中科院2007考博英语试题及答案.doc

TIIE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIE}ICE5 ENGLISH ENTRANCE EJCAMINATION FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES 14farch 2007 PAPER ONEPAPER ONE PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) 1. Reductions in overseas government expenditure took place, but ______and more gradually than now seems desirable. A: reluctantly B: unwittingly C. impulsively D: anxiously 2. In fear for their lives and in ______of their freedom, thousands of enslaved women and children fled to the Northern States on the eve of the American Civil War. A. Way B. view C. vision D. pursuit 3. If I could ensue a reasonably quick and comprehensive solution to the crisis in Iraq, t would not have entitled my speech “the______ problem.” A. Instant B: Inverse C. Insoluble D. Intact 4. Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to ______ in the man and woman who had eased their suffering. A. confide B. ponder C. well D: reflect 5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. A: urge B. force C. spur D. rush. 6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. A. concern B. magnitude C. volume D. carelessness 7. The second distinguishing characteristic of jazz is a rhythmic drive that was ______ called hot and later swing. A. shortly B. initially C. actually D. literally 8. The depth of benefits of reading varies in ______ the depth of ones one’s experience A. tempo with B. time with C. place of D. proportion to 9. Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant, though, he would never allow his personal feelings to ______ with an assignment. A. interrupt B. bother C. interfere D. intervene 10. His ______ with computers began six months ago. A. imagination B. invocation C. observation D. obsession 11. I like cats but unfortunately I am ______ to them. A. vulnerable B. allergic C. inclined D. hostile 12. Some of the words employed by Shakespear