西南大學2012考博英語真題

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西南大學博士入學考試英語試題（2012）
Part I Vocabulary (10 points)
Directions: In this part there are 20 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there
are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the
following sentences. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
1. A broadcasting station will sometimes to its listeners a programme which
it has received from another station.
.
A. rely B. relay C. relate D. reside
2. The United Nations Conference on Drug Abuse, which took place earlier this year
in Vienna, was a very meeting.
A. productive B. overwhelming C. compulsory D. protective
3. A person who studies ___ learns how to express numbers approximately and
how to calculate ratios and averages.
A. static B. statistic C. statistics D. status
4. If you ______ someone, you form a fixed general idea or image of them so that
you assume that they will behave in a particular way.
A. assimilate B. simulate C. stereotype D. subordinate
5. Reading ______ the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking that
makes what we read ours.
A. rectifies B. prolongs C. furnishes D. minimizes
6. Satellite communications are so up-to-date that even when _____ in the middle
of the Pacific, businessman can contact their offices as if they were next door.
A. gliding B. cruising C. piloting D. patrolling
7. Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly
from _______ on earth rather than bacteria on Mars.
A. configuration B. constitution C. condemnation D. contamination
8. Scientists, who are now aware of how nautiluses regulate their buoyancy, have