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考博英语-650
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The United States Food and Drag Administration has shown itself to be particularly wary with regard to alleged "miracle" drugs in recent times()
A. bellicose
B. exhausted
C. cautious
D. strange
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[单项选择]Because of its intimacy, radio is usually more than just a medium; it is ()
A. firm
B. company
C. corporation
D. enterprise
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[单项选择]"You are very selfish. It’s high time you()that you are not the most important person in the world," Edgar said to his boss angrily.
A. realized
B. have realized
C. realize
D. should realize
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[单项选择]The ink has faded with time and so parts of the letter were______.
A. illegible
B. indelible
C. illegitimate
D. inscrutable
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The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photography’s fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art, as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.
Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to label it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselves--anything but making works of art. In the nineteen century, photography’ s association with the real world pla
A. defining the Modernist attitude toward art
B. explaining the attitudes of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical context
C. explaining how photography emerged as a fine art after the controversies of the nineteenth century
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Linguists have understood for decades that language and thought are closely related. Humans construct reality using thought and express these thoughts through the use of language. Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorl are credited with developing the most relevant explanation outlining the relationship between thought and language, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The hypothesis consists of two parts, linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism. Supporters of linguistic relativity assume that culture is shaped by language. Terwilliger defines linguistic determinism as the process by which "the functions of one’s mind are determined by the nature of the language which one speaks." In simpler terms, the thoughts that we construct are based upon the language that we speak and the words that we use. In its strongest sense, linguistic determinism can be interpreted as meaning that language determines thought. In its weakest sense, language partially influences th
A. the realities constructed through different languages are different
B. language and thought are intimately related to each other
C. culture is shaped by language through which it expresses itself
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[单项选择]The Untied States and Canada are lands of()except for the Indians, who are the only tree natives
A. emigrants
B. immigrants
C. dwellers
D. inhabitants
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[单项选择]To support the general statement in the first sentence, each()sentence in the paragraph provides a different example
A. relevant
B. subsequent
C. coherent
D. antecedent
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[单项选择]At first Jackie prayed, frozen in fear, but gradually his terror()curiosity.
A. put up with
B. lived up to
C. did away with
D. gave way to
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[单项选择]Most of the young people hold the mistaken belief that goods produced in our own country are()to imported ones
A. inadequate
B. inappropriate
C. inferior
D. interior
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The preserved food should retain palatable appearance, flavor, and texture, as well as its original nutritional value()
A. tasty
B. stylish
C. delicate
D. notable
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[单项选择]He()the job because it involved too much traveling.
A. took up
B. applied for
C. turned down
D. switched to
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[单项选择]Being afraid of the enemy’s attack, he () motionless in the grass for half an hour.
A. lie
B. lay
C. laid
D. lied
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Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in the world’s average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, ecologists have turned to historical data in relation to especially huge volcanic eruptions. They suspect that volcanoes effect weather changes that are similar to air pollution.
One source of information is the effect of the eruption of Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, the Dutch East Indies (the former name of the Republic of Indonesia), in April 1815. The largest recorded volcanic emption, Tambora threw 150 million tom of fine ash into the stratosphere. The ash from a volcano spreads worldwide in a few days and remains in the air for years. Its effect is to turn incoming solar radiation into space and thus cool the earth. For example, records of weather in England show that between April and November 1815, the average temperature had fallen 4.5°F. During the next twenty-four months, England suffered one of the coldest periods of its history
A. of several days’ duration worldwide
B. felt mainly in the Dutch East Indies
C. evident in the decreased world temperature
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[单项选择]Much()I have traveled, I have never seen anyone to equal her for thoroughness, whatever the job
A. when
B. more
C. farther
D. as
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The history of African-Americans during the past 400 years is traditionally narrated (21) an ongoing straggle against (22) and indifference on the part of the American mainstream, and a straggle (23) as an upward movement is (24) toward ever more justice and opportunity. Technology in and of (25) is not at fault; it’s much too simple to say that gunpowder or agricultural machinery or fiber optics (26) been the enemy of an (27) group of people. A certain machine is put (28) work in a certain way-the purpose (29) which it was designed. The people who design the machines are not intent on unleashing chaos; they are usually trying to (30) a task more quickly, cleanly, or cheaply, (31) the imperative of innovation and efficiency that has ruled Western civilization (32) the Renaissance.
Mastery of technology is second only (33) money as the true measure of accomplishment in this cou
A. like
B. as
C. for
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[单项选择]The once separate issue of environment and development are now______linked.
A. intangible
B. indispensable
C. inextricably
D. incredibly
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[简答题]A. Title: Scientific Discovey—Curse or Blessing
B. Time limit: 40 minutes
C. Word limit: 180~200 words (not including the given opening sentences)
D. Your composition should be based on the given opening sentences of each paragraph.
E. Your composition must be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.
Outlines:
1. New scientific discoveries nearly always bring to mankind a blessing;
2. Yet sometimes scientific discoveries may prove a curse upon human race;
3. The misuse of scientific discoveries must be prevented.
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[单项选择]There is much I enjoy about the changing seasons, but my favorite time is the()from fall to winter.
