2006北大考博士英语真题

What kind of cello did Mr. Lewis use when he was eight?

What is true about Mr. Lewis’ cello?

What is the main purpose of the research?

What does the man do on Fridays?

On which day does the couple always go out?

Which personal detail does the man give?

What conclusion can we draw about Mike before he went to the camping school?

Mike participated in all the following activities EXCEPT______________.

Which of the following words is most appropriate to describe Mike after the camping school?

What happened to January 27th, 1967?

What happened in 1981?

What does the talk say about accidents?

BBC’s weather forecast is a ________ program.

Weather observations come from all the following sources EXCEPT ________ .

What does the talk say about BBC’s forecasters?

What does the talk say about British television viewers?

Which is NOT showing an increase this year?

What does the talk say about this year’s business travelers?

Which is the largest single visitor expenditure?

Inadequate rest means a weaker ＿＿  system, laying the body open to a whole ＿＿  of illnesses. On the average a man needs seven hours of sleep a day and a woman seven and a ＿＿  hours. Six hours of ＿＿ sleep is better than ten hours of ＿＿ and turning, however. People who sleep less than six hours a night are＿＿ for an early death.
 Some people＿＿ that they can get by with little sleep when necessary. But experts think these people are＿＿  themselves.
Between sleep＿＿ and fatal accidents there is an obvious＿＿ . People who get ＿＿  sleep or poor quality sleep have a higher risk of ＿＿  on the road. They are more likely to fall asleep at the ＿＿  and kill people or get killed. Professional drivers and＿＿  workers are most likely to take the ＿＿ . The performance at work also ＿＿  because of sleep deprivation.
The pressures of work deprive people of sleep. To make it up, they try to＿＿  catnaps. But experts are a little＿＿  about the benefits of catnapping. They tell us that the catnap can never be a＿＿  for proper sleep. For victims of ＿＿ , catnapping in the day is the worst thing they can possibly do.

The nuclear family __________ a self-contained, self-satisfying unit composed of father, mother and children.

Some polls show that roughly two-thirds of the general public believe that elderly Americans are ________ by social isolation and loneliness.

In addition to bettering group and individual performance, cooperation ________ the quality of interpersonal relationship.

In the past 50 years, there ________ a great increase in the amount of research _____ on the human brain.

“ I must have eaten something wrong. I feel like _____.”“We told you not to eat at a restaurant. You’d better _______ at home when you are not in the shape.”

Parents have to show due concerns to their children’s creativity and emotional output; otherwise what they think beneficial to the kids might probably _______ their enthusiasm and aspirations.

According to psychoanalysis, a person’s attention is attracted ________ by the intensity of different signals ________ by their context, significance, and information content.

They moved to Portland in 1998 and lived in a big house, _______ to the south.

The lady who has _______ for a night in the dead of the winter later turned out to be a distant relation of his.

Bystanders, _______, _________ as they walked past lines of ambulances.

Hong Kong was not a target for terror attacks, the Government insisted yesterday, as the US ________ closed for an apparent security review.

American fans have selected Yao in a vote for the All-Star game ______ the legendary O’Neal, who ______ the “Great Wall” at the weekend as the Rockets beat the Los Angeles Lakers.

Professional archivists and librarians have the resources to duplicate materials in other formats and the expertise to retrieve materials trapped in _________ computers.

She always prints important documents and stores a backup set at her house. “I actually think there’s something about the ______ of paper that feels more comforting.” She said.

“They said what we always knew,” said an administration source, ___________.

In Germany, the industrial giants DaimlerChrysler and Siemens recently _______ their unions into signing contracts that lengthen work hours without increasing pay.

He argues that the policy has done little to ease joblessness, and has left the country _______.

The more people hear his demented rants, the more they see that he is a terrorist _______.

This expansion of rights has led to both a paralysis of the public service and to a rapid and terrible ________ in the character of the population.

_______ a declining birth rate, there will be an over-supply of 27,000 primary school places by 2010, _______ leaving 35 schools idle.

Where was the narrator’s family when this story took place?

His grandfather ____________.

His grandmother did not want her husband to buy and read newspapers in German, because________.

The narrator’s mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because________.

The American dream in this passage mainly refers to ____________.

Wal-Mart strategy, according to this passage, is to ___________.

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

Retired seniors are moving back into the city because ____________.

From the passage we can infer that _________.

Fran McCarthy’s question means: nobody ever thought that __________.

(51)Being angry increases the risk of injury, especially among men, new research says.
The researchers gathered data on more than 2,400 accident victims at three Missouri hospitals. They interviewed each subject to determine the patient’s emotional state just before the injury and 24 hours earlier, gathering data on whether the patients felt irritable, angry or hostile, and to what degree. Then they compared the results with a control group of uninjured people.
(52)Despite widespread belief in “road rage,” anger did not correlate with injuries from traffic accidents.
(53)Not surprisingly, anger was strongly associated with injuries inflicted deliberately. But other injuries – those neither intentionally inflicted nor from falls or traffic accidents – also showed strong associations with anger.
(54)The correlations were significantly weaker for women than for men, but there were no differences by race. The authors acknowledge that their data depend on self-reports, which are not always reliable.
(55)Why anger correlates with injury is not known. “I can speculate that the anger may have prompted some behavior that led to the injury, or may have simply distracted the person, leading indirectly to the injury,” said the study’s lead author.

Last year French drivers killed＿＿ than 5,000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely  ＿＿  the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon ＿＿  3,000 lives last year. Success, of course breeds success: the government plans to install 500 ＿＿  radar devices this year.
So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses  ＿＿  the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombing, in which video cameras  ＿＿  a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea change. A month ＿＿  the London attacks, half of Germans supported EU-wide plans to require Internet providers and telecoms to store all e-mail, Internet and phone data for “anti-terror” ＿＿ . In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were  ＿＿  to give up some civil liberty to improve ＿＿ .

(66) Application files are piled highly this month in colleges across the country. (67) Admissions officers are poring essays and recommendation letters, scouring transcripts and standardized test scores.
(68) But anything is missing from many applications: a class ranking, once a major component in admissions decisions.
In the cat-and-mouse maneuvering over admission to prestigious colleges and universities, (69) thousands of high schools have simply stopped providing that information, concluding it could harm the chances of their very better, but not best, students.
(70) Canny college officials, in turn, have found a tactical way to response. (71) Using broad data that high schools often provide, like a distribution of grade averages for entire senior class, they essentially recreate an applicant’s class rank.
(72) The process has left them exasperating.
(73) “If we’re looking at your son or daughter and you want us to know that they are among the best in their school, with a rank we don’t necessarily know that,” said Jim Bock, dean of admissions and financial aid at Swarthmore College.
(74) Admissions directors say strategy can backfire. When high schools do not provide enough general information to recreate the class rank calculation, (75) many admissions directors say they have little choice and to do something virtually no one wants them to do: give more weight to scores on the SAT and other standardized exams.

Recently, a newspaper carried an article entitled: “We Should No Longer Force Gong Li and Zhang Yimou to Take Part in National Politics”. The article argued that some artists and film stars are unwilling or unqualified to represent the people in the People’s Congress or the People’s Political Consultative Conference, and they should not be forced to do so. What do you think?