1、復旦大學2007年博士研究生入學考試英語試題Part Vocabulary and Structure （15 points）Directions： There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET with a single

2、line through the center.1Although the false banknotes fooled many people, they did not _ to a close examination.Akeep up Bput up C stand up Dlook up2When I bent down to tie my shoelace, the seat of my trousers _.Asplit Bcracked Cbroke Dholed3His _ thighs were barely strong enough to support the weig

3、ht of his body.A inanimate Brustic Cmalleable Dshrunken4To get my travellers' cheques I had to _ a special cheque to the bank for the total amount.Amake for Bmake out Cmake up Dmake off5She described the distribution of food and medical supplies as a _ nightmare.Aparanoid Bputative Cbenign D log

4、istical6A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable _ ending.A mawkish Bfateful Cbeloved Dperfunctory7Despite _ efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36 points.Aabsurd Bgrimy Cvaliant Dfraudulent8In _ I wish I had thought about alternative courses of action.Aretrospect Bdispa

5、rity Csuccession Ddissipation9Psychoanalysts tend to regard both _ and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation.Aattachment Bdistinction Cingenuity Dsadism10Fear showed in the eyes of the young man, while the old man looked tired and _.Awatery Bwandering Cweary Dwearing11The clash between Rea

6、l Madrid and Arsenal is being _ as the match of the season.A harbinger Ballured Ccongested Dlodged12What he told me was a _ of downright lies.Aload Bmob Cpack Dflock13We regret to inform you that the materials you ordered are _.Aout of work B out of stock Cout of reach Dout of practice14_ I realized

7、 the consequences, I would never have contemplated getting involved.AEven if BHad CAs long as D If15They managed to _ the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.Adeaden Bdeprive Cpunctuate Drebuff16He had been _ to appear in court on charges of incitement of lawbreaking.Aill

8、uminated Bsummoned Cprevailed Dtrailed17The computer doesn't _ human thought; it reaches the same ends by different means.Aflunk Brenew Csuccumb Dmimic18How about a glass of orange juice to _ your thirst？Aquench Bquell Cquash Dquieten19The rain looked as if it had _ for the night.Aset off Bset u

9、p Cset out Dset in20My aunt lost her cat last summer, but it _ a week later at a home in the next village.A turned up Bturned in Cturned on Dturned out21As is known to all, a vague law is always _ to different interpretations.Ainvulnerable Bimmune Cresistant D susceptible22The manager _ facts and fi

10、gures to make it seem that the company was prosperous.Abeguiled Bbesmirched Cjuxtaposed Djuggled23To our great delight, yesterday we received a（n） _ donation from a benefactor.Ahandsome Bawesome Cmiserly Dprodigal24Students who get very high marks will be _ from the final examination.Aexpelled Bbani

11、shed C absolved Dousted25It _ me that the man was not telling the truth.A effects Bpokes Chits Dstirs26John glanced at Mary to see what she thought, but she remained _.Amanifest Bobnoxious Cinscrutable Dobscene27My neighbor tended to react in a heat and _ way.Aimpetuous Bimpertinent Cimperative Dimp

12、erceptible28This morning when she was walking in the street, a black car _ beside her.Adrew out Bdrew off Cdrew down D drew up29She decided to keep reticent about the unpleasant past and _ it to memory.Aattribute Ballude Ccommit Dcredit30It did not take long for the central bank to _ their fears.Aso

13、othe Bsnub Csmear DsanctifyPart Reading Comprehension （40 points）Directions： There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A,B, C and DChoose the best answer and mark corresponding lette

14、r on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.Passage OneJean left Alice Springs on Monday morning with regret, and flew all day in a “Dragonfly”' aircraft; and it was a very instructive day for her. The machine did not go directly to Cloncurry, but flew to and for across the wastes of

15、 Central Australia, depositing small bags of mail at cattle stations and picking up cattle-men and travelers to drop them off after a hundred or a hundred and fifty miles. They landed eight or ten times in the course of the day, at places like Ammaroo and Hatches Creek and many other stations; at ea

16、ch place they would get out of the plane and drink a cup of tea and have a talk with the station manager or owner, and get back into the plane and go on their way. By the end of the day Jean Paget knew exactly what a cattle station looked like, and she was beginning to have a very good idea of what

17、went on there.They got to Cloncurry in the evening, a fairly extensive town on a railway that ran eastward to the sea at Townsville Here she was in Queensland, and she heard for the first time the slow deliberate speech of the Queensland that reminded her at once of her friend Joe Harman. She was dr

18、iven into town in a very old open car and deposited at the Post Office Hotel; she got a bedroom but tea was over, and she had to go down the wide， dusty main street to a café for her evening meal. Cloncurry, she found, had none of the clean attractiveness of Alice Springs; it was a town which s

