2021年北京外国语大学考博英语真题

2021年北京外国语大学考博英语真题

I. Vocabulary (20%)

1. Evidence mounts that bacteria can be effectively immortal: 100-million-year-old seafloor sediment bacteria have been ______.

A. resuscitated B. repudiated C. ratified D. ransacked

2. Family support and parental ______ responses have been hypothesized to play an important role in paediatric pain; however, research testing such association seems non-existent.

A. statutory B. specious C. sonorous D. solicitous

3. When the clouds hung ______ low in the heavens, I have been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.

A. suggestively B. digressively C. oppressively D. objectively

4. ______ to launch later this year, the James Webb Space Telescope will peer more deeply into the universe than any optical or infrared telescope before it.

A. Sweltered B. Slated C. Supplicated D. Suffused

5. Two-shot vaccinations aim for maximum benefit: the first dose ______ immunological memory, and the second dose solidifies it.

A. stymies B. primes C. invades D. recognizes

6. Meanwhile, the Pabst brothers are desperate to keep their successful beer empire ______ through Prohibition, and introduce a shelf-stable cheese of their own.

A. climatic B. checked C. solvent D. chastise

7. TV dinners became an American culinary staple in the mid-20th century, but the true origin of this quarter-trillion-dollar industry may never be fully ______

A. mutilated B. tinged C. unwrapped D. tattered

8. The mention of Cupid typically ______ images of a cherubic infant wielding a bow and arrow, but this wasn’t always the case.

A. embarks B. reminds of C. inaugurates D. conjures up

9. In 1901 a deadly smallpox epidemic tore through the Northeast, ______ the Boston and Cambridge boards of health to order the vaccination of all residents.

A. prompting B. debilitating C. modulating D. traducing

10. A former Pinterest employee risked a lawsuit when she made public her ______ of workplace discrimination and harassment.

A. treatises B. allegation C. assertions D. decree

11. Through the United States, a ______ debate about the design of better neighborhoods emerged in the 1990s.

A. wide B. long C. broad D. high

12. The early history of Asians in America centers on efforts to overcome employment and occupational discrimination in the ______ achieve socioeconomic assimilation.

A. rank B. quest C. preparation D. attainment

13. Sociologists have built an ______ research tradition that examines and analyzes numerous types and outcomes of the immigrants’ adjustment and adaptation process.

A. impressive B. accessible C. innocent D. available

14. Many scholars note that because of the political and human trauma associated with their refugee experiences and their inability to permanently return to their homeland in the ______ future, the Vietnamese have relatively high naturalization rates compared to other Asian Americans.

A. forthcoming B. visible C. tangible D. foreseeable

15. As numerous scholars have ______, the traditional family structures of the Japanese were severely damaged as they were made to share virtually all aspects of their private lives in communal conditions.

A. confronted B. provided C. documented D. grappled

16. The United States is a society of diverse cultures and household types, ______ since the 1940s, most American space has been shaped around a simplistic prescription for satisfaction.

A. or B. so C. for D. yet

17. In the years following WWI, many defense corporations wanted to give women’s jobs to veterans and ______ some defense industries to production of consumer goods.

A. advise B. modify C. convert D. adopt

18. Tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, and influenza ______ as many lives as did industrial hazards.

A. excavated B. claimed C. restored D. relieved

19. Humans need ______, aesthetic pleasure, and economic security. Homes can contribute to the satisfaction of these desires or frustrate them.

A. nurturing B. exploring C. activities D. ideas

20. Eighteen years ago, when I wrote Redesigning the American Dream, I argued that American architects and planners needed to rethink the ______ of gender. The single-family houses produced after WWII for returning veterans did not fit late-twentieth-century families.

A. photo B. overview C. strategy D. architecture

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