2014年复旦大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题

2014年复旦大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题

PartΙVocabulary and structure （15 point）

Directions: there are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEETΙwith a single line through the center.

1. To celebrate innovations and inspire budding entrepreneurs，the famous library is telling the story behind 15 of what it considers the most _______inventions to come out of Britain in the past 10 years.

A. ingenious

B. insane

C. ingenuous

D. inquisitive

2. Globalization carries an ______promise that it will relieve poverty and offer security----perhaps the most ancient of human dreams.

A. exquisite

B. equivocal

C. implicit

D. inflexible

3. The fact that your application was not successful this thme does not _______the possibility of your applying again next time.

A. preclude

B. prejudge

C. predict

D. precede

4. The pressure on employment will increase gradually and the problem of aging will become more ______.

A. contagious

B. deliberate

C. conspicuous

D. diverse

5. She was _______about her son’s safety every time he went out on his motorcycle.

A. intensive

B. abusive

C. comprehensive

D. apprehensive

6. Our goal is to_______the pace of international movement and steer theconsumer marker towards internationalization.

A. harness

B. handle

C. highlight

D. hamper

7. In a world where prodigious sports talents tend to _____higher education altogether for the pros, Tiger Woods chose to continue playing amateur golf at Stanford University as an economics major.

A. purify

B. forge

C. pursue

D. forgo

8. Lots of woman complain that the problem with men is that they won’t ________themselves to

a relationship.

A. commence

B. promote

C. commite

D. prescribe

9. In recent years ,new house sales have slowed down to a crawl, but builders are starting to see sales ______ again.

A. pick up

B. pick out

C. pick on

D. pick off

10. In a perfect world this would be sufficient, but computers and software can crash, power cam fail, and other unpredictable catastrophic events can _______to erase your work.

A. conduct

B. conspire

C. count

D. compel

11. We shall never know how she came to be there, there is no way to _______it.

A. account for

B. go over

C. hold on

D. make up