考博英语-215
1.If your expenses ______ your income, you will be in debt.
A surpass
B exceed
C survive
D pass
2.Could you please give me a hand? Let's ______ the bookcase into place.
A shoot
B shove
C contain
D indicate
3.You can ______ your story by leaving out some unimportant details.
A abridge
B rewrite
C reveal
D change
4.He has got too much ______ to worry about your problem.
A on his mind
B out of mind
C off his mind
D to his mind
5.Mrs. Mary wore a string of beads around her neck.
A small pieces of gold
B small balls of precious stones
C small pieces of wood
D small balls of glass
6.You are too rigid: you must learn to change your plans when the situation ______ it.
A calls on
B calls for
C calls forth
D calls in
7.I didn't stop at John's house because he had visitors, and I didn't want to butt in.
A intrude
B incur
C infer
D intercept
8.John's ideas about how to solve the problem were so cogent that I had to agree with him.
A chronic
B cavernous
C convincing
D choral
9.The young man was so bashful that he did not speak to the pretty girl.
A haughty
B shy
C indifferent
D upset
10.Hitler sought to annihilate resistance movements throughout Europe.
A exterminate
B exceed
C exclude
D expel
11.All of the performers in the play did well. The audience applauded the actors excellent performance. A. the B. well C. audience D. actors
12.That the woman was saying was so important that I asked everyone to stop talking and listen. A. That B. was saying C. to stop D. listen
13.This is the longest flight I have ever taken. By the time we get to Los Angeles, we had flown for 9 hours. A. longest B. have ever taken C. had flown D. for
14.To control quality and making decisions about production are among the many responsibilities of an industrial engineer. A. quality B. making C. about D. industrial
15.If one does not pick up his dry-cleaning within thirty days, the management is not obligated to return it back. A. his B. within C. obligated D. back
16.His recommendation that Air Force investigates the UFO sighting was approved by the commission and referred to the appropriate. A. investigates B. was C. by the commission D. to
17.Electronic mail to describe an upcoming workshop should use only if potential participants use this form of communication regularly. A. Electronic B. should use C. if D. regularly
18.Confucius—a statesman, scholar, and educator of great skill and reputation—is generally held to he China's greatest and most influence philosopher. A. education B. great skill C. greatest D. influence
19.The first electric lamp had two carbon rods from which vapor served to conduct the current across the gap. A. The first B. from which C. served D. across
20.It is said that Einstein felt very badly about the application of his theories to the creation of weapons of war. A. It is said B. very C. badly D. to
| Humans not only love eating ice cream, they enjoy
(21) it to their pets. Market studies show that two thirds
of all dog owners give ice cream to the dogs. (22) , says
William Tyznik, an expert in animal nutrition at Ohio State University,
"ice cream is not good for dogs. It has milk sugar in it, " he says, "which dogs
cannot (23) very well. " (24) by that knowledge but aware of the desire of dog owners to (25) their companions, Tyznik invented a new frozen treat for dogs that, he says, is more nutritious than ice cream-and as much (26) to eat. The product, called Frosty Paws, is made of a liquid by-product of cheese and milk with the sugar (27) Frosty Paws also contains refined soy flour, water, vegetable oil, vitamins and minerals. It (28) Tyznik, who has also invented a horse feed (called Tizwhiz) and (29) dog focd (named Tizbits) , three years to (30) the Frosty Paws formulas, and two (31) to commercialize it. After losing $25,000 trying to market the invention himself, Tyznik sold the rights to associated lee Cream of Westerville, Ohio, which makes the product and (32) it in cups. Tyznik claims that Frosty Paws has been tested (33) and that "dogs love it". Of 1,400 dogs that have been (34) the product, he says, 89 percent took it on the first (35) Three out of four (36) it to Milk-Bone or sausages. The product, which will be (37) in the ice-cream section of supermarkets, comes in (38) of three or four cups, costing about $1.79. What would happen (39) a human should mistake Frosty Paws for real ice cream? "Nothing, " says Tyznik. "It's (40) , but frankly, it won't taste very good. " |
21.
A giving
B feeding
C sharing
D buying
22.
A Surprisingly
B Unfortunately
C Therefore
D Initially
23.
A swallow
B consume
C digest
D exude
24.
A Bothered
B Impelled
C Annoyed
D Stimulated
25.
A please
B raise
C train
D comfort
26.
A contentment
B satisfaction
C fun
D luxury
27.
