1998年社科院博士生入学考试英语真题及答案
1998年考研英语真题及答案(卷一)
考研资料1998年全国研究生入学考试试卷及参考答案（精校版）英语1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Section I Cloze TestDirections:For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C], and [D]. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)Until recent l y most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They1that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the 2 man. But they insisted that its 3 results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread poverty and misery for the 4 of the English population. 5 contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to 1750, when England was still a 6 agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity.This view, 7 , is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists 8 history and economics, have 9 two things: that the period from 1650 to 1750 was 10 by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.1. ［A］admitted ［B］believed ［C］claimed ［D］predicted2. ［A］plain ［B］average ［C］mean ［D］normal3. ［A］momentary ［B］prompt ［C］instant ［D］immediate4. ［A］bulk ［B］host ［C］gross ［D］magnitude5. ［A］On ［B］With ［C］For ［D］By6. ［A］broadly ［B］thoroughly ［C］generally ［D］completely7. ［A］however ［B］meanwhile ［C］therefore ［D］moreover8. ［A］at ［B］in ［C］about ［D］for9. ［A］manifested ［B］approved ［C］shown ［D］speculated10. ［A］noted ［B］impressed ［C］labeled ［D］markedSection ⅡReading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 1by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (40 points)Text 1Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind’s long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the idea of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascinating. But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good.The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful. It doesn’t help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assertthemselves. Egypt’s leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam. Turkey’s bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam.But big dams tend not to work as intended. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left -- all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.And yet, the myth of controlling the waters persists. This week, in the heart of civilized Europe, Slovaks and Hungarians stopped just short of sending in the troops in their contention over a dam on the Danube. The huge complex will probably have all the usual problems of big dams. But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself.Meanwhile, in India, the World Bank has given the go-ahead to the even more wrong-headed Narmada Dam. And the bank has done this even though its advisors say the dam will cause hardship for the powerless and environmental destruction. The benefits are for the powerful, but they are far from guaranteed.Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the cost and benefits of controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts. Hydroelectric power and flood control and irrigation are possible without building monster dams. But when you are dealing with myths, it is hard to be either proper, or scientific. It is time that the world learned the lessons of Aswan. You don’t need a dam to be saved.11. The third sentence of Paragraph 1 implies that ________.[A] people would be happy if they shut their eyes to reality[B] the blind could be happier than the sighted[C] over-excited people tend to neglect vital things[D] fascination makes people lose their eyesight12. In P aragraph 5, “the powerless” probably refers to ________.[A] areas short of electricity[B] dams without power stations[C] poor countries around India[D] common people in the Narmada Dam area13. What is the myth concerning giant dams?[A] They bring in more fertile soil.[B] They help defend the country.[C] They strengthen international ties.[D] They have universal control of the waters.14. What the author tries to suggest may best be interpreted as ________.[A] “It’s no use crying over spilt milk”[B] “More haste, less speed”[C] “Look before you leap”[D] “He who laughs last laughs best”Text 2Well, no gain without pain, they say. But what about pain without gain? Everywhere you go in America, you hear tales of corporate revival. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.The official statistics are mildly discouraging. They show that, if you lump manufacturing and services together, productivity has grown on average by 1.2% since 1987. That is somewhat faster than the average during the previous decade. And since 1991, productivity has increased by about 2% a year, which is more than twice the 1978-87 average. The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend. There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.Some of this can be easily explained. New ways of organizing the workplace -- all that re-engineering and downsizing -- are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training. Moreover, most of the changes that companies make are intended to keep them profitable, and this need not always mean increasing productivity: switching to new markets or improving quality can matter just as much.Two other explanations are more speculative. First, some of the business restructuring of recent years may have been ineptly done. Second, even if it was well done, it may have spread much less widely than people suppose.Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of baker y cafes, says that much “re-engineering” has been crude. In many cases, he believes, the loss of revenue has been greater than the reductions in cost. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability. BBDO’s Al Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish -- “the worst sort of ambulance c h asing.”15. According to the author, the American economic situation is ________.[A] not as good as it seems[B] at its turning point[C] much better than it seems[D] near to complete recovery16. The official statistics on productivity growth ________.[A] exclude the usual rebound in a business cycle[B] fall short of businessmen’s anticipation[C] meet the expectation of business people[D] fail to reflect the true state of economy17. The author raises the question “what about pain without gain?” because ________.[A] he questions the truth of “no gain without pain”[B] he does not think the productivity revolution works[C] he wonders if the official statistics are misleading[D] he has conclusive evidence for the revival of businesses18. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?[A] Radical reforms are essential for the increase of productivity.[B] New ways of organizing workplaces may help to increase productivity.[C] The reduction of costs is not a sure way to gain long-term profitability.[D] The consultants are a bunch of good-for-nothings.Text 3Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo’s 17th-century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Bl ake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanities has, if anything, deepened in this century.Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to ignore its critics -- but no longer. As funding for science has declined, scientists have attacked “anti-science” in several books, notably Higher Superstition, by Paul R. Gross, a biologist at the University of Virginia, and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as “The Flight from Science and Reason,” held in New York City in 1995, and “Science in the Age of (Mis) information,” which assembled last June near Buffalo.Anti-science clearly means different things to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers and other academics who have questioned science’s objectivity. Sagan is more concerned with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the scientific worldview.A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pre-technological utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about uncontrolled industrial growth are anti-science, as an essay in US News & World Report last May seemed to suggest.The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.Indeed, some observers fear that the anti-science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. “The term ‘anti-science’ can lump together too many, quite different things,” notes Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-Science. “They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlightened.”19. The word “schism” (Line 4, Paragraph 1) in the context probably means ________.[A] confrontation[B] dissatisfaction[C] separation[D] contempt20. Paragraphs 2 and 3 are written to ________.[A] discuss the cause of the decline of science’s power[B] show the author’s sympathy with scientists[C] explain the way in which science develops[D] exemplify the division of science and the humanities21. Which of the following is true according to the passage?[A] Environmentalists were blamed for anti-science in an essay.[B] Politicians are not subject to the labeling of anti-science.[C] The “more enlightened” tend to tag others as anti-science.[D] Tagging environmentalists as “anti-science” is justifiable.22. The author’s attitude toward the issue of “science vs. anti-science” is ________.[A] impartial[B] subjective[C] biased[D] puzzlingText 4Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, as population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.This development -- and its strong implications for US politics and economy in years ahead -- has enthroned the South as America’s most densely populated region for the first time in the historyof the nation’s head counting.Altogether, the US population rose in the 1970s by 23.2 million people -- numerically the third-largest growth ever recorded in a single decade. Even so, that gain adds up to only 11.4 percent, lowest in American annual records except for the Depression years.Americans have been migrating south and west in larger numbers since World War II, and the pattern still prevails.Three sun-belt states -- Florida, Texas and California -- together had nearly 10 million more people in 1980 than a decade earlier. Among large cities, San Diego moved from 14th to 8th and San Antonio from 15th to 10th -- with Cleveland and Washington. D. C., dropping out of the top 10.Not all that shift can be attributed to the movement out of the snow belt, census officials say. Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too -- and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday’s “baby boom” generation reached its child bearing years.Moreover, demographers see the continuing shift south and west as joined by a related but newer phenomenon: More and more, Americans apparently are looking not just for places with more jobs but with fewer people, too. Some instances—■Regionally, the Rocky Mountain states reported the most rapid growth rate -- 37.1 percent since 1970 in a vast area with only 5 percent of the US population.■Among states, Nevada and Arizona grew fastest of all: 63.5 and 53.1 percent respectively. Except for Florida and Texas, the top 10 in rate of growth is composed of Western states with 7.5 million people -- about 9 per square mile.The flight from overcrowdedness affects the migration from snow belt to more bearable climates.Nowhere do 1980 census statistics dramatize more the American search for spacious living than in the Far West. There, California added 3.7 million to its population in the 1970s, more than any other state.In that decade, however, large numbers also migrated from California, mostly to other parts of the West. Often they chose -- and still are choosing -- somewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog, crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.As a result, California’s growth rate dropped during the 1970s, to 18.5 percent -- little more than two thirds the 1960s’ growth figure and considerably below that of other Western states.23. Discerned from the perplexing picture of population growth the 1980 census provided, Americain 1970s ________.[A] enjoyed the lowest net growth of population in history[B] witnessed a southwestern shift of population[C] underwent an unparalleled period of population growth[D] brought to a standstill its pattern of migration since World War II24. The census distinguished itself from previous studies on population movement in that________.[A] it stresses the climatic influence on population distribution[B] it highlights the contribution of continuous waves of immigrants[C] it reveals the Americans’ new pursuit of spacious living[D] it elaborates the delayed effects of yesterday’s “baby boom”25. We can see from the available statistics that ________.[A] California was once the most thinly populated area in the whole US[B] the top 10 states in growth rate of population were all located in the West[C] cities with better climates benefited unanimously from migration[D] Arizona ranked second of all states in its growth rate of population26. The word “demographers” (Line 1, Paragraph 8) most probably means ________.[A] people in favor of the trend of democracy[B] advocates of migration between states[C] scientists engaged in the study of population[D] conservatives clinging to old patterns of lifeText 5Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike most of the world’s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up t he earth’s surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes. The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.That the plates are moving is now beyond dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of one plate with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth’s interior. It is not possible to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite directions or whether one continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. Hot spots, anchored in the deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the question. From an analysis of the hot-spot population it appears that the African plate is stationary and that it has not moved during the past 30 million years.The significance of hot spots is not confined to their role as a frame of reference. It now appears that they also have an important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe. When a continental plate come to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layers creates a broad dome. As the dome grows, it develops deep fissures (cracks); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates theformation of a new ocean. Thus just as earlier theories have explained the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their mutability (inconstancy).27. The author believes that ________.[A] the motion of the plates correspon ds to that of the earth’s interior[B] the geological theory about drifting plates has been proved to be true[C] the hot spots and the plates move slowly in opposite directions[D] the movement of hot spots proves the continents are moving apart28. That Africa and South America were once joined can be deduced from the fact that ________.[A] the two continents are still moving in opposite directions[B] they have been found to share certain geological features[C] the African plate has been stable for 30 million years[D] over 100 hot spots are scattered all around the globe29. The hot spot theory may prove useful in explaining ________.[A] the structure of the African plates[B] the revival of dead volcanoes[C] the mobility of the continents[D] the formation of new oceans30. The passage is mainly about ________.[A] the features of volcanic activities[B] the importance of the theory about drifting plates[C] the significance of hot spots in geophysical studies[D] the process of the formation of volcanoesSection IV English-Chinese TranslationDirections:Read the following passage carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Your translation must be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth. 31) But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: the US National Aeronautics and Space Admi nistration’s Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- Cobe -- had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin with the primeval explosionthat has become known as the Big Bang (the theory that the universe originated in an explosion froma single mass of energy).32) The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang, first put forward in the 1920s, to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cosmos. According to the theory, the universe burst into being as a submicroscopic, unimaginably dense knot of pure energy that flew outward in all directions, emitting radiation as it went, condensing into particles and then into atoms of gas. Over billions of years, the gas was compressed by gravity into galaxies, stars, plants and eventually, even humans.Cobe is designed to see just the biggest structures, but astronomers would like to see much smaller hot spots as well, the seeds of local objects like clusters and superclusters of galaxies. They shouldn’t have long to wait. 33) Astrophysicists working with ground-based detectors at the South Pole and balloon-borne instruments are closing in on such structures, and may report their findings soon.34) If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea,a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory. Inflation says that very early on, the universe expanded in size by more than a trillion trillion trillion trillion fold in much less than a second, propelled by a sort of antigravity. 35) Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.31. ________32. ________33. ________34. ________35. ________Section V WritingDirections:[A] Study the following cartoon carefully and write an essay in no less than 150 words.[B] Your essay must be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)[C] Your essay should meet the requirements below:1. Write out the messages conveyed by the cartoon.2. Give your commentsn.注：图片上的文字是：本母鸡承诺：①本鸡下蛋不见棱不见角②保证有蛋皮，蛋黄和蛋清1998年答案及解析Part ⅠCloze Test1. A2. B3. D4. A5. D6. D7. A8.B9. C 10. DPart ⅡReading ComprehensionPart APassage 111. C 12. D 13.D 14. CPassage 215.A 16.B 17.B 18.APassage 319.C 20.D 21.A 22.APassage 423.B 24.C 25.D 26.CPassage 527.B 28.B 29.C 30.CPart ⅢEnglish-Chinese Translation31.更为重要的是，这是科学家们能够观测到的最遥远的过去的景象，因为他们看到的是150亿年前宇宙云的形状和结构。
