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1、2022年考博英语-西南交通大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题（ ）man can now create radioactive elements, there is nothing he can do to reduce their radioactivity.问题1选项A.AsB.WhetherC.WhileD.Now that【答案】C【解析】句意:虽然人类现在可以制造出放射性元素，但无法降低这些元素的放射性。考查连词辨析。前半句句意为:人类现在可以制造出放射性元素，后半句句意为:无法降低这些元素的放射性。由此可见，前后为转折对比的关系，因此C项“虽然，尽管”正确。2. 单
2、选题It is not easy to learn English well but if you （ ）, you will succeed in the end.问题1选项A.hang upB.hang aboutC.hang onD.hang onto【答案】C【解析】考查固定搭配。选项A：hang up “挂断电话，搁置”;选项B：hang about “徘徊，闲荡”; 选项C:hang on “坚持下去，不挂断，握住不放”;选项C：hang onto “依附，继续保留，紧紧抓住”。句意：学好英语并不容易，但如果你坚持下去，你最终会成功的。根据句意可知，选项C更符合题意，正确。3. 单
3、选题Although sports（ ）the household, Joe drew the line when they interfered with family traditions and routine.问题1选项A.overwhelmedB.affectedC.dominatedD.influenced【答案】C【解析】句意:尽管体育运动在Joe的家庭中占主导地位，但是当这些运动影响到家 庭传统和日常事务时，他会放弃体育运动。考查动词辨析。overwhelm 淹没，受打击，覆盖；affect 影响，感染;dominate 控制，支配：influence 影响。根据后半句句意 “
4、当这些运动影响到家 庭传统和日常事务时，他会放弃体育运动”以及转折连词although可知，C符合句意。4. 单选题If profit and money are your first（ ）, and commitment to people your least concern, you have failed education.问题1选项A.potentialityB.priorityC.superiorityD.responsibility【答案】B【解析】句意:如果利润和金钱是你首先考虑的事情，对人的义务是你最不关心的，那你的教育就失败了。考查名词辨析。potentiality 潜能
5、;可能性;priority 优先考虑的事;优先权; superiority 优越;优势; responsibility 责任;职责;义务。根据句中first(首先)以及后面的 your least concern(你最不关心的事情)可知B项正确。5. 单选题The computer revolution may well change society as （ ） as did the Industrial Revolution.问题1选项A.certainlyB.insignificantlyC.fundamentallyD.comparatively【答案】C【解析】考查副词辨析。A选项c
6、ertainly“当然；必定”；B选项insignificantly“无关紧要地”；C选项fundamentally“ 根本地，从根本上；基础地”；D选项comparatively“比较地；相当地”。句意：计算机革命可能会像工业革命一样从根本上改变我们的社会。因此C符合句意。6. 单选题How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our soc
7、ial statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no counterva
8、iling social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of jobless
9、ness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handi
10、capped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies.Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment co
11、unts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is
12、 several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another wo
13、rking part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. Finally, income transfers in our county have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash an
14、d in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected.As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether those suffering seriously as a result of labor market problems number in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions
15、, and hence, whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in this debate that the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for one of their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.1.Which of the following is the principal topic of the passage?2.The author uses “labor market problems” in lines 1-2 to refer to which of the following?3.The author contrasts the 1930s with the present in order to show th
