2005年社科院考博英语真题如下，考生可作为复习材料。

　Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the four choices given in the opposite column. Mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.

　　When we think about addiction to drags or alcohol, we frequently focus on negative aspects, ignoring the pleasures that accompany drinking or drug-taking. 46 the essence of any serious addiction is a pursuit of pleasure, a search for a "high" that normal life does not 47 . It is only the inability to function 48 the addictive substance that is dismaying, the dependence of the organism upon a certain experience and a .49 inability to function normally without it. Thus a person will take two or three 50 at the end of the day not merely for the pleasure drinking provides, but also because he "doesn't feel 51 without them..

　　52 does not merely pursue a pleasurable experience and need to 53 it in order to function normally. He needs to repeat it again and again. Something about that particular experience makes life without it 54 complete. Other potentially pleasurable experiences are no longer possible, 55 under the spell of the addictive experience, his life is peculiarly 56. The addict craves an experience and yet he is never really satisfied. The organism may be 57 _sated, but soon it begins to crave again.

　　Finally a serious addiction is58 a harmless pursuit of pleasure by Its distinctly destructive elements. A heroin addict, for instance, leads a 59 life: his increasing need for heroin in increasing doses prevents him from working, from maintaining relationships, from developing in human ways. 60 an alcoholic's life is narrowed and dehumanized by his dependence on alcohol.

　　46. A. Hence B. Because

　　C. And yet D. Moreover

　　47. A. supply B. resume

　　C. accept D. prevent

　　48. A. except B. without

　　C. with D. besides

　　49. A. frustrating B. surprising

　　C. unchanging D. increasing

　　50. A. drags B. drinks

　　C. doses D. draughts

　　51. A. normal B. content

　　C. delighted D. spirited

　　52. A. A drugtaker B. The addicted

　　C. An addict D. The drugger

　　53. A. perform B. make

　　C. experience D. initiate

　　54. A. other than B. rather than

　　C. more than D. less than

　　55. A. while B. thus

　　C. even if D. for

　　56. A. distorted B. rectified

　　C. exaggerated D. improved

　　57. A. eventually B. temporarily

　　C. accordingly D. subsequently

　　58. A. identical with B. consistent with

　　C. separated from D. distinguished from

　　59. A. destructive B. Dissatisfied

　　C. damaged D. derivative

　　60. A. Similarly B. Conversely

　　C. Naturally D. Generally