复旦大学2007年博士研究生入学考试英语试题

复旦大学2007年博士研究生入学考试英语试题Part Vocabulary and Structure（15 points）Directions：There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.1Although the false banknotes fooled many people, they did not _ to a close examination.Akeep up Bput up Cstand up Dlook up2When I bent down to tie my shoelace, the seat of my trousers _.Asplit Bcracked Cbroke Dholed3His _ thighs were barely strong enough to support the weight of his body.Ainanimate Brustic Cmalleable Dshrunken4To get my travellers cheques I had to _ a special cheque to the bank for the total amount.Amake for Bmake out Cmake up Dmake off5She described the distribution of food and medical supplies as a _ nightmare.Aparanoid Bputative Cbenign Dlogistical6A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable _ ending.Amawkish Bfateful Cbeloved Dperfunctory7Despite _ efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36 points.Aabsurd Bgrimy Cvaliant Dfraudulent8In _ I wish I had thought about alternative courses of action.Aretrospect Bdisparity Csuccession Ddissipation9Psychoanalysts tend to regard both _ and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation.Aattachment Bdistinction Cingenuity Dsadism10Fear showed in the eyes of the young man, while the old man looked tired and _.Awatery Bwandering Cweary Dwearing11The clash between Real Madrid and Arsenal is being _ as the match of the season.Aharbinger Ballured Ccongested Dlodged12What he told me was a _ of downright lies.Aload Bmob Cpack Dflock13We regret to inform you that the materials you ordered are _.Aout of work Bout of stock Cout of reach Dout of practice14_ I realized the consequences, I would never have contemplated getting involved.AEven if BHad CAs long as DIf15They managed to _ the sound on TV every time the alleged victims name was spoken.Adeaden Bdeprive Cpunctuate Drebuff16He had been _ to appear in court on charges of incitement of lawbreaking.Ailluminated Bsummoned Cprevailed Dtrailed17The computer doesnt _ human thought; it reaches the same ends by different means.Aflunk Brenew Csuccumb Dmimic18How about a glass of orange juice to _ your thirst？Aquench Bquell Cquash Dquieten19The rain looked as if it had _ for the night.Aset off Bset up Cset out Dset in20My aunt lost her cat last summer, but it _ a week later at a home in the next village.Aturned up Bturned in Cturned on Dturned out21As is known to all, a vague law is always _ to different interpretations.Ainvulnerable Bimmune Cresistant Dsusceptible22The manager _ facts and figures to make it seem that the company was prosperous.Abeguiled Bbesmirched Cjuxtaposed Djuggled23To our great delight, yesterday we received a（n）_ donation from a benefactor.Ahandsome Bawesome Cmiserly Dprodigal24Students who get very high marks will be _ from the final examination.Aexpelled Bbanished Cabsolved Dousted25It _ me that the man was not telling the truth.Aeffects Bpokes Chits Dstirs26John glanced at Mary to see what she thought, but she remained _.Amanifest Bobnoxious Cinscrutable Dobscene27My neighbor tended to react in a heat and _ way.Aimpetuous Bimpertinent Cimperative Dimperceptible28This morning when she was walking in the street, a black car _ beside her.Adrew out Bdrew off Cdrew down Ddrew up29She decided to keep reticent about the unpleasant past and _ it to memory.Aattribute Ballude Ccommit Dcredit30It did not take long for the central bank to _ their fears.Asoothe Bsnub Csmear DsanctifyPart Reading Comprehension（40 points）Directions：There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A,B, C and DChoose the best answer and mark corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Passage OneJean leftAlice Springson Monday morning with regret, and flew all day in a “Dragonfly” aircraft; and it was a very instructive day for her. The machine did not go directly to Cloncurry, but flew to and for across the wastes ofCentral Australia, depositing small bags of mail at cattle stations and picking up cattle-men and travelers to drop them off after a hundred or a hundred and fifty miles. They landed eight or ten times in the course of the day, at places like Ammaroo and Hatches Creek and many other stations; at each place they would get out of the plane and drink a cup of tea and have a talk with the station manager or owner, and get back into the plane and go on their way. By the end of the day Jean Paget knew exactly what a cattle station looked like, and she was beginning to have a very good idea of what went on there.They got to Cloncurry in the evening, a fairly extensive town on a railway that ran eastward to the sea at TownsvilleHere she was inQueensland, and she heard for the first time the slow deliberate speech of theQueenslandthat reminded her at once of her friend Joe Harman. She was driven into town in a very old open car and deposited at the Post Office Hotel; she got a bedroom but tea was over, and she had to go down the wide，dusty main street to a caf for her evening meal. Cloncurry, she found, had none of the clean attractiveness ofAlice Springs; it was a town which smelt of cattle, with wide streets through which to drive them down to the stockyard, many hotels, and a few shops. All the houses were of wood with red-painted iron roofs; the hotels had two floors, but very few of the other houses had more than one.She had to spend a day here, because the air service to Normanton and Willstown ran weekly on a WednesdayShe went out