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北京大学2014年考博英语真题 1. _________ before we leave the day after tomorrow, we should have a wonderful time together. [A] Had they arrived [B] Would they arrive [C] Were they arriving [D] Were they to arrive 2._________ last year and is now earning his living as an advertising agent. He would leave school [B] He left school [C] He had left school [D] He has left school 3.Some people viewed the findings with caution, noting that a cause-and-effect relationship between passive smoking and cancer remained _________. [A] to be shown [B] to have been shown [C] to have shown [D] being shown 4.__________ that should be given priority to. [A] It is the committee has decided [C] It is what the committee has decided [B] It is only the committee has decided [D] It is what has the committee decided 5. The most interesting new cars may owe __________ the simple wisdom of hiring a few talented people and allowing them to work. [A] less local free-spiritedness than [C] to less local free-spiritedness than to [B] less local free-spiritedness than to [D] less to local free-spiritedness than to 6. Over the years, Jimmy Connors __________ phenomenal displays of tennis and temper—and at the U.S. Open last week, he exhibited both again. [A] has treated spectators with [C] has treated spectators [B] has treated spectator for [D] has treated spectators to 7. Summer holidays spent on the hot ghetto streets are __________ the time middle-class students devote to camps, exotic vacations and highly organized sports. [A] as hardly culturally enriching as [C] hardly as culturally enriching as [B] as hardly enriching culture as [D] hardly as cultural enriching as 8. The major obstacle to the reform in New Orleans, __________, is money. [A] as is it across the country [C] as it were across the country [B] as it is across the country [D] as were it across the country 9.Nearly all trees have seeds that fall to the earth, take root, and eventually __________. [A] generate new