2017年南昌大学博士入学考试公共英语 单选

一、V ocabulary and Structure

1. In a seminar, everyone should take part rather than allow one person to ( ) the discussion.

A overwhelm B. dominate C. oppress D. determine

2. Surprisingly perhaps, the biggest ( ) health risk for tourist travelling abort is actually road traffic accidents.

A. Potential

B. theoretical

C. definite

D. alternative

3. The ( ) cause of death today in Britain is heart disease, with cancer in second place.

A. Initial

B. previous

C. subsequent

D. prime

4. Improvement in quality control techniques have resulted in more high-quality products with very few ( ).

A. Failures

B. defects

C. routs

D. spots

5. The president’s speech was so ( ) that many people were persuaded to accept the need for change.

A. Expressive

B. inherent

C. eloquent

D. frequent

6. In the 1970’s, Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich states ( ) vast sums of money through the sale of oil.

A. Assembled

B. accommodated

C. accumulated

D. appreciated

7. The decision of the university to close the swimming pool at weekends ( ) angry reaction among students.

A. Nurtured

B. provoked

C. cultivated

D. stimulated

8. The government has decided to ( ) an investigation into the increase in deaths from drugs.

A. Initiate

B. generate

C. conspire

D. negotiate

9. Computer equipment can become ( ) very quickly because new technology emerges so fast.

A. Primitive

B. expired

C. ragged

D. obsolete (outdated)

10. Many athletes take extra vitamins as a ( ) to their diet when they are preparing for competition。

A. Nutrition

B. compliment

C. supplement

D. component

11. Of recent inventions, it is perhaps the motor car which has ( ) our lives more than anything else.

A. Transformed

B. transmitted

C. transferred

D. transplanted

12. When the British government tried to ( ) new employment legislation. There was a general strike.

A. Enhance

B. reinvigorate

C. attribute

D. implement

13. If he had know how to repair the toaster, he surely ( ) her.

A. Would tell

B. would have told

C. will tell

D. tells

14. ( ) necessary pollution control measures are, many industries hesitate to adopt them.

A. No matter

B. Although

C. However

D. Even if

15. The United States consists of fifty states, ( ) has its own government.

A. Each of them

B. they each

C. which

D. each of which