中國科學院在2024年博士研究生招生考試中設置了英語水平測試，以下是中國科學院2019年考博英語真題，考生們可以作為參考。

PART I VOCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 0.5 point each)

Directions: Choose the word or expression below each sentence that best completes the statement, and mark the orresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

1. Attempts to use sophisticated IT-based systems to help to solve the problem often seem merely to __it.

A.aggravate

B. deviate

C. emphasize

D.simplify

2.Trading in private shares is growing rapidly, though it's hard to __exact numbers.

A. boil down

B. pin down

C.turn down

D.count down

3. Exciting developments came from the world of marketing this month with the introduction of a (an)__new product designed to repair the reputation of American business.

A. staggering

B. intriguing

C. shocking

D.irritating

4. She was keen to__a cause, and has become an advocate against child obesity

A. make up

B. give up

C.take up

D.raise up

5. The state, after all, has 4.3 million registered Democrats, a (an)__1.1imilion edge over Republicans.

A. marginal

B. astounding

C.amusing

D.critical

6. The country's railway network was expanding rapidly and the manufacture of steel rails was a __business for Sheffield firms.

A. bulky

C.joint

D.lucrative

B.permanent

7. Some wealthier people have not grown up caring for their siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews, and have no idea how to bathe or dress or _____ a baby.

C. sway

A. soothe

B.slap

D.scrub

8. When my Korean friends talk soccer, history and territorial disputes with Japan, theywith patriotism.

A.brim

B.deal

C.tangle

D.boggle

9. Scientific advances have made transplants possible that were _even a few years ago, ushering in an era where social and ethical considerations take center stage.

A. unjustifiable

C. unsustainable

B.unintentional

D.unimaginable

10. Etiquette is not simply an accessory of the rich, used to __their existing social status, but makes up the very fabric of society.

A. reinforce

B.intensify

C.amplify

D. aggravate

11. The materials probe complex and__issues concerning the ways in which a language affects the thinking that goes on in the human minds.

12. Glaeser__his interest in urban areas directly to his youth in New York City, where he lived until he went to college at age 17.

A.attributed

B.conducted

C. devoted

D.contributed

13. The term industrial design was__in 1919 by the American industrial designer Joseph Sinel.

A. originated

B.coined

C.inspired

D. inserted

14. Without ____their differences, the couple fought about the housework again.

A. ruling out

B. figuring out

C.ironing out

D. letting out

15. Their work will ____, but they ought to try to improve it.

A. get away

B. get around

C. get by

D.get on

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