1、通用考博英语历年真题历年真题2000年北京大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题Part Structure & Written ExpressionDirections: In each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Put the letter of your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (25%)1Thomas Wolfe portrayed people
2、so that you came to know their yearnings, their impulses, and their warts-this was effective_Amotivation Bpoint of view Ccharacterization Dbackground 2The appeal to the senses known as_is especially common in poetryAimaginative Bimaginable Cingenious Dimagery 3If youve got a complaint, the best thin
3、g is to see the person concerned and_with himAtell it Bhave it out Csay it Dhave it known 4There have been several attempts to introduce gayer colors and styles in mens clothing, but none of them_Ahas caught on Bhas caught him out Chas caught up Dtake roots 5The retired engineer plunked down 50,000
4、in cash for a mid-size Mercedes as a present for his wife_a purchase with money made in the stock market the week beforeApaid off Bpaid through Cpaid out Dpaid for 6He has courage all right, but in matters requiring judgment, he has often been found sadly_Alack it Babsent Cin need of it Dwanting 7Da
5、nis Hayes raised the essential paradox and asked how people could have fought so hard against environmental degradation_themselves now on the verge of losing the warAonly found Bfinding only Conly to find Dhave only found 8The once separate issue of environment and development are now_linkedAintangi
6、ble Bindispensable Cinextricably Dincredibly 9The need to see that justice is done_every decision made in the courtsAimplants into Bimposes on Cimpinges upon Dimprecates upon 10Two thirds of the U. S. basketball players are black, and the number would be greater_the continuing practice of picking wh
7、ite bench warmers for the sake of balanceAwas it not because of Bhad it not been for Cwere it not for Dwould it not have been for 11No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything_going on in the worldAit is Bthere is Cas is Dwhat is 12If there is the need to compete in a crowd,
8、 to battle_the edge the surest strategy is to develop the unexpectedAon Bfor Cagainst Dwith 13Just as there are occupations that require college or even higher degrees, _occupations for which technical training is necessaryAso too there are Bso also there are Cso there are too Dso too are there 14It
9、 is a myth that the law permits the Food and Drug Administration to ignore requirements for_drugs while brand-name drugs still must meet these rigid testsAspecific Bgeneric Cintricate Dacrid 15The very biggest and most murderous wars during the industrial age were intra-industrial wars that_Second W
10、ave nations like Germany and Britain against one an otherApitted Bdrove Ckept Dembarked 16The private life of having each individual make his or her own choice of beliefs and interest_without the overarching public world of the state, which sustains a structure of law appropriate to a self-determini
11、ng associationAis not possible Bwould not be possible Cwill not be possible Dcannot be possible 17From Christianity and the barbarian kingdoms of the west emerged the medieval version of politics_in tum evolved the politics of our modern worldAof which Bfrom which Con which Dby which 18The Portugues
12、e give a great deal of credit to one man for having promoted sea travel that man_Prince Henry, the navigator, who lived in the 15th centuryAwas Bwas called Ccalling Dbeing 19Grant was one of a body of men who were self-reliant_, who cared hardly anything for the past but had a sharp eye for the futu
13、reAon themselves Bon not making a fault Cto a fault Dto remain ahead 20Huntington and many of its competitors are working to make remedial instruction a commodity as_and accessible as frozen yogurtAubiquitous Brational Cnecessary Dcredible 21The scheme for rebuilding the city center_owing to the ref
14、usal of a Council to sanction the expenditure of the money it would have requiredAfell down Bfell off Cfell out Dfell flat 22If they think they are going to win over us by obstinately_and refusing to make the slightest concession, they are mistakenAholding out Bholding to Cholding over Dholding up 2
15、3The possibility that the explosion was caused by sabotage cannot be_Abroken out Bcancelled out Cruled out Dwiped out 24The ex-president had been_in the country to refresh his mind before he passed awayAgiven to walking Bgiven a walk Cgiven for a walk Dgiving a walk 25He did not relish appealing amo
16、ngst his friends and_of their criticism or censureArunning short Brunning out Crunning the gauntlet Drunning ahead Part Reading ComprehensionDirections: Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question four answers are given. Read the passages carefully and choose the best
