2006北大考博士英语真题-在线考试系统

1、【单选题】
Where was the narrator’s family when this story took place? [1分]

、 In Germany.

、 In Hungary.

、 In the United States

、 In New York .

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2、【单选题】
His grandfather ____________. [1分]

、 could not speak and read English well enough

、 knew nine languages equally well

、 knew a number of languages, but felt more kin to German

、 loved German best because it made him think of home

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3、【单选题】
His grandmother did not want her husband to buy and read newspapers in German, because________. [1分]

、 it was war time and Germans were their enemy

、 the neighbors would mistake them as pro-German

、 it was easier to get newspapers in English in America

、 nobody else read newspapers in German during the war time

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4、【单选题】
The narrator’s mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because________. [1分]

、 like everybody else at the war time, she was very patriotic

、 she hated the war and the Germans very much

、 all her friends had relatives in war and she wanted to be like them

、 she liked to have a brother she could think of as a hero

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5、【单选题】
The American dream in this passage mainly refers to ____________. [1分]

、 there are always possibilities offered to people to develop themselves in the society

、 Americans can always move up the pay ladder

、 American young people can have access to college, even they are poor

、 the labor force is not trapped in low-wage and dead-end jobs

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6、【单选题】
Wal-Mart strategy, according to this passage, is to ___________. [1分]

、 hire temps and part-timers to reduce its cost

、 outsource its contracts to lower price agencies at home and abroad

、 hold down its consumer price by controlling its labor costs

、 dismantle the career ladder and stop people’s mobility upward

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7、【单选题】
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? [1分]

、 Wal-Martization has been successful in keeping costs at rock-bottom levels.

、 Upward mobility for low-skilled workers has become impossible in the U.S.

、 More business opportunities are given to low-cost agencies in China and India.

、 Although people know how to restore American mobility, it’s difficult to change the present situation.

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8、【单选题】
Retired seniors are moving back into the city because ____________. [1分]

、 they find there are too many crimes in the suburbs

、 unlike the flats in the city, their country house have stairs to climb

、 they are no longer interested in playing golf

、 in the city, they have more social and cultural life against loneliness

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9、【单选题】
From the passage we can infer that _________. [1分]

、 the real-estate developers have broken their original contracts of construction with senior retirees

、 a life in the downtown city is expensive, and most of those retirees who moved back into the city are very well-off

、 with more older people living in the city, the city will become gray and less beautiful

、 very soon the American suburban areas will face their low population crisis

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10、【单选题】
Fran McCarthy’s question means: nobody ever thought that __________. [1分]

、 people who moved out of the city decades ago now would move back

、 suburban dwellers when moving back into the city must take round trip

、 suburban flight years ago would go in circles

、 senior people’s moving back into the city would take place all over the United States

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11、【填空题】
Inadequate rest means a weaker system, laying the body open to a whole of illnesses. On the average a man needs seven hours of sleep a day and a woman seven and a hours. Six hours of sleep is better than ten hours of and turning, however. People who sleep less than six hours a night are for an early death.
Some people that they can get by with little sleep when necessary. But experts think these people are themselves.
Between sleep and fatal accidents there is an obvious . People who get sleep or poor quality sleep have a higher risk of on the road. They are more likely to fall asleep at the and kill people or get killed. Professional drivers and workers are most likely to take the . The performance at work also because of sleep deprivation.
The pressures of work deprive people of sleep. To make it up, they try to catnaps. But experts are a little about the benefits of catnapping. They tell us that the catnap can never be a for proper sleep. For victims of , catnapping in the day is the worst thing they can possibly do. [每空0.5分]

答案： ["immune","range","quarter","uninterrupted","tossing","destined","claim","fooling","deprivation","correlation","insufficient","accidents","wheel","shift","risk","deteriorates","snatch","skeptical","substitute","insomnia"]

12、【填空题】
Last year French drivers killed than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon 3,000 lives last year. Success, of course breeds success: the government plans to install 500 radar devices this year.
So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombing, in which video cameras a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea change. A month the London attacks, half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and telecoms to store all e-mail, Internet and phone data for “anti-terror” . In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were to give up some civil liberty to improve . [每空1分]

答案： ["Fewer","To","Saved","More","As","Played","After","Purposes","Ready","Security"]

13、【简答题】
(51)Being angry increases the risk of injury, especially among men, new research says.
The researchers gathered data on more than 2,400 accident victims at three Missouri hospitals. They interviewed each subject to determine the patient’s emotional state just before the injury and 24 hours earlier, gathering data on whether the patients felt irritable, angry or hostile, and to what degree. Then they compared the results with a control group of uninjured people.
(52)Despite widespread belief in “road rage,” anger did not correlate with injuries from traffic accidents.
(53)Not surprisingly, anger was strongly associated with injuries inflicted deliberately. But other injuries – those neither intentionally inflicted nor from falls or traffic accidents – also showed strong associations with anger.
(54)The correlations were significantly weaker for women than for men, but there were no differences by race. The authors acknowledge that their data depend on self-reports, which are not always reliable.
(55)Why anger correlates with injury is not known. “I can speculate that the anger may have prompted some behavior that led to the injury, or may have simply distracted the person, leading indirectly to the injury,” said the study’s lead author. [15分]

解析：
Paraphrasing :( 3 points each)
51. According to new research, getting angry adds to the chances of getting physically hurt, particularly for male.

52. even people gen[size=5][/size]erally believe hat people easily get angry when driving on the road, but anger didn’t have much/anything to do with injuries from traffic accidents,/but not many injuries from traffic accidents are the results of anger on the road.

53. It is not at all surprising that anger is a very important reason for people who intentionally hurt themselves.

54. We see this strong link between anger and injury more in men than in women, but different races of people did not show much variation.

55. People do not know yet why anger is associated with injury.

14、【简答题】
(66) Application files are piled highly this month in colleges across the country. (67) Admissions officers are poring essays and recommendation letters, scouring transcripts and standardized test scores.
(68) But anything is missing from many applications: a class ranking, once a major component in admissions decisions.
In the cat-and-mouse maneuvering over admission to prestigious colleges and universities, (69) thousands of high schools have simply stopped providing that information, concluding it could harm the chances of their very better, but not best, students.
(70) Canny college officials, in turn, have found a tactical way to response. (71) Using broad data that high schools often provide, like a distribution of grade averages for entire senior class, they essentially recreate an applicant’s class rank.
(72) The process has left them exasperating.
(73) “If we’re looking at your son or daughter and you want us to know that they are among the best in their school, with a rank we don’t necessarily know that,” said Jim Bock, dean of admissions and financial aid at Swarthmore College.
(74) Admissions directors say strategy can backfire. When high schools do not provide enough general information to recreate the class rank calculation, (75) many admissions directors say they have little choice and to do something virtually no one wants them to do: give more weight to scores on the SAT and other standardized exams. [10分]

解析：
Proofreading :( 1 point each)
66. Highly-high　 67. Pore-pore over　 68. Anything-something　 69. Better-good
70. Response-respond　 71. For entire-for an entire　 72. Exasperating-exasperated
73. With-without　　 74. Strategy-the strategy　 75. And-but

15、【简答题】
Recently, a newspaper carried an article entitled: “We Should No Longer Force Gong Li and Zhang Yimou to Take Part in National Politics”. The article argued that some artists and film stars are unwilling or unqualified to represent the people in the People’s Congress or the People’s Political Consultative Conference, and they should not be forced to do so. What do you think? [15分]

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