首都師范大學2008年博士研究生入學考試英語試卷

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Section I Vocabulary Test(20%)
Directions：In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET l with a single line through the centre.
1. After the snow storm, the government plans to ______the run-down houses in the rural area as soon as possible.
A. revive B. replace C. renovate D. remove
2. The doctor assured her that the pain would _________in a few days.
A. die off B. wear off C. get off D. go off
3. The speeding woman’s _______________for some mercy could not change the policeman’s decision to give her a fine.
A. plea B. flattery
C. distress D. demonstration
4. Owing to lack of money, these experiments must now be _______before the objective has been achieved.
A. transferred B. transformed C. terminated D. testified
5. Quite unexpectedly, the young man __________ with success, the problem which had baffled his forerunner.
A. tickled B. tricked C. trickled D. tackled
6. The Space Age _____ in October l957when the first artificial satellite—was launched by the Soviet Union.
A. embarked B. initialed C. commenced D. originated
7. Indoor or roof space antennae do not ___________give satisfactory performance even in strong signal areas.
A. faithful B. invariably C. voluntarily D. habitually
8. These old houses are in good state of ________ except for the wooden floors.
A. preservation B. observation C. compensation D. conservation
9. She works bard at her task before she felt sure that the result would ______her long effort.
A. verify B. rectify C. testify D. justify
10. The country is now undergoing an economic _________in which business activity is greatly reduced and the unemployment rate is high.
A. sanction B. accession C. flourish D. recession
11. The river is already ____its banks because of excessive rainfall and the town is threatened with a likely flood.
A. level in B. flat on C. parallel to D. flush with
12. Because of his outstanding achievements, the university _____ an honorary degree upon Mr. Adams.
A. conferred B. dedicated C. awarded D. presented
13. It is one of the paradox of social intercourse that a ___________is much harder to respond to than an insult.
A. compliment B. condemnation C. complement D. complaint
14. The shop assistant was straight with his customers. If an article was of _______quality he’d tell them so.
A. miner B. inferior C. awkward D. humble
15. A terrible traffic accident happened;people were saddened when they watched the ______sight on TV.
A. periodic B. panic C. pathetic D. patriotic
16. Even you were not in the mood, you should have known better than to refuse a lady this way. You could have _______her instead.
A. denied B. declined C. denoted D. denounced
17. As the nation attaches excessive importance to football, the triumph or frustration of the national team is most likely to drive many of her nationals ______________.
A. overexcited B. turbulent C. overwhelmed D. hysterical
18. On Labor Day the workers will march in __________though the town.
A. process B. procedure C. procession D. progress
19. Although we had lord them not to keep US waiting, they made no _____to speed up deliveries.
A. trial B. action C. attempt D. progress
20. Mr.Moore is one of the most prosperous persons in the town, yet he does take _____at questioning the way he makes money.
A. offence B. rage C. hostility D. revenge
Section II Reading Comprehension(40%)
Directions：There are 5 passages ill this section. Each passage is followed by 4 questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Please choose the best one for each question and mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET l with a single line through the centre.
Passage 1
An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students’ career prospects and those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical educational reform. Very few writers Oil the subject have explored this distinction—indeed, contradiction—which goes to the heart of what is wrong with the campaign to put computers in the classroom.
An education that aims at getting student a certain kind of job is a technical education, justified for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law. It is not simply to raise everyone’s job prospects that all children are legally required to attend school into their teens. Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a character who is incomplete if he cannot competently assess now his livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself. But this was not always the case. Before it was legally required for all children to attend school until a certain age. It was widely accepted that everyone is fit to be educated. Computer-education advocates forsake this optimistic notion for a pessimism that betrays their otherwise cheery outlook. Banking on the confusion between educational and vocational reasons for bringing computers into schools, computer-education advocates often emphasize the job prospects of graduates over their educational achievement.
There are some good arguments for a technical education given the right kind of student. Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early in order to make sure children are properly equipped for the professions they want to join. It is, however, pre-sumptuous to insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists, so many business-men, and so many accountants. . Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.
But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not. Of course, the basics of using any computer these days are very simple. It does not take a lifelong acquaintance to pick up various software programs. If one wanted to become a computer engineer, that is, of course, all entirely different story. Basic computer skills take—at the very longest—a couple of months to learn. In any case, basic computer skills are only complementary to the host of real skills that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional. It should be observed, of course, that no school, vocational or not, is helped by a confusion over its purpose.
21. The author thinks the present rush to put computers in the classroom is ________________.
A. far-reaching B self-contradictory
C. dubiously oriented D. radically reformatory
22. The belief that education is indispensable to all children ______________________.
A. originated from the optimistic attitude of industrialized countries
B. is deeply rooted in the minds of computer education advocates