201103中科院博士英语真题及答案

GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, CHINESE ACADEMY

OF SCIENCES ENGLISH ENTRANCE

EXAMINATION

FOR

DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

March 2011

PAPER ONE

PART ⅠVOCABULARY(15 minutes, 10points, 0. 5point each)

Directions: Choose the word or expression below each sentence that best completes the statement, and mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square bracket on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

1. My father was a nuclear engineer, a very academically _________ Man with multiple degrees from prestigious institutions.

A. promoted

B. activated

C. oriented

D. functioned

2. Public _________ for the usually low-budget, high-quality films has enabled the independent film industry to grow and thrive.

A. appreciation

B. recognition

C. gratitude

D. tolerance

3. Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, an unlikely television program, has become a surprising success with a _________ fan base.

A. contributed

B. devoted

C. revered

D. scared

4. Pop culture doesn't _________ to strict rules; it enjoys being jazzy, unpredictable, chaotic.

A. adhere

B. lend

C. expose

D. commit

5. Intellectual property is a kind of _________ monopoly, which should be used properly or else would disrupt healthy competition order.

A. legible

B. legendary

C. lenient

D. legitimate

6. I am thankful to the company for giving me such a chance, and I earnestly hope that I will _________ everyone’s expectations.

A. boil down to

B. look forward to

C. live up to

D. catch on to

7. The image of an unfortunate resident having to climb 20 flights of stairs because the lift is _________ is now a common one.

A. out of the way

B. on order

C. out of order

D. in no way

8. My eyes had become _________ to the now semi-darkness, so I could pick out shapes about seventy-five yards away.

A. inclined

B. accustomed

C. vulnerable

D. sensitive

9. Despite what I’d been told about the local people’s attitude to strangers, _________ did I encounter any rudeness.

A. at no time

B. in no time

C. at any time

D. at some time

10. In times of severe _________ companies are often forced to make massive job cuts in order to survive.

A. retreat B, retrospect C. reduction D. recession

11. Sport was integral to the national and local press, TV and, to a diminishing _________ , to radio.

A. extent

B. scope

C. scale

D. range

12. Unless your handwriting is _________ , or the form specifically asks for typewriting, the form should be neatly handwritten.

A. illegitimate B, illegal C. illegible D. illiterate

13. The profession fell into , with some physicists sticking to existing theories, while others came up with the big-bang theory.

A. harmony

B. turmoil

C. distortion

D. accord

14. With the purchasing power of many middle-class households _________ behind the cost of living, there was an urgent demand for credit.

A. leaving

B. levering

C. lacking

D. lagging

15. Frank stormed into the room and _________ the door, but it wasn’t that easy to close the door on what Jack had said.

A. slashed

B. slammed

C. slipped

D. slapped

16. When I was having dinner with you and Edward at his apartment, I sensed a certain _________ between the two of you.

A. intimacy

B. proximity

C. discrepancy

D. diversity

17. I decided to _________ between Ralph and his brother, who were arguing endlessly.

A. interfere

B. intervene

C. interrupt

D. interact

18. “I mean Gildas and Ludens are both wise, reasonable and tactful; but naturally they’re _________ , they want to know what’s happening, and make judgments on it all. ”

A. indifferent

B. innocent

C. inquisitive

D. instinctive

19. In Africa HIV and AIDS continue to _________ the population; nearly 60 percent of those infected are women.

A. alleviate

B. boost

C. capture

D. ravage

20. By the end of the Spring and Autumn Period slave society was _________ disintegration.

A. on the ground of

B. on the top of

C. in the light of

D. on the verge of

PART ⅡCLOZE TEST(15 minutes, 15 points)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the four choices given below. Mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square bracket on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

Tomorrow Japan and South Korea will celebrate White Day, an annual event when men are expected to buy a gift for the adored women in their lives. It is a relatively new 21 that was commercially created as payback for Valentine’s Day. That’s 22 in both countries, 14 February is all about the man.

On Valentine’s Day, women are expected to buy all the important male 23 in their lives a token gift; not just their partners, 24 their bosses or older relatives too.

This seems 25 enough. Surely it’s reasonable for men to be indulged on one day of the year, 26 the number of times they’re expected to produce bouquets of flowers and 27 their woman with perfume or pearls.

But the idea of a woman 28 a man didn’t sit easily with people. In 1978, the National