1、2007年复旦大学考博英语真题试卷及答案与解析 一、 Structure and Vocabulary 1 Although the false banknotes fooled many people, they did not_ to a close examination. （ A） keep up （ B） put up （ C） stand up （ D） look up 2 When I bent down to tie my shoelace, the seat of my trousers_. （ A） split （ B） cracked （ C） broke （ D） ho
2、led 3 His_thighs were barely strong enough to support the weight of his body. （ A） inanimate （ B） rustic （ C） malleable （ D） shrunken 4 To get my travellers cheques I had to_a special cheque to the bank for the total amount. （ A） make for （ B） make out （ C） make up （ D） make off 5 She described the
3、distribution of food and medical supplies as a_nightmare. （ A） paranoid （ B） putative （ C） benign （ D） logistical 6 A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable_ending. （ A） mawkish （ B） fateful （ C） beloved （ D） perfunctory 7 Despite_efforts by the finance minister, inflation rose to 36 p
4、oints. （ A） absurd （ B） grimy （ C） valiant （ D） fraudulent 8 In_I wish I had thought about alternative courses of action. （ A） retrospect （ B） disparity （ C） succession （ D） dissipation 9 Psychoanalysts tend to regard both_and masochism as arising from childhood deprivation. （ A） attachment （ B） dis
5、tinction （ C） ingenuity （ D） sadism 10 Fear showed in the eyes of the young man, while the old man looked tired and （ A） watery （ B） wandering （ C） weary （ D） wearing 11 The clash between Real Madrid and Arsenal is being_ as the match of the season. （ A） harbinger （ B） allured （ C） congested （ D） lo
6、dged 12 What he told me was a_of downright lies. （ A） load （ B） mob （ C） pack （ D） flock 13 We regret to inform you that the materials you ordered are_. （ A） out of work （ B） out of stock （ C） out of reach （ D） out of practice 14 _I realized the consequences, I would never have contemplated getting
7、involved. （ A） Even if （ B） Had （ C） As long as （ D） If 15 They managed to_ the sound on TV every time the alleged victims name was spoken. （ A） deaden （ B） deprive （ C） punctuate （ D） rebuff 16 He had been_to appear in court on charges of incitement of lawbreaking. （ A） illuminated （ B） Summoned （
8、C） prevailed （ D） trailed 17 The computer doesnt_human thought; it reaches the same ends by different means. （ A） flunk （ B） renew （ C） succumb （ D） mimic 18 How about a glass of orange juice to_your thirst? （ A） quench （ B） quell （ C） quash （ D） quieten 19 The rain looked as if it had_for the night
9、. （ A） set off （ B） set up （ C） set out （ D） set in 20 My aunt lost her cat last summer, but it_a week later at a home in the next village. （ A） turned up （ B） turned in （ C） turned on （ D） turned out 21 As is known to all, a vague law is always_ to different interpretations. （ A） invulnerable （ B）
10、immune （ C） resistant （ D） susceptible 22 The manager_facts and figures to make it seem that the company was prosperous. （ A） beguiled （ B） besmirched （ C） juxtaposed （ D） juggled 23 To our great delight, yesterday we received a(n) _donation from a benefactor. （ A） handsome （ B） awesome （ C） miserly
11、 （ D） prodigal 24 Students who get very high marks will be_from the final examination. （ A） expelled （ B） banished （ C） absolved （ D） ousted 25 It_me that the man was not telling the truth. （ A） effects （ B） pokes （ C） hits （ D） stirs 26 John glanced at Mary to see what she thought, but she remained
12、_. （ A） manifest （ B） obnoxious （ C） inscrutable （ D） obscene 27 My neighbor tended to react in a heat and_way. （ A） impetuous （ B） impertinent （ C） imperative （ D） imperceptible 28 This morning when she was walking in the street, a black car_beside her. （ A） drew out （ B） drew off （ C） drew down （
13、D） drew up 29 She decided to keep reticent about the unpleasant past and_it to memory. （ A） attribute （ B） allude （ C） commit （ D） credit 30 It did not take long for the central bank to_their fears. （ A） soothe （ B） snub （ C） smear （ D） sanctify 二、 Reading Comprehension 30 Jean left Alice Springs on
14、 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 Central Australia, depositing small bags of mail at cattle stations and picking up cattle-men an
15、d 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 each place they would get out of the plane and drink a cup of tea and have a talk with the station
16、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 went on there. They got to Cloncurry in the evening, a fairly extensive town on a railway that ra
17、n 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 driven into town in a very old open car and deposited at the Post Office Hotel; she got a bedroom
18、 but tea was over, and she had to go down the wide, dusty main street to a cafe for her evening meal. Cloncurry, she found, had none of the clean attractiveness of Alice Springs; it was a town which smelt of cattle, with wide streets through which to drive them down to the stockyard, many hotels, an
19、d 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 service to Normanton and Willstown ran weekly on a Wednesday. She went out after breakfast while the air
20、 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 end. Then she went and had a look at the railway station, and, having seen the airfield, with tha
21、t 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 starting to warm up she went back to the hotel. She managed to borrow a copy of the Australian W
22、omens 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 of Cloncurry seemed to be doing the same thing. She felt like moving again shortly before tea and had
23、 a shower, and went out to the cafe 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 the cool of the evening, and went to bed again at about eight ocock. She was called before daybreak, and
