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考博英语-440
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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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[单项选择]Can animals have a sense of humor Sally Blanchard, publisher of a newsletter called the Pet Bird Report, thinks a pet parrot may have pulled her leg. That’s one explanation for the time her African gray parrot, named Bongo Marie, seemed to feign distress at the possible death of an Amazon parrot named Paco.
It happened one day when Blanchard was making Cornish game hen for dinner. As Blanchard lifted her knife, the African gray threw back its head and said, "Oh, no! Paco!" Trying not to laugh, Blanchard said, "That’s not Paco," and showed Bongo Marie that the Amazon was alive and well. Mimicking a disappointed tone, Bongo Marie said, "Oh, no," and launched into a hoarse laugh.
Was the parrot joking when it seemed to believe the other bird was a goner Did Bongo Marie comprehend Blanchard’s response Studies of African grays have shown that they can understand the meaning of words--for example, that red refers to a color, not just a particular red object. Parrots also enjoy gett
A. gone and couldn’t eat the meal
B. dead and being cut for the meal
C. deadly ill and discarded by the hostess
D. away and should be back to join them
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[单项选择]Without Bob's testimony, evidence of bribery is lacking and ______ in the case will be impossible.
A. verdict
B. sentence
C. conviction
D. acquittal
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[多项选择] Topic: As a young scientist, which life would you prefer to live: common or uncommon Why
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[单项选择]The oil price rise reactivated the boom in commodity prices and ______ inflation, which reached an annual rate of 15 per cent in the spring of 1974.
A. boosted
B. harnessed
C. staggered
D. embarked
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[单项选择]She ______ the words, not knowing what to say, how to put into plain speech her decision to finish their love.
A. passed onto
B. stumbled over
C. burst out
D. dropped down
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[单项选择]Now, don't tell anyone else what I've just told you. Remember, It's ______.
A. controversial
B. secretive
C. confidential
D. sacred
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[单项选择]But, in our enthusiasm to discover our heritage, we are mining the very scenery we go to enjoy, damaging natural habitats, ______ down footpaths, disturbing wild- life, polluting the air and dropping litter.
A. wearing
B. treading
C. falling
D. cutting
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[单项选择]Any person who is in ______ while awaiting trial is considered innocent until he has been declared guilty.
A. jeopardy
B. custody
C. suspicion
D. probation
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[单项选择]He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he ______ in a colleague at work.
A. involved
B. joined
C. engrossed
D. confided
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[单项选择]Most people who develop Lyme disease, a tick-born infection that’s endemic in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, are easily cured by taking an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple of weeks. But for years a debate has raged over what to do about patients whose symptoms (fatigue, mental confusion, joint pain) never seem to clear up. One small but vocal group of doctors and patient advocates believes that Lyme’s corkscrew-shaped spirochetes have tunneled deep into their victims’ bodies and can be eradicated only with intensive antibiotic treatment over many months. Another group believes, just as adamantly, that the bacteria are long gone, making further treatment with powerful antibiotics-- which can lead to potentially fatal infections or blood clots--positively dangerous.
Now comes word of two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine that show that long-term antibiotic treatment is no better than a placebo for folks with chronic Lyme disease. Originally scheduled for pu
A. is one of the contagious diseases
B. is spread by a kind of tiny bugs
C. causes infection all over the body
D. develops against any painkillers
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[简答题]86. Contemporary technological reporting is full of notions of electronic communities in which people interact across regions or entire continents. Could such "virtual communities" eventually replace geographically localized social relations There are reasons to suspect that, as the foundation for a democratic society, virtual communities will remain seriously deficient.
87. For example, electronic communication filters out and alters much of the subtlety, warmth, contextuality, and so on that seem important to fully human, morally engaged interaction. That is one reason many Japanese and European executives persist in considering face-to-face encounter essential to their business dealings and why many engineers, too, prefer face-to-face encounter and find it essential to their creativity.
88. Even hypothetical new media (e. g. advanced "virtual realities"), conveying a dimensionally richer sensory display are unlikely to prove fully satisfactory, substitutes
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[单项选择]When a system is unjust to the ______, abolition, not reform, is what respect for justice demands.
A. end
B. excess
C. core
D. bottom
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[单项选择]Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months, marveling at his ______ spirit and his unfailing good temper.
A. variant
B. gallant
C. pertinent
D. solitary
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[单项选择]The Freedom of Information Act gives private citizen ______ government files.
