复旦大学2003年博士研究生入学考试试题
Part Ⅰ
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Part Ⅱ
Directions: There are 20 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
21. She
A. missed
B. budgeted
C. loathed
22. They tried to keep it quiet but eventually everyone learned about the
A. intangible
B. sedate
C. impudent
23. Many citizens appealed to the city government for enacting laws to protect the
A. rigorous
B. equivocal
C. stringent
24. People who like to wear red clothes are more likely to be talkative and
A. lucrative
B. introverted
C. vivacious
25. This is but a of the total amount
A. friction
B. fraction
C. faction
26. They were tired, but not any less enthusiastic
A. on
B. by
C. for
27. I think it is high time we the fact that environmental pollution in this area is
A. woke up to
B. must wake up to
C. wake up to
28. So was the mood of the meeting that an agreement was s
A. resentful
B. amiable
C. suffocating
29. Rescue workers continued the delicate task of sifting through tons of concrete and
A. scraps
B. leftovers
C. debris
30. When she
A. came to
B. came off
C. came through
31. The shortage of water became more this summer with the highest temperatures in 40 yea
A. needy
B. latent
C. uneasy
32. They tried to drive their horse into the river, but he simply could
A. budge
B. surge
C. trudge
33. Even the best medical treatment can not cure all the diseases that men and
A. beseech
B. beset
C. bewitch
34. The boy's talent might have lain had it not been for his uncle's
A. extinguished
B. dormant
C. malignant
D.
35. The two leaders made a show of unity at the press conference, though they had notably
A. discontinuous
B. discreet
C. discordant
36. Jack admitted that he ought not to have made his mother angry,
A. oughtn't he
B. wasn't he
C. didn't he
37. An old woman was badly hurt in the police describe as an apparently motiveless
A. that
B. which
C. what
38. As the city has become increasingly and polluted, there has been a growing
A. flourished
B. boosted
C. congested
39. The taxi in front of a girl, just in time to avoid
A. turned in
B. pulled up
C. cleared up
40. The doctor told him to be careful when taking sleeping pills because too many
A. lethal
B. vital
C. wholesome
D. sanitary
Part Ⅲ
Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this pall. 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 the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line
For my proposed journey, the first priority was clearly to start learning Arabic. I have never been a linguist. Though I had traveled widely as a journalist, I had never managed to pick up more than a smattering of phrases in any tongue other than French, and even my French, was laborious for want of lengthy practice. The prospect of tackling one of the notoriously difficult languages at the age of forty, and trying to speak it well, both deterred and excited me. It was perhaps expecting a little too much of a curiously unreceptive part of myself, yet the possibility that I might gain access to a completely alien culture and tradition by this means was enormou
I enrolled as a pupil in a small school in the center of the city. It was run by a Mr Beheit, of dapper appearance and explosive temperament, who assured me that after three months of his special treatment I would speak Arabic fluently. Whereupon he drew from his desk a postcard which an old pupil had sent him from somewhere in the Middle East, expressing great gratitude and reporting the astonishment of local Arabs that he could converse with them like a native. It was written in English. Mr Beheit himself spent most of his time coaching businessmen in French, and through the thin, partitioned walls of his school one could hear him bellowing in exasperation at some confused entrepreneur:“Non, M. Jones. Jane suis pas francais. Pas, Pas, Pas!” (No Mr. Jones, I'm NOT French, I'm not, not, NOT!). I was gratified that my own tutor, whose name was
For a couple of hours every morning we would face each other across a small table, while we discussed in meticulous detail the colour scheme of the tiny cubicle, the events in the street below and, once a week, the hair-raising progress of a window-cleaner across the wall of the building opposite. In between, bearing in mind the particular interest I had in acquiring Arabic, I would inquire the way to some imaginary oasis, anxiously demand fodder and water for my camels,
