1、复旦大学复旦大学 2023 年考博英语真年考博英语真题题 Part Vocabulary and Structure(15 points)Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each sentence there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that best completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET with a single
2、line through the center.1.Hes color-blind and cant the difference between red and green easily.A.detect B.discover C.distinguish D.determine 2.As many as 100 species of fish,some to these waters,may have been affected by the pollution.A.unusual B.particular C.typical D.unique 3.In her bright yellow
3、coat,she was easily in the crowed.A.accessible B.identifiable C.negligible D.incredible 4.Some people find that certain foods their headaches.A.introduce B.trigger C.summon D.create 5.The workers chose to their dissatisfaction in a series of strikes.A.deliver B.offer C.manifest D.indicate 6.Living w
4、ith a roommate constraint on her-she couldnt play her trumpet or have parties late at night.A.imposed B.illustrated C.impressed D.left 7.I dont know how to get there either-perhaps wed better a map.A.note B.mark C.consult D.draft 8.In the of recent incidents,we asking our customers to take particula
5、r care of their belongings.A.process B.company C.light D.form 9.The police are doing all the can to bring those responsible for the bombing to A.evidence B.hearing C.justice D.rule 10.The programme aims to make the country in food and to cut energy imports.A.self-confident B.self-sufficient C.self-s
6、atisfied D.self-restrained 11.I think Id like to stay home this evening going out as it is raining so heavily.A.better than B.other than C.rather than D.sooner than 12.The public can rest that detectives are doing everything possible to find the murderer.A.assured B.approved C.guaranteed D.convinced
7、 13.The childs bad behavior is often more than a way of trying to his mothers attention away from his sister.A.reflect B.catch C.deflect D.reduce 14.The small building was marked with a modest brass ,stating the name and the business of the occupiers.A.plaque B.plateau C.plague D.plaster 15.I dont k
8、now what all the was about-it was a dull sort of a film and there was almost no sex in it.A.controversy B.conversation C.discussion D.illumination 16.I missed the last flight,and decided to stay the night at the airport.A.however B.therefore C.moreover D.meanwhile 17.You could be many dangers by tra
9、veling alone in that area.A.subject to B.immune to C.sensitive to D.resistant to 18.She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could,the pleasure.A.delaying B.prolonging C.insisting D.indulging 19.The candidate has an impressively range of interests and experience.A.diverse B.vivid C.mobile
10、 D.alive 20.When I was sent to prison,I really felt I had my parents .A.letoff B.letdown C.letout D.letalone 21.He outrage by calling the TV programmes“talking wallpaper”A.provoked B.evoked C.revoked D.invoked 22/.The governments is trying to the people into thinking that a war is necessary.A.enligh
11、ten B.involve C.orient D.brainwash 23.All the questions around what she had been doing on the night of the robbery.A.dissolved B.revolved C.evolved D.devolved 24.Make sure youre him before you start sharing a house.A.synonymous with t B.compatible with C.subordinate to D.autonomous of 25.She said th
12、at the treatment she had received in the hospital had completely her os her dignity.A.thrived B.suspended C.deprived D.contrived 26.She was unimpressed by the actor describing him as“a vain man and dull”A.intensively B.intensely C.downright D.actual 27.down than the telephone rang.A.Not until I lay
13、B.No sooner had I lain C.Hardly had I lain D.Scarcely did I lie 28.Im sorry Im late-I had a mental and forget that we would have a meeting today.A.aberration B.perversion C.imbalance D.sanity 29.I ignored an old woman who asked me for money in the street yesterday and its been on my ever since.A.mor
14、ality B.conscience C.morale D.rationale 30.He saw university as a community of scholars,where students were by teachers into an appreciation of different philosophical approaches.A.extracted B.deducted C.inducted D.conducted Part Reading Comprehension(40 points)Directions:There are 4 reading passage
15、s in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them,there are four choices marked A,B,C and DChoose the best answer and mark corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.(1)I am running down an alley with a stolen avocado,
16、having climbed over a white brick fence and into the forbidden back yard of a carefully manicured estate at the corner of El Dorado and Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills,California.I have snatched a rock-hard Fuerte avocado from one of the three avocado trees near the fence.I have been told that many
17、ferocious dogs patrol the grounds;they are killers,these dogs.I am defying them.They are nowhere to be found,except in my mind,and Im out and gone and in the alley with their growls directing my imagination.I am running with fear and exhilaration,beginning a period of summer.Emerging from the shield
