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The Social Security Retirement Program is made up of two trust funds, ________ could go penniless by next year.
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B. the larger of which
考研类公共课考研英语
1997年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
76 题含答案考研英语
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Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always ________ with other elements, most commonly with oxygen.
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D. being combined
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Andrew, my father’s younger brother, will not be at the picnic, ________ to the family’s disappointment.
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A. much
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I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible, but I ________ fully occupied the whole of last week.
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D. was
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Help will come from the UN, but the aid will be ________ near what’s needed.
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C. nowhere
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The chief reason for the population growth isn’t so much a rise in birth rates ________ a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.
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B. as
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He claims to be an expert in astronomy, but in actual fact he is quite ignorant on the subject. ________ he knows about it is out of date and inaccurate.
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A. What little
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Although we feel dissatisfied with the election results, we have to become reconciled ________ the decision made by our fellow countrymen.
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C. to
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Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone ________ to the system, so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out.
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D. added
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The vocabulary and grammatical differences between British and American English are so trivial and few as hardly ________.
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B. to be noticed
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Although Professor Green’s lectures usually ran [overA] the [fifty-minuteB] period, [but noneC] of his students [evenD] objected as they found his lectures both informative and interesting.
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C.
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[WhenA] Edison died, it was proposed that the American people [turned offB] [all powerC] in their homes, streets, and factories for several minutes [in honor ofD] this great man.
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B.
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They [pointed outA] the damage [whichB] they supposed [thatC] had been done by last [night’sD] storm.
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C.
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[Because ofA] the recent accidents, our parents forbid my brother and me [from swimmingB] in the river [unlessC] someone agrees [to watchD] over us.
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B.
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A [great manyA] teachers [firmlyB] believe that English is one of the [poorest-taughtC] subjects in high schools [at present.D]
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C.
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In this way these insects show an efficient use of their [sound-producedA] ability, [organizingB] two sounds [deliveredC] at a high rate as one [call.D]
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A.
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I thought the technician was [to blameA] for the [blowingB] of the fuse, but I see now [howC] I [wasD] mistaken.
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C.
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For him [to be re-electedA] what is essential is not that his policy [worksB], [but thatC] the public believe that it [is.D]
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D.
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[As far asA] I am concerned, his politics [areB] rather conservative [comparedC] with other [politicians.D]
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D.
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I’d say whenever you [are goingA] after something that [is belongingB] to you, anyone who [is deprivingC] you of the right to have it is [criminal.D]
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B.
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When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.
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A. off
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The wealth of a country should be measured ________ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.
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B. in terms of
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He has failed me so many times that I no longer place any ________ on what he promises.
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D. reliance
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My students found the book ________: it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.
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A. enlightening
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Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will ________ down the economy.
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C. drag
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In this factory the machines are not regulated ________ but are jointly controlled by a central computer system.
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B. individually
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Every chemical change either results from energy being used to produce the change, or causes energy to be ________ in some form.
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A. given off
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If businessmen are taxed too much, they will no longer be motivated to work hard, with the result that incomes from taxation might actually ________.
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A. shrink
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American companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.
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C. flexible
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If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to ________ the situation?
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D. rectify
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I can’t ________ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.
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A. figure out
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I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat ________.
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C. refusal
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From this material we can ________ hundreds of what you may call direct products.
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A. derive
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She had clearly no ________ of doing any work, although she was very well paid.
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C. intention
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What seems confusing or fragmented at first might well become ________ a third time.
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D. clear and organic
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The public opinion was that the time was not ________ for the election of such a radical candidate as Mr. Jones.
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B. ripe
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Hudson said he could not kill a living thing except for the ________ of hunger.
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D. motive
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For the new country to survive, ________ for its people to enjoy prosperity, new economic policies will be required.
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B. let alone
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Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.
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C. exclusion
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When a number of people ________ together in a conversational knot, each individual expresses his position in the group by where he stands.
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D. cluster
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A. swarm
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C. As
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D. by
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A. Even though
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B. disposable
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D. trend
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C. fundamentally
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B. while
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A. imposed
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D. importance
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From the second paragraph we learn that ________.
