复旦大学考博英语模拟题

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Paper One

Part

Ⅰ

Vocabulary and Structure

1. T

om ran from the house in a terrible rage, his arms ______in the air

.

A. overriding

B. flailing

C. overacting

D. forsaking

2. They have been arrested as suspected drug______.

A. abortion

B. vector

C. uranium

D. traffickers

3. She had a shy

, retiring side to her personality that was completely at odds with her public______.

A. persona

B. tummy

C. steppe

D. rendezvous

4. Hong Kong was ______to Britain after the Opium War

.

A. congregated

B. castigated

C. ceded

D. exceeded

5. Harry vacuum cleaners work entirely by______.

A. suffrage

B. suction

C. suede

D. subtlety

6. The company has consistently denied responsibility

, but it agreed to the settlement to avoid the expense

of______.

A. tee

B. tech

C. llama

D. litigation

7. English primrose need to be grown in rich damp soil with plenty of ______or compost worked into it.

A. marijuana

B. manure

C. malt

D. mallet

8. We spent the day ______through forests and over mountains.

A. drudging

B. dribbling

C. trekking

D. thumping

9. The organization has so far raised $$2.5 million to finance bone ______trans- plants for children.

A. marrow

B. moron

C. mussel

D. mire

10. Napoleon was ______at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.

A. sublimated

B. interspersed

C. vanquished

D. interposed

11.

Sarah ______articles to the New York Times from time to time.

A. distributes

B. issues

C. subscribes

D. contributes

12. The rain looked as though it had ______for the night.

A. set off

B. set in

C. set out

D. set up

13.

The

physician

had

to

visit

his

patient

six

______days

before

the

patient

could

be

considered

in

a

fair

condition.

A. consequent

B. consecutive

C. consistent

D. conservative

14. A research worker might ______that the existence of such kind of disease is due to the pollution of the

area.

A. refer

B. infer

C. confer

D. prefer

15. Old Mr

. Brown's condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will

A. pull off

B. pull up

C. pull through

D. pull out

16. When the nurse took his temperature, it was three degrees above______.

A. average

B. regular

C. normal

D. ordinary

17. Processes in the human body are not in all respects exactly ______to those, that can be produced in the

experimental animals.

A. comparative

B. comparable

C. competitive

D. compatible

18. The doctor assured Susan that the pain would ______one hour after she took the medicine.

A. wear out

B. wear down

C. wear away

D. wear on

19. When confronted with such questions, my mind goes______, and I can hardly remember my own date of

birth.

A. dim

B. vain

C. faint

D. blank

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20. The best solution to the problem can only be found by a process of trail and

A. mistake

B. error

C. success

D. experiment

21. Changing from solid to liquid, water takes in heat from all substances near it, and this ______produces

artificial cold surrounding it.

A. absorption

B. transition

C. consumption

D. interaction

22. While some bacteria are beneficial, others are ______in that they cause disease.

A. detrimental

B. prodigious

C. intrusive

D. mordant

23. Measuring skin fold thickness is considered to be an_____ method for estimating the amount of fat on one's

body

.

A. accessible

B. accountable

C. acceptable

D. adaptable

24. The continuous unrest was ______the nation's economy

.

A. exaggerating

B. aggravating

C. amending

D. fastening

25. All parts of this machine are______, so that it is very simple to get replacements for them.

A. specialized

B. standardized

C. minimized

D. modernized

26. The failure of the experiment to produce the expected result should alone be ______to your carelessness.

A. contributed

B. ascribed

C. distributed

D. prescribed

27. The economic development of that small country is to a considerable extent limited by the ______of raw

materials and low consumption level.

A. abundance

B. inflation

C. deficiency

D. installment

28. Susan made careful ______as to the kinds of cake and candy needed for her party

.

A. stimulation

B. appreciation

C. identification

D. specification

29. If excellent work results in frequent pay increases or promotions, the workers will have greater ______to

produce.

A. incentive

B. initiative

C. instruction

D. instinct

30. Substances, whether in the solid, liquid, or gaseous state, possess______ which are independent of the

force of cohesion.

A. attributes

B. tendencies

C. elements

D. ingredients

Part

Ⅱ

Reading Comprehension

(1)

One busy day

, I was racing around trying to get too much done, and I exclaimed to my three kids in the

car

,

mean feed two birds with one crumb, Mom, don't you?

culture of war

. I had used

child can become conscious of using a new language of peace, then there is hope.

Think

about

the

business

language:

strategies,

bullets,

high-caliber

,

power

point;

about

win-lose

sports

language like

simulate the most gruesome annihilations over and over

. The lies of propaganda, one-sided media coverage, the

alienation of others (those terrorists, the axis of evil), all part of the

biggest lie of all is that nuclear weapons are going to protect us. Nuclear weapons are an assault on our life, our

planet, and on the Creator of the universe. It seems to afflict what our people could be as a result of the mess

seeming

too

big

to

handle

for

the

average

person,

disconnected

and

disempowered.

When

the

world

food

programme for children equals 1/70th of the annual world military expense, we see what a crisis we are in.

Yet it inspired hope with the life examples of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother

T

eresa,

Oscar

Romero

and

others.

Each

spiritual

leader

lived

the

maxim,

justice,

no

peace,

nonviolently

insisting on the truth, speaking truth to power without harming others or stripping their dignity

. Imagine if we

focused on this commonality

, rather than what divides us; imagine if religions and religious leaders promulgated a

global culture of peace and tolerance. We do not have to feel overwhelmed; that U. N. structures, NGO documents,

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UNESCO declarations, peoples' ideas for education exist already

, that the internet is a rich source of counterculture

information, connectedness and hope. Of what use is a vote or medical care in a war-torn society? A culture of war

is like a house of cards; the house can fall and give rise, like the phoenix, to a new culture of peace. There are

three fundamental ways to build a culture of peace: understand, participate, communicate. I'll bet our children

can think of 50 more, going out and waging peace.

31. How does the author feel about the current culture?

A. Gratified.

B. Ashamed.

C. Indignant.

D. Panicked.

32. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A. The public is surrounded by various violence and lies.

B. So far we are deeply immersed in the culture of war

.

C. Nuclear weapons are vivid expression of a culture of war

.

D. There is another arms race in someplace of the world.

33. By saying

…

tolerance.

(Line 5, Para. 3) the

author means ______.

A. peace is the only way to achieve our human potential

B. peace is a human right and can not be deprived of

C. without peace, all other human rights are illusory

D. they should lead the faithful away from extremes

34. The statement

A. a culture of war can be destroyed

B. a culture of war is not safe and reliable

C. a culture of war will lead to wars easily

D. a culture of war can regenerate

35. From the passage we learn that the author is______.

A. an enthusiast in world peace

B. a conscientious linguistician

C. a sympathizer with poor children

D. a devotional Christian

(2)

There are some that would argue that hospitals are no place for dogs, while they are wrong. At least

according to new research reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2005. For people

hospitalized with advanced heart disease, it is better to have visitors than to lie quietly alone. But one type of

visitor seems to be especially beneficial, researchers reported on T

uesday

. That visitor is a dog. In the first

controlled study of the effects of pet therapy in a random sample of acute and critically ill heart patients, anxiety

as measured on a standard rating scale dropped 24 percent for those visited by a dog and a human volunteer

, by 10

percent for those visited by a volunteer alone and not at all for those with no visitors. Similar results were found in

measures of heart and lung function.

The senior author of the Pet Therapy Study

, Kathie M. Cole, said 76 patients with heart failure, a condition

that affects an estimated five million Americans, were randomly assigned one of the three visit types. The dogs,

from 12 breeds, were screened for behavior and disease before participating in the study

.

first

group,

Ms. Cole

said,

to

smile

and

immediately

engaged in conversation

with

dog

and

volunteer

.

right before the 12-minute visit, eight minutes into it and four minutes after it was over

.

Besides the

anxiety measurement,

researchers found, patients'

levels of

epinephrine,

a

hormone the

body

makes when under stress, dropped 17 percent when visited by a person and a dog, and 2 percent when visited by

only

a

person.

Epinephrine

levels

rose

an

average

of

7

percent

in

the

unvisited

group

in the

study

,

which

was

financed by the Pet Care Trust Foundation, a nonprofit group. Pressure in the heart's top left chamber dropped 10

percent after a visit by volunteer and dog. The same pressure rose 3 percent for those visited by a volunteer and 5

percent for the unvisited group. Pressure in the pulmonary artery dropped 5 percent during and after a visit by

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volunteer and dog, but rose in the other two groups. Ms. Cole recommended further studies to determine how long

the benefits lasted.

, calmer and feel more loved.

That is huge when you are scared and not feeling well.

