研究生公共英语复习题

研究生英语复习题

I.

Vocabulary

Section A

1.

Embarrassed, he slung her over his shoulder and made a hasty

exit.

A. turn

B. leap

C. speech

D. leave

2. The party leader regards the result of the election as a personal

triumph

.

A. victory

B. celebration

C. satisfaction

D. propaganda

3. Eighty-five percent of people

polled

recently had not a clue what is meant by InfoTech,

although 53% of those polled said they thought it sounded pretty important.

A. inspected

B. registered

C. voted

D. nominated

4. Though he is a famous writer, his new book, we can only say, is

prosaic

.

A. pedestrian

B. annoying

C. dull

D. not so good

5. He suffered a long period of

depression

before his first suicide attempt.

A. inoculation

B. hypertension

C. ailments

D. dejection

6. His pleasant ways

beguiled

me into thinking that he was my good friend.

A. deprived

B. deceived

C. diverted

D. despised

7. The vast crowd bust into

spontaneous

cheering at the skillful play.

A. earnest

B. vocanic

C. hearty

D. automatic

8. His beautiful writing is

akin to

drawing.

A. as

B. from

C. above

D. like

9. Not everyone in the intelligence community was convinced the document was

genuine

.

A. standard

B. valid

C. neat

D. lucid

10. After his father died, Bill

took on

the management of the factory.

A. got

B. held

C. organized

D. undertook

11. It would be a way of preserving animals that are dying out because their

habitat

is being

destroyed.

A. mate

B. pray

C. territory

D. enemy

12. I bought this cloth cheap because there is a small

defect

in it,

A. spot

B. dot

C. point

D. flaw

13.

This patient must

on no account

be left unattended, even for one minute.

A. not repeatedly

B. not in any circumstances

C. without any reason

D. with no

explanation

14.

He

derided

the

idea

that

poverty

could

be

eliminated

simply

by

handing

out

money

to

the

poor.

A. ridiculed

B. advocated

C. challenged

D. rejected

15.

The majority of

prospective

adoptive parents use an adoption agency, while others consult

adoption facilitators in the United States.

A. confident

B. justified

C. sensible

D. potential

16.

I

can’t

claim

credit

for

her

English

proficiency;

after

all,

she

only

came

to

my

class

this

semester.

A. ask for money

B. expect payment

C. say that I deserve praise

D. declare that I am grateful

17.

They found substantial evidence that

exposure

to nerve gas was responsible for the

verteran

’

s symptoms.

A. contact

B. betrayal

C. exhibition

D. publication

18.

Only a few Furgans remain alive today, a

fading

anthropological link with the first native

Americans.

A. condescending

B. amplifying

C. prosperous

D. vanishing

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19. His knowledge on the subject seems to be

on a par with

my own.

A. different from

B. the same as

C. related to

D. in accordance

with

20. Can a novelist remain

indifferent to

the problems of the world in which he lives?

A. detached from

B. disobedient to

C. disinterested in

D. disable to

21.

He was as deliberate in his speech as he was in his work, weighing his words momentously,

even if they were only going to add up to

a casual

remark.

A. a witty

B. an indifferent

C. an offending

D. a humorous

22. You should have bought the shares a month ago, and now you

’

ve

missed the party

..

A. been slow

B. lost a good chance

C. failed

D. wasted the money

23. The description of the scene was so

pathetic

that I wept all through it.

A. fascinating

B. affecting

C. suspensive

D. passionate

24. The inventor was

vilified

in yesterday’s newspaper.

A. abused

B. slandered

C. praised

D. criticized

25. Th

e term ‘paper” is a little misleading when yon

consider the strength and

endurance

of the

construction material.

A. lasting quality

B. unique

C. element

D. current status

26.

He

was

a

professor

’

s son

and

destined

to

follow

the

educational

profession

when

he was

grown up.

A. fated

B. determined

C. descended

D. reluctant

27. Mr. Green

posed

as a rich man though he owed more than he owned.

A. worked

B. looked

C. clothed

D. behaved

28. He just laughed, and

dismissed

the ideas as unimportant.

A. treated

B. judged

C. estimated

D. taken

29. The patient

clenched

the arms of the dentist

’

s chair.

A. grasped

B. touched

C. placed

D. pressed

30. The retiring professor was

exalted

by his colleague.

A. criticized

B. honored

C. driven out

D. examined

答案：

1-5

——

DAADD

6-10

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BDDAD

11-15

——

CDBAD

16-20

——

CADBA

21-25

——

BBBBA

26-30

——

ADAAB

Section B

1.

Americans ________ with but one primitive bathroom on each floor revolted in horror.

A. facing

B. confronted

C. threatened

D. confused

2. The United States has 10 percent of the total petroleum ________ of the world in its own

territory, and has been a major producer for decades.

A. reservoirs

B. reservations

C. reserves

D. reproductions

3.

Their small protest _______ a mass demonstration.

A. brought

B. touched

C. triggered

D. raised

4. ________, ads for phony business opportunities appear in the classified pages of daily and

weekly newspapers and magazines, and online.

A. Specially

B. Typically

C. Especially

D. Commonly

5. In 2000 I visited Berkeley, where I began my long ______ with this world famous university.

A. interaction

B. nomination

C. reconstruction

D. association

6.

In some cases, in order to temper the children, the parents should _________ .

A. give them no advice

B. give them some advice

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