A included
B including
C removed
D removing
28.
A cost
B spent
C needed
D took
29.
A one
B other
C a
D another
30.
A perfect
B superb
C excellent
D top
31.
A temptations
B attempts
C temperance
D temps
32.
A assembles
B attaches
C packages
D labels
33.
A extensively
B faithfully
C delicately
D intensively
34.
A received
B accepted
C treated
D offered
35.
A trial
B try
C test
D practice
36.
A preferred
B compared
C attributed
D related
37.
A bargained
B negotiable
C available
D displayed
38.
A bundles
B parcels
C packets
D packs
39.
A provided
B when
C though
D if
40.
A harmful
B harmless
C effective
D ineffective
| In a recent book entitled The Psychic Life of
Insects, Professor Bouvier says that we must be careful not to credit the little
winged fellows with intelligence when they behave in what seems like an
intelligent manner. They may be only reacting. I would like to confront the
professor with an instance of reasoning power on the part of an insect which
cannot be explained away in any other manner. During the summer of 1899, while I was at work on my doctoral thesis, we kept a female wasp at our cottage. It was more like a child of our own than a wasp, except that it looked more like a wasp than a child of our own. That was one of the ways we told the difference. It was still a young wasp when we got it (thirteen or fourteen years old) and for some time we could not get it to eat or drink, it was so shy. Since it was a female we decided to call it Miriam, but soon the children's nickname for it-- " Pudge" --became a fixture, and "Pudge" it was from that time on. One evening I had been working late in my laboratory fooling around with some gin and other chemicals, and in leaving the room I tripped over a nine of diamonds which someone had left lying on the floor and knocked over my card index which contained the names and addresses of all the larvae worth knowing in North America. The cards went everywhere. I was too tired to stop to pick them up that night, and went sobbing to bed, just as mad as I could be. As I went, however, I noticed the wasp was flying about in circles over the scattered cards. "Maybe Pudge will pick them up," I said half laughingly to myself, never thinking for one moment that such would be the case. When I came down the next morning Pudge was still asleep in her box, evidently tired out. And well she might have been. For there on the floor lay the cards scattered all about just as I had left them the night before. The faithful little insect had buzzed about all night trying to come to some decision about picking them up and arranging them in the boxes for me, and then had figured out for herself that, as she knew practically nothing of larvae of any sort except wasp larvae, she would probably make more of a mess of rearranging them than if she had left them on the floor for me to fix. It was just too much for her to tackle, and, discouraged, she went over and lay down in her box, where she cried herself to sleep. If this is not an answer to Professor Bouvier's statement, I do not know what is. |
41.Professor Bouvier believes that insects ______.
A do not have intelligence
B behave in an intelligent way
C are capable of reasoning
D are more intelligent than we thought
42.On the evening the author fell over, someone ______.
A had moved his card index
B had been playing card games
C had knocked over his boxes containing cards
D had looked at his collection of diamonds
43.When he came to the laboratory the next morning, the author ______.
A saw that his cards had already been rearranged
B realized that the wasp had been trying to help
C found evidence of the wasp's intelligence
D found his index cards still scattered about the room
44.The author's account of his wasp's intelligence ______.
A is imaginary
B is convincing
C firmly proves his point of view
D is valuable for insect study
45.The purpose of this article is to ______.
A oppose Professor Bouvier's point of view
B support Professor Bouvier with his own experience
C further discuss whether insects are intelligent
D illustrate the working theory behind the author's thesis
| Modern technology and science have produced a wealth
of new materials and new ways of using old materials. For the artist this means
wider opportunities. There is no doubt that the limitations of materials and
nature of tools both restrict and shape a man's work. Observe how the
development of plastics and light metals along with new methods of welding has
changed the direction of sculpture. Transparent plastic materials allow one to
look through an object, to see its various sides superimposed on each other (as
in Cubism or in an X-ray). Today, welding is as prevalent as casting was in the
past. This new method encourages open designs, where surrounding and intervening
space becomes as important as form itself. More ambiguous than other scientific inventions familiar to modern artists, but no less influential, are the psychoanalytic studies of Freud and his followers, discoveries that have infiltrated recent art, especially Surrealism. The Surrealists, in their struggle to escape the monotony and frustrations of everyday life, claimed that dreams were the only hope. Turning to the irrational world of their unconscious, they banished all dine barriers and moral judgments to combine disconnected dream experiences from the past, present and intervening psychological states. The Surrealists were concerned with overlapping emotions more than with overlapping forms. Their paintings often become segmented capsules of associative experiences. For them, obsessive and often unrelated images replaced the direct emotional message of expressionism. They did not need to smash paint and canvas; they went beyond this to smash the whole continuity of logical thought. There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. But this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors though admittedly influenced by modern science, have also molded and changed our world. If breakup has been a vital part of their expression, it has not always been a symbol of destruction. Quite the contrary, it has been used to examine more fully, to penetrate more deeply, to analyze more thoroughly, to enlarge, isolate and make more familiar certain aspects of life that earlier we were apt to neglect. In addition, it sometimes provides rich multiple experiences so organized as not merely to reflect our world, but in fact to interpret it. |
46.The welding techniques ______.
