1、考博英语-59 (1)及答案解析(总分：93.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Vocabula(总题数：20，分数：20.00)1.One of the consequences of advanced cognitive ability has been the emergence of cultural life.（分数：1.00）A.commendableB.compilingC.perceptiveD.pertinent2.A goal of modern dance often is to express the dancers innermost feelings an
2、d emotions.（分数：1.00）A.most originalB.most personalC.most selfishD.most enchanting3.He made a dispatch for a specific purpose.（分数：1.00）A.expeditionB.punchC.declarationD.raid4.He tried but failed in his attempt to avoid being prosecuted by practicing bribery.（分数：1.00）A.sentenced byB.accused ofC.condem
3、ned ofD.blamed for5.The group is dedicated to preventing the PLO from entering peace negotiations with Jordan.（分数：1.00）A.contributedB.cementedC.devotedD.dispatched6.The Pakistan government is leaning on the Taliban government to hand over Osama to save this entire region from catastrophe.（分数：1.00）A.
4、unhappinessB.disasterC.depressionD.tragedy7.There is a large joint programme of development among leading US computer companies, and IBM, though it says nothing, may well have the biggest programme of all.（分数：1.00）A.prosecutedB.consolidatedC.unifiedD.boosted8.The freshmen will be notified regarding
5、the college placement examination.（分数：1.00）A.condonedB.informedC.emulatedD.deformed9.The severance of church and state is a basic principle of our government.（分数：1.00）A.integrationB.discriminationC.separationD.exposition10.My landlady is always trying to meddle in everything we do.（分数：1.00）A.interfe
6、reB.intrudeC.orderD.encase11.Hardy was stimulated by the sights, sounds and smells about him; he was enjoying his sensuous experience.（分数：1.00）A.sensationalB.sentimentalC.sensitiveD.sensible12.The ongoing negotiation relied on unorthodox channels, avoiding the dull State Department, which he disdain
7、ed.（分数：1.00）A.respectedB.neglectedC.deniedD.despised13.Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile side walk trees gamely straggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes.（分数：1.00）A.turns toB.gives way toC.recedes toD.gets back to14.His company empowered the young engine
8、er to negotiate the contract to be signed with the American Microsoft.（分数：1.00）A.enforcedB.strengthenedC.orderedD.authorized15.I wish I could report a dazzling success but in fact it does not quite come off. I dont think I may live up for my fathers expectation.（分数：1.00）A.come on timeB.go off wellC.
9、appear properlyD.boil down to16.The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight and did nothing to help the drowning child.（分数：1.00）A.pitiableB.unreasonableC.depressingD.immoral17.Some corpses were so badly dismembered that they couldnt be identified as men or women.（分数：1.00）A.dismissedB.sev
10、eredC.dispersedD.disposed18.The idea of time is incorporated in all languages of the world.（分数：1.00）A.assignedB.containedC.indicatedD.evidenced19.Nail polish is made from cellulose lacquer, and opaque nail polish can be made by adding titanium oxide.（分数：1.00）A.varnishB.waxC.resinD.tallow20.With the
11、development of sophisticate instruments, earthquake will become predictable.（分数：1.00）A.advancedB.delicateC.dedicatedD.difficult二、BSection B/B(总题数：20，分数：20.00)21.My grandmother _ the photographs of her two grandchildren.（分数：1.00）A.comprisesB.treasuresC.offendsD.notarizes22.Profit sharing is a good _
12、for employees.（分数：1.00）A.treatmentB.experimentC.incentiveD.reinforce23.His fellow workers like and respect him because he is a man of _.（分数：1.00）A.sincerityB.injusticeC.inquiryD.hostility24.The doctor said, “Im going to _ a course of treatment for you.“（分数：1.00）A.disposeB.hypothesizeC.manipulateD.pr
13、escribe25.I hope my students will allow a _ for error correction.（分数：1.00）A.quotaB.marginC.burialD.fringe26.For the cast of this mighty epic, Vidal _ his brilliant family and social connections, which included Mary Pick ford, Marion Davies and throngs for the political world.（分数：1.00）A.drew offB.dre
14、w outC.drew upD.drew on27.In view of the depression of the national economy, there are plans to _, a much greater harvest from the timber resource.（分数：1.00）A.excelB.expelC.expireD.extract28.If the world was really like what the figure pictures, then each individual today would have only one _ a hund
15、red or a million generation.（分数：1.00）A.manufacturerB.offspringC.descendantD.ancestor29.Many people nowadays _ an oath that he will never get married.（分数：1.00）A.quoteB.swearC.declareD.claim30.Social workers often use _ in their research.（分数：1.00）A.fraudsB.narrationsC.refutationsD.questionnaire31.The
16、World War II ended during Trumans _.（分数：1.00）A.PresidencyB.successionC.realmD.duration32.Eventually the rarer genes will disappear and the genetic types, _ leaving fewer offspring will become.（分数：1.00）A.extinguishedB.extraordinaryC.extinctD.extreme33.We finish this chapter by giving you examples of
17、nutritious, well balanced easy meals. These are not at all original or _ but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat.（分数：1.00）A.exoticB.majesticC.weirdD.provincial34.He went on to say that he would go to his hometown in _ of peace.（分数：1.00）A.questB.allowanceC.thirstD.greed35.Th
18、e spokes in a bicycle wheel are arranged in a _ pattern.（分数：1.00）A.radialB.radicalC.sphericalD.spiral36.His voice _ his Welsh origins though he has been living in New York for 25 years.（分数：1.00）A.preservesB.mufflesC.monitorsD.betrays37.A diet of _ food is served to every hospital patient.（分数：1.00）A.
