中国人民大学 2007 年博士研究生入学考试试题
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2Ur9*#~kGp Part I. Vocabulary (20 %) ha_&U@w Directions:Choose the best answer (from A, B, C and D) tocomplete each of the following sentences. Mark your choice with a single baracross the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
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the increase in the number of computers in ouroffices, the amount of paper hat we need has risen as well.
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fora credible, aggressive individual with great skills to fill this position.
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their cleanness, toughness and low cost.
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himself bitterly for his miserable behaviorthat evening.
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7. Many of the fads of the 1970s
as today' s latest fashions.
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8. All of the international delegatesattending the conference
tobring a souvenir from their own countries.
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9. Britain hopes of a gold medal inthe Olympic Games suffered
yesterday, when Hunter failed to qualifyduring preliminary session.
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on the directions that the professor gives andtake exact notes.
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about that article in the newspaper was thatits writer showed an attitude cool enough, professional enough and, therefore,cruel enough when facing that tragedy.
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in the game.
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13. According to the latest report,consumer confidence
a breathtaking 15 points last month, to itslowest level in ten years.
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him more politely.
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17. John played basketball in college and
active ever since.
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of the spring water attracts a lot of visitorsfrom all over the country.
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the gift in beautiful green paper, Sarahdeparted for the party.
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21. Tom and Alice
having a new car to replace their old one foryears.
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theheavy pollution, the city officials have decided to cancel school for the day.
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usto deal with the vast range of problems confronting the contemporary world.
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27. He wouldn’t even think of wearingclothes;
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all the junk she had kept in the garage.
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around the world, will come to Asia next month.
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31. The paint on the clown's face
that it scared the children he was trying toentertain.
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32. Men often wait longer to get help formedical problems than women, and
,women live about six years longer than men on an average.
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emphasis on exams is by far the worst form ofcompetition in schools.
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35. It must guarantee freedom ofexpression, to the end that all
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36. Not until the 1980s
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37. After failing his mid-term exams,Jeremy was
face his parents.
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38. My grandmother has been going to abetter dentist, so this
problems she is having with her dentures.
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39. He told a story about his sister whowas in a sad
when she was iii and had no money.
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40. During her two-week stay in Beijing, Elizabethnever
a chrome(chance) to practice her Chinese.
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Part II. ReadingComprehension (30%) 1xkk5\3] Directions: Rend the following passages and then choose the best answer (fromA, B, C and D) to complete each of the following sentences. Mark your choicewith a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring AnswerSheet.
ZBU<L+# Passage1 O['[_1n_u] British food has a good reputation, but English cooking has a badone. It is difficult to explain the reason for this. Unfortunately, however,superb raw ingredients are often mined from the kitchen so that they come tothe table without any of the natural flavor and goodness.
8(NS;? This bad reputation discourages a lot of people from eating in anEnglish restaurant. If they do go to one, they are usually full of prejudiceagainst the food. It is a pity, because there are excellent cooks in England,excellent restaurants, and excellent home-cooking. How, then, has the badreputation been built up?
#NMQN*J>D Perhaps one reason is that Britain' s Industrial Revolutionoccurred very early, in the middle of the nineteenth century. As a result, thequality of food changed too. This was because Britain stopped being a largelyagricultural country. The population of the towns increased enormously between1840 and 1870, and people could no longer grow their own food, or buy it freshfrom a farm. Huge quantities of food had to be taken to the towns, and a lot ofit lost its freshness on the way.
Xe`$SNM This lack of freshness was disguised by "dressing up" thefood. The rich middle classes ate long elaborate meals which were cooked forthem by French chefs. French became, and has remained, the official language ofthe dining room. Out-of-season delicacies were served in spite of theirexpense, for there were a large number of extremely wealthy people who wantedto establish themselves socially. The "look" of the food was moreimportant than its taste.
\zA3H$Df~ In the 1930s, the supply of servant began to decrease. People stilltried to produce complicated dishes, however, but they economized on thepreparation time. The Second World War made things even worse by making rawingredients extremely scarce. As a result, there were many women who never hadthe opportunity to choose a piece of meat from a well-stocked butcher' s shop,but were content and grateful to accept anything that was offered to them.
