武汉大学研究生英语期末考试选择题(附参考答案)

2010年选择题

21. We have a certain stereotypical ______ of a person from a culture and we

interpret his/her behaviour according to this preconception, whether or not the reason for the behaviour is what we think it.

A. connotation

B. preconception

C. recuperation

D. ambiguity

22. Gap in educational investment across regions will ______ the national

economic development as a whole.

A. warrant

B. ration

C. thwart

D. retard

23. Opening the labor market might risk some increase in inequality in wages at

least in the short run, as the wages of skilled workers are ________.

A. bid for

B. bid on

C. bid up

D. bid to

24. The market will goods that yield social benefits in excess of private

benefits and will consequently produce too few of these goods.

A. undervalue

B. devalue

C. underweight

D. value

25. You have taken a ______ hatred to Peter; and you are unreasonably angry with

me because I won’t hate him.

A. persevering

B. perverse

C. perfect

D. previous

26. One of the conditions of ______ is that you must keep the land under cultivation.

A. tenant

B. terminal

C. temperament

D. tenure

27. Even the increase proposed will put pressure on Congress to hold down other

spending or dip into funds for Social Security.

A. marked

B. commissioned

C. earmarked

D. commanded

28. Unfortunately, what the farmers had gained in the autumn harvest was

______by the heavy losses caused by a snowstorm in the winter.

A. offset

B. optimized

C. subsidized

D. unleashed

29. The Arabs, on the other hand, coming from a culture where much closer

distance is the norm, may be feeling that the Americans are being _______.

A. friendly

B. warm

C. standoffish

D. selfish

30. Most little children want a dog or a cat, and they continually ______ their

mothers and fathers until they get one. It is only when the sweet little thing has been brought home that the parents realize how much time and money must be spent on “Tom” or “Bill”.

A. peter

B. pester

C. worry

D. whine

31. As television, and to an extent the internet have _____further through our

society, the effects are perhaps more significant than even we realize.

A. perpetuated

B. persecuted

C. persisted

D. permeated

32. “John has no______. So when his parents passed away, he inherited everything

from the family---properties, bank savings, stocks and a big house. He’s really

living on easy street.” A. siblings B. soberings C. sibilants

D. stillbirths

33. Great efforts have been made to coordinate unemployment ______ and

economic development throughout the country.

A. aggravation

B. exaggeration

C. elimination

D. alleviation

34. Upon this, Jones began to beg earnestly to be let into this secret, and faithfully promised not to ______ it.

A. divulge

B. dispense

C. dissolve

D. disperse

35. In Sudan, deforestation in the last decade led to a quadrupling of the time

women spent gathering fuel wood. This stimulated efforts to promote _______ .

A. deforestation

B. afforestation

C. forests

D. forestry

36. In Egypt, I saw the pyramids and the damaged face of the Sphinx, smiling a

(an)_______ smile. An amazing journey!

A. incurious

B. sweet

C. incredulous

D. inscrutable

37. There was so much pain there, _______ caused by both sides over the years. I

didn’t want to hurt them, nor they me, but the harm had done and it was

irreversible.

A. invisibly

B. inappreciably

C. inadvertently

D.

inadequately

38. Nobody will support such a government that ______ on the rights of individuals.

A. encroaches

B. invades

C. involves

D. interrupts

39. The development of national ______ will be sped up if its officials at all levels

become more conscious of its significance in economic growth.

A. substructure

B. portfolio

C. infrastructure

D. asset

40. With the rapid development of modern society, the ______ of the ancient