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考博英语-334
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[单项选择]Those guys are continually quarrelling, but it is usually a storm in a teacup.
A. 不欢而散
B. 小题大做
C. 不可开交
D. 无事生非
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[单项选择]Artists in the period of Renaissance had the advantage of being able to study Roman and Greek literature and sculpture because ______.
A. they could obtain the first-hand materials
B. they could understand Greek and Latin
C. they were more intelligent than modem men
D. they were inspired by Roman and Greek literature
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[单项选择]There are quite a few people who are willing to prostitute their intelligence for a mess of pottage.
A. 蝇头小利
B. 一锅粥
C. 眼前利益
D. 钱财
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[单项选择]According to the passage, the risk of infection from airborne microorganisms would likely be greater during a ______.
A. heat wave
B. time of high humidity
C. windless period
D. shortage of fuel oil
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[单项选择]With what topic is the passage primarily concerned
A. The civilian response to the Civil War.
B. The causes of the Civil War.
C. Where the Civil War battles were fought.
D. Why the South lost the Civil War.
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[单项选择]ECHO: SOUND
A. reflection: light
B. microphone: hearing
C. conservation: talk
D. implication: tone
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[单项选择]GOAD: DIRECT
A. exhort: suggest
B. instruct: teach
C. persuade: convince
D. conspire: plan
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[单项选择]He kept throwing us an apple of discord, we soon quarreled again.
A. (评判)不公
B. (挑起)争端
C. (分赃)不均
D. 背叛
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[单项选择]You can come with me to the museum Ibis afternoon ______ you don' t mind walking for half an hour.
A. unless
B. so far as
C. except
D. if
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[单项选择]Which of the following is not mentioned as an effect of the dowry system
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[单项选择]We can rely on William to carry out this mission, for his judgment is always ______.
A. inexplicable
B. healthy
C. sound
D. straight
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[单项选择]It was all agreed that the first problem the new government would have to ______ was unemployment.
A. grip
B. tackle
C. discern
D. manipulate
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[单项选择]The influence of Greece and Rome became greater in the fourteenth and fifteenth century because ______.
A. Roman and Greek works were better than the those of medieval Christian church
B. Roman and Greek works were different from Medieval works
C. the Roman and Greek music became known
D. a lot of Roman and Greek works were discovered
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[单项选择]AESTHETICS: BEAUTY
A. theology: morals
B. psychology: anxiety
C. physiology: nature
D. epistemology: knowledge
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[单项选择]When the new assembly line is complete, the factory will turn ______ one thousand cars per day.
A. in
B. off
C. out
D. over
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[单项选择]SCISSORS:TAILOR
A. brush: painter
B. computer: writer
C. wagon: farmer
D. saw: carpenter
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[单项选择]In the society described in the passage, the legal standing of the wife marriage was ______.
A. higher than that of her husband
B. lower than that of her husband
C. the same as that of her husband
D. higher than that of a single woman
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[单项选择]FLOWER: VIOLET
A. stone: magenta
B. pear: fruit
C. cabbie: green
D. gem: turquoise
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[简答题]The oil price is also a big risk, mainly because the Bush administration appears determined to attack Iraq. The probability of war could easily push the oil price back into the $ 35-- $ 40 a bar rel range for at least a few months. In effect, that would impose a big new tax on consumer spending and corporate profits. The prospect of monetary tightening and a sharp increase in the oil price suggests that late 2002 and early 2003 could be a period of great volatility for the US economy.
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[单项选择]The senator agrees that his support of the action would ______ his chances for reelection.
A. obscure
B. mystify
C. distinguish
D. jeopardize
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[单项选择]MATRIX: NUMBERS
A. gas: molecules
B. insurance: securities
C. crystal: atoms
D. base: athletics
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[单项选择]The passage suggests which of the following about the increased resistance to harmful root fungi that some Plants infected with mycorrhizal fungi seem to exhibit
A. There are at least three hypotheses that might account for the increase.
B. The plants that show increased resistance also exhibit improved nitrogen fixation.
C. Such increases may be independent of mycorrhizal infection.
D. It is unlikely that a satisfactory explanation can be found to account for the increas
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[单项选择]In the passage the author implied that ______.
