1、考博英语-605 及答案解析(总分：130.52，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Vocabulary(总题数：30，分数：24.50)1.Some _ good luck brought us nothing but trouble. A) seemingly B) satisfactorily C) uniformly D) universally（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.2.It is thus of exceptional importance _ extinction theories, but until now problems with dating have li
2、mited its potential.A for a testing purpose on B as a testing reason inC as a testing ground for D for some useful ends of（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.3.The attack of the World Trade Center will leave a _ impression on those who have witnessed the explosion.A. long B. forever C. lasting D. lively（分数：1.00）A.B.C.
3、D.4.Public works projects have not significantly _ the unemployment situation.A. facilitated B. mollified C. softened D. alleviated（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.5.I was deeply impressed by the hostess _ and enjoyed the dinner party very much.A hostility B indignation C hospitality D humanity（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.6.Th
4、e police _ to emergencies in just a few minutes when the accident happened.A. responded B. replied C. adjusted D. appealed（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.7.Fear of pirate _ led the French to fortify their coastline.A. excursions B. incursions C. transmigrations D. transmogrifications（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.8.There was to
5、 be more use, where necessary and if carefully monitored, of _ capital re- sources drawn from international institutions such as the World Bank.A. complementary B. compulsoryC. supplementary D. compensatory（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.9.It is (raining hard) outside. (Havent) you (taken) an umbrella (with you)?A
6、. raining hard B. Havent C. taken D. with you（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.10.Had the explosion broken out, the passengers in the plane should have been killed, for it was _ timed with the planes take-off.A. spontaneously B. instantaneously C. simultaneously D. conscientiously（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.11.Dominic, the mos
7、t _ pupil in class, will go to Harvard to study this September.A. indigenous B. indiscreet C. indulgent D. industrious（分数：1.50）A.B.C.D.12.In some cities of North China, the noise pollution is as pronounced as that in Tokyo.A. contemptuous B. contagious C. conspicuous D. contemplated（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.
8、13.There is a sale at Hamfridges next week with _ in all departments.A. decreases B. subtractions C. reductions D. accounts（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.14.All the commodities sold in that shop are given one years _.A. assurance B. warrant C. guarantee D. insurance（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.15.She wanted desperately to tu
9、rn the flower-painted china _ on the apple-green door, and go through, but somehow she could not.A. frame B. pole C. pan D. knob（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.16.And (so early) every morning (therefore), but not before the infant (bathed), (did she betake) herself to the outhouse.A. so early B. therefore C. bathe
10、d D. did she betake（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.17.Customer service stands out as the area where WestNet falls most behind, with 43.8 percent of its users in the survey saying “its security does not come_“.A. up to scratch B. up in the air C. up to date D. up to the minute（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.18.In that country, a
11、person who marries before legal age must have a parents _ to obtain a license.A. sanction B. warrant C. malignance D. affirmation（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.19._popularity of subject matter and frequency of use, the books on the two middle shelves will be the most helpful to you.A. As of B. As regards C. As fr
12、om D. As against（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.20.The doctor promised that this medicine would _ the pain in the stomach.A. affirm B. agitate C. alleviate D. allocate（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.21.An outside adviser has been brought in to _ the dispute between the management and the union.A. arbitrate B. legitimize C. lug D
13、. earmark（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.22.Our corporations obligation under this_is limited to repair or replacement.A. warranty B. license C. market D. necessity（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.23.The work is not very profitable _ cash, but I am getting valuable experience from it.A. in the light of B. according toC. on the ba
14、sis of D. in terms of（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.24.When solid changes to liquid, it _ heat from all substances near it and this reduces the temperature surrounding it.A. takes in B. takes onC. takes off D. takes down（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.25.The flowers in the vase _ because they had no water.A. withered B. wrinkle
15、d C. ripened D. prospered（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.26.In mathematics the term “solid“ describes a geometric figure with three dimensions.A. angle B. shape C. triangle D. equation（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.27.Her government, by its clear _ with many previous policies, has placed a double strain on the traditional relat
16、ionship.A. shatter B. rupture C. breach D. collapse（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.28.The manager tried to wave aside these issues as _ details that would be settled later.A. alternate B. trivial C. versatile D. preliminary（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.29.They are both very determined people, so there s rather a _ of personali
17、ties.A. debate B. disagreement C. contest D. clash（分数：1.00）A.B.C.D.30.After thirty years of television, people have become “speed watchers“. Consequently, if the camera lingers, the interest of the audience _.A. broadens B. begins C. varies D. flags（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.二、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00
18、)三、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：28.00)In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men.Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women. A man s secretary became his personal ser
19、vant, charged with remembering his wife s birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry-cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand.Now all this may be changing again. The microchip a
20、nd high technology is sweeping the British office, taking with it much of the routine clerical work that secretaries did.“Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work and then men will want to do it again.“That
21、was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way in the US. One girl described to me a recent temporary job placing men in secretarial jobs in San Francisco. She noted that all the men she dealt with appea
22、red to be gay so possibly that is just a new twist to the old story.Over here, though, there are men coming onto the job market as secretaries. Classically, girls have learned shorthand and typing and gone into a company to seek their fortune from the bottom and that s what happened to John Bowman.
