1、2007年中国社科院考博英语真题试卷及答案解析(总分：136.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Structure and Vocabu(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.The public might well sanction a wider range of programming than would strictly be implied by the “gap-filling “approach, but this is not certain.（分数：2.00）A.viewB.approveC.coerceD.insist2.Petrazzinis main concern i
2、s not so much cultural homogenization associated with the spread of the Internet, but an exacerbation of the gap between young and old and between spread of the Internet（分数：2.00）A.uniformityB.discrepancyC.conventionD.distinction.3.The history helps explain the vexing dispute between the European Uni
3、on and the United States over the greatest threat to privacy yet conceived:the hundreds of millions of personal dossiers in computerized and networked databases.（分数：2.00）A.troublesomeB.astonishingC.everlastingD.conflicting4.There were not personal goals.no desire to get ahead or to leave something b
4、ehind. There were only Gods decrees to be faithfully carried out（分数：2.00）A.ordersB.petitionsC.prophetsD.queries5.Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London-based creative and development team, came up with an “edgy “Volkswagen spot for a demo: a terrorist tries to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded caf.（分
5、数：2.00）A.igniteB.stainC.impedeD.ascribe6.The music indicates the way in which Mozart was developing his ideas in 1773 as he attempted to shake off his reputation as a child prodigy and be taken seriously as a composer.（分数：2.00）A.bedlamiteB.betrayerC.geniusD.jailor7.Kelly fought depression, her siste
6、r struggled against violent tendencies, and their only physical touches theyd ever known from their parents were abusive .（分数：2.00）A.cordialB.fastidiousC.sadisticD.absurd8.Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like You Tube or Google Vides.and youll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plan
7、e crashes, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things.（分数：2.00）A.elegantB.fraternalC.franticD.bizarre9.There were still a few surprises, as a squeal here and there in the dark announced, but we did learn to “see with our feet“lessons in trail Braille.（分数：2.00）A.divergenceB.screamC.gradat
8、ionD.strand10.He hasnt analyzed why he tips so generously, but I think the proclivity stems from his high school years, when he worked as a busboy.（分数：2.00）A.predilectionB.prosperityC.premeditationD.preamble11.In a competitive and fast-paced modern society, busy business executives are so_their work
9、 that they hardly know what the word leisure means.（分数：2.00）A.engrossed inB.exempt fromC.skeptical ofD.extraneous to12.But the depth of a novel and the value of its artistic and ideological feature do not depend on the theme-either_or significant（分数：2.00）A.versatileB.trivialC.preliminaryD.alternate1
10、3.It is always_in some ways, because if it were performed as a primitive fending-off or covering-up action, it would obviously be too transparent（分数：2.00）A.scrupulousB.clamorousC.intrinsicD.camouflaged14.She often remains coldly remote from him;probably his badly scarred face produced an involuntary
11、 feeling of_, in his neighbor.（分数：2.00）A.discordanceB.deliberationC.perversityD.repulsion15.For us it is a big and dark secret;to_it would be to jeopardize our future, confessed an avi-aphobe who is currently undergoing therapy.（分数：2.00）A.divulgeB.recallC.retainD.duplicate16.The charitable acts of t
12、heir boss used to be greatly praised by the people. However, ruthless company downsizing drives and continued layoffs, coupled with rising pay for top managers, have made him look a good deal less_.（分数：2.00）A.discourteousB.prudentC.benevolentD.obstinate17.Most of us go through life adding_to knowled
13、ge, polishing a concept here or there, doing an experiment, contributing a few leavesor, if we are lucky, a twigto the tree of knowledge.（分数：2.00）A.impartiallyB.impassablyC.incrementallyD.melodiously18.The only way he could do it-and by “it“ he means achieving the level of fame enjoyed by Martin, wh
14、o is so famous that his infant daughter, Apple, is better known than the rest of Coldplay combinedis by getting into some kind of trouble, and it could only be infamy, which is of course, _.（分数：2.00）A.preposterousB.preludialC.preciseD.preponderant19.So the most_ scientist alive at that time who symb
15、olized the height of human intellect adopted what became his last message-this manifesto, which implored governments and the public not to allow our civilization to be destroyed by human folly.（分数：2.00）A.fastidiousB.eminentC.anonymousD.waggish20.The novel will be read a long time for its minute and
