中国人民大学商学院博士生入学考试英语
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中国人民大学博士生（非英语专业）入学考试英语考试示例
Part I Vocabulary (20 points)
Directions: For each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best completing the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
1． When I heard that Mrs. Thacher resigned, I called her. I wanted her to know that my heart was
_____ her. A. for B. of C. in D. with 2. Gentleness has been considered a _____ trait. A. boyish B. delicate C. feminine D. male 3. We know that this is ture, but _____ we recognize this truth only in our backward glance.
A. all too often B. too often C. all too late D. too late 4. The retiring professor was _____ by his colleague. A. criticized B. exalted C. driven out D. examined 5. He is honest. His actions are always _____ his words. A. contradictory to B. contradicted by C. agreed with D. consistent with 6. Life is never just _____. A. living B. being C. existing D. going 7. The lady _____ her skirt by sit on the seat while flying. A. disordered B. disarranged C. creased D. crashed 8. You must always be ready to sacrifice _____ to duty. A. inclination B. tendency C. interest D. career 9. In many countries now, smoking is not _____ in public places. A. permissive B. permissible C. permutable D. pernicious 10.His pleasant ways _____ me into thinking that he was my good friend. A. deprived B. despised C. diverted D. beguiled 11._____ animals must be kept in cages in case they might hurt the tourists. A. Land B. Domestic C. Vicious D. Farm
12. Almost overnight, Ames became a hero of environmentalists when his finding led to new ____
and bans on certain chemicals. A. regulations B. authorities C. orders D. suggestions 13.The ____ noise whistles kept me awake all night. A. incarnate B. incessant C. repetitious D. rampant 14. The baby seems content, he must have ____ his new nursemaid. A. taken to B. taken after C. taken from D. taken in
15. He had either to leave the country immediately or to surrender himself to the Nazi authorities,
and had no other _____. A. alternative B. hope C. resource D. approach
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16. A good sense of rhythm is one of his natural ____ as a poet. A. endowments B. interest C. weaknesses D. accomplishments 17. All his attempts to argue about the rightness were _____. A. futile B. not important C. effective in case D. without reason 18.I ____ lowbrow, admire the highbrow all the more for his patronizing type. A. conceiting B. humble C. overweening D. poor 19. Lowbrows are quite _____ for highbrows to have their symphonics and their Russion novels. A. content B. contained C. capacity D. yearn
20. As the speed of change brings design ____ fashion, then decisions about taste will have to be
made more and more regularly. A. near to B. nearer to C. next to D. close to 21.The dark clouds suggest a(n) _____ storm. A. impending B. surprising C. fast D. enexpected 22. To our grief, he became ______ to the drug. A. addicted B. interested C. amused D. disturbed 23.Being a foreigner, Carl did not _____ to the joke. A. appreciate B. catch on to C. laugh D. like
24. Talks on climate change resulted in the German city of Bonn on July 16 to _____ global
warming. A. focus on B. combat C. settle down D. sum up 25. His parents _____ him to enlist when he was seventeen. A. permitted B. committed C. made D. enabled 26. _____ may think they are better than the facts would justify. A. Optimists B. Pessimists C. Cynicists D. Humorists 27. He quickly _____ behind the building to avoid being hurt by the stones thrown in his direction. A. ducked B. evaded C. escaped D. dodged
28. By isolating negative words and phrases, you can _____ the damage you’re doing to yourself. A. point out B. point C. pinpoint D. get 29. It did the _____ service of freeing us from the dilemma. A. immense B. much C. lot of D. innumerous 30. Sports, and not learning, seem to _____ in that school. A. appear B. occupy C. dominate D. lead
31. The local people could hardly think of any good way to _____ poverty they had endured. A. shake off B. ward off C. put off D. take off
32. As skies fill with millions of migrating birds, European scientists say the seasonal miracle
appears to depend on a seeming _____. The fatter the bird, the more efficiently it flies. A. interruption B. description C. qualification D.