2020 参考1998年考研英语真题答案及解析
1998 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题答案与解析Part ⅠCloze Test1. A2. B3. D4. A5. D6. D7. A8.B9. C 10. DPart ⅡReading ComprehensionPart APassage 111. C 12. D 13.D 14. CPassage 215.A 16.B 17.B 18.APassage 319.C 20.D 21.A 22.APassage 423.B 24.C 25.D 26.CPassage 527.B 28.B 29.C 30.CPart Ⅲ English-Chinese Translation31.更为重要的是，这是科学家们能够观测到的最遥远的过去的景象，因为他们看到的是150 亿年前宇宙云的形状和结构。
32.巨大的宇宙云的存在，实际上是20 年代首创的大爆炸论得以保持其宇宙起源论的主导地位不可缺少的。
33.天体物理学家使用南极陆基探测器和球载仪器，正在越来越近地观测这些云系，也许不久会报告他们的观测结果。
34.假如这些小热点看上去同预计的一致，那就意味着又一种科学论说的胜利，这种论说即更完美的大爆炸论，亦称宇宙膨胀说。
35.宇宙膨胀说虽然听似奇特，但是它是基本粒子物理学中一些公认的理论产生的在科学上看来似乎可信的结论。
许多天体物理学家近十年来一直确信这一论说是正确的。
Section ⅣWriting(15 points)36.见分析试题精解Section I Cloze Test一、文章总体分析本文在关于工业革命对英国人民生活的影响问题上提出了两种对立的观点。
第一段讲述了第一种观点，是大部分历史学家的看法，即工业革命的直接结果是给英国大多数人民带来了普遍的贫穷和苦难。
第二段讲述的是另一种人普遍持有的观点，即工业革命不但没有加重这种贫困，反而使绝大多数人的生活得到了改善。
二、试题具体解析1.[A] admitted 承认[B] believed 相信，认为[C] claimed 声称[D] predicted 预言[答案] A[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：上下文语义+ 动词词义辨析。
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社科院1999考博英语试题+答案
中国社会科学院研究生院1999博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part Ⅰ V ocabulary (15％)Section ADirections ：On your Answer Sheet ，circle the answer that best completes the sentence ．1．With her last child having left home ，she felt a________ need to fill her time ．A ．tenseB ．thoroughC ．pressingD ．small2．It is generally thought that as teachers work with students ，psychology course work is________ to teacher-training ．A ．indispensableB ．inviolateC ．indisposedD ．invariable3．The announcement of the death of their leader caused thereafter a feeling of great despair to________ heir lives ．A ．overflowB ．scatterC ．permeateD ．manipulate4．Fear of pirate________ led the French to fortify their coastline ．A ．excursionsB ．incursionsC ．transmigrationsD ．transmogrifications5．During the oil crisis of the 1970s ，many states________ speed limits to reduce gasoline use ．A ．implantedB ．imposedC ．impairedD ．impressed6．Over-taxation ，many argue ，impedes initiative ，so that government income may actually________．A ．mushroomB ．capsizeC ．shrinkD ．dispel7．The assassin hid himself carefully from view before________ his future victim ．A ．drawing fromB ．drawing upC ．drawing withD ．drawing on8．He never exerts himself to aid those trying to________ a difficult situation ．A ．rectifyB ．modifyC ．solidifyD ．verify9．His alibi was fishy ，yet________ to close scrutiny ．A ．stood stillB ．withstoodC ．stood upD ．stood off10．Practitioners of law and medicine are esteemed in many countries which seems to indicate that________ depends on profession or title ．A ．prestigeB ．superiorityC ．privilegeD ．merit11．After the demonstration the protestors________ quietly ．A ．dismissedB ．diffusedC dispatchedD ．dispersed12．Mutual trade implies________ advantages ．A ．alliedB ．cooperativeC ．periodicalD ．reciprocal13．A virtual anchorite ，he________ to his self-sufficiency ．A ．adheresB ．confirmsC ．conformsD ．admonishes14．It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that during the Cold War period the threat________ by nuclear arms seemed an everpresent danger ．A ．imposedB ．convokedC ．posedD ．provoked15．Scientific integrity is as much a matter of self-interest as it is of________．A ．self-esteemB ．self-deceiving 考博家园C ．selfishnessD ．self-improvement Section BDirections ：On your Answer Sheet ，circle the letter that is the closest synonym to the underlinedword ．16．The majority of the observers at the conference ，in contradistinction to the delegates ，were opposed to ratification ．A ．adjournmentB ．distributionC ．tablingD ．approval17．Although it was none of my business I asked her if the one she was lamenting for was in any way kin ．A ．speaking forB ．running risks forC ．pleading forD ．mourning for18．I could never spend the tome that he does pouring over sports magazines ，compiling in tricate lists ，and calculating averages ．A ．delicateB ．incomprehensibleC ．meaninglessD ．complicated19．In England ，Latin appears never to have superseded the old Gaelic speech among the people ．A ．joinedB ．replacedC ．influencedD ．given way to20．Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall impeded our best attempts at rescuing the victims ．A ．encouragedB ．hinderedC ．nullifiedD ．crowned21．Death ensued as a result of suffocation ．A ．heartfailure B ．an accident C ．disease D ．asphyxiation 22．We must safeguard against coerced confessions ．A ．bribedB ．emotionalC ．unprofitableD ．forced23．My attention was engaged by the article's caption ．A ．graphB ．authorC ．contentsD ．title24．The report was unusual in that it insinuated corruption on the part of the minister ．A ．deniedB ．suggestedC ．proposedD ．stated25．When a newspaper prints an inaccurate date for an event ，universal chagrin results ．A ．discomfitureB ．amusementC ．reprisalD ．loss of profit26．In various parts of the world ，the devoted and devout participate enthusiastically in public processions during the major events of the liturgical year ．A ．piousB ．seriousC ．diseasedD ．misled27．Absent impartiality on the part of the psychotherapist ，a patient's conflicts may be exacerbated ．A ．indifferenceB ．objectivityC ．voiced concernD ．engagement28．They awoke to find the maid had left the remnants of dinner on the table ．A ．list of items for aB ．invitations to aC ．leftovers ofD ．preparations for a29．The upshot of all this was that travelling had become precarious ．A ．gloriousB ．funC ．expensiveD ．dangerous30．Some would consider that an infringement of good manners whereas others would not ．A ．an exampleB ．a violationC ．a problemD ．an indication Part Ⅱ Grammar (15％)Section ADirections ：On your Answer Sheet ，circle the letter that best completes the sentence ．1．________ sugar________ salt is oil water ． 考博家园A ．Not as ．．．as B ．No more than ．．．is C ．Not more than ．．．．is D ．Not more than ．．．as2．His mother frequently denies him permission to do things ，and that is________．A ．everB ．thisC ．thatD ．over3．The staff in pediatrics________ rushed whereas the geriatric ward is not busy at all ．A ．is nearly alwaysB ．nearly is alwaysC ．always is nearlyD ．is always nearly4．Anais Nin's diaries are often scandalous ，probably because she describes herself as she is rather than________．A ．others' define herB ．as others define herC ．her definition by othersD ．she is defined by others5．________，the mayor conceded defeat in his bid for re-election ．A ．Having racked up a lead of some 150，000 votesB ．Having been racked up a lead of some 150，000 votesC ．His opponent having racked up a lead of some 150，000 votesD ．His opponent racking up a lead of some 150，000 votes6．Never has a scientific explanation emerged________ someone somewhere has objected to it ．A ．thatB ．whichC ．whomD ．but7．Your mentor and friend________ to support me in my financial undertaking ．A ．have consentedB ．has consentedC ．have been consentingD ．are consented8．Due in large part to the complexity of its structure—over two hundred bones________ together by ligaments—the human skeleton is a marvel of architectural construction ．A ．bindingB ．boundC ．houndedD ．bind9．Inasmuch as a year does not elapse without a certain number of villagers falling victim to the ferocity of a tiger ，its roar is________ heard by the natives________ feelings of terror ．A ．not ．．．withB ．not ．．．withoutC ．seldom ．．．withD ．always ．．．without10．I regret to say that your thesis requires more thinking than________ for the problem is exceedingly complex ．A ．to be put inB ．has been put inC ．being put inD ．have been put in11．I must finish this assignment tonight ，________．A ．it is ever so lateB ．be it ever so lateC ．it be ever so lateD ．so late it be12．Science majors ，________，require a good basic foundation in the sciences as a whole ．A ．whether they are future physicists and chemistsB ．be they future physicists or chemistsC ．they are future physicists or chemistsD ．whether they should be future physicists and chemists13．Those are very important papers and I'd just as soon________ here ．A ．as you leave themB ．you leave themC ．you will leave themD ．that you will leave them14．Anatomists generally maintain that the human heart is nearest________． 考博家园A ．to the size in our fistB ．in the size to our fistC ．in size to our fistD ．to the size to our fist15．Foreigners are very fussy about their phone calls ．They hate________ anyone eavesdropping ．A ．thereB ．there beC ．there to beD ．beingSection BDirections ：In the sentences below ，either A ，B ，C or D is the incorrect gramatical form for thesentence ．Pick the incorrect form as your answer ，and on your Answer Sheet ，circle the corresponding letter ．16．One of the more intriguing theories about the destruction of Ur is his contention that the A population may destroy their ziggurats and abandoned their metropolis in anger a gainst the deitiesB C that permitted so long a famine ．D17．In the bush ，the ill took it to be only logical if the one who could dure an illness should also possess A B C the ability of causing it ，and that even at a distance ．D18．Ores which are occurred naturally as elements ，such as gold are of extreme rarity andA B C are occasionally of high value ．D19．Unless they are so permitted by the attending physician ，no visitors or relatives can enter theA B C patient's room ．D20．A rigorous alertness must be adhered when notetaking with the inessential ignored and theA B C D superfluous eliminated ．21．It is largely through perspiration ，or the evaporation of water through the pores ，that humansA B C rid them of excess moisture ．D22．Provided the computer is given correct information to start ，accuracy is another out standingA B C Dadvantage ．23．And so early every morning therefore ，but not before the infant bathed ， did she betake herself A B C D to the outhouse ．24．He stood on tiptoe ，stretching as far as he could ，however ，still ，he could not reach the book ． A B C D25．As gentle as possible ，and with help from an assistant ，the veterinarian examined the hippo to A B 考博家园determine if she was pregnant ．C D26．In a recent survey ，that responsiveness was that most of all made a woman dear to them was theA B C opinion of three out of four men ．D27．All personnel will be required to undergo special sensitivity training programs prior to leavingA B for aboard in order to be prepared against culture shock ．C D28．Among the many changes were those to the New Yorker book review ，and very shortsighted A B C they were ．D29．The majority of students ，preferring eternal verities ，rarely see that knowledge is subject A of growth and transformation ，and that it shifts in meaning and status with time ．B C D30．Because of the recent turmoil and until further notice ，any gathering of more than two people isA B C prohibited in the interest of preserving the law and order ．DPart Ⅲ Cloze (10％)Directions ：Choose as your answer the word that best fits the blank ．On your Answer Sheet ，circlethe corresponding letter ．My knees were shaking ． 1 afraid 2 with them ， 3 Ⅰ 4 myself out on the path to follow them ．Amara's husband 5 coming back and saw me ．“ 6 my age mates 7 thiswitchcraft ．You come back with me and keep watch 8 my wife ．Help me guard 9 body ．He will kill her and I cannot prevent it ．But he 10 killed her in vain ．He shall not eat her body ．”It was dark inside the reception hut ，and very quiet ．The women 11 kept watch over Amara ，and her co-wife still sat with her ．The man stood looking down upon her ．A man must never call his wife 12 her name and may never touch her 13 public ．The man knelt 14 hiswife ．“Child of Lain ．”She did not 15 ．Tentatively he 16 his hand on her forehead ．Perhaps he thought she heard ， 17 he added bravely ， 18 will happen to you ，Amara 19 wife ．”He clasped her hand in 20 ．We sat on in silence waiting for Amara to die ．1．A ．Am B ．Was C ．Will be D ．Have been2．A ．I went B ．go C ．but D ．to go3．A ．yet B ．moreover C ．even D ．soon4．A ．obliged B ．constrained C ．coerced D ．forced5．A ．is B ．was C ．will be D ．had been6．A ．Grant B ．Let C ．Pardon D ．Forgive 考博家园7．A ．takecare for B ．take care of C ．care of D ．care for 8．A ．around B ．with C ．by D ．for9．A ．my B ．your C ．his D ．her10．A ．is B ．was C ．will have D ．would have11．A ．even B ．ever C ．still D ．while12．A ．for B ．with C ．around D ．by13．A ．around the B ．in C ．when D ．while14．A ．along B ．beside C ．besides D ．thinking15．A ．budge B ．mix C ．stir D ．bestir16．A ．laid B ．lain C ．had lain D ．sat17．A ．for B ．when C ．listening D ．quietly18．A ．Nothing B ．Something C ．Anything D ．Everything19．A ．my B ．your C ．his D ．her20．A ．his B ．hers C ．theirs D ．ours Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (30％)Directions ：Read each passage and answer all the questions that follow the passage ．On yourAnswer Sheet ，circle the letter that best answers the question ．Passage 1The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex ．On the more intangible side ，there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries ；there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important ，there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism ，vented long before against Indian Buddhism ，which ，since the seventeenth century ，focused on Western Christianity ．Accordingly ，even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century ，it was already at a disadvantage ．After 1860，as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded ，it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles ，numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded ．In part ，the very presence of the missionary evoked attack ．They were ，after all ，the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior ，and for a long time they were virtually the only foreigners whose quotidian labors carried them to the farthest reaches of the Chinese empire ．For many of the indigenous population ，therefore ，the missionary stood as a uniquely visible symbol against which opposition to foreign intrusion could be vented ．In part ，too ，the missionary was attacked because the manner in which he made his presence felt after 1860 seemed almost calculated to offend ．By indignantly waging battle against the notion that China was the sole fountainhead of civilization and ，more particularly ，by his assault on many facets of Chinese culture per se ，the missionary directly undermined the cultural hegemony of the gentry class ．Also ，in countless ways ，he posed a threat to the gentry's traditional monopoly of social leadership ．Missionaries ，particularly Catholics ，frequently assumed the garb of the Confucian literati ．They were the only persons at the local level ，aside from the gentry ，who were permitted to communicate with the authorities as social equals ．Amid they enjoyed an extraterritorial status in the interior that gave them greater immunity to Chinese law than had ever been possessed by the gentry ．Although it was the avowed policy of the Chinese government after 1860 that the new 考博家园treaties were to be strictly adhered to ，in practice implementation depended on the wholehearted accord of provincial authorities ．There is abundant evidence that cooperation was dilatory ．At the root of this lay the interactive nature of ruler and ruled ．In a severely understaffed bureaucracy that ruled as much by suasion as by might ，the official ，almost always a stranger in the locality of his service ，depended on the active cooperation of the local gentry class ．Energetic attempts to implement treaty provisions concerning missionary activities ，in direct defiance of gentry sentiment ，ran the risk of alienating this class and destroying future effectiveness ．1．In a vague way ，anti-Christian feeling stemmed from________．A ．the mere presence of invadersB ．a generalized unfocused feelingC ．the introduction to the WestD ．none of the above2．The author would agree that________．A ．many problems in China came from internal disorders due to Western influenceB ．many problems in China came from China itself and were unrelated to the WestC scapegoats perform a necessary function and there should be more of themD ．all of the above are true3．With which of the following statements would the author agree?A ．Ethnocentricism is a manly tradition ．B ．The disdain toward Christianity was prefigured by a disdain toward Buddhism ．C ．Although Christianity was not well received in China ，Buddhism was ．D ．The author would agree with A and C4．Missionaries________．A ．often dressed the same way as Chinese scholars didB ．were free of the legal constraints that bound the local indigenous populationC ．had greater access to authority than Chinese peasantsD ．may be described by all of the above5．By which of the following statements may the dichotomy between government policy and its implementation be described?A ．