16、almost uncanny insight into army life, its_dialogue, its sheer narrative pull, its portrayal of the tenderness that sometimes is found beneath the crudest animal drives, its absence of mock heroics, its comic absurdities and irony and, above all else, its revelation of the perversity of human nature
17、 in the face of evil.（分数：2.00）A.pungentB.notoriousC.anticlimacticD.shaky二、Grammar(总题数：20，分数：40.00)21.The police kept asking me to repeat the story of how I found the scroll, and they kept telling me that I was changing it and tripping me_.（分数：2.00）A.forB.onC.upD.in22.The budget crunch has put extra
18、pressure on nearly everyone at this storied campusbesieged administrators _to lure minority applicants, students frantically_money to cover fee hikes, department heads trying to staunch a faculty brain drain and office staffers worried that a stalemate in Sacramento means no money for the mortgage a
19、t home.（分数：2.00）A.to struggle, to seekB.struggled, soughtC.struggle, seekD.struggling, seeking23.If youre a regular reader of blogs.or indeed of any kind of news website, youve probably been frustrated from time to time by information overload: the blogosphere creates_material for any human being to
20、 comfortably_.（分数：2.00）A.too much, digestB.not much, digestC.too little.be digestedD.not much.be digested24.When deposits are federally insured, people no longer rush to withdraw their money if they_the financial condition of their bank.（分数：2.00）A.become concerned aboutB.become concerned withC.becom
21、e concerned inD.concern25.Over and over in War of the Worlds, he evokes the sensation, more familiar from dreams than movies, _an otherworldly entity, glimpsed from a great distance, _suddenly, violently clawing its way into your personal space.（分数：2.00）A.that, isB.is, whichC.that, beingD.which, bei
22、ng26.As the generations progress, feather length will increase because females do not prefer a specific length tail, but a longer-than-average tall. Eventually tail length will increase to the point_the liability survival is matched by the sexual attractiveness of the trait and an equilibrium will b
23、e established.（分数：2.00）A.thatB.whereC.whichD./27.Never far from positions of influence, wealthier from his broadcasting activities_the biggest moguls, he is in many ways on the edge of things.（分数：2.00）A.than all butB.as all butC.but than allD.but as all28._a rigid, unidirectional mode of demystifica
24、tion which saw all such other modes as subsidiary and peripheral, it began to see all alternatives to its mode of demystification as conspiracies against human good.（分数：2.00）A.Modern science not only gradually developsB.Not only did modem science gradually developC.Now that modem science gradually d
25、evelopedD.Only did modem science develop29.One theory is that too much vitamin E_bleeding risk, which would_the risk of a type of Stroke, while another theory suggests that at high doses vitamin E stops working like an antioxidant, removing harmful molecules in the body, and instead becomes a pro-ox
26、idant, actually promoting the production of harmful molecules,（分数：2.00）A.decreases, decreaseB.increases, increaseC.decreases, increaseD.increases, decrease30.Nor, indeed, do all these guardians of tradition have to exert much pressure on the principal players, since the expectations of their social
27、world have long ago been built into their own projections of the future they want precisely_society expects of them.（分数：2.00）A.that whichB.thatC.whichD.what that31.The repetitions that concern Domhoff A(pertains) largely to repetitions within an individuals dream history. But there is B(a sense in w
28、hich) all dreamers dream C(each others dreams) in the form of so-called universal dreams, which are D(the equivalent of) literary archetypes.（分数：2.00）_32.The Nature commentary says scientists working on aging now have to A(take into account the) prospect that B(“drug-related approaches) to C(interfe
29、re with) this process may come at a pricethe disruption of our natural mechanism for D(keeping cancer to bay). “（分数：2.00）_33.The work confirms hints A(that) had already been emerging in the scientific literature in recent years that p53 and related proteins might play an important role in life, but
30、the new paper is B(far more detailed)and, scifientists say, more compellingC(that) anything D(published previously).（分数：2.00）_34.A(For) all the fretting about outsourcing and B(trade deficits) in the United States, MTV offers a C(highly-end) case study in how to export what seems, at first glance, t
31、o be D(a uniquely American brand.)（分数：2.00）_35.The trend to A(empty a library) is being B(driven), academicians and librarians say, by the C(dwindling) need for undergraduate libraries, D(many of them) were built when leading research libraries were reserved for graduate students and faculty.（分数：2.0