A. music did not exist before the Middle Ages
B. we were not better off than the Greek and Roman men
C. there was not enough evidence to prove that Western music was originated from the ancient Greece and Rome
D. there were no authentic remains of the ancient Roman music
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[单项选择]There are always a lot of straw polls before the general election of the President in the Unit ed States.
A. 无效投票
B. 拉拢选票
C. 民意测验
D. 正式投票
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[单项选择]This platform would collapse if all of us ______ on it.
A. stand
B. stood
C. would stand
D. had stood
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[单项选择]I was shocked to learn that such an eminent professor was ignorant to a proverb.
A. 普遍现象
B. 令人吃惊
C. 成语
D. 众所周知
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[单项选择]His elder sister, who works in the supermarket, is still on the shelf.
A. 童心未泯
B. 取货
C. 没出嫁
D. 休息
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[单项选择]The manufacturers hoped that the motor show would ______ their car sales.
A. promise
B. lift
C. intensify
D. boost
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[单项选择]PERPLEXED: CLARIFICATION
A. relaxed: recreation
B. learned: profession
C. anxious: reassurance
D. upset: confidence
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[单项选择]The level of information in the passage above is suited to the needs of all of the following people except ______.
A. an official of a research foundation who identifies research projects for potential funding
B. a state official whose position requires her to alert farmers about possible innovations in farming
C. a researcher whose job is to identify potentially profitable areas for research and product development
D. a botanist Conducting experiments to determine the relationship between degree of mycorrhizal infection and expected uptake of phosphate
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[单项选择]The young man who saw the car ______ into the river telephoned the police.
A. plunged
B. plunge
C. was plunging
D. to plunge
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[单项选择]It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following has been a factor influencing the extent to which research on mycorrhizal fungi has progressed
A. Lack of funding for such research
B. lack of immediate application of such research
C. difficulties surrounding laboratory production of specimens for study.
D. lack of a method for identifying mycorrhizal fungi
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[多项选择]天下极神奇极壮丽极鲜美文字,多在道藏。偶捡一二,眼界遂异。运思运笔,率尔改常世间何高语佛藏,曾不及此。
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[单项选择]The word "tycoon" in the last paragraph is ______.
A. derived from a Japanese word, meaning a businessman with great wealth and power
B. an English translation of a Russian word, meaning a man of great consequence
C. borrowed from Portuguese, meaning an industrialist with a great man of money obtained illegally
D. rarely used now because of its derogatory meaning
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[单项选择]The man told me under rose that he often took trouble on your account.
A. 不辞劳苦
B. 挑剔
C. 打理
D. 惹麻烦
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[单项选择]He is said to be equal to any task whatever.
A. 负责
B. 胜任
C. 疲于应付
D. 同等对待
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[多项选择]近年以至今后数年,对中国经济体制改革影响最大的事情,莫过于加入世界贸易组织。特别是近两年的各项改革,几乎无一不是在适应世贸组织的要求,且改革的步伐明显加快,改革也开始越来越深人到计划经济的最核心领域。因而,可以说,中国经济体制在经过了20多年的渐进改革之后,终于开始大步迈向,市场经济的轨道了。
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[单项选择]The United States was trying hard to smoke the enemy out of the holes in the target country.
A. 对敌人施以地毯式轰炸
B. 将敌人熏死在洞中
C. 引诱敌人出洞
D. 向洞中的敌人投掷毒气弹
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[单项选择]Men could directly turn back to Greece and Rome for instruction, for correction, and for inspiration in the following fields of their work except ______.
