2017年北京清华大学考博英语真题

2017年北京清华大学考博英语真题
1. The leaders of the two countries feel it desirable to funds from armaments to health and education.
A. derive
B. deprive
C. dispatch
D. divert
2. To fund the event and also promote the marketing value of the National Games, the organizing committee set up the Marketing Development Department (MDD).
A. beneficent
B. expensive
C. costly
D. luxurious
3. Japanese workers still put in an impressive 42 hours each week, but they are by the South Koreans and Singaporeans who spend an average 46 hours at the grindstone.
A. outdone
B. outweighed
C. outrun
D. outrivaled
4. With the economy of the country going strong, the mood is optimism.
A. presiding
B. circulating
C. floating
D. prevailing
5. The hunter knows quite well that wild animals go seeking their in the jungle after dark.
A. victim
B. favorite
C. prey
D. sacrifice
6. The company, EDS, is smart enough to its 90,000-person workforce into independent micro teams that work directly with individual clients on creative business solutions.
A. break out 、
B. break off
C. break from
D. break down
7. They agreed to take their disputes before the committee and by its decisions.
A. stand
B. observe
C. abide
D. precede
8. Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered because its subject was very .
A. obscure
B. indefinite
C. dubious
D. intriguing
9. Please don’t too much on the painful memories. Everything will be all right.
A. hesitate
B. finger
C. retain
D. dwell
10. near-perfect English language skills, the students were keen to explore every aspect of Australian culture, from Aussie eating customs to family and student life, popular culture, the natural landscape and the ever-popular Australian native animals.
A. Possessing
B. Acquiring
C. Apprehending
D. Interpreting
11. The closing candidate , immediately after the polls had closed.
A. confessed
B. conceded
C. concurred
D. admitted
12. We have to the routine expenditure, otherwise it will be impossible for us to afford a car.
A. decline
B. condense
C. curtail
D. dwindle
13. The board of directors have already discussed the subject in the previous meetings and they will handle it in all its aspects.
A. in place
B. at length
C. on end
D. off and on
14. After the disaster of flood，people all over the village made effort to rebuild their home.
A. superfluous
B. tenuous
C. strenuous
D. fatuous
15.Written at least 100 years ago, the handwriting faded and certainly became .
A. infinite
B. illegible
C. infectious
D. immune
16.It is doubtful whether anyone can be a truly observer of events.
A. inadequate
B. impassive
C. genius
D. impartial
17.She was by the lack of appreciation shown of her hard work.
A. frustrated
B. dispersed
C. functioned
D. displaced
18.The shuttle exploded in the air suddenly and broke into at once.
A. diversity
B. fragments
C. doctrine
D. drought
19.As the society has rigid social , everyone knows his role in the society.
A. hemisphere
B. contempt
C. controversy
D. hierarchy
20.He was by the noise outside yesterday evening and could not concentrate on his study.
A. pecked
B. oriented
C. perturbed
D. paddled
21.He is often inclined to in other peoples affairs，which is none of his business.
A. manipulate
B. lumber
C. meddle
D. litter
22.He was to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age.
A. deduced
B. damped
C. diminished
D. destined
23.He knew that he would be punished severely because of his serious error. Therefore he away the day before yesterday.
A. cautioned
B. fled
C. chattered
D. civilized
24.The evil maimers would be root and branch due to the forceful action taken by the local government.
A. exterminated
B. exemplified
C. facilitated
D. emitted
25.He told a story about his sister who was in a sad when she was ill and had no money.
A. plight
B. polarization
C. plague
D. pigment
26.He added a to his letter by saying that he would arrive before 8 pm.
A. presidency
B. prestige
C. postscript
D. preliminary
27.It was clear that the storm his arrival by two hours.
A. retarded
B. retired
C. refrained
D. retreated
28.This problem should be discussed first, for it takes over all the other issues.
A. precedence
B. prosperity
C. presumption
D. probability
29.He cut the string and held up the two to tie the box.
A. segments
B. sediments
C. seizures
D. secretes
30.That tragedy distressed me so much that I used to keep indoors and go out only necessity.
A. within reach of
B. for fear of
C. by means of
D. in case of
31.Banks shall be unable to , or claim relief against the first 15% of any loan or bankrupted debt left with them.
A. write off
B. put aside
C. shrink from
D. come over
32.any advice which you can get from the interviewer and follow up suggestions for improving your presentation and qualifications.
A. Take the most of
B. Keep the most of
C. Have the most of
D. Make the most of
33. There is a loss of self-confidence, a sense of personal failure, great anger and a feeling of being utterly •
A. let alone
B. let out
C. let down
D. let on
34. The recovery and of the country，s economy has also been accompanied by increasing demands for high quality industrial sites inattractive locations.
A. renewal
B. revival
C. recession
D. relief
35. In fact the purchasing power of a single person’s pension in Hong Kong was only 70 per cent of the value of the Singapore pension.
A. equivalent
B. similar
C. consistent
D. identical
36. It seems a reasonable rule of thumb that any genuine offer of help and support from people or organizations will be accompanied by a name and address, and a willingness to be as to their motive in making contact.