18、 of the alley I cut out into the open.Summer is about running,and I am running,protected by distance from the dogs.At the corner of Crescent Drive and Lomitas I spot Bobby Tornitzer on a bike.I shout“Tornitzer!”He turns his head.His bike wobbles.An automobile moving rapidly catches Tornitzers back w
19、heel.Tornitzer is thrown high into the air and onto the concrete sidewalk of Crescent Drive.The driver,a woman with gray hair,swirls from the car hysterically and hovers noisily over Tornitzer,who will not survive the accident.I hold the avocado to my chest and stand,frozen,across the street.I am sh
20、ivering in the heat,and sink to my knees.It is approximately 3:30 in the afternoon.It is June 21,1946.In seven days,I will be 8 years old.31.The best title for this story could be A.Summer B.Killer Dogs C.My Eighth Birthday D.The Alley 32.The main image in paragraph 1 is of a young boy A.climbing a
21、white brick fences B.snatching avocados C.running with fear and exhilaration D.defying ferocious dogs 33.The main image in paragraph 2 is of A.Tornitzer riding his bike B.exhilaration turning into horror C.the 7-year-old emerging from the alley D.the hysteria of the woman driver 34.The story start w
22、ith the feeling of and ends with the feeling of .A.joyful actionhorrified inaction B.runningstanding C.being alonebeing with others D.being alone in the openshivering in the heat 35 The phrase“shivering in the heat”(near the end of this passage)dramatically describes shock through A.the use of minut
23、e detail B.the unexpected combination of hot and cold C.its implied reference to the word frozen D.the contrast of death and play(2)Analysts have had their go at humor,and I have read some of this interpretative literature,but without being greatly instructed.Humor can be dissected,as a frog can,but
24、 the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached.He had became the ace soap bubble blower of America,had
25、 perfected the business of blowing bubbles,refined it,doubled it,squared it,and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather.The effect was not pretty.Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful,and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them,or playing some sort of unattracti
26、ve trick with them.It was,if anything,a rather repulsive sight.Humor is a little like that:it wont stand much blowing up,and it wont stand much poking.It has a certain fragility,an evasiveness,which one had best respect.Essentially,it is a complete mystery.A human frame convulsed with laughter,and t
27、he laughter becoming hysterical and uncontrollable,is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit.One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they really very sad people-clown with a breaking heart.There is some truth in it,bur it is badly st
28、ated.It would be more accurate,I think,to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyones life and that the humorist,perhaps more sensible of it than some others,compensates for it actively and positively.Humorist fatten on trouble.The have always made trouble pay.They struggle
29、 along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully,knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by.You find them wrestling with foreign languages,fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes,suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boots(or as Josh Billing wittily called them,
30、“tite”boots).They pour out their sorrows profitably,in a form that is not quite fiction nor quite fact either.Beneath the sparkling surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.36.The central theme of this essay is:A.There is little humor in old newsreel.B.Humor can be dissected like
31、 a frog.C.Humor is essentially a mystery,and because humorists are more aware of melancholy,they seem sadder than most people.D.Humorists need to compensate for the pain they have suffered.37.The main idea of paragraph 2 is:A.The author once saw a picture of the largest soap bubble ever made B.The b
32、ubble blowing performance was a repulsive sight.C.Humor is fragile.D.Laughter is not a measure of humor.38.Why does the author feel that when humor is dissected,it dies in the process?A.The fun in humor lies in examining its contents B.Humor must tantalize the senses on impact-if it has to be explai
33、ned,it loses its effect.C.Humor is best enjoyed by people with scientific minds.D.A good humorist should explain his or her joke to make sure everyone understands it.39.The word“melancholy”in paragraph 3 probably means A.joy B.sadness C.hysteria D.exhilaration 40.In his final sentence,the author is
34、evoking an image of A.the ocean B.sparkling germs C.high tide D.flowing water(3)Every time an old building is torn down in this country,and a new building goes up,the ground floor becomes a bank.The reason for this is that banks are the only ones who can afford the rent for the ground floor of the n
