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考博英语-662
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[单项选择]John wishes now that he()the Spring Festival at home.
A. spent
B. had spent
C. has spent
D. did spend
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[单项选择]I spent the whole day yesterday rearranging my books()their subjects and frequency of use.
A. as regards
B. as against
C. as of
D. as from
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One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is the voice of the advertisers. Its strident clamour dominates our lives. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers; waves to us from every page of the newspaper; plucks at our sleeves on the escalator; signals to us from the successful man as a man no less than 20% of whose mall consists of announcements of giant carpet sales.
Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war, in terms of the ratio of money earnings to demonstrable achievement. Why all this fantastic expenditure
Perhaps the answer is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer. At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer——appeal to all his other problems of man——hou
A. interferes with the privacy of our home life
B. influences our image of the kind of person we ought to be like
C. continually forces us into buying things we don’t want
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[单项选择]Mrs.James()a divorce from her husband,for she can no longer()his stormy temper.
A. is seeking,put up with
B. seeks,put down with
C. is seeking,put up for
D. seeks,pu down for
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The environmental balance among ecological communities is exceedingly complex()
A. almost
B. successfully
C. extremely
D. rarely
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[单项选择]At no time in history has there been such a mass movement of people from countryside to city as is happening now. By the year 2030, it’ s estimated that more than two thirds of the word’ s population will be living in cities, twice as many as today. This means that the problems faced by cities to day-overcrowding, poor housing, unemployment, poverty, and lack of food water--will be twice as had in the next century, unless we find solutions soon.
Another serious issue is how to provide good transport to their citizens. Many world’ s major cities are already struggling with out-of-date transport infrastructures. How can they deal with the additional demands in the 21stcentury
London is a good example. It was the world’ s first big city--the first with a population of a mil lion people. Its enlargement was made possible by the invention of the steam engine, which powered the world’s first underground railway. But its transport systems are now hopelessly out-of-date, a
A. overpopulation causes the problems in cities
B. two-thirds of the world’ s population are living in cities today
C. it isn’ t difficult to solve the problems faced by cities today
D. with fewer people, we would be free from any problems
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Much of the research on hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD has focused on the neurotransmitter serotonin, a chemical that when released from a presynaptic serotonin-secreting neuron causes the transmission of a nerve impulse across a synapse to an adjacent postsynaptic, or target, neuron. There are two major reasons for this emphasis. First, it was discovered early on that many of the major hallucinogens have a molecular structure similar to that of serotonin. In addition, animal studies of brain neurochemistry following administration of hallucinogens invariably reported changes in serotonin levels.
Early investigators correctly reasoned that the structural similarity to the serotonin molecule might imply that LSD’ s effects arc brought about by an action on the neurotransmission of serotonin in the brain. Unfortunately, the level of technical expertise in the field of brain research was such that this hypothesis had to be tested or, peripheral tissue ( tissue outsid
A. The suppression of the activity of serotonin-secreting neurons by the administration of hallucinogens
B. The observed similarities in the chemical structures of serotonin and hallucinogens
C. The effects the administration of hallucinogens has on serotonin production in the human brain
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[单项选择]Floods cause billions of dollars worth of property damage______.
A. relatively
B. actually
C. annually
D. comparatively
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[单项选择]All the commodities sold in that shop are given one year’ s ()
A. assurance
B. warrant
C. guarantee
D. insurance
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[单项选择]I’ve never______the theory that people are more important than animals.
A. subscribed to
B. hung on
C. engaged in
D. indulged in
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[单项选择]When you get excited, try to hold yourself()
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. in
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[单项选择]In the north of the country,the sun always shines()the vast prairie land in summer
A. brightly on
B. bright on
C. bright in
D. brightly in
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Sometimes a dictionary designates a noun as attributive, which means that it can be used to describe another noun or name its attributes()
A. conveys
B. defines
C. indicates
D. explains
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[单项选择]Before she could shout“look()”to the old man, he was run()by a car coining from his left
A. back,on
B. out,over
C. up,down
D. ahead,at
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In the absence of optimism, we are left with nothing but critics, naysayers, and prophets of doom. When a nation expects the worst from its people and institutions, and its experts focus exclusively on faults, hope dies. Too many people spend too much tie looking down rather than up, finding fault with their country’s political institutions, economic system, edncational establishment, religious organizations, and—worst of all—with each other.