19、melt of cattle, with wide streets through which to drive them down to the stockyard, many hotels, and a few shops. All the houses were of wood with red-painted iron roofs; the hotels had two floors, but very few of the other houses had more than one.She had to spend a day here, because the air servi

20、ce to Normanton and Willstown ran weekly on a Wednesday She went out after breakfast while the air was still cool and walked in one direction up the huge main street for half a mile till she came to the end of the town, then came back and walked down it a quarter of a mile till she came to the other

21、 end. Then she went and had a look at the railway station, and, having seen the airfield,with that she had seen all there was to see in Cloncurry. She looked in at a shop that sold toys and newspapers, but they were sold out of all reading matter except a few books about dress-making; as the day was

22、 starting to warm up she went back to the hotel. She managed to borrow a copy of the Australian Women's Weekly from the manageress of the hotel and took it to her room, and took off most of her clothes and lay down on her bed to sweat it out during the heat of the day. Most of the other citizens

23、 of Cloncurry seemed to be doing the same thing.She felt like moving again shortly before tea and had a shower, and went out to the café for an ice. Weighed down by the heavy meal of roast beef and plum-pudding that the Queenslanders call “tea” she sat in a folding chair for a little outside in

24、 the cool of the evening, and went to bed again at about eight o'cock. She was called before daybreak, and was out at the airfield with the first light.31When Jean had to leave Alice Springs, she _.Awished she could have stayed lodgerBregretted she had decided to flyCwasn't looking forward t

25、o flying all dayDwished it had not been a Monday morning32How did Jean get some idea of Australian cattle station？AShe learnt about them at first hand.BShe learnt about them from friends.CShe visited them weekly.DShe stayed on one for a week.33Jean's main complaint about Cloncurry in comparison

26、with Alice Springs, was _.Athe width of the main street Bthe poor service at the hotelCthe poor-looking buildings Dthe smell of cows34For her evening meal on the second day Jean had _.Aonly an ice-cream Ba lot of cooked foodCsome cold beer Da cooling, but non-alcoholic drink35Jean left Cloncurry _.A

27、 early on Wednesday morning Blate on Tuesday eveningCafter breakfast on Tuesday Dbefore breakfast on TuesdayPassage TwoIt was unfortunate that, after so trouble-free an arrival, he should stumble in the dark as he was rising and severely twist his ankle on a piece of rock. After the first shock the

28、pain became bearable, and he gathered up his parachute before limping into the trees to hide it as best he could. The hardness of the ground and the deep darkness made it almost impossible to do this efficiently. The pine needles lay several inches deep so he simply piled them on top of the parachut

29、e, cutting the short twigs that he could feel around his legs, and spreading them on top of the needles. He had great doubts about whether it would stay buried, but there was very little else that he could do about it.After limping for some distance in an indirect course away from his parachute he b

30、egan to make his way downhill through the trees. He had to find out where he was, and then decide what to do next. But walking downhill on a rapidly swelling ankle soon proved to be almost beyond his powers. He moved more and more slowly， walking in long sideways movements across the slope, which me

31、ant taking more steps but less painful ones. By the time he cleared the trees and reached the valley, day was breaking. Mist hung in soft sheets across the field. Small cottages and farm buildings grouped like sleeping cattle around a village church, whose pointed tower, pointed high into the cold w

32、inter air to welcome the morning.“I can't go no further，” John Harding thought. “Someone is bound to find me, but what can't I do？ I must get a rest before I go on. Ther'll look for me first up there on the mountain where the plane crashed. I bet they're out looking for it already an

33、d they're bound to find the parachute in the end. I can't believe they won't. So they'll know I'm not dead and must be somewhere. They'll think I'm hiding up there in the trees and rocks so they'll look for me, so I'll go down to the village. With luck by the even

34、ing my foot will be good enough to get me to the border.”Far above him on the mountainside he could hear the faint echo of voices, startling him after great silence. Looking up he saw lights like little pinpoints moving across the face of the mountain in the grey light. But the road was deserted, an

35、d he struggled along, still almost invisible in the first light, easing his aching foot whenever he could, avoiding stones and rough places, and limping quietly and painfully towards the village. He reached the church at last. A great need for peace almost drew him inside, but he knew that would not

36、 do. Instead, he limped along its wails towards a very old building standing a short distance from the church doors. It seemed to have been there for ever, as if it had grown out of the hillside. It had the same air of timelessness as the church. John Harding pushed open the heavy wooden door and sl

