川大考博英语2014年真题
I．Reading Comprehension (30%; one mark each)
Directions: Read the following six passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing [A], [B], [C], or [D]. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small,well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, Nell-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “huma n-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction of interesting life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again-by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.
Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems the never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system form, a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maxima, production and consumption are ends in themselves, into a humanist industrialism in which man and full
development of his potentialities-those of all love and of reason-are the aims of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end and should be prevented from ruling man.
1. By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to deliver the idea that man is ____.
[A] a necessary part of the society though each individual’s function is negligible
[B] working in complete harmony with the rest of the society
[C] an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society
[D] a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly
2. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ____.
[A] they are likely to lose their jobs
[B] they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life
[C] they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence
[D] they are deprived of their individuality and independence
3. From the passage we can conclude that real happiness of life belongs to those ____.
[A] who are at the bottom of the society
[B] who are higher up in their social status
[C] who prove better than their fellow-competitors
[D] who could dip fir away from this competitive world
4. To solve the present social problems the author puts forward a suggestion that we should ____.
[A] resort to the production mode of our ancestors
[B] offer higher wages to the workers and employees
[C] enable man to fully develop his potentialities
[D] take the fundamental realities for granted
5. The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of ____.
[A] approval [B] dissatisfaction
[C] suspicion [D] susceptibility
Passage Two
The government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy.
What kind of invader gives rise to such high-level monitoring? Not man, not beast, but the lowly desert locust（蝗虫）. In recent moths, billions of the 3-inch-long winged warriors
have descended on Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, blackening the sky and eating up crops and vegetation. The insect invasion, the worst in 30 years, is already creating great destruction in the Middle East and is now treating southern Europe. The current crisis began in late 1985 near the Red Sea. Unusually rainy weather moistened the sands of the Sudan, making them ideal breeding grounds for the locust, which lays its eggs in the earth. The insect onslaught threatens to create yet another African famine. Each locust can eat its weight (not quite a tenth of an ounce) in vegetation every 24 hours. A good-size swarm of 50 billion insects eats up 100,000 tons of grass, trees and crops in a single night.
All $150 million may be needed this year. The U.S. has provided two spraying planes and about 50,000 gal. of pesticide. The European Community has donated $3.8 million in aid and the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan and China have provided chemical-spraying aircraft to help wipe out the pests. But relief efforts are hampered by the relative mildness of approved pesticides, which quickly lose their deadly punch and require frequent replications. The most effective locust killer Dieldrin has been linked to cancer and is banned by many Western countries and some of the affected African nations. More than 5 million acres have been dusted with locust-killing chemicals; another 5 million will be treated by the end of June.
On May 30, representatives of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauritania will meet in Algiers to discuss tactics to wipe out the ravenous swarms. The move is an important step, but whatever plan is devised, the locust plague promised to get worse before the insects can be brought under control.
6. The main idea of the first sentence in the passage is that ____.
[A] the command post is stationed with people all the time.
[B] the command post is crowded with people all the time.
[C] there are clocks around the command post.
[D] the clock in the command post is taken care of by the staff.
7. The favorable breeding ground for the locust is ____.
[A] rich soil.
[B] wet land
[C] spaces covered crops and vegetation
[D] the Red Sea
8. People are alert at the threat of the locust because ____.
[A] the insects are likely to create another African famine.
[B] the insects may blacken the sky.
[C] the number of the insects increases drastically.
[D] the insects are gathering and moving in great speed.
9. Which of the following is true?
[A] Once the pesticides are used, locust will die immediately.
[B] Relief efforts are proved most fruitful due to the effectiveness of certain pesticides.
[C] Dieldrin, the most effective locust killer, has been widely accepted in many countries.
[D] Over 10 million acres of affected area will have been treated with locust-killing
chemicals by the end of June.
10. The purpose for affected nations to meet in Algiers on May 30 is ____.
[A] to devise antilocust plans.
[B] to wipe out the swarms in two years.
[C] to call out for additional financial aid from other nations.
[D] to bring the insects under control before the plague gets worse.
Passage Three
The London 2012 sustainability watchdog embroiled in a row over the sports ship of the Olympic Stadium by Dow Chemical is to push the International Olympic Committee to appoint an “ethics champion” for future Games.
The Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 has been bruised by criticism over Dow’s sponsorship of the wrap that will surround the Olympic stadium, particularly since commissioner Meredith Alexander last month resigned in protest.
Campaigners believe that Dow has ongoing liabilities relating to the 1984 Bhopal disaster that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 20,000 people and the serious injury of tens of thousands more. Dow, which bought the owner of the plant in 2001, insists that all liabilities have been settled in full.
Commission chairman Shaun McCarthy said that its tight sustainability remit did not extend to acting as moral guardian of the Olympic movement but that it would press for such a role to be created when evaluating sponsors for future Games.
In addition to sponsoring the 7m pounds wrap that will surround the Olympic Stadium, Dow has a separate 100m dollars sponsorship deal with the IOC that was signed in 2010.