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D. it takes time to realize the significance of the law’s passage
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When the author says that observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means ________.
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B. similar bills are likely to be passed in the US, Canada and other countries
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When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will ________.
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A. face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia
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The author’s attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that of ________.
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C. approval
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In the eyes of visitors from the outside world, ________.
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D. most Americans are ready to offer help
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It could be inferred from the last paragraph that ________.
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A. culture exercises an influence over social interrelationship
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Families in frontier settlements used to entertain strangers ________.
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C. to add some flavor to their own daily life
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The tradition of hospitality to strangers ________.
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B. is generally well kept up in the United States
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“Substance abuse” (Line 5, Paragraph 1) is preferable to “drug abuse” in that ________.
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D. many substances other than heroin or cocaine can also be poisonous
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The word “pervasive” (Line 1, Paragraph 2) might mean ________.
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A. widespread
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Physical dependence on certain substances results from ________.
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A. uncontrolled consumption of them over long periods of time
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From the last paragraph we can infer that ________.
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B. hallucinogens are in themselves harmful to health
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Senator Robert Dole criticized Time Warner for ________.
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C. its neglect of social responsibility
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According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
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D. Steve Ross is no longer alive.
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In face of the recent attacks on the company, the chairman ________.
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B. softened his tone and adopted some new policy
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The best title for this passage could be ________.
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A. A Company under Fire
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From the passage we learn that ________.
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C. the economic situation is better than expected
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According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
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B. An extremely low jobless rate will lead to inflation
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The sentence “This is no flash in the pan” (Line 5, Paragraph 3) means that ________.
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A. the low inflation rate will last for some time
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The passage shows that the author is ________ the present situation.
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D. amazed at
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事实并非如此, 因为这种问法是以人们对人的权利有共同认识为基础的, 而这种共同认识并不存在。
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有些哲学家论证说, 权利只存在在于社会契约中, 是责任与权益相交换的一部分。
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这种说法从一开始就将讨论引向两个极端, 它使人们认为应这样对待动物：要么像对人类自身一样关切体谅, 要么完全冷漠无情。
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这类人持极端看法, 认为人与动物在各相关方面都不相同, 对待动物无须考虑道德问题。
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这种反应并不错, 这是人类用道德观念进行推理的本能在起作用, 这种本能应得到鼓励, 而不应遭到嘲弄。
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1 Interpret the following pictures.
2 Predict the tendency of tobacco consumption and give your reasons.
2 Predict the tendency of tobacco consumption and give your reasons.
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We meet smokers everywhere: in the streets, on college campuses and in shops. There are 5.8 billion people in the world, and the smokers are about 1.1 billion, which makes up 20 percent of the world’s total population.
Smoking is very harmful. I think there are two main aspects to the damage. First, smoking consumes a great deal of money. As is shown in the pictorial graph, smoking wastes 200 billion dollars each year in the world. Second, smoking does harm to the health of smokers, and it is the main cause of lung cancer. About 3 million people die because of the relevant diseases derived from smoking every year.
Because more and more people are aware of the great harm of smoking to humans, the amount of tobacco consumption is on the decrease. From the following figures we can clearly see the tendency. The total amount of world tobacco production added up to 14.364 billion pounds in 1994, but it dropped to 14.2 billion pounds in 1995. At the same time, many countries call on people to give up smoking. So it is certain that the number of smokers is to decrease.
Smoking is very harmful. I think there are two main aspects to the damage. First, smoking consumes a great deal of money. As is shown in the pictorial graph, smoking wastes 200 billion dollars each year in the world. Second, smoking does harm to the health of smokers, and it is the main cause of lung cancer. About 3 million people die because of the relevant diseases derived from smoking every year.
Because more and more people are aware of the great harm of smoking to humans, the amount of tobacco consumption is on the decrease. From the following figures we can clearly see the tendency. The total amount of world tobacco production added up to 14.364 billion pounds in 1994, but it dropped to 14.2 billion pounds in 1995. At the same time, many countries call on people to give up smoking. So it is certain that the number of smokers is to decrease.