35、ew buildings going up.Besides,when bank loans someone money to build a new building,it usually takes an option for the street-floor facilities.Most people dont think there is anything wrong with this and they accept it as part of the American free-enterprise system.But there is s small group of peop
36、le in this country who are fighting for Bank Birth Control.This is how Huddlestone Hubbard,the BBCs chairman,explained it.“whenever you see an old building torn down,”Hubbard said,“you usually see a candy store,a dry cleaner,a delicatessen,and possibly a florist torn down with it.These shops are all
37、 replaced in the new buildings with a beautiful glass,aluminum,wall-to wall-carpeted money factor.“Now from an aesthetic viewpoint,a bank looks better than a fry cleaner,a candy store,a delicatessen and a florist.But from a practical point of view,its a sheer disaster.If you want a newspaper,a candy
38、 bar or a chocolate milk shake,you cant get it a bank.Nor can you run out to a bank for a pound of Swiss cheese and a six-pack of beer when have guests coming over.“A bank is great if you want to buy a car,but its useless if you want to have your dress cleaned.“And while a bank might buy flowers to
39、give itself a human image,it doesnt sell any when you want to make up with your wife.”“What youre saying then,Mr.Hubbard,is that every time a bank goes up,something in all of us dies.”“Exactly.One of the reasons kids are getting in so much trouble these days is that there are candy stores to hang ar
40、ound anymore.When tear down a delicatessen,the tangy smell of potato salad,corned beef and dill pickles are lost forever.Unless youre trying to make a loan,no one ever salivates in a bank.“It is true,”I said.“The situation is more crucial than anyone thinks,”Hubbard said.“at the rate theyre tearing
41、down consumer stores and replacing them with banks,we estimate that in ten years it will be impossible to buy a loaf of bread in the country.What good is it to get 7 percent on your money if you starve to death?”“Then what youre saying is that it isnt a question of not taking it with you.Its questio
42、n of staying alive while you have it,”I said.“Something like that,”Hubbard agreed.“were tying to get the public to wake up to e fact its better to have a store that sells screwdrivers than a bank that gives away alarm clocks.”“Whats the solution?”“A government decree that a bank has to supply the sa
43、me services of the stores it tore down on the same property.If its a bakery,they have to sell cake,if its a photography shop,they have to develop films,and if its a dry-goods store,they have to sell warm underwear.If they provide the services of the stores they tore down,then well let them do a litt
44、le money lending on the side”.41.The central theme of the essay is:A.Practically every new commercial building erected today is owned by a bank.B.Banks are attempting to drive small merchants out of service.C.New banks are not assets to a neighborhood in spite of their attractive appearance.D.By occ
45、upying ground floor space in new buildings,banks are replacing neighborhood shopping conveniences.42.This essay is written in a tone of A.humorous exaggeration B.humorous understatement C.serious anger D serious fear of the future 43.The author talks about the“Bank Birth Control”group because A.it i
46、s the name of a real group B.he hopes to become its president C.he is being humorous to make his point D.he is inn favor of the author toward small neighborhood stores is that they A.are dirty B.are convenient and colorful C.should be replaced by banks D.should become supermarkets 45.The author make
47、s his point by using A.satire B.drama C.romance D.poetry(4)What if our society uses new-found technologies of“genetic engineering”to interfere with the biological nature of human beings?Might that not be disastrous?What about cloning,for instance?Cloning is a term originally used in connection with
48、nonsexual reproduction of plants and very simple animal.Now it is coming into use in connection with higher animals,since biologists are finding ways of starting with an individual cell of a grown animal and inducing it to multiply into the same way in the future.But is cloning a safe thing to unlea
49、sh on society?Might It not be used for destructive purposes?For instance,might not some ruling group decide to clone their submissive,downtrodden peasantry,and thus produce endless hordes of semi-robots who will slave to keep a few in luxury and who may even serve as endless ranks of soldiers design
50、ed to conquer the rest of the world.?A dreadful thought,but an unnecessary fear.For one thing,there is no need to clone for the purpose.The ordinary method of reproduction produces all the human beings that are needed and as rapidly as is needed.Right now,the ordinary method is producing so many peo