A can cause a lot of changes in sculpture arts
B permit details of an object to be seen clearly
C can superimpose multiple sides of sculptor's designs
D can make artists adaptable to be surroundings
47.We can learn from the text that Freud's studies ______.
A are more ambiguous than any other scientific invention
B have influenced other scientific inventions
C cause Surrealism
D have infiltrated Surrealism
48.Which of the following is true about Surrealists?
A They diminished all time barriers and moral judgments to combine disconnected dream experiences.
B They tried to express their subconscious world.
C They could transform real existence into incoherent dreams.
D They wanted to substitute direct expressions for fragmented images.
49.According to the passage, it is true that ______.
A artistic creations seem to be the reproductions of modern technology
B artistic creations have made great strides scientifically
C artistic creations appear to be incapable of ignoring material advances
D artistic creations are the reflection of the material world
50.The sentence "But this has rarely been a one-way street" in the last paragraph means that ______.
A contemporary art has been nourished by modern science
B modern science has been nourished by art
C artists can become scientists and scientists can become artists
D the impacts of modern art and science are actually mutual
| When I was a child in Sunday school, I would ask
searching questions like "Angels can fly up in heaven, but how do clouds hold up
pianos, and get the same puzzling response about how that was not
important, what was important was that Jesus died for our sins and if we
accepted him as our savior, when we died, we would go to heaven, where we'd get
everything we wanted. Some children in my class wondered why anyone would hang
on a cross with nails stuck through his hands to help anyone else; I wondered
how Santa Claus knew what I wanted for Christmas, even though I never wrote him
a letter. Maybe he had a tape recorder hidden in every chimney in the
world. This literal-mindedness has stuck with me; one result of it is that I am unable to believe in God. Most of the other atheists I know seem to feel freed or proud of their unbelief, as if they have cleverly refused to be sold snake oil. My husband, who was reared in a devout Catholic family, has served as an altar boy. So other than baptizing our son to reassure our families, we've skated over the issue of faith. Some people believe faith is a gift; it's a choice, a matter of spiritual discipline. I have a friend who was reared to believe, and he does. But his faith has wavered. He has struggled to hang onto it and to pass it along to his children. Another friend of mine never goes to church because she's a single mother who doesn't have the gas money. But she once told me a day when she was washing oranges as the sun streamed onto them. As she peeled one, the smell rose to her face, and she felt she received the Holy Spirit. "He sank into my bones," she recounted. "I lifted my palms upward, feeling filled with love. " Being no theologian, and not even a believer, I am not in a position to offer up theories, but mine is this: people who receive faith directly, as a spontaneous combustion of the soul, have fewer questions. They have been sparked with a faith that is more unshakable than that of those who have been taught. |
51.From the first paragraph of the passage we know that ______.
A the author was a Sunday school boy
B the author used to be puzzled at many things
C the school didn't teach the children enough knowledge
D tape recorders were popular in daily life
52.The word "his" in "a cross with nails stuck through his hands"(Line 6, Para. 1) refers to ______.
A Jesus'
B a child's
C anyone's
D Santa Claus'
53.It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ______.
A the author believes in God
B most people are atheists
C most American families baptize their babies
D the author hasn't a religious family background
54.In the third paragraph the author uses the example of the single mother to indicate that faith ______.
A is a gift
B is a choice
C can be easily wavered
D is a spontaneous impulse
55.Which of the following may be the best title of the passage?
A The Issue of Faith.
B A Child's Fancy.
C The Belief in God.
