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兰州大学2007年考博英语试题
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Part One Structure and V ocabulary (40%)
Directions：In this part there are two sections In Section One, you are to choose from the four choices under each sentence the one which is similar in meaning to the underlined part of the sentence. And in Section Two, you are to choose the one that can beat complete the sentence in question.
Section I
1.An important function of early stone took was to extract highly nutritious food from large animal carcasses
A. destroy
B. identify
C. remove
D. compare
2 Regional planning deals with proposals concerning outlying communities and highways as well as with urban affairs
A. outlandish
B. remote C exempted D. exclusive
3.Potash and soda are not interchangeable for all purposes, but for glass- or soap-making cither would do.
A. advantageous
B. convenient
C. identifiable
D. equivalent
4.With the dawn of space exploration, the notion that atmospheric conditions on Earth may be unique in the system was strengthened
A. continuation
B. beginning
C. expansion
D. outcome
5.When the glaciers thawed after the last ice age%the five Great Lakes of North America were formed
A. melted
B. advanced C evaporated D. exploded
6.New York is a shopper's paradise whether one wants to spend large sums of money in elegant department stores or rifle though goods displayed on street barrows
A. a fortune
B. a dime
C. much
D. quite lot
7.During the rainy season the Mississippi River may carry away hundreds of acres of valuable topsoil from one area and arbitrarily deposit it in another.
A. lawfully
B. subsequently
C. randomly
D. mercilessly
A. attacker
B. nourishment
C. enemies
D. victims
19.It is ridiculous to become angry about such an insignificant matter,
A. absurd
B. nourishment
C. tragic
D. unpardonable
20.How many people are aware that a dancer with New York City Ballet typically wears out a minimum of two hundred pairs of toe shoes per year?
A. only
B. at least
C. exactly
D. fewer than
Section II (20%)
21.Not until the eighteenth century _____the complex chemistry of metallurgy.
A. when scientists began to appreciate
B. did scientists begin to appreciate
C. scientists who were beginning to appreciate
D. the appreciation of scientists began
22.Pewte, ____ for eating and drinking utensils in colonial America, is about ninety percent tin with copper or bismuth added for hardness.
A. widely used it
B. was widely used
C. which widely used
D. widely used
23.Lyndon B. Johnson was the only United States President whose oath of office ____ by a woman, Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes.
A. was administered
B. being directed
C. was accomplished
D. of administration was
24.Protein digestion begins in the stomach _____ ends in the small intestine.
A. when
B. while
C. and
D. because
25.___fee growth of manufacturing and other industries, the economy of the state of Texas has remained heavily dependent on oil and gas.
A. As
B. Despite
C. Though
D. In case
26.Probably at about the same time speech, ____laughter originated too.
A. increased
B. brought about
C. evolved
D. resulted
27.The United States Capitol building in Washington D.C, is ____in a small park surrounded by a number of impressive government buildings.
A. located B- secluded C formed D. spotted
28.In earlier times there were more sheep in the South of New Zealand than in the North; now, ____ to cross-bred flocks, the reverse is the case.
A. in increase attention
B. with increasing attention
