2004年 秋季上海交大考博英语真题

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II. Vocabulary (10 points)

Part A (5 points)

1. International sport should create goodwill between the nations, but in the present organization of the Olympics somehow encourages__ patriotism.

A. obsolete    B. aggressive  C. harmonious D. amiable

2. One call understand others much better by noting the immediate and  fleeting reactions of their eyes and __ to expressed thoughts.

A. dilemmas  B. countenances  C. concessions D. junctions

3. People innately _____ for superiority over their peers although it  sometimes takes the form of an exaggerated lust for power.

A. strive      B. ascertain    C. justify D. adhere

4.Some scientists have suggested that Earth is a kind of, zoo or wild life  for intelligent space beings, like the wilderness areas we have set  up on earth to allow animals to develop naturally while we observe them.

A. conservation B. maintenance  C. storage    D. reserve

5. According to the latest report, consumer confidence___ a breathtaking  15 points .last month, to its lowest level in 9 years.

A. soared    B. mutated    C. plummeted  D. fluctuated

6. Melissa is a computer___ that destroyed files in computers and    frustrated thousands of users around the world.

A. genius    B. virus      C. disease    D. bacteria

7. The emphasis on examinations is by far the worst form of competition in schools.

A. negligent  B. edible    C. fabulous D. disproportionate

8. The boy seemed more _____ to their poverty, after seeing how his    grandparents lived.

A. reconciled            B. consolidated

C. deteriorated            D. attributed

9. During his two-month stay, in China, Tom never____ a chance to    practice his Chinese.

A. passed on  B. passed up  C. passed by  D. passed out

10. When a person dies, his debts must be paid before his ____ can be    distributed.

A. paradoxes  B. legacies    C. platitudes  D. analog in

Part B (5 points)

11. He claims that advertising today tends to portray women in traditional  roles such as cooking or taking care of the baby.

A. depict    B. advocate    D; criticize  D. analyze

12,. They achieved more than they had eye dreamed, lending a magic to their  family story that no tale or ordinary life could possibly rival.

A. confirm  B. achieve  C.match    D exaggerate

13. The most urgent thing is to find a dump. for those toxic____ industrial wastes.

A. imminent  B. recyclable C. smelly  D. poisonous

14. British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised the electorate    that guns would  nor be fired without an attempt to win a further U.N. sanction.

A. allies    B. delegates  C. voters    D. juries

15. The analysis suggests that the tradeoff between our :children's college and

our own retirement security is ,chilling.

A. frightening B. promising    C. freezing D. revealing

16. Their signing of the treaty was regarded as a conspiracy against the British  Crown.

A. secret plan  B. bold attack    C. clever design D. joint effort

17. Evidence, reference, and foments by the thousand testify to a scrupulous  researcher who does considerable justice to a full range of different beneficial and political positions.

A. trustworthy  B. intelligent    C. diligent  D. meticulous

18. Despite their Spartan, isolated lifestyle, them are no stories of women  being raped or wanton violence against civilians in the region.

A. intriguing  B. exasperating:  C. demonstrative D. unprovoked

19. The gang derived their nickname from their dark clothing and blacked up  faces for .nocturnal raids in the forest.

A. illegal    B. night-time    C, brutal D. abusive

20. Though sometimes too lazy to work as hard as her sisters, Linda has a  more avid fondness for the limelight,

A. mercurial  B, gallant      C. ardent  D. frugal

III. Cloze (10 points).

Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, ___ 21 ___ into a hobby and Lately has ____22 ____ into a full- time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates ___ 23 _ Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started theirguide in April 1994 as a way to keep 24  of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they ___25 ___ that their home, brewed lists were becoming too long and ____26____ Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.    During 1994, they ____ 27____ yahoo into a customized database de

signed to____28_____ the needs of the thousands of users____29____ began to use the service through the closely ___ 30____ Internet community. They developed customized software to help them___ 31 ___ locate, identify and edit material ___32___ on the Internet. The name Yahoo is ____ 33____ to stand for "Yet  Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". but Filo and Yang insist they selected the ___34 ___  because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo? itself first ___ 35 ___  on Yang's workstation, "akebono", while the search engine was ___ 36 ___ on Filo's computer, "Konishiki".    In early 1995 Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files ___ 37___ to larger computers ___38____ at Netscape. As a result Stanford's computer network returned to ___ 39___ , and both parties benefits. Today,Yahoo___ 40 ___ organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.

1. A. became    B. grew      C. mm      D. intend

2. A. made      B. saw      C. looked    D. turned

3. A. in        B. on        C. about      D. for

4. A. touch      B. contact    C. back      D. record

5. A. founded    E. found      C. argued    D. reported

6. A. unwieldy    B. tough      C. tamable    D invaluable  

7. A. exchanged    B. shank      C. sold      D. converted

8. A. explain    B. serve      C. discover    D. evaluate

9. A. which      B. that      C. actually    D. eagerly

10. A. relative    B. interactive  C.bound      D. contacted

11. A. fluently    B. efficiently  C.exactly    D. actually

12. A. transmitted  B. purchased  C. sold      D.

13. A. about      B. bound    C. going      D. supposed

I4. A. fable      B. model      C. name      D. brand

15. A. supported    B. resided    C. lived      D. launched

16. A. connected  B. lodged    C. introduced  D. linked

17. A. over      B, away      C. inside      D. beneath

18. A. housed      B. caught    C. hosed      D. bidden

19. A. average    B. normal    C. ordinary    D. equal

20. A. attains    B.detains    C. maintains  D. contains

IV. Reading Comprehension (20 points)

Passage 1

Guthrie's contiguity principle offers practical suggestions for how to break babies.

One application of the threshold method involves the time young  children spend on academic activities. Young children have short attention spans, so the length of time they can sustain work on one activity is limited. Most activities are scheduled to last no longer than 30 to 40 minutes. However, at the start of the school year, attention spans quickly wane and behavior problems often  result. To apply Gutiarie's theory, a teacher might, at the start of the year, limit acti-vities to 15 to 20 minutes.Over the next few weeks the teacher could gradually increase the time students spend working on a single activity.