2005 考博英语 中国农业科学院

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中国农业科学院

2005年博士研究生入学考试英语试题

(考试时间3小时满分100分)

Ⅰ.Vocabulary

Part A.

Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences,there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D.Choose the one that best completes the sentence and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET.

1.The scene is so beautiful that it my power of description.

A.transports

B.transfers

C.transcends

D.transforms

2.The schoolmaster the girl’s bravery in his opening speech.

A.applauded

B.enhanced

C.elevated

D.clapped

3.The meaning of“yellow”is a color,but it can also mean“cowardly.”

A.positive

B.negative

C.underlying

D.literal

4.Many people think that the standards of public have declined.

A.morality

B.rightness

C.awareness

D.mentality

5.People were surprised to find that he had the ability to everything he was involved in.

A.precede

B.dominate

C.pervade

D.denominate

6.The fact that they reacted so differently was a reflection of their different.

A.performances

B.personalities

C.qualities

D.debut

7.This medicine will the pain in the stomach.

A.ascertain

B.agitate

C.alleviate

D.allocate

8.The apartment was as$50,000and its owner decided to sell it.

A.automated

B.assessed C asserted D.avenged

9.The minister all his officials pay the tax.

A.bids

B.blesses

C.barks

D.baffles

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

A.paradoxes

B.legacies

C.platitudes

D.analogies

Part B.

Directions:In each of the following sentences there is one word or phrase underlined.Below the sentence are four choices marked A,B,C,and D.Choose the one that is closest in meaning to the underlined part.Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET.

11.Tourists flock from the remotest places to see the capital’s sights.

A.invade

B.troop

C.prompt

D.gather

12.He has told so many lies that we can no longer place any reliance on what he says.

A.belief

B.trust

C.conviction

D.dependence.

13.Oil can change a society more drastically than anyone could ever have imagined.

A.grossly

B.severely

C.rapidly

D.radically

14.In times of economic difficulty,governmental budgets for education are often slashed before any others.

A.shifted

B.cut

C.checked

D.donated

15.Modern printing equipment quickly turns out duplicate copies of textual and pictorial matter.

A.identical

B.double

C.illustrated

D.legible

16.With her youngest child having left home,she felt a pressing need to fill her time.

A.tense

B.thorough

C.urgent

D.small

17.The role of the performing artist is to interpret,not alter,the notes on a printed sheet of music.

A.omit

B.reproduce

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D.change.

18.Aircraft and rocket can be used to collect radioactive debris,while high-altitude satellites carry detectors for gamma rays and other emissions.

A.diffusion

B.remains

C.glitter transfer

19.Although worn out by years of service to his country,Washington accepted the presidency of the United States.

A.favored

B.honored

C.exhausted

D.weakened

20.Between French friends,who have chosen each other for congeniality of their point of view,lively disagreement and sharpness of arguments are the breath of life.

A.coexistence

B.coincidence

C.correlation

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Ⅱ.Cloze

Directions:Read the following passage.Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on the ANSWER SHEET.

We do not know when man first began to use salt,but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout history.(21)evidence shows,for example,that people who lived over three thousand years ago ate(22)fish. Stealing salt was considered a major crime at certain times in history.In the eighteenth century,for instance,if a person was(23)“stealing salt”,he could be put in prison.History reveals that about ten thousand people were put in prison during that century(24)stealing salt.

In the modern world salt has many uses(25)the dining table.It is used in making glass and airplane parts,in the(26)of crops and in killing weeds.It is also used to make water soft,to melt ice on roads and highways,to make soap,and to (27)colors in cloth.

Salt can be obtained in various ways,besides being taken from mines underground. Evaporation of salt water from the ocean or from salt water lakes or small seas is one of the(28)common processes for manufacturing salt.In Australia,it can even be taken from a“salt bush”.Yet,(29)it is obtained,salt will continue to play an important(30)in the lives of men and women everywhere.

21.A.Ancient B.Historic C.Historical D.Old

22.A.salt B.salted C.salting D.salty

23.A.arrested B.caught C.got D.seized

24.A.as B.by C.for D.through

25.A.besides B.beyond C.except D.over

26.A.bearing B.developing C.growing D.training

27.A.fasten B.fix C.preserve D.tie

28.A.little B.many C.much D.more

29.A.however B.whatever C.whenever D.wherever

30.A.duty B.function C.responsibility D.role

Ⅲ.Reading Comprehension

Part A.

Directions:There are three 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 D.You should decide on the best choice.

Passage One

(1)Poultry farmers need to adopt strict hygiene standards to curb Asia\'s deadly bird flu virus,a top Vietnamese official said on the eve of an international conference Wednesday on fighting the disease.

(2)A dozen Vietnamese have died of bird flu since Dec.30,raising concerns that the disease could be re-emerging after an outbreak last year spread to10Asian countries, forcing the slaughter of more than100million birds.

(3)“It\'s difficult to change their habit but we need to educate them,"Bui Quang Anh, head of the Department for Animal Health,said Tuesday."Once they understand and follow all the instructions,we can prevent the virus from spreading.”

