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1、2022年考博英语-东北大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题The citizens express their（ ）to the local council for the help.问题1选项A.attitudeB.gratitudeC.altitudeD.gravity【答案】B【解析】考查名词词义辨析。A选项attitude“态度；看法”；B选项gratitude“感谢；感激”；C选项altitude“高地；高度；海拔”；D选项gravity“重力；地心引力；严重性”。句意：这些市民向提供帮助的当地委员会表达了他们的感谢。结合句意，故B选项正确。2. 单选题The Nut
2、ty Professor was written off as （ ）, but in actuality, he was a smart man!问题1选项A.complicityB.effigyC.inaneD.diatribe【答案】C【解析】考查词义辨析。A选项complicity“共谋；串通；共犯关系”；B选项effigy“雕像；肖像”；C选项inane“空洞的；愚蠢的”；D选项diatribe“诽谤；恶骂”。句意：肥佬教授被描写成愚蠢的，但是在现实中他却是一个聪明的人。结合句意可知C选项正确。3. 单选题The newspaper（ ）the details of the acci
3、dent in a short time.问题1选项A.disclosedB.exhibitedC.exposedD.discovered【答案】A【解析】考查动词辨析。A选项disclose “公开；披露”；B选项exhibit“展览；显示；提出（证据等）”；C选项expose“揭露（多指揭露丑闻，坏人坏事或各种阴谋）；使曝光；显示”；D选项discover“发现；发觉”。句意：这份报纸不久就披露了这起事故的细节。结合此处语境，A选项正确。4. 单选题For hundreds of millions of years, turtles have struggled out of the se
4、a to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings down to the waters edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking
5、lot instead. A formidable wall of bureaucracy has been erected to protect their prime nesting on the Atlantic coastlines. With all that attention paid to them, youd think these creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct.But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a
6、 report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds. The South Florida nesting population, the largest, has declined by 50% in the last decade, according to Eliz
7、abeth Griffin, a marine biologist with the environmental group Oceana. The figures prompted Oceana to petition the government to upgrade the level of protection for the North Atlantic loggerheads from “threatened” to “endangered”meaning they are in danger of disappearing without additional help.The
8、obvious question: what else do these turtles want from us, anyway? It turns out, according to Griffin, that while we have done a good job of protecting the turtles for the weeks they spend on land (as egg-laying females, as eggs and as hatchlings), we have neglected the years spend in the ocean. “Th
9、e threat is from commercial fishing,” says Griffin. Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and longline fishers (which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles.Of course, like every other environmental issue
10、 today, this is playing out against the background of global warming and human interference with natural ecosystems. The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm. Ul
11、timately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how creature so ugly could have won so much affection.1.We can learn from the first paragraph that （ ）.2.What does the author m
12、ean by “Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness (Line 1， Para. 2)?3.What constitutes a major threat to the survival of turtles according to Elizabeth Griffin?4.How does global warming affect the survival of turtles?5.The last sentence of the passage is meant to （ ）.问题1选项A.human activities
13、 have changed the way turtles surviveB.efforts have been made to protect turtles from dying outC.government bureaucracy has contributed to turtles, extinctionD.marine biologists are looking for the secret of turtles reproduction问题2选项A.Nature is quite fair regarding the survival of turtles.B.Turtles
14、are by nature indifferent to human activities.C.The course of nature will not be changed by human interference.D.The turtle population has decreased in spite of human protection.问题3选项A.Their inadequate food supply.B.Unregulated commercial fishing.C.Their lower reproduction ability.D.Contamination of
15、 sea water.问题4选项A.It threatens the sandy beaches on which they lay eggs.B.The changing climate makes it difficult for their eggs to hatch.C.The rising sea levels make it harder for their hatchlings to grow.D.It takes them longer to adapt to the high beach temperature.问题5选项A.persuade human beings to show more affection for turtlesB.stress that even the most ugly species should be protectedC.call for effective measures to ensure sea turtles survivalD.warn our descendants about the extinction of species【答案】第1题:B