But McCarthy also defended t he commission’s role in evaluating the Dow deal, after Amnesty International wrote to London 2012 chairman Lord Coe to raise the issue.
“What has been lost in all of this story is that a really excellent, sustainable product has been procured, we looked at Locog’s examination of Dow Chemical’s current corporate responsibility policies and, again, Dow achieved that highest score in that evaluation. We verified that.” said McCarthy.
“As far as the history is concerned and issues around Bhopal, there is no dou bt Bhopal was a terrible disaster and snore injustice was done to the victims. Who is responsible for that injustice is a matter for the courts and a matter for others. We have a specific remit and terms of reference that we operate under and we have operated diligently under those terms.”
The commission will on Thursday release its annual review. It finds that “good press” has been made to wands many of Locog’s sustainability target, but that “major challenges” remain.
In particular, the commission found that there was no coherent strategy to achieve a 20% reduction in carbon emissions after an earlier scheme to use renewable energy feel through when a wind turbine on the site proved impractical.
“We had conversations with Locog over a year ago about this and said they had to demonstrate how they were going to achieve at least 20% carbon reductions through energy conservation if they’re not going to do it through renewable energy,” said McCarthy. “There are some good initiatives, but quite frankly they just haven’t done it.”
11. Why was Dow’s sponsorship criticized according to the passage?
[A] The products are not sustainable.
[B] It was related to Bhopal disaster.
[C] It bribed the London Olympic committee.
[D] It can’t reduce 20% of the carbon e mission.
12. What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?
[A] Commission’s role
[B] Commission’s achievements
[C] Commission’s complaints
[D] Commission’s defense
13. Which of the following words can best replace the underlined word “row” (Para. 1)?
[A] line [B] argument
[C] boating [D] course
14. What is one of the challenges of the sustainability target mentioned in the passage?
[A] Ethic champion of the games.
[B] Reduction in carbon emissions.
[C] The wind turbine proved to be impractical.
[D] Renewable energy is not available.
15. Which of the following can best summarize the passage?
[A] Commission defends its own role in evaluating controversial.
[B] Dow’s way to the 2012 London Olympic Games.
[C] Campaign against Dow’s sponsorship.
[D] IOC’s review on the controversy.
Passage Four
As Facebook dominates the news with its initial public offering, activists are seizing the moment to pressure the company to add some estrogen and ethnicity to its white-male board.
A women’s rights group called Ultraviolet, which has been running an online petition that claims to have attracted more than 50,000 signatures, is escalating its push, posting a new YouTube video called “Do Women Have a Future at Facebook?”. The video shows photos of successful women such as Hillary Clinton getting their heads cropped off the replaced with the smiling face of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
“Facebook has grown off the backs of women, who make up the majority of its users and are responsible for the majority of sharing and fan activity on the site,” the group says in a blurb accompanying the video. An all-male board, the group says, is “not just wrong, it’s bad for business”. A related campaign, called Face It, criticizes the lack of ethnic diversity on the seven-member board. “seven white men: That’s ridiculous,” the group says on its homepage, along side headshots of the men. The campaign, which lists dozens of human-rights groups and corporate executives as supporters, also has its own YouTube video. Called “Face it, Facebook”, the video cites a recent Zuckerberg letter to investors that says:“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission-to make the world more open and connected.”
That message is at odds with the pale-faced board, activists say. Susan Stautberg, co-chairwoman of Women Corporate Directors, an organization for female corporate board members, says Zuckerberg’s thinking is flawed. “If you’re trying to expand a company globally, then you want someone on the board who has built a global brand,” she says. “Most of these guys on Facebook’s board all have the same skills-they’re mostly from Silicon Valley and Washington. You want someone who has worked in China and India and rising markets. You want someone who has marketed to women. When you’re putting together a board, you don’t want your best friends, you want the best people.”
Having zero female directors does not appear to be a good business plan, research shows. Companies with women on the board perform substantially better than companies with all-mall boards, according to a 2011 study of Fortune 500 companies conducted by the research group Catalyst. The study showed that over the course of four to five years, companies with three or more female board members, on average, outperformed
companies with no female board members by 84 percent when it came to return on sales and by 60 percent when it came to return on invested capital.
Facebook may secretly be on the lookout for a female board member, according to a recent Bloomberg report. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg said Facebook had enlisted the corporate-recruitment firm Spencer Stuart to help seek some diversity. Spencer Stuary says it does not comment on clients due to confidentiality agreements.
16. Which of the following descriptions is CORRECT about the Ultraviolet Group?
[A] It is a non-government organization.
[B] It is appealing for “more female roles in big corporations like Facebook”
through the Internet.
[C] It has the support of many female celebrities such as Hillary Clinton.
[D] It is getting more and more support from the society.
17. Which of the following descriptions is INCORRECT about the campaign “Face It”?
[A] It pointed out the irrational composition of Facebook’s board of directors.
[B] The campaign has plenty of human-rights supporters.
