1993中国地质大学考博英语试题

19931.Chicago’s Sears Tower, now the taller building in the world, rises1,522 feet from the ground to the top ofits antenna.2.Vitamin E, which is found in nutritious foods such as green vegetables and whole grains, action as anantioxidant in cell membranes.3.Social stratification can based on many criteria, such as weaith, cultural level, legal status, birth, personalqualities, and idoology.4.Early in United States history, the rights of women were championed in Wyoming,the state where theywere first guaranteed the right to vote.5.Only after Theodore Roosevelt become president did conservation developed into a major enviromentalissue in the United States.6.If he were alive today, F. Scott Fitzgerald might be surprised to learn that his novel The Graet Gdtsbyhaving transcended its own age and tuined into a timeless classic.7.Many environmentalists fear that the earth will run out essential natural resources before the end of thetwentieth century.8.The personality traits of children are often similar to those that of their parents, but these traits are notalways genetically conditioned.9.Wages and salaries account for nearly three fourths of the total nationally income generated in the UnitedStates annually10.Father evidence is needed to support recent research which suggests that certain chemicals found inbroccoli may act as cancer preventatives.11.Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest poets of the Unite States, was entirely almost unknow to the pople ofher own time.12.The National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City pay tribute to everyone associated with whatAmericans call the “Old West”13.Scientist can detect when someone is dreaming by using an electroencephalograph, a machine that registersdifference brain waves in a sleeping individual.14.Because geophysics embraces the concepts, data, and methods of various other science, so it is very broad inscope, and its boundaries are hard to define.15.Despite the broad acclaim of him novels, James Baldwin is most highly repected as an essayist and socialcritie.16.In proportion to its size, the hungriest animal is the shrew, which must consume several times their ownweight every day.17.The novels of Pearl S.Buck show a knee understanding of China and the Chinese people, knowledge whichlearned by living there for many years.18.North America has eight time zone ranging from Newfoundland on the East Coast to Alaska on the WestCoast.19.Dams are used to control flooding, provide water for irrigation,and generating electricity for thesurrounding area.19931.I know that Professor Wang and Ms Li were at the meeting.Who ______was there?2.At lunch today he told us ______his trip to Zhengzhou.It seems he had a lot of fun there.All of us were______,because we don’t think of Zhengzhou as an amusing place.3.He has never taken any dancing lessons,yet he dances very______4.I ____ this dress made last month._______do you think of it?5.I can’t read this book in Russian.Do you know if it’s been______ _______ English yet?6.A:She’s very busy this week.I _______if she’ll be able to go to the party.B:I ____ it .She just has too much work to do.7.John left for New York yesterday.I’m not ____(=I don’t really know)when he’ll____back here.8.I hear you’re a geophysical consultant.So you_____if I ask you how much money you_____in an average month?9.What’s the______between a “vacation” and a “holiday”?I keep getting the two words mixed up.10.We ______about 400 people to attend the lecture,but ______only 250 came.11.I told that fellow to stop making so much noise half an hour____,but he still_____stopped.12.I t’s not ______to stare at people.13.You’re getting fat.You’d _____lose some_____or your health is going to suffer.14.He felt very_______when he insisted on paying the _____at the restaurant and then discovered that he’d left all his money at home.As he ____the problem and asked his friends to pay,his face turned bright red.15.A:I’m conducting a survey.Could you tell me how_____hours a day you_______television?B:That’s hard to say.I can’t give you an exact figure.A:It doesn’t matter.All I need is a rough_____.16.Have you ever______a horse?They’re not a very comfortable means of transportation.17.Our lab is on the fifth floor of that ten-storey_______ down the street.18.They’re_______money to buy a new refrigerator.19.______to the schedule,their plane is arriving at 11:35.______I go to the airport to meet them or would you prefer to?20.Excuse me,sir.Smoking is _____here.You’ll have to______your cigarette out or leave the hall.。