东华大学2018考博英语

东华大学2018年博士研究生入学考试

英语（1001）试题

Part I V ocabulary (10 points, 0.5 point each)

Directions: There are 20 sentences in this section. There are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D under each of the following sentences. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.

1. Many scientists remain_____about the value of this research program. A．sceptical B. stationary C. spacious D. specific

2. If you want to go to the concert, you’ll have to make a _____, or there will be no tickets.

A. conservation

B. reservation

C. preservation

D. observation

3. The mother was _____ when her son confessed he had robbed a store.

A. dismayed

B. flattered

C. fascinated

D. disabled

4. The _____ judge accepted money to let the prisoner go unpunished.

A. committed

B. corrupt

C. conserved

D. confident

5. It took them several weeks to ______the wild horse.

A. cultivate

B. civilize

C. curb

D. tame

6. It is a common theme of many science fiction stories that the world may one day be ______ by beings from the outer space.

A. run over

B. filled in

C. taken over

D. broken in

7. It ______ that the old woman she had been taking care of was indeed her own mother.

A. turned over

B. turned in

C. turned across

D. turned out

8. The discovery of new oil fields in various parts of the country filled the government with _______hope.

A. eternal

B. infinite

C. ceaseless

D. delicate

9. We hope there will be a peaceful ________ to the new system.

A. transmission

B. transition

C. transaction

D. transformation

10.It is _______ that women should be paid less than men for doing the same kind of work.

A. abrupt

B. absurd

C. adverse

D. addictive

11. The young flower girl has been in town for only several months, but she seems to be _____with everyone who comes to the store.

A. admitted

B. accepted

C. admired

D. acquainted

12. When the wealthy man died his illegitimate son _____half of his legacy.

A. retreated

B. displayed

C. declared

D. claimed

13. I have said nothing like that. He intentionally _____ my ideas to achieve his personal ends.

A. revised

B. distracted

C. contradicted

D. distorted

14. Travelers are advised to use traveler's checks, which provide a secure _____ to carrying all the money in cash.

A. substitute

B. alternative

C. selection

D. displacement

15. Most of the nations in the world are working in a collaborative effort to ___ hunger from the world.

A. abandon

B. diminish

C. withdraw

D. eliminate

16. I just can't _____ how he managed to finish his report so soon. He said he was only halfway through it yesterday!

A. figure out

B. work out

C. look out

D. draw out

17. The mayor was asked to give a rough _____ of the cost of the construction of the new bridge.

A. assessment

B. evaluation

C. announcement

D. estimate

18. At last his firm was _____ up by a multinational corporation.

A. swallowed

B. devoured

C. swigged

D. gulped

19. When he went to the airport for the ticket, Tom suddenly realized that his passport had ____ for half a year.

A. abolished

B. expired

C. amended

D. constrained

20. According to the report, the ____ of the epidemic was frightening in that country.

A. multitude

B. altitude

C. magnitude

D. gratitude

Part II Cloze Test (15 points, 1 point each)

Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on your Answer Sheet.

‘Popular science’ books by pioneering scientists come in many varieties, but are almost always 21 waiting for. Such books would certainly be authoritative accounts of the subject matter. What is more important, 22, is that they give the reader a really unique 23. The genre includes straightforward expositions of a technical topic, an early example 24 the classic little book on relativity by Einstein himself. More 25 ---- and perhaps 26 greater value, in the long 27 ---- one has a 28 of essays on widely varying themes. These reflect, directly 29 indirectly, the motivations, the compulsions, the stance, the personal scientific philosophy ---- 30 short, the credo ---- of a great scientist, giving the reader 31 insight into the working of a first-rate mind in a manner that even the best of biographies can only 32. Restricting oneself to examples 33 from physics and 34 areas, some wonderful examples of this class are Wigner’s Symmetries and Reflections, Chandrasekhar’s Truth and Beauty, Feynman’s The Character of Physical Law, and Dyson’s35 the Universe.