17、 answer to each question. Put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (15%)Passage 1It was a normal day in the life of the American Red Cross in Greater New York. First, part of a building on West 140th Street, in Harlem, fell down. Beds tumbled through the air, people slid out of their apartments and onto
18、 the ground, three people died, and the Red Cross was there, helping shocked residents find temporary shelter, and food and clothing. Then it was back downtown for that evenings big fund-raiser, the Eleventh Annual Red Cross Award Dinner Dance, at the Pierre. “Thats why I have bad hair tonight,” sai
19、d Christopher Peake, a Red Cross spokesman who had spent much of the day at the Harlem scene, in the drizzling rain. He was now in a tuxedo, and actually his hair didnt look so bad, framed by a centerpiece of tulips and jonquils, and perhaps improved by subdued lighting from eight crystal chandelier
20、sDefinitely not having a bad-hair night was Elizabeth Dole, the wife of Senator Robert Dole and the president of the American Red Cross. President Dole has chestnut-colored Republican hair, which was softly coifed, and she was wearing a fitted burgundy velvet evening suit (“Someone made it for me! I
21、 love velvet.” she exclaimed, in her enthusiastic, Northern Carolina hostess voice) and sparkling drop earrings. Of course, she hadnt been standing in the rain in Harlem; she had just flown up on the three-oclock shuttle from Washington. Dole is extremely pretty, with round green eyes and a full mou
22、th and a direct personality. She tilts her head attentively when she listens. She was the recipient of the evenings award; previous award winners have included Alice Tully, Princess Yasmin Asa Khan, and, most recently, Brooke Astor. Not exactly a sequence at the end of which you would expect to find
23、 Elizabeth Dole, but award givers are famous for having political instincts as well as philanthropic onesSurrounded by the deep-blue swags and golden draperies of the ballroom were more than thirty-five dinner tables set with groupings of candles and floral centerpieces and Royal Doulton china. Amer
24、ican Express was there. So were Bristol-Myers Squibb; Coopers Lybrand; the New York Times Company; Union Bank of Switzerland; Chemical Bank; New York Life;. and Price Waterhouse. The actress Arlene Dahl, with her rather red hair and her bearded husband, presided over one table. Otherwise, it was a t
25、ypical, faceless, captain-of-industry fund raiser (no models! no stars!), of which there seems to be at least one every night in New York City. It was not a society night, but still the evening raised four hundred and thirty thousand dollars26From what we read we can infer that “it was a normal day
26、in the life of the American Red Cross in Greater New York” means its staff_Adeal with the fail of houses in the city every day Bare busy helping people who suffer from disasters every day Cwork during the day and to have banquet in the evening every day Dgo to Harlem, the poorest district of New Yor
27、k, every day and help people there 27The fund-raiser mentioned in the passage refers to_ARobert Dole BElizabeth Dole Cthe Eleventh Annual Red Cross Award Dinner Dance Dall the business companies attending the Dinner Dance 28Christopher Peakes hair didnt look so bad because_Ahe was wearing a handsome
28、 tuxedo Bhe was wearing tulips on his suit Che was seen among flowers Dhe was sitting near flowers and in very soft light 29Elizabeth Dole was_Athe president of the American Red Cross and acted at the Dinner as a North Carolina hostess Ba republican and wife of the president of the American Red Cros
29、s Cthe president of the American Red Cross and its main representative at the Annual Dinner Dance Dborn in North Carolina, became an air-hostess and later married Senator Robert Dole30The presence of an actress at the Dinner made the fund raising_Aless impersonal Ba typical fund-raising event Cless
30、personal Dmore business-like Passage 2For laymen ethnology is probably the most interesting of the biological sciences for the very reason that it concerns animals in their normal activities and therefore, if we wish, we can assess the possible dangers and advantages in our own behavioral roots. Ethnology also is interesting methodologically because it combines in new ways very scrupulous field observations with experimentation in laboratoriesThe field workers have had some handicaps in winning respect for themselves. For a long time they were considered as little better than
