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2012 年福建厦门大学考博英语真题 1. The weather wasn’t favorable and both teams had to icy rain and a strong wind during the match. A. pin down B. get stuck in C. take control of D. contend with 2. People planning to travel by car to North Dakota in the winter are advised to their cars with snow tires and warm clothing. A. install B. purchase C. provide D. equip 3. The consumer in recent years has led to an explosion of shopping center development in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Canton. A. boom B. volume C. summit D. pressure 4. After a number of disagreements with the committee, the chairman decided to his present job. A. retire B. resign C. retreat D. withdraw 5. Obviously, no teacher has patience. Even Larry, who is always kind and tolerant, lost his temper on that particular occasion. A. definite B. spectacular C. infinite D. composed 6. Scientists use observation and experimentation to examine a specific concept existing theories and principles. A. in the light of B. in view of C. as to D. in the interest of 7. As the ship is loaded, it will sink deeper and deeper into the water, but only sink deep enough to an amount of water equal to the weight of the ship and its cargo. A. dismiss B. offset C. displace D. squeeze

8. Among other things the Town Council is responsible for parks, fire services, collection and libraries. A. refuse B. plague C. robbery D. insect 9. On leaving school he became an office boy and having no to rise higher, he only wasted his time. A. ambition B. determination C. success D. purpose 10. A feeling of tiredness almost the soldier on duty and he had to struggle hard to keep awake. A. overcame B. defeated C. conquered D. overtook 11. The “formal learning” refers to all learning which takes place in the classroom, regardless of whether such learning is by conservative or progressive ideologies. A. secured B. attained C. manifest D. informed 12. Formal learning is separated from daily life and may actually promote ways of learning and thinking which often run to those obtained from practical daily life. A. parallel B. contradictory C. opposite D. counter 13. We were by the extent to which teacher’s decisions served the interests of the school rather than those of the students. A. struck B. puzzled C. attracted D. misled 14. The findings of the two archaeologists the burial customs of the ancient Egyptians. A. paid attention to B. gained access to C. threw light upon D. keep track of

15. In recent years, business schools the master’s degree in business administration enjoy great popularity among the management in big companies. A. representing B. offering C. presenting D. supplying 16. The scheme for rebuilding the city center , owing to the refusal of a Council to sanction the expenditure of the money it would have required. A. fell down B. fell out C. fell off D. fell flat 17. The changing image of the family on television provides into changing attitudes toward the family in society. A. presentations B. revelations C. specifications D. insights 18. According to Plato, the most important idea is the idea of “good”. Knowledge of “good” is the object of all inquiry, a goal to which all other things are . A. approximate B. crucial C. subordinate D. detached 19. If children who cannot write are asked to write the story they have been told orally, they tend to scribble in across a page. A. patterns B. designs C. models D. scratches 20. Travelling like this is really an adventure. Very often, you’re off doing something strange where you don’t know what’s going to around the next bend. A. turn off B. turn on C. turn away D. turn up 21. Nuclear power plants are some of the largest producers of wastes, with each plant producing barrels of radioactive material that must be stored in special protective containers. A. biodegradable B. hazardous C. reasonable D. durable

22. The scientific community was when a living specimen of the coelacanth, long thought to be was discovered by deep-sea fisherman. A. perplexed...common B. overjoyed...dangerous G. unconcerned.. .local D. astounded ...extinct 23. After the governor’s third trip to overseas, voters complained that he was paying too little attention to affairs. A. intellectual B. foreign C. professional D. domestic 24. The Roman Emperor Claudius was viewed with by generations of historians until newly discovered evidence showed him to be administrator. A. suspicion...a clever B. disdain...a capable C. antagonism... an eager D. indignation... an incompetent 25. Communities in primitive areas where natural is scarce must be resourceful in order to secure adequate nutrition. A. education B. competition C. sustenance D. agriculture 26. Anthony’s expression masked an essential cheerful nature. A. jubilant B. inevitable C. dour D. pert 27. Her shrewd campaign managers were responsible for the fact that her political slogans were actually forgotten cliches revived and with new meaning. A. fathomed B. instilled C. foreclosed D. instigated 28. The stoic former general led his civilian life as he had his military life, with simplicity and dignity.

