1、考博英语-9 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Vocabula(总题数：20，分数：10.00)1.It is _ of you to turn down the radio while your sister is still iii in bed.（分数：0.50）A.considerableB.considerateC.concernedD.careful2.They are a firm of good repute and have large financial _.（分数：0.50）A.reservesB.savingsC.storagesD
2、.resources3.By 1929, Mickey Mouse was as popular _ children as Coca-Cola.（分数：0.50）A.forB.inC.toD.with4.The British are not so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, _ is often the case in other countries.（分数：0.50）A.asB.whatC.soD.that5.Every chemical change either results fr
3、om energy being used to produce the change, or causes energy to be _ in some form.（分数：0.50）A.given offB.put outC.set off .D.used up6.The wealth of a country should be measured _ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.（分数：0.50）A.in line withB.in terms ofC.
4、in regard withD.by means of7.Professor Taylors talk has indicated that science has a very strong _ on the everyday life of non-scientists as well as scientists.（分数：0.50）A.motivationB.perspectiveC.impressionD.impact8.Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system wi
5、ll _ down the economy.（分数：0.50）A.putB.settleC.dragD.knock9.Because Edgar was convinced of the accuracy of this fact, he _ his opinion.（分数：0.50）A.struck atB.strove forC.stuck toD.stood for10.My students found the book _; it provided them with an abundance of in- formation on the subject.（分数：0.50）A.en
6、lighteningB.confusingC.distractingD.amusing11.In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote part of Eastern Europe _ Europe into a great war.（分数：0.50）A.insertedB.imposedC.pitchedD.plunged12.Frequently single-parent children _ some of the functions that the absent adult in the house would ha
7、ve served.（分数：0.50）A.take offB.take afterC.take inD.take on13.These goods are _ for export, though a few of them may be sold on the home market.（分数：0.50）A.essentiallyB.completelyC.necessarilyD.remarkably14.He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any _ on what he promises.（分数：0.50）A.fai
8、thB.beliefC.creditD.reliance15.When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them _.（分数：0.50）A.offB.asideC.outD.down16.Floods cause billions of dollars worth of property damage _.（分数：0.50）A.relativelyB.actuallyC.annuallyD.comparatively17.In the past 10 years, the company
9、has gradually _ all of its smaller rivals.（分数：0.50）A.engagedB.occupiedC.monopolizedD.absorbed18.In this factory the machines are not regulated _ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system;（分数：0.50）A.independentlyB.individuallyC.irrespectivelyD.irregularly19.Our corporations obligation u
10、nder this _ is limited to repair or replacement.（分数：0.50）A.warrantyB.licenseC.marketD.necessity20.Over a third of the population was estimated to have no _ to the health service.（分数：0.50）A.assessmentB.assignmentC.exceptionD.access二、BPart Cloze/(总题数：1，分数：15.00)The government is to ban payments to wit
11、nesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent casesU (21) /Uthe trial of Rosemary West.In a significantU (22) /Uof legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce aU (23) /Ubill that will propose making payments to witnessesU (24) /Uand will stri
12、ctly control the amount ofU (25) /Uthat can be given to a caseU (26) /Ua trial beginsIn a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said heU (27) /Uwith a committee report this year which said that self regulation did notU (28) /Usufficient contro
13、l.U (29) /Uof the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused aU (30) /Uof media protest when he said theU (31) /Uof privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judgesU (32) /Uto Parliament.The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, whichU (33) /Uthe Eu
14、ropean Convention on Human Rights legallyU (34) /Uin Britain, laid down that everybody wasU (35) /Uto privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.（分数：15.00）A.as toB.for instanceC.in particularD.such asA.tighteningB.intensifyingC.focusingD.fasteningA.ske
15、tchB.roughC.preliminaryD.draftA.illogicalB.illegalC.improbableD.improperA.publicityB.penaltyC.popularityD.peculiarityA.sinceB.ifC.beforeD.asA.sidedB.sharedC.compliedD.agreedA.presentB.offerC.manifestD.indicateA.ReleaseB.PublicationC.PrintingD.ExposureA.stormB.rageC.flareD.flashA.translationB.interpr
16、etationC.exhibitionD.demonstrationA.know better thanB.other thanC.rather thanD.sooner thanA.changesB.makesC.setsD.turnsA.bindingB.convincingC.restrainingD.sustainingA.authorizedB.creditedC.entitledD.qualified三、BPart Reading (总题数：4，分数：40.00)BPassage 1/BCommunity cancer clusters are viewed quite diffe
17、rently by citizen activists than by epidemiologists. Environmentalists and concerned local residents, for instance, might immediately suspect environmental radiation as the culprit when a high incidence of cancer cases occurs near a nuclear facility. Epidemiologists, in contrast, would be more likel
