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考博英语-240
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[多项选择]Part Ⅵ Writing
Directions:
In this section you are required to write an essay in accordance with the following requirements.
A. Title: Scientific Discovery—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.
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[单项选择]It is a pity that spiteful remarks are ______ with great speed.
A. conveyed
B. consulted
C. displayed
D. confronted
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[单项选择]Distance education is enrollment and study with an educational institution that provides lesson materials prepared in a sequential and logical order for study by students on their own. When each lesson is completed, the student mails or transmits the assigned work to the institution for correction, grading, comment, and subject matter guidance by qualified instructors. Corrected assignments are returned promptly to the student. This exchange provides a personalized student-teacher relationship. If a student slows his or her pace or fails to send assignments, the school provides encouragement. Although some institutions provide employment placement information and assistance, no reputable school ever guarantees a job to graduates.
Distance education and self-study are different. Self-study materials provide no instructional service. Corrected assignments, examinations, and special help provided by a qualified facility are vital to a good learning situation. However, these are not p
A. Why is distance education important to the modern society
B. What is distance education
C. How does distance education differ from self-study
D. How is distance education different from college education
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[单项选择]There is no electricity again. Has the ______ blown then
A. fuse
B. plug
C. wire
D. circuit
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[单项选择]The meal was excellent; the sour-pepper soup was particularly ______.
A. addicted
B. delicious
C. tasteful
D. desirable
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[单项选择]Mail service will be temporarily ______ because of the strike of the postal workers.
A. suspended
B. abridged
C. deprived
D. lessened
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[单项选择]The teacher gave the students extra work because she was ______ by all the noise and talking in the classroom.
A. interrupted
B. degenerated
C. terminated
D. exasperated
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[简答题]Without doubt, the international relations appear at times bewildering. Students may at times feel that their efforts to understand the complexities of the international system today are futile.
The task is a difficult one, but it is not futile. It requires patience and persistence as well as logical inquiry and flexible perspectives.
71. As the examples just given often illustrate, contemporary international events are regularly interrelated; our task of achieving understanding is therefore further complicated because seemingly unrelated events in different areas of the world may over a period of time combine to affect still other regions of the globe. Events are demonstrably interdependent, and as we improve our ability to understand the causes of and reasons behind this interdependence, we will improve our ability to understand contemporary international relations.
How can our task best be approached Throughout history, analysts of international relations have
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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]That battered old hat of his is a ______ joke to all his friends.
A. steady
B. standing
C. persisting
D. stable
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[单项选择]Our country was founded on the lofty principles of freedom and justice for all. Our lofty principles ought to be ______.
A. faced up to
B. looked up to
C. lived up to
D. made up to
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[单项选择]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 thought. Whorl was caref
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
D. both the culture and the mind determine the language to be used
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[单项选择]Researchers have studied the poor as individuals, as families and households, as members of poor communities, neighborhoods and regions, as products of larger poverty-creating structures. They have been analyzed as victims of crime and criminals, as members of minority cultures, as passive consumers of mass culture and active producers of a "counterculture", as an economic burden and as a reserve army of labor—to mention just some of the preoccupations of poverty research.
The elites, who occupy the small upper stratum within the category of the non-poor, and their functions in the emergence and reproduction of poverty are as interesting and important an object for poverty research as the poor themselves. The elites have images of the poor and of poverty which shape their decisions and actions. So far, little is known about those images, except as they are sketchily portrayed in popular stereotypes. The elites may well ignore or deny the external effects of their own actions (and
A. they are also members of the same society as the poor
B. they play an important role in creating and reproducing poverty
C. solution of the poverty problem is at their mercy
D. they know the living conditions of the poor better than other groups
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[单项选择]China started its nuclear power industry only in recent years, and should ______ no time in catching up.
A. delay
B. lose
C. lag
D. lessen
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[单项选择]I decided to get in touch with him ______ after I received his letter.
A. promptly
B. quickly
C. hastily
D. urgently
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[单项选择]The mountainous areas of the country are ______ populated.
A. infrequently
B. sparsely
C. slightly
D. loosely
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[多项选择]尽管我们对“学习”的理解不尽完善,然而我们对此已有不少了解。“学习”可以呈现不同的形式,也可以在许多情况下进行。一般来说,“学习”必然会引起行为的变化。“学习”导致人们行为发生变化时,这种变化常能持久。“学习”也许意味着对一系列细小而不相关的行为按新的顺序重新排列。就好比你在钢琴上学习弹奏一首新的曲子。
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[填空题]The development of writing was one of the great human inventions. It is difficult (51) many people to imagine language without writing; the spoken word seems intricately tied to the written (52) .
