浙江农林大学博士入学考试 英语

2014年博士学位研究生入学考试试题

考试科目: 英语满分：100分考试时间：180分钟

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15 points, point each)

Directions: For each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.

1. The patient has been ____________ of the safety of the operation.

A. guaranteed

B. assured

C. entrusted

D. confirmed

2. Some teenagers harbour a generalized resentment against society, which

_________ them the rights and privileges of adults, although physically they are mature.

A. deprives

B. restricts

C. rejects

D. denies

3. When travelling, you are advised to take travellers’checks, which provide

a secure ____________ to carrying your money in cash.

A. substitute

B. selection

C. preference

D.

alternative

4. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ___________

attitude toward customers.

A. impartial

B. mild

C. hostile

D.

opposing

5. Christmas is a Christian holy day usually celebrated on December 25th

___________ the birth of Jesus Christ.

A. in accordance with

B. in terms of

B. in favor of D. in honor of

6. No one imagined that the apparently _________ businessman was really a

criminal.

A. respective

B. respectable

C. respectful

D.

receptacle

7. In some parts of the world the indigenous population has been completely

_______.

A. wiped up

B. wiped out

C. wiped away

D.

wiped off

8. ___________ the invention of the steam engine, most forms of transport were

horse-drawn.

A. Akin to

B. Prior to

C. In addition to

D. With reference to

9. Because his workplace was so busy and noisy, he longed most of all for

__________.

A. loneliness

B. association

C. solitude

D.

irrelevancy

10. Because Mark needed to pass the exam, he made studying a _____________ over

watching his favorite television show.

A. priority

B. conformity

C. perplexity

D.

concept

11. The record of the past is always incomplete, and the historians who write

about it __________ reflect the preoccupations of their own time.

A. bound to

B. inevitably

C. indispensably

D.

justifiably

12. Man is a ________ animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body:

he may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his __________.

A. conceited ... vanity

B. solitary ... thoughts

C. gregarious ... opinions

D. special ... uniqueness

13. He says he would write an English course book if he could find a(n) ________

to deal with the less interesting parts.

A. accomplice

B. collaborator

C. spouse

D. kin

14. International travelers may have difficulties understanding the

adjustment problems that _________ them.

A. amaze

B. beset

C. humiliate

D. resurrect

15. The distinctive qualities of African music were not appreciated or even _________.

A. deplored

B. perceived

C. revered

D. ignored