湖南师范大学2021年考博英语真题

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15 points, 30 X 0.5)

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a B2 pencil.

1. The ______ from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for everybody.

A. conversion

B. transition

C. turnover

D. transformation

2. To help students understand how we see, teachers often draw an ______ between an eye and a camera.

A. image

B. analogy

C. anatomy

D. axis

3. The author of the report is well ______ with the problems in the hospital because he has been working there for many years.

A. acquainted

B. informed

C. accustomed

D. known

4. When the farmers visited the city the first time, they were ______ by its complicated traffic system.

A. precluded

B. bewildered

C. diverted

D. expired

5. You should ______ to one or more weekly magazines such as Time or Newsweek.

A. ascribe

B. order

C. reclaim

D. subscribe

6. The automatic doors in supermarkets ______ the entry and exit of customers with shopping carts.

A. furnish

B. induce

C. facilitate

D. allocate

7. Each workday, the workers followed the same schedules and rarely ______ from this routine.

A. deviated

B. disconnected

C. detached

D. distorted

8. Being impatient is ______ with being a good teacher.

A. intrinsic

B. ingenious

C. incompatible

D. inherent

9. The jobs of wildlife technicians and biologists seemed ______ to him, but one day he discovered their difference.

A. identical

B. vertical

C. parallel

D. specific

10. Despite almost universal ______ of the vital importance of women’s literacy, education remains a dream for far too many women in far too many countries of the world.

A. identification

B. compliment

C. confession

D. acknowledgement

11. Starting with the ______ that there is life on the planet Mars, the scientist went on to develop his argument.

A. premise

B. pretext

C. foundation

D. presentation

12. Cultural ______ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another.

A. translation

B. transition

C. transmission

D. transaction

13. We must look beyond ______ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.

A. justifications

B. illusions

C. manifestations

D. specifications

14. What the correspondent sent us is an ______ news report. We can depend on it.

A. evident

B. authentic

C. ultimate

D. immediate

15. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ______ to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather sensitive people.

A. subjective

B. subordinate

C. liable

D. vulnerable

16. Franklin D. Roosevelt argued that the depression stemmed from the American economy’s ______ flaws.

A. underlining

B. vulnerable

C. vulgar

D. underlying

17. Many people think of deserts as ______ regions, but numerous species of plants and animals have adapted to life there.

A. virgin

B. barren

C. void

D. wretched

18. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in preliterate societies in order to attract good health or to ______ disease.

A. set aside

B. ward off

C. shrug off

D. give away

19. Small farms and the lack of modern technology have ______ agricultural production.

A. blunderedB. tangledC. bewilderedD. hampered

20. In ______ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a more favourable climate.

A. prime

B. primitive

C. primary

D. preliminary

21. She remembered severe occasions in the past ______ she had experienced a similar feeling.

A. while

B. before

C. that

D. when

22. Heavy taxes are ______ on wines imported from the other countries.

A. imposed

B. registered

C. splashed

D. thundered

23. “What courses are you going to do next semester?”

“I don’t know. But it’s about time ______ on something.”

A. I’d decide

B. I decided

C. I decide

D. I’m deciding

24. Legislation has been introduced to simplify trademark registrations and extend the rights they ______.

A. confer

B. exclude

C. allot

D. commend

25. National and international ______ is indispensable if victory is to be achieved.

A. sociology

B. isolation

C. solidarity

D. so