1997年考研英语真题及参考答案（推荐）

1997年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section I: Structure and Vocabulary
Part A
Directions:
Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked [A], B), [C] and [D]. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (5 points)
1. The Social Security Retirement Program is made up of two trust funds, ________ could go penniless by next year.
[A] the larger one
[B] the larger of which
[C] the largest one
[D] the largest of which
2. Nowhere in nature is aluminum found free, owing to its always ________ with other elements, most commonly with oxygen.
[A] combined
[B] having combined
[C] combine
[D] being combined
3. Andrew, my father’s younger brother, will not be at the picnic, ________ to the family’s disappointment.
[A] much
[B] more
[C] too much
[D] much more
4. I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible, but I ________ fully occupied the whole of last week.
[A] were
[B] had been
[C] have been
[D] was
5. Help will come from the UN, but the aid will be ________ near what’s needed.
[A] everywhere
[B] somewhere
[C] nowhere
[D] anywhere
6. The chief reason for the population growth isn’t so much a rise in birth rates ________ a fall in death rates as a result of improvements in medical care.
[A] and
[B] as
[C] but
[D] or
7. He claims to be an expert in astronomy, but in actual fact he is quite ignorant on the subject. ________ he knows about it is out of date and inaccurate.
[A] What little
[B] So much
[C] How much
[D] So little
8. Although we feel dissatisfied with the election results, we have to become reconciled ________ the decision made by our fellow countrymen.
[A] for
[B] on
[C] to
[D] in
9. Just as the value of a telephone network increases with each new phone ________ to the system, so does the value of a computer system increase with each program that turns out.
[A] adding
[B] to have added
[C] to add
[D] added