D The Combustion of Soul.
| The growth of cell-phone users in the U.S. has
tapered off from the breakneck pace of 50% annually in the late 1990s to what
analysis project will be a 15% to 20% rise in 2002, and no more than that in
2003. To some extent, numerous surveys have found, slower growth in demand
reflects consumer disillusionment with just about every aspect of cell-phone
service--its reliability, quality, and notorious customer service. The cooling off in demand threatens to cascade through the industry: The big four U.S. cell-phone carders--Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Sprint imperil their timetables for becoming profitable, not to mention their efforts to whittle down their mountains of debt. As the carders have begun to cut costs, wireless- equipment makers--companies such as Lucent, Nokia, and Ericsson--have been left with a market that's bound to be smaller than they had anticipated. Handset makers have been insulated so far, but they, too, face a nagging uncertainty. They'll soon introduce advanced phones to the U.S. market that will run on the new networks the carders are starting up over the next year or two. But the question then will be : Will Americans embrace these snazzy data features--and their higher costs--with the wild enthusiasm that Europeans and Asians have? Long before the outcome in clear, the industry will have to adopt a new mind-set. "In the old days, it was all about connectivity. " says Andrew Cole, an analyst with wireless consultancy Adventis. Build the network, and customers will come. From now on, the stakes will be higher. The new mantra: Please customers, or you may not survive. To work their way out of this box, the carders are spending huge sums to address the problem. Much of Sprint PCS's $3.4 billion in capital outlays this year will be for new stations. And in fact, the new high-speed, high-capacity nationwide networks due to roll out later this year should help ease the calling-capacity crunch that has caused many consumer complaints. In the meantime, some companies are using better training and organization to keep customers happy. The nation's largest rural operator, Alltel (AT), recently reorganized its call centers so that a customer's query goes to the first operator who's available anywhere in the country, instead of the first one available in the customer's home area. That should cut waiting time to one minute from three to five minutes previously. |
56.What is the text mainly about?
A The bad service in the U.S. cell-phone industry.
B The crisis in the U.S. cell-phone industry.
C The conflicts among cell-phone companies in the U. S.
D The price of the U.S. cell-phone industry.
57.The growth of cell-phone users declines because ______.
A cell-phones are unreliable
B cell-phones usually have poor quality
C the customer service is bad
D customers are not satisfied with cell-phone service
58.It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ______.
A the price war will reverse the present situation
B the Wireless equipment makers will try to improve the original networks
C the handset makers will produce new phones with high technology
D the Europeans are enthusiastic about the new advanced cell-phones
59.According to the author, the cell-phone industry must adopt a mind-set in order to ______.
A have better training and organization
B become an indispensable part in people's life
C build more advanced and efficient networks
D help customers to choose proper service
60.In order to work their way out of the box, Sprint PCS and Alttel are taking measures to ______.
A design new advanced cell-phones in attractive form
B reduce costs and improve the efficiency of networks
C offer the customers better services and satisfy their needs
D arrange the call centers to reduce the customer's waiting time
1.I think most of us would agree that the world is a shrinking place. On the one hand, this shrinking is highly beneficial. People around the world now enjoy economic, cultural and recreational opportunities which were previously not accessible. On the other hand, the rapid mobility of people, money, information, ideas and commodities generally has provided new opportunities for crime, and new challenges for law enforcement agencies. This will require unprecedented cooperation between nations, and will inevitably generate tensions arising from differences in national values, even within nations, tensions between such values, as privacy and the imperatives of law enforcement will be high in the public agenda. Most probably new organizational forms will emerge to combat new manifestations of criminality.
2.Viruses have been around longer than PCs, and are not without a certain mathematical and scientific interest. Indeed, not all viruses are malignant. Used properly, viral techniques are a valuable programming tool. Used improperly, they are pestilentially destructive. There's no perfect cure. Like the flu, computer viruses evolve. Last year's immunization isn't any good for this year's disease because every time someone invents a new medication, someone else invents a malady. Nonetheless, a few simple precautions will buffer you against all but the cleverest hacker.
1.那位富有的女土再三要求签订婚前协议，令其未婚夫自尊心大大受损，结果以拒婚告终。
2.他在支票上伪造他哥哥的签名，以不正当手段得到了这笔钱，但是却被媒体曝了光。
3.毫无疑问，有些妇女坚持要有离婚的权利，如果她们的丈夫干的工作和积攒的钱不如她们多的话。
4.玛丽不愿向陌生人吐露心声，只是朝他尴尬地笑了笑。
5.重要的不是订婚双方对对方有没有信心，而是客观地看待婚姻本身，它与浪漫的爱情无关。