第一期：中国人民大学2004年英语专业研究生入学考试试题基础英语试卷

I．Vocabulary and Written Expressions.(10 Points) 

Directions; Write in the blank the letter of the item which best completes each sentence.

1. Tough-talking ward councilor Tony Jones warned yesterday that the drive to clean up the Oxford Road area is being    by the criminal justice system itself.
A. hampered B. prohibited C. restricted D. reserved

2. It is a source of continuing frustration that sometimes, after huge amounts of resources have gone into securing successful    , career criminals often seem to be free after little more than a third or half of their sentences.
A. convictions B. decisions C. vanquisher D. agreements

3. The police and others are doing their best to clamp down on crime and disorder  the intrusion of burglary, the source of drug dealers ruining lives, the threat of intimidation, violence and petty     . 
A. violation B. vandalism C. vanquisher D. variance

4. At a meeting attended by more than 600 lecturers and support staff last week, workers passed a vote of no in senior management.
A. consensus B. objection C. confidence D. continuation

5. At the height of her fame during the Second World War, she was one of the world's most influential women. But in later years, a gaunt relic of her former      , she was a forlorn propagandist for her husband's ostracized and diminished regime.
A. reputation B. celerity C. background D. celebrity

6. That he was able to his responsibilities with such competence and apparent ease was partly due to his experience in the Royal Navy.
A. discharge B. charge C. obtain D.  answer

7. The Galbraiths were a gregarious and family, probably descended from the Ancient British royal house of Strathelyde.
A. proliferate B. promotive C. prolific D. propagable

8. In 1945 he worked for Hambro's Bank, touring the Middle East to report on ___diamond trading.
A. elicit            B. illiberal           C. illuminant         D. illicit

9. Despite his professional  and his strength of character, he had a warm sensitivity for the feelings of others, partly stemming from his memories of hardship at Dartmouth.
A. imminence B. immanence C. emanation D. eminence

10. Opposite the Italian journalists, Vladimir Putin, ________dressed and statesmanlike, answered a question about one of the country's notorious billionaires.
A. immaculately B. immeasurably C. justifiably D. unkemptly