中科院2012年博士研究生入学考试试题.pdfVIP

中科院 2012年博士研究生入学考试试题 PAPER ONE PART I VOCABULARY (15 minutes，10points, 0.5point each) Directions: Chose the word or expression below each sentence that best completes the statement, and mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. 1. I had to ______my desire to laugh while being scolded by my supervisor. A. repress B. depress C. compress D. distress 2. All living languages ______, and English seems to change more readily than some others. A. evoke B. evacuate C. evolve D. evade 3. He has always been a source of inspiration to me and I hope that he will take it as a _____when I say what. A. compassion B. compliment C. complication D. supplement 4. The current financial crisis_______ a holistic, global approach to deal with all issues. A. cries out for B. gets hold of C. boils down to D. goes in for 5. If you see you that the street is wet in the morning , you would ______that it must have rained during the night. A. reduce B. seduce C. deduce D. induce 6. Even if she is responsible for the mistake, she is not likely to ______it. A. own up to B. live up to C. hold on to D. get down to 7. The burst of growth and prosperity in America after 1945 had social consequences that were ______anywhere in the world. A. unprecedented B. unidentified C. unaccountable D. unremarkable 8. Building the Bird’s Nest calls for giant curving beams which crisscross in an ______pattern of woven steel. A. intuitive B. intensive C. intrinsic D. intricate 9. San Francisco was ______by a terrible earthquake and fire in 1906. A. deprived B. detained C. devastated D. deported 10. Compared with his ______, Putin adopted a more active, flexible and pragmatic foreign policy. A. ancestor B. pre