2010浙江大学考博听力原文和答案

1955: Opening day1
An aerial view of Disneyland in 1956. The entire route of the
Disneyland Railroad is clearly visible as it encircles the
park.Disneyland Park was opened to the public on Monday, 【July 18,
1955】. However, a special "International Press Preview" event was
held on Sunday, July 17, 1955, which was only open to invited guests
and the media. The Special Sunday events, including the dedication,
were televised nationwide and anchored by three of Walt Disney's
friends from Hollywood: Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings, and Ronald
Reagan. ABC broadcast the event live on its network; at the time, it
was one of the largest and most complex live broadcasts ever.The event
did not go smoothly. The park was overcrowded as the by-invitation-
only affair was plagued with counterfeit tickets. All major roads
nearby were empty. The temperature was an unusually high 101 °F (38
°C), and a plumbers' strike left many of the park's 【drinking
fountains dry】. Disney was given a choice of having working fountains
or running toilets and he chose the latter. This, however, generated
negative publicity since Pepsi sponsored the park's opening; enraged
guests believed the inoperable fountains were a cynical way to sell
soda. The asphalt that had been poured just that morning was so soft
that ladies' high-heeled shoes sank in. Vendors ran out of food. A gas
leak in Fantasyland caused Adventureland,Frontierland, and Fantasyland
to close for the afternoon. Parents were throwing their children over
the shoulders of crowds to get them onto rides such as the King Arthur
Carrousel
The park got such bad press for the event day that Walt Disney invited
members of the press back for a private "second day" to experience the
true Disneyland, after which Walt held a party in the Disneyland Hotel
for them. Walt and his 1955 executives forever referred to the day as
【"Black Sunday"】. Every year on July 17, cast members wear pin
badges stating how many years it has been since July 17, 1955. For
example, in 2004 they wore the slogan "The magic began 49 years ago
today."But for the first twelve to fifteen years, Disney did
officially state that opening day was on July 18, including in the
park's own publications. Disneyland referred to July 17, 1955, as
"Dedication Day" in one of its July, 1967, press releases. On Monday
July 18, crowds started to gather in line as early as 2 a.m., and the
first person to buy a ticket and enter the park was David MacPherson
with 【admission ticket】 number 2, as Roy O. Disney arranged to pre-
purchase ticket number 1. Walt Disney had an official photo taken with
two children instead, Christine Vess Watkins (age 5 in 1955) and
Michael Schwartner (age 7 in 1955), and the photo of the two carries a
deceptive caption along the lines of "Walt Disney with the first two.
guests of Disneyland." Vess Watkins and Schwartner both received
【lifetime passes】 to Disneyland that day, and MacPherson was awarded
one shortly thereafter, which was later expanded to every single
Disney-owned park in the world.
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A Harvard Extension School class at Boylston Hall. Through the 1950s,
most Extension courses cost $5 each (slightly more than two bushels of
wheat). Now any Harvard staff member can take a graduate-level course
for $40 a semester, making it possible to earn a master’s degree for
$400. It was 1835, and John Lowell Jr., the wealthy young scion of a
prominent Boston family, sat by the Nile River in Luxor, a cradle of
Egyptian civilization. Sick with fever, he drafted a long revision to
his will and mailed it home to a cousin. Months later, Lowell was
dead.That revamped will included a bequest that has rippled ever wider
across almost two centuries. Most notably, it led to creation of the
Harvard Extension School, which is celebrating its centennial year,
with the official anniversary in February.8 ]+ Lowell’s idea was
simple, but brilliant. Everyday people wanted to learn, he thought,
and just needed a forum that allowed them to do so. In the 19th
century, that method mostly involved public lectures. In the 20th
century, it was usually classroom study, and in the 21st, the trend is
toward 【distance learning on the Web】. But what has been true of the
Extension School from its earliest incarnation is its devotion to
public learning, and its students’ fierce desire to be
taught.Evolving far beyond its origins as a lecture series, the
Extension School is now a degree-granting institution with 14,000
students that this year is offering close to 【700】undergraduate and
graduate courses across 65 fields, taught by faculty from nine of
Harvard’s 10 Schools. The modern Extension School has embraced video
learning and podcasts. One hundred and fifty courses are available
online, expanding the School’s reach to students in 122 countries.
