1、考博英语模拟试卷 213及答案与解析 一、 Structure and Vocabulary 1 He worked as a builder in London and _ half his monthly wage to his family in the Philippines. （ A） refunded （ B） reposed （ C） remitted （ D） rebuffed 2 In a bold promotional _ for the movie, he smashed his car into a passing truck. （ A） aerobics （ B）
2、adobe （ C） sod （ D） stunt 3 The stadium has been specifically designed as a _ for European Cup matches. （ A） vet （ B） verdure （ C） venue （ D） venison 4 She _ at the thought of picking up the dead animal. （ A） whined （ B） blenched （ C） wreathed （ D） sapped 5 Three dinosaurs have already been found on
3、 the _ site. （ A） evacuated （ B） excavated （ C） exhaled （ D） exhorted 6 The City of London is the _ of Britains financial world. （ A） hubbub （ B） huff （ C） hue （ D） hub 7 Sometimes my husband _ so loudly, it keeps me awake at night. （ A） snarls （ B） snores （ C） snorts （ D） smolders 8 He had a _ and
4、rushed out of the kitchen just before an explosion wrecked it. （ A） probity （ B） progenitor （ C） premonition （ D） preponderance 9 She went into a deep _ after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. （ A） canon （ B） cannon （ C） comma （ D） coma 10 The doctor hit me just below the knee to test my _ . （ A
5、） influxes （ B） inflows （ C） flexes （ D） reflexes 11 The Canadian flag has a _ leaf on it. （ A） mane （ B） margarine （ C） maple （ D） mango 12 The company has been forced to _ 200 employees due to financial problems. （ A） dilapidate （ B） tarry （ C） sprawl （ D） jettison 13 The _ on a bank note is virtu
6、ally invisible on a flat surface. （ A） watermelon （ B） watershed （ C） waterproof （ D） watermark 14 The captain was _ to sergeant for failing to fulfill his duties. （ A） regulated （ B） promoted （ C） deregulated （ D） demoted 15 While in a drunken _ he became abusive and violent and had to be restraine
7、d by hotel staff. （ A） stole （ B） stutter （ C） sty （ D） stupor 16 The company will have to be _ if it fails to secure new loans by the end of the month. （ A） edified （ B） telecast （ C） liquidated （ D） ambled 17 Although her mind was in a _, she tried to stay calm for the sake of her children. （ A） s
8、olace （ B） yew （ C） capillary （ D） turmoil 18 The meaning of some _ forms of writing is not always well understood to-day. （ A） archaic （ B） quaint （ C） titanic （ D） mercantile 19 The rebel army is attempting to _ the government. （ A） christen （ B） subvert （ C） concoct （ D） harrow 20 The book would
9、have been more useful if a _ of technical terms and abbreviation had been included. （ A） gibbon （ B） glut （ C） glucose （ D） glossary 二、 Reading Comprehension 20 As women demonstrate a growing appetite for consumer tech products, retailers and manufacturers are still only beginning to cater to this p
10、otentially huge reservoir of customers. High-tech businesses and electronics retailers are changing store designs, increasing their marketing toward women, focusing on gadget accessories and boosting advertising in womens magazines-all in a pitch to get women to walk the aisles and walk out with cel
11、l phones, MP3 players and plasma televisions. To draw women in, stores have been turning down the music, changing the color schemes and adding staff trained to meet womens needs. Radio Shack has gussied up its gray and black decor with bright purple, orange and green at its newer stores. Aisles have
12、 been widened and the product arrangements redone to make the place look less like a cluttered electronics hardware store. The company also has put more women on the sales floor. “The store doesnt feel like a mens club anymore,“ said Charles Hodges, a spokesman for Radio Shack. “Now women can walk i
13、n and be helped by women just as knowledgeable as guys.“ Most technology manufacturers have few women among their top executives, and that translates into the kinds of products on the shelves and the way they are marketed, according to Quinlan, author of “Just Ask a Woman-cracking the Code of What W
14、omen Want and How They Buy“. Few devices-iPods and Palm handheld computers are among the exceptions-tap into a womans sense of style, she said. “Design is key-attractive, holdable, showable design.“ she said. Women often are swayed to buy a product for reasons far different than those that drive men
15、. They will choose a gadget not because they want to be a pioneer but be-cause they and their friends have discovered the usefulness of the thing. “Where men like to be the only one with a product, women like to bring more of her friends into their find-they want to share the good news of whats work
16、ing for them,“ Quinlan said. But friends are only one of the ways that women are discovering whats important to them when it comes to tech. Theres also a growing number of outside influences-product-specific or trend articles in magazines that target women of all ages, for example. Recently, Radio S
17、hack worked with Seventeen magazines-known for its fashion, beauty and relationship features for young women-on a story about MP3 players. 21 Whats the main idea of the passage? （ A） Women would rather shop in a calmer, colorful environment. （ B） The manufacturers realized their wrong ways of cateri
18、ng to women. （ C） The tech retailers and manufactures are reaching out to women. （ D） The shopping for a woman is more practical than it is for a man. 22 The expression “reservoir of customers“ (Line 2, Para. ) most probably refers to _ . （ A） the diversity of customers （ B） the potential market （ C
19、） the short of customers （ D） the lack of stockage 23 Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage to be helpful to attract the _ female consumers? （ A） The stores environment. （ B） The design of the product. （ C） Personal shopping assistants. （ D） Female sales clerks. 24 By saying “Design
20、 is key-attractive, holdable, showable design.“ Quinlan means _ . （ A） most products designs are not successful （ B） there should be more female executives （ C） women like the face-saving products （ D） the manufactures should focus on design 25 Women are swayed to buy a product probably because _ .
