1996年博士生入学英语考试试题.doc

1 1996 年中国农科院博士生英语入学考试 Sectio nⅠ Structure and written expression (20 points, point each) Part A Directions: Each sentence in Part A isan plete sentence. Four words or phrases, marked A, B, C, D, are given beneath each sentence. You are to choose the one word or phrase that plete the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer. 1. The world ’s supplies of copper_____. A. have been gradually exhausting B. have gradually exhausted C. are gradually exhausted D. D. are being gradually exhausted ’d lend you the record______ I could remember who last borrowed it. A. except that condition that C. if only D. considering whether series of lectures______ tobe given to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school. A. will be B. are C. are going D. took abus that passed and got off some forty minutes later in______. A. where there must bea suburb B. that it must have been a suburb C. what must have been a suburb D. that where must have been a suburb 5. Before he started work, I asked the builder to give me an______of the cost of repairing the roof. A. assessment B. announcement C. estimate D. evaluation ’d rather you______ those important documents with you. ’t take B. won ’t take C. didn ’t take take 7. Five minutes earlier, ______ we could have caught the last train. A. and D. so 8. She is______a musician than her brother. A. much of B. more of C. much as D. more as 9. Once they had fame, fortune, secure futures; ______is utter poverty. all that is left all which is left that all is left all what is left 10. All flight______ because of the storm, they decided to take the train. A. having canceled B. were canceled C. have been canceled D. having been canceled 2 11. The atmosphere is as much a part of the earth as______ its soils and the water of its lakes, rivers and oceans. A. are C. is D. has 12. The criminal always paid ______cash so the poli