2015 年福建厦门大学考博英语真题
Part I
Listening Comprehension (15%)
(略)
Part II
Vocabulary and Structure
(20%)
Directions: There are 40 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.
1. The opinions of his peers are more important to her than her parents' idea.
A. friends
enemies
B. equals
C.
D. bosses
2. After we join the WTO, the situation that our automobile industry, depends for
its survival on
government subsidies will be changed.
A. financial aid
B. personnel support
C. spiritual
encouragement
D. partial taxation
3. My salary has been raised to 100,000 yuan a year, but there is a proportionate
increase in my income tax.
A. dramatic
B. undesirable
C.
perpetual
D. proportional
4. Henry David Thoreau used to ramble through the woods before he wrote his most
famous book Walden (1854).
A. study
C. read aloud
B. live
D. wander
5. Despite the pressure from the president, the provincial government insisted on
its autonomous jurisdiction.
A. regional
C. willful
B. obstinate
D. legal
6. All programs celebrating the Spring Festival in the CCTV have been relayed to
even part of the world through satellites.
A. received
B. reserved
C. rebroadcast
D. enjoyed
7. You must be drunk last night. Otherwise how did you manage to drive into a
stationary vehicle?
A. official
C. parked
B. police
D. running
8. To create a democratic atmosphere in the company, the manager should always be
accessible to his staff.
A.fair
B. equal
C. acceptable
D. approachable
9. The newly imported machine doesn't work in ambient humidity of 50 degrees.
A. approximate
B. surrounding
C. convenient
D. high
10. Many students are signing the petition against building a steelworks near the
school.
A. names
C. request
B. agreement
D. disapproval
11. Your appraisal of the current situation is quite different from mine.
A. optimistic
C. agreement
B. compliment
D. estimate
12. They are boycotting the store because the workers are on strike.
A. looting
B. banning
C. protecting
D. destroying
13. In the final contest, two athletes are contending for the championship.
A. satisfying
C. competing
B. happy
D. quarreling
14. The computer's value will depreciate by half in the first year.
A. decrease
C. keep low
B. increase
D. fluctuate
15. China Telecom is about to embark on a major program of computerization.
A. propaganda
C. purchase
B. finish
D. undertake
l6. The candidate has given a pledge that he will improve the local environment and
invest doubly in education.
A. promise
C. proposal
B.
declaration
D. possibility
17. There has always been an epldemic or bike stealing in schools.
A. a theft
C. a plague
B. a punishment
D. a crime
18. It is in Chongqing that the next international symposium on environmental
protection will be held.
A. debate
C. seminar
B. conference
D. negotiation
19. Many people suspected the existence of extraterrestrial life.
A. snowman
C. spiritual
B. outside the earth
D. underworld
20. In case your liabilities outrun your assets, you may go bankrupt.
A. debt
B. enterprise
C. controversy
D. bondage
21. After the fierce quarrel, they began to have a __________ loathing for each other.
A. boring
C. friendly
B. reciprocal
D. standing
22. On the stage many pieces of blue silk were fluctuated to ________the sea waves.
A. simplify
C. help
B. simulate
D. like
23. The government lacked money because of biting oil________.
A. prices
B. stations
C. buildings
D. revenues
24. Though the policies of racial ________had been abolished, many whites in the
South were still dubious about the safety of the communities.
A. segregation
B. regulations
C. communism
D. extinction
25. The proposal was accepted with ________ approval. Everybody believed it would
help revive the national economy.
A. unanimous
B. doubtful
C. pleasant
D. searching
26. Many social services are provided by ________ societies and organizations that
do not expect any material payment.
A. wealthy
C. helpful
B.voluntary
D.spiritual
27. In the packed hall, the people sitting close to me _________ me into the corner
little by little.
A. dragged
B. drew
C. frightened
D. wedged
28. The police, trying to ________exactly who was at the party are investigating
every person concerned.
A. ascertain
B. arrest
C. imagine
D. count
29. If everybody has arrived the meeting may________ now.
A. commence
B. criticize
C. comment
D. conclude
30. The prodigal son ________his large inheritance in a few years of heavy spending.
A. inherited
B. received
C. accumulated
D. dissipated
3l. In ancient India, there used to be a very formidable ________ in religious and
social life.
A. hierarchy
B. power
C. despot
D. president
32._________ delinquency refers to law-breaking by young people.
A. Juvenile
B. Green-hand
C. Amateur
D. Institute
33. It's necessary to make your handwritings ________ when you fill in an official
form.
A. reconcilable
B. legitimate
C. legible
D. formal
34. She has always been a conscientious secretary since the gal, she entered my
company. Tine suggestion that I wanted her to resign is quite __________.
A. thoughtful
B. reasonable
C. unfounded
D. early
35. The ________ meaning of "yellow" is a color, but it can also mean "cowardly."
A. positive
B. negative
C. underlying
D. literal
36. When I stayed in the country, I used to walk in the fields at night and to see
________ of stars.
A. the circulation
B. a cluster
C. the falling
D. myriads
37. Ringing church bells sets up ________ in the Alpine valleys.
A. resonance
B. forests
C. church building
D. priests
38. The students are all from ________ countries, such as Singapore, India, Korean,
and Japan.
A. developing
B.oriental
C. island
D. Christian
39. Wouldn't it be easier to move about on the ________ of the mobbed crowd than
to squeeze in tile middle?
A. consent
C. fringe
B. heads
D. recreation
40. When the new immigration law came into effect, the old one was naturally
__________.
A. validated
B. put off
C. repealed
D. put up
Part III Reading Comprehension
(50%)
Section A
Directions: There are 3 reading passages 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 D. You loeide on the best choice.
Passage 1
In the years following the Second World War, the youth hostel idea spread to other
parts of the world and the same spirit was maintained. The International Youth Hostel
Federation, IYHF, which was to co-ordinate activities in the various national
associations, incorporated in its constitution the principle that in youth hostels
"there shall be no distinctions of race, nationality color, religion, class or
political opinions. This, it should be noted, was at a time when the principles of
racial equality and brotherhood were by no means so widely acknowledged as they are
now."
There is normally no age bar at youth hostels. Exceptions are Switzerland and Bavaria.
Where there is a maximum age of 25 and I7 years respectively. Generally, however,
the hostels are intended to meet the needs of two main groups: senior secondary school
children, university and school children travelling with a teacher on educational
visits, and aged between about 11 and 18.
The principal contribution of the youth hostel movement to the attack on racism is
the fact that in the 4,364 hostels throughout the world the brotherhood of man is
taken for granted and practiced quietly and without any ostentation.
If you walk into the common-room of a big youth hostel in Gracow or Munich, Lahore
of Canberra, you will find young people of' every race and nationality sitting down
together to share their experiences and discuss the world's problems. As a Malaysian
boy recently remarked:" youth hostel is a place where you will never feel lost"