19、filthyB.clinicalC.nourishingD.stuffy38.At that time the earnings of the boxers were _ and they could make money for their followers as well.（分数：1.00）A.faintB.fabricC.fragileD.fabulous39._ metal ran out of the furnace.（分数：1.00）A.MoltenB.GradedC.WeldedD.Consolidated40.He might cheat his friends in a c
20、heap card game, but he remains basically _ in his business dealings.（分数：1.00）A.suspiciousB.sophisticatedC.straightforwardD.shrewd三、BPart Cloze/(总题数：1，分数：20.00)BDirections:/B There are 20 masks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices mailed A, B, C and D at the end of the pas
21、sage. You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.Motorways are, no doubt the safest roads in Britain. Mile U(41) /U mile, vehicle for vehicle, you are much U(42) /U likely to be killed or seriously injured than on an ordin
22、ary road. On U(43) /U hand, if you do have a serious accident on a motorway, fatalities are much more likely to U(44) /U than in a comparable accident U(45) /U on the roads.Motorways have no U(46) /U bends, no roundabouts or traffic lights and U(47) /U speeds are much greater than on other roads. Th
23、ough the 70 mph limit is U(48) /U in force, it is often treated with the contempt that most drivers have for the 30 mph limit applying in built up areas in Britain. Added to this is the fact that motorway drivers seem to like traveling in groups with perhaps U(49) /U ten metres between each vehicle.
24、 The resulting horrific pile-ups U(50) /U vehicle stops for some reason mechanical failure, driver error and so on have become all U(51) /U familiar through pictures in newspapers or on television. How U(52) /U of these drivers realize that it takes a car about one hundred metres to brake to a stop
25、U(53) /U 70 mph? Drivers also seem to think that motorway driving gives them complete protection from the changing weather. U(54) /U wet the road, whatever the visibility in mist or fog, on they U(55) /U at ridiculous speeds oblivious of police warnings or speed restrictions U(56) /U their journey c
26、omes to a conclusion. Perhaps one remedy U(57) /U this motorway madness would be better driver education. At present, learner drivers are bared U(58) /U motorways and are thus as far as this kind of driving is U(59) /U thrown in at the deep end. However, much more efficient policing is required, U(6
27、0) /U it is the duty of the police not only to enforce the law but also to protect the general public from its own foolishness.（分数：20.00）A.forB.afterC.toD.byA.moreB.farC.lessD.lesserA.anotherB.otherC.oneD.the otherA.come upB.occurC.be foundD.ariseA.everywhereB.elsewhereC.anywhereD.somewhereA.pointed
28、B.steepC.verticalD.sharpA.thusB.thenC.soD.thereuponA.yetB.evenC.stillD.subsequentlyA.utterlyB.simplyC.barelyD.purelyA.becauseB.sinceC.whenD.forA.tooB.alsoC.undulyD.unreasonablyA.manyB.muchC.deeplyD.profoundlyA.toB.fromC.atD.forA.WhateverB.HoweverC.WhoeverD.HowA.pushB.rakeC.tillD.ploughA.unlessB.befo
29、reC.thusD.untilA.toB.forC.ofD.onA.fromB.againstC.awayD.offA.relatedB.consideredC.concernedD.touchedA.butB.thenC.themD.for四、BPart Reading (总题数：4，分数：20.00)BDirections:/B There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are f
30、our choices marked A, B, C. and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.BPassage One/BThe mid-sixties saw the start of a project that, along with other similar research, was to teach us a great deal about the chimpanzee mi
31、nd. This was project Washoe, conceived by Trixie and Allen Gardner. They purchased an infant chimpanzee and began to teach her the signs of ASL, the American Sign Language used by the deaf. Twenty years earlier another husband and wife team, Richard and Cathy Hayes, had tried, with an almost total l
32、ack of success, to teach a young chimp, Vikki, to talk. The Hayess undertaking taught us a test about the chimpanzee mind, but Vikki, although she did well in IQ tests, and was clearly an intelligent youngster, could not learn human speech. The Gardners, however, achieved spectacular success with th
33、eir pupil, Washoe. Not only did she learn signs easily, but she quickly began to string them together in meaningful ways. It was clear that each sign evoked, in her mind, a mental image of the object it represented. If, for example, she was asked, in sign language, to fetch an apple, she would go an
34、d locate an apple that was out of sight in another room.Other chimps entered the project, some starting their lives in deaf signing families before joining Washoe. And finally Washoe adopted an infant, Loulis. He came from a lab where no thought of teaching signs had ever penetrated. When he was wit