21、（ A） their friends have offered too many dizzy choices （ B） they are confused by the sales clerks introduction （ C） they are searching for the newest and coolest thing （ D） the trend articles in magazines are not specific enough 25 Bedbugs, stealthy and fast-moving nocturnal creatures that were all
22、but eradicated by DDT after World War , have recently been found in hospital maternity wards, private schools and even a plastic surgeons waiting room. Bedbugs are back and spreading like a swarm of locusts on a lush field of wheat. “Its becoming an epidemic,“ said Jeffrey Eisenberg, the owner of Pe
23、st Away Exterminating, a business that receives about 125 bedbug calls a week, compared with just a handful five years ago. Last year the city logged 377 bedbug violations, up from just 2 in 2002 and 16 in 2003. Since July, there have been 449. “Its definitely a fast-emerging problem,“ said Carol Ab
24、rams, spokeswoman for the city housing agency. In the bedbug resurgence, entomologists and exterminators blame increased immigration from the developing world, the advent of cheap international travel and the recent banning of powerful pesticides. Other culprits include the recycled mattress industr
25、y and those thrifty citizens who revel in the discovery of a free sofa on the sidewalk. Unlike mice and roaches, which are abetted by filthy surroundings, bedbugs do just fine in a well-scrubbed home. And they dont dwell just in mattresses and box springs: any wall or floor crack-the thickness of a
26、playing card-can accommodate a bedbug. The modern bedbug is immune to insecticides, and setting off a cockroach bomb in the bedroom will only scatter them farther afield. And because they are active only at night, many people dont discover them until their population has grown into the hundreds, or
27、even thousands. Exterminators recommend bagging and washing every bit of clothing and fabric in the room and taking apart bureau drawers and bed frames in preparation for the application of four kinds of chemicals. The process often needs to be repeated. Worst of all, bedbug sufferers say, is the st
28、igma of living with an insect that feeds on blood-though it does not transmit disease-and leaves behind a trail of red bumps. In interviews with more than a dozen bedbug sufferers, only a handful would speak on the record, saying they feared the condemning glares of neighbors or the shunning of co-w
29、orkers. A bedbug infestation, many say, puts a strain on relationships, all but ruling out staying the night. Kellianne Scanlan, 30, a hairstylist who lives in Washington Heights, has been living like a nomad since last month. “My life has become all about bedbugs.“ she said. To calm her friends and
30、 to ensure that she does not spread the bugs, she takes an extra set of clothing and changes when she arrives at their homes for overnight visits. 26 Whats the main idea of the opening paragraph? （ A） People are being tortured by the bedbugs all the way. （ B） The resurgence of bedbugs is serious and
31、 bothersome. （ C） Infestations of bedbugs have been reported sporadically. （ D） People begin to hire exterminators to treat bedbugs. 27 What should not be blamed for the resurgence of bedbugs? （ A） The governmental policy of forbidding certain pesticides. （ B） The increased immigration from the deve
32、loping countries. （ C） The recycled mattress industry and frugal dwellers. （ D） The dirty surroundings in a home and in the public. 28 By saying “bedbugs do just fine in a well-scrubbed home“ (Lines 5 -6, Para. 2) the author suggests _ . （ A） stopping cleaning rooms because its useless （ B） making t
33、he room more dirty to stop bedbugs （ C） the difficulty to solve the bedbug problem （ D） the strange habitat of bedbugs 29 The bedbug victims hate to speak publicly most probably because _ . （ A） they are exhausted due to staying up （ B） they feel disgusted when talking of bedbug （ C） they are afraid
34、 of being alienated by others （ D） they dont want to transfer bedbugs to others 30 By mentioning Kellianne Scanlan the author wants to tell us _ . （ A） the psychological damage is probably the worst thing about bedbugs （ B） bedbugs have led to severe result of breaking the love and relationships （ C
35、） the sufferers feeling of inconvenience to have bedbugs living in their home （ D） changing clothes frequently is helpful to exterminate the spreading of bedbugs 30 An ethics crisis at one of the worlds most successful human embryonic stem cell laboratories has plunged the controversial field of res
