中国社会科学院2006年博士研究生入学考试试题.doc

中国社会科学院2006年博士研究生入学考试试题PART I: VocabularySection A (10 points)Directions: Choose the word that is the closest in meaning with the underlined word.1. With computers doubling in speed and power every couple of years and with genetic engineerings dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technological progress has been growing stronger and giddier of late.A. intriguing B. ornate C. brilliant D. obsessing2. One suggested method of containing the fires was presented by Cary Colaizzi of the engineering firm Goodson, which has developed a heat-resistant grout (a thin mortar used to fill cracks and crevices), which is designed to be pumped into the coal fire to cut off the oxygen supply.A. restraining B. comprising C. embracing D. releasing3. The two fanatic Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 attacked him when he was living across the street in Blair House while the White House was being renovated.A. refurbished B. refurnished C. reiterated D. repainted4. But by the time we are adult, the childhood hiding which dwindled to adolescent shyness, is expected to disappear altogether, as we bravely stride out to meet our guests, hosts, companions, relatives, colleagues, customers, clients, or friends.A. succumbed B. restored C. adapted D. diminished5. The Taganka production Poslushaite (“Listen”), culled from statements and works of Vladimir Mayakovsky, proved to be a singular exception.A. rejected B. descended C. confirmed D. selected6. Many feel Kennedys commitment was a desperate political maneuver to lift himself out of the calamity of the Bay of Pigs.A. limelight B. ploy C. bid D. threshold7. Some industrial workers were trying, quietly and peacefully, to create a network of free trade unions, modeled presumably on Polands famous Solidarity, which was an anathema to the regime.A. a curse B. a coup C. a spume D. a sinew8. In many simple organisms, including bacteria and various protests, the life cycle is completed within a single generation: an organism begins with the fission of an existing individual; the new organism grows to maturity; and it then splits into two new individuals, thus completing the cycle.A. split B. fusion C. explosion D. modification9. Some pundits are worried that these candidate Q-and-A sessions have supplanted regular newscasts with something less rigorous journalistically, but the carping seems misguided.A. succeeded B. superseded C. distorted D. completed10. On any corner, sane men, fanatics and demagogues could secure audiences to listen to their oratory, in which they adjured their hearers to rise in their might and drive the invader from their sacred soil.A. abjured B. appealed C. repudiated D. refutedSection B (10points)Directions: Choose the word that best completes the sentence.11. At the outset, Nixon warned, too, that a great effort would be needed to meet the Communist challenge. But his audiences seemed _ in such warnings, preferring to be reassured.A. interested B. disinterested C. uninterested D. interesting12. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel regard Iran as a rogue state that seeds to export terror, build nuclear weapons and _ the Middle East peace process.A. conspire B. deviate C. distort D. sabotage13. The slogan “scientific truth is a matter of social authority” has become dogma to many academic interest groups who have been _ themselves to substitute their authority for that of the practicing scientists.A. grudging B. exerting C. swarming D. detesting14. None of these _ is an end in itself. They are tentative, experimental. They are movements not towards something definite but away from something definite.A. assurance B. expedients C. awareness D. doubts15. Nxele denounced sorcery, adultery, _, incest, extortion, and murder; he would not eat prepared food, which he said was unclean, and stopped drinking milk.A. monogamy B. monologue C. polygamy D. polygene16. “The foreign teachers wondered what we Chinese teachers do in political meetings and I told them that we had to go through the _ of lengthy formalities”.A. rigmarole B. significance C. commiseration D. implication17. According to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1995, the wealthiest 10 percent of Chinas population received 30.9 percent of the income, while the poorest 10 received only 2.2 percent. Such _ in income and wealth are found in both cities and rural areas.A. identicalness B. disparities C. egalitarianism D. curmudgeons18. In addition to the Mandarin dialects, there are six other Chinese dialect groups, spoken mainly in southern and southeastern China. This linguistic _, particularly in southeastern China, has provided the basis for strong regional identity and some ethnic variation within the larger Han community.A. fragmentation B. unanimity C. lethargy D. apotheosis19. Her taste runs also to arrangements of Chopin and Joplin, as well as to Japanese and Brazilian music, part of _ approach that is winning her fans around the world.A. a heterogeneous B. an eclectic C. a homogeneous D. a monotonous20. _ is practiced to some extent by the adherents of every religion. It often requires abstinence from food, drink, or sexual activity, as in fasting or celibacy and it may also require physical pain or discomfort, such as