社科院15年考博英語真題

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