农科院英语考试题.doc

PART I VOCABULARY ( 30 points ) Section A ( 1 point each, 15 points) Directions: There are fifteen questions in this section. Each question is a sentence or two sentences with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence(s). Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet. 1. After centuries of self-enforced ______, China has gained for herself a place in world affairs that brings her into the current of modern history. A. cooperation B. monopoly C. dictatorship D. seclusion 2.The Manchus had effected a coalition with the Chinese gentry class which secured the positions of both parties. The gentry were set apart from the commoners and given _______ career privileges in the government bureaucracy. A. inclusive B. special C. exclusive D. especial 3.Theory and science are nurtured in material environments, and application is a powerful ______ to thought. In this respect he was a great planter of ideas. A. encouragement B. spur C. drive D. driving force 4.The methods through which they built up and maintained personal followings and the outlooks which accompanied such activity likewise became important _________ for modern Chinese political behavior. A. precedents B. pioneer C. source D. resource 5.In him one sees a meeting point, a ________of conflicts, thus a true historical personality. A. representation B. representative C. symbol D. sign 6. A stable society is a delicate balance of forces, a _______ of equilibrium in which the variables have been brought into temporary balance. To alter one factor is to set in motion a series of changes and readjustments that depend upon alterations all along the line. A. saturation B. continuum C. continuation