[C] It indicated the original objective of Zuckerberg’s establishment of Facebook.
[D] It is constantly using other media devices to support Facebook.
18. The underlined phrase “at odds with” in the fourth paragraph has the closest meaning of ____.
[A] against all odds [B] supported by
[C] disagree with [D] waifs and strays
19. According to Susan Stauberg, a well-performed business should _____.
[A] have a complex system of management.
[B] possess the most market globally.
[C] have your best and close friends as your board members.
[D] have a diverse board member in which everyone has his/her own specialties
and can contribute different skills into the corporation.
20. What will probably happen to Facebook?
[A] The corporation will turn to Spencer Stuart for recruiting more female board members.
[B] The corporation will dominate the news because its worldwide popularity.
[C] The corporation will gradually lose its users because it does not have female
board members.
[D] None of the above.
Passage Five
For this generation of young people, the future looks bleak. Only one in six is working full time. Three out of five live with their parents or other relatives. A large majority-73 percent-think they need more education to find a successful career, but only half of those say they will definitely enroll in the next few years. No, they are not the idle youth of Greece or Spain or Egypt. They are the youth of America, the world’s richest country, who do not have college degrees and aren’t getting them anytime soon. Whatever the sob stories about recent college graduates spinning their wheels as baristas or clerks, the situation for their less-educated peers is far worse. For this group, finding work that pays a living wage and offers some sense of security has been elusive.
Despite the continuing national conversation about whether college is worth it given the debt burden it entails, most high school graduates without college degrees said they believe they would be unable to get good jobs without more education.
Getting it is challenging, though, and not only because of formidable debt levels. Ms. McClour and her husband, Andy, have two daughters under 3 and another due next month. She said she tried enrolling in college classes, but the workload became too stressful with such young children. Mr. McClour works at a gas station. He hates his work and wants to study phlebotomy, but the nearest school is an hour and half away.
Many of these young people had been expecting to go to college since they started high school, perhaps anticipating that employers would demand skills high schools do not teach. Just one in ten high school graduates without college degrees said they were “extremely well prepared by their high school to succeed in their job after graduation.”These young people worried about getting left behind and were pessimistic about reaching some of the milestones that make up the American dream. More than half-56 percent-of high school graduates without college diplomas said that their generation would have less financial success than their parents. About the same share believed they would find work that offered health insurance within that time frame. Slightly less than half of respondents said the next few years would bring work with good job security or a job with earnings that were high “enough to lead a comfortable life”. They were similarly pessimistic about being able to start a family or buy a home.
The online survey was conducted between March 21 and April 2, and covered a nationally representative survey of 544 high school graduates from the classes of 2006-11 who did not have bachelor’s degrees. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.
21. What does the underlined phrase “spinning their wheels” mean in Paragraph 1?
[A] fastening the pace [B] confusing the situation
[C] asking for help [D] scooting out
22. What will the high school graduates probably do according to the article?
[A] Find jobs right after graduation.
[B] Receive further study in college.
[C] Go to join the national conversation.
[D] Pay for the debt.
23. What does the story of “Andy and Ms. McClour” try to inform us?
[A] They both prefer making money to education.
[B] Colleges do not accept students who are married and have children.
[C] Although people are eager to join in the college, life burden may block in the way.
[D] None of the above.
24. What is the financial outlook for this generation compared with their parents?
[A] They have a prosperous outlook compared with the last generation.
[B] Their financial situation is not as successful as their parents.
[C] It depends on how hard they work and their educational background.
[D] Not mentioned in the article.
25. What can we infer from the last sentence?
[A] The online survey is done nationally.
[B] The result of the survey is completely trustworthy.
[C] There is more or less inaccuracy of the survey.
[D] The survey will have a continuous part coming soon.
Passage Six
Some 60 years ago, George Orwell wrote an allegorical novel, called Nineteen Eighty-Four, to describe life in a futuristic Britain under a one party police-sate presided over by an all-powerful figure known as Big Brother. One of the fealures of the nasty world described by Orwell was its systematic misuse of language, which went by the name of “Newspeak”. By re-defining words and endlessly repeating them, the Ministry of Truth through the Thought Police was able to control what people thought, and through that, their actions. Language was instrumental in destroying the culture.
The same technique is being used by different people today, with similar effects. In all areas of public administration, the words “spouse”, “husband” and “wife” have been replace by the word “partner”, although the words are subtly but substantially different in meaning, and convey different realities. In some schools and university departments, feminist ideologues have dictated that the personal pronoun “he” m ust not be used, and is
replaced by the word “they”, which means something different. The word “homophobic”, which just a few years ago was used to describe a person who supported vigilante action against homosexuals, is now being used to describe anyone who defends the universal definition of marriage.