=*-ac Food rationing continued in Britain until the early 1950s. Itwas only after this had stopped, and butter, eggs and cream became moreplentiful, and it was possible to travel abroad again and taste other ways ofpreparing food, that the English difference to eating became replaced by a newenthusiasm for it.
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Ka)aBU9 42. The negative effect of Britain's Industrial Revolution on English cooking is that
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I#@A In his typically American open style of communication, Mr. Hayesconfronted Isabeta about not looking at him. Reluctantly, she explained why. Asa newcomer from Mexico,she had been taught to avoid eye contact as a mark of respect to authorityfigures, teachers, employers, parents. Mr. Hayes did not know this. He theninformed her that most Americans interpret lack of eye contact as disrespectand deviousness. Ultimately, he convinced Isabela to try and change her habit,which she slowly did.
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G^\.xk] He reports that, when speaking, white communicators usually lookaway from the listener, only periodically glancing at them. They do theopposite when listening they are expected to look at the speaker all the time.
n{%[G2.A Many African Americans communicate in an opposite way. Whenspeaking, they tend to constantly stare at the listener; when listening, theymostly look away. Therefore, if white sports recruiters are not informed aboutthese significant differences, they can be misled about interest andattentiveness when interviewing prospective African American ball players.
3.04Toq! In multicultural America,issues of' Eye contact have brought about social conflicts of two differentkinds in many urban centers, non-Korean customers became angry when Koreanshopkeepers did not look at them directly. The customers translated the lack ofeye contact as a sign of disrespect, a habit blamed for contributing to theopen confrontation raking place between some Asians and African Americans in New York, Texas, and California. Manyteachers too have provided stories about classroom conflicts based on theirmisunderstanding Asian and Latin American children lack of eye contact as beingdisrespectful.
cvnRd.& On the other hand, direct eye contact has now taken on a new meaningamong the younger generation and across ethnic borders. Particularly in urbancenters, when one teenager looks directly at another, this is considered aprovocation, sometimes called mad-dogging, and can lead to physical conflict.
Z&y9m@ Mad-dogging has become the source of many campus conflicts. In onehigh school, it resulted in a fight between Cambodian newcomers andAfrican-American students. The Cambodians had been staring at the otherstudents merely to learn how Americans behave, yet the others misinterpretedthe Cambodians' intentions and the fight began.
5'"9)#Ve Mad-dogging seems to be connected with the avoidance of eye contactas a sign of respect. Thus, in the urban contemporary youth scene, if one looksdirectly at another, this disrespects, or "disses," that person. Muchlike the archaic phrase "I demand satisfaction," which became theoverture to a duel, mad-dogging may become a prelude to a physical encounter.
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At the entrances to Universal Studio's "City Walk"attraction in Los Angeles,they have posted Code of Conduct signs. The second rule warns against"physically over bally threatening any person, fighting, annoying othersthrough noisy or boisterous activities or by unnecessary staring..."
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48. Many customers in American cities areangry with Korean shopkeepers because
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G When television is good, nothing--not the theatre, not themagazines, or newspapers--nothing is better. But when television is bad,nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set whenyour station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine,newspaper, or anything else to distract you and keep your eyes glued to thatset until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vastwasteland. You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audienceparticipation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families,blood and thunder, mayhem, more violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men,Western good men, private eyes, gangster, still more violence, and cartoons.And endlessly, commercials that scream and offend. And most of all, boredom.True, you will see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, veryfew. And if you think I exaggerate, try it.
h 1REL^!c Is there no room on television to teach, to inform, to uplift, tostretch, to enlarge the capacities of our children? Is there no room for programsto deepen the children's understanding of children in other lands7 Is there noroom for a children's news show explaining something about the world for themat their level of understanding? Is there no room for reading the greatliterature of the past, teaching them the great traditions of freedom? Thereare some fine children's shows, but they are drowned out in the massive dosesof cartoons, violence, and more violence. Must these be your trademarks? Searchyour conscience and see whether you cannot offer more to your young childrenwhose future you guard so many hours each and every day.
