清华大学2000年5月考博英语真题(02)

   10. Many students are signing the petition against building a steelworks near the school.

   A) names               B) agreement

   C) request            D) disapproval

   11. Your appraisal of the current situation is quite different from mine.

   A) optimistic        B) compliment

   C) agreement       D) estimate

   12. They are boycotting the store because the workers are on strike.

   A) looting    B) banning

   C) protecting        D) destroying

   13. In the final contest, two athletes are contending for the championship.

   A) satisfying      B) happy

   C) competing        D) quarreling

   14. The computer's value will depreciate by half in the first year.

   A) decrease     B) increase

   C) keep low      D) fluctuate

   15. China Telecom is about to embark on a major program of computerization.

   A) propaganda    B) finish

   C) purchase        D) undertake

   l6. The candidate has given a pledge that he will improve the local environment and invest doubly in education.

   A) promise         B)  declaration

   C) proposal         D) possibility

   17. There has always been an epldemic or bike stealing in schools.                                              

   A) a theft         B) a punishment

   C) a plague          D) a crime

   18. It is in Chongqing that the next international symposium on environmental protection will be held.

   A) debate          B) conference

   C) seminar         D) negotiation

   19. Many people suspected the existence of extraterrestrial life.

   A) snowman         B) outside the earth

   C) spiritual           D) underworld

   20. In case your liabilities outrun your assets, you may go bankrupt.

   A) debt        B) enterprise

   C) controversy       D) bondage

   21.After the fierce quarrel, they began  to have a __________ loathing for each other.

   A) boring       B) reciprocal

   C) friendly      D) standing

   22. On the stage many pieces of blue silk were fluctuated to ________the sea waves.

   A) simplify       B) simulate

   C) help              D) like

   23. The government lacked money because of biting oil________.

   A) prices        B) stations

   C) buildings            D) revenues