after breakfast while the air was still cool and walked in one direction up the huge main street for half a mile till she came to the end of the town, then came back and walked down it a quarter of a mile till she came to the other end. Then she went and had a look at the railway station, and, having seen the airfield,with that she had seen all there was to see in Cloncurry. She looked in at a shop that sold toys and newspapers, but they were sold out of all reading matter except a few books about dress-making; as the day was starting to warm up she went back to the hotel. She managed to borrow a copy of the Australian Womens Weekly from the manageress of the hotel and took it to her room, and took off most of her clothes and lay down on her bed to sweat it out during the heat of the day. Most of the other citizens of Cloncurry seemed to be doing the same thing.She felt like moving again shortly before tea and had a shower, and went out to the caf for an ice. Weighed down by the heavy meal of roast beef and plum-pudding that the Queenslanders call “tea” she sat in a folding chair for a little outside in the cool of the evening, and went to bed again at about eight ocock. She was called before daybreak, and was out at the airfield with the first light.31When Jean had to leaveAlice Springs, she _.Awished she could have stayed lodgerBregretted she had decided to flyCwasnt looking forward to flying all dayDwished it had not been a Monday morning32How did Jean get some idea of Australian cattle station？AShe learnt about them at first hand.BShe learnt about them from friends.CShe visited them weekly.DShe stayed on one for a week.33Jeans main complaint about Cloncurry in comparison withAlice Springs, was _.Athe width of the main street Bthe poor service at the hotelCthe poor-looking buildings Dthe smell of cows34For her evening meal on the second day Jean had _.Aonly an ice-cream Ba lot of cooked foodCsome cold beer Da cooling, but non-alcoholic drink35Jean left Cloncurry _.Aearly on Wednesday morning Blate on Tuesday eveningCafter breakfast on Tuesday Dbefore breakfast on TuesdayPassage TwoIt was unfortunate that, after so trouble-free an arrival, he should stumble in the dark as he was rising and severely twist his ankle on a piece of rock. After the first shock the pain became bearable, and he gathered up his parachute before limping into the trees to hide it as best he could. The hardness of the ground and the deep darkness made it almost impossible to do this efficiently. The pine needles lay several inches deep so he simply piled them on top of the parachute, cutting the short twigs that he could feel around his legs, and spreading them on top of the needles. He had great doubts about whether it would stay buried, but there was very little else that he could do about it.After limping for some distance in an indirect course away from his parachute he began to make his way downhill through the trees. He had to find out where he was, and then decide what to do next. But walking downhill on a rapidly swelling ankle soon proved to be almost beyond his powers. He moved more and more slowly，walking in long sideways movements across the slope, which meant taking more steps but less painful ones. By the time he cleared the trees and reached the valley, day was breaking. Mist hung in soft sheets across the field. Small cottages and farm buildings grouped like sleeping cattle around a village church, whose pointed tower, pointed high into the cold winter air to welcome the morning.“I cant go no further，” John Harding thought. “Someone is bound to find me, but what cant I do？I must get a rest before I go on. Therll look for me first up there on the mountain where the plane crashed. I bet theyre out looking for it already and theyre bound to find the parachute in the end. I cant believe they wont. So theyll know Im not dead and must be somewhere. Theyll think Im hiding up there in the trees and rocks so theyll look for me, so Ill go down to the village. With luck by the evening my foot will be good enough to get me to the border.”Far above him on the mountainside he could hear the faint echo of voices, startling him after great silence. Looking up he saw lights like little pinpoints moving across the face of the mountain in the grey light. But the road was deserted, and he struggled along, still almost invisible in the first light, easing his aching foot whenever he could, avoiding stones and rough places, and limping quietly and painfully towards the village. He reached the church at last. A great need for peace almost drew him inside, but he knew that would not do. Instead, he limped along its wails towards a very old building standing a short distance from the church doors. It seemed to have been there for ever, as if it had grown out of the hillside. It had the same air of timelessness as the church. John Harding pushed open the heavy wooden door and slipped inside.36It is known from the passage that John Harding was _.Aan escaped prisonerBa criminal on the run from the policeCan airman who had landed in an enemy country areaDa spy who had been hiding in the forest37John Harding found it hard to hide his parachute because _.Ahe got his ankle twisted severelyBthe trees did not give very good coverCthe earth was not soft and there was little lightDthe pine needles lay too thick on the ground38In spite of his bad ankle John Harding was able to _.Acarry on