A. transmission
B. transformation
C. transition
D. transfer
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Ted got a better job and left the school before Mrs. Wolcox had him expelled()
A. disgraced
B. degraded
C. executed
D. ejected
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[单项选择]I was not alone in my knowledge; the woman had also seen my father's eyes gleaming with pride()
A. contracted
B. contested
C. contented
D. contrasted
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[单项选择]Some studies confirmed that this kind of eye disease was()in tropical countries.
A. prospective
B. prevalent
C. provocative
D. perpetual
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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]Pupils often want to sit next to their particular friend and many classroom activities involve moving about, but even relatively small alterations can make()to the visual comfort of pupils with sight defects.
A. a difference
B. an interference
C. a modification
D. an impact
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States are considering major changes in prepaid college tuition programs——raising prices, restricting participation or canceling them——as they grapple with financial woes. Nationwide, families will likely have to pay more to participate, or accept that they might not cover tuition when children go to college.
Colorado has closed its prepaid plan to new investors and told existing ones that it may not cover future tuition increases. Wisconsin stopped selling its plan Dec. 20. Maryland and Illinois are among states hiking prices by 20% or more.
Prepaid plans let parents lock in tuition by paying for it now, protecting them against rising costs. But the bear market has hurt investment returns, leaving the plans unable to keep up with big increases in tuition. So far, Colorado is the only state that has told participants their investments may not cover tuition, and no plan has missed a payment.
Other states have said they will fulfill o
A. it is easy to pay at the present time
B. it is economical in the long nm
C. is saves pains to pass the entrance exam
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[单项选择]We were four scores left behind with five minutes to go, so the game looked completely ()
A. irresistible
B. irremissible
C. irreplaceable
D. irretrievable
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If income is transferred from rich persons to poor persons the proportion in which different sorts of goods and services are provided will be changed. Expensive luxuries will give place to more necessary articles, rare wines to meat and bread, new machines and factories to clothes and improved small dwellings; and there will be other changes of a like sort. In view of this fact, it is inexact to speak of a change in the distribution of the dividend in favor of, or adverse to, the poor. There is not a single definitely constituted heap of things coming into being each year and distributed now in one way, now in another. In fact, there is no such thing as the dividend from the point of view of both of two years, and therefore, there can be no such thing as a change in its distribution.
This, however, is a point of words rather than of substance. What I mean when I say that the distribution of the dividend has changed in favor of the poor is that, the general productive powe
A. amassing all products from the last two years and reallocating them
B. ensuring the majority of products available are more useful to the poor
C. offering low priced stock that the poor could afford
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[单项选择]Can you imagine ! He offered me $ 5000 to break my contract. That’s (). Of course I didn’t agree. I would take legal action.
A. fraud
B. blackmail
C. bribery
D. compensation
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Having liberated the player from an exclusively team performance, Louis Armstrong unwittingly codified the vocabulary of the soloist in a series of famous recordings()
A. unfavorably
B. unpopularly
C. unquestionably
D. unintentionally
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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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[单项选择]The government has______ a series of policies to ensure its sustained development in economy.
A. reserved
B. issued
C. stated
D. expressed
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[简答题]
1.实行改革开放以来改变了过去封闭半封闭状态,提高了我国经济水平。
2.文化是某一特定人群所有传统、习俗、信仰和各种生活方式的总和。
3.一个国家的妇女通过她们的生活方式塑造了这个国家的道德、宗教和政治。
4.帮助真正的穷人,要比仅仅缩小贫富差距更有价值。帮助下层社会的人重新回到社会主流中来,符合所有人的利益。
5.推进现代化建设、完成祖国统一、维护世界和平与促进共同发展,是中国人民在新世纪的三大历史任务。
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[单项选择]Juliet is not at work. She is taking a ()until the end of this week.
A. vocation
B. vacation
C. vacancy
D. volume
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Some would consider such speech an infringement of good mariners whereas others would not()
A. an example
B. a violation
C. an insult
D. an indication
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[单项选择]His strange behavior confirmed his neighbors in their ()that he was guilty.
A. suspicion
B. doubt
C. estimate
D. imagination
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[单项选择]Tom could hardly()his excitement as he knew that he had made a real discovery.
A. conceal
B. reveal
C. show
D. discover
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[单项选择]A hefty 50% of those from ages 18 to 34 told the pollsters in the TIME/CNN survey that they()“feminist” values
A. share
B. regard
C. attach
D. dominate
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[单项选择]When he was asked about the missing camera, the boy()ever seeing it.
A. refused
B. denied
C. opposed
D. pretended