18、y to say that the incidences were “inconclusive“ or the result of pure chance. And when a breast cancer survivor, Lorraine Pace, mapped 20 breast cancer cases occurring in her West Islip, Long Island, community, her rudimentary research efforts were guided more by hope-that a specific environmental
19、agent could be correlated with the cancers than by scientific method.When epidemiologists study clusters of cancer cases and other noncontagious conditions such as birth defects or miscarriage, they take several variables into account, such as background rate (the number of people affected in the ge
20、neral population), cluster size, and specificity (any notable characteristics of the individual affected in each case). If a cluster is both large and specific, it is easier for epidemiologists to assign blame. Not only must each variable he considered on its own, but it must also be combined with o
21、thers. Lung cancer is very common in the general population. Yet when a huge number of cases turned up among World War shipbuilders who had all worked with asbestos, the size of the duster and the fact that the men had had similar occupational asbestos exposures enabled epidemiologists to assign bla
22、me to the fibrous mineral.Although several known carcinogens have been discovered through these kinds of occupational or medical clusters, only one community cancer cluster has ever been traced to an environmental cause. Health officials often discount a communitys suspicion of a common environmenta
23、l cause because citizens tend to include cases that were diagnosed before the afflicted individuals moved into the neighborhood. Add to this the problem of cancers latency. Unlike an infectious disease such as cholera, which is caused by a recent exposure to food or water contaminated with the chole
24、ra bacterium, cancer may have its roots in an exposure that occurred 10 to 20 years earlier.Do all these caveats mean that the hard work of Lorraine Pace and other community activists is for nothing? Not necessarily. Together with many other reports of breast cancer clusters on Long Island, the West
25、 Islip situation highlighted by Pace has helped epidemiologists lay the groundwork for a well designed scientific study.（分数：10.00）(1).The “hope“ mentioned in Paragraph 1 refers specifically to Paces desire to _.（分数：2.00）A.help reduce the incidence of breast cancer in future generationsB.improve her
26、chances of surviving breast cancerC.determine the cause responsible for her own breast cancer caseD.identify a particular cause for the breast cancer cases in West Islip(2).The case of the World War shipbuilders with lung cancer is an example of _.（分数：2.00）A.an occupational clusterB.a medical cluste
27、rC.a radiation clusterD.an environmental cluster(3).The passage suggests that the fact that “only one community cancer cluster has ever been traced to an environmental cause“ (in the third paragraph) is most likely due to the _.（分数：2.00）A.methodological difficulties in analyzing community cancer clu
28、stersB.reluctance of epidemiologists to investigate environmental factors in cancerC.lack of credibility of citizen activists in claiming to have identified cancer agentsD.effectiveness of regulations restricting the use of carcinogens in residential areas(4).Activists may mistakenly consider a part
29、icular incidence of cancer as part of a com- munity cluster despite the fact that _.（分数：2.00）A.the affected individual never worked with any carcinogenic materialB.the cancer was actually caused by a long-ago exposureC.the size of the cluster is too small to be meaningfulD.the cancer actually arose
30、in a different geographic location(5).The word “caveats“ (in the last paragraph) refers to_.（分数：2.00）A.refusals by epidemiologists to examine the work of Pace and other activistsB.potential flaws in amateur studies of cancer clusterC.warnings by activists concerning environmental dangers in their co
31、mmunitiesD.tendencies of activists to assume environmental causes for cancerBPassage 2/BMy parents house had an attic, the darkest and strangest part of the building, reach- able only by placing a stepladder beneath the trapdoor, and filled with unidentifiable articles too important to be thrown out
32、 with the trash but no longer suitable to have at hand. This mysterious space was the memory of the place. After many years all the things deposited in it became, one by one, lost to consciousness. But they were still there, we knew, safely and comfortably stored in the tissues of the house. These d
33、ays most of us live in smaller, more modern houses or in apartments, and at- tics have vanished. Even the deep closets in which we used to pile things up for temporary forgetting are rarely designed into new homes. Everything now is out in the open, openly acknowledged and displayed, and whenever we