contradiction
33. His meeting with Picasso was an important _____ in the artist’s life. A. lesson B. episode C. scene D. chapter
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34. Borders these days have little meaning for Singapore- based regional _____ of electronics firms
like Sanyo and Philips. A. executives B. officials C. governors D. servants 35. Unfortunately, the woman’s hat _____ my view of the stage. A. blocked up B. obstructed C. prevented D. interfered
36. Meantime, road construction is _____ on the site of a proposed Tuman River Triangle. A. under way B. in the way C. of the way D. by way 37. Everyone knows that the firefly is a _____ insect. A. firing B. lighting C. luminiferous D. glowing 38. Preferential policies and ready cooperation do play a role in _____ poverty. A. alleviating B. activating C. assaulting D. accustoming
39. The fact that these regions are _____ in natural resources doesn’t mean local people are well off. A. adorable B. accessible C. abundant D. ambient
40. In spite of a problem with the ____ equipment, some very useful work was accomplished. A. imperfect B. temporary C. emergency D. reinstalled
Part II Reading Comprehension (30 points)
Directions: Read the following passages, decide on the best one of the choices marked A, B, C and D for each question or unfinished statement and mark the corresponding letter with a singel bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
There is extraordinary exposure in the United States ot the risks of injury and death from motor vehicle acidents. More than 80 percent of all households own passenger cars or light trucks and each of these is driven an average of more than 11,000 miles each year. Almost one-half of fatally injured drivers have a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.1 percent or higher. For the average adult, over five ounces of 80 proof spirits would have to be consumed over a short period of time to attain these levels. A third of drivers who have been drinking, but fewer that 4 percent of all dirvers,
demonstrate these levels. Although less than 1 percent of drivers with BACs of 0.1 percent or more are involved in fatal crashes, the probability of their involvement is 27 times higher than for those without alcohol in their blood.
There are a number of different approaches to reducing injuries in which intoxication plays a role. Based on the observation that excessive consumption correlates with the total alcohol consumption of a country’s population, it has been suggested that higher taxes on alcohol would reduce both. While the heaviest drinkers would be taxed the most, anyone who drinks at all would be penalized by this approach.
To make drinking and driving a criminal offense is an approach directed only at intoxicated drivers. In some states, the law empowers police to request breath tests of drivers cited for any traffic offense and elevated BAC can be the basis for arrest. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates, however, that even with increased arrests, there are about 700 violations for every arrest.
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At this lever there is little evidence that laws serve as deterrents to drinking while intoxicatd. In Britain, motor vehicle fatalities fell 25 percent immediately following implementation of the Road Safety Act in 1967. As the British increasingly recognized that they could drink and not be stopped, the effectiveness declined, although in the ensuing three years the fatality rate seldom reached that observed in the seven years prior to the Act.
Whether penalties for driving with a high BAC or excessive taxation on consumption of alcoholic beverage will deter the excessive drinker responsible for most fatalities is unclear. In part, the answer depends on the extent to which those with high BAC involved in crashes are capable of controlling their intake in response to economic or penal threat. Therapeutic programs which range from individual and group counseling and psychotherapy to chemotherapy constitute another
approach, but they have not diminished the proportion of accidents in which alcohol was a factor. In the few controlled trials that have been reported, there is little evidence that rehabilitation programs of those repeatedly arrested for durnken behavior have reduced either the recidivism or crash involvement for clients exposed to them, although knowledge and attitudes have improved. One thing is clear, however, unless we deal with automobile and highway safety and reduce accidents in which alcoholic intoxication plays a role, many will continue to die.
41. The author is mainly concerned with _____.
A. interpreting the results of surveys on traffic fatalities
B. reviewing the effectiveness of attempts to curb drunk driving
C. suggesting reasons for the prevalence of drunk driving in the United States D. analyzing the causes of the large number of annual traffic fatalities 42. It can be inferred that the 1967 Road Safety Act in Britain______.
A. required drivers convicted under the law to undergo rehabilitation therapy B. make it illegal to drive while intoxicated C. increased the number of drunk driving arrests D. placed a tax on the sale of alcoholic drinks 43. The author imples that a BAC of 0.1 percent _____.
A. is unreasonalby high as a definition of intoxication for purposes of driving
B. penalizes the moderate drinker while allowing the heavy drinker to consume without limit C. is well below the BAC of most drivers who are involved in fatal collisions
D. proves that a driver has consumed five ounces of 80 proof spirits over a short time 44. The author cites the British example in order to _____.
A. demonstrate the need to lower BAC levels in states that have laws against drunk driving B. prove that stricter enforcement of laws against intoxicated drivers would reduce traffic
deaths
C. prove that a slight increase in the number of arrests of intoxicated drivers will not deter
drunk driving
D. suggest that taxation of alcohol consumption may be more effective than criminal laws 45. The author’s tone of then end of the article can best be described as _____. A. ironic B. indifferent C. admonitory D. indecisive
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