中國人民大學 2008 年博士生入學考試英語試題

Part I. Vocabulary (20%)

Directions: Choose the best answer (from A, B, C and D) to complete each of the following sentences. Mark your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

1. Let's give a big _____to tonight's prize-winner.

A. respect B. shout

C. praise D. hand

2. It was a depressed and divided country, accustomed to failure and of change.

A. definite B. curious

C. suspicious D. anxious

3. The secret of the____ of Wal- mart in the retailing industry lies in is single-minded and skillful pantsuit of the lowest prices.

A. unalleviated B, uncombed

C. unprecedented D. unaccompanied

4. Those who got angry and crazy set fire to cars and shops in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, then the problems_____.

A. evolved B. evaporated

C. escalated D, exalted

5. The supervisor, his explanation when his fault was pointed out by some talented young students.

A. stumbled over B. got over

C. dashed to D. gave out

6, it is evident that no one, no matter how much they _____ is immunity from the effect of advertising.

A, refuse B. reflect

C. proclaim D. protest

7. "It's probably just stress." How many times have you uttered those words to yourself to____ a headache, pain or illness?

A. dismiss B. dispose

C. dispel D. disrupt

8. Schools and colleges have no right to use our public money to promote conduct that is _____to the religious and moral values of parents and taxpayers.

A. conducive B. comparable