery, they have to sell cake, if it's a photography shop, they have to develop films, and if it's a dry-goods store, they have to sell warm underwear. If they provide the services of the stores they tore down, then we'll let them do a little money lending on the side”.
41. The central theme of the essay is:
A. Practically every new commercial building erected today is owned by a bank.
B. Banks are attempting to drive small merchants out of service.
C. New banks are not assets to a neighborhood in spite of their attractive appearance.
D. By occupying ground floor space in new buildings, banks are replacing neighborhood shopping conveniences.
42. This essay is written in a tone of
A. humorous exaggeration
B. humorous understatement
C. serious anger
D serious fear of the future
43. The author talks about the “Bank Birth Control”group because
A. it is the name of a real group
B. he hopes to become its president
C. he is being humorous to make his point
D. he is inn favor of the author toward small neighborhood stores is that they
A. are dirty
B. are convenient and colorful
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C. should be replaced by banks
D. should become supermarkets
45. The author makes his point by using
A. satire
B. drama
C. romance
D. poetry
(4)
What if our society uses new-found technologies of “genetic engineering”to interfere with the biological nature of human beings? Might that not be disastrous?
What about cloning, for instance?
Cloning is a term originally used in connection with nonsexual reproduction of plants and
very simple animal. Now it is coming into use in connection with higher animals, since biologists are finding ways of starting with an individual cell of a grown animal and inducing it to multiply into the same way in the future.
But is cloning a safe thing to unleash on society? Might It not be used for destructive purposes? For instance, might not some ruling group decide to clone their submissive, downtrodden peasantry, and thus produce endless hordes of semi-robots who will slave to keep a few in luxury and who may even serve as endless ranks of soldiers designed to conquer the rest of the world.?
A dreadful thought, but an unnecessary fear. For one thing, there is no need to clone for the purpose. The ordinary method of reproduction produces all the human beings that are needed and as rapidly as is needed. Right now, the ordinary method is producing so many people as to put civilization in danger of imminent destruction. What more can cloning do?
Secondly, unskilled semi-robots cannot be successfully pitted against the skilled users of machine, either on farms, in factories or in armies. Any nation depending on downtrodden masses will find itself an easy mark for exploitation by a less populous but more skilled and versatile society. This has happened in the past often enough..
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for it, or the gifted who could undergo it by popular demand. There can be two if a particular banker or governor or scientist---or three---or a thousand. Might this not create a kind of privileged caste, who would reproduce themselves in greater and greater numbers, and who would gradually take over the world?
Before we grow concerned about this, we must ask whether there will really be any great demand for cloning. Would you want to be cloned? The new individual formed your cell will have your genes and therefore your appearance and, possibly, talents ,but he will not be you. The clone will be, at best, merely your identical twin. Identical twins share the same genetic pattern, but they each have own individuality and are separate persons.
Cloning is not a pathway to immortality, then, because your consciousness does not survive
in your clone, any more than it would in your identical twin if you had one.
In fact, your clone would be far less than your identical twin. What shapes and forms a personality is not genes alone, but all the environment to which it is exposed. Identical twins grow up in identical surroundings, in the same family, and under each other's influence. A clone of yourself , perhaps thirty or forty years younger, would grow up in a different world altogether and would be shaped by influences that would be sure to make him less and less like you as he grows older.
He may even earn your jealousy. After all, you are old and he is young. You may once have been poor and struggled to become well-to-do, but he will be well-to-do form the start. The mere