中國社會科學院研究生院 2015 年攻讀博士學位研究生入學考試試卷

中國社會科學院研究生院

2015 年攻讀博士學位研究生入學考試試卷

英語
2015 年 3 月 14 日
8:30 – 11:30

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PART I: Vocabulary and Grammar
Section A (10 points)
Directions: Choose the answer that best fills in the blank.
1. Even the president is not really the CEO. No one is. Power in a corporation is concentrated and
vertically structured. Power in Washington is ______________ and horizontally spread out.
a. prudent b. reversible c. diffuse d. mandatory
2. In describing the Indians of the various sections of the United States at different stages in their
history, some of the factors which account for their similarity amid difference can be readily
accounted for, others are difficult to _______________.
a. refine b. discern c. embed d. cluster
3. The partial transfer of legislative powers from Westminster, implemented by Tony Blair, was
designed to give the other members of the club a bigger ______________ and to counter
centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very idea of the union.
a. say b. transmission c. decay d. contention
4. It can hardly be denied the proliferation of so-called dirty books and films has, to date, reached
almost a saturation point. People do not acknowledge the _______________ fact that children
are bound to be exposed to ―dirty words‖ in a myriad of ways other than through the public
airwaves.
a.irrefutable b. concrete c. inevitable d. haphazard
5. A condition is an essential term of the contract. If a contract is not performed, it may constitute a
substantial breach of contract and allow the other party to _______________ the contract, that is,
treat the contract as discharged or terminated.
a. repudiate b. spurn c. decline d. halt
6. Each of us shares with the community in which we live a store of words as well as agreed
conventions ______________ these words should be arranged to convey a particular message.
a. as the way by which b. by the way in which
c. as to the way in which d. in the way of which
7. Rarely ______________ a technological development _______________ an impact on many
aspects of social, economic, and cultural development as greatly as the growth of electronics.
a. has… had b. had…had c. has…has d. have…had
8. If early humans ______________ as much as they did, they probably ______________ to evolve
into different species.
a. did not move and intermingle…would continue
b. would not move and intermingle…had continued
c. had not moved and intermingled…would have continued
d. were not to move and intermingle…could have continued2
9. It was ______________ the last time around the track ______________ I really kicked it
in--passing the gossiping girlfriends, blocking out the whistles of boys who had already
completed their run and now were hanging out on the grassy hill, I ran--pushing hard, breathing
shallowly, knowing full well that I was going to have to hear about it from my disapproving
friends for the next few days.
a. not until…when b. not until…that c. until…when d. until…that
10．One impediment ______________ the general use of a standard in pronunciation is the fact
______________ pronunciation is learnt naturally and unconsciously, while orthography is
learnt deliberately and consciously.
a. in…which b. of …in which c. on…that d. to…that
Section B (5 points)