(4)Big commercial farms learned from the first outbreak and applied preventive measures,such as strict hygiene standards and regular disinfection,Anh said.The most recent outbreak was only reported in small farms,which failed to apply preventive measures,he said.

(5)New regulations should include separating ducks from chickens,requiring ducks to be raised in cages and improving hygiene measures,Anh said.Ducks should not roam freely in rice fields as they do now in the southern Mekong Delta,he added. (6)The conference will be looking at a variety of issues,including mass vaccinations, flu research,farm hygiene,animal husbandry practices and improving coordination between animal health and human health agencies.

(7)The virus,which in the last year has killed46people—including32from Vietnam and12from Thailand—has yet to mutate into a form that can be transmitted between humans.But scientists say it may mutate to a human form that could become as deadly as the ones that killed millions during three influenza pandemics of the20th century.

31.The subject of the international conference mentioned in the first paragraph is about

A.battling the SARS

B.epidemic disease control

C.fighting the avian flu

D.public health

32.According to the passage,which of the following statement is true?

A.Bird flu was first found in Vietnam.

B.Big commercial farms have taken preventive measures to curb bird flu.

C.Bui Quang Anh believes that it is impossible to prevent the bird flu.

D.1,000birds were killed during the last year outbreak of bird flu.

33.According to the passage,which of the following measures are NOT effective in fighting against the bird flu?

A.to adopt strict hygiene standards in poultry farms.

B.to carry out regular disinfection

C.to raise ducks and chickens separately

D.to stop poultry trade

34.We can infer from the last paragraph that

A.currently the bird flu virus cannot be transmitted between humans

B.the bird flu virus is easy to mutate.

C.the bird flu has killed millions of people

D.the bird flu is more deadly than common influenza.

35.The best title for the passage is.

A.Bird Flu:A Deadly Disease

B.What Can We Learn from the Bird Flu

C.Vietnam:the Biggest Victim of the Bird Flu

D.Official Urges Farmers to Curb Bird Flu

Passage Two

(1)The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex.On the more intangible side,there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries;there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important,there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism,vented long before against Indian Buddhism,which since the seventeenth century,focused on Western Christianity.Accordingly,even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century,it was already at a disadvantage.After1860,as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded,it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles,numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded.

(2)In part,the very presence of the missionary evoked attack,they were,after all,the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior,and for a long time they were virtually the only foreigners whose quotidian labors carried them to the farthest reaches the Chinese empire.For many of the indigenous population, therefore,the missionary stood as a uniquely visible symbol against which opposition to foreign intrusion could e vented.In part too,the missionary was attacked because the manner in which he made his presence felt after1860seemed almost calculated to offend.By indignantly waging battle against the notion that China was the sole fountainhead of civilization and,more particularly,by his assault on many facets of Chinese culture,the missionary directly undermined the cultural hegemony of the gentry class.Also,in countless ways,he posed a threat to the gentry’s traditional monopoly of social leadership.Missionaries,particularly Catholics,frequently, assumed the garb of the Confucian literati.They were the only persons at the local level,aside from the gentry who were permitted to communicate with the authorities as social equals,and they enjoyed an extraterritorial status in the interior that gave them greater immunity to Chinese law than had ever been possessed by the gentry. (3)Although it was the avowed policy of the Chinese government after1860that the new treaties were to be strictly adhered to,in practice implementation depended on

the wholehearted accord provincial authorities.There is abundant evidence that cooperation was dilatory.At the root of this lay the interactive nature of ruler and ruled.

(4)In a severely understaffed bureaucracy that ruled as much by suasion as by might, the official,almost always a stranger in the locality of his service,depended on the active cooperation of the local gentry class.Energetic attempts to implement treaty provisions concerning missionary activities,in direct defiance of gentry sentiment,ran the risk of alienating this class and destroying future effectiveness.

36.In a vague way,anti-Christian feeling stemmed from.

A.the mere presence of invaders

B.a generalized unfocused feeling

C.the introduction to the West

D.none of the above

37.The author would agree that.

A.many problems in China came from internal disorders due to Western influence.

B.many problems in China came from China itself and were unrelated to the West

C.scapegoats perform a necessary function and there should be more of them

D.all of the above are true.

38.With which of the following statements would the author agree?

A.Ethnocentricism is a manly tradition.

B.The disdain toward Christianity was prefigured by a disdain toward Buddhism.

C.Although Christianity was not well received in China,Buddhism was.

D.The author would agree with A and C.

39.Missionaries.

A.often dressed the same way as Chinese scholars did

B.were free of the legal constraints that bound the local indigenous population

C.had greater access to authority than Chinese peasants

D.may be described by all of the above

40.Provincial authorities.

A.cooperated fully with the central government’s policy

B.were alive to local feelings

C.were obliged to determine whether local sentiment tolerated implementation

D.may be described by B and C.

