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1、2005年北京科技大学考博英语真题. VocabularyPart A.Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET.1. The scene is so

2、beautiful that it my power of description.A. transports B. transfers C. transcends D. transforms2. The schoolmaster the girls bravery in his opening speech.A. applauded B. enhanced C. elevated D. clapped3. The meaning of “yellow” is a color, but it can also mean “cowardly.”A. positive B. negative C.

3、 underlying D. literal4. Many people think that the standards of public have declined.A. morality B. rightness C. awareness D. mentality5. People were surprised to find that he had the ability to everything he was involved in.A. precede B. dominate C. pervade D. denominate6. The fact that they react

4、ed so differently was a reflection of their different .A. performances B. personalities C. qualities D. debut7. This medicine will the pain in the stomach.A. ascertain B. agitate C. alleviate D. allocate8. The apartment was as $50,000 and its owner decided to sell it.A. automated B. assessed C asser

5、ted D. avenged9. The minister all his officials pay the tax.A. bids B. blesses C. barks D. baffles10. When a person dies, his debts must be paid before his can be distributed.A. paradoxes B. legacies C. platitudes D. analogiesPart B.Directions: In each of the following sentences there is one word or

6、 phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET.11. Tourists flock from the remotest places to see the capita

7、ls sights.A. invade B. troop C. prompt D. gather12. He has told so many lies that we can no longer place any reliance on what he says.A. belief B. trust C. conviction D. dependence.13. Oil can change a society more drastically than anyone could ever have imagined.A. grossly B. severely C. rapidly D.

8、 radically14. In times of economic difficulty, governmental budgets for education are often slashed before any others.A. shifted B. cut C. checked D. donated15. Modern printing equipment quickly turns out duplicate copies of textual and pictorial matter.A. identical B. double C. illustrated D. legib

9、le16. With her youngest child having left home, she felt a pressing need to fill her time.A. tense B. thorough C. urgent D. small17. The role of the performing artist is to interpret, not alter, the notes on a printed sheet of music.A. omit B. reproduce C. compose D. change.18. Aircraft and rocket c

10、an be used to collect radioactive debris, while high-altitude satellites carry detectors for gamma rays and other emissions.A. diffusion B. remains C. glitter transfer19. Although worn out by years of service to his country, Washington accepted the presidency of the United States.A. favored B. honor

11、ed C. exhausted D. weakened20. Between French friends, who have chosen each other for congeniality of their point of view, lively disagreement and sharpness of arguments are the breath of life.A. coexistence B. coincidence C. correlation D. compatibility. ClozeDirections: Read the following passage.

12、 Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET.We do not know when man first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout history. (21) evidence shows, for ex

13、ample, that people who lived over three thousand years ago ate (22) fish.Stealing salt was considered a major crime at certain times in history. In the eighteenth century, for instance, if a person was (23) “stealing salt”, he could be put in prison. History reveals that about ten thousand people we

14、re put in prison during that century (24) stealing salt.In the modern world salt has many uses (25) the dining table. It is used in making glass and airplane parts, in the (26) of crops and in killing weeds. It is also used to make water soft, to melt ice on roads and highways, to make soap, and to

15、(27) colors in cloth.Salt can be obtained in various ways, besides being taken from mines underground. Evaporation of salt water from the ocean or from salt water lakes or small seas is one of the (28) common processes for manufacturing salt. In Australia, it can even be taken from a “salt bush”. Ye

16、t, (29) it is obtained, salt will continue to play an important (30) in the lives of men and women everywhere.21. A. Ancient B. Historic C. Historical D. Old22. A. salt B. salted C. salting D. salty23. A. arrested B. caught C. got D. seized24. A. as B. by C. for D. through25. A. besides B. beyond C.

17、 except D. over26. A. bearing B. developing C. growing D. training27. A. fasten B. fix C. preserve D. tie28. A. little B. many C. much D. more29. A. however B. whatever C. whenever D. wherever30. A. duty B. function C. responsibility D. role. Reading ComprehensionPart A.Directions: There are three r

18、eading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage One(1) Poultry farmers need to adopt strict hygiene standards to curb Asias deadly bird flu v

19、irus, a top Vietnamese official said on the eve of an international conference Wednesday on fighting the disease.(2) A dozen Vietnamese have died of bird flu since Dec. 30, raising concerns that the disease could be re-emerging after an outbreak last year spread to 10 Asian countries, forcing the sl

20、aughter of more than 100 million birds.(3) “Its difficult to change their habit but we need to educate them, Bui Quang Anh, head of the Department for Animal Health, said Tuesday. Once they understand and follow all the instructions, we can prevent the virus from spreading.”(4) Big commercial farms

21、learned from the first outbreak and applied preventive measures, such as strict hygiene standards and regular disinfection, Anh said. The most recent outbreak was only reported in small farms, which failed to apply preventive measures, he said.(5) New regulations should include separating ducks from

22、 chickens, requiring ducks to be raised in cages and improving hygiene measures, Anh said. Ducks should not roam freely in rice fields as they do now in the southern Mekong Delta, he added.(6) The conference will be looking at a variety of issues, including mass vaccinations, flu research, farm hygi

