宁波大学考博英语历年真题详解.pdf

2011年宁波大学考博英语真题及详解 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directio
: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Among the most popular books being written today are those which are usually (1)_____ as science fiction. (2)_____ of titles are published every year and are read by all kinds of people. (3)_____, some of the most successful films of recent yea
have been (4)_____ science fiction stories. It is often thought that science fiction is a fairly new (5)_____ in literature, but its ancesto
can be found in books written hundreds of yea
ago. These books were often concerned (6)_____ the presentation of some form of ideal society, a theme which is still often (7)_____ in modern societies. Most of the (8)_____ science fiction, (9)_____, have been written within the last one hundred yea
. Books by write
such as Jules Veme and H.G. Wells, to (10)_____ just two well-known autho
, have been tra
lated into many languages. Modern science fiction write
don’t (11)_____ about men from Ma
or space adventure stories. They are more interested in predicting the results of technological developments (12)_____ society and the human mind; or (13)_____ imagining future worlds which are (14)_____ of the world we live in now. (15)_____ this, their writing has obvious political undertones. (16)_____ an age where science fact frequently overtakes science fiction, the write
may find it difficult to keep (17)_____ scientific advances. Those who are (18)_____ clear-sighted to see the way we are going, however, may provide valuable lesson on (19)_____ to deal with the problems which society will inevitably face as it tries to master its new technology and come to (20)_____ with a continually changing view of the world. 1. [A] classified [B] collected [C] separated [D] divided 2. [A] Hundred [B] A hundred [C] Hundreds [D] The hundred 3. [A] Otherwise [B] However [C] Besides [D] Except 4. [A] depended on [B] establi