A. seen through
B. checked out
C. touched on
D. accounted to
37. I shall the loss of my reading-glasses in newspaper with a reward for the finder.
A. advertise
B. inform
C. announce
D. publish
38. The poor nutrition in the early stages of infancy can adult growth.
A. degenerate
B. deteriorate
C. boost
D. retard
39. She had a terrible accident, but she wasn’t killed.
A. at all events
B. in the long run
C. at large
D. in vain
40. His weak chest him to winter illness.
A.predicts
B. preoccupies
C. prevails
D. predisposes
A trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline: “Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals.”
The announcement, from the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America received wide media attention. On NBC's Today Show, Lea Thompson said, “According to a new online survey, one in 10 teenagers have an underage friend who has ordered beer, wine or liquor over the internet. More than a third think they can easily do it and nearly half think they won't get caught.”Several newspapers mentioned the study, including USA Today and the Record of New Jersey. The news even made Australia's Gold Coast Bulletin.
Are millions of kids really buying booze online？ To arrive at that jarring headline, the group used some questionable logic to pump up results from a survey that was already tilted in favor of finding a large number of online buyer.
For starters, consider the source. The trade group that commissioned the survey has long fought efforts to expand online sales of alcohol; its members are local distributors who compete with online liquor sellers. Some of the news coverage pointed out that conflict of interest, though reports didn't delve more deeply into how the numbers were computed.
The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America hired Teenage Research Unlimited, a research company, to design the study. Teenage Research, in turn, hired San Diego polling firm Luth Research to put the questions to 1,001 people between the ages of 14 and 20in an online survey. Luth gets people to participate in its surveys in part by advertising them online and offering small cash awards—typically less than $ 5 for short surveys.
People who agree to participate in online surveys are, by definition, internet users,
something that not all teens are. （Also, people who actually take the time to complete such surveys may be more likely to be active, or heavy internet users. ）It's safe to say that kids who use the internet regularly are more likely to shop online than those who don't. Teenage Research Unlimited told me it weighted the survey results to adjust for age, sex, ethnicity and geography of respondents, but had no way to adjust for degree of internet usage.
Regardless, the survey found that, after weighting, just 2.1 points of the 1,001 respondents bought alcohol online—compared, with 56 points who had consumed alcohol. Making the questionable assumption that their sample was representative of all Americans aged 14 to 20 with access to the internet—and not just those with the time and inclination to participate in online surveys—the researchers concluded that 551,000 were buying alcohol online.
But that falls far short of the reported “millions of kids”. To justify that headline, the wholesalers' group focused on another part of the survey that asked respondents if they knew a teen who had purchased alcohol online. Some 12 points said they did. Of course, it's ridiculous to extrapolate from a state like that—one buyer could be known by many people, and it's impossible to measure overlap. Consider a high school of 1,000 students, with 20 who have bought booze on line and 100 who know about the purchases. If 100 of the school's students are surveyed at random, you'd expect to find two who have bought and 10 who know someone who has—but that still represents only two buyers, not 10．（Not to mention the fact that thinking you know someone who has ordered beer online is quite different from ordering a six pack yourself. ）
Karen Gravois Elliott, a spokeswoman for the wholesalers' group, told me, “The numbers are real,” but referred questions about methodology to Teenage Research. When I asked her about the potential problems of conducting the survey online, she said the medium was a strength of the survey: “We specifically wanted to look at the teenage online population.”
Nahme Chokeir, a vice president of client service for San Diego-based Luth Research Inc., told me that some of his online panel comes from word of mouth, which wouldn't necessarily skew toward heavy internet users. He added that some clients design surveys to screen respondents by online usage, though Teenage Research didn't.
I asked Michael Wood, a vice president at Teenage Research who worked on the survey，whether one could say, as the liquor trade group did, that millions of teenagers had bought alcohol online. “You can't,” he replied, adding, “This is their press release.”
41．Which of the following is the message that this passage is trying to convey？
A．The severe social consequences of kids buying alcohol online.
B．The hidden drawback of the American educational system.
C．The influence of wide coverage of news media.
D．The problems in statistic methodology in social survey.
42．According to the author, what is wrong with the report about kids buying alcohol？
A．It is unethical to offer cash awards to subjects of survey.
B．The numbers in this report were falsified.
C． The samples and statistic methods were not used logically.
D．The study designers and survey conductors were bribed.
43．Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the word “extrapolate”in paragraph 8？
A．Conduct. B． Infer. C．Deduct. D．Whittle.
44．By saying “To justify that headline, the wholesalers' group focused on another part of the survey that asked respondents if they knew a teen who had purchased alcohol online”, the author implies that ______.
A．it is absurd to conduct a survey among teenagers
B．the ways the wholesalers' group conducted surveys are statistically questionable
C．this kinds of survey is preliminary, therefore undependable
D．teenagers might not be honest since buying alcohol online is an indecent behavior
45．Which of the following is more likely to be the source for problems in this survey？
A．This survey is tilted in favor of local alcohol distributors, who have a conflict of interest with online sellers.
B．The data collection and analysis are not scientific and logical.
C．Subjects are not sampled in a right way and can not represent the whole American
teenage population.
D．The survey results are affected by gifts to subjects, which can be misleading.。