2013華南師范大學考博英語真題

Direction: Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET I by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.

1.The system was redesigned to embrace the network and eventually ___ it in a profitable direction.

A. adapt B. control C. install D. steer

2.The 215-page manuscript, circulated to publishers last October, ___ an outburst of interest.

A. flared B. glittered C. sparked D. flashed

3.His efforts to bring about a reconciliation between the two Parties ___.

A. came off B. came on C. came round D. came down

4.The capital intended to broaden the export base and ___ efficiency gains from international trade was channeled instead into uneconomic import substitution.

A. secure B. extend C. defend D. possess

5.It is announced that a wallet has been found and can he ___ at the manager’s office.

A. declared B. obtained C. reclaimed D. recognized

6.France’s ___ of nuclear testing in the South Pacific last month triggered political debates and mass demonstrations.

A. assumption B. consumption C. presumption D. resumption

7.When I ___ my senses, I found myself wrapped up in bed in my little room, with Grandma bending over me.

A. woke up B. took to C. picked up D. came to

8.I am not ___ with my roommate but I have to share the room with here because I have nowhere else to live.

A. concerned B. compatible C. considerate D. complied

9.He spoke so ___ that even his opponents were won over by his arguments.

A. bluntly B. convincingly C. emphatically D. determinedly

10.The fact that the golden eagle usually builds its nest on some high cliffs ___ it almost impossible to obtain the eggs or the young birds.

A. renders B. reckons C. regards D. relates

11.You don’t have to install this radio in your new car, it’s an ___ extra.

A. excessive B. optional C. additional D. arbitrary

12.At first, the ___ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible but with painstaking efforts and at great expense, it became a reality.

A. transaction B. transmission C. transformation D. transition

13.The American society is ___ an exceedingly shaky foundation of natural resources which is connected with the possibility of a worsening environment.

A. established on B. affiliated to C. originated from D. incorporated with

14.We were pleased to note that the early morning delivery didn’t ___ to the traffic jam of the busy city.

A. aid B. amount C. add D. attribute

15.When the committee ___ to details, the proposed plan seemed impractical.

A. got down B. set about C. went off D. came up

16.___ to some parts of South America is still difficult, because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests.

A. Orientation B. Access C. Procession D. Voyage

17.Mr. Smith had an unusual ___: he was first an office clerk, then a sailor, and ended up as a school teacher.

A. profession B. occupation C. position D. career

18.The English weather defies forecast and hence is a source of interest ___ to everyone.

A. speculation B. attribution C. utilization D. proposition

19.To impress a future employer one should dress neatly, be ___, and display interest in the job.

A. swift B. instant C. timely D. punctual

20.The mayor is a woman with great and therefore deserves our political and financial support.

A. intention B. instinct C. integrity D. intensity

Part II Reading Comprehension (30 points)

Direction: In this section there are six reading passages followed by multiple-choice questions. Read the passage and then mark your answers in your ANSWER SHEET.

Passage 1

An ideal college should be a community, a place of close, natural, intimate association, not only of the young men who are its pupils and novices in various lines of study, but also of young men with older men, with mature men, with veterans and professional in the great undertaking of learning, of teachers with pupils, outside the classroom as well as inside it. No one is successfully educated within the walls of any particular classroom or laboratory or museum; and no amount of association, however close and familiar and delightful, between mere beginners can ever produce the sort of enlightenment which the young lad gets when he first-begins to catch the infection of learning. The trouble with most of our colleges nowadays is that the faculty of the college live one life and the undergraduates quite a different one. They constitute two communities. The life of the undergraduates is not touched with the personal influence of the teachers: life among the teachers is not touched by the personal impressions which should come from frequent and intimate contact with undergraduates. This separation need not exist, and, in the college of the ideal university, would not exist.

It is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement—only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitations generally prove very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is practical and connected with the world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books, but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think.

The present and most pressing problem of our university authorities is to bring about this vital association for the benefit of the novices of the university world, the undergraduates. Classroom methods are thorough enough; competent scholars already lecture and set tasks and superintend their performance; but the life of the average undergraduate outside the classroom and other stated appointments with his instructors is not very much affected by his studies: is almost entirely dissociated from intellectual interests.

21.Successful education is the acquiring of knowledge from ___.

A. classrooms, laboratories and museums B. all sources available

C. intimate association between beginners D. experienced scholars

22.The teacher and the student do not understand each other much because ___.

A. they do not live together

B. they do not often try to exchange ideas, emotions and experiences

C. they do not respect each other

D. they have different standards’ of education

23.The teacher and the student ___.

A. can actually live in each other’s life

B. can live together in the same place

C. can play equally well

D. can discuss freely every day

24.Man tends to think because ___.

A. he has read a lot        B. he is interested in the subject

C. he knows how others may feel D. he wants to learn

25.It is found that a student does not often make the most use of ___ to make life more worth living.

A. classroom methods          B. tasks

C. his school knowledge      D. his performance

Passage 2

The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always at the mercy of the scientist's timekeeping methods. For this reason scientists are interested in devices that give promise of more precise timekeeping.

In their search for precision, scientists have turned to atomic clocks that depend on various vibrating atoms or molecules to supply their “ticking”. This is possible because each kind of atom or molecule has its own characteristic rate of vibration. The nitrogen atom in ammonia, for example: vibrates or “ticks” 24 billion times a second.

One such atomic clock is so accurate that it will probably lose no more than a second in 3000 years. It will be of great importance in fields such as astronomical observation and long-range navigation. The heart of this Atomichron is a cesium atom that vibrates 9.2 billion times a second when heated to the temperature of boiling water.

An atomic clock that operates with an ammonia molecule may be used to check the accuracy of predictions based on Einstein’s relativity theories, according to which a clock in motion and a clock at rest should keep time differently. Placed in an orbiting satellite moving at a speed of 18, 000 miles an hour, the clock could broadcast its time reading to a ground station, where they would be compared with the readings on a similar model. Whatever differences developed would be checked against the differences predicted.

26.Scientists expect that the atomic clock will be ___.

A. absolutely accurate B. more precise

C. heat-resistant     D. different in vibration

27.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. Temperature changes affect the vibration rate of ammonia molecules.

B. The rate of vibration of an atom does not vary.

C. Einstein’s relativity theories are based on the vibration of atoms.

D. Temperature changes may affect the speed at which atoms travel.

28.It could be inferred from the passage that ___.

A. precise timekeeping is not possible at all

B. scientists expect to disprove Einstein's relativity theories

C. atomic clocks will be important in space flight

D. clock in motion and a clock at rest keep time differently

29.The word “vibration” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ___.

A. pulse B. precision C. movement D. accuracy

30.Which of the following can best summarize the passage?

A. Peacetime use of the atoms

B. Atoms and molecules

C. The satellite timekeepers

D. The role of the clock in the astronomy

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