37、ipped inside.36It is known from the passage that John Harding was _.Aan escaped prisonerBa criminal on the run from the policeCan airman who had landed in an enemy country areaDa spy who had been hiding in the forest37John Harding found it hard to hide his parachute because _.Ahe got his ankle twist

38、ed severelyBthe trees did not give very good coverCthe earth was not soft and there was little lightDthe pine needles lay too thick on the ground38In spite of his bad ankle John Harding was able to _.Acarry on walking fairly rapidlyBwalk in a direction that was less steepC bear the pain without chan

39、ging directionDfind out where he had landed39When John Harding got out of the forest he saw that _.Ait was beginning to get much lighterBwashing was hanging on the lines in the villageCthe fields were full of sleeping cowsDsome trees had been cleared near the village40John Harding decided to go down

40、 to the village _.Ato find a doctor to see to his ankle B to be near the frontierCto avoid the search party Dto find shelter in a buildingPassage ThreeA trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline: “Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals

41、.”The announcement, from the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America received wide media attention. On NBC's Today Show, Lea Thompson said, “According to a new online survey, one in 10 teenagers have an underage friend who has ordered beer, wine or liquor over the internet. More than a third thi

42、nk they can easily do it and nearly half think they won't get caught.” Several newspapers mentioned the study, including USA Today and the Record of New Jersey. The news even made Australia's Gold Coast Bulletin.Are millions of kids really buying booze online？ To arrive at that jarring headl

43、ine, the group used some questionable logic to pump up results from a survey that was already tilted in favor of finding a large number of online buyer.For starters, consider the source. The trade group that commissioned the survey has long fought efforts to expand online sales of alcohol; its membe

44、rs are local distributors who compete with online liquor sellers. Some of the news coverage pointed out that conflict of interest, though reports didn't delve more deeply into how the numbers were computed.The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America hired Teenage Research Unlimited, a research c

45、ompany, to design the study. Teenage Research, in turn, hired San Diego polling firm Luth Research to put the questions to 1,001 people between the ages of 14 and 20in an online survey. Luth gets people to participate in its surveys in part by advertising them online and offering small cash awardsty

46、pically less than $ 5 for short surveys.People who agree to participate in online surveys are, by definition, internet users, something that not all teens are. （Also, people who actually take the time to complete such surveys may be more likely to be active, or heavy internet users. ） It's safe

47、to say that kids who use the internet regularly are more likely to shop online than those who don't. Teenage Research Unlimited told me it weighted the survey results to adjust for age, sex, ethnicity and geography of respondents, but had no way to adjust for degree of internet usage.Regardless,

48、 the survey found that, after weighting, just 2.1 points of the 1,001 respondents bought alcohol onlinecompared, with 56 points who had consumed alcohol. Making the questionable assumption that their sample was representative of all Americans aged 14 to 20 with access to the internetand not just tho

49、se with the time and inclination to participate in online surveysthe researchers concluded that 551,000 were buying alcohol online.But that falls far short of the reported “millions of kids”. To justify that headline, the wholesalers' group focused on another part of the survey that asked respon

50、dents if they knew a teen who had purchased alcohol online. Some 12 points said they did. Of course, it's ridiculous to extrapolate from a state like thatone buyer could be known by many people, and it's impossible to measure overlap. Consider a high school of 1,000 students, with 20 who hav

51、e bought booze on line and 100 who know about the purchases. If 100 of the school's students are surveyed at random, you'd expect to find two who have bought and 10 who know someone who hasbut that still represents only two buyers, not 10（Not to mention the fact that thinking you know someon

52、e who has ordered beer online is quite different from ordering a six pack yourself. ）Karen Gravois Elliott, a spokeswoman for the wholesalers' group, told me, “The numbers are real,” but referred questions about methodology to Teenage Research. When I asked her about the potential problems of co

53、nducting the survey online, she said the medium was a strength of the survey: “We specifically wanted to look at the teenage online population.”Nahme Chokeir, a vice president of client service for San Diego-based Luth Research Inc., told me that some of his online panel comes from word of mouth, wh

54、ich wouldn't necessarily skew toward heavy internet users. He added that some clients design surveys to screen respondents by online usage, though Teenage Research didn't.I asked Michael Wood, a vice president at Teenage Research who worked on the survey， whether one could say, as the liquor

55、 trade group did, that millions of teenagers had bought alcohol online. “You can't,” he replied, adding, “This is their press release.”41Which of the following is the message that this passage is trying to convey？AThe severe social consequences of kids buying alcohol online.BThe hidden drawback

56、of the American educational system.CThe influence of wide coverage of news media.DThe problems in statistic methodology in social survey.42According to the author, what is wrong with the report about kids buying alcohol？AIt is unethical to offer cash awards to subjects of survey.BThe numbers in this report were falsified.C T