華中科技大學英語考博真題

Part I Cloze (0.5x20=10%)
Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of laboratories and buildings, and, 1 curious of all, a circular mound of 2 more than 650 feet in diameter. This cluster has unique importance. It is Europe’s 3 atomic city dedicated to 4 the atom for peaceful purposes.
The strange buildings 5 the European Council for Nuclear Research, more popularly known, from 6 French initials, as CERN. The council was 7 when a handful of statesmen and scientific experts 8 in Paris in 1950. Their aim was to “ 9 an organization providing for co-operation among European states 10 nuclear research of a pure scientific and fundamental character.”
The CERN agreement was 11 in 1953, and work on the atomic city began in 1954. today CERN’s 12 are among the most modern and the most diversified in the world. 13 as the scientific aspect may be, the real significance of CERN may lie 14 the thousand people ——the scientists, lab workers, and administrative 15 drawn from the fourteen member nations —— 16 populate it. British engineers work 17 with Swiss electricians and Yugoslav nuclear physicists. The 18 languages are French and English, with German an unofficial third. But BERN is 19 tower of Babel —— the language of science is 20 and all-embracing.
1. A. best B. chiefly C. most D. mostly
2. A. earth B. dirt C. mud D. soil
3. A. one and best B. one and only C. one and an D. one and merely
4. A. investigation B. being investigated C. investigate D. investigating
5. A. work with B. belong to C. consist of D. are located in
6. A. his B. their C. its D. those
7. A. come into being B. constructed C. erected D. born
8. A. joined B. developed C. met D. met with
9. A. found B. put up C. build D. establish
10. A. in B. on C. for D. about
11. A. sealed B. signed C. secured D.
12. A. resources B. accommodations C. facilities D. funds
13. A. Impressionistic B. Impressing C. Impressed D.
14. A. in B. with C. on D. at
15. A. crew B. crowd C. party D. group
16. A. whoever B. who C. which D. whatever
17. A. side by side B. back to back C. heart to heart D. face to face
18. A. living B. authentic C. official D. real
19. A. the B. a C. not D. no
20. A. worldwide B. infinite C. universal D. comprehensive

Part II. Reading comprehension (20x2=40%):
Directions: There are four passages in this part. After each passage, there are five questions. You are to choose the best answer for each question. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
Passage one
Disease is a fluid concept influenced by societal and cultural attitudes that change diachronically in response to new scientific and medical discoveries. Historically, doctors defined a disease according to a cluster of symptoms, and as their clinical descriptions became more sophisticated, they started to classify diseases into separate groups, so that from this medical taxonomy came new insights into disease etiology. Before the 20th century, schizophrenia and syphilitic insanity were treated as the same disease, but by early 1900 it became evident that psychoses without associated dementia represented a separate disease for which the term schizophrenia was then coined. The definition of schizophrenia continues to evolve from the psychiatric disease of the 1960s to an illness with a suspected genetic etiology, though the existence of such an etiology remains uncertain. While an optimistic hunt is still on for the genes involved, we must continue to define schizophrenia in terms of the presence or absence of “positive” and “negative” symptoms.