There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip ．B ．You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink ．C ．All that glitters is not gold ．D ．All of the above apply in various ways to the dichotomy ．6．Provincial authorities________．A ．cooperated fully with the central government's policyB ．were alive to local feelingsC ．were obliged to determine whether local sentiment tolerated implementationD ．may be described by B and CPassage 2Proponents of creating large private sectors as quickly as possible in transition economies offer both political and economic arguments to support their view ．They argue that if democracy is to become a viable political system in the countries undergoing transition ，the state's monopoly 考博家园over the bases of political power must be broken so that the countervailing sources of political influence may emerge (Berger ，1991)．Otherwise ，the nomenklatura ，managers of state-owned firms and former bureaucrats ，may sabotage or block economic reforms ，as well as loot ，dissipate or transfer to their own possession the assets of the firms they manage ．By creating property owners ，privatization can create an ascent middle class that has a stake in the creation and maintenance of an effective system of property rights and the pursuit of economic policies that would enable the private sector to flourish ．The most compelling economic reason for privatizing state-owned enterprises in the transition economies is that as units of production—as distinct from providers of secure employment—they were a failure ．Private ownership is thus seen as the means of unlocking gains in productivity by stimulating productive efficiency ，offering greater motivation for both managers and workers ，and creating incentives to enter new markets and exit declining ones ．Privatization ，it is argued ，will unleash dynamic small businesses ，act as a lure for foreign direct investment and speed the painful process of restructuring industry ，and it would accomplish all this while returning property to its rightful historical owners and raising funds for the government ．Despite this enticing list of promises ，many countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union remain reluctant to privatize ．Some of the opposition is ideological ．Some comes from insiders at state-owned enterprises ，both workers and managers ，who fear the loss of income and power ．More broadly ，there are fears that privatization will reduce employment as private owners dismiss redundant workers and that the new private sector will be unlikely to provide the social benefits—like housing ，health and nursery care ，and recreation ，sports and vacation facilities—that state-owned enterprises often provided ．At the extreme ，there are fears that if privatization exacerbates unemployment and causes declines in production ，reformist governments will be swept away ．Practical difficulties have compounded this resistance to privatization ．The valuations of firms is difficult because capital markets barely exist ，accounting statements can be almost meaningless ，and profits and sales achieved in the communist era are a poor guide to future viability ．Households in these countries do not have sufficient sayings to purchase many of the largest firms ，and ，even if they did have the money ，they view former stateowned enterprises as dubious investments ．With a rudimentary banking system ，loans for the purchase of state property are seen as both risky and inflationary ．In this muddled situation ，suspicions naturally arise that buyers are benefiting from low prices at the expense of the state ．7．The argument about democracy is________．A ．a political argumentB ．an economic argumentC ．an argument based upon demonstrable proofD ．an argument favored by all economists8．The information contained between brackets refers to________．A ．something unknownB ．an American Supreme Court Justice's legal decisionC ．someone who does not in fact believe the argumentsD ．an author who deals with the topic being discussed9．Which of the following statements is true? 考博家园A ．“Nomenklatura” is underlined because its meaning cannot be determined by the text ．B ．“Nomenklatura” is different from managers and bureaucrats ．C ．“Nomenklatura” is a foreign term whose meaning in English is managers and bureaucrats ．D ．The origin of the word “nomenklatura” is well-known ．10．The author would necessarily agree________．A ．with the political argumentsB ．that state-owned enterprises were successful in providing secure employmentC ．that state-owned enterprises were successful as units of productionD ．that none of the above is true11．In paragraph 3，the ultimate fear is that of________．A ．the enterprise managersB ．the workersC ．the average citizenD ．the government itself12．The practical difficulties may be explained by________．A ．theoretical argumentsB ．the state of the economic systemsC ．fears of privatizationD ．all of the abovePassage3One traditional justification for greater judicial deference to agencies ，on legal questions in the U. S. administrative regime is she expertise argument ：This justification comports with traditional understandings about the respective roles of the different branches of government and agencies' place in modern government ．Agencies ，in this view ，are the technical experts that put into operation the policy judgments made by legislators ．Indeed ，technical expertise is the raison d'etre of agencies ；by focusing on a particular regulatory field ，or sector of the economy ，agencies can do what Congress lacks the time and other institutional resources to do ．Chevron v ．National Resources ，which presented the question whether the statutory term “stationary source” referred to an entire pollution—emitting plant or ，rather ，to every single smokestack within such a plant ，supplies an apt example of when an agency's special technical expertise can aid statutory interpretation ．According to the expertise argument ，agencies are deemed to understand even the legal ramifications of the problems agencies are created to work on ．Admittedly ，the dichotomy between legal and factual questions may at times be difficult to maintain ，but that observation argues asmuchin favor of as it does against Chevron deference ．Agency expertise ，however ，is not the only common justification ，sometimes the doctrine is justified also on democratic grounds ．According to the argument from democracy ，it is agencies ，not courts ，that are answerable to both the executive and the legislative representatives of the citizenry ．Because judges are not elected ，while presidents and legislators are ，and because agencies but not judges are accountable to the President and to Congress ，judicial deference to agency decisions enhances the political legitimacy of the administrative regime ．Finally ，Chevron may be justified also in the name of administrative efficiency or coordination ．Before Chevron ，different federal courts in different jurisdictions could interpret the same statutory provision differently ．Multiple interpretations by different federal courts would mean that the statute “said” different things in those different jurisdictions ．Such confusion could be eliminated by appellate review ，but agencies faced uncertainty pending review ，and the possibility of different interpretations across different appellate circuits remained ．Because multiple agencies do not typically interpret the same statutory language ，however ，Chevron 考博家园deference allows the agency charged with administering a statute to interpret that statute ．One agency ，rather than many federal courts ，now resolves ambiguities in the statute that the agency in question is charged to administer ．Such interpretive streamlining not only reduces uncertainty but also promotes regulatory coordination ．Once an agency has settled on a reasonable interpretation ，it can act on the basis of that interpretation nationally ．13．The expertise argument assumes that________．A ．an agency has experts but that Congress does notB ．Congress is more interested in policy than in implementationC ．modern agencies are more responsible than agencies were in the pastD ．all of the above are true14．Chevron is underlined________．A ．because it is the name of a companyB ．because it is one party to a law caseC ．because it is the title of a bookD ．because it is the title of a scholarly article15．A “stationary source”________．A ．refers to where one goes to buy writing paperB ．may mean either a plant or a smokestack ，but not bothC ．is in this instance a legal term whose meaning is being questionedD ．refers to something not covered by the above16．We may assume that________．A ．different lower federal courts may have different opinions about a lawB ．the decision of a lower federal court is not necessarily the final decisionC ．both of the above are trueD ．none of the above is true17．The difference between an appellate circuit court and a given agency is________．A ．that the latter is local whereas the former is nationalB ．that a variety of appellate courts may review a given law in contradistinction to a given agency and its jurisdictionC ．that albeit the former specializes in a given area ，the latter has a range of expertise across many different areasD ．that the first is state—based while the latter is nationally—based18．Throughout this passage ，“Chevron deference” refers to________．A ．favoring ChevronB ．favoring National ResourcesC ．favoring the agency involvedD ．favoring none of the abovePassage 4The main feature of a convention—a pattern of behavior that is customary ，expected ，and selg-enforced—is that ，out of a host of conceivable choices ，only one is actually used ．This fact also explains why conventions are needed ：they resolve problems of indeterminacy in interactions that have multiple equilibria ．Indeed ，from a formal point of view ，we may define a convention as an equilibrium that everyone expects in interactions that have more than one equilibrium ． 考博家园Theeconomic significance of conventions is that they reduce transaction costs ．Imagine the inconvenience if ，whenever two vehicles approached one another ，the drivers had to get out and negotiate which side of the road to take ．Or consider the cost of having to switch freight from one type of railroad to another whenever a journey involves both a wide-gauge and a narrow-gauge railroad line ．This was a common circumstance in the nineteenth century and not unknown in the late twentieth ：until recently ，Australia had different rail gauges in the states of South Wales and Victoria ，forcing a mechanical switch for all trains bound between Sydney and Melbourne ． Conventions are also a notable feature of legal contracts ．People rely on standard leases ，wills ，purchasing agreements ，construction contracts and the like ，because it is less costly to fill in the blanks of a standard contract than to create one from scratch ．Even more important ，such agreements are backed up by legal precedent ，so the signatories have even greater confidence that ，their terms are enforceable ．We may discern two ways in which conventions become established ．One is by central authority ．Following the French Revolution ，for example ，it was decreed that horse-drawn carriages in Paris should keep to the right ．The previous custom had been for carriages to keep left and for pedestrians to keep right ，facing the oncoming traffic ．Changing the custom was symbolic of the new order ：going on the left had become politically incorrect because it was identified with the privileged classes ：going on the right was the habit of the common many and therefore more “democratic”．In Britain ，by contrast there seems to have been no single defining event that gave rise to the dominant convention of left-handed driving ．Rather ，it grew up by local custom ，spreading from one region to another ．This is the second mechanism by which conventions become established ：the gradual accretion of precedent ．The two mechanisms are not mutually exclusive ，of course ．Society often converges on a convention first by an informal process of accretion ：later it is codified into law to regulate exceptions ．In many countries ，rules of the road were not legislated until the nineteenth century ，but by this time the law was merely reiterating what had already become established custom ．The surprising fact is that until the end of the eighteenth century ，the dominant convention was for horse-drawn carriages to keep to the left ．This situation obtained in Great Britain ，France ，Sweden ，Portugal ，Austria ，Hungary ，Bohemia and parts of Italy ．A chain of historical accidents—Napoleon adopting the new convention for his armies and imposing this convention in occupied countries ；Portugal sharing a common border with occupied Spain ；Austria ，Hungary and Bohemian Czechoslovakia falling under German rule ；Italy having elected a “modern” leader under a king—gradually tipped the balance ．19．In the first sentence ，the word “convention” is underlined________．A ．for personal reasons regarding styleB ．to stress the importance of the wordC ．because the author will define itD ．for none of the above reasons20．A synonym for “equilibria” is________．A ．choicesB ．conventionsC ．problemsD ．interactions21．We may assume that the cost in time of passenger traffic in Australia as a whole________．A ．is great 考博家园。
[中科院]中国社会科学院研究生院博士研究生英语入学试题及答案
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中国社会科学院研究生院2005年博士研究生英语入学考试和答案PART I: VocabularySection A (10 points)Directions: Choose the word that is the closest in meaning with the underlined word.1. Too often, the sales manager who hires salesmen simply because of their extroverted and flamboyant personality will have a high turnover.a. deviousb. humorousc. singulard. ostentatious2. He remains alert to signs of hope and finds one in the story of the late SuAnne Big Crow, a high-school basketball star whose exploits and character united the reservation in pride.a. featsb. peatsc. leatsd. beats3. The emergence of extraterrestrial life, particularly intelligent life, is a key test for these rival paradigms.a. doctrinesb. heresiesc. examplesd. debates4. There are no national statistics, but family-law experts agree that with remarriage and a booming economy creating an increasingly mobile work force, relocation is becoming a much more. contentious issue in divorce cases.a. precariousb. urgentc. elusived. controversial5. Although astronomers increasingly suspect that bio-friendly planets may be abundant in the universe, the chemical steps leading to life remain largely mysterious.a. doubtb. assumec. emerged. amplify6. Small wonder, then, that the heavy surrounding wall is obsolete, and we build, instead, membranes of thin sheet metal or glass.a. extantb. manifest e. archaic d. dilapidated7. That prospect has infuriated ordinary Mexicans, who have seen the purchasing power of their paychecks erode more than 40% since 1982, and who voted for the new president because he promised to replace austerity with prosperity.a. severe and restricted economyb. affluence and large-scale economyc. inefficient and small-scale economyd. scarce and uncontrolled economy8. The benefits and pleasure from embezzlement will only be ephemeral for those corrupt officials, at the expense of the whole country for centuries to come.a. transitoryb. durablec. immortald. resilient9. We might feel ambivalence about taking PhD candidate tests that require us to work extremely hard and under too much stress.a. an antagonistic feelingb. a contradictory feelingc. a Monday-morning feelingd. an altruistic feeling10. Much of the emotionalism of modern pop music, which seems to offer catharsis to both performer and audience, is taken directly from the sacred-music traditions of African Americans.a. abreactionb. laxnessc. euphemismd. euthanasiaSection B (10 points)Directions: Choose the word that best completes the sentence.11. It is hoped that the severe prison sentences will serve as a(n) to other would-be offenders.a. hoaxb. deterrentc. hindranced. anguish12. and grit are much more important than intelligence and talent. So those who were responsible for cheating were kicked off the team, even in the face of overwhelming criticism.a. integrityb. culpabilityc. persistenced. indolence13. And so to the of the Games --- faster, higher, stronger ---Tonya Harding adds words she knows all too well: harder. Harder. Longer. Badder. She has worked so hard, tried for so long, wanted so bad.a. creedb. convictionc. dogmad. qualm14. Traditionally, biologists believed that life is a freak --- the result of a zillion-to-one accidental concatenation. It follows that the likelihood of its happening again elsewhere in the cosmos is .a. infinitesimalb. immeasurablec. multitudinousd. miscellaneous15. By starting treatment early, and interrupting it for brief periods once they had the virus under control, all of the study's eight participants were able to _ their immune responses.a. consoleb. fosterc. bolsterd. decrease16. His former wife had ____ the court for permission to move them to Colorado, but a judge said that would damage their relationship with Caldwell and ruled she could either stay in Illinois or relinquish custody.a. defiedb. ratifiedc. petitionedd. eluded17. Some managers in the slate-owned enterprises have been charged with for depositing public funds into private bank accounts at a time when economic reform is being carried out.a. embezzlementb. pillagec. pilferaged. arson18. Both sections are designed to be taken by high school seniors. Over 20 percent of the children with these top scores were found to be left-handed or , twice the rate observed among the general population.a. ambidextrousb. ambivalentc. ambientd. dexterous19. Poorer parents, meanwhile, may be tempted to borrow more than they ever expect to repay; the rate on government-backed loans is roughly 22% and bound to rise.a. interestb. mortalityc. defaultd. velocity20. It is not only that they are supposed to fall in love and to enter into a monogamous marriage in which she gives up her name and he his _______. but this love must be manufactured at all cost or the marriage will seem insincere to all concerned.a. concessionb. solvencyc. paroled. meditationPART Ⅱ: GrammarSection A (10 points)Directions: Choose the answer that best fills in the blank.21. We cannot observe and measure innate intelligence, we can observe and measure the effects of the interaction of whatever is inherited with whatever stimulation has been received from the environment.a. thereforeb. therebyc. whereasd. thus22. The critics tended to speculate who had the greatest influence on the development of that writer's novels.a. as tob. so as toc. thatd. of23. the stock market has posted its worst loss since the '87 crash and has provoked fears ofa bearish season to come.a. Panicked by a faltering buyout deal and a whiff of inflation,b. To be panicked by a hesitating buyout deal and a whiff of inflation,c. Being panicked by a hesitant buyout deal and a trace of inflation,d. Panicking by a faltering buyout deal and a hair-raising inflation,24. The assumption that the initiative in the establishment of this wondrous arrangement should be in the hands of the male, with the female graciously succumbing ____ the impetuous onslaught of his wooing , goes back right to prehistoric times when savage warriors first descended _________ some peaceful matriarchal hamlet and dragged away its screaming daughters to their marital beds.a. to ... onb. to ...withc. with ...tod. on...at25. Hacker could even take control of the entire system by implanting his own instructions in the software that runs it. Moreover, he could program the computer to ease any sigh ofa. his being thereb. him having ever been therec. his ever having been thered. having ever been there26．