2013长安大学考博英语真题

2013年长安大学考博英语真题

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15%)

Section A

Directions: In this section there are 20 sentences, each with one word or phrase underlined. Choose the one from the 4 choices marked A, B, C and D that best keeps the meaning of the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

1. To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

A. consists of B. lies in C. resists in D. transmits to

2. It has been widely accepted that warmer air is able to hold more water vapor than cold air and so has a higher humidity.

A. humiliation B. moisture C. timidity D. creativity

3. After initial defeats by the invasion, Soviet people were ordered and instructed to scorch the earth in front of the German invaders.

A. burn B. score C. launch D. search

4. Thousands of those tattered soldiers who had survived the fierce battle began to limp toward their motherland.

A. tattooed B. staggered C. ragged D. littered

5. Now in China, the automobile industry has been considered as one of the most lucrative and powerful industries.

A. efficient   B. indispensable C. influential   D. profitable

6. Among the victims of the traffic accident, half of these fatalities are rendered by drunk drivers and many others from carelessness.

A. facilities B. capacities   C. casualties D. tranquility

7. The great historical events of the eighteenth century America exerted inevitable influence upon the American literature of the age.

A. inconsistent B. unresisting   C. irrational D. unavoidable

8. Because of the first amendment, the incarceration of a journalist is a rare event in the United States.

A. imprisonment   B. cancellation C. incarnation   D. discharge

9. A Gallup poll showed that 36 percent of Americans queried were against the film industry investigations, and 37 percent were for them.

A. impeded B. spearheaded C. fraught D. surveyed

10. Television and film cameramen were often encouraged on these occasions to shoot their peripatetic subject from a low angle, giving Dulles a redoubtable “American eagle look”.

A. reducible B. doubtable C. formidable D. ineluctable

11. In fact, the only governments that the Republican administration contrived to overthrow were in Iran and Guatemala, where non-Communist nationalist regimes tried to acquire Western properties.

A. contributed B. conspired C. consigned D. controlled

12. We are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost.

A. complicated B. impossible C. implausible D. hostile

13. In his formal speech at the exhibition, Nixon managed to transcend his country’s proclivity for idealism by referring to the 44 million families in the United States who owned 56 million cars and 50 million television sets.

A. profile B. tendency C. proposal D. intention

14. And conspicuously active church membership became the most effective shield against the suspicion of subversion.

A. apparently B. positively C. negatively D. equivocally

15. Storytelling is fundamentally about people and the circumstances of their lives; consequently, narratives more readily gravitate to politics and ideology than most other forms of cultural expression.

. are attracted by B. are declined to C. are decided by D. are said by

16. In 2002, Reeve stunned the medical world with the news that he had regained some sensation over 70% of his body and could move most of his joints underwater.

A. invoked B. neutralized C. coaxed D. surprised

17. But it’s a much more complicated argument. It doesn’t mean every language now has the right to be immortal.

A. aboriginal B. alcoholic C. eternal   D. readable

18. There are about a billion children in the world under the age of 10. They are vulnerable to indoctrination.

A. vulgar   B. susceptible C. fanatic D. inherent

19. Extracting oil from shale (in fact, a rock) requires heating the shale and poses major environmental problems.

A. taking in B. taking on C. taking up D. taking out

20. He turned to his mum then, too, for solace and it was her gaze that brought him up short this time.

A. consolation B. solidarity C. domination D. register

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