四川大学2017年博士研究生入学考试英语试题

四川大学2017年博士研究生入学考试英语试题Part ⅠListening Comprehension (10%)

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Part ⅡVocabulary and Structures (10%)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there are ten incomplete sentences. Beneath each of the sentences you will see four words or phrases, marked A, B, C and D．Choose the one word or phrase that completes best the sentence, and mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.

16．The concept of a loyal opposition—the ______ of modern democracy—rarely prevails and, much more frequently, opposition is equated with treason and ruthlessly suppressed.

A．loop B．essence C．equivalent D．velocity

17．Timmer is known as a touch manager who demands ______ results.

A．credible B．undeniable C．dynamic D．tangible

18．He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a______ of Henry Kissinger.

A．casualty B．criteria C．dissection D．necessity

19．Now the public has an unprecedented chance to peer over the shoulders of archaeologists and historians and get a firsthand look at the ______ of the Mongols and their Asian predecessors.

A．legacy B．bequest C．converse D．miracle

20．In the search for solution to seemingly overwhelming problems, it became increasingly ______to include radical, even revolutionary ideas.

A．stable B．absolute C．immortal D．plausible

21．Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh announced they had discovered ______evidence that a virus is involved in what used to be called juvenile diabetes.

A．incessant B．compelling C．identical D．problematic

22．Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford, notes that unlike greenhouse gases, which ______ rapidly around the globe, the sulfate droplets tend to concentrate over industrialized regions.

A．unify B．fragment C．disperse D．shatter

23．Now the juries, and ultimately the society they speak for, have to find some way to express ______ at the brutality that women and children face every day.

A．aggression B．extenuation C．outrage D．suppression

24．It was a type of urban story that continues to ______ big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self-starting initiative, of taking matters into one's own hands to make dreams come true.

A．propel B．penetrate C．baffle D．harness

25．The primordial fireball would have been a dense roiling stew of radiation and elementary particles condensing out of the ______ energy, annihilating each other, recondensing, then colliding and disappearing all over again.

A．colossal B．audacious C．ambient D．autonomous

Section B

Directions: In this section, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases marked A, B, C and D．Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct, and mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.

26．The lecturer made too a long speech, so every listener felt tired of him, and some even went out of the lecture hall without getting the permission from the speaker.

A B C D

27．It is raining hard outside. Haven't you taken an umbrella with you?

A B C D

28．If he was to come here this afternoon, I should ask him to go to the party held by student union.

A B C D

29．He did not like abstract painting at all, so the more he looked at the drawings exhibited in the art gallery, the little he liked them.

A B C D

30．He is a well-known hardworking and clever student, and he often gets top scores in his class; so all his classmates are sure that he studies very hardly.

A B C D