32、0）_36.Dr. ElBaradei said his hope is that the Nobel Peace Prize will A(serve to help) the internationalcommnunity and to achieve the goal of developing a functional system of global security that does not B(derive from) C(a nuclear weap ons deterrent), D(would rather) based on addressing the securit
33、y concerns of all people.（分数：2.00）_37.DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world A(has ever known), exposed natures vulnera-bility. Unlike most pesticides, B(whose effectiveness is) C(limited to destroy) one or two types of insects, DDT D(is capable of killing) hundreds of different kinds at once.（分
34、数：2.00）_38.For it is “everybody“ , a whole society, A(which), has identified B(being) feminine with C(caring about) how one looks. D(Given) these-stereotypes, it is no wonder that beauty enjoys, at best, a rather mixed reputation.（分数：2.00）_39.The research also raises the possibility that younger peo
35、ple A(treat) successfully for cancer B(with chemotherapy) may be C(subject to) premature aging later in life, a possibility that has D(never been) rigorously examined.（分数：2.00）_40.We peer out beyond our world to glimpse objects that lie A(at the very edge of) the universe, B(stars teetering tantaliz
36、ingly) on the beginning of time. We peer inward to our own genome, swiftly unraveling the puzzle of C(what tiny bit of) chemical code D(manifests themselves as)appearance, ten-dency, advantage and liability in the marvelous human creature.（分数：2.00）_三、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：4，分数：40.00)I have observ
37、ed that the Americans show a less decided taste for general ideas than the French. This is especially true in politics. Although the Americans infuse into their legislation far more general ideas than the English, and although they strive more than the latter to adjust the practice of affairs to the
38、ory.no political bodies in the U-nited States have ever shown so much love for general ideas as the Constituent Assembly and the Convention in France. At no time has the American people laid hold on ideas of this kind with the passionate energy of the French people in the eighteenth century, or disp
39、layed the same blind confidence in the value and absolute truth of any theory. This difference between the Americans and the French originates in several causes, but principally in the following one. The Americans are a democratic people who have, always directed public affairs themselves. The Frenc
40、h are a democratic people who for a long time could only speculate on the best manner of conducting them. The social condition of the French led them to conceive very general ideas on the subject of government, while their political constitution prevented them from correcting those ideas by experime
41、nt and from gradually detecting their insufficiency; whereas in America the two things constantly balance and correct each other. It may seem at first sight that this is very much opposed to what I have said before, that democratic nations derive their love of theory from the very excitement of thei
42、r active life. A more attentive-examination will show that there is nothing contradictory in the proposition. Men living in democratic countries eagerly lay hold of general ideas because they have but little leisure and because these ideas spare them the trouble of studying particulars. This is true
43、, but it is only to be understood of those matters which are not the necessary and habitual subjects of their thoughts. Mercantile men will take up very eagerly, and without any close scrutiny, all the general ideas on philosophy, politics, science, or the arts which may be presented to them;but for
44、 such as relate to commerce, they will not receive them with-out inquiry or adopt them without reserve. The same thing applies to statesman with regard to general ideas in politics. If, then, there is a subject upon which a democratic people is peculiarly liable to abandon itself, blindly and extrav
45、agantly, to general ideas, the best corrective that can be used will be to make that subject a part of their daily practical occupation. They will then be compelled to enter into details, and the details will teach them the weak points of the theory. This remedy may frequently be a painful one, but
46、its effect is certain. Thus it happens that the democratic institutions which compel every citizen to take a practical part in the government moderate that excessive taste for general theories in polities which the principle of equality suggests.（分数：10.00）(1).According to the writer, what kinds of ideas have been favored by the French people?（分数：2.00）A.Political ideas that can be adjusted to the practice of governmentB.Concrete ideas that they believe to be truthful.C
