2008年华东政法大学国际法专业博士入学考试英语试题

华东政法大学

2008年博士研究生入学考试英语试卷

第一部分基础英语试题

Part I: Grammar & Vocabulary (10%)

Directions: Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence and then mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET 1.

1. We have lunch on the _______ of twelve every day.

A. strike

B. stroke

C. sound

D. beat

2. Even though he was more than sixty he had very few _______ on the face.

A. freckles

B. wrinkle

C. spots

D. dimples

3. We set ________ our task at once with great enthusiasm.

A. off

B. out

C. up

D. about

4. Y ou should always switch ________ the electricity before going on holiday.

A. on

B. to

C. off

D. around

5. This conversation ________ a difference of opinion between us.

A. gave rise to

B. amounted to

C. went to

D. got

6. Don‘t bother to look for my umbrella, it will _______ some day.

A. turn up

B. turn over

C. turn out

D. turn on

7. _______, we were just talking about the same thing.

A. too oddly

B. too strange

C. oddly enough

D. strength enough

8. If trade‘s no better next month, we shall go ________ and then what will you do for

jobs?

A. back

B. black

C. broke

D. blank

9. People who take part in sports must keep in ________.

A. ill health

B. bad condition

C. good handicap

D. good condition

10. They say that, without family life, old people go morally to _______.

A. die

B. bed

C. pieces

D. piece

11. I, ________ my part, was excited to see the great bell in the Kremlin.

A. for

B. as

C. in

D. on

12. They were _______ trying to frighten the public into obedience.

A. evidently

B. obvious

C. clear

D. in evidence

13. The ______ of thought in the country has turned against war.

A. tide

B. flood

C. current

D. currency

14. Wood furniture does not depreciate in value ________ properly handled and protected.

A. that

B. if

C. unless

D. whether

15. The police chief ordered that parking _______ on Main Street during the rush hour.

A. be prohibiting

B. be prohibited

C. is prohibited

D. was prohibited

16. _______ to give expression to my sub-conscious desire to move toward him, I would have

paused, for he was tremendous in his great height and strength.

A. If I was really about

B. If I were really about

C. Have I really been about

D. Had I really been about

17. The police admitted _________ a mistake in arresting an innocent man.

A. to make

B. to have made

C. to having made

D. to making

18. She listened carefully ________ she might discover exactly what he wanted.

A. so as that

B. in case

C. providing

D. in order that

19. They have _______ many horrible crimes against the American people.

A. done

B. made

C. took

D. committed

20. Use equal _______ of nuts and raisins in the cake.

A. quantities

B. quantity

C. in quality

D. in quantity

Part II: Reading Comprehension (25%).

Section A (20%)

Direction: There are 2 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center. Passage One

Questions 21 to 30 are based on the following passage.

The world has become so complicated that we‘ve lost confidence in our ability to understand and deal with it. But common sense is useful now as it ever was. No amount of expertise substitutes for an intimate knowledge of a person or a situation. At times you just have to trust your own judgment.

It almost cost me my life to learn that. I was reading a book one day, idly scratching the back of my head, when I noticed that, in one particular spot, the scratching echoed inside my head like fingernails on an empty cardboard carton, I rushed off to my doctor.

―Got a hole in your head, have you?‖ he teased. ―It‘s nothing—just one of those little scalp nerves sounding off.‖

Two years and four doctors later, I was still being told it was nothing. To the fifth doctor, I said, almost in desperation, ―But I live in this body. I know something‘s different.‖

―If you won‘t take my word for it, I‘ll take an X-ray and prove it to you,‖he said.

Well, there it was, of course, the tumor that had made a hole as big as an eye socket in the back of my skull. After the operation, a young resident paused by my bed. ―It‘s a good thing you‘re so smart,‖he said.‖Most patients die of these tumors because we don‘t know they‘re there until it is too late.‖

I‘m really not so smart. And I‘m too docile in the face of authority. I should have been more aggressive with those first four doctors. It‘s hard to question opinions delivered with absolute certainty.