5e}adHjM There are many people in this great country, and you must serve allof us. You will get no argument from me if you say that, given a choice betweena Western and a symphony, more people will watch the Western. I like Westernsand private eyes, too, but a steady diet for the whole country is obviously notin the public interest. We all know that people would more often prefer to beentertained than stimulated or informed. But your obligations are not satisfiedif you look only to popularity as a test of what to broadcast. You are not onlyin show business; you are free to communicate ideas as well as to giverelaxation. You must provide a wider range of choices, more diversity, morealternatives. It is not enough to cater to the nation's whims--you must alsoserve the nation' s needs. The people own the air. They own it as much in primeevening time as they do at six o' clock in the morning. For every hour that thepeople give you--you owe them something. I intend to see that your debt is paidwith service.
'4"c#kCKL 51. What the author advises us to-do is to
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53. As far as children are concerned, theauthor's chief complaint is that
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nk;^sq4M: Passage4 OF2W UcQ Some of my classmates in the same dorm established a chatting groupon the Net when broadband was available on campus. Then everyone faced theirown laptops and talked to each other by sending messages in the chatting groupin the same room. Their dorm was silent the whole night The only sound camefrom tapping the keyboard. Before they went to bed that night, all of themsighed and said, "that's ridiculous."
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Information Technology brings about revolutionary changes to humancommunication. The Internet makes the world global village; that is to say, wecan get in touch with each other swiftly regardless of one's location. However,does the convenience in communication mean that we are actually getting closer?I don't think so. As the anecdote above shows, access to broadband made myfellow classmates fall in silence. The Cambridge International Dictionarydefines "communication" as "various methods of sendinginformation between people and places," while it defines"communicate" as "to be able to understand each other and have asatisfactory relationship." Therefore, the booming of IT in modem societyis only the booming of communication. Exchanging ideas and mutual understandingbetween people do not base on such booming. On the contrary, due to therevolutionary changes, we're getting farther from each other to some extent.
$z`l{F4eMf Mutual understanding is based on expression. However, expressiondoesn't necessarily lead to soul touching communication and understanding. Whenwe waffle with a mere acquaintance, we normally conceal our true feelings.Thus, we don' t establish communication with him, because we do not need him tounderstand us. The era of cyberspace further demonstrates such separation ofform and content
T;]Ob3(BpW The Internet gives us nearly absolute freedom to speak and expressourselves. With the prosperity of blog, there are, according to recentstatistics, about 400,000 bloggers in China today. Bloggers expressthemselves on the Net at their will, while others read their blog and givecomments once for a while. It seems that blog can make us touch upon thebloggers' inside world, and make us know them better. However, things are notalways that perfect.
z;MPp#Y Many netizens are abusing their right of free expression. Once youopen the Explorer and browse a website, trash information about sex andviolence hits our eyes. People scold and flirt in the chatroom and BulletinBoard System (BBS). When blog comes into being, netizens even transfer suchvulgarity into their personal spaces, and show it to the public.
I E{:{b\ In the era of the Information Technology boom, the farthest distanceon earth is no longer the polar distance. The negative impacts brought about bycyberspace have imposed an unfilled gulf between souls. Since we cannotcommunicate to each other like before, the distance between people's hearts hasbecome the farthest distance on earth.
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wa~zb!y< B. results in silence among her fellow classmates
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8|<</v8i A. there is always a silence
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9Ab Passage5 ~]QQaP According to a recent publication of the Equal EmploymentOpportunity Commission, at the present rate of progress, it will takeforty-three years to end job discrimination--hardly a reasonable timetable.
