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华中科技大学
2007年招收博士研究生入学考试试题
考试科目: 英语
适用专业: 各专业
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Part I Cloze (=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.
In Switzerland, six miles west of Geneva, lies a collection of laboratories and buildings, and, 1 curious of all, a circular mound of 2 more than 650 feet in diameter. This cluster has unique importance. It is Europe’s 3 atomic city dedicated to 4 the atom for peaceful purposes.
The strange buildings 5 the European Council for Nuclear Research, more popularly known, from 6 French initials, as CERN. The council was 7 when a handful of statesmen and scientific experts 8 in Paris in 1950. Their aim was to “ 9 anization providing for co-operation among European states 10 nuclear research of a pure scientific and fundamental character.”
The CERN agreement was 11 in 1953, and work on the atomic city began in 1954. today CERN’s 12 are among the most modern and the most diversified in the world. 13 as the scientific aspect may be, the real significance of CERN may lie 14 the thousand people ----the scientists, lab workers, and administrative 15 drawn from the fourteen member nations ---- 16 populate it. British engineers work 17 with Swiss electricians and Yugoslav nuclear physicists. The 18 languages are French and English, with German an unofficial third. But BERN is 19 tower of Babel ---- the language of science is 20 and all-embracing.
1. A. best B. chiefly C. most D. mostly
2. A. earth B. dirt C. mud D. soil
3. A. one and best B. one and only C. one and an D. one and merely
4. A. investigation B. being investigated C. investigate D. investigating
5. A. work with B. belong to C. consist of D. are located in
6. A. his B. their C. its D. those
7. A. come into being B. constructed C. erected D. born
8. A. joined B. developed C. met D. met with
9. A. found B. put up C. build D. e