Faultfinding expends so much negative energy that nothing is left over for positive action. It takes courage and strength to solve the genuine problems that afflict every society. Sure, there well always be things that need fixing. But the question is, Do you want to spend your time and energy tearing things down or building them up
The staging of a Broadway show could illustrate my point. Let’s say a new production is about to open. A playwright has polished the script, investor have put up the money,
A. ignore minor imperfections
B. overemphasize flaws
C. see both sides of a coin
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[单项选择]Advanced mammals such as monkeys, apes and humans have brains ()from ancestors that took to living in the trees.
A. derived
B. progressed
C. terminated
D. advanced
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[单项选择]John wishes now that he ()the Spring Festival at home.
A. spent
B. had spent
C. has spent
D. did spend
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[简答题]The only solid pieces of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the human intellect. In earlier times, we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem, or simply made up stories to fill the gaps. Now that we have begun exploring in earnest, we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are, and how far from being answered. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots.
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[单项选择]Foreign propagandists have a strange misconception of our national character. They believe that we Americans must be hybrid, mongrel, undynamic; and we are called so by the enemies of democracy because, they say, so many races have been fused together in our national life. They believe we are disunited and defenseless because we argue with each other, because we engage in political campaigns, because we recognize the sacred right of the minority to disagree with the majority and to express that disagreement even loudly. It is the very mingling of races, dedicated to common ideals, which creates and recreates our vitality. In every representative American meeting there will be people with names like Jackson and Lincoln and Isaacs and Schultz and Kovack and Sartori and Jones and Smith. These Americans with varied. backgrounds are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. All of them are inheritors of the same stalwart tradition of unusual enterprise, of adventurousness, of courage
A. No Common Ideals
B. America’s Motivating Force
C. American Immigrants
D. The Evils of Foreign Propaganda
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[单项选择]He is a hypocrite, a liar, a thief(), he is the greatest devil I ever know.
A. as a consequence
B. as a rule
C. as a matter of fact
D. as a matter of routine
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[单项选择]The goals and desires()widely between men and women, between the rich and the poor.
A. swing
B. vary
C. distinguish
D. transfer
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[单项选择]The 1982 Oil and Gas Act gives power to permit the disposal of assets held by the Corporation, and the Corporation’s statutory monopoly in the supply of gas for fuel purposes so as to permit private companies to compete in this supply()
A. defers
B. curtails
C. triggers
D. sparks
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1. The connotations of the term "harmonious society".
2. The significance of building a harmonious society.
3. Make your suggestions as to how to build a harmonious society.
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[单项选择]Their air of cheerful self-sacrifice and endless complaisance won them undeserved praise, for their seeming gallantry was wholly motivated by a ______ wish to avoid confict of any sort.
A. poignant
B. sincere
C. laudable
D. cowardly
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[单项选择]With the US economy slowing down, layoffs are everywhere. No industry is spared. If you end up having to start over, in addition to starting your job search, there are several things you should take care of to make your transition a smooth one.
First and foremost, clear up any misunderstanding about how and why you left your last job with your ex-boss. Whether you left voluntarily, were fired or were laid off due to budget cutbacks, make sure you both have the same explanation. Agree on job titles accordingly. Also ask for a reference if you think your ex-boss will offer one and you trust that he or she will speak honestly about your performance.
