1999年全国硕士研究生考试英语试卷及答案

　　[A] densely [ B] intensely [ C] abundantly [D] highly

　　28. As a way of __ the mails while they were away, the Johnsons asked the cleaning lady to send little printed slips asking the senders to write again later.

　　[A]picking up [B]coping with [C]passing out [D]getting across

　　29 . Tom' s mother tried hard to persuade him to __ from his intention to invest his savings in stock market .

　　[A]pull out [B]give up [C]draw in [D]back down

　　30. An increasing proportion of our population, unable to live without advanced medical __ , will become progressively more reliant on expensive technology.

　　[ A] interference [ B] interruption [ C] intervention [ D] interaction

　　31 . These causes produced the great change in the country that modernized the __ of high- er education from the mid-1860's to the mid-1880's.

　　[ A] branch [ B]category t C] domain [D] scope

　　32 . Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the __ in the financial system will drag down the economy.

　　[ A] shallowness [ B] shakiness [ C] scantiness [ D] stiffness

　　33 . Crisis would be the right term to describe the __ in many animal species. .

　　[ A] minimization [ B] restriction [ C] descent [ D] decline

　　34 . The city is an important railroad __ and industrial and convention center.

　　[A] conjunction [ B] network [ C]junction [D] link

　　35. Prof. White, my respected tutor, frequently reminds me to __ myself of every chance to improve my English.

　　[ A] assure [ B] inform [ C] avail [D] notify

　　36. Researchers discovered that plants infected with a virus give off a gas that __ disease resistance in neighboring plants.

　　[ A.] contracts [ B] activates [ C] maintains [ D] prescribe

　　37 . Corporations and labor unions have __ great benefits upon their employees and mem- bers as well as upon the general pubtic.

　　[A] conferred [ B]granted [ C] flung [D] submitted

　　38. The movement of the moon conveniently provided the unit of month, which was __ from one new moon to the next.

　　[ A] measured [ B] reckoned [ C]judged [ D] assessed

　　39. The judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible on the grounds that it was __ to the issue at hand.

　　[ A] irrational [ B] unreasonable [ C] invalid [ D] irrelevant

　　40. Fuel scarcities and price increases __ automobile designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely new lines of small cars and trucks.

　　[ A] persuaded [ B] prompted [ C] imposed [ D] enlightened 转贴于：博学在线_考研

责任编辑:慧慧

　　Part two: Cloze Test

　　Industrial safety does not just happen.Companies _41__ low accident rates plan their safety programs, work hard to organize them,and continue working to keep them 42 and active. When the work is well done, a 43 of accident-free operations is established _44__ time lost due to injuries

　　is kept at a minimum.

　　Successful safety programs may 45 greatly in the emphasis placed on certain aspects of the program.

　　Some place great emphasis on mechanical guarding. Others stress safe work practices by _46__ rules or regulations._47_ others depend on an emotional appeal to the worker. But, there are certain basic ideas that must be used in every progr8m if maximum results are to be obtained.

　　There can be no question about the value of a safety program. From a financial stand-point alone, safety _48__. The fewer the injury 49,the better the workman's insurance rate. This may mean the diff-erence between operating at _50__or at a loss.

　　41. [A]at [B]in [C]on [D]with

　　42. [A]alive [B]vivid [ C]mobile [D] diverse

　　43. [A]regulation [B]climate [C]circumstance [D]requirement

　　44. [A]where [B]how [ C]what [D]unless

　　45. [A]alter [B]differ [ C] shift [D] distinguish

　　46. [A] constituting [ B] aggravating [ C]observing [D]justifying

　　47. [A]Some [B]Many [C]Even [D]Still

　　48. [A]comes off [B]turns up [C]pays off [D]holds up

　　49. [A]claims [B]reports [ C] declarations [ D] proclamations

　　50. [A]an advantage [B]a benefit [C]an interest [D]a profit

　　Part three:

　　Passage l

　　It's a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your door- mat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or

　　so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers' misfortunes.

　　Feeling threatened , companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying to anticipate every possibLe accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn , among other things, that you might-surprise! ——fall off. The label on a child ' s Batman cape

　　cautions that the toy "does not enable user to fly. "

　　While warnings are often appropriate and necessary——the