Although the transformation of language is seen most obviously around social issues, it is also being used systematically to shape political debate. So, we are told that the federal government is introducing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which is newspeak for its new carbon tax. The fact is that the new tax is not remotely concerned with “carbon pollution” at all, but rather with emissions of the gas CO2 which is not a pollutant by any credible definition, but rather, an essential building block in every cell in every living plant and creature. By the government’s own admission, it will not lead to any reduction in CO2 levels, either in Australia or globally. And the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is being introduced in Australia at the same time the government is expanding exports of coal, which is virtually 100 percent carbon, to countries such as China.
We live in a society in which the ordinary meaning of words is being systematically manipulated by spin-doctors and ideologues, as a means of changing the way people think, and, more fundamentally, the way they act. Language is an important part of the culture wars. For those of us who see this as a challenge to the foundations of society, it is important that we identify the problem and expose it.
It is clearly preferable to avoid using the new debased, transformed language of the politically-correct left, although this can be difficult in situations where constant usage has already normalized it, as has happened with the term “same-sex marriage”. The alternative phrase, “same-sex unions”, has a different meaning. When such terms are used, they should be identified for what they are: a form of linguistic dishonesty, designed to undermine existing institutions and transform them.
26. Which of the following descriptions is INCORRECT about George Orwell’s allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four?
[A] It describes a story that happens in the future.
[B] One of the features in the novel is the misuse of language.
[C] It is the most famous detective novel in the world.
[D] It was written in the 20th century.
27. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an example of misuse of language?
[A] Feminists insist “he” be replaced by “they”.
[B] “Partner” has taken the place of “husband” and “wife”.
[C] “Homophobic” is now being employed to refer to defend conventional
understanding of marriage.
[D] The meaning of “literacy” is no longer restricted to the ability to read and write.
28. The example of carbon pollution is used to illustrate _______.
[A] transformation of language is usually seen in social issues.
[B] transformation of language is also tracked in political debate.
[C] transformation of language is generated in the age of information.
[D] transformation of language is legitimate to a certain extent.
29. The underlined word “credible” in Para. 3 means ______.
[A] reliable [B] correct
[C] beneficial [D] provable
30. According to the passage, transformed language serves to _______.
[A] make people sound fashionable
[B] change the way people think and act
[C] eliminate discrimination against minorities
[D] None of the above
II. Vocabulary (10%; 0.5 mark each)
31. The town was flooded when the river burst its banks. To make it worse, the storm
_____ outside.
[A] raided [B]ragged [C] raged [D]reaped
32. My new laptop can _____ information much more quickly than my old computer.
[A] proceed [B] precede [C] produce [D] process
33. The country’s failure to abide by the Kyoto Protocol was _____ in all newspapers.
[A] announced [B] denounced [C] renounced [D] trounced
34. The company has _____ over three decades into a multi-million dollar organization.
[A] evolved [B] revolved [C] involved [D] devolved
35. We would like to _____ our customers of the best possible service.
[A] assure [B] ensure [C] insure [D] ensue
36. The government has promised to offer 10 million of emergency food aid to help
______ the famine in this region.
[A] release [B] relate [C] reveal [D]relieve
37. The course _____ two years’ training into six intensive months.
[A] impresses [B] compresses [C] depresses [D] represses
38. Make sure you pour the juice into the glass without _____ it.
[A] splitting [B] spilling [C] spinning [D] spitting
39. The vast majority of people in any culture _____ to the established standard of that culture.
[A] confine [B] conform [C] confront [D] confirm
40. Tom pointed out that the living standard of urban and _____ people continued to improve.
[A] remote [B] municipal [C] rural [D] provincial
41. The Egyptians _____ an area almost equal to France and Spain combined.
[A] dwell [B] settle [C] reside [D] inhabit
42. I’m going to have to take these clothes off, for I’m _____ to the skin!
[A] dipped [B] soaked [C] immersed [D] submerged
43. The WHO has to come up with new and effective measures to _____ his next
move in the game.
[A] limit [B] cut [C] curb [D] keep
44. My grandfather sat back in his chair for a few minutes to _____ his next move in the game.
[A] think [B] ponder [C] reflect [D] dwell
45. At this school we aim to _____ the minds of all the students by reading.
[A] cultivate [B] instruct [C] teach [D] coach
46. Most doctors _____ on a diet which contains a lot of fat.
[A] criticize [B] object [C] oppose [D] frown
47. Since you intend to sell your house, how will you _____ of all the furniture?
[A] disapprove [B] discard [C] dispose [D] disregard
48. The politicians were discussing the best way to _____ democracy and prosperity
in their country.
[A] hinder [B] foster [C] linger [D] quote
49. Only one member of the committee _____ from the final report.
[A] dissented [B] crawled [C] whispered [D] redeemed
50. We always try to _____ him with financial assistance if necessary.
[A] dazzle [B] sanction [C] accommodate [D] terminate
III. Cloze (10%; 0.5 mark each)
The term “quality of life” is difficult to define. It (51) a very wide scope such as living environment, health, employment, food, family life, friends, education, material possessions, leisure and recreation, and so on. (52) speaking, the quality of life, especially (53) seen by the individual, is meaningful in terms of the degree (54) which these various areas of life are available or provide (55) for the individual.
As activity carried (56) as one thinks fit during one’s spare time, leisure has the following (57): relaxation, recreation and entertainment, and personal development. The importance of these varies according to the nature of one’s job and one’s life style. (58), people who need to (59) much energy in their work will find relaxation most (60) in leisure. Those with a better education and in professional occupations may (61) more to seek recreation and personal development (e.g.(62) of skills and hobbies) in leisure.
The specific use of leisure (63) from individual to individual. (64) the same leisure activity may be used differently by different individuals. Thus, the following are possible uses of television watching, a (65) leisure activity, a change of experience to provide (66) from t he stress and strain of work; to learn more about what is happening in one’s environment; to provide an opportunity for understanding oneself by (67) other people’s life experiences as (68) in the programs.
Since leisure is basically self-determined, one is able to take (69) his interests and preferences and get (70) in an activity in ways that will bring enjoyment and satisfaction.
51. [A] composes [B] consists [C] covers [D] constitutes
52. [A] Basically [B] Frankly [C] Primarily [D] Generally
53. [A] when [B] as [C] while [D] which
54. [A] to [B] as [C] of [D] in
55. [A] satisfaction [B] information [C] respect [D] admiration
56. [A] out [B] through [C] away [D] off
57. [A] effects [B] operations [C] functions [D] features
58. [A] However [B] Thus [C] Nevertheless [D] Yet
59. [A] provide [B] hire [C] exercise [D] exert
60. [A] preferable [B] desirable [C] obtainable [D] perfect
61. [A] tend [B] prefer [C] enjoy [D] oblige
62. [A] training [B] promotion [C] nurturing [D] cultivation
63. [A] varies [B] differs [C] changes [D] alters
64. [A] Still [B] Yet [C] Even [D] So
65. [A] correct [B] adequate [C] precise [D] proper
66. [A] separation [B] escape [C] flight [D] isolation
67. [A] contrasting [B] comparing [C] matching [D] measuring
68. [A] portrayed [B] described [C] related [D] narrated
69. [A] after [B] on [C] with [D] to
70. [A] involved [B] participated [C] attended [D] employed
IV. Translation (30%)
Part A (20%)
Translate the following passage into Chinese.
The impact of decentralization trends, of course, extends well beyond cities. Sprawling development patterns are destabilizing many of the suburbs that surround cities in this country. Older suburbs are experiencing the same challenges as cities: failing schools, persistent crime, and the loss of jobs and businesses to other, further out suburbs. Even suburban areas that are developing rapidly are finding that explosive growth has its drawbacks, especially in the form of overcrowded schools, but also in long commutes and the inability of local governments to pay for new roads, sewers, and other infrastructure.
In the wake of decentralizing economies, central cities remain the residence of “choice” for low-and moderate-income families. While poverty has declined in central cities, urban poverty rates are still twice as high as suburban poverty rates, 18.8 percent as against 9.0 percent in 2011 Cities and older suburbs are also disproportionately home to families whose earnings are above the poverty level, but below median income (national median income is $37,000 a yeas and 200 percent of the poverty for a family of three is $27,000 a year).
The implications of concentrated poverty are severe. People in these neighborhoods often face a triple whammy: poor schools, weak job information networks, and scarce jobs. They are more likely to live in female-headed households and have less formal educations than residents of other neighborhoods.
Part B (10%)
Translate the following sentences into English.
71．俗话说，牙疼不是病，但疼起来真要命。前些日子我突然开始牙疼，随便找了点止疼药，希望赶紧止住疼痛。可试了好些天都不管用，最后还是得找牙医。
72．自由贸易就意味着竞争，而竞争则意味着风险，特别是当它影响到国家繁荣的时候。
所以国家会想办法保护自己免遭自由贸易的冲击。
73．然而，退休后，社会安全福利只取代了一般人收入的约40%。而多数财政顾问认为，退休者将需要大约70%-80%工作时的收入，方能过上舒适的退休生活。
74．大多数与他人不愉快的经历都是无心的，很容易通过保持无成见的、公开诚恳的交流来补救。礼节性常识是一种有价值的优势，因为在很多场合，要获得第二次机会也许不切实际。
75．虽说分离的确是种美德，但是在社交媒体上过度分离，不仅会伤害友情更是会殃及事业前途。人们需要在私生活与职场生活、分离与炫耀、好心与惹人厌之间寻求一种良性平衡。
V. Writing (20%)
Directions: Some people prefer to stay in the same job for the same company,
but others prefer to change jobs frequently. Please write a composition to
discuss both sides and give your own opinion. Your composition should be
about 150 English words. Write your composition on the Answer Sheet.
答案：
完型：67——71：CDBAC 72——76：ACBCB 77——81：ADCCB 82——86：DBBDA
英译汉：当然，分散化趋势的影响远远超出了城市范围。无序扩张的发展格局破坏着全美各城市周围许多郊区的稳定。年代较久的郊区经受着和市区同样的挑战：学校教育质量每况愈下、犯罪屡禁不止、就业和商业机会流失到其他更远的郊区。即便是发展迅速的郊区也出现了爆炸式增长的弊端，尤其体现在学校过度拥挤、上下班交通耗时长，以及当地政府无力出资建造新的道路、下水道和其他基础设施。
尽管经济呈分散化发展，但中低收入家庭仍然选择居住在市中心。虽然市中心
的贫困率已降低，但市区贫困率却仍是郊区的两倍；1997年市区贫困率是18.8%，而郊区却只有9.0%。
许多收入高于贫困线却又低于平均线的家庭都选择在市区和年代较久的郊区安
家落户，其数量之多超乎寻常（全国平均线是年均2.7万美元，一个三口之家的贫困标准是一年1.35万美元）。
贫困集中化的后果十分严重。这些居住区的居民经常面临着三重打击：学校质量差、工作信息网络薄弱、就业机会少得可怜。和其他居民区相比，这里的家庭更可能由女性当家，居民接受的正规教育也更少。
《大学英语(三)》模拟试题一》 第一部分：交际用语(共10小题，每小题2分，满分20分) 此部分共有10个未完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并用铅笔将答案题卡上的相应字母涂黑。示例。 1、- Hello, I'd like to speak to Mark, please. - ____B____ A.Yes, I'm Mark. B.This is Mark speaking. C.It's me here. D.This is me. 2、- Thanks for inviting me, John, but I've already made other plans. - ____C_____. Maybe another time. A.I hope you enjoy it B.That's good C.Oh! I'm sorry to hear that D.Great! I really had a good time 3、-Thank you for your help. - ____B_____. A.It doesn't matter B.You're welcome
C.You're kind D.I don't think so 4、- Let me help you carry the suitcase. - _____A____ A.It's OK. I can manage. B.It's not very light. C.I can help you with it. D.Put it down on the ground. 5、- Sorry to give you so much trouble. - ____C_____ A.I think so. B.Oh, I'm sorry. C.It's OK. D.You are busy. 6、-You speak very good English. -____A____. A.It's very kind of you to say so B.No, I can't C.You are right D.That's all right 7、- Would you mind if we asked you for some advice? - ____C____
2015年四川大学考博《英语》真题 (总分：100.00，做题时间：180分钟) 一、ⅠReadingComprehension 二、Passage1 Speechissofamiliarafeatureofdailylifethatwerarelypausetodefineit.Itseemsasnatural tomanaswalkingandonlylesssothanbreathing.Yetitneedsbutamoment'sreflectiontoconvinceus thatthisnaturalnessofspeechisbutanillusoryfeeling.Theprocessofacquiringspeechis,insob erfact,anutterlydifferentsortofthingfromtheprocessoflearningtowalk.Inthecaseofthelatt erfunction,culture,inotherwords,thetraditionalbodyofsocialusage,isnotseriouslybrought intoplay.Thechildisindividuallyequipped,bythecomplexsetoffactorsthatwetermbiologicalh eredity,tomakealltheneededmuscularandnervousadjustmentsthatresultinwalking.Indeed,the veryconformationofthesemusclesandoftheappropriatepartsofthenervoussystemmaybesaidtobe primarilyadaptedtothemovementsmadeinwalkingandinsimilaractivities.Inaveryrealsense,th enormalhumanbeingispredestinedtowalk,notbecausehiselderswillassisthimtolearnthear t,butbecausehisorganismispreparedfrombirth,orevenfromthemomentofconception,totake onallthoseexpendituresofnervousenergyandallthosemuscularadaptationsthatresultinwalkin g.Toputitconcisely,walkingisaninherent,biologicalfunctionofman. Notsolanguage.Itisofcoursetruethatinacertainsensetheindividualispredestinedtotalk ,butthatisdueentirelytothecircumstancethatheisbornnotmerelyinnature,butinthelapofasoc ietythatiscertain,reasonablycertain,toleadhimtoitstraditions.Eliminatesocietyandthere iseveryreasontobelievethathewilllearntowalk,if,indeed,hesurvivesatall.Butitisjustasce rtainthathewillneverlearntotalk,thatis,tocommunicateideasaccordingtothetraditionalsys temofaparticularsociety.Or,again,removethenew-bornindividualfromthesocialenvironmenti ntowhichhehascomeandtransplanthimtoanutterlyalienone.Hewilldeveloptheartofwalkinginhi snewenvironmentverymuchashewouldhavedevelopeditintheold.Buthisspeechwillbecompletelya tvariancewiththespeechofhisnativeenvironment.Walkingthenisageneralhumanactivitythatva riesonlywithinarestrictedlimitaswepassfromindividualtoindividual.Itsvariabil ityispurposeless.Speechisahumanactivitythatvarieswithoutassignablelimitaswepassfr omsocialgrouptosocialgroup,becauseitisapurelyhistoricalheritage,theproductoflong-cont inuedsocialusage.Itvariesasallcreativeeffortvaries-notasconsciously,perhaps,butnoneth elessastrulyasdothereligions,thebeliefs,thecustoms,andtheartsofdifferentpeoples.Walki ngisanorganic,instinctivefunction,speechisanon-instinctive,acquired,"cultural"functio n. (1).ThefirstsentenceofParagraphTwo,"Notsolanguage"istheclosestinmeaningto______. " A.thisisnotthecasewithlanguage " B.soislanguageandnotanythingelse " C.nosuchathingexistsinlanguage " D.notsomuchwithlanguage A.√ B. C. D. 解析：细节推理题。Notsolanguage承接首段的最后一句话，将language与walking进行对比，上文提及"行走是人类与生俱来的一种生物功能"，而语言则不是。选项A与文中的意思最接近。故答案为A。
1. The use of atomic energy will _____ the lives of coming generations. A) revolve B) revolutionize C) resolve D) reserve 2. The doctor _____ me to the dangers of smoking. A) informed B) alerted C) warned D) cautioned 3. All work and no play makes Jack a _____ boy. A) monotonous B) boring C) tedious D) dull 4. The _____ domestic product of this year is two times as high as that of last year. A) coarse B) crude C) gross D) raw 5. I may sense the enthusiasm from his youthful _____ voice. A) vibrant
B) shivering C) shaking D) vicious 6. Features such as height, weight, and skin color _____ from individual to individual and from face to face. A) change B) vary C) alter D) convert 7. The engineer explained the plane’s technical _____. A) capacity B) capability C) ability D) competence 8. The _____ of new scientific discoveries to industrial production methods increases efficiency. A) application B) applause C) applicant D) appliance 9. The army was poised _____ a major attack. A) to B) for C) with D) on 10. Parents ____ some of their characteristics to their children.
四川大学2012考博英语真题及答案详解 阅读 1）Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born With, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher. Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the “hand talk” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually: have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? I t was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing a s “substandard”. Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说). It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. “What I said,” Stokoe explains, “is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff.” 21. The study of sign language is thought to be _____C___. A) a new way to look at the learning of language B) a challenge to tradi t ional, views on the nature of language C) an approach: to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language D) an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language（C） 22. The, present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by ___C_____. A) a famous scholar in the study of the human brain B) a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts C) an English teacher in a university for the deaf D) some senior experts in American Sign Language（C） 23. According to Stokoe, sign language is _____B___. A) a Substandard language B) a genuine language C) an artificial language D) an international language（B）