About 20 percent of its students take courses exclusively online.！ k
！ t+ V9Increasingly, said Michael Shinagel, the Extension School’s
longtime dean, “the lectern is electronic.” Yet it was the forward-
thinking Lowell, born in 1799 near the dawn of the American republic,
who launched this thriving Harvard institution. Half of his wealth —
the princely sum, in those days, of $250,000 — in 1839 established
the Lowell Institute, the Extension’s precursor. His bequest is a
trust, active to this day, charged with offering public lectures in
Boston on the arts, sciences, and natural history, to students
regardless of gender, race, or age. The first Lowell lecture, on
geology, was held in 1840, in an era of rising working-class clamor
for education. The public’s response was tumultuous, with tickets
being distributed amidst near-mob scenes. The institute’s collegiate
“courses” — which were lecture series on a single topic —
sometimes drew 10,000 applicants.By 1898, more than 4,400 free
lectures and courses had been offered through the Lowell Institute.
Around that time, Boston schoolteachers were looking for ways to earn
a bachelor’s degree at night. The Lowell lectures and the lobbying
teachers created a perfect storm of sorts, and by 【1910】 University
Extension at Harvard was founded.Another visionary with the Lowell
surname created the modern school. Harvard-educated government scholar
A. Lawrence Lowell became trustee of the institute in 1900, and by
1906 was promoting “systematic courses on subjects of liberal
education,” as he called them, taught by Harvard faculty.His vision
of transforming a lecture program into a school of public education
gained traction in 1909 when he was named president of Harvard. His
first step in office was not the curricular reform for which he later
became famous. (Among other things, Lowell invented the idea of
“concentrations.”) Instead, he 【pressed to create a University
Extension】.His desire, according to Shinagel, who has written a new
history of the School called “The Gates Unbarred,” was “to carry
out more completely the idea of John Lowell Jr.”
John Grisham was born on February 2, 1955, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in
the USA. His father was a construction worker and moved his family all
around the southern states of America, stopping wherever he could find
work. Eventually they settled in Mississippi. Graduating from law
school in 1981, Grisham practiced law for nearly a decade in
Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury
litigation (诉讼). In 1983, he was elected to the state House of
Representatives and served until 1990.7 i+ V% One day at the Dessoto
County courthouse, Grisham heard the horrifying testimony of a 12-
year-old rape victim. He decided to write a novel exploring what would
have happened if the girl’s father had murdered her attackers. He
proceeded to get up every morning at 5 a.m. to work on the novel,
called A Time to Kill, which was published in 1988. Grisham’s next
novel, The Firm, was one of the biggest hits of 1991, spending 47
weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Grisham lives with his
wife and two children, dividing their time between their Victorian
home on a 67 acre farm in Mississippi and a 204 acre plantation near
Charlottesville, Virginia.When he’s not writing, Grisham devotes time
to charitable causes, including mission trips with his church group.
As a child he dreamt of becoming a professional baseball player, and
now serves as the local Little League commissioner. He has built six
ballfields on his property and hosts children from 26Little League
teams.
47. What inspired Grisham to write his first novel?
A. A case of murder.
B. A case of rape
C. His father’s experience
D. His life on the farm
49. Which of the following is NOT true of the novel The Firm ?
.It was popular at the time of publication
It earned Grisham great fame.
C. It brought Grisham wealth
D. It was carried by The New York Times as a series.3 y3 i6 L' Z& x.
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50. It can be inferred from the passage that Grisham has built
ballfields on his property ________.
