2011年上海复旦大学考博英语真题

2011 年上海复旦大学考博英语真题 Part Ⅰ Vocabulary and Structure （15 points） 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 SHEET Ⅰ with a single line through the center. 1. He’s color-blind and can’t the difference between red and green easily. A. detect B. discover C. distinguish 2. As many as 100 species of fish, some D. determine to these waters, may have been affected by the pollution. A. unusual B. particular C. typical 3. In her bright yellow coat, she was easily A. accessible B. identifiable B. trigger 5. The workers chose to A. deliver in the crowed. C. negligible 4. Some people find that certain foods A. introduce D. unique D. incredible their headaches. C. summon D. create their dissatisfaction in a series of strikes. B. offer C. manifest 6. Living with a roommate D. indicate constraint on her ----she couldn’t play her trumpet or have parties late at night. A. imposed B. illustrated C. impressed D. left 7. I don’t know how to get there either ---- perhaps we’d better A. note 8. In the B. mark C. consult a map. D. draft of recent incidents, we asking our customers to take particular care of their belongings. A. process B. company C. light D. form 9. The police are doing all the can to bring those responsible for the bombing to A. evidence B. hearing C. justice D. rule 10. The programme aims to make the country in food and to cut energy imports. A. self-confident B. self-sufficient C. self-satisfied D. self- restrained 11. I think I’d like to stay home this evening going out as it is raining so heavily. A. better than B. other than 12.The public can rest C. rather than D. sooner than that detectives are doing everything possible to find the murderer. A. assured B. approved C. guaranteed D. convinced 13. The child’s bad behavior is often more than a way of trying to his mother’s attention away from his sister. A. reflect B. catch C. deflect D. reduce 14. The small building was marked with a modest brass ,stating the name and the business of the occupiers. A. plaque B. plateau C. plague 15. I don’t know what all the D. plaster was about -----it was a dull sort of a film and there was almost no sex in it. A. controversy B. conversation C. discussion 16. I missed the last flight, and decided D. illumination to stay the night at the airport. A. however B. therefore 17. You could be A. subject to C. moreover D. meanwhile many dangers by traveling alone in that area. B. immune to C. sensitive to D. resistant to 18. She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, the pleasure. A. delaying B. prolonging C. insisting 19. The candidate has an impressively D. indulging range of interests and experience. A. diverse B. vivid C. mobile D. alive 20. When I was sent to prison, I really felt I had A. let…off 21. He B. let…down my parents C. let…out . D. let…alone outrage by calling the TV programmes “talking wallpaper” A. provoked B. evoked C. revoked 22/. The governments is trying to D. invoked the people into thinking that a war is necessary. A. enlighten B. involve 23. All the questions C. orient D. brainwash around what she had been doing on the night of the robbery. A. dissolved B. revolved 24. Make sure you’re A. synonymous with C. evolved D. devolved him before you start sharing a house. t B. compatible with C. subordinate to D. autonomous of 25. She said that the treatment she had received in the hospital had completely her os her dignity. A. thrived B. suspended C. deprived D. contrived 26. She was unimpressed by the actor describing him as “a vain man and dull” A. intensively 27. B. intensely C. downright D. actual down than the telephone rang. A. Not until I lay B. No sooner had I lain C. Hardly had I lain D. Scarcely did I lie 28.. I’m sorry I’m late---- I had a mental and forget that we would have a meeting today. A. aberration B. perversion 29. I ignored an old woman yesterday and it’s been on my A. morality B. conscience C. imbalance D. sanity who asked me for money in the street ever since. C. morale D. rationale 30. He saw university as a community of scholars, where students were by teachers into an appreciation of different philosophical approaches. A. extracted B. deducted C. inducted D. conducted Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension （40 points） Directions ： There are 4 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．Choose the best answer and mark corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ with a single line through the center. (1) I am running down an alley with a stolen avocado, having climbed over a white brick fence and into the forbidden back yard of a carefully manicured estate at the corner of El Dorado and Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, California. I have snatched a rock-hard Fuerte avocado from one of the three avocado trees near the fence. I have been told that many ferocious dogs patrol the grounds; they are killers, these dogs. I am defying them. They are nowhere to be found, except in my mind, and I’m out and gone and in the alley with their growls directing my imagination. I am running with fear and exhilaration, beginning a period of summer. Emerging from the shield of the alley I cut out into the open. Summer is about running, and I am running, protected by distance from the dogs. At the corner of Crescent Drive and Lomitas I spot Bobby Tornitzer on a bike. I shout “Tornitzer!” He turns his head. His bike wobbles. An automobile moving rapidly catches Tornitzer’s back wheel. Tornitzer is thrown high into the air and onto the concrete sidewalk of Crescent Drive. The driver, a woman with gray hair, swirls from the car hysterically and hovers noisily over Tornitzer, who will not survive the accident. I hold the avocado to my chest and stand, frozen, across the street. I am shivering in the heat, and sink to my knees. It is approximately 3:30 in the afternoon. It is June 21, 1946. In seven days, I will be 8 years old. 31. The best title for this story could be A. Summer B. Killer Dogs C. My Eighth Birthday D. The Alley 32. The main image in paragraph 1 is of a young boy A. climbing a white brick fences B. snatching avocados C. running with fear and exhilaration D. defying ferocious dogs 33. The main image in paragraph 2 is of A. Tornitzer riding his bike B. exhilaration turning into horror C. the 7-year-old emerging from the alley D. the hysteria of the woman driver 34. The story start with the feeling of and ends with the feeling of . A. joyful action…horrified inaction B. running…standing C. being alone…being with others D. being alone in the open…shivering in the heat 35 The phrase “shivering in the heat” (near the end of this passage) dramatically describes shock through A. the use of minute detail B. the unexpected combination of hot and cold C. its implied reference to the word ‘frozen’ D. the contrast of death and play (2) Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had became the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the