1998年社科院博士生入学考试英语真题及答案

1998年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试试卷

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Each student has an answer sheet on which is to be written the student’s examination ID number. All answers to the multiple choice questions of parts Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲand Ⅳare to be written on this answer sheet. Circle the letter that is your answer.

PART Ⅰ:VOCABULARY ［15%］

DIRECTIONS FOR SECTION A: On your answer sheet, circle the answer that best completes the sentence.

1. The day was crisp and sharp, but suddenly a misty rain began to fall and the landscape.

a. hid

b. blurred

c. relieved

d. belittled

2. this coming Thursday, it will be too late to enrol for the course.

a. As of

b. As for

c. As to

d. As on

3. Those who let uncertainty rarely achieve much.

a . turn them down b. send them down

c. weigh them down

d. huddle down

4. The speaker went on and on, to his listeners obvious boredom.

a. obligated

b. obsessive

c. obvious

d. oblivious

5. Such as self-respect and industriousness merit the full backing of an employer.

a. advantages

b. traits

c. interests

d. shortcomings

6. The police inspector, having received new information from a confidential source, decided to enlarge the or his enquiry.

a. scope

b. magnitude

c. dimension

d. volume

7. An intelligent TV viewer may occasionally become enraged by the argumentation in commercials.

a. imperative

b. fallacious

c. persuasive

d. fabulous

8. flees if one is constantly subjected to demeaning orders.

a. Prime

b. Harassment

c. Conceit

d. Pride

9. popularity of subject matter and frequency of use, the books on the two middle shelves will be the most helpful to you.

a. As of

b. As regards

c. As from

d. As against

10. I was in my reading, and didn’t at first hear the doorbell ring.

a. immured

b. immersed

c. busy

d. infatuated

11. Their chances of winning are slight, given that their opponents are so .

a. well-known

b. vital

c. formidable

d. distinguished

12. When I reach home after an impossible day’s work, I feel a general to watch TV.

a. inducement

b. intention

c. inclination

d. interest

13. Fallen electric lines, rubble, ruins and the occasional house--such is the destruction wrought by the war.

a. neglected

b. desolate

c. tragic

d. chopped

14. Geographic illiteracy is widespread, and hardly a month passes without from some survey revealing new depths of ignorance.

a. words

b. a word

c. word

d. the word

15. of course it is possible that the new policy may have some adverse effects, but it is our that these will be negligible.

a. constitution

b. condition

c. conviction

d. considering

DIRECTIONS FOR SECTION B: On your answer sheet, circle the letter that is the closest synonym to the underlined word.

16. Serial murderers rarely deviate from a certain type of prey.

a. attacker

b. nourishment

c. victim

d. enemy

17. The new guppies I bought have just a tinge of yellow.

a. dot

b. mark

c. touch

d. tingle

18. He covered the fish lavishly with sauce.

a. sparingly

b. completely

c. generously

d. simply

19. Machiavelli cautions the prince not to relinquish power under passing duress.

a. gain

b. hold

c. control

d. abandon

20. The play was hilarious!

a. a merry one

b. a prudish one

c. sedate

d. prodigious

21. The Salk polio vaccine provides immunity from that disease.

a. security

b. publicity

c. liability

d. help

22. The Smithsonian houses a miscellaneous collection of aircraft, artifacts, butterflies, stones

［both precious and common］, and so on.

a. a heterogeneous

b. an overwhelming

c. a unified

d. a vast

23. The jungles of the sub-Sahara, afflicted with tse-tse and mosquitos, is an unhealthy area.

a. requiring inoculation against

b. heated by

c. flooded by

d. plagued by

24. He is constantly late, and ill-prepared when he does finally arrive. He is jeopardizing his future.

a. developing

b. endangering

c. assuring

d. destroying

25.Chaos theory stresses the magnitude of the results produced by so small an event as the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings.