2017西南大学考博英语真题

2017西南大学考博英语真题

Part I: Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)

Directions: There are various sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET.

1. The conference chairman made a _____ statement before beginning the main business of the afternoon session.

A. interesting   B. renewable C. reversible D. preliminary

2. Doing research will be much easier if you have someone to bounce ideas off and to give you _____ in the entire process.

A. reward B. insurance C. interest D. feedback

3. The_____ that she suggested for discussion were based on the most recent medical research.

A. contributions B. occupations C. expostulations D. amendment

4. Malaysia and Indonesia rely much on open markets for forest and fishery products, _____, some Asian countries are highly protectionist.

A. deliberately B. conversely C. evidently D. naturally

5. Such an approach forces the managers to communicate with one another and helps _____ rigid departmental boundaries.

A. pass over          B. stand for C. break down D. set off

6. According to legal provisions, the properties will either _____ the original owner or else be sold at auction.

A. commit to     B. back to C. proceed to D. revert to

7. To everyone’s surprise, the woman candidate from a small party _____ the poll in the first round of voting.

A. eclipsed B. outshined C. topped D. deprived

8. The protest went ahead despite government assurances that they would press for _____ with the neighboring country in the issuing of visas.

A. reciprocity          B. show-off C. pay off D. intimacy

9. As a teenager. I was _____ by a blind passion for a film star I would never meet in my life.

A. pursued B. seduced C. consumed D. guaranteed

10. The summer session in Georgetown University was a really wonderful occasion which we will _____ for many years to come.

A. discount B. acquit C. cherish D. blur

11. She is a very original comedian and can _____ laughs out of any audience.

A. suffer B. wring C. induce D. infect

12. Before the bank was willing to lend him money, it had to _____ that he was the true owner of the house.

A. verify B. entrust C. acknowledge D. grant

13. It is in vain to say the enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust to these clashing interest, and _____ them all subservient to the public good.

A. conform B. cause C. tame D. render

14. His originality as a composer is _____ by the following group of songs.

A. exemplified B. created C. performed D. realized

15. When I asked if a black politician could win in France, however, he responded .

“No conditions here are different.”

A. ambiguously B. implicitly C. unhesitatingly D. optimistically

16. It is unfair to _____from these two incidents and say that all young men are reckless drivers.

A. deduce B. generalize C. minimize D. transfer

17. They are going to London, but their _____destination is Rome.

A. ultimate B. prime C. next D. cardinal

18. I _____ the minister’s figures-the true cost of the project is much higher.

A. contend B. agree C. dispute D. disagree

19. She refused to let the injury keep her from _____ her goal of being in the Olympics.

A. detaining B. attaining C. screwing D. sifting

20. The poor old man was _____ with diabetes and without proper medical treatment he would lose his eyesight and become crippled very soon.

A. suffered B. afflicted C. induced D. infected

Part II: Reading Comprehension(30%)

Directions: In this section there are 3 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answer on your answer sheet.

Text 1

We began with an experiment. The man asked me to make a drawing on a blank piece of paper. I made a sketch of a creature I had invented some time ago to amuse my children. When I had finished, he asked me to cover the drawing with my hand. Then he asked me to concentrate hard and to try to transmit the thought of what I had sketched A minute went by with no result. He shook his head, “it seems very complicated: is it a kind of amoeba?” Slowly and hesitantly he began to draw the creature’s right ear-the spot where I’ve always begun the drawing. “you’ve got it.” I said. “Go on!” He completed the drawing quickly. I had carefully redrawn the picture in my mind as I tried to transmit it—which probably accounts for the identical starting point.

The man then demonstrated other power. He made the hands of my watch turn back two hours and the date go forward two days by stroking a coin placed over its face, explaining afterward that he derives power from metal. He had a little trouble trying to break my car key. However, he placed it against a metal radiator, and after a few seconds, said, It is starting to go. The key snapped in two.

Then he tried to transmit a picture to me by telepathy. I attempted to make my mind receptive, but no image came into it. Feeling rather embarrassed, I just drew the first thing that came into my head: check mark. The man showed me the piece of paper he was holding. It contained a mirror image of the symbol I had drawn. It could be significant in this connection that the man is left-handed.

After I left the room, I began to sift my impressions. Only the day before, an acquaintance had warned me to watch carefully for sleight-of-hand tricks, especially as the man had earlier been a stage conjuror. I had to admit that most of the things had done could have been tricks. For instance, snapping the keys with his fingers and altering the hands and date on my watch with the winder would have been well within the ability of a skilled conjuror. But how could he have faked the drawing of what I had drawn? And if that feat was due to genuine telepathic power, the other demonstrations could also be genuine.

21. In line 11, “derives” most nearly means _______.

A. obtains    B. infers           C. connects      D. traces

22. It can be inferred from line 19-25 that the telepathist’s demonstrations would appear most convincing to a critical observer if the telepathist were to______.

A. provide more information about his background

B. critique the performances of other telepathist

C. perform in a rigorously controlled environment

D. talk about what he is doing as he performs

23. The “acquaintance” mentioned in line 19 can best be described as a ______.

A. skeptic           B. hypocrite            C. hoaxer          D. confidant

24. Which phrase best characterizes the author’s general attitude in this passage?

A. Complete indifferent.        B. Righteous indignation.

C. Cynical amusement.         D. Guarded acceptance.

Text 2

In the future the little privacy we now have will be gone. Some people call this loss of privacy “Orwellian”，harking back to 1984. George Orwell’s classic work on privacy and autonomy. In that book, Orwell imagined a future in which a totalitarian state used spies, video surveillance, and control over the media to maintain its power. But the age of monolithic state control is over. The future we’re rushing toward isn’t one in which our every move is watched and recorded by an all-known government. It is instead a future of a hundred electronic monitors who constantly watch and interrupt our daily lives, and where threats to privacy find their roots in the free market, advanced technology, and the unbridled exchange of electronic information.

The problem with the word “privacy” is that it falls short of conveying the really big picture. Privacy isn’t just about hiding things. It’s about self-possession, autonomy, and integrity. As we move into the computerized world of the 21st century, privacy will be one of our most important civil rights. But this right of privacy isn’t the right of people to close their doors and pull down their window shades-perhaps because they want to engage in some sort of illicit or illegal activity. It’s the right of people to control which details about their lives stay inside their own houses and which leak to the outside.

Today’s war on privacy is intimately related to the recent dramatic advances in technology. Many people today say that in order to enjoy the benefits of modem society, we must necessarily relinquish some degree of privacy. If we want the convenience of paying for a meal by credit card, then we must accept the routine collection of our purchases in a large database over which we have no control.

This trade-off is both unnecessary and wrong. It reminds me of another crisis our society faced back in the fifties and sixties-the environmental crisis. Then, advocates of big business said that poisoned rivers and lakes were the necessary costs of economic development, jobs, and an improved standard of living. Poison was progress: anybody who argued otherwise simply didn’t understand the facts.

Today we know better. Today we know that sustainable economic development depends on preserving the environment. Similarly, in order to reap the benefits of technology. It is more important than ever for us to use technology to protect personal freedom.

25. The passage indicates that privacy is _____.

A. less valued by people than it once was

B. difficult to maintain in the contemporary world

C. necessary for individual freedom

D. a stumbling block to economic growth

26. In line 18, the underlined “degree” most nearly means _____.

A. stage B. sequence C. measure    D. standing

27. Lines 18-20(“If we...control”) primarily serve to _____.

A. introduce an additional point B. discourage a course of action

C. question a decision D illustrate a preceding statement

28. The statements in lines 24-25(‘‘poison…facts”) is intended to represent the point of view of _____.

A. big business B. environment C. the author D. the public

29. The passage concludes by suggesting that if technology is to have a positive effect on people’s lives, then _____.

A. individual rights must be expanded

B. protective measures must be taken

C. technological advances must be supported

D. further research must be found

30. The author supports the idea that privacy can be protected _____.

A. at a modest cost to most business

B. with the help of new technologies

C. without giving up valued services

D. through appropriate government interventions

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