23、Although he joined a national grocery chain as secretary to its first woman senior manager, he has since been promoted to an administration job.“I filled in the application form and said I could do audio/typing, and in fact I was the only applicant. The girls were reluctant to work for this young, g
24、lamorous new woman with all this power in the firm.“I did typing at school, and then a commercial course. I just thought it would be useful finding a job. I never got any funny treatment from the girls, though I admit I ve never met another male secretary. But then I joined the Post Office as a cler
25、k and carelessly played with the typewriter, and wrote letters, and thought that after all secretaries were getting a good 1,000 a year more than clerks like me. There was a shortage at that time, you see.“It was simpler working for a woman than for a man. I found she made decisions, she told everyb
26、ody what she thought, and there was none of that male bitchiness, or that stuff ring this number for me dear, which men go in for.“Don t forget, we were a teamthats how I feel about itnot boss and servant but two people doing different things for the same purpose.“Once high technology has made the j
27、ob of secretary less routine, will there be male takeover? Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they because they are as efficient and well trained to cope with word processors and computers,
28、and men.（分数：28.00）(1).Before the first World War, female secretaries were rare because they _ .A. wore stockingsB. were not as serious as menC. were less efficient than menD. would have disturbed the other office workers（分数：5.60）A.B.C.D.(2).A secretary in the future will _ .A. be better paid B. have
29、 less work to doC. have higher status D. have more work to do（分数：5.60）A.B.C.D.(3).John Bowman was given his first job as a secretary because _ .A. he was lucky B. no one else appliedC. he had the best qualifications D. he wanted to work for a woman（分数：5.60）A.B.C.D.(4).When he was a post office clerk
30、, secretaries were better paid because _ .A. they were in shortageB. they were better trainedC. they worked longer hoursD. they had greater responsibility（分数：5.60）A.B.C.D.(5).The writer believes that before long _ .A. men and women will compete for secretarial workB. men will take over women s jobs
31、as secretariesC. women will operate most office machinesD. men will be better with machines（分数：5.60）A.B.C.D.四、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：6.00)In little religious sects, accordingly, the morals of the common people have been almost always remarkably regular and orderly; generally much more so than in the e
32、stablished church. The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial. There are two very easy and effectual remedies, however, by whose joint operation the state might, without violence, correct whatever was unsocial or disagreeably rigorous in
33、the morals of all the little sects into which the country was divided.The flint of those remedies is the study of science and philosophy, which the state might render almost universal among all people of middling or more than middling rank and fortune; not by giving salaries to teachers in order to
34、make them negligent and idle, but by instituting some sort of probation, even in the higher and more difficult sciences, to be undergone by every person before he was permitted to exercise any liberal profession, or before he could be received as a candidate for any honourable office of trust or pro
35、fit. If the state imposed upon this order of men the necessity of learning, it would have no occasion to give itself any trouble about providing them with proper teachers. They would soon find better teachers for themselves than any whom the state could provide for them. Science is the great antidot
36、e to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.The second of those remedies is the frequency and gaiety of public diversions. The state, by encouraging, that is by giving entire liber
37、ty to all those who for their own interest would attempt without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing, by all sorts of dramatic representations and exhibitions, would easily dissipate, in the greater part of them, that melancholy and gloomy humour
38、which is almost always the nurse of popular superstition and enthusiasm. Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. The gaiety and good humour which those diversions inspire were altogether inconsistent with that tempe
39、r of mind which was fittest for their purpose, or which they could best work upon. Dramatic representations, besides, frequently exposing their artifices to public ridicule, and sometimes even to public execration, were upon that account, more than all other diversions, the objects of their peculiar
40、 abhorrence.In a country where the law favoured the teachers of no one religion more than those of another, it would not be necessary that any of them should have any particular or immediate dependency upon the sovereign or executive power; or that he should have anything to do either in appointing
41、or in dismissing them from their offices. In such a situation he would have no occasion to give himself any concern about them, further than to keep the peace among them in the same manner as among the rest of his subjects; that is, to hinder them from persecuting, abusing, or oppressing one another
42、. But it is quite otherwise in countries where there is an established or governing religion. The sovereign can in this case never be secure unless he has the means of influencing in a considerable degree the greater part of the teachers of that religion.（分数：6.00）(1).According to the author, those w
43、ho wanted to work as scientists _.A. were the middle class or richer peopleB. would be employed by the stateC. had to prove their fitness before they began their careerD. were free to set up their own offices（分数：1.20）A.B.C.D.(2).What is the philosophy underlying the function of science according to
44、the author?A. Scientists are better teachers financially supported by the state.B. Science makes people of high class engaged in noble professions.C. People of lower class are eager to get rid of the poison of blind belief.D. Harmful ideas and behaviors are counterbalanced by science.（分数：1.20）A.B.C.
45、D.(3).Why does the author suggest that the state should encourage public diversions?A. People would feel free to pursue their own interest.B. The public would be amused and diverted.C. Melancholy and gloomy humour are part of people s life.D. The causes of superstition and enthusiasm would be eradic
46、ated.（分数：1.20）A.B.C.D.(4).Those who spread superstition did not welcome public diversions because _.A. what they intended to do was frustratedB. they were melancholy and gloomyC. the people they tried to influence were not humoristsD. they could not enjoy any kinds of the diversions（分数：1.20）A.B.C.D.
47、(5).What should the sovereign do when there appeared one dominant religion?A. He should change the law that did not favor that religion.B. He should use his power to diminish the influence of that religion.C. He should pacify the teachers of the other religions.D. He should build up a good relations
48、hip with the majority of that religion.（分数：1.20）A.B.C.D.五、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Before high school teacher Kimberly Rugh got down to business at the start of a recent school week, she joked with her students about how shed had to clean cake out of the corners of her house after her 2-year-old
49、 sons birthday party. This friendly combination of chitchat took place not in front of a blackboard but in an E-mail message that Rugh sent to the 145 students shes teaching at the Florida Virtual School, one of the nations leading online high schools. The schools motto is “any time, any place, any path, any pace“.Floridas E-school attracts many students who need flexible scheduli
