1999年全国硕士研究生考试英语试卷及答案

　　Part One:

　　l . Anyone with half an eye on the unemployment figures knew that the assertion about economic recovery __ just around the corner was untrue.

　　[A]wouLd be [B]to be [C]was [D]being

　　2. Smoking is so harmful to personal health that it kills __ people each year than automo- bile accidents.

　　[A]seven more times [B]seven times more [C]over seven times [D]seven times

　　3. It' s easy to blame the decline of conversation on the pace of modern life and on the vague changes __ place in our ever-changing world.

　　[A] taking [B]to take [C]take [D]taken

　　4. This is an exciting area of study, and one __ which new applications are being discov- ered almost daily.

　　[A] from [B]by [C] in [D] through

　　5 . __ can be seen from the comparison of these figures, the principle involves the active participation of the patient in the modification of his condition.

　　[A]As [B]What [C]That [D] It

　　6. Although I had been invited to the opening ceremony, I was unable to attend __ such short notice.

　　[A]to [B]in [C]with [D]on

　　7. California has more light than it knows __ to do with but everything else is expensive.

　　[A] how [ B] what [ C] which [D] where

　　8. The solution works only for couples who are self-employed, don't have small children and get along __ to spend most of their time together.

　　[A]so well [B]too well [C]well as [D]well enough

　　9. Marlin is a young man of independent thinking who is not about __ compliments to his political leaders .

　　[A]paying [B]having paid [C]to pay [D] to have paid

　　10. These proposals sought to place greater restrictions on the use and copying of digital informa- tion than __ in traditional media.

　　[A]exist [B]exists [ C]existing [D]to exist

　　11. Your math instructor would have been happy to give you a makeup examination

　　[A]

　　had you gone and explained that your parents had been ill at the time.

　　[B] [C] [D]

　　12. As the children become financially independent of the family, the emphasis on family fi-

　　[A] [B] [C]

　　nancial security will shift from protection to save for the retirement years.

　　[D]

　　13. Were the Times Co. to purchase another major media company, there is no doubt that it

　　[A]

　　could dramatically transform a family-ran enterprise that still gets 90% of its revenues

　　[B] [C] [D]

　　from newspapers.

　　14. Symposium talks will cover a wide range of subjects from overfishing to physical and

　　[A] [B]

　　environment factors that affect the populations of different species.

　　[C] [D]

　　15 . Convenation calls for a willingness to alternate the role of speaker with one of listener , and

　　[A] [B] [C]

　　it calls for occasional ' digestive pauses' by both.

　　[D]

　　16. If two theories are equal to their ability to account for a body of data, the theory that

　　[A] [B]

　　does so with the smaller nomber of assumptions is to be preferred.

　　[c] [D]

　　17. The Committee adopted a resolution requiring the seven automakers selling the most cars in

　　[A] [B]

　　the state making 2 percent of those vehicles emissions-free by 1998.

　　[C] [D]

　　18. As long as poor people, who in general are colored, are in conflict with richer people, who in

　　[A] [B]

　　general are lighter skin, there' s going to be a constant racial conflict in the world.

　　[C] [D]

　　19 . All those left undone may sound greatly in theory, but even the trust believer has great dif-

　　[A] [B] [C]

　　ficulty when it comes to specifics.

　　[D]

　　20 . Even if automakers modify commercially produced cars to run on alternative fuels, the cars

　　[A] [B] [C]

　　won' t catch on in a big way when drivers can fill them up at the gas station.

　　[D]