walking fairly rapidlyBwalk in a direction that was less steepCbear the pain without changing directionDfind out where he had landed39When John Harding got out of the forest he saw that _.Ait was beginning to get much lighterBwashing was hanging on the lines in the villageCthe fields were full of sleeping cowsDsome trees had been cleared near the village40John Harding decided to go down to the village _.Ato find a doctor to see to his ankle Bto be near the frontierCto avoid the search party Dto find shelter in a buildingPassage ThreeA trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline: “Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals.”The announcement, from the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America received wide media attention. On NBCs Today Show, Lea Thompson said, “According to a new online survey, one in 10 teenagers have an underage friend who has ordered beer, wine or liquor over the internet. More than a third think they can easily do it and nearly half think they wont get caught.” Several newspapers mentioned the study, including USA Today and the Record of New Jersey. The news even madeAustralias Gold Coast Bulletin.Are millions of kids really buying booze online？To arrive at that jarring headline, the group used some questionable logic to pump up results from a survey that was already tilted in favor of finding a large number of online buyer.For starters, consider the source. The trade group that commissioned the survey has long fought efforts to expand online sales of alcohol; its members are local distributors who compete with online liquor sellers. Some of the news coverage pointed out that conflict of interest, though reports didnt delve more deeply into how the numbers were computed.The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America hired Teenage Research Unlimited, a research company, to design the study. Teenage Research, in turn, hiredSan Diegopolling firm Luth Research to put the questions to 1,001 people between the ages of 14 and20inan online survey. Luth gets people to participate in its surveys in part by advertising them online and offering small cash awardstypically less than $ 5 for short surveys.People who agree to participate in online surveys are, by definition, internet users, something that not all teens are.（Also, people who actually take the time to complete such surveys may be more likely to be active, or heavy internet users.）Its safe to say that kids who use the internet regularly are more likely to shop online than those who dont. Teenage Research Unlimited told me it weighted the survey results to adjust for age, sex, ethnicity and geography of respondents, but had no way to adjust for degree of internet usage.Regardless, the survey found that, after weighting, just 2.1 points of the 1,001 respondents bought alcohol onlinecompared, with 56 points who had consumed alcohol. Making the questionable assumption that their sample was representative of all Americans aged 14 to 20 with access to the internetand not just those with the time and inclination to participate in online surveysthe researchers concluded that 551,000 were buying alcohol online.But that falls far short of the reported “millions of kids”. To justify that headline, the wholesalers group focused on another part of the survey that asked respondents if they knew a teen who had purchased alcohol online. Some 12 points said they did. Of course, its ridiculous to extrapolate from a state like thatone buyer could be known by many people, and its impossible to measure overlap. Consider a high school of 1,000 students, with 20 who have bought booze on line and 100 who know about the purchases. If 100 of the schools students are surveyed at random, youd expect to find two who have bought and 10 who know someone who hasbut that still represents only two buyers, not 10（Not to mention the fact that thinking you know someone who has ordered beer online is quite different from ordering a six pack yourself.）Karen Gravois Elliott, a spokeswoman for the wholesalers group, told me, “The numbers are real,” but referred questions about methodology to Teenage Research. When I asked her about the potential problems of conducting the survey online, she said the medium was a strength of the survey: “We specifically wanted to look at the teenage online population.”Nahme Chokeir, a vice president of client service for San Diego-based Luth Research Inc., told me that some of his online panel comes from word of mouth, which wouldnt necessarily skew toward heavy internet users. He added that some clients design surveys to screen respondents by online usage, though Teenage Research didnt.I asked Michael Wood, a vice president at Teenage Research who worked on the survey，whether one could say, as the liquor trade group did, that millions of teenagers had bought alcohol online. “You cant,” he replied, adding, “This is their press release.”41Which of the following is the message that this passage is trying to convey？AThe severe social consequences of kids buying alcohol online.BThe hidden drawback of the American educational system.CThe influence of wide coverage of news media.DThe problems in statistic methodology in social survey.42According to the author, what is wrong with the report about kids buying alcohol？AIt is unethical to offer cash awards to subjects of survey.BThe numbers in this report were falsified.CThe sample