《华中科技大学2016秋季博士研究生英语入学考试试题》.pdf

2005 年秋季华中科技大学博士研究生英语入学考试试题 I. Cloze (0.5x20=10%) Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the answer sheet. Today, the Tower of London is one of the most popular tourist (1) ___ and attracts over three million visitors a year. It was occasionally used as a Royal Palace for the Kings and Queens of England (2) ____ the time of James I who (3) ____ from 1603 to 1625, but is (4) ____ known as a prison and execution place. Within the walls of the Tower, princes have been murdered, traitors (5) ____, spies shot, and Queens of England beheaded. One of the most famous executions was that of Anne Boleyn in 1536. She was the second wife of Henry VIII. He wanted to (6) ____ her because she could not give him a son, so he accused her of adultery. She was tried and found guilty. She asked to be beheaded with a sword, (7) ____ the usual axe, which can still be seen in the Tower. The sword and executioner were (8) ____ over specially from France and with one (9) ____ the executioner cut off her head. The Tower was also the (10) ____ of one of Londons most famous mysteries. King Edward IV died in 1843. His elder son, Edward, became king (11) ____ his fathers death. Young Edward lived in the Tower, and the Duke of Gloucester, (12) ____ protector, persuaded Edwards brother, Richard, to come and live there so that they could play together. But then the Duke (13) ____ that he was the new king, and he was crowned instead of the twelve-year-old Edward, (14) ____ himself Richard III. After that, the boys were seen less and less and eventually disappeared. (15) ____ said that they were suffocated in bed by pillows being (16) ____ their mouths. It is believed that Richard ordered their deaths, (17) ____ it has never been proved. In 1674, workmen at the Tower discovered two (18) ____ whic