36. The sentence

…

A. the measurement of patient's heart and lung function drops when without visitor

B. human volunteers only can't provide help for the patient's heart and lung function

C. patient's heart and lung work more effectively when visited by dog and volunteer

D. none of the above

37. How can we know the heart patient is feeling better according to the study?

A. When the anxiety measurement doesn't change.

B. When the patient's level of epinephrine drops.

C. When he expresses feelings of being loved by visitors.

D. When he shows the willingness to communicate with people.

38. Which one is used by researchers to determine the benefit of having a dog visitor?

A. Blood pressure measurement.

B. Happiness measurement.

C. Anxiety measurement.

D. Heart rhythm measurement.

39. T

o which of the following statements would Ms. Cole most likely agree?

A. Involve pet therapy into normal cures.

B. Feed pets in every family

.

C. Use the dogs in scientific research.

D. Avoid patient's encounter with dogs.

40. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A. People should provide moderate places for dogs in the hospitals.

B. The benefits of being with dogs for heart patients can't last long.

C. Encountering dogs will cause the abnormal heart rate of patients.

D. Study identifies that dog can be the heart patients' best friend.

(3)

Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer

. He asked the crowd to

gather in the auction room to bid for various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures and finally

names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called

when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a raised platform.

The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction and the English word comes from the Latin

meaning

meaning

. In England in the

eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were often sold

and bids could be made while it was burning.

Practically

all

goods

can

be

sold

by

auction.

Among

these

are

coffee,

skins,

wool,

tea,

cocoa,

furs,

fruit,

vegetables and wines.

Auction sales are also usual for land and property

, antique furniture, pictures, rare books,

old china and works of art. The auction rooms at Chritie's and Sotheby's in London and New York are world famous.

An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when

they can be viewed by the buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each

group of goods to be sold together

, called a

. The auctioneer need not begin with lot

one and continue the numerical order; he may wait until he notices the fact that certain

buyers are in the room

and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneer's services are paid for in the form of a

percentage of the price the goods are sold for

. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the

bidding as high as possible.

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The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods he is selling, and he should

be acquainted with regular buyers of such goods. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will

also

play

on

the

rivalries

among

his

buyers

and

succeed

in

getting

a

high

price

by

encouraging

two

business

competitors to bid against each other

. It is largely on his advice that a seller wilt fix a

price

below

which

the

goods

cannot

be

sold.

Even

the

best

auctioneers,

however

,

find

it

difficult

to

stop

a

whereby

dealers

illegally

arrange

beforehand

not

to

bid

against

each

other

,

but

nominate

one

of

themselves as the only bidder

, in the hope of buying goods at extremely low prices. If such a

the real auction sale takes place privately afterwards among the dealers.

41. The end of bidding is called

A. the auctioneer knocks on the table______.

B. The auctioneer names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods

C. the goods are knocked down onto the table

D. the auctioneer bangs the table with a hammer

42. In England a candle used to burn at auction sales______.

A. because the auction sales took place at night

B. as a signal for the crowd to gather

C. to keep the auction room warm

D. to limit the time when offers of prices could be made

45.

In

the

sentence

Romans

usually

sold

in

this

way

the

spoils

taken

in

war

,

the

word

most

probably means______.

A. useless goods

B. spears

C. various kinds of food

D. property taken from the enemy

44. The auctioneer may decide to sell the

A. he sometimes wants to confuse the buyers

B. he knows from experience that certain people will want to buy certain items

C. he wants to keep certain people waiting

D. he wants to reduce the number of buyers

45. An auction catalogue gives buyers______.

A. the current market values of the goods

B. details of the goods to be sold

C. the order in which goods are to be sold

D. free admission to the auction sale

(4)

It is not unusual for chief executives to collect millions of dollars a year in pay

, stock options, and bonuses. In

the

last

fifteen

years,

while

executive

remuneration

rose,

taxes

in

the

highest

income

bosses

went

down.

Millionaires are now commonplace.

Amiability is not a prerequisite for rising to the top, and there are a number of chief executive officers with

legendary bad tempers. It is not the boss' job to worry about the well-being of his subordinates although the man

with many enemies will be swept out more quickly in hard times; it is the company he worries about. His business

savvy is supposed to be based on intimate knowledge of his company and the industry so he goes home nightly with

a full briefcase. At the very top

—

and on the way up

—

executives are exceedingly dedicated.

The

American

executive

must

be

capable

of

enough

small

talk

to

get

him

through

the

social

part

of

his

schedule, but he is probably not a highly cultured individual or an intellectual. Although his wife may be on the

board

of

the

symphony

or

opera,

he himself

has

little

time

for such

pursuits.

His

reading

may

largely concern

business and management, despite interests in other fields. Golf provides him with a sportive outlet that combines

with some useful socializing.

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