Jefferson was a renowned doubter，urging his nephew to “question with boldness even the existence of a God” John Adams was at least a skeptic，．a．as were of course the revolutionary firebrands Tom Paine and Ethan Allemb．as the revolutionary firebrand was of course Tom Paine and Ethan Allemc. as of course the revolutionary firebrands Tom Paine and Ethan Allem wered．as of course the revolutionary firebrand was Tom Paine and Ethan Allem27．Should Earth be struck by an asteroid，destroying all higher life-forms，intelligent beings，still less humanoids，a．would almost certainly not arise next time aroundb．will almost undoubtedly not arise next time aroundc．would not have to arise next time around indeedd．Would have arisen next time around for a certainty28．Another reason argues for the separation of church and state．If the Founding Fathers had one overarching aim、it was to limit the power the churches the state．They had seen the abuses of kings who claimed to rule with divine approval，from arbitrary Henry VIII to the high-handed George Ⅲ.a．not of ...but of b．not only ...but alsoc．of ...as well as d．of ...or of29．Many such chemical changes have been performed by man since very early times，probably the first the heating of clay to make pottery，which has been known for 1O，000 years．a was b is C．had been d．being30．But if life on Earth is not unique，the case for a miraculous origin would be undermined．The discovery of even a humble bacterium on Mars,____, would support the view that life emerges naturally．a．if they could be shown to have arisen separately from Earthb．if it could show to have arisen in parallel from Earthc if it could be shown to have arisen independently from Earthd. if they can be shown to have arisen autonomously from EarthSection B (10 points)Directions：Choose the letter that indicates the error in the sentence31．Bill Gates rules because early on he acted on the assumption which computing power---theA Bcapacity of microprocessors and memory chips---would become nearly free；his company keptCchuming out more and more lines of complex software to make use of the cheap bounty．D32. What struck the imagination of the world was, in first place, the dramatic character ofA Bthe discovery - the long and patient search, a real act of faith, culminating in the discoveryCof something the like of which had never been found before - the undisturbed body of theDancient Egyptian kings.33. Even George Washington must shudder in his sleep to hear the constant emphasis onA"Judeo-Christian values.” It is he who writes, “We have abundant reason to rejoice that in thisB CLand ... every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.”D34. It was a textbook case of crisis mismanagement. Hitting by hundreds of lawsuits and a federalA Bprobe into the safety of its silicone breast implant, Dow Coming spent much of the past year hunkered down in a defensive crouch -- stalling investigators, sitting on evidence andC Dminimizing the complaints of women who said the devices caused them pain, disfigurement and serious autoimmune disorders.35. As the colleges and universities have less and less resources to devote to the humanities andAliberal arts, by which a sensitivity toward social advancement has traditionally been nurturedB Cthey are forced to look to private industry for money.D36. In the space of 12 hours last Thursday, Mexican Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz Martinez undertook the unenviable task of charming, consoling and begging the forgiveness of three AAmerican credit-rating agencies, the head of a dozen U.S. commercial banks and 400 investorsBand analysts who lost nearly $10 billion last month when Mexico's newly minted President,CErnesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, abruptly allowed the peso to float against the dollar.D37. He believed that Nazca only made sense if the people who had designed and made theseAvast drawings on the ground could actually see them. and that led him to the theory that theBancient Peruvians had somehow learned to fly, as only from above they could really see theC Dextent of their handiwork.38. The rescue package he finally unveiled Tuesday called for cutting budgets, keeping prices inA check and holding wage increases to 7% for 1995, backed by an $18 billion emergency fundBsubstantially financed by the U.S. Those sacrifices, however, make them clear that Mexico nowCfaces an anguished period of economic stagnation, even if the government can make the planD stick.39. But our guess, and certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greater number whoA knows that walls are only temporary at best, and that over the long run, we can serve society'sB Cinterests better by working together in mutual accommodation.D40. No wonder John Adams once described the Judeo-Christian tradition as “the most bloodyAreligion that ever existed,” and that the Founding Fathers took such pains to keepBthe hand that held the musket separate from the one that carries the cross.C DPART II1: Reading comprehension: (30 points)Directions: Answer all the questions based on the information in the passages below.Passage 1I have shown how democracy destroys or modifies the different inequalities that originate in society; but is this all, or does it not ultimately affect that great inequality of man and woman which has seemed, up to the present day, to be eternally based in human nature? I believe that the social changes that bring nearer to the same level the father and son, the master and servant, and, in general, superiors and inferiors will raise woman and make her more and more the equal of man. But here, more than ever, I feel the necessity of making myself clearly understood; for there is no subject on which the coarse and lawless fancies of our age have taken a freer range.There are people in Europe who，confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike．They would give to boththe same functions，impose on both the same duties，and grant to both the same rights：they would mix them in all things—their occupations，their pleasures．their business．It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded，and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women．It is not thus that the Americans understand that species of democratic equality Which may be established between the sexes．They admit that as nature has appointed such wide differences between the physical and moral constitution of man and woman，her manifest design was to give a distinct employment to their various faculties；and they hold that improvement does not consist in making beings so dissimilar do pretty nearly the same things，but in causing each of them to fulfill their respective tasks in the best possible manner The Americans have applied to the sexes the great principle of political economy which governs the manufacturers of our age，by carefully dividing the duties of man from those of woman in order that the great work of society may be the better carried on．In no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes and to make them keep pace one with the other，but in two pathways that are always different．American women never manage the outward concerns of the family or conduct a business or take a part in political life：nor are they，on the other hand，ever compelled to perform the rough labor of the fields or to make any of those laborious efforts which demand the exertion of physical strength．No families are so poor as to form an exception to this rule．If, on the one hand，an American woman cannot escape from the quiet circle of domestic employments．she is never forced，on the other，to go beyond it．Hence it is that the women of America，who often exhibit a masculine strength of understanding and a manly energy，generally preserve great delicacy of personal appearance and always retain the manners of women although they sometimes show that they have the hearts and minds of menNor have the Americans ever supposed that one consequence of democratic principles is the subversion of marital power or the confusion of the natural authorities in families They hold that every association must have a head in order to accomplish its object．and that the natural head of the conjugal association is man．They do not therefore deny him the right of directing his partner，and they maintain that in tile smaller association of husband and wife as well as in the great social community the object of democracy is to regulate and legalize the powers that are necessary, and not to subvert all power．Comprehension Questions：41．What does the writer think will improve equality between the sexes?a．the opinions of those who comment on society's foiblesb．the fact that democracy has leveled other inequalitiesc. the social changes that have occurredd．the wider gender demographic assumptions of our age42. Why does the writer oppose the views of some Europeans?a. Because he does not think men and women should do the same jobs, enjoy the same pastimes, or indulge in the same business transactions.b. Because he thinks they confuse the different characteristics of men and women.c. Because he thinks it absurd that the sexes should have the same duties and rights.d. Because he does not think the sexes have the same function in society.43. In what particular way do Americans have a different interpretation of democratic equality between the sexes?a. They want men and women to take different roles in society.b, They believe the sexes are very different from each other.c. They encourage men and women to fulfill different tasks as well as they can.d. They impose a division of labor in order to benefit society as a whole.44. What does the writer suggest to be the main strengths of American women?a. They concentrate on work in the home.b. They heed their comportments and show brainpowers analogous to those of men.e. They refrain from shirking domestic employment.d. They do not participate in business or politics.45. What effect has democracy had on the relations between the sexes in America?a. It has resulted in women being subordinate to men.b. It has subverted natural authority in families.c. It has formulated and endorsed necessary powers, with the man as head of the family.d. It has reinforced existing inequalities.Passage 2When we speak of progress in connection with our individual endeavors or any organized human effort, we mean an advance toward a known goal. It is not in this sense that social evolution can be called progress, for it is not achieved by human reason striving by known means toward a fixed aim. It would be more correct to think of progress as a process of formation and modification of the human intellect, a process of adaptation and learning in which not only the possibilities known to us but also our values and desires continually change. As progress consists in the discovery of the not yet known, its consequences must be unpredictable. It always leads into the unknown, and the most we can expect is to gain an understanding of the kind of forces that bring it about. Yet, though such a general understanding of the character of this process of cumulative growth is indispensable if we are to try to create conditions favorable to it, it can never be knowledge which will enable us to make specific predictions. The claim that we can derive from such insight necessary laws of evolution that we must follow is an absurdity. Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.Even in the field where search for new knowledge is most deliberate, i,e., in science, no man can predict what will be the consequences of his work, In fact, there is increasing recognition that even the attempt to make science deliberately aim at useful knowledge--that is, at knowledge whose future uses can be foreseen--- is likely to impede progress. Progress by its very nature cannot be planned. We may perhaps legitimately speak of planning progress in a particular field where we aim at the solution of a specific problem and are already on the track of the answer. But we should soon be at the end of our endeavors if we were to confine ourselves to striving for goals now visible and if new problems did not spring up all the time. It is knowing what we have not known before that makes us wiser man.But often it also makes us sadder men. Though progress consists in part in achieving things we have been striving for, this does not mean that we shah like all its results or that all will begainers. And since our wishes and aims are also subject to change in the course of process, it is questionable whether the statement has a clear meaning that the new state of affairs that progress creates is a better one, Progress in the sense of the cumulative growth of knowledge and power over nature is a term that says little about whether the new state will give us more satisfaction than the old. The pleasure may be solely in achieving what we have been striving for, and the assured possession may give us little satisfaction. The question whether, if we had to stop at our present stage of development, we would in any significant sense be better off or happier than if we had stopped a hundred or a thousand years ago is probably unanswerable.The answer, however, does not matter. What matters is the successful striving for what at each, moment seems attainable. It is not the fruits of past success but the living in and for the future in which human intelligence proves itself. Progress is movement for movement's sake, for it is in the process of learning, and in the effects of having learned something new, that man enjoys the gift of his intelligence.Comprehension Questions:46. Which of the following statements does the passage most strongly support?a. Scientific progress will benefit mankind immeasurably.b. Scientific research frequently achieves its intended goals.c. Progress may or may not lead to a better world.d. Progress defined by a infinite trajectory leads to wisdom.47. Progress, in the view of the writer.a. involves the development of the human intellectb. is closely related to social development and evolutionc. is at the expense of tradition and moral valuesd. always remunerates everyone relatively equally48. When considering the search for knowledge,a. we should aim at solving specific problemsb. we should produce useful resultsc. we become wiser because we accumulate a broad range of knowledged. science finds solutions for existing problems and uncovers new problems49. Progress, according to this argument,a. unquestionably leads to a more pleasurable existenceb. facilitates prosperity and personal satisfactionc. involves the achievement of measurable goalsd. is an inevitable movement forward50. The author suggests thata. past achievements are less important than future aspirationsb. history's successes demonstrate change in knowledgec. striving without achieving goals is wasted effortd. movement for movement's sake is pointlessPassage 3The immediate postwar economic regime throughout much of the world could be characterized as a unique compromise between national economic objectives (e.g., industrialization / development, full employment, and social welfare) on the one hand, and aninternational system of co-operative and liberal multilateralism, on the other-a combination often described as “national capitalism” or “embedded liberalism”.In practice the implementation of Keynesianism in each national context was quite specific and had to do with the mediating effect of local institutions or “governance regimes”. In industrialized nations, states regulated economics mainly through fiscal policy. Meanwhile, developing countries experimented with more extreme forms of state intervention, from various versions of “mixed”economies to outright socialism. In Latin America, the guiding postwar paradigm was import-substituting industrialization (ISI), through which governments fostered economic development by protecting domestic industries from foreign competition.This variety of postwar social contracts was made possible by a strong system of international monetary regulations, which were bound together by the political hegemony of the United States. In order to prevent global capital movements (whether outflows from the United States or inflows to Europe) from upsetting the system of pegged exchange rates, a consensus emerged for the establishment of capital controls. In limiting the pressures that could be brought to bear on the exchange rate, these restraints to capital mobility allowed governments to pursue domestic objectives other than currency stability (like full employment and a welfare state in Europe and industrialization in the developing world), and thereby satisfy the social demands formulated by their democratic electorates.Over the course of the postwar period, however, this system was put under considerable stress that culminated during the 1970s, On the domestic front, expansionary policies were beginning to exhaust their potential and were becoming increasingly inflationary. On the international front, the rapid progress of financial innovation and the multinationalization of firms had engendered a movement in favor of the liberalization of capital movements, supported by Britain (initially) and the United States (later). Both emerging and European economies were flooded with foreign capital, which made it even harder to sustain noninflationary courses of action and increased the vulnerability of currencies to speculation. In 1971, the U.S. commitment to such a liberal financial order was ratified by the country's decision to let the dollar float, which in effect brought the Bretton Woods system to an end.The new post-Bretton Woods economic environment not only appeared difficult to control with established economic strategies, but it also changed the political opportunity structure that governments faced. Previously, national policies bad been determined chiefly by the interplay of domestic parties, local interest groups, and national institutions. In contrast, now international finance constituted an increasingly powerful constituency, which could be presumed to have its own set of policy preferences-such as low inflation, balanced budgets, and strict monetary policy managed by an independent central bank.Comprehension Questions:51. What is the best title of this passage?a. The Widely Contrasting Models of the Economy and the Myth of the Mixed Economy.b. The Shifting of the Means of Government Intervention and the Downfall of the Bretton Woods system,c. The Varying Social Contracts and the Disadvantages of the System of Pegged Exchange Ratesd, The Changing International Economic Order and the Rise of the Market Paradigm52. What is the difference in the ways of government intervention between developed and developing countries according to the author?a. The background of developing countries is more general and the contexts of developednations are more specific.b. Industrialized nations focused mainly on government expenditure, while developingcountries tested different experimental forms of state intervention.c. Developed nations regulated the economies through fiscal policies, whereas developingcountries tried to control economies by protectionism.d. Develo ped countries experimented various version of “mixed” economies; meanwhile,developing countries tried to protect domestic industries from foreign competition.53. Which of the following statements is NOT true?a. The restrictive measures gave the governments the first priority on currency stability.b. Not only the U.S political supremacy but a strong system of international monetaryregulations made various social agreements possible.c. To protect the pegged exchange rates from being destabilized by global capital flow, themajority of the countries reached agreement on the establishment of capital control.d. Developed countries concentrated their domestic objective on full employment, whiledeveloping countries focused on industrialization.54. How was the system of pegged exchange rates put under substantial stress for the period before 1970's?a. Domestically, expansionary policies lost their potential and became inflationary;internationally, liberalization of capital movements ensued.b. Domestically, policies exhausted the endangered movements; internationally, the rapidprogress of financial innovation and the multinationalization of firms supported Britain and the United States.c. Domestically, policies exhausted potential and failed to become deflationary, internationally,financial modernization and firms favored support of Britain and the United States.d. Domestically, policies produced exhaust and reversed inflation, internationally, financialinnovation and firms favored support of Britain and the United States.55. In the passage the author's attitude towards “the new post-Bretton Woods economic environment” isa, optimistic b. critical c. indifferent d. approvingPassage 4The first social effect of this state of affairs was to produce a large and ever larger floating population of 'stateless' exiles. During the growth period of Hellenic history such a plight had been uncommon and was regarded as a dreadful abnormality. The evil was not overcome by Alexander's great hearted effort to induce the reigning Faction of the moment to each city-state to allow its ejected opponents to return to their homes in peace; and the fire made fresh fuel for itself; for the one thing that the exiles found for their hands to do was to enlist as mercenary soldiers: and this glut of military man-power put fresh drive into the wars by which new exiles - and thereby more mercenaries - were being created.The effect of these direct moral ravages of the war spirit in Hellas in uprooting her children was powerfully reinforced by the operation of disruptive economic forces which the wars let loose.。
社科院博士生初试考试英语试题及答案
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PART III: Reading and Writing 10 Section A (10 points) Directions: Some sentences have been removed in the following text. Choose the most suitable one from the list A—G to fit into each of the blanks. There are two extra choices which do not fit in any of the blanks.(1) __________________ Player 1 may not know these particular words of wisdom, but chances are she’s thinking much the same as she tries to decide whether to send Player 2 some of her $10 stake. If she does, the money will be tripled, and her anonymous partner can choose to return none, some, or all of the cash. But why should Player 2 send anything back? And why should Player 1 give anything in the first place? Despite the iron logic of this argument, she types in her command to send some money. A few moments later she smiles, seeing from her screen that Player 2 has returned a tidy sum that leaves them both showing a net profit.(2) ___________________ Based on exactly the same cold logic that Player 1 dismissed, the so-called Nash equilibrium predicts that in economic transactions between strangers, where one has to make decisions based on a forecast of another’s response, the optimal level of trust is zero. Yet despite the economicorthodoxy, the behavior of Players 1 and 2 is not exceptional. In fact, over the course of hundreds of such trials, it turns out that about half of Player 1s send some money, and three- quarters of Player 2s who receive it send some back.Zak is a leading protagonist in the relatively new field of neuroeconomics, which aims to understand human social interactions through every level from synapse to society. It is a hugely ambitious undertaking. By laying bare the mysteries of such nebulous human attributes as trust, neuroeconomists hope to transform our self- understanding. (3) _________________ “ As we learn more about the remarkable internal order of the mind, we will also understand far more deeply the social mind and therefore the external order of personal exchange, and the extend ed order of exchange through markets.”(4) __________________ As Zak’s collaborator Steve Knack of the World Bank points out: “Trust is one of the most powerful factors affecting a country’s economic health. Where trust is low, individuals and organizations are more wary about engaging in financial transactions, which tends to depress the national economy.”And trust levels differ greatly between nations. The World Values Survey, based at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has asked people in countries around the world, “Do you think strangers can generally be trusted?” the positive response rate varies from about 65% in Norway to about 5% in Brazil. (5) __________________ “Policy-makers in these latter countries might be urgently interested in mechanisms that enable them to raise national trust levels,” observes Knack.A. Even more intriguingly, it seems that this urge to respond positively when someone shows trust in us is largely outside ourcontrol.B. Crucially for international economic development, what is true for individuals turns out also to be true for nations.C. Disturbingly, countries where trust is lower than a critical level of about 30%—as is the case in much of South America and Africa – risk falling into a permanent suspicion- locked poverty trap.D. “It’s good to trust; it’s better not to,” goes an Italian proverb.E. They believe their findings even have the potential to help make societies more productive 11 and successful.F. He points out that our brains have been tailored by evolution to cope with group living.G. This outcome doesn’t just flout proverbial wisdom, it thumbs its nose at economic theory.Section B (10 points) Directions: Write a 100—120-word summary of the article in this part.。
1998年考研英语试题及参考答案（3）
Passage 4When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton moved swiftly. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans , he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment- although no one had proposed to do so--and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Prinoeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a na- tional policy on human cloning. That group--the National Bioethics Advisory Commission ( NBAC)-has been working feverishly to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on anear-final draft of their recommendations.NBAC will ask that Clinton ' s 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning be extended in- definitely , and possibly that it be made law. But NBAC members are planning to word the recom- mendation narrowly to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of human DNAor cells-routine in molecular biology. The panel has not yet reached agreement on a crucial ques- tion, however, whether to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning.In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro sug- gested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be "morally unacceptable to at- tempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning. " Shapiro explained during the meeting that the moral doubt stems mainly from fears about the risk to the health of the child. The panel then informally accepted several general conclusions , although some details have not been settled.NBAC plans to call for a continued ban on federal government funding for any attempt to clone body cell nuclei to create a child. Because current federal law already forbids the use of fed-eral funds to create embryos ( the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research or toknowingly endanger an embryo' s life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research. NBAC members also indicated that they will appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer. But they were divided on whether to go further by calling for a federal law that would impose a complete ban on human cloning. Shapiro and most members favored an appeal for such legislation , but in a phone interview, he said this is- sue was still "up in the air. "63. We can learn from the first paragraph that__[A]federal funds have been used in a project to clone humans[B] the White House responded strongly to the news of cloning[C]NBAC was authorized to control the misuse of cloning technique[D]the White House has got the panel's recommendations on cloning64. The panel agreed on all of the following except that__[A]the ban on federal funds for human cloning should be made a law[B]the cloning of human DNA is not to be put under more control[C]it is crimtnal to use private funding for human cloning[D]it would be against ethical values to clone a human being65 . NBAC will leave the issue of embryo research undiscussed because__[A]embryo research is just a current development of cloning[B]the health of the child is not the main concern of embryo research[C]an embryo' s life will not be endangered in embryo research[D]the issue is expLicitly stated and settled in the law66. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that__[A]some NBAC members hesitate to ban human cloning completely[B]a law banning human cloning is to be passed in no time[C] privately funded researchers will respond positively to NBAC' s appeal[D]the issue of human cloning will soon be settledPassage 5Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments. Sir Isaac Newton supposedly discovered gravity through the fall of an apple. Apples had been falling in many places for centuries and thousands of people had seen them fall. But Newton for years had been curious about the cause of the orbital motion of the moon and planets. What kept them in place? Why didn' t they fall out of the sky? The fact that the apple fell down toward the earth and not up into the tree answered the question he had been asking himself about those lalger fruits of the heavens, the moon and the planets.How many men would have considered the possibility of an apple falling up into the tree? Newton did because he was not trying to predict anything. He was just wondering.His mind was ready for the unpredictable. Unpredictabllity is part of the essential nature of research. If you don' t have unpredictable things, you don' t have research. Scienltists tend to forget this when writing their cut and dried reports for the technical journals, but history is filled with examples of it.In talking to some scienlists, particularly younger ones, you might gather the impression that they find the "scientific melhod"a substitute for imaginative thought . I've attended research conferences where a scientist has been asked what he thinks about the advisability of continuing acertain experiment. The scientist has frowned, looked at the graphs, and said "the data are still inconclusive." "We know that, " the men from the budget office have said, "but what do you think? Is it worthwhile going on? What do you think we might expect?" The scientist has beenshocked at having even been asked to speculate.What this amounts to, of course, is that the scientist has become the victim of his own writ- ings. He has put forward unquestioned claims so consistently that he not only believes them him- self, but has convinced industrial and business management that they are true. If experiments are planned and carried out according to plan as faithfully as the reports in the science journals indi- cate , then it is perfectly logical for management to expect research to produce results measurable in dollars and cents. It is entirely reasonable for auditors to believe that scientists who know ex- actly where they are going and how they will get there should not be distracted by the necessity of keeping one eye on the cash register while the other eye is on the microscope. Nor, if regularity and conformity to a standard pattern are as desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear to reflect , is management to be blamed for discriminating against the "odd balls a-mong researchers in favor of more conventional thinkers who "work well with the team. "67. The author wants to prove with the example of Isaac Newton that __[A] inquiring minds are more important than scientific experiments[B] science advances when fruitful researches are conducted[C] scientists seldom forget the essential nature of research[D] unpredictability weighs less than prediction in scientific research68 . The author asserts that sclentists __[A] shouldn't replace "scientific method" with imaginative thought[ B] shouldn't neglect to speculate on unpredictable things[ C] should write more concise reports for technical journals[D]should be confident about their research findings69. It seems that some young scientists__[A]have a keen interest in prediction[B]often speculate on the future[C] think highly of creative thinking[D]stick to "scientific method"70. The author implies that the results of scientific research__[A]may not be as profitable as they are expected[B]can be measured in dollars and cents[C] rely on conformity to a standard pattern[D]are mostly underestimated by managementPart IV: English-Chinese Translation71) While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians,modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past. Caught in the web of its own time and place, each generation ofhistorians determines anew what is significant for it in the past. In thls search the evidence found is always incomplete and scattered; it is also frequently partial or partisan. The irony of the histo- rian' s craft is that its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions to an un- ending process .72) Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.While history once revered its affinity to literature and philosophy, the emerging social sciences seemed to afford greater opportunities for asking new questtons and providing rewarding ap- proaches to an understanding of the past. Social science methodologies had to be adapted to a dis- cipline governed by the primacy of historical sources rather than the imperatives of the contempo- rary world. 73) During this transfer , traditional historical methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.Methodology is a term that remains inherently ambiguous in the historical profession. 74 ) There is no agreement whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work in general or to the research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical inquiry. His-torians, especially those so blinded by their research interests that they have been accused of "tun- nel method , " frequently fall victim to the "technicist fallacy. " Also common in the natural sci- ences , the technicist fallacy mistakenly identifies the discipline as a whole with certain parts of its technical implementation. 75 ) It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and intemal criticism of sources, and to social science historians who equate their ac- tivity with specific techniques.。
