北京大学2015年博士研究生入学考试英语听力试题.docVIP

北京大学2012年博士研究生入学考试试题 考试科目：英语 考试时间：2012年3月17日 招生专业：全校各专业 研究方向：各研究方向 Part One: Listening Comprehension Section A (10%) Directions: In this section you will hear 3 passages. Each passage will be read only ONCE. At the end of each passage, there will be a pause. Listen carefully to the passages and then answer the questions that follow. Mark your choices on the Answer Sheet. Passage One Questions 1 to 3 are based on the passage you have just heard. 1. According to leading Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin, why are children now unable to appreciate the novelist’s works? [A] Dreadful television programs have already had too much Dickens. [B] Children are not being taught to have prolonged attention spans to finish a Dickens novel. [C] Children are not being taught to read Dickens with interest. [D] Dickenss depiction of an unequal society is no longer relevant to the current era. 2. Charles Dickens was buried in _________. [A] Portsmouth [B] Hampshire [C] Westminster Abbey [D] Cornwall 3. In the Global Dickens Read-a-thon that begins in Australia, people will read from _________. [A] David Copperfield [B] Bleak House [C] A Tale of Two Cities [D] Dombey and Son Passage Two Questions 4 to 6 are based on the passage you have just heard. 4. Which of the following statements is NOT true about cirrhotic liver disease? [A] It is a genetic disease. [B] The protein anti-trypsin cannot escape from the liver where it is made. [C] The disease affects 1 in 2,000 people all over the world. [D] Currently, the only solution is a liver transplant. 5. Why was the scientists’ study regarded as a critical step towards devising treatments? [A] Because they managed to convert a patient’s skin cell to a stem cell. [B] Because they managed to correct the genetic fault in the stem cells. [C] Because they managed to turn stem cells into liver cells. [D] Because they managed to place the cells into mice. 6. Which of the following statements is true