南京大学考博英语2008 年 真题

2008

SECTION I

Part A

1. Until the constitution is____, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.

A) Corrected B) amended C) remedied D) revised

2. Several experts have been called in to plan ____ for boating, tennis, refreshments and children’s games in the projected town park.

A) equipment B)instruments C)implement D)facilities

3. You can try ___with the landlord for more time to pay the money.

A) pleading B) requesting C)demanding D)dealing

4. His sprained ankle ____ his chances of wining the tournament.

A) damaged B) broke C)ruined D)demolished

5. When he realized he had been ____ to sign the contract by intrigue, he threaten to start legal proceedings to cancel the agreement.

A) elicited B)excited C)deduced D)induced

6. While attempting to look into the case, ____.

A) he found it was difficult B)the case was difficult

C) it happened that the case is difficult C) difficult as the case

7. ____ you cannot pick me up at the airport, please call me immediately.

A) in order that B)in the event that C)if only D)unless

8. it is impossible that the brain, ____, will be replaced by computer.

A) as we know B)which we know C)we know that D) we know

9. it’s more difficult to solve a problem than ____.

A) a question is found B) finding a question

C) that of finding a question D) to find a question

10. ____ in doing an examination, the time passed by quickly.

A) Being absorbed B) Having been absorbed

C) When they were absorbed D) Be absorbed

Part B

11. It is the interaction between people, rather than the events that occur in their lives, that are

the main focus of social psychology.

12. Although we had been present at roughly the same time, Mr. Brown saw the situation quite different from the way I saw it.

13. Should John resign and Henry succeed him, we would have had a more vigorous leadership.

14. Historically, no artists have presented clearer or the more complete records of the development of human culture than sculptors have.

15. Although the police are given considerable authority by society to enforce its laws, they get a relatively low salary as compared with that of other occupational groups which have much fewer authority.

16. Thirteen hundred medical professionals, all of which have been trained to treat drug dependency, attended the annual convention sponsored by a society.

17. More than three years after moving from Australia to this remote point of England, we are still learning how things have done here.

18. There is few evidence that children in language classrooms learn foreign languages any better than adults in similar classroom situations.

19. When he speaks at banquets, he makes a point of going into the kitchen and to shake hands with every waiter and waitress.

20. Other guests at yesterday’s opening, which was broadcast alive by the radio station, included the princess and her husband.

Part C

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