34、 grow tired of a memory, an old chair, a trunkful of old letters, they are cast into the dump for burning.This has seemed a healthier way to live, except maybe for the smoke everything out to be looked at, nothing strange hidden under the roof, nothing forgotten because of no place left in impenetra
35、ble darkness to forget. Openness is the new lifestyle, no undisclosed belongings, no private secrets. Candor is the rule in architecture. The house is a machine for living, and what kind of machine would hide away its worn-out, deserted parts?But it is in our nature as human beings to clutter, and w
36、e long for places set aside, reserved for storage. We tend to accumulate and outgrow possessions at the same time, and it is an endlessly discomforting mental task to keep sorting out the, ones to get rid of. We might, we think, remember them later and find a use for then, and if they are gone for g
37、ood, off to the dump, this is a source of nervousness. I think it may be one of the reasons we drum our fingers so much these days.We might take a lesson here from what has been learned about our brains in this century. We thought we discovered, first off, the attic, although its existence has been
38、mentioned from time to time by all the people we used to call great writers. What we really found was the trapdoor and a stepladder, and off we clambered, shining flashlights into the corners, vacuuming the dust out of bureau drawers, puzzling over the names of objects, tossing them down to the floo
39、r below, and finally paying around fifty dollars an hour to have them cast away for burning.（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?（分数：2.00）A.The Attic of the Brain.B.Openness of the Modern Lifestyle.C.Modern Houses and Old Houses.D.The Attic of My Parents House
40、.(2).When comparing the new lifestyle with the old one, the author seems to assume a tone of _.（分数：2.00）A.admiration for the new lifestyleB.regret for the loss of the old lifestyleC.a contempt for the new lifestyleD.appreciation for both lifestyles(3).The word “candor“ in the third sentence of the t
41、hird paragraph probably means _.（分数：2.00）A.simplicityB.sophisticationC.opennessD.immensity(4).According to the author, it is human nature to _.（分数：2.00）A.keep accumulating and classifying new thingsB.search for new uses for old thingsC.set aside old things and reserve themD.disclose private secrets(
42、5).The author implies in the last paragraph that _.（分数：2.00）A.it is not necessary to spend so much money studying the brainB.we have uncovered all the secrets about our brainsC.we are too eager to search every corner of our lifeD.modern buildings can still be constructed with the desired atticsBPass
43、age 3/BDoctors at Stanford University are studying a medication they hope will alleviate the suffering of millions of American women. But their target isnt breast cancer, osteoporosis, or a similarly well-known affliction. Despite its alarming impact on its victims, the malady in question has receiv
44、ed comparatively little medical scrutiny. Its a “hidden epidemic,“ according to the Stanford researchers: compulsive shopping disorder.Thats right. What was once merely a punchline in television sitcoms is now being taken seriously by many clinicians. According to the Stanford studys leader, Dr. Lor
45、rin Koran, compulsive shopping is “motivated by irresistible impulses, characterized by spending that is excessive and inappropriate, has harmful consequences for the individual, and tends to be chronic and stereotyped.“ Compulsive shoppers “binge buy“ -most often clothes, shoes, makeup, and jewelry
46、-and then suffer intense guilt. That, in turn, helps trigger another frenzied trip to the mall, and the cycle continues.Could compulsive shopping be a health hazard associated with Americas unparalleled economic prosperity? “It seems to be a disease of affluence,“ says Dr. Jerrold Pollak, a clinical
47、 psychologist whos treated several shopaholics. “Advertisers. would like us to think that shopping is a reason to live,“ agrees Dr. Cheryl Carmin, another clinical psychologist. “If you do not have the time or inclination to go to the mall or grocery store, there are catalogs, delivery services, hom
48、e shopping networks on TV, and endless items to buy via the Internet.“ Indeed, this year, US advertisers will spend $ 233 billion-an amount equal to six federal education budgets to persuade Americans to buy, buy, buy.Yet the possibility that US advertisers may be driving certain women in our society t9 psychosis is only part of the story. It seems that the pharmaceutical companies quest to cure the effects of excessive marketing may itself be little more than a cleverly-disguised marketing scheme. The Stanford study, like many of its kind, is being funded by a