You should have a source of emergency cash that you can use in the interim. Don’t panic and liquidate your stocks and bonds just yet, be optimistic in your prospects while also be more frugal than usual. You should save money on not having to dry clean work clothes so often and eating less take-out lunches. Save money by not eating o
A. most industries stay unaffected by global economic recession
B. each and every company spares no effort to survive the fierce competition
C. "compulsory redundancy" is going on in every industry
D. employees are laid off because they are not qualified for their jobs
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[单项选择]They eat a lot of meats and dairy foods, along with a lot of ______ items that don’t fall into any Nutrigroup, such as sugar, fat, and condiments.
A. redundant
B. miscellaneous
C. versatile
D. trivial
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[单项选择]It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy or a ()
A. concession
B. recession
C. submission
D. transmission
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[单项选择]The reasoning in this editorial is so ______ that we cannot see how anyone can be deceived by it.
A. coherent
B. special
C. cogent
D. specious
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[单项选择]Monday’s earthquak______.windows and woke residents.
A. slammed
B. prosecuted
C. rattled
D. pierced
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It isestimated that a scientific principle has a life expectancy of approximately a decade before it drastically revised or replaced by newer information()
A. estimated
B. a life expectancy
C. decade
D. it drastically
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Assuming that a constant travel-time budget, geographic constraints and short-term infrastructure constraints persist as fundamental features of global mobility, what long-term results can one expect In high-income regions, (21) North America, our picture suggests that the share of traffic (22) supplied by buses and automobiles will decline as high-speed transport rises sharply. In developing countries, we (23) the strongest increase to be in the shares first for buses and later for automobiles. Globally, these (24) in bus and automobile transport are partially offsetting. In all regions, the share of low-speed rail transport will probably continue its strongly (25) decline.
We expect that throughout the period 1990~2050, the (26) North American will continue to devote most of his or her 1.1-hour travel-time (27) to automobile travel. The very large demand (28) air travel (or high-speed rail travel) that will be man
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B. exceptionally
C. unfortunately
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[单项选择]Visiting a National Park can be relaxing, inspiring, but it can also be disturbing. As you drive into Rocky Mountain National Park, and you will see starving elk, damaged meadows and dying forests. Our parks are growing old because we have mistakenly protected them from natural processes, such as fire, predation, and insects. We believed that we were saving these remnants of wild America, but actually we have "protected" them to death. If we want to save our National Parks, the National Park Service must change its management priorities to prevent over population of animals and to restore natural process in the forest in order to prevent their stagnation and "death" by old age. We must act soon: our parks are dying of old age because we have altered the forces in nature that keep them young and strong.
By tracing the history of our National Parks, we can understand the problem and see why we need active management. In the early part of the 20th century, settlers exploited wildlife
A. caused the near extinction of the endangered animals
B. intervened the natural process
C. made the visit of National Parks relaxing, and inspiring and rejuvenating
D. saved the elks in the Rocky Mountain Park from starvation
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[单项选择]The Commission found instances where police officers had lied under oath,()evidence, neglected black prisoners and wrongly imprisoned Aborigines
A. entailed
B. fabricated
C. cleansed
D. precluded
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[单项选择]The hostess()the maid()the table for dinner while we arrived after a three-hour drive from the town.
A. told,to make
B. was telling,to do
C. told,to lay
D. was telling,to set
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[单项选择]The police have asked for the()of the public in tracing the whereabouts of the missing child.
A. award
B. co-operation
C. position
D. helpfulness
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[单项选择]The pioneers’ greatest asset was not their material wealth but their ______.
A. fortitude
B. simplicity
C. companions
D. possessions
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[单项选择]He has little trouble()the tires of his car
A. to fix
B. fix
C. fixing
D. with fixing
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[单项选择]Brooding and hopelessness are the ______ of Indians in the prairie reservations most of the time.
A. occupations
B. promises
C. frustrations
D. transactions
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[单项选择]That grand-sized pine tree()thehorizon
A. stands up well against
B. stands put good to
C. stands out well agaist
D. stands up good to
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[单项选择]The book might well have ()had it been less expensive.
A. worked out
B. gone through
C. caught on
D. fitted in