24、was out at the airfield with the first light. 31 When Jean had to leave Alice Springs, she_. （ A） wished she could have stayed lodger （ B） regretted she had decided to fly （ C） wasnt looking forward to flying all day （ D） wished it had not been a Monday morning 32 How did Jean get some idea of Austr
25、alian cattle station? （ A） She learnt about them at first hand. （ B） She learnt about them from friends. （ C） She visited them weekly. （ D） She stayed on one for a week. 33 Jeans main complaint about Cloncurry in comparison with Alice Springs, was （ A） the width of the main street （ B） the poor serv
26、ice at the hotel （ C） the poor-looking buildings （ D） the smell of cows 34 For her evening meal on the second day Jean had_. （ A） only an ice-cream （ B） a lot of cooked food （ C） some cold beer （ D） a cooling, but non-alcoholic drink 35 Jean left Cloncurry_. （ A） early on Wednesday morning （ B） late
27、 on Tuesday evening （ C） after breakfast on Tuesday （ D） before breakfast on Tuesday 35 It 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 pain became bearable, and he ga
28、thered 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 parachute, cutting the short twigs that
29、 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 began to make his way downhill
30、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 meant taking more steps but less
31、 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 winter air to welcome the morni
32、ng. “I cant go no further,“ John Harding thought. “Someone is bound to find me, but what cant I do? I must get a rest before I go on. Therll look for me first up there on the mountain where the plane crashed. I bet theyre out looking for it already and theyre bound to find the parachute in the end.
33、I cant believe they wont. So theyll know Im not dead and must be somewhere. Theyll think Im hiding up there in the trees and rocks so theyll look for me, so Ill go down to the village. With luck by the evening my foot will be good enough to get me to the border. “ Far above him on the mountainside h
34、e 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, and he struggled along, still almost invisible in the first light, easing his aching foot when
35、ever 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 do. Instead, he limped along its walls towards a very old building standing a short distanc
36、e 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 arid slipped inside. 36 It is known from the passage that John Harding was_. （ A） an escaped priso
37、ner （ B） a criminal on the run from the police （ C） an airman who had landed in an enemy country area （ D） a spy who had been hiding in the forest 37 John Harding found it hard to hide his parachute because_. （ A） he got his ankle twisted severely （ B） the trees did not give very good cover （ C） the
38、 earth was not soft and there was little light （ D） the pine needles lay too thick on the ground 38 In spite of his bad ankle John Harding was able to_. （ A） carry on walking fairly rapidly （ B） walk in a direction that was less steep （ C） bear the pain without changing direction （ D） find out where
39、 he had landed 39 When John Harding got out of the forest he saw that_. （ A） it was beginning to get much lighter （ B） washing was hanging on the lines in the village （ C） the fields were full of sleeping cows （ D） some trees had been cleared near the village 40 John Harding decided to go down to th
40、e village_. （ A） to find a doctor to see to his ankle （ B） to be near the frontier （ C） to avoid the search party （ D） to find shelter in a building 40 A trade group for liquor retailers put out a press release with an alarming headline; “Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveal
41、s. “ The announcement, from the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America received wide media attention. On NBCs 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 think
42、 they can easily do it and nearly half think they wont get caught. “ Several newspapers mentioned the study, including USA Today and the Record of New Jersey. The news even made Australias Gold Coast Bulletin. Are millions of kids really buying booze online? To arrive at that jarring headline, the g
43、roup 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 members are lo
44、cal distributors who compete with online liquor sellers. Some of the news coverage pointed out that conflict of interest, though reports didnt delve more deeply into how the numbers were computed. The Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America hired Teenage Research Unlimited, a research company, to de
45、sign 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 20 in an online survey. Luth gets people to participate in its surveys in part by advertising them online and offering small cash awards typically les
46、s 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. ) Its safe to say that kid
47、s who use the internet regularly are more likely to shop online than those who dont. 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, the survey found t
48、hat, after weighting, just 2. 1 points of the 1,001 respondents bought alcohol online compared, 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 internet and not just those with the time
49、 and inclination to participate in online surveys the 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 respondents if they knew a teen who had purchased alcohol online. Some 12 points said they did. Of cour