Passage Three

(1)The natural environment has,of course,always conditioned technology.For example,the nature of an environment(polar,desert,jungle)engenders the development of technologies appropriate to that environment to enable man to adapt successfully to it.Further,emerging scarcity of some technological resource may

ignite a research for,and gradual transition to,a new technology using resources present in the environment in greater abundance,as,for example,in the case of the gradual change from wood-based to coal-based technology in England that began in Elizabeth times and stretched until the end of the eighteenth century.

(2)In modern Western society,environment has begun to condition technology in new ways,although admittedly more indirectly.The safety and quality of the environment and public perceptions of it have begun to translate into presidential politics and congressional mandates to regulatory agencies to protect or enhance environmental quality or safety,occasionally even at the cost of some perturbation of the tech-economic status-quo.In France,Italy,and recently the United States, political parties have been formed,organized around a complex of technology/ environment issues.In general,in the last fifteen years,the gradual development of broad-based environmental awareness,the lobbying and litigious activities of environmental interest groups,and guidelines issued and reinforced by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)in response to congressional mandates have markedly increased the heed paid to the environment by many corporations in going about their technology activities.Both research an development priorities and capital investment programs of the corporations have been affected by this.

41.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.Environment enables man to adapt successfully to new technology.

B.Technologies enable man to adapt successfully to his environment.

C.The development of the technologies depends solely on the natural environment.

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42.We can infer from the article that in the1800s England was probably rich in.

A.wood resources

B.technological resources

C.natural resources

D.coal resource

43.in modern Western society,the environmental problem has.

A.received great attention form the governments

B.caused some serious disorders in technology and economy

Affected modern technologies more directly than before.

D.become more important but received less and less attention

44.The underlined word“heed”in the last but one sentence of the passage means.

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B.interest

C.attention

D.expense

45.What is the best topic for the passage?

A.What can nature contribute to technology?

B.Environment can sometimes block the progress of technology.

C.Technologies of all kinds should serve the natural environment.

D.Environment deserves the most attention in the development of technology.

Part B

Directions:After you have read the following passage,write out a summary in English whit about70to90words.Put your summary on the ANSWER SHEET. What is Society?

Society is a group of human beings,held together by agreement for reasons that are mutually beneficial to the individual members.Societies operate as a whole,as a collective body,chiefly in ways that look out for the highest common good of all. Members have specific roles and responsibilities within the society.One of the best direct analogies is with the human body itself.The cells are all alive,independently, yet they group together and establish roles,responsibilities,and relationships that allow a greater whole to exist that is more than just the sum of the parts.The cells gain from the specific roles they play because they are allowed to be what they are more effectively.Further,they are given a limited awareness of the whole that their efforts aid in creating.

Similarly,when individual human beings group together to form societies,an organization is created in which the members are the cells.Subgroups of the members may form organs through which higher level functions can then manifest.If the relationships are loose,the body created has limited functionality over that of any individual member because there is little synergy.When the relationships are close and founded on a basis of love,the body thus created has significant functionality over that of the individuals.When the group is small,few organs can be created so there is limited complexity or functionality.When the group is large,many organs can be created,resulting in highly increased complexity and functionality.

Countries,regions,states cities,and neighborhoods could all be considered to be societies as could teams,groups,and any other organizations of people.For our purposes here,the most important society is The United States of America since it is the one established to set up the New Order for the Ages,Novus Ordo Seclorum. Society is more than the government,however.It also includes all the economic and social infrastructure necessary to provide people with what they need.

Ⅳ.Translation

1.Translate the following passage into Chinese.

Water is a limited natural resource and a public good fundamental for life and health. The human right to water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity.It is a prerequisite for the realization of other human rights.The Committee has been confronted continually with the widespread denial of the right to water in developing as well as developed countries.Over I billion persons lack access to a basic water supply,while several billion do not have access to adequate sanitation,which is the

primary cause of water contamination and diseases linked to water.The continuing contamination,depletion and unequal distribution of water is exacerbating existing poverty.States have to adopt effective measures to realize,without discrimination,the right to water.

2.Translate the following passage into English.

和平与发展是当今世界的两大主题。维护世界和平，加强友好合作，促进共同发展是各国人民的共同愿望。当前，贫困、失业、难民、犯罪、人口膨胀、环境恶化、毒品泛滥、恐怖主义等问题仍然严峻，影响着全球的稳定与发展。中国与西方国家虽然国情不同，但在一系列重大国际问题上具有广泛一致的利益。我对中国同西方各国关系的改善与发展感到高兴。中国政府和人民愿在相互新生和平等互利的基础上，同包括西方国家在内的世界各国政府和人民一道，为和平与发展的崇高事业做出贡献。

Ⅴ.Composition(35minutes;15points)

Directions.Write an essay of about200words on the topic given below:

Desire is perhaps the strongest drive to progress.But everyone has his/her own understanding of it.There has been a discussion recently on the issue.Write an essay to the newspaper to

1.show your understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture below,

2.give a specific example,and

3.give your suggestion as to treat one’s desire.