考博考试

【单选题】Movies are often held up as either the paragons or pariahs of our society at large; towering achievements on the one hand and endless ______ on the other.
A、wallows
B、accomplishments
C、awards
D、extravagance

【单选题】 You can ______ different kinds of people, dictionaries or encyclopedia to find out what you wish to know.
A．contact
B．contain
C．consult
D．convert

【单选题】 Mother who takes care of everybody is usually the most ______person in each family.
A．considerable
B．considerate
C．tolerant
D．understanding

【单选题】The none of students in the class likes the mistress, who is used to being ______ of everything they do.
A．emotional
B．optimistic
C．interested
D．critical

【单选题】Scientists claim that air pollution causes a decline in the world’ s average air temperature. In order to prove that theory, ecologists have turned to historical data in relation to especially huge volcanic eruptions. They suspect that volcanoes effect weather changes that are similar to air pollution.
One source of information is the effect of the eruption of Tambora, a volcano in Sumbawa, theDutchEast Indies ( the former name of the Republic of Indonesia) ,inApril 1815. The largest recorded volcanic eruption, Tambora threw 150 million ton of fine ash into the stratosphere. The ash from a volcano spreads worldwide in a few days and remains in the air for years. Its effect is to turn in coming solar radiation into space and thus cool the earth. For example, records of weather inEng land show that betweenApril and November 1815, the average temperature had fallen 4.5°F during the next twenty-four months,England suffered one of the coldest periods of its history. Farmers’ re cords fromApril 1815 toDecember 1818 indicate frost throughout the spring and summer and sharp decreases in crop and livestock markets. Since there was a time lag of several years between cause and effect, by the time the world agricultural commodity community had deteriorated, no one realized the cause.
Ecologists today warn that we face a twofold menace. The ever-present possibility of volcanic eruptions, such as that of Mt. St. Helens in Washington, added to man’ s pollution of the atmosphere with oil, gas, coal, and other polluting substances, may bring us increasingly colder weather.
Which of the following was the cause of cold weather inEngland from 1815 to 1818
A、England’ s proximity to the North Sea
B、Volcanic ash in the atmosphere
C、Floorings in the area
D、Pollution caused by the International Revolution