35、h Washoe he was given no lessons in language acquisition-not by humans, anyway. Yet by the time“ he was eight years old. he had made fifty-eight signs in their correct contexts. How did he learn them? Mostly, it seems, by imitating the behavior of Washoe and the other three signing chimps, Dar, Moja
36、 and Tam. Sometimes, though, he received tuition from Washoe herself. One day, for example, she began to swagger about bipedally, hair bristling, signing food! food! food! in great excitement. She had seen a human approaching with a bar of chocolate. Loulis, only eighteen months old, watched passive
37、ly. Suddenly Washoe stopped her swaggering, went over to him, took his hand, and moulded the sign for food (fingers pointing towards mouth). Another time, in a similar context, she made the sign for chewing gum, but with her hand on his body. On a third occasion Washoe picked up a small chair, took
38、it over to Loulis, set it down in front of him, and very distinctly made the chair sign three times, watching him closely as she did so. The two food signs became incorporated into Louliss vocabulary but the sign for chair did not. Obviously the priorities of a young chimp are similar to those of a
39、human child!Chimpanzees who have been taught a language can combine signs creatively in order to describe objects for which they have no symbol. Washoe, for example, puzzled her caretakers by asking, repeatedly, for a rock berry. Eventually it transpired that she was referring to brazil nuts which s
40、he had encountered for the first time a while before. Another language- trained chimp described a cucumber as a green banana. They can even invent signs. Lucy, as she got older, had to be put on a leash for her outings. One day, eager to set off but having no sign for leash, she signaled her wishes
41、by holding a crooked index finger to the ring on her collar. This sign became part of her vocabulary.（分数：5.00）(1).The example of Washoe being sent to fetch an apple which is in another room indicates that _.（分数：1.00）A.chimps may have more than one way to fetch foodB.chimps can associate one sign wit
42、h another in a meaningful wayC.chimps can learn the signs of ASL, the American Sign Language used by the deafD.chimps have their particular ways for finding what they want(2).The main idea of Paragraph 2 can be summarized as:（分数：1.00）A.chimps can also be taught to imitate their eldersB.like human be
43、ings, chimps can also learn some sign language through self-taughtC.young chimps can be clever enough to watch and learnD.a young chimp is similar to a human child in intelligence development to know the nature of some objects(3).The word transpire in Paragraph 3 can probably mean _.（分数：1.00）A.it tu
44、rned out thatB.it transformed thatC.it seemed thatD.it made clear that(4).From what is said in the passage we can conclude that _.（分数：1.00）A.some animals do have intelligence to some extentB.chimps can be taught to use human language if enough time is givenC.chimps can even geese some particular sig
45、ns to express what they wantD.chimps can be as creative as human beings(5).The best title of this passage can be:（分数：1.00）A.Some New Research Findings on the Chimpanzee MindB.Chimpanzee Can Be Much More Intelligent and Creative than We Had ExpectedC.Chimpanzee and Sign LanguageD.Chimpanzees Are Prov
46、ed to Be Closer to Human Beings in Language LearningBPassage Two/BThe Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, announced here today that a delegation of Pakistani officials would fly to the Talibans headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Monday to renew demands that the militia surr
47、ender Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden.U. S. officials have named bin Laden, who has been given shelter by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, as the prime suspect in Tuesdays terrorist attacks in Washington and New York.“We are aware of the gravity of the situation and know that in the lives of, natio
48、ns, such situations do arise that require making important decisions,“ Musharraf said at a meeting with Pakistani newspaper editors.The Talibans leader, Mohammad Omar, has refused to give up bin Laden, claiming he is not responsible for the U. S. attacks.“The Pakistan government is leaning on the Taliban government to hand over Osama to save this entire region from catastrophe,“ said Najam Sethi, editor of the weekly newspaper Friday Times, who participated in the meeting with Musharraf. “I am not sure whether there is much chance of that happe