23、ene, animal husbandry practices and improving coordination between animal health and human health agencies.(7) The virus, which in the last year has killed 46 people including 32 from Vietnam and 12 from Thailand has yet to mutate into a form that can be transmitted between humans. But scientists sa

24、y it may mutate to a human form that could become as deadly as the ones that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the 20th century.31. The subject of the international conference mentioned in the first paragraph is aboutA. battling the SARS B. epidemic disease controlC. fighting the a

25、vian flu D. public health32. According to the passage, which of the following statement is true?A. Bird flu was first found in Vietnam.B. Big commercial farms have taken preventive measures to curb bird flu.C. Bui Quang Anh believes that it is impossible to prevent the bird flu.D. 1, 000 birds were

26、killed during the last year outbreak of bird flu.33. According to the passage, which of the following measures are NOT effective in fighting against the bird flu?A. to adopt strict hygiene standards in poultry farms.B. to carry out regular disinfectionC. to raise ducks and chickens separatelyD. to s

27、top poultry trade34. We can infer from the last paragraph thatA. currently the bird flu virus cannot be transmitted between humansB. the bird flu virus is easy to mutate.C. the bird flu has killed millions of peopleD. the bird flu is more deadly than common influenza.35. The best title for the passa

28、ge is .A. Bird Flu: A Deadly DiseaseB. What Can We Learn from the Bird FluC. Vietnam: the Biggest Victim of the Bird FluD. Official Urges Farmers to Curb Bird FluPassage Two(1) The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against

29、 the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism, vented long before against Indian Buddhi

30、sm, which since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity. Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent t

31、hat in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded.(2) In part, the very presence of the missionary evoked attack, they were, after all, the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior, and for a long time they were virtually the

32、 only foreigners whose quotidian labors carried them to the farthest reaches the Chinese empire. For many of the indigenous population, therefore, the missionary stood as a uniquely visible symbol against which opposition to foreign intrusion could e vented. In part too, the missionary was attacked

33、because the manner in which he made his presence felt after 1860 seemed almost calculated to offend. By indignantly waging battle against the notion that China was the sole fountainhead of civilization and, more particularly, by his assault on many facets of Chinese culture, the missionary directly

34、undermined the cultural hegemony of the gentry class. Also, in countless ways, he posed a threat to the gentrys traditional monopoly of social leadership. Missionaries, particularly Catholics, frequently, assumed the garb of the Confucian literati. They were the only persons at the local level, asid

35、e from the gentry who were permitted to communicate with the authorities as social equals, and they enjoyed an extraterritorial status in the interior that gave them greater immunity to Chinese law than had ever been possessed by the gentry.(3) Although it was the avowed policy of the Chinese govern

36、ment after 1860 that the new treaties were to be strictly adhered to, in practice implementation depended on the wholehearted accord provincial authorities. There is abundant evidence that cooperation was dilatory. At the root of this lay the interactive nature of ruler and ruled.(4) In a severely u

37、nderstaffed bureaucracy that ruled as much by suasion as by might, the official, almost always a stranger in the locality of his service, depended on the active cooperation of the local gentry class. Energetic attempts to implement treaty provisions concerning missionary activities, in direct defian

38、ce of gentry sentiment, ran the risk of alienating this class and destroying future effectiveness.36. In a vague way, anti-Christian feeling stemmed from .A. the mere presence of invaders B. a generalized unfocused feelingC. the introduction to the West D. none of the above37. The author would agree

39、 that .A. many problems in China came from internal disorders due to Western influence.B. many problems in China came from China itself and were unrelated to the WestC. scapegoats perform a necessary function and there should be more of themD. all of the above are true.38. With which of the followin

40、g statements would the author agree?A. Ethnocentricism is a manly tradition.B. The disdain toward Christianity was prefigured by a disdain toward Buddhism.C. Although Christianity was not well received in China, Buddhism was.D. The author would agree with A and C.39. Missionaries .A. often dressed t

41、he same way as Chinese scholars didB. were free of the legal constraints that bound the local indigenous populationC. had greater access to authority than Chinese peasantsD. may be described by all of the above40. Provincial authorities .A. cooperated fully with the central governments policyB. were

42、 alive to local feelingsC. were obliged to determine whether local sentiment tolerated implementationD. may be described by B and C.Passage Three(1) The natural environment has, of course, always conditioned technology. For example, the nature of an environment (polar, desert, jungle) engenders the

43、development of technologies appropriate to that environment to enable man to adapt successfully to it. Further, emerging scarcity of some technological resource may ignite a research for, and gradual transition to, a new technology using resources present in the environment in greater abundance, as,

44、 for example, in the case of the gradual change from wood-based to coal-based technology in England that began in Elizabeth times and stretched until the end of the eighteenth century.(2) In modern Western society, environment has begun to condition technology in new ways, although admittedly more i

45、ndirectly. The safety and quality of the environment and public perceptions of it have begun to translate into presidential politics and congressional mandates to regulatory agencies to protect or enhance environmental quality or safety, occasionally even at the cost of some perturbation of the tech

46、-economic status-quo. In France, Italy, and recently the United States, political parties have been formed, organized around a complex of technology/ environment issues. In general, in the last fifteen years, the gradual development of broad-based environmental awareness, the lobbying and litigious activities of environmental inte