研究生学位英语题库和答案

Examination 1:

Dictation (10%)

II. V ocabulary and Structure (15%)

1. It wasn't so much that I disliked her _______ that I just wasn't interested in the

whole business.

A. rather

B. so

C. than

D. as

as so as 以其说，不如说。。。。

2. The returns in the short ______ may be small, but over a number of years the

investment will be well paid.

A. interval

B. range

C. span

D. term

3. So involved with their computers _________ that leaders at summer computer

camps often have to force them to break for sports and games.

A. became the children

B. become the children

C. had the children become

D. do the children become

4. The discussion was so prolonged and exhausting that _________ the speakers

stopped for refreshments.

A. at large

B. at intervals

C. at ease

D. at random

5. He knows little of mathematics, and __________ of chemistry.

A. even more

B. still less

C. no less

D. still more

6. Mr. Smith had an unusual ________: he was first an office clerk, then a sailor, and

ended up as a school teacher.

A. profession

B. occupation

C. position

D. career

7. We were pleased to note that the early morning delivery didn't _______ to the

traffic jam of the busy city.

A. aid

B. amount

C. add

D. attribute

我们高兴地注意到清早的送货并没有加剧这繁忙城市的交通堵塞问题。

8. Conversation becomes weaker in a society that spends so much time listening and

being talked to _______ it has all but lost the will and the skill to speak for itself.

在一个人们花很多时间听他人说话和听他人对自己说话的社会，社会已经失去了为自身说话的意愿和技巧，这时会话的力量就变弱了。

A. as

B. which

C. that

D. what

9. I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat _______.

A. disapproval

B. rejection

C. refusal

D.decline

10. Dozens of scientific groups all over the world have been ________ the goal of a

practical and economic way to use sunlight to split water molecules.

A. pursuing

B. chasing

C. reaching

D. winning

本题的答案是(A) goal只与四个备选答案中的(A)pursuing："追求，寻求"和

(C)reaching"达到"相搭配，故(B)chasing："追逐"和(D)winning："赢得"应立即排

除。由于(C)reaching (the goal)指已达到的目标，实际上句中所说的"利用太阳光

分裂水分子"的方法仍在摸索中，尚未变成现实，故(C)也应排除。(A)pursuing 指正在"寻求"达到上述目标的方法，符合句意，故(A)为正确答案。

11. We should always keep in mind that _______ decisions often lead to bitter regrets.

A. urgent

B. hasty

C. instant

D. prompt

12. The long-awaited Hubble Space Telescope, ________ to orbit the Earth next March, will observe some of the oldest stars in the sky.

A. subject

B. owing

C. available

D. due

13. There were many people present and he appeared only for a few seconds, so I only caught a ________ of him.

A. glance

B. glimpse

C. look

D. sight

14. She had clearly no _________ of doing any work, although she was very well paid.

A. tendency

B. ambition

C. intention

D. willingness

15. Before the students set off, they spent much time setting a limit _________ the expenses of the trip.

A. to

B. about

C. in

D. for

16. It is naive to expect that any society can resolve all the social problems it is faced with _______.

A. for long

B. in and out

C. once for all

D. by nature

【解析】once for all"一劳永逸"。A项for long"长久"；B项in and out"里外"；D项by nature"本质上"。

分析：该句是复合句。it是形式主语，真正的主语是to expect that any society...，it is faced with是修饰problems的定语从句，其前省略了作宾语的关系词。

译文：期盼任何一个社会能够一劳永逸地解决它所面临的各种社会问题的想法太天真了。

17. Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is _________ loud continuous noise.

A. subjected to

B. filled with

C. associated with

D. attached to

【译文】应该考虑要减少人们连续遭受噪音的时间。【试题分析】词组辨析题，要求考生辨析与介词to和with搭配的动词组。【详细解答】subject to表示“使服从，使遭受”。fill with表示“使充满”。associate with表示“联系，联合”。attach to表示“使依附，把……置于”。

18. When the committee __________ to details, the proposed plan seemed impractical.

A. got down

B. set about

C. went off

D. came up

翻译：当委员会开始深入到（着手）细节的时候，先前推荐的计划似乎不可行了。

get down to sth /(do sth) 看是认真对待某事，开始认真做某事，开始深入了解……