But children speak (53) they learn to write. And millions of people in the world speak languages with (54) written form. Among these people oral literature abounds, and crucial knowledge (55) memorized and passed (56) generations. But human memory is short-lived, and the brain’s storage capacity is finite. (57) overcame such problems and allowed communication across the miles (58) through the years and centuries. Writing permits a society (59) permanently record its poetry, its history and its technology.
It might be argued (60) today we have electronic means of recording sound and (61) to produce films and television, and thus writing is becoming obsolete. (62) writing became extinct, there would
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[单项选择]If a person talks about his weaknesses, the listener is expected to say something in the way of ______.
A. assurance
B. encouragement
C. persuasion
D. confirmation
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[单项选择]If profit and money are your first ______, and commitment to people your least concern, you have failed education.
A. potentiality
B. priority
C. superiority
D. responsibility
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[单项选择]If prompt measures are taken, we are sure that illiteracy in this region can be ______ in no time.
A. eliminated
B. abandoned
C. diminished
D. withdrawn
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[单项选择]Your advice would be ______ valuable to him, who is at present at his wit's end.
A. exceedingly
B. excessively
C. extensively
D. exclusively
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[单项选择]Mr. Morton gradually ______ a knowledge of the subject.
A. attained
B. required
C. acquired
D. enquired
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[单项选择]His parents gave many expensive toys as a kind of ______ for his lameness and inability to play active games.
A. remedy
B. compensation
C. treatment
D. comfort
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[单项选择]Many of the students have a grasp of the main structures, a reasonable vocabulary and a(n) ______ idea of how to pronounce most words they come across.
A. faint
B. vague
C. obscure
D. rough
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[单项选择]Every society has its own peculiar customs and ______ of acting.
A. ways
B. attitudes
C. behaviors
D. means
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[单项选择]Industrial production managers coordinate the resources and activities required to produce millions of goods every year in the United States. Although their duties vary from plant to plant, industrial production managers share many of the same major responsibilities. These responsibilities include production scheduling, staffing, procurement and maintenance of equipment, quality control, inventory control, and the coordination of production activities with those of other departments.
The primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints. They do this by analyzing the plant’s personnel and capital resources to select the best way of meeting the production quota. Industrial production managers determine, often using mathematical formulas, which machines will be used, whether new machines need to be purchased, whether overtime or extra shifts are necessary, and what the sequence of production will b
A. the procedures for industrial production
B. the ways to raise working efficiency and productivity
C. the importance of coordination in production activities
D. the role of an industrial production manager
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[单项选择]Dominic, the most ______ pupil in class, will go to Harvard to study this September.
A. indigenous
B. indiscreet
C. indulgent
D. industrious
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[单项选择]It's an offer that you won't get again, so I would ______ it if I were you.
A. relate to
B. count on
C. accept of
D. jump at
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[单项选择]We must try to use our intellect ______.
A. to the greatest advantage
B. for the most details
C. by the rarest chance
D. of the greatest significance
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[单项选择]Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree to which they can be ______ controlled and modified.
A. deliberately
B. delicately
C. definitely
D. defectively
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[单项选择]In almost all chemical-process plants, heat is ______ by burning of fossil fuels—coal, oil, or natural gas.
A. transformed
B. conducted
C. transferred
D. generated
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[单项选择]We had no way to measure the exact distance we had traveled, but we thought it was ______ ten miles.
A. apparently
B. appraisably
C. appropriately
D. approximately
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[单项选择]Advertising costs are no longer in reasonable ______ to total cost of the product.
A. relationship
B. match
C. measure
D. proportion
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[单项选择]Born of the same parents, he bears no ______ his brothers.
A. traits with
B. resemblances to
C. personalities between
D. characters among
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[单项选择]This man is ______ to wine.
A. addicted
B. predicted
C. dictated
D. evicted
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[单项选择]I would like to get another table like this one, but the company that made it is out of ______.
A. order
B. business
C. practice
D. style
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[单项选择]She was extremely lucky; when her great-uncle died, she ______. a fortune.
A. came by
B. came over
C. came into
D. came about