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D. obsolete (outdated)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
16. Animals that could not ( ) themselves to the changed environment perished and those that could survived.
A. Verify
B. adapt
C. modify
D. conform
17. Undergraduate students have no ( ) to the rare books in the school library.
A. Access
B. entrance
C. opportunity
D. path
18. In order to repair barns, build fence, grow crops and care for animals, a farmer must indeed be ( ).
A. Restless
B. ceaseless
C. available
D. versatile [ˈvɜːsətaɪl]
19. It is not uncommon for there ( ) problems of communication between the old and the young.
A. Being
B. would be
C. be
D. to be
there be结构用在介词for后时，用there to be形式，放在介词of后时要用there being形式。

20. He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ( ) that he paid me back the following week.
A. On condition
B. on purpose
C. on occasion
D. only if。