1998年博士入学考试英语真题含答案
1998年博士入学考试英语真题PART ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION (15 points, 1 point for each)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third voice will ask a question about what was said. The question will be spoken only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar across it on your Answer Sheet.1. A. He’s going to buy some flowers.B. He’s going to bake the cake.C. He’s going to clean up the floor.D. He’s going to dust and mop the kitchen.2. A. Go to the cinema.B. Visit a friend of hers.C. Go to bed early.D. Go home for dinner.3. A. He wants her to pick up the bone on the ground.B. He wants her to take the bone out of the fish.C. He wants his broken bone to be treated.D. He has something to complain about.4. A. The man had lost his keys.B. The man wasn’t able to open the door.C. The door needed repairing.D. He wanted the woman to help him.5. A. She’d like to come along.B. She knows her way around the harbor.C. The warm weather is quite pleasant.D. The ride will take all day.6. A. He is anxious to go to the museum.B. He refuses to go to the museum.C. He doesn’t like to go to the museum.D. He will go with her.7. A. Two boat tickets.B. Two train tickets.C. Two planes tickets.D. Two tickets for the play.8. A. He likes the house.B. The look of the house surprises him.C. He thinks the house is too small.D. He is happy to see the house they have bought.9. A. Sleep late.B. Visit some friends.C. Buy things.D. Go for a ride.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two short passages. At the end of each passage, there will be three questions. Both the passage and the questions will be read to you only once. After each question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answer from the four choices give by making the corresponding letter with a single bar across it on your Answer Sheet.10. A. A deep, resonant voice.B. Good grammar.C. Understanding of the audience’s point of view.D. Information on the subject.11. A. Confusing wrong is not good writing.B. Writing is not easy for everyoneC. Correct grammar is part of good writingD. Anyone can learn to write12. A. His advice is still useful today.B. He knew nothing about writing.C. He was a popular teacher.D. He was born under a lucky star.13. A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D.714. A. It’s a long country with 1,285,000 kilometer.B. It’s a country full of natural resources.C. It’s a country surrounded by Pacific Ocean.D. It’s a country with a lot of Pacific Ocean.15. A. It has a dry climate.B. It is extremely wet.C. It’s rather cool.D. It depends on each region.PART Ⅱ VOCABULARY (20 points, 1/2 point for each)Section ADirections: There are twenty questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with one word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that is closet in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across it on your Answer Sheet.16. Economic development is likely to assume a bigger and more significant role in the world.A. supposeB. presumeC. undertakeD. transmit17. The government has a policy of fostering the police awareness of the dangersin smoking.A. encouragingB. discoveringC. hinderingD. emphasizing18. The scientists at the University of Bern in Switzerland have used a weakened virus that is not infectious and has proved safe and effective.A. dangerousB. harmfulC. contagiousD. invading19. The police cautioned us about the icy roads after the heavy snow fall last night.A. alertedB. describedC. refrainedD. informed20. The carpenter did a clumsy piece of work repairing the staircase.A. wonderfulB. carefulC. unfinishedD. unskilled21. The attempt to bring the quarreling couple together again came off to people’s astonishment.A. failedB. succeededC. endedD. continued22. It was the coldest winter for forty-five years. Villages in the English countryside were cut off by the snow and the Thames froze over.A. isolatedB. surroundedC. covered D, removed23. China and India launched dramatic market because they need it to avoid collapse.A. radicalB. sensationalC. vividD. effective24. The Cairo newspapers the next day carried banner headlines about the student demonstration and they denounced British arrogance.A. declared the end ofB. let the public knowC. had a quarrel withD. aired views against25. What has changed is that capital has become incredibly mobile and much harder for economies to control.A. increasinglyB. impracticallyC. doubtfullyD. exceptionally26. Clinton has argued that the best way to keep Haitians at home is to see that democracy and prosperity take root there.A. detectB. learnC. ensureD. understand27. The biggest computer company in Silicon Valley has laid off hundreds of people during the last few months.A. dismissedB. detachedC. declinedD. dispersed28. Cultural patterns of getting food are generated primarily by the natural or physical.A. primitivelyB. principallyC. preferablyD. potentially29. The question really put him on the spot because he knew almost nothing about it.A. on the way homeB. in a difficult positionC. on the watchD. out of condition30. Establishment or a(n) sound social insurance system is essential for deepening economic reforms.A. durableB. undisturbedC. healthyD. accurate31. In a front page editorial they declared: “A required course is a(n) illiberal act.”A. authoritarianB. steadfastC. miserableD. unwilling32. The Budlands National Park was established in South Dakota to preserve thisweirdly beautiful region.A. surprisinglyB. impressivelyC. exceedinglyD. fantastically33. This monument imagine was designed to stir up emotions of awe and respect, but could scarcely evoke feelings of warmth and affection.A. tangleB. AgitateC. teemD. stipulate34. Some mechanism regulates the onset and the rate of deterioration of a living body.A. startB. deathC. speedD. aggression35. Precision instruments allow scientists to measure minute quantities with a high degree of accuracy.A. momentaryB. variousC. anyD. briefSection BDirections: There are twenty questions in this section. Each question is a sentence with something missing. Below each sentence are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across it on your Answer Sheet.36. All transactions are strictly ______and we never sell, rent or trade any customer’s name.A. confidentB. consensualC. confidentialD. consequential37. Advertising is a distinguished from other forms of communication______ the advertiser pays for the message to be delivered.A. in whichB. in this wayC. in thatD. in order that38. Many citizens of the world’s richest nations find it increasingly painful to______ the incessant demand for change that characterizes our time.A. keep up withB. come up withC. go along withD. face up with39. Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with______ , we should find no people so rude to be without rules of politeness.A. exactitudeB. certaintyC. appreciationD. impartiality40. The captain______ every member of the crew to rigorous physical hardships.A. enduredB. subjectedC. experiencedD. submitted41. That country will continue to make new nerves gas weapons after the conclusion of a global treaty banning them______, according to a secret administration policy review.A. makes effectB. takes effectC. puts into effectD. puts on effect42. Just as space was______ into regions, time was split up into eras, seasons, and epochs.A. decomposedB. originatedC. evolvedD. restrained43. A doctor’s obligation when he can no longer______ the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable, including easing his pain.A. hang aroundB. hang onC. hold backD. hold on44. Many important nature conservation sites are______ as Sites of Special Scientific Interest or National Nature Reserves.A. BoundedB. designatedC. cultivatedD. confined45. With the fall in the number of students studying science, we will have lost many with the potential for intellectual______.A. credibilityB. credentialC. recreationD. creativity46. Our worst fear have proved______ after he told us everything about it.A. hostedB. blessedC. unfoundedD. uprooted47. The village moved further and further away from the city and links with outside community have______.A. witheredB. shortenedC. shearedD. curtailed48. We hoped to be able to get married early this month, but things didn’t ______as we had expected.A. worked outB. come byC. fill upD. lay down49. The teacher made strenuous efforts to read the faint and______ handwriting in his students’ exercise books.A. illegalB. illiterateC. illegibleD. illustrative50. South Africa’s black majority got its first real______ in governing early lat December.A. remarkB. taleC. speechD. say51. ______ the difficulty of the task, I shall be lucky to complete it by May.A. RegardingB. GivenC. PresumingD. Accepted52. So ______are businessmen by the constantly changing numbers that they often cannot determine whether they are making profit or not.A. outsoldB. outgrownC. overexcitedD. overwhelmed53. The border incident led to the two countries’ ______ diplomatic relations.A. pulling offB. breaking offC. passing offD. falling off54. Without a wholehearted______ to a keen forward-looking vision and a deep insight, you can not be a leader.A. commitmentB. determinationC. resolutionD. obligation55. The worker’s promised were increase is being ______while it is examined by the government to see if it is greater than the law allows.A. put backB. held downC. put downD. held backPART Ⅲ CLOSE TEST (15 points)Directions: Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the correct choices for each blank in your Answer Sheet.One supermarket in Tokyo has managed to solve the problems of shoplifting(商店行动). 56 by cashiers and long lines of customers waiting at the cash registers. It is Japan’s advanced computer technology that has come 57 with the answers. Shoppers at an OK supermarket on the outskirts of the city now push a cart 58 a plastic card chained to it and buy from glass cases where the goods are on display. The plastic magnetic number carries his or her own card. Which is 59 at the entrance. While shopping the customer pushes the card into a slot beside 60 items are wanted and pushes a button or two. The glass-covered vending machines are connected toa computer that 61 the price of every item in the store. Prices of every purchase are added to automatically. 62 she has finished shopping, the customer hands her card to a cashier who 63 it to the register. A second later the 64 pops out. Shoplifting is physically impossible. Once you touch a commodity the computer remembers it 65 you hide it or 66 you eat it on the spot. A cashier at the OK supermarket is now able to work 15 times faster than her 67 at a conventional supermarket. 68 , are required at the store, which 69 2500 separate items. One man is enough to keep the vending machine filled, because 70 the stock for a certain commodity is at least to run out a red lamp in the computer room sees him.56. A. mistake B. made C. done D. problems57. A. together B. up C. along D. on58. A. with B. without C. carrying D. under59. A. collected B. filled C. sent D. shown60. A. those B. what C. the number D. whichever61. A. shouts B. knows C. calculates D. puts62. A. Before B. Immediately C. After all D. When63. A. opens B. feeds C. reads D. connects64. A. cash B. money C. changes D. total65. A. except B. in spite of C. no matter how D. the way66. A. before B. when C. even if D. watches67. A. friend B. colleague C. company D. neighbor68. A. for instance B. still C. later D. however69. A. loses B. needs C. sells D. deals70. A. there B. whenever C. most D. ofPART Ⅳ READING COMPREHENSION (30 points)Directions: Each of the passages below is followed by several questions about it. Read the passages carefully and to each question choose the best answer A, B, C or D. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by blackening the corresponding letter with a pencil.Passage OneIn the late 1960’s, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel and glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120,000 kilowatts —enough to support the entire city of Albany New York for a day.Glasswalled skyscrapers can be specially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain) through a wall insulation board. To lessen the strain on heating andair-conditioning equipment builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city’s sanitation facilities, too. If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year-as much as a city the size of Stanford Connecticut which has a population of more than 109,000.Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception block bird flyways and obstruct air traffic. In Boston in the late 1960’s some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them –personal ambition, civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable spare.71. The man purpose of the passage is to______.A. compare skyscrapers with other structuresB. describe skyscrapers and their effect on the environmentC. advocate the use of masonry in the construction of skyscrapersD. illustrate some architectural designs of skyscrapers72. According to the passage, what is one disadvantage of skyscrapers that have mirrored walls?A. The exterior surrounding air is heated.B. The windows must be cleaned daily.C. Construction time is increased.D. Extra air-conditioning equipment is needed.73. According to the passage, in the late 1960’s some residents of Boston were concerned with which aspect of skyscrapers?A. The noise from their constructionB. The removal of trees from building sitesC. the harmful effects on the city’s grassD. The high cost of rentable office space74. The author raise issues that would most concern which of the following groups?A. ElectriciansB. EnvironmentalistsC. AviatorsD. Teachers75. Where in the passage does the author compare the energy consumption of skyscrapers with that of a city?A. Lines 5-8B. Lines 13-14C. Lines 19-21D. Lines 22-24Passage TwoI was 22 years old when I was finally received into the church, but I still suffered from an adolescent’s suffocating sons that brought me in love of poetry and rhetoric, sense of history, cosmic distress and indignation. Somehow I felt that some of Mother Church’s ancient glamour might rub off on me and that I mightsomehow be transformed by it and become part of its mystery.Of course, that’s not the way it works at all. I believe now that grace grows from within slow but very sure. Shortly after becoming a barrister, when I was 27, in a moment of high hope and idealism and making common cause with the man I had recently married, fought to abolish the death penalty. All but a small circle of friends, whom I shall Honor for ever fell away. Professional doors banged shut.We went to live on the Greek islands of Mikonos. It is a strange place, treeless. From the roof or our house at Virst we could see seven islands in summer lying like dolphins, encircling the whitewashed pigeon house where we make our home.At the tiny church we mad ea group of five, Joseph the tailor, my husband and I and another English couple. We went to enjoy each other’s company as much as to have the pleaure of hearing the service. If the priest didn’t come-as he often couldn’t when the wind blew at force Nine-it didn’t particularly matter. We stayed on to have a drink under the trees and watch the sun set.Years later. I went back to that island with my two sons. Milonos itself had changed not for the better, it had changed from my village into a city where I knew only one person in a hundred.]The church at Alefantare had changed too. It was packed with a multi-racial group. A priest arrived to say Mass, but there was no one available to serve at alter(祭坛).