1996 年中国农科院博士入学考试英语真题 SectionStructure and written expression (20 points, 0.5 point each) Part A Directions: Each sentence in Part A is an incomplete 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 best complete the sentence. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer. 1. The worlds supplies of copper_. A. have been gradually exhausting B. have gradually exhausted C. are gradually exhausted D. D. are being gradually exhausted 2. Id lend you the record_ I could remember who last borrowed it. A. except that B. on condition that C. if only D. considering whether 3. A series of lectures_ to be given to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school. A. will be B. are C. are going D. is 4. I took a bus that passed and got off some forty minutes later in_. A. where there must be a 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 6. Id rather you_ those important documents with you. A. dont take B. wont take C. didnt take D. not take 7. Five minutes earlier, _ we could have caught the last train. A. and B. or C. but 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. A. now all that is left B. now all which is left B. now that all is left D. now 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 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 B. do C. is D. has 12. The criminal always paid _cash so the police could not track him down. A. on B. for C. by D. in 13. _when she started complaining. A. Not until he arrived B. No sooner has he arrived C. Hardly had he arrived D. Scarcely did he arrive 14. _the flood, the ship would have reached its destination on time. A. In case of B. Because of C. In spite of D. But for 15. No longer are contributions to computer technology confines to any one country; _is this more true than in Europe. A. hardly B. seldom C. little D. nowhere Part B Directions: Each sentence in Part B has four words or phrases underlined. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked A, B, C, D. You are to identify the one underlined word or phrase that should be corrected or rewritten. Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the problem and mark your answer. 16. She sings too loudly, the same as what her teacher does. A B C D 17. No one has been told whom of those named will be chosen to play in the last test. A B C D 18. An estimated one in three householders who are entitled to rate rebates are not A B C D claiming. 19. The waiters were careful to seat the important guests next to the host so he could A B C talk easily to them. D 20. The rose may grow as a low bush and as a tree, depending on how it is trimmed. A B C D 21. People think that they have enough money to pay the electricity their television A B C sets, washing machines and refrigerators use. D 22. Modern buttons, unlike early ones, are frequently mass-produced and usually A B C made of plastic. D 23. Methods of flood control focus on preventing rivers from rising and to keep them A B C D within their banks. 24. Einsteins theory of relativity seemed hard to believe at the time that he first A B C introduced. D 25. Next month we shall be competing among some of the best teams in the country. A B C D 26. All the foreign students are doing experiments in that new built laboratory, which A B C D was completed a few weeks ago. 27. Next to natural resources come the ability to put them to use. A B C D 28. Before winning the war of independence in 1965, Algeria lost many of their young A B C D men. 29. A growing influence in English social life was the new middle classes, who did A B C not wish to appear showy and overdressed. D 30. Our livestock is not as numerous as they used to be. A B C D 31. The book that you see laying on the table belongs to the teacher. A B C D 32. Whether he was injured many or little none could ever tell. A B C D 33. Find answers to these questions is something like a detective story. A B C D 34. In his picture we see every detail presented as precise as we would in a A B C D photograph. 35. We have all been hearing and making music almost since we have been born. A B C D 36. They like to do one thing at one time and something else at other time or in A B C another way. D 37. The country is like a scoop of fertile land surrounding on three sides by desert and A B C mountains and on the forth by the Persian Gulf. D 38. Fashions change and people change too, but the old feeling o