答案应该为 C. to see his childhood dream being realized in the
children
My surprise over the past few winters has been the personality
transformation my parents go through around mid-December as they
change from Dad and Mom into Grandpa and Grandma. Yes, they become
grandparents and are completely different from the people I know the
other eleven and a half months of the yearThe first sign of my parents
’ change is the delight they take in visiting toy and children’s
clothing stores. These two people, who usually dislike anything having
to do with shopping malls, become crazy consumers. While they tell me
to budget my money and shop wisely, they are buying up every doll and
dump truck in sight. And this is only the beginning of the holidays
When my brother’s children arrive, Grandpa and Grandma come into full
form. First they throw out all ideas about a balanced diet for the
grandkids. While we were raised in a house where everyone had to take
two bites of corn, beets(甜菜), or liver (foods that appeared quite
often on our table despite constant complaining), the grandchildren
never have to eat anything that does not appeal to them. Grandma
carries chocolate in her pockets to bribe(贿赂)the littlest ones into
following her around the house, while Grandpa offers “surprises” of
candy and cake to them all day long. Boxes of chocolate-pie disappear
while the whole-wheat bread get hard and stale. The kids love all the
sweets, and when the sugar raises their energy levels, Grandma and
Grandpa can always decide to leave and do a bit more shopping or go to
bed while my brother and sister-in-law try to deal with their highly
active kids.
Once the grandchildren have arrived, Grandma and Grandpa also seem to
forget all of the responsibility lectures I so often hear in my daily
life. If Mickey screams at his sister during dinner, he is
“developing his own personality”; if Nancy breaks Grandma’s mirror,
she is “just a curious child”. But, if I track mud into the house
while helping to unload groceries, I become “careless”; if I scold
one of the grandkids for tearing pages out of my textbook, I am
“impatient”. If Paula talks back to her mother, Grandma and Grandpa
smile at her spirit. If I say one word about all of this excessive
love, Mom and Dad reappear to have a talk with me about petty
jealousies.
6.As regards his parents’ shopping for the grandchildren, the author
______ .
A. feels jealous                  B. feels amazed
C.thinks it unnecessary    D. thinks it annoying
7. What happens after the kids have had all the sweets?
A. They get highly energetic.    B. They quiet down.'
C. They want more sweets.      D. They go to bed.
Which of the following is NOT true of the visiting children?
A. They behave very well.
B. They like chocolate very much.
C. They receive toys from their grandparents.
The huge growth of global "ecotourism" industry is becoming an
increasing concern for conservationists with mounting evidence that
many wild species do not respond well to contact with human beings.
overexposure to tourists has been linked to stress, abnormal behavior
and adverse health effects in species such as polar bears, dolphins
and gorillas（大猩猩）, says a report in New Scientist./ D! K9 _: K5 D
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While regulated ecotourism can help conservation efforts by
encouraging people to manage endangered species and their habitats,
many projects are poorly designed and unregulated, its says. “Many
ecotourist projects are unaudited, unauthorized and merely hint they
are based on environmentally friendly policies and operations”
While regulated ecotourism can help conservation efforts by
encouraging people to manage endangered species and their habitats, “
many projects are poorly designed and hint they are based on
environmentally friendly policies and operations.”
Ecotourism is growing by 10 to 30 percent a year and an estimated 20
percent of tourists are thought to visit a conservation-based project.
Philip Seddon, of the University of Otago in New Zealand, said that
although most tourist projects conformed to basic guidelines on land
use and not scaring wildlife, their full impact was rarely considered.
In Africa, gorillas have picked up parasites introduced to their
habitat by tourists and mongooses（蠓）have caught lung diseases from
human beings. Experts said that the answer to the problems was better
regulation and supervision of ecotourism. The Galapagos Islands, where
visitor numbers are strictly controlled, is a good model
41. Ecotourism is meant to ______.
A. have tourists help in the conservation of wildlife"
B.have wild species respond well to contact with human
C. make wild species reduce stress and abnormal behavior
D. make conservationists more concerned with wildlife
42. According to New Scientist, many ecotourist Projects ______.
A. really encourage people to protect wi1dlife and its habit
B. strictly follow environmentally friendly polices
C. actually lack proper examination and official approval
D. seriously damage the habitats of endangered species
43. What will happen to wildlife ultimately if the present
"ecotourism" practice goes on?
It will disturb their life.
It will affect their health.
C. It will increase their stress.
D. It will threaten their survivalf
45. According to the passage, a solution to the "ecotourism" problem
is to ______.
A. encourage people to manage endangered species
B. reduce the exposure of wildlife to human beings^
C. help wild animals increase their fitness
D. prevent wildlife from catching human disease
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