“Go on.” I said to my son, “you do it.” Unselfconsciously, without hesitation, he took the bell and went up to the alter followed by his brother. It was a moment of timeless, happiness-of total reconciliation.Outside, under the blazing sun, the wind was roaring through the trees of Alefantare. Inside, I felt a total synthesis of all reasons, all motives, and motives, and I knew that for this moment I had come into the world.76. The writer felt that by becoming a member of the church______.A. she had finally been accepted by societyB. she would be charged in some wayC. she would finally understand the mystery of religionD. she had fulfilled the purpose of her education.77. The writer had only just become a barrister when______.A. she decided to give up her career to get marriedB. she had married someone who disagreed with the abolition of the death penaltyC. she lost a small circle of friends of whom she was very fondD. she made herself extremely unpopular with her contemporaries78. The writer and her husband went to live on Mikonos where______.A. they had an elegant house built for themB. they spent all summer lying in the sun on the rooftopC. they found an usual house to live inD. they spent all summer visiting the surrounding islands79. She and her husband were regular visitors to the small church on the island because______.A. they treated the service as both a religious and a social occasionB. they enjoyed attending talking to the priest when the service had finishedC. they enjoyed attending a service out-of-doorsD. they had a drink with the priest after the service80. While attending a service at the same little church the experienced a feeling of______.A. unselfconsciousnessB. total nothingnessC. momentary doubtD. self-fulfillmentPassage ThreeA Marxist sociologist has argued that racism stems from the class struggle that is unique to the capitalist system—that racial prejudice is generated by capitalists as a means of controlling workers. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against prejudice as “racially-based negative prejudgment against a group generally accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition.” can be interpreted as also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe. However, since prejudice against these latter peoples was inspired by capitalists, he has to reason that such antagonisms were not really based race. He disposes thus(although unconvincingly) of both the intolerance faced by Jews before the rise of capitalism and the early twenty-century discrimination against Orient people in California, which inconveniently was instigated by workers.81. The passage supplies information that would answer which of the following questions?A. What accounts for the prejudice against the Jews in medieval Europe?B. What conditions caused the discrimination against Oriental people in California in the early twentieth century?C. Which groups are not in ethnic competition with each other in the United States?D. What explanation did the Marxist sociologist give for the existence of racial prejudice?82. The author considers the Marxist sociologist’s theses about the origins of racial prejudice to be______.A. unoriginalB. unpersuasiveC. offensiveD. obscure83. It can be inferred from the passage that the Marxist sociologists would argue that in a noncapitalist society racial prejudice would be______.A. toleratedB. ignoredC. forbiddenD. obscure84. According to the passage, the Marxist sociologist’s chain of resigning required him to assert that prejudice toward Oriental people in California was______.A. directed primarily against the ChineseB. similar in origin to prejudice against the JewsC. understood by Oriental people as ethnic competitionD. nonracial in characterPassage Four“High tech” and “state of the art” are two expressions that describe very modern technology. High tech is just a shorted way of saving high technology. And high technology describes any discoveries of science and engineering.What is high tech? A computer is tech. So is a communications satellite. A modern manufacturing system is surely high tech.High tech became a popular expression in the United States during the early 1980s. Because of improvements in technology, people could buy many kinds of products in American stores. Such as home computers, microwave ovens etc.“State of the art” is something that is as modern as possible. It is a product that is based on the very latest methods and technology. Something that is “state of the art” is the newest possible design or product of a business or industry.A state of the art television set, for example, uses the most modern electronic design and parts. It is the best that one can buy.“A state of the art” is not a new expression. Engineers have used it for years, to describe the best and most modern way of doing something.Millions of American began to use the expression in the late 1970’s. The reason was the computer revolution. Every computer company claimed that its computers were “state of the art.”Computer technology changed so fast that a state of the art computer today might be old tomorrow, the expression “state of the art” became as common and popular as computers themselves. Now all kinds of products are said to be “state of the art.”85. What is the purpose of the passage?A. To tell how “high tech” and “state of the art” have developed.B. To give examples of high tech.C. To tell what “high tech” and “state of the art” are.D. To describe very modern technology.86. What can we infer from the passage?A. American stores could provide new kinds of products to the people.B. High tech describes a technology that is not traditional.C. “State of the art” is not as popular as “high tech”D. A wooden plough pulled by oxen “state of the art”87. All the following examples are high tech EXCEPT______a. a microwave oven B. a home computerC. a hand pumpD. a satellite88. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. Since the computer revolution, the expression “state of the art” has become popular.B. “State of the art” means something that is the best one can buy.C. With the rapid development of computer technology, a state of the art computermay easily become out of date.D. All kinds of products are “state of the art” nowadays.89. The best title for the passage is______.A. Computer TechnologyB. High Tech and State of the ArtC. Most Advanced TechnologyD. Two New Expressions90. The expression of “the state of the art” in the passage can best be paragraphed as______.A. art in latest formB. the level of the development of industry or any fieldC. all the advanced sciences and technologies in generalD. fine arts of the up-to-date formsPART Ⅴ Identifying Mistakes (10 points, I for each)Directions: Each of the following sentence has four underlined parts. These parts are labeled A, B, C, AND d. Identifying the part of the sentence that is incorrect and mark out your choice in the Answer Sheet.91. The audience seemed to believe that she sang so sweet that she would shame theA B Cbird.D92. When we travel by jet and fly east or west through the six time zones, our bodiesA Bhad been thrown out of whack.C D93. The soybean is undoubtedly the king of beans, an is rapidly becoming the widelyA B C Dmost utilized bean in the world.94. Western Nebraska generally receives little snow than does eastern Nebraska.A B C D95. Words, written or speaking, can communicate meaning in either form.A B C D96. Forgetting something usually mean an inability to find the material that is stillA B Cstored somewhere in the memory.D97. It soon became obviously that instead of being trained to sing she would beA B Ctrained as a dancer.D98. By this time of next year he will not only have learned the art, but also willA B Ccomplete his duty.D99. Given good weather, our ship will reach London before Friday morning.A B C D100. If one reads a great many articles in English, you will become familiar with theA B C Dreading course.PART Ⅵ WRITING (10 points)Directions: Write a passage of roughly 120 words on the topic “Part-time Education”according to the outline given below. Your writing must be clearly written on the Answer Sheet.Outline:1.Advantages of part-time education2.Disadvantages of part-time education3.My suggestions on the improvement of part-time education。
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1998年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试试卷GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Each student has an answer sheet on which is to be written the student’s examination ID number. All answers to the multiple choice questions of parts Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲand Ⅳare to be written on this answer sheet. Circle the letter that is your answer.PART Ⅰ:VOCABULARY ［15%］DIRECTIONS FOR SECTION A: On your answer sheet, circle the answer that best completes the sentence.1. The day was crisp and sharp, but suddenly a misty rain began to fall and the landscape.a. hidb. blurredc. relievedd. belittled2. this coming Thursday, it will be too late to enrol for the course.a. As ofb. As forc. As tod. As on3. Those who let uncertainty rarely achieve much.a . turn them down b. send them downc. weigh them downd. huddle down4. The speaker went on and on, to his listeners obvious boredom.a. obligatedb. obsessivec. obviousd. oblivious5. Such as self-respect and industriousness merit the full backing of an employer.a. advantagesb. traitsc. interestsd. shortcomings6. The police inspector, having received new information from a confidential source, decided to enlarge the or his enquiry.a. scopeb. magnitudec. dimensiond. volume7. An intelligent TV viewer may occasionally become enraged by the argumentation in commercials.a. imperativeb. fallaciousc. persuasived. fabulous8. flees if one is constantly subjected to demeaning orders.a. Primeb. Harassmentc. Conceitd. Pride9. popularity of subject matter and frequency of use, the books on the two middle shelves will be the most helpful to you.a. As ofb. As regardsc. As fromd. As against10. I was in my reading, and didn’t at first hear the doorbell ring.a. immuredb. immersedc. busyd. infatuated11. Their chances of winning are slight, given that their opponents are so .a. well-knownb. vitalc. formidabled. distinguished12. When I reach home after an impossible day’s work, I feel a general to watch TV.a. inducementb. intentionc. inclinationd. interest13. Fallen electric lines, rubble, ruins and the occasional house--such is the destruction wrought by the war.a. neglectedb. desolatec. tragicd. chopped14. Geographic illiteracy is widespread, and hardly a month passes without from some survey revealing new depths of ignorance.a. wordsb. a wordc. wordd. the word15. of course it is possible that the new policy may have some adverse effects, but it is our that these will be negligible.a. constitutionb. conditionc. convictiond. consideringDIRECTIONS FOR SECTION B: On your answer sheet, circle the letter that is the closest synonym to the underlined word.16. Serial murderers rarely deviate from a certain type of prey.a. attackerb. nourishmentc. victimd. enemy17. The new guppies I bought have just a tinge of yellow.a. dotb. markc. touchd. tingle18. He covered the fish lavishly with sauce.a. sparinglyb. completelyc. generouslyd. simply19. Machiavelli cautions the prince not to relinquish power under passing duress.a. gainb. holdc. controld. abandon20. The play was hilarious!a. a merry oneb. a prudish onec. sedated. prodigious21. The Salk polio vaccine provides immunity from that disease.a. securityb. publicityc. liabilityd. help22. The Smithsonian houses a miscellaneous collection of aircraft, artifacts, butterflies, stones［both precious and common］, and so on.a. a heterogeneousb. an overwhelmingc. a unifiedd. a vast23. The jungles of the sub-Sahara, afflicted with tse-tse and mosquitos, is an unhealthy area.a. requiring inoculation againstb. heated byc. flooded byd. plagued by24. He is constantly late, and ill-prepared when he does finally arrive. He is jeopardizing his future.a. developingb. endangeringc. assuringd. destroying25.Chaos theory stresses the magnitude of the results produced by so small an event as the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings.a. sizeb. volumec. resultd. fame26.The ancillary data, however, did not substantiate his argument.a. necessaryb. involuntaryc. subsidiaryd. extraordinary27. Subsequent events vindicated her point of view.a. proved wrongb. indicatedc. proved rightd. invalidated28. Rhenium is added as an alloy inasmuch as it withstands heat.a. dischargesb. resistsc. reducesd. opposes29. At 70, she hardly seems cut-out for mountain climbing.a. chosen forb. fond ofc. likely to enjoyd. fit for1. The elevated roadway collapsed. This calamity could have been avoided had the municipality allocated funds for infrastructure.a. consequenceb. eventc. disasterd. thingPART Ⅱ：GRAMMAR [15%]DIRECTIONS FOR SECTION A: On your answer sheet, circle the letter that best completes the sentence.1. Now that in scientific communities the use of computers is widespread, and supposing that there is sufficient time, there exist no complicated problem can be addressed with some hope of resolution.a. andb. butc. asd. which2. Out of the elementary plane geometry developed by the Greeks we use today.a. the theoretical geometry evolutionb. evolved the theoretical geometryc. the evolution of theoretical geometry camed. the theoretical geometry came3. We had to go miles to find a restaurant, it a holiday.a. beingb. wasc. to bed. is4. A good indication of he followed the teacher’s advice was that he failed.a. what littleb. however littlec. how littled. whatever little5. None of the day’s transactions,sales or delivery, came off well.a. fromb. it beingc. be itd. was it6. The traffic was very heavy, , and so we arrived after the start of the program.a. this was completely unexpectedb. which was completely unexpectedc. that was completely unexpectedd. it was completely unexpected7. , he finds the work interestinga. Though he is computer expertb. A computer expert he isc. As computer expertd. Computer expert as he is8. , he never alters a decision.a. What may comeb. May what comec. Come what mayd. May come whatever9. ‘The car ran out of gas!’‘That the cause, I filled the tank this morning. ’a. mustn’t beb. must have beenc. can bed. can’t have been10. Their proposal is better than ours, .a. all things consideringb. all things consideredc. all things are consideredd. all considered things11. Unless to bend somehow, perhaps with the helps of a mirror, light only travelsstraight ahead.a. you makeb. to be madec. is maded. made12. The sloth is so named for its inactivity, its greatest energy in the search for food. a. it expends b. for expendingc. to expendd. and it expends13. Although most foodstuffs enter the bloodstream only after being subjected to the digestiveprocess beginning in the stomach, alcohol is highly unusual at least one-fifth of the quantity ingested is directly absorbed.a. so thatb. in thatc. thatd. in which14. , we will leave without her.a. If she were to fail to come on timeb. She should fail to come on timec. Should she fail to come on timed. Would she fail to come on time15. My phone call to the electrician as I subsequently discovered my wife hadphoned. My wife had phoned.a. needn’t be madeb. shouldn’t be madec. needn’t have been maded. didn’t have to beDIRECTIONS FOR SECTION B: In the sentences below, either A, B, C or D is the INCORRECT grammatical form for the sentence. Pick the INCORRECT form as your answer, and on your answer sheet, circle the corresponding letter.16.The Mercandiser widget isA so named bec ause itB believed isC discovered be to by Albert Mercandiser, a Dutchman Dby birth. 17. Although the city acquired modernizations ofA recent more a kind during the twentieth century,B its present appearance Cshapes took during D .nineteenth the 18.As she A qrew older her vision B began sporadically to fade, so that intermittent times theC seldom knew what sheD looking was at. 19. A For the grounds that fiction is not B y objectivel true, there C are those who Dobject to it.20.As Christmas approached, with peopleAcrowded department stores, restaurants, theaters and movie houses, the downtown area B was, C , always as theD busiest. 21. A you, Mind under no circumstances B are you to allow your C child to change D broken bulbs by himself.22.Today, I firmly A believe, they B deliver the new television, and if they C do, I D shall help you set up the cable stations.23. TheAyear -f ive project would B expose C l educationa disadvantaged students to Ds experience both creative and enriching. 24. At the museum, I saw various exhibits of Af amily ape members, B was and particularly C struck by one groupD f aces had they resembling humans. 25.So far A is story the from being true that I B surprised was anyoneC believed have could itD was so. 26. To the most famous A alumnae B were extendedC a special invitation to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary ofD their graduation. 27. Whether she is A pretty as , or prettier than B the other girls C in her officeD is moot. 28. A f or But the services provided by B eaters,-insect insects C will make D it impossible to live.29.Unless those currently working –both men and women -- Agiven be would theB necessary training for somewhat higher positions, unemployment in general will becomeC ly increasing more serious as automationD continues . 