| 考博易错题（2019/4/30） |
| 第1题：Every year asChristmas time rushes in, I get frantic inquiries from readers asking about the legality of giving handguns as gifts. Most of these folks are just like me: they don’t get around to theirChristmas shopping until it’s almostChristmasEve. So when they run into the legal tangles surrounding firearms transfer, they don’t have time to find solutions before Santa’s big day. The process can be very complicated and time-consuming, and in some particular state and local jurisdictions it is, sadly, close to being not worth the trouble. The most unfortunate thing from theChristmas-gift point of view is that the legal requirements surrounding firearms transfer make it nearly impossible to give someone a gun as a surprise. Santa can’t just leave it under the tree: he’d be committing a federal crime. First let’s deal with firearms gift-giving between residents of different states. The crux of the issue is this: legally you cannot just buy a handgun, wrap it up, and send it directly to a friend or relative in another state as aChristmas present. The FederalBureau ofAlcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms hag no holiday spirit at all when it comes to firearms gifts.But there are ways to legally circumvent this general prohibition if you want to take the time and effort. Let’s suppose you live inArizona and want to give a 22 target pistol to your father, who lives in Illinois. The first thing you would need to do is contact a licensed gun dealer close to your father’s residence. Find out if the dealer would be willing to process the necessary paperwork to accomplish a legal transfer. If the dealer in Illinois agrees to help, you would wrap up the gun and ship it to the Illinois dealer.All your father would then have to do is go to the dealer, complete the necessary federal and state forms, go through all the necessary procedures governing handgun transfers, and then--finally--take the gun home. Obviously, all this makes it impossible to surprise your father with a nicely wrapped package under the tree--unless you were planning to be at your dad’s house for the holidays. Then you could buy the gun in your home state, give it to him as a wrapped present onChristmas morning, and afterward go to the local gun shop with him to get the ownership of the pistol legally transferred from you to him. Of course, if there is a waiting period involved, your dad would have to twiddle his thumbs through the Second, Third, and Fourth days ofChristmas before he could go back and actually pick up the gun. One thing that the handgun gift recipients have to do is to ______ .A．choose a favorite gun dealer B．contact a licensed gun dealer C．complete some necessary forms D．take the gun home and leave it under the tree |
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| 第2题：There is no question but that Newton was a highly competent Minister of the Mint. It was mainly through his efforts (41) theEnglish currency was put on (42) satisfactory basis at a difficult time. (43) discovered a relationship between prices and (44) amount of money in circulation, which (45) later formalized in the so-called "quality (46) "of money: if the amount of (47) in circulation is doubled--other things (48) the same--then prices also will (49) double. This is a simple application (50) the principle that it is impossible (51) . get something for nothing, but apparently (52) took someone like Newton to discover it. There (53) an obvious comparison withCopernicus, who (54) the Polish government on currency questions (55) in doing so discovered another important (56) (usually known as Gresham’s Law): when (57) money is accepted as legal tender, (58) money will be driven out of (59) .Copernicus anticipated Gresham in the formulation (60) this law. A．work B．function C．marketing D．circulation |
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| 第3题：Which of the following conditions does the passage suggest is a possible cause for the failure of a lobster to develop a crusher claw
A．The loss of a claw during the third or earlier stage of development B．The lose of claw during the fourth or fifth stage of development C．The loss of a claw during the sixth stage of development Development in an environment devoid of material that can be manipulated |
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| 第4题：A．favor
B．positive C．inclination D．indication |
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| 第5题：My parents’ house had an attic, the darkest and strangest part of the building, reach- able only by placing a stepladder beneath the trapdoor, and filled with unidentifiable articles too important to be thrown out with the trash but no longer suitable to have at hanD、This mysterious space was the memory of the place.After many years all the things deposited in it became, one by one, lost to consciousness.But they were still there, we knew, safely and comfortably stored in the tissues of the house. These days most of us live in smaller, more modern houses or in apartments, and at- tics have vanisheD、Even the deep closets in which we used to pile things up for temporary forgetting are rarely designed into new homes.Everything now is out in the open, openly acknowledged and displayed, and whenever we grow tired of a memory, an old chair, a trunkful of old letters, they are cast into the dump for burning. This has seemed a healthier way to live, except maybe for the smoke everything out to be looked at, nothing strange hidden under the roof, nothing forgotten because of no place left in impenetrable darkness to forget. Openness is the new lifestyle, no undisclosed belongings, no private secrets.Candor is the rule in architecture. The house is a machine for living, and what kind of machine would hide away its worn-out, deserted parts But it is in our nature as human beings to clutter, and we long for places set aside, reserved for storage. We tend to accumulate and outgrow possessions at the same time, and it is an endlessly discomforting mental task to keep sorting out the, ones to get rid of. We might, we think, remember them later and find a use for then, and if they are gone for good, off to the dump, this is a source of nervousness. I think it may be one of the reasons we drum our fingers so much these days. We might take a lesson here from what has been learned about our brains in this century. We thought we discovered, first off, the attic, although its existence has been mentioned from time to time by all the people we used to call great writers. What we really found was the trapdoor and a stepladder, and off we clambered, shining flashlights into the corners, vacuuming the dust out of bureau drawers, puzzling over the names of objects, tossing them down to the floor below, and finally paying around fifty dollars an hour to have them cast away for burning. The author implies in the last paragraph that ______. A、it is not necessary to spend so much money studying the brain B、we have uncovered all the secrets about our brains C．we are too eager to search every corner of our life D．modern buildings can still be constructed with the desired attics |
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