36、earch into a new swirl of uncertainty. The accusations surrounding Korean cloning expert Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University-the first scientist to grow stem cells inside cloned human embryos-has already killed a spate of planned studies that sought to prove the cells medical potential. The c
37、laims that Hwang may have obtained human eggs for his studies from women who felt pressured to donate are also reigniting a long-smoldering debate in the United States over the ethics of paying young women for their eggs, which are difficult to obtain but essential to the production of stem cells ta
38、ilored to individuals. Egg donation, which is generally safe but occasionally leads to serious and even life-threatening complications, has been a wedge issue in the stem cell debates, linking feminists and other liberal thinkers to conservatives who favor tighter limits on stem cell research. “Were
39、 in danger of making women into guinea pigs for this research even before there are any treatments to be tested,“ said Marcy Darnovsky, associate director of the Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland, Calif. “We really need clear rules that someone is enforcing.“ With current techniques, it tak
40、es dozens of eggs to make a single cloned human embryo, which is destroyed in the process of extracting the stem cells. That means that if the field of therapeutic cloning is to advance-a field involving the creation of cloned embryos as sources of stem cells that would be genetically matched to par
41、ticular patients-a significant number of eggs will be needed both to fuel the initial research and eventually to satisfy the demands of patients. Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass. , made the decision to pay women only after a long analysis by an ethics board created by the c
42、ompany, said scientific director Robert Lanza. He still thinks it is the right way to go, Lanza said, given the painful injections involved, the uncomfortable egg suction procedure, and the approximately 5 percent chance of a serious case of hormonal over-stimulation, which can require hospitalizati
43、on. Others say such payments cannot help but be coercive, especially for poor women who might feel compelled to take on those risks just to make ends meet. In April, the National Academies, chartered by Congress to advise the nation on matters of science, released a report that recommended against p
44、ayments for human eggs beyond expenses incurred by the donors, in part because of the “sensitivities“ inherent in the creation of embryos destined for destruction. But the reports impact remains uncertain as research institutions, fertility clinics and the biggest wild card of them all-Congress-mull
45、 the Academies findings. 31 What can we learn from the opening paragraph? （ A） Hwang paid the women for their eggs in his studies. （ B） The charge of Hwang re-activized the debate in U. S （ C） The debate in U. S. is about whether or not pay for eggs. （ D） The planned studies will continue without in
46、terruption. 32 What can we learn about the egg donation? （ A） It will leave a life-threatening disease to unhealthy donors. （ B） It is extremely important to the creation of human embryo. （ C） It will make the donors feel ashamed when they donate eggs. （ D） Its importance to the stem cell research l
47、ies on its rareness. 33 The word “wedge“ (Line 2, Para. 2) most probably means _ . （ A） a forceful evidence （ B） a turning point （ C） a cause （ D） a flaw 34 The expression “the biggest wild card“ (Last sentence, Para. 3) most probably means _ . （ A） the most unpredictable factor （ B） the most wealth
48、y organization （ C） the most uncontrollable one （ D） the least earnest one 35 From the passage we can infer that _ . （ A） scientists will pay for the eggs beyond the necessary expense （ B） congress will allow broader use of federal funds for the research （ C） Hwangs problem will grow into a wave of
49、political contradiction （ D） Hwangs problem will probably slow the stem cell progress 35 More than 11,000 traffic lights and “Dont Walk“ signals in New York City have been switched to light-emitting diodes that use 90 percent less energy than conventional fixtures. More than 180,000 energy-guzzling refrigerators in public housing projects have been replaced with new ones that use a quarter