endurance of extreme heat or cold or self-punishment.A. Extravagance B. Opulence C. Deterioration D. AsceticismPART : GrammarSection A (10 points)Directions: Choose the answer that best fills in the blank.21. The buffalo which the lion fells provokes his aggression as little as the appetizing turkey which I have just seen hanging in the larder provokes _.A. me B. them C. it D. mine22. Here, so profligate has its use become the air conditioner is almost _ the automobile of the national tendency to overindulge in every technical possibility, to use every convenience to such excess that country looks downright coddled.A. as glaring symptom as B. as glaring a symptom asC. as symptom glaring as D. as glaring as a symptom23. The touch excites no defensive response unless the approach is from above where the spider can see the motion, _ on its hind legs, lifts its front legs, opens its fangs and holds this threatening posture as long as the object continues to move.A. in which case it rises B. in that case it risesC. in which case does it rise D. such being the case it rises24. As mainstream chip production technology shifts from one generation to the next every three to five years, plants with new technology can make more powerful chips at lower costs, _ plants with outdated equipment, which often cost billions of dollars to build, will be marginalized by the maker.A. because B. even though C. while D. since25. _ from her contract, De Havilland sued the studio and, after a two-year battle, won her case in a landmark decision that benefited all contract actors.A. Determined being released B. Determining to be releasedC. Determined to be released D. Determining to be releasing26. The game of golf became so popular in Scotland in order to keep people from playing golf when they _ archery, a military necessity, the Scottish parliament passed a special law in 1457. The Scottish people, however, largely ignored these similar laws.A. should have been practicing B. should be practicingC. had been practicing D. were practicing27. If at some point they do import Christianity, it is _ that it will be absorbed and adapted _ strength the continuing core of Chinese culture.A. more than likely in such a manner as toB. more likely than in such a manner so as toC. likely more than in a manner so as toD. more likely to such a manner as28. A rogue loose called a hacker could take control of the entire system by implanting his own instructions in the software and then he could program the computer to erase any sign _.A. of his being ever there B. he ever has been thereC. of his having ever been there D. of him having ever been there29. _ at the outset, _ instead of shifting thing about may be pheromones released when they reach committee size.A. The stimuli set them off build collectivelyB. The stimuli that set them off building collectivelyC. The stimuli setting them off they build collectivelyD. Being set off by stimuli their building collectively30. When we stereotype people, we use a less mature form of thinking (not unlike the immature thinking of a very young child) that makes simplistic and categorical impressions of others. _ about the depth and breadth of people-their history, interest, values, strengths and true character-we categorize them as jocks, geeks or freaks.A. Rather than learn B. To make sure to learnC. As soon as learning D. As a replacement for learningSection B (10 points)Directions: Choose the letter that indicates the error in the sentence.31. Such an extravagance merely to provide comfort is peculiarly America and striking at odds with A B C all the recent rhetoric about national sacrifice in a period of menacing energy shortages. D32. Other modern industrial nations such as Japan, Germany and France have managed all long to Athrive with mere fractions of man-made coolness used in the U.S, and precious little of that inBCDprivate dwellings.33. Thousands of tired, underfed, poorly clothed Confederate soldiers, long since past the simpleA Benthusiasm of the early days of the struggle somehow considered Lee the symbol of everythingCthat they had been willing to die.D34. It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill,ABthat you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it to think, plan, and calculate. CD35. Although postmodernism incorporates large helpings of Freudianism and the more credulous kindAof cultural anthropology, it remains a fundamentally “left” phenomena, in the sense of maintainingB Can implacable hostility to market economics and traditional social structures. D36. Restrained from the slave-trade-the favorite traffic of the chiefs-opposed in their maraudingApropensity, and threatened by the desertion of their slaves and women, who begin to understand that by flight into the towns of the Republic they can free themselves from the domestic institutions of slavery and polygamy, it is not probable that heathen princes and chiefs would be Bfavorable to the government which they imagine is operating detrimentally in these respects toCits interest.D37. After 1945 both America scholarship and a resurgence of Marxist thought increasingly penetratedAEuropean sociology, which expanded considerably. To a growing extent in both the United StatesBand Western European, the three dominating figure