A. release from
B. excess of
C. redress of
D. access to
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[单项选择]Individuals may at various points in their lives experience discrimination in the allocation of resources either ______ of being too old or too young.
A. at the risk
B. to the point
C. in the case
D. on the ground
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[单项选择]The custom is ______ in the belief that a new pregnancy--through its detrimental effect on breastfeeding--would endanger the mother's health.
A. celebrated
B. observed
C. viewed
D. presented
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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]Within hours of appearing on television to announce the end of conscription, President Jacques Chirac moved quickly to prevent any dissent from within the military establishment. Addressing more than 500 military staff officers at the military academy in Paris yesterday, Mr. Chirac said clearly that he "expected" their loyalty in the work of rebuilding France’s national defense.
He understood their "legitimate concerns, questions and emotions" at the reforms, but added. "You must understand that there is not and never has been any rigid model for French defense. Military service has been compulsory for less than a century. Realism required that our armed forces should now be professional."
The president’s decision to abolish conscription over a period of six years removes a rite of passage for young Frenchmen that has existed since the Revolution, even though obligatory national service only became law in 1905. As recently as 1993, an opinion poll showed that more than 60% of
A. have got no consensus from military officers
B. have curbed disagreement among the officers
C. be an apology made to the military academy
D. be an understanding of all military officers
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[单项选择]Did he really expect her to smile now and ______ with his plans, treat all this deception as no more than an unusual diversion
A. fall in
B. put off
C. agree to
D. stand up
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[单项选择]Forget football. At many high schools, the fiercest competition is between Coke and Pepsi over exclusive "pouring rights" to sell on campus. But last week Jeffrey Dunn, president of Coca-Cola Americas, called a timeout: Coke’s machines will now also stock water, juice, and other healthful options--even rival brands and their facades will feature school scenes and other "noncommercial graphics" instead of Coke’s vivid red logo. "the pendulum needs to swing back" on school-based marketing, said Dunn.
Coke’s about-face--particularly the call to end the exclusive deals that bottlers make with school districts--comes amid rising concern over kids’ health: American children are growing ever more obese and developing weight-related diseases usually found in adults. While inactivity and huge helpings factor heavily, a recent study in the Lancet fingered soda pop as a likely culprit. Communities--and legislators--are already on the case. Last year, for instance, parents in Philadelphia det
A. the fiercest competition at high schools
B. thought to have ill impact on students
C. competing with commercials on campus
D. brought into disrepute by Coke and Pepsi
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[单项选择]Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, advisor to presidents, and friend to the rich and powerful would be more accurate.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is better known for his activities outside the academy. This week he sold Africana com, a website he created with a fellow Harvard University professor, to Time Warner. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed, though the Wall Street Journal pegged the price at more than $10 million, with Gates reaping up to $1 million. Time Warner will incorporate the site, a portal with news and information about people of African descent, into America Online when the two merge as expected. The sense is that Gates got a very good deal. The site is a rich source of scholarship but hardly a rich source of revenue.
As recently as the late 1980s Gates, who turns 50 this week, was an obscure professor, penning books on literary theory only a graduate student could love. Now he can’t be avoided. He hosted a series
A. It may be financially mediocre to Time Warner.
B. It is maintained by Gates for Time Warner.
C. It becomes a sister website of America Online.
D. It is meant for the U. S. general publi
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[单项选择]The idea was just beginning to ______ in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run.
A. show up
B. catch on
C. open out
D. get by
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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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[单项选择]The bishop preached a farewell sermon to a ______ that filled the church to over- flowing.
A. procession
B. reunion
C. rally
D. congregation
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[单项选择]Communication orally involves more than reading or talking: gesture, posture, movements may all be ______ to it.
A. intrinsic
B. coherent
C. appealing
D. submissive
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[单项选择]In no ______ should you do this without help and advice from your doctor--restricting the diet of small children can be very dangerous.
A. perspectives
B. restrictions
C. circumstances
D. consequences
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[单项选择]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, (41) North America, our picture suggests that the share of traffic (42) supplied by buses and automobiles will decline as high-speed transport rises sharply. In developing countries, we (43) the strongest increase to be in the shares first for buses and later for automobiles. Globally, these (44) in bus and automobile transport are partially offsetting. In all regions, the share of lowspeed mil transport will probably continue its strongly (45) decline.
We expect that throughout the period 1990~2050, the (46) North American will continue to devote most of his or her 1.1-hour travel-time (47) to automobile travel. The very large demand (48) air travel (or high-speed mil travel) that will be
A. frankly
B. exceptionally
C. unfortunately
D. notably