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1、2022年考博英语-北京大学考前提分综合测验卷（附带答案及详解）1. 单选题Summer holidays spent on the hot ghetto streets are ( ) he time middle-class students devote to camps, exotic vacations and highly organized sports.问题1选项A.as hardly culturally enriching asB.as hardly enriching culture asC.hardly as culturally enriching asD.hardl
2、y as cultural enriching as【答案】C【解析】考查语法知识。当否定词hardly修饰asas时要放在前面，修饰形容词性的enriching要使用副词，因此C选项符合题意。2. 单选题Experiments suggest that season of birth dramatically affects the speed the body clock ticks.问题1选项A.at whichB.for whichC.on whichD.in which【答案】A【解析】考查语法知识。介词+which引导定语从句时，介词要与先行词搭配。题干中先行词是the speed
3、，只有at可以搭配。句意：实验表明，出生的季节会极大地影响生物钟的运转速度。因此选项A符合题意。3. 单选题Scientists on Tuesday pushed the hands of the infamous “Doomsday Clock” forward one minute from last year, signaling their_pessimism about the efforts of world leaders to handle global threats.问题1选项A.increaseB.increasedC.increasedlyD.increasing【答
4、案】D【解析】考查语法知识。空格前是their形容词性物主代词，后是名词pessimism悲观主义，所以空格处应填形容词，可排除A和C。increased“增强的”；increasing“越来越也多的，渐增的”。句意：周二，科学家们把臭名昭著的“世界末日时钟”拨快了一分钟，比去年提前了一分钟，这表明他们对世界领导人应对全球威胁的努力持悲观态度。B选项强调“已经增强的”，综合句意D选项更符合。4. 单选题He was _ to tell the truth even to his closest friend.问题1选项A.too much of a cowardB.too much the c
5、owardC.a coward enoughD.enough of a coward【答案】A【解析】考查固定用法。综合选项可知，本题考查“tooto太以致不能”，too much the coward“懦夫太多”不符合句意，因此A选项符合题意。5. 单选题The United Nations declared last Friday that Somalias famine is over. But the official declarationmeans little to the millions of Somalis who are still hungry and waiting
6、for their crops to grow.Ken Menkhaus, professor of political science at Davidson College, said it was profoundly disappointing to be discussing another Somali famine, after he worked in the country during the 1991 - 1992 one. Each famine, he said, has distinct characteristics, and this one unfold in
7、 slow motion over the past couple of years. Thats at least partly because the Somali diaspora sent money home that delayed the worst effects.Menkhaus was among four experts on Somalia and famine who spoke at the Radcliffe Gym Monday evening and gathered for the event, “Sound the Hom: Famine in the H
8、om of Africa.” Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, drew on his experience treating malnourished people in Haiti，where he has worked for decade，and said the human and social context of home, and aid to families should be part of wearing the child, he s
9、aid. Similarly, broader agricultural interventions and fair trade policies are needed to boost local agricultural economies.Though famine is often thought of as a natural disaster, Mondays speakers said that is a false impression. Though Somalia suffered through a severe drought, with todays instant
10、 communications, transport systems can move massive amounts of food. Given todays global food markets, famine is too often a failure of local government and international response.“In todays 21st-century world, just about everything about famine is man-made. Were no longer in a world of man against
11、nature. ” said Robert Paarlberg, adjunct professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.Ethiopia, which was also affected by the recent drought, fared much better this time because of reforms implemented after the 2001 one. Likewise, Paarlberg said, northern and central Somalia, regions th
12、at fall outside of the influence of the Al-Shabaab militia, also fared better. There were several man-made features of this famine, which affected more than 10 million people and killed between 50, 000 and 100, 000, half of them children under age 5.The largest man-made feature was the role of the A
13、l-Shabaab militia that rules the region and that kept food aid from reaching those in need. But the international community isnt blameless. As early as November 2010, an international famine early warning system was predicting the failure of rains in the region, but the international community didnt
14、 respond fully until an official famine was declared in July 2011. On top of that, U. S. anti-terrorism laws cut off food aid because Al-Shabaab, listed as a terrorist group, was taking some of it.Though the United Nations has declared the famine over, that was based on statistical measures, such as
15、 the number of people dying each day and the number of children who are malnourished. Though the official famine may be over, both U. N. officials and Mondays speakers said the crisis continues for the people of Somalia. Almost a third of the population remains dependent on humanitarian assistance, crops growing from recent rains will take months to reach maturity, and herds of cows, goats, and other animals were greatly reduced during the crisis.Michael Delaney, director of humanitarian response for Oxfam America, warned that the world will
