复旦大学考博英语-5
(总分125,考试时间90分钟)
Part Ⅰ Vocabulary
1. Parents often faced the ______ between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noi and destructiveness.
A. paradox B. junction
C. premi D. dilemma
2. The designing of a satellite in the heavenly environment is ______ an easy job.
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A. by all means B. by any means
C. by every means D. by no means
3. While some bacteria are beneficial, others are ______in that they cau dia.
A. detrimental B. prodigious
C. intrusive D. mordant
4. Jack ______ to the manager for the mistakes he had made.
A. excud B. pardoned
C. forgave D. apologized
5. Her remarkable success as a rock star is partly due to her ability to ______ the media.
A. mandate B. meditate
nightly
C. manifest D. manipulate
smashing
6. He saw university as a community of scholars, where students were ______ by teachers into an appreciation of different philosophical approaches.
A. extracted B. deducted
C. inducted D. conducted
7. Whenever a camera was pointed at her, Marilyn would instantly ______ herlf into a radiant star.
A. transport B. transfer
C. transform D. transgress
8. The rain looked as though it had ______for the night.
A. t off B. t in
C. t out D. t up
9. He saw writers and artists as being important to the state for they could ______ credibility on the regime.
A. bestow B. embrace
C. disper D. undertake
10. All parts of this machine are______, so that it is very simple to get replacements for them.
2broke girlsA. specialized B. standardized
C. minimized D. modernized
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Passage One
A few minutes ago, walking back from lunch, I started to cross the street when I heard the sound of a coin dropping. It wasn"t much but, as I turned, my eyes caught the heads of veral other people turning, too. A woman dropped what appeared to be a dime.rip
The tinkling sound of a coin dropping on pavement is an attention-getter. It can be nothing more than a penny. Whatever the coin is, no one ignores the sound of it. It got me thinking about sounds again.
We are besieged by so many sounds that attract the most attention. People in New York City ldom turn to look when a fire engine, a police car or an **es screaming along the street.
When I"m in New York, I"m a New Yorker. I don"t turn either. Like the natives, I hardly hear a siren there.
At home in my little town in Connecticut, it"s different. The distant ringing of a police car brings me to my feet if I"m in bed.
It"s the quietest sounds that have the most effect on us, not the loudest. In the middle of the night, I can hear a dripping tap a hundred yards away though three clod doors. I"ve been hearing little creaking nois and sounds which my imagination turns into footsteps
in the middle of the night for twenty-five years in our hou. **e I never hear the sounds in the daytime?
I"m quite clear in my mind what the good sounds are and what the bad sounds are.
I"ve turned against whistling, for instance. I ud to think of it as the mark of a happy worker but lately I"ve been associating the whistler with a nervous person **pulsive nois.
The tapping, tapping, tapping of my typewriter as the keys hit the paper is a lovely sound to me. I often like the sound of what I write better than the looks of it.
if虚拟语气1. The sound of a coin dropping makes people ______.
A. think of money
B. look at each other
C. pay attention to it
besides和except的区别
D. stop crossing the street
2. People in New York ______.
A. don"t care about emergencies
B. are ud to sirens
C. are attracted by sounds
D. don"t hear loud nois
3. How does the author relate to sounds at night?
A. He imagines sounds that do not exist
B. He exaggerates quiet sounds
C. He thinks taps should be turned off
D. He believes it"s quiet at night
4. He dislikes whistling becau ______.
A. he is tired of it
B. he ud to be happier
C. it reminds him of ten people
D. he doesn"t like workers
5. How does the writer feel about sounds in general?bonus是什么意思
A. They make him feel at home
B. He thinks they should be ignored
C. He believes they are part of our lives
D. He prefers silence to loud nois
Passage Two
There are some that would argue that hospitals are no place for dogs, while they are wrong. At least according to new rearch reported at the American Heart Association"s Scientific Sessions 2005. For people hospitalized with advancedheart dia, it is better to have visitors than to lie quietly alone. But one type of visitor ems to be especially beneficial, rearchers reported on Tuesday. That visitor is a dog. In the first controlled study of the effects of pet therapy in a random sample of acute and critically ill heart patients, anxiety as measured on a standard rating scale dropped 24 percent for tho visited by a dog and a human volunteer, by 10 percent for tho visited by a volunteer alone and not at all for tho with no visitors. Similar results were found in measures of heart and lung function.a level
