装备指挥技术学院2014年博士研究生招生考博英语真题

　　Part II Cloze Test (15 points, 1 point each)

　　Directions: There are 15 questions in this part of the test. Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your Answer Sheet.

　　New devices to aid in the manipulation of numbers were added to make the job faster and more accurate. Electronic computers were 21 the fastest and most versatile instruments for storing and 22 now in use. Computers provide the means for greater speed and accuracy than 23 previously 23 possible. With the development of these new tools, it is as if man has suddenly become 24 of the mind.

　　Although man 25 mentally richer ever since he started 26 , the electronic computer allows and will continue to allow him 27 tremendous “mental” tasks in a 28 short time. Great scientists of the past 29 ideas that sometimes had to wait for years before they 30 sufficiently well to be 31 . With the computer, the ideas of today’s scientists can be studied, tested, distributed and used more rapidly than 32 .

　　Old lines and methods of communication do not work easily or efficiently as so much information 33 we have now. The repeated actions of preparing, sorting, filing, distributing and 34 records and publications can be 35 as calculating. Errors occur because people grow tired and can be distracted.

　　21. A. inB. ofC. duringD. among

　　22. A. comparison

　　C. comparing B. being compared

　　D. comparitivity

　　23. A. has…been

　　C. have…to be

　　24. A. a millionaire

　　C. abundantB. had …been

　　D. had…to be

　　B. rich

　　D. more than enough

　　25. A. grewB. had grownC. has been growingD. has to grow

　　26. A. to think

　　C. to learn to thinkingB. to thinking

　　D. to learn of thinking

　　27. A. to treat

　　28. A. comparably

　　29. A. happenedB. to perform

　　B. relationally

　　B. producedC. to take over

　　C. more

　　C. generatedD. to carry on

　　D. relatively

　　D. caused

　　30. A. were understood

　　C. understoodB. were to understand

　　D. understand

　　31. A. practical use

　　32. A. long before

　　33. A. thatB. to practical use

　　B. before long

　　B. asC. of practical use

　　C. never before

　　C. whichD. into practical use

　　D. ever before

　　D. what

　　34. A. keeping in touch with

　　C. kept in touch withB. being kept in touch with

　　D. having to be kept in touch with

　　35. A. tiredB. troubledC. troublesomeD. bored

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