ACi,$Uq6R If our goal is educational and economic equity and parity, it isthen we need affirmative action to catch up. We are behind as a result ofdiscrimination and denial of opportunity. There is one white attorney for every680 whites, but only one black attorney for every 4,000 blacks; one whitephysician for every 659 whites, but only one black physician for every 5,000blacks; and one white dentist for every 1,900 whites, but only one blackdentist for every 8,400 blacks. Less than ! percent of all engineers or-of allpracticing chemists is black. Cruel and uncompassionate injustice created gapslike these. We need creative justice and compassion to help us close them.
sNcU>qjj6 Actually, in the U.S.context, "reverse discrimination" is illogical and a contradiction interms. Never in the history of mankindhas a majority, with power, engaged in programs and written laws thatdiscriminate against itself. The only thing whites are giving up because ofaffirmative action is unfair advantage something that was unnecessary in thefirst place.
8>W52~^fU Blacks are not making progress at the expense of whites, as newsaccounts make it seem. There are 49 percent more whites in medical school todayand 64 percent more whites in law school than there were when affirmative actionprograms began some eight years ago.
tgl(*[T2 In a recent column, William Raspberry raised an interestingquestion. Commenting on the Bakke case, he asked, "What if, instead ofsetting aside 16 of 100 slots, we added 16 slots to the 1007" That, hesuggested, would not interfere with what whites already have. He then went onto point out that this, in fact, is exactly what has happened in law andmedical schools. In 1968, the year before affirmative action programs began toget under way, 9, 571 whites and 282 members of minority groups entered U.S.medical schools. In 1976, the figures were 14,213 and 1,400 respectively. Thus,under affirmative action, the number of "white places" actually roseby 49 percent; white access to medical training was not diminished, butsubstantially increased. The trend was even more marked in Jaw schools. In1969, the first year for which reliable figures are available, 2,933minority-group members were enrolled; in 1976, the number was up to 8,484. Butduring the same period, law school enrollment for whites rose from 65,453 to107,064 an increase of 64 percent. In short, it is a myth that blacks aremaking progress at white expense.
8a`3eM~?[ Allan Bakke did not really challenge preferential treatment ingeneral, for he made no challenge to the preferential treatment accorded to thechildren of the rich, the alumni and the faculty or to athletes or the verytalented only to minorities.
8<mloM-4 61. The author is for affirmative action
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l$\B>u,> B. there are 49 percent more white in medical school today already
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/cx'(AT Passage6 8g)$%Fy+N Globalization is a phenomenon and a revolution. It is sweeping theworld with increasing speed and changing the global landscape into somethingnew and different. Yet, like all such trends, its meaning, development, and'impact puzzle many. We talk about globalization and experience its effects,but few of us really understand the forces that are at work in the globalpolitical economy.
wT- -i@@ When people use their cell phones, log ontothe Internet, view events from around the world on live television, andexperience varying cultures in their own backyards, they begin to believe thatthis process of globalization is a good thing that will bring a variety of newand sophisticated changes to people's lives. Many aspects of this technologicalrevolution bring fun, ease, and sophistication to people' s daily lives. Yetthe anti-World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle,Washington in 1999 and Washington, D.C.in 2000 are graphic illustrations of the fact that not everyone believes thatglobalization is a good thing. Many Americans who have felt left out of theglobal economic boom, as well as Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians who feelthat their job skills and abilities are being exploited by multinationalcorporations (MNCs) in a global division of labor, believe that this systemdoes not meet their needs. Local cultures that believe that Wal-Mart andMcDonald' s bring cultural change and harm rather than inexpensive products andconvenience criticize the process. In this way, globalization, like allrevolutionary forces, polarizes people, alters the fabric of their lives, andcreates rifts within and between people.
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iR9duP+ The irony of such a far-ranging and rapid historical process Such asglobalization is that both proponents and critics may be fight. The realitiesof globalization are both intriguing and alarming. As technology and the globalinfrastructure expand, ideas, methods, and services are developed anddisseminated to greater and greater numbers of people. As a result, societiesand values are altered, some for the better and others for the worse.
\F`>zY2$% 66. The author complains that
SC%HHu\l A. few of us have a clear idea about the forces behind globalpolitical economy
!m~r0M7 B. globalization is now sweeping the world with increasing speed
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VhLfSN>W A. many people feel that they have been left out
0[d*Z B. the process of globalization brings more than fun, ease andentertainment
EX!`Zejf C. not everyone is convicted that globalization is a good thing
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