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1、2022年考博英语-厦门大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题In 1914, an apparently insignificant event in a remote pan of Eastern Europe_Europe into a great war.问题1选项A.pitchedB.imposedC.insertedD.plunged【答案】D【解析】pitched倾斜; 投掷; imposed强加的; inserted插入; plunged投入, 陷入。句意：1914年, 东欧一个偏远地区发生的一件显然无关紧要的事件使欧洲陷入了一场大战。选项D符合句意。2. 单选题A
2、completely new situation will_when the new examination system comes into existence.问题1选项A.riseB.raiseC.ariseD.arouse【答案】C【解析】句意：当新的考试制度出现时, 将会出现一个全新的局面。rise提高, 上升; raise筹集, 养育; arise出现, 上升; arouse引起, 唤起。只有选项C有出现, 产生的意思。所以本题选C。3. 单选题He had scarcely left the railway station_it started to rain.问题1选项A.t
3、hanB.thenC.whenD.since【答案】C【解析】scarcely when为固定用法, 表示一.就.。句意：他一离开火车站就开始下起了雨。选项C正确。4. 单选题The flicker of impatience in the husbands eyes melts into bemused_as his wife asks for just a little more time at the mall.问题1选项A.resignationB.regradationC.retiralD.reverse【答案】A【解析】resignation放弃, 顺从; regradation倒
4、退, 后退; retiral退休, 撤退; reverse 相反, 倒退。句意：当妻子要求在商场“再多待一会儿”时, 丈夫眼中闪现的不耐烦化为了呆滞的放弃。选项A符合句意。5. 单选题Hello,my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago,and now I need help. Like most journalists, I cant deny that one of my private joys is seeing my byline in print. Now the
5、internet is allowing me to feed this vanity to an ever greater extent,and the occasional sneaky web search has grown into a full-blown obsession with how high up Googles ranking my articles appear when I put my name into the search box. When I last looked,my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th
6、 place. You know you have a problem when you find yourself competing for ranking with a retired basketball player from the 1970s.Not that Im alone in suffering from a dysfunctional techno-habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems: think crackberr
7、y, powerpointlessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar with sending an email to a colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead of talking to them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends,colleagues or even first dates. More of us than ever reveal highly personal information on blogs
8、 or My Space entries. A few will even use internet anonymity to fool others into believing they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions,or are we developing fresh mind bugs?Developing a bad habit is easier than many might think.
9、You can become addicted to potentially anything you do, says Mark Griffiths, an addiction researcher at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, because addictions rely on constant rewards. Indeed,although definitions of addiction vary,there is a body of evidence that suggests drug addictions and non-
10、drug habits share the same neural pathways. While only a hardcore few can be considered true technology addicts,an entirely unscientific survey of the web,and of New Scientist staff,has revealed how prevalent techno-addictions may have become.The web in particular has opened up a host of opportuniti
11、es for overindulgence. Take Wikipedia, Updating the entriessomething anyone can dohas become almost a way of life for some. There are more than 2400 Wikipedians, who have edited more than 4000 pages each. Its clearly like crack for some people, says Dan Closely at Cornell University in New York,who
12、has studied how websites such as Wikipedia foster a community. To committed Wikipedians, he says,the site is more than a useful information resource; its the embodiment of an ideology of free information for all.Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of us would rather die than be cau
13、ght surreptitiously browsing through someone elses photos,there need be no such qualms about the private pics people put up on these sites. Most people using Flickr and similar sites spent time each day browsing albums owned by people they had never met. They do this for emotional kicks. Khalid and
14、Dix suggest: flicking through someone elses wedding photos, for example, allows people to daydream about their own nuptials.Email is another area where things can get out of hand. While email has led to a revival of the habit of penning short notes to friends and acquaintances,the ease with, which w
15、e can do this means that we dont always think hard enough about where our casual comments could end up. This was the undoing of US broadcaster Keith Olbermann, who earlier this year sent a private email in which he described a fellow MSNBC reporter as dumber than a suitcase of rocks. Unfortunately for Olbermann, the words found their way into the New York Daily News.Pam Briggs, a specialist in human-computer interaction at the University of Northumbria,UK,says the lack of cues such as facial expressions or body language when commu