30. Improved agro-technology rendered Af easible it for far more people To B f ed be per square unit than C can be fed on Dthe produce formerly available in the same area.PART Ⅲ: CLOZE [10%]DIRECTIONS: Choose as your answer the word that best fits the blank. On your answer sheet, circle the corresponding letter.There is no question but that Newton was a highly competent Minister of the Mint. It was mainly through his efforts [1] the English currency was put on [2] satisfactory basis at a difficult time. [3] discovered a relationship between prices and [4] amount of money in circulation, which [5] later formalized in the so-called “quality [6] ”of money: if the amount of [7]In circulation is doubled –other things [8] the same –then prices also will[9] double. This is a simple application [10] the principle that it is impossible [11] get something for nothing, but apparently [12] took someone like Newton to discover it. There [13] an obvious comparison with Copernicus, who [14] the Polish government on currency questions [15]in doing so discovered another important [16] (usually known as Gresham’s Law): when [17] money is accepted as legal tender, [18] money will be driven out of [19] . Copernicus anticipated Gresham in the formulation [20] this law.1. a. which b. why c. that d. for2. a. a b. very c. the d. most3. a. It b. He c. Was d. We4. a. an b. their c. the d. big5. a. too b. was c. they d. has6. a. theory b. them c. thesis d. proposal7. a. coins b. currency c. bills d. gold8. a. stay b. much c. remaining d. be9. a. come b. seem c. multiply d. approximately10. a. for b. of c. calling d. by11. a. our b. to c. for d. we12. a. they b. had c. it d. he13. a. is b. comes c. be d. with14. a. talked b. advised c. formed d. created15. a. from b. but c. and d. by16. a. true b. legend c. theme d. law17. a. much b. foreign c. bad d. lawful18. a. good b. much c. bad d. some19. a. work b. function c. marketing d. circulation20. a. for b. by c. of d. toPART Ⅳ: READING COMPREHENSION [30%]DIRECTIONS: Read each passage and answer all the questions that follow the passage. On your answer sheet, circle the letter that best answers the question.1.There is little question that substantial labor-market differences exist between men and women. Among the most researched difference is the male-female wage gap. Many different theories are used to explain why men earn more than women. One possible reason is based on the limitedgeographical mobility of married women [Robert Frank, 1978]. Family mobility is a joint decision in which the needs of the husband and wife are balanced to maximize family welfare. Job-motivated relocations are generally made to benefit the primary earner in the family. This leads to a constrained job search for the secondary earner, as he or she must search for a job in a limited geographic area. Since the husband is still the primary wage earner in many families, the job search of the wife may suffer. Individuals who are tied to a certain area are labeled ‘tied-stayers,’while secondary earners who move for the benefit of the family are labeled ‘tied-movers’[Jacob Mincer, 1978].The wages of a tied-stayer or tied-mover may not be substantially lower if the family lives in or moves to a large city. If a large labor market has more vacancies, the wife may locate a wage offer near the maximum she would find with a nation-wide search. However, being atied-stayer or tied-mover can lower the wife’s wage if the family lives in or moves to a small community. A small labor market will reduce the likelihood of her finding a job that utilizes her skills. As a result she may accept a job for which she is overqualified and thus earn a lower wage. This hypothesized relationship between the likelihood of being overqualified and SMSA size is termed ‘differential overqualification. ’Frank [1978] and Haim Ofek and Yesook Merrill [1994] provide support for the theory of differential overqualification by finding that the male-female wage gap is grater in smaller SMSA’s.While the results are consistent with the existence of differential overqualificatio n, they may also result from other situations as well. Firms in small labor markets may use their monopsony power to keep wages down. Local demand shocks are found to be a major source of wage variation both across and within local labor markets [Robert Topel, 1986]. Since large labor markets are generally more diversified, a demand shock can have a substantial impact on immobile workers in small labor markets. Another reason for examining differential overqualification involves the assumption that there are more vacancies in large labor markets. While there is little doubt that more vacancies exist in large labor markets, there are also likely to be more people searching for jobs in large labor markets. If the greater number of vacancies is offset by the larger number of searchers, it is unclear whether women will be more likely to be overqualified in small labor markets. Instead of relying on wages to determine if differential overqualification exists, we consider an explicit form of over qualification based on education.1. In the author’s opinion, the male-female wage gapa. is the most important difference.b. is justified.c. has important repercussions on family life.d. represents a sexist attitude toward women.e. is simply one of a considerable number of labor-market differences.2.‘Geographic mobility,’as used in the text, refers toa. the way in which Americans tend to move from job to job.b. the penchant wage-earners have to maximize family welfare.c. the necessity to relocate in order to increase wages.d. all of the above.e. none of the above.3. In the author’s opinion, which of the following statements is true?a. The term ‘secondary earner’ does not depend on gender.b. If A will earn more money than B, family welfare is maximized if B agrees to relocate.c. If B will earn more money than A, family welfare is maximized if A agrees to relocate.d. All of the above are true.e. None of the above are true.4.The difference between a ‘tied-stayer’and ‘tied- mover’is that.a. the former is the husband and the latter is the wife.b. the primary earner is forced to search for work in a specific area while the secondary earner is freer to roam about.c. the former is obliged to remain in an area while the latter not.d. the former is the wife and the latter is the husband.e. the latter’s salary is of secondary importance to the former’s salary.5. With which of the following statements would the author agree?a. The size of the labor market determines recompense.b. The size of the labor market determines acquired skills utilization.c. The size of the labor market determines the probability of matching skills withappropriate wage level.d. The author would agree with all of the level.e. The author would agree with none of the above.6. The names and dates between parenthesesa. refer to bibliographical entries.b. explain who discussed what and when they discussed it.c. are references to what the author has read.d. may be described by all of the above.e. may be described by none of the above.2.] The repression in the Netherlands, instead of solving a crucial problem, elicited bitter criticism from every major European state. Alba was unrepentant about his tough policy convinced than the population must remain in a state of fear, ‘so that every individual has the feeling that one fine night or morning the house will fall in on him.’Of the leading dissidents who escaped from Alba’s hands, only William of Orange remained. Tall, dark-haired, with a small moustache and a short peaked beard, the prince of Orange-Nassau was aged thirty-five at the moment that fortune left him in the unenviable role of defender of his country. A comrade-in-arms of Philip during the latter’s years abro ad inmid-century, he never made a secret of his concern for the privileges of his class or of his dislike for religious dogmatism. Widowed in 1558, in 1561 he married Anne, the Lutheran daughter of the late Maurice of Saxony. The marriage, celebrated in Leipzig, gave him a useful link with the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. When news came of Alba’s departure from Spain, Orange opportunely took refuge in Germany. It became clear that the only way to regain the Netherlands was by the use of them. In the course of 1568 Orange sponsored invasions by several small forces, which entered from France and from Germany. All were defeated. Captured prisoners gave details of Orange’s links with protestants in several countries. The invasions could not fail to affect the fate of the distinguished prisoners in Alba’s hands. On 5 June 1568, in the public square of Brussels, the counts of Egmont and Hornes were beheaded for high treason.The executions shocked opinion throughout Europe. The two nobles, as knights of the Golden Fleece, could be tried only by their peers. But Philip, grand master of the order, had cleared the way for the trial by a special patent which he had drawn up in April 1567 and sent to Alba in December. There is no doubt that Philip considered Egmont responsible for much of the trouble in Flanders, but the pressure for an exemplary punishment came rather from themembers of his council, particularly [it seems] from cardinal Espinosa. Alba had always regretted the need to arrest the two counts, whom ‘‘I have always loved and esteemed as my own brother. ” According to some, he was reluctant to proceed to execution. Philip wrote formally to Alba: “I very deeply regret that the offenses of the counts were so serious that they called for the punishment tha t has been carried out.” The remorse, which came too late, was probably sincere. The counts were victims of a political crisis. Their names, interestingly enough, continued to be held in honour at the Spanish court. A book on the events of Flanders published in Castile a few years later, when all books had to be licensed by the royal council, referred to them as “outstanding princes, well loved and of the highest and finest character.”1. ‘Bitter criticism’is criticism that isa. sour.b. major.c. angry.d. vinegary.e. none of the above.2. The repression in the Netherlands was wrought bya. minor European states.b. Alba.c. William of Oranged. all of the above.e. none of the above.3. We may assume thata. the prince of Orange-Nassau was married twice.b. the marriage was premised upon political consideration.c. some of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire were protestants.d. the counts of Egmont and Hornes were decapitated in retaliation for the invasions.e. all of the above are true.4. Philipa. travelled to various countries in the mid-16th century.b. was the chief officer of the knights the Golden Fleece.c. was Alba’s superior.d. may have reluctantly acceded to the beheading.e. may be described by all of the above.5. Which of the following is true?a. In the text, Flanders and the Netherlands are two completely separate entities.b. Cardinal Espinosa was instrumental in swaying Philip’s councilc. Philip was personally opposed to the punishment.d. All of the above are true.e. None of the above are true.6. The deaths of the two countsa. were caused more by the political situation than by their actions.b. did not destroy their reputations in Spain.c. were brought about by their brother, Alba.d. may be described by none of the above statements.e. may be described by [a] and [b].3.] Despite efforts to provide them with alternatives such as the shelter, women frequently andrepeatedly returned to violent and abusive partner. By the late 1970s, feminists at Women Together, like those doing similar work throughout the United States, began to understand that battered women experience a range of post-traumatic psychological responses to abuse, similar to those of victims of other types of violence or trauma. Subsequently, the psychological response of battered women became reified as “battered woman syndrome,”a sub-category of post-traumatic stress disorder. Interestingly, in the course of trying to create social change, the focus of feminists perceptibly shifted to trying to explain why battered women fail to leave the partners who beat them. In trying to address this question, a debate ensued among feminists and mental health workers as to potential merits and problems of categorizing as mental disorder what many feminists labeled a normal response to fear and an appropriately angry response to abuse. Although many women left abusive relationships or successfully ended violence by other means, some responded to ongoing or accelerated abuse by killing or trying to kill their male partners. In many states, when they went to trial, such women found they were restricted from introducing testimony about the abuse they had endured or their resulting states of mind. In trying to address these women’s ne eds, some activists and scholars advocated the use of expert testimony to explain battered woman syndrome to juries. This strategy would introduce evidence of past abuse and challenge the gender biases of self-defense law by explaining the woman’s stage of mind at the time of the offense. Feminist legal scholars raised potential problems in the use of battered woman syndrome. They argued that it could be used against women who did not neatly fit pre-established criteria and had the potential to become another example of the tendency to label women’s normal angry responses as mental illness. While the desirability of working to admit expert testimony was debated, individual state courts and legislatures varied in their willingness to recognize battered woman syndrome, permit evidence of past abuse, or allow expert testimony. As the legal debate about battered women’s responses to violence was beginning to unfold, the Ohio movement became directly involved in it when a former shelter resident shot and killed her abusive common law husband. In 1978 women Together, in conjunction with the woman’s lawyer, decided to challenge existing law by trying to introduce battered woman syndrome expert testimony at trial.Because at the time the syndrome had little scientific merit or legal recognition, the trial court declared inadmissibility, a decision upheld by the State supreme Court (State v. Thomas 1981 66 Ohio St. 2d 51).Women Together founders left the shelter to establish professional careers, viewing this as a means of advancing the feminist agenda. The frustrations, limitations and defeats they had experienced as outside challengers impelled them to adopt a strategy of infiltration and appropriation of the institutions they sought to change. For example, on founder, who had worked through lobbying for ERA America in addition to her other feminist activism, explained her decision to run for elected office by saying:“[When ERA was defeated] I decided to run for the legislature. I said I can do better than these turkeys.”1. Battered woman syndrome isa. a psychological response.b. a sub-category of a specific stress disorder.c. similar to that experienced by a range of victims.d. all of the above.e. none of the above.2. Generally speaking, women who are beatena. address questions to feminists.b. return to their male partners.c. require an explanation for the beating.d. leave their partners.e. do none of the above.3. A debate arose as to whethera. feminists of mental health workers were correct.b. battered wives should return to their husbands.c. anger and fear were appropriate or inappropriate.d. focus should be shifted.e. all of they above.4. Responses to abuse by male partners includea. leaving them.b. killing them.c. other means.d. all of the above.e. none of the above.5. The use of expert testimonya. depends on the situation.b. is a way around legal restrictions.c. is required by state laws in women’s trials.d. is a way of ending abuse by other means.e. may not be defined by any of the above.6. We may assume that prior to the period discussed self-defensea. applied to men only.b. posed a problem for the battered woman syndrome.c. refers to expert testimony.d. includes all of the above.e. includes none of the above.7. The word “turkeys”a. refers to the bird that Americans eat at Thanksgiving.b. is an unflattering reference to other law-makers.c. is an unflattering reference to the speaker herself.d. will be explained in the following paragraph.e. refers to none of the above.4.] The position of Burleigh School in the English educational system would be very difficult to explain to a foreigner (who has, God knows, enough to contend with in comprehending the other parts of the system). Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature (before the present one) from which he could gain enlightenment. The prep schools have had their Orwell, the public schools their Connolly and Benedictus, the convent schools their Antonia White, the private boarding schools their Waugh and Nicolas Blake. No one has thought it worth their while to eulogize or anathematize schools like Burleigh. Indeed, schools like Burleigh do not seem the sort of places from which writers emerge.And yet, any medium-sized town in the southern half of England has its Burleigh School: a private day school to which, for a not too exorbitant fee, parents can send their children and boast that they are privately educated. Not well educated, but privately. Burleigh itself had been。