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青岛大学2013年硕士研究生入学试题

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AND STRUCTURE （40points ）P ART I VOCABULARY VOCABULARYAND

A. Choose one of the four answers that best completes each sentence.

1. With the divergence between the two sides apparently widening, analysts said they considered the likelihood of a merger between the two corporations to be _____.

A. deteriorating B. substantial C. coincidental D. legitimate

2. The younger members of the company resented the domineering and ______

manner of the office manager.

A. prudent B. imperious C. objective D. convivial

3. The systems analyst hesitated to talk to strangers about her highly specialized work, fearing it was too ______for people uninitiated in computer field to understand.

A. intriguing B. derivative C. attributive D. esoteric

4. That the brain physically changes when stimulated, instead of remaining _____from infancy to death, as previously thought, was Doctor Marian Diamond’sfirst, and perhaps most far-reaching discovery.

A. sensory B. static C. vigorous D. fluid

5. Precision of wording is necessary in good writing; by choosing words that exactly convey the desired meaning, one can avoid ______.

A. complexity B. duplicity C. ambiguity D. lucidity

6. Perhaps because he feels ______by an excess of parental restrictions and rules, at adolescence the repress child may break out dramatically.

A. confined B. nurtured C. fascinated D. liberated

7. One by one, she ______almost all of her supporters until, at the end, only a handful of her closest allies really wanted her to stay in office.

A. alienated B. promoted C. represented D. exaggerated

8. Muskoxen survived in isolated arctic habitats, but in the nineteenth century, they declined rapidly even there, their numbers _____by the armed enthusiasm of explorers , whalers, fur traders, and Eskimo.

A. swelled B. devastated C. underestimated D. calculated

9. Irony can, after a fashion, become a mode of escape:to laugh at the

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