考研英语历年真题1989

1989年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

Section I Close Test

For each numbered blank in the following paage there are four choices labeled ［A］, ［B］, ［C］ and ［D］.Choose the best one and put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET.Read the whole paage before making your choice.(10 points)

①One day drought may be a thing of the past at least in coastal cities.②Vast areas of desert throughout the world may for the first timeand provide millions of hectares of land where now nothing grows.

③By the end of this century this may not be mere2.④Scientists are already looking into the poibility of using some of the available ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.⑤In these regions there are vast ice-caps formed by snow that has fallen over the past 50,000 years.⑥Layerlayer of deep snow means that, when melted, the snow water would be pure, not salty as sea-ice would be.⑦There is so muchpure water here that it would need only a fraction of it to turn much of the desert or poorly irrigated parts of the world into rich farmland.⑧And what useful packages it would come in! ⑨It should be poible to cut off a bit of ice and

11They are always transport it! ⑩Alternatively perhaps a paing iceberg could be .○

breaking away from the main caps and floating around, pushed by currents, until they eventually melt and are wasted.

12Many icebergs are, of course, far too small to be toweddistance, and would melt ○

13It would be neceary to locate one before they reached a country that needed them anywhere.○

14that wasand that was big enough to provide a good supply of ice when it reached us.○

Engineers think that an iceberg up to seven miles long and one and a half miles wide could be

15Even then they would cover only transported if the tug pulling it was as big as a supertanker! ○

16 the iceberg was at its destination, more that 7,000 twenty miles every day.○

17That would probably be more than million cubic metres of water could be taken from it! ○

18But no doubt a use could be enough for any medium-sized city even in the hottest summer! ○

19○20found for it.○

21This is The larger the iceberg, the slower it melts, even if it is towed through the tropics.○

because when the sun has a bigger area to warm , le heat actually gets into the iceberg.22The vast frozen centre would be unaffected.[394 words] ○

1.［A］ come to life［B］ come into existence

［C］ come into activity［D］ come round

2.［A］ speculation ［B］ imagination［C］ computation［D］ expectation

3.［A］ above［B］ of［C］ upon［D］ over

4.［A］ eential［B］ potential［C］ claimable［D］ obtainable

5.［A］ seized［B］ snatched［C］ grabbed［D］ captured

6.［A］ much［B］ any［C］ some［D］ certain

7.［A］ manageable ［B］ manipulative ［C］ operable［D］ controllable

8.［A］ after［B］ while［C］ since［D］ once

9.［A］ Apparently ［B］ Noticeably［C］ Distinctly［D］ Notably

10.［A］ round［B］ over［C］ up［D］ through

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