A. sculpture
B. drama
C. poetry
D. music
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[单项选择]ADULTERATE: PURE
A. outstanding: excellent
B. embellish: austere
C. mosquito: blood
D. concentrate: part
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[单项选择]STANZA: POEM
A. duet: chorus
B. rhyme: verse
C. passage: article
D. act: opera
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[单项选择]SLICE: CAKE
A. mince: onion
B. core: apple
C. peel: peach
D. crave: turkey
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[单项选择]Which of the following most accurately describes the passage
A. A description of a replicable experiment
B. A refutation of an earlier hypothesis
C. A summary report of new findings
D. A confirmation of earlier research
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[单项选择]A decimum was ______.
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[单项选择]CLAY: PORCELAIN
A. flax: linen
B. sand: sediment
C. computer: program
D. soup: luncheon
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[多项选择]一般情况下,本刊按收到投稿的时间先后顺序,对每一篇作品按照规定的标准进行审阅,然后决定发表或退稿,同时向作者发出通知。审阅将在收到作者投稿后2个月内完成。如果作者在投稿后3个月内未收到录用通知或退稿信,可自行考虑投寄他刊。
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[多项选择]语言时空论是语言学这门科学的一个观点。它以时空差异关注语言的流变现象,因为语言的流变基本上是由时间和空间延展在强度和性质上的差异表现出来的。它寻求以客观和精确的方式来描写和揭示语言的基本概念、内在关系以及流变机理,追索有关语言的现实知识。它观察语言流变的原理和规则,不是为了证明语言是按照某种原理和规则进行流变的,而是为了更好地理解语言的真实。
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[单项选择]According to the passage, during the Civil War the South no longer provided the North with ______.
A. cotton
B. shoes
C. hides
D. wool
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[简答题]实验室工作的惟一任务就是使学生养成初步的实验能力。要达到这一目的,最好的办法就是让学生在解决简单的实验问题中获得一些经验。
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[单项选择]The passage uses the term "vegetative forms" to refer to ______.
A. plants that infest human habitations
B. the fact that bacteria are really vegetables
C. the growing stage of the bacteria as opposed to the dormant stage
D. the difficulty in classifying the . types of bacteria
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[单项选择]It may be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. bacteria can be most easily killed by removal of moisture
B. drying out a house will eliminate the risk of airborne infection
C. hot-Mr heating is better than steam heating because steam heating uses water
D. none of the above
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[单项选择]Tuberculosis is highly infectious because ______.
A. spores are resistant to drying
B. the causative organism is encapsulated
C. droplets of sputum remain infective for a long time due to the resistance of the organisms to drying
D. none of these
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[单项选择]In his ______ to further knowledge of the universe, man has now begun to explore space.
A. attempt
B. expedition
C. trial
D. chase
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[单项选择]EGG: CHICKEN
A. pearl: oyster
B. roe: salmon
C. fur: tiger
D. bark: tree
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[单项选择]Which of the following is implied by the writer of this passage
A. The students of the Civil War usually concentrate on the economy.
B. The families of the Civil War are extremely worded about their living.
C. The students of the Civil War usually concentrate on the battlefield.
D. The families of the Civil War are extremely worded about the government.
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[单项选择]GLIMMER: DAZZLE
A. bit: strike
B. recede: abandon
C. murmur: resound
D. muse: ponder
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[单项选择]Could a husband sell his wife' s inheritance
A. No, under no circumstances.
B. Yes, whenever he wished to.
C. Yes, if his father-in-law agreed.
D. Yes, if she agree
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[单项选择]EDUCATE :CHILD
A. cultivate: crop
B. quench: fire
C. secure: possession
D. care: doctor
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[单项选择]COIN: DENOMINATION
A. book: title
B. officer: rank
C. tree: wood
D. doctor: nurse
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[单项选择]Whenever we come to stay with them, we just live like fighting cocks.
A. 在争吵中度日
B. 吃不到任何好东西
C. 吃得到最好的东西
D. 自由自在
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[单项选择]Since most doctors are ______ about effectiveness of the new medicine, they seldom recommend it to their patients.
A. anxious
B. dubious
C. cynical
D. innocent