A. benevolent B. informal C. austere D. aggressive 29. Although bound to impose the law, a judge is free to use his discretion to the anachronistic barbarity of some criminal penalties. A. mitigate B. understand C. condone D. provoke 30. Henry viewed Melissa as ； she seemed to be against any position regardless of its merits. A. heretical B. disobedient C. contrary D. inattentive Part n Reading Comprehension (40% ) Section A (30%) Questions i to 5 are based on the following passage: The world seems to be going diet crazy, and yet our nation’s obesity rate has shot up year after year. And, it’s not only the over 20 population that has to worry about their weight anymore. Children from kindergarten to twelfth grade are also experiencing the problems of an overweight lifestyle. According to the website cosmiverse. com, 11% of adolescents are categorized as being overweight ,and another 16% are in danger of becoming overweight. This is a 60% jump from the 1980’s. Some of the blame is being put on schools wanting to fit more academic classes into the children’s schedule rather than waste time on physical education. This new take on education has left us with physical activity at an all-time national low，resulting in obesity and poor physical conditioning at an all-time national high. The schools have tried a few solutions, the most recent in the news has been taking soda out of schools and increasing the required time children must be active during school. Will those methods help at all? Education is important at school, but starts at home. I believe students are getting their bad habits from watching their parents and how they eat and exercise. The school system only helps to hinder the child’s dietary

eating. I know there are studies showing genes that determine how a child will be built. That does not explain, however, why the rate continues to increase at such a rapid rate each year. It seems more likely that more and more families have both parents working, leaving their children to their own means for a meal. “Nintendo, TV，PlayStation and the like，” are what Physical Education teacher, Sue Arostegui, attributes the inactiveness to, “Parents are either gone or too scared with today’ s society to let them out and play”. Classes on health need to become more regular and sports need to be encouraged. At Live Oak High School the staff does good job of teaching how to eat and exercise to stay healthy. The freshmen study health every Wednesday in P. E. , and Pam James teaches healthy eating and food preparation in Home Economics for the first few weeks of every school year. “ Kids have no idea how many calories they are eating，” said James of the overweight problems facing students. “Fast food is becoming more popular, it’s easier and parents are busy. They are only setting their kids up to gain weight with that diet however”. School cafeterias are also getting blamed for the students, eating habits. “ Healthy eating should start at home，” said L. 0. H. S. cafeteria cook, Brenda Myers. “Too many kids are being raised on fast food. After eating so much fast food they don’t have any tastes for real home cooked food. I always have healthy foods for students, but they are less likely to eat them. n Other schools do not even have the type of programs Live Oak offers and are suffering even worse consequences. Sports keep students fit and healthy. There need to be more readily available sports programs for anyone who would like to join. Many students when they feel they do not meet the standards for a team will admit defeat and drop off the team. There needs to be a program that all students will be interested in and continue through for the entire season. Schools can only do and be blamed for so much however, and it will be up to the parents to become more aware of what activities their children are participating in and how healthy they are eating. Until that happens, I foresee the obesity rate continuing on its uphill curve.

1. Which of the following is similar in meaning to the word “obesity”？ A. Extremely heavy. B. Quite plump. C. Unhealthily fat. D. Rather stout. 2. What is the trend in education that has led to an increase in obesity? A. Banning all types of soda drinks in schools. B. Adding more academic classes at the expense of physical education. C. No readily available sports programs for everyone. D. The tendency to neglect courses on healthy eating. 3. What is the chief reason for the increase in obese students? A. The genes of the students. B. The poor quality of school cafeteria food. C. Inactiveness due to playing computer games. D. The negative example of their parents. 4. What should be done to improve students’ awareness of the importance of a healthy diet? A. Inform the students of the calorie content of the food they eat. B. Help students foster a taste for home cooked food. C. Stop the cafeterias from selling fast food. D. Provide programs like those offered at Live Oak High School. 5. According to the passage, the obesity rate of students will continue to grow unless . A. all schools increase the time for students to be physically active

B. parents are more alert to what their children do and eat C. schools increase the number of sports programs and activities D. students are taught to change their eating habits Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage •• The collaboration among scientists, universities and industry is not new. Both the university administration and the industry play a role in developing the scientific knowledge in the academic environment. The university is usually responsible for obtaining patents and for licensing the rights for its professors’ inventions. The company, having licensed the product, must provide the considerable financial backing required for its development and marketing. In the best of all possible worlds, the inventors, the university administrators and the company executives work as a well-oiled machine that creates a beneficial product and generates capital to support the academic lab, the scientist, the university and the company’s shareholders. In the real world, however, each of these component parts has its own agenda. The goal may not entirely overlap. When a university stands to gain financially from the commercialization o£ one of its professors, inventions，for example，the professor may hesitate, out of conflict-of-interest issues, to participate in the trials of the new product. Such a policy causes friction and frustration in the relationship between the university administration and the faculty members. Universities themselves have faced the frustration o£ licensing their inventions to companies that have then sublicensed them to other firms for enormous fees. Because these “fees” can be disguised by a variety of accounting procedures, there is no way for the university or the inventor to participate in the profits of the sublicensing agreement. Thus，unless the invention becomes a product，the profits made by the company are not shared by the university or the inventor. Meanwhile it

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