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中南大学 2008 年博士研究生入学考试英语试题
Paper One
Part Ⅰ Using of English (20%)
Section One Vocabulary and Structure (10%)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four
choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet by blackening it with a pencil.
1. No agreement was reached in the discussion as neither side would give way to ______.
A. the other B. any other C. another D. other
2. I haven’t got the ______idea of what you mean. Would you please make it clear to me?
A. lightest B. furthest C. smallest D. faintest
3. It’s no good ______ until I’m reasonably sure when I’ll be able to go for my holiday.
A. deciding B. to decide C. to have decided D. being decided
4. The chimney is no longer ______ volumes of waste gas into atmosphere, as protective filters
are being used.
A. giving away B. giving off C. giving in D. giving up
5. Since you need to catch an early train tomorrow morning, we ______ now.
A. might as well leave B. ought to have left
C. should have left D. could have left
6. The economic stability of nations and continents is often affected by the abundance or ______of
natural resources.
A. force B. condensation C. rainfall D. dearth
7. He was always ill for a time, but he managed to _______.
A. pull on B. full in C. full up D. pull through
8. Politics, because of its overemphasis of expediency, often places candidates in the ______
position of supporting candidates they had attacked only months before.
A. anomalous B. strategic C. embarrassing D. piquant
9. When the whole area was ______by flood, the government sent food there by helicopter.
A. cut away B. cut down C. cut up D. cut off
10. Any public officer who allows bribery to flourish should be subject to ______.
A. vagary B. stricture C. apologue D. machination
11. There was a period of ______prior to their divorce, during which she went for a trip around the
country and he stayed at tome.
A. frivolity B. estrangement C. transmigration D. machination
12. It was not until she had arrived home ______remembered her appointment with the doctor.
A. when she B. that she C. and she D. she
13. ______, there is no place like home, wherever you go.
A. Humble it may be B. Humble as it may be
C. It may be humble D. As humble it may be
14. That trumpet player was certainly loud, but I wasn’t bothered by his loudness ______by his
lack of talent.
A. so much as B. rather than C. as D. than
15. If not ______with the respect he feels due to him, Jack gets very ill-tempered and grumbles all
the time.
A. being treated B. be treated C. treated D. having been treated
16. When the mind imagines things which ______or hinder the power of acting of the body, it
endeavors as much as it can to remember things which will cut off their existence.
A. diminish B. portray C. default D. affront
17. The less the surface of the ground yields to the weight of a fully-loaded truck, ______to the
truck.
A. the greater the stress B. the greater stress is
C. the stress is greater D. greater is the stress
18. As my exams are coming next weed, I’ll take advantage of the weekend to ______on some
reading.
A. catch up B. clear up C. make up D. pick up
19. All the rooms on the second floor have nicely ______carpets, which are included in the price
of the house.
A. adapted B. equipped C. suited D. fitted
20. It was suggested that all government ministers should ______information on their financial
interests.
A. tell B. disclose C. discover D. uncover
Section Two Cloze Test
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the follow passage, for each blank there are four choices
marked A, B, C and D below the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the
passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet by blackening is with a pencil.
Space shuttle Endeavour pulled up to the international space station and docked Wednesday,
kicking off almost two weeks of demanding construction work.
Before the late-night linkup, Endeavour’s commander, Dominic Gone, ___(21)___the shuttle
through a 360-degree back flip to allow for full photographic surveillance.
It’s one of the many safety-related ___(22)___put in place following the Columbia tragedy in
2003.
The space ___(23)___crew used cameras with high-powered zoom lenses to photograph
Endeavour ___(24)___nose to tail, especially all the thermal tiles on ___(25)___belly. The
pictures-as many as 300-will be scrutinized by ___(26)___on the ground to see whether the shuttle
suffered any damage ___(27)___Tuesday’s launch.
Something maybe a bird, may have struck Endeavour’s nose ___(28)___or ten seconds after
liftoff the launch images are inconclusive so ___(29) ___. NASA expects that images collected
during the astronauts’ laser inspection of the nose and wings will reveal any damage, if it’s there.
LeRoy Cain, chairman of the mission ___(30)___team, said the launch video suggests to
some that Endeavour’s nose took a hit, Still photos, on the other hand, show no impact.
＂It’s too early to speculate,＂Cain said late Wednesday afternoon.＂The ___(31)___has got
a lot of work to do on that as well as other debris items.＂
Also, right at liftoff, something ___(32)___to fall off the tail end of the shuttle , possibly part
of a thermal tile. Later, at the 83-second mark, a piece of debris, ___(33)___fuel-tank foam,
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