四川大学英文成绩单样本 2 24 south Section 1 Ring Road No.1 ChengDu, SiChuan 610065 P.R.China Sichuan University SICHUAN UNIVERSITY STUDENT ACADEMIC RECORD (ENGLISH TRANSLATION) NAME(姓名): Dudie XU(徐都爹) SCHOOL CODE(学号):1043004134 DATE OF BIRTHDAY(出生年月): Aug. 1919 (1919.8) SEX(性别): Male MAJOR(专 业):Polymer Material and Engineering(高分子材料与工程) SCHOOLING(学制):4 YEAR(4年) DURATION OF SCHOOL(在校期间):Sept. 2008-July 2012(2010.9-2014.7) HOURS CREDITS MARKS(分数) st nd (学时) (学分) COURSE(课程) 1 SEM. 2 SEM. First Year(Sept.2008-July2009)(第一学年) Physical Education-1(体育-1) 32 1 97 College English-1(大学英语-1) 64 4 97 Fundamentals of Modern Chemistry(?)-1(近代化学32 2 94 基础(?)-1) Situation and Policies-1(形势与政策-1) 16 0.25 92 Basics of Computer (大学计算机基础) 36 2 90 Chemical Experiment (?)-1(工科化学实验(?)18 1 90 -1)
四川大学2015博士学位研究生入学考试试题 四川大学博士学位2015年研究生入学考试试题 代码:3088科目:微生物学 1，作文题 1。埃博拉疫苗研发策略简介 A:埃博拉出血热是由埃博拉病毒引起的高度传染性和致死性疾病由于埃博拉病毒的风险极高，且缺乏有效的治疗方法，该病毒与马尔堡病毒和拉沙病毒一起被归类为BSL-4病毒，属于最危险的病原微生物。目前，埃博拉病毒疫苗的研发策略为: ①传统疫苗:在传统的埃博拉病毒疫苗研发中，没有具有发展前景的疫苗，包括消防疫苗、减毒活疫苗和传统亚单位疫苗等。灭活疫苗和减毒活疫苗通常不能有效刺激机体产生免疫保护，减毒活疫苗也有潜在的致病风险 ②基因工程疫苗:包括基因工程亚单位疫苗、病毒载体疫苗、DNA 疫苗、基因缺失活疫苗、病毒样颗粒疫苗等 (1)DNA疫苗:限于考虑DNA疫苗的安全性和免疫刺激活性的问题，现有的DNA疫苗不能有效地引入宿主细胞，这影响了其免疫效率。因此，目前还没有关于将EBOV疫苗单独应用于非人类灵长类动物的研究报告，但是它可以与其他载体疫苗结合使用以形成长期的免疫保护。(2)病毒样颗粒疫苗:它是一种没有核酸的空壳结构。其余结构与天然病毒相似，具有良好的免疫原性和生物活性。然而，这种疫苗
仍处于实验探索阶段。 (3)病毒载体疫苗:目前，腺病毒载体疫苗vAd3-EBOV和重组水泡性口炎病毒载体疫苗rvsvv△G-EBOV-GP已成为最有前途的病毒载体疫苗目前，这两种疫苗正在进一步应用于临床试验。 2。啤酒酵母表达分泌型重组蛋白的基本过程简介 A:在啤酒酵母中，只有分泌的蛋白质可以被糖基化需要糖基化的重组蛋白必须是分泌蛋白酿酒酵母可以对重组蛋白进行乙酰化修饰、无位点特异性的丝氨酸/苏氨酸磷酸化修饰、天冬氨酸糖基化和丝氨酸/苏氨酸糖基化修饰酿酒酵母糖基化修饰使用单个甘露糖残基，并且N-糖基化修饰由1，3-和1，6-甘露糖残基组成，其通常形成40-200个甘露糖残基的更大糖链。通过基因修饰，可以阻断N-糖基化过程，使糖链缩短为甘露糖8GlcNAc2核心糖链，糖链末端为1，3-甘露糖，从而明显增强重组蛋白的抗原性通过不超过5个甘露糖残基的聚合形成O-糖基化基本过程如下:(1)构建载体 前导肽:在重组蛋白前加入编码酵母交配型因子a1的前导肽，通过赖氨酸-精氨酸将前导肽与重组蛋白的n端连接(2)当信号肽切割 蛋白并将其分泌到壁膜间隙中时，酵母内蛋白酶识别该切断信号并正确地切断重组蛋白 Ps:外源蛋白表达的一般程序是 ①目的基因的克隆:选择合适的核酸内切酶在表达载体的多克隆位点区域克隆外源基因。如果选择分泌表达载体，外源基因的阅读框架和信号肽的阅读框架应该一致。(2)重组载体的线性化:只有将重组载
川大考博英语2014年真题 I．Reading Comprehension (30%; one mark each) Directions: Read the following six passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing [A], [B], [C], or [D]. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Passage One In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small,well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, Nell-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “huma n-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management. The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction of interesting life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings. Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again-by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness. Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems the never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system form, a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maxima, production and consumption are ends in themselves, into a humanist industrialism in which man and full
2018年6月四川省大学英语三级考试 考生须知 1. 三级考试时间及地点 （1）时间：考试时间为6月2日（星期六）14:00 - 16:10。 入场时间为6月2日13:30- 14:00 (14:00后禁止入场)。 （2）地点：准考证上规定的考场（请考生在考试前一天找到自己所在考场对应的教室号） 考试时间点特别提示： 13：30 考生入场（第1次铃声） 13：50 发放试卷一及答题卡 14：00 考试正式开始（第2次铃声） 14：40 收试卷一 14：45 发放试卷二 14：50 开始播放听力录音（14:49第3次铃声） 16：10 考试结束（第4次铃声） （14：00以后考生不得入场；考试正式结束前所有考生不得离场。） 2. 考生须三证齐全（准考证、身份证、学生证或一卡通）才能进入考场参加考试。学生证或一卡通，持有其中之一即可；二者都缺失的，须补办其中之一。 （1）领到准考证后，请考生妥善保管。 （2）准考证补办程序 本人带上身份证于考试前一周到教务科206肖老师处补办，最后截止日期6月1日18：00。 （3）学生证、身份证丢失的处理办法 身份证丢失，需办临时参考证，办理流程：本人写出申请→班主任老师签字→到所在系填写临时参考证（临时参考证须贴本人近期照片）→所在系盖章→6月1日18:00之前到教务处办公室盖章。
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史学通论 2008 一、结合本专业实际论历史记忆与历史书写之关系。 二、如何认识历史领域后现代主义的当代挑战。 2009 一、结合实例说明历史学的社会功能。 二、史学领域的后现代主义思潮述评。 2010 一、论历史思维的方法。 二、结合史学理论与实践谈谈你对“史学即史料学”这一观点的认识。 中国古代史 2008 一、简要解释或回答以下各题。 1、刘知几与章学诚。 2、中国古代文献的四部分类法。 3、中国古代货币的主要类型。 4、结合你所报专业介绍四川大学的史学前辈学者。 二、简要论述下列各题： 1、“安史之乱”后唐代社会的变化。 2、“汉承秦制”。 2009 一、必做题 唐代有哪些主要宗教？请分别予以简略介绍。 二、选做题： 1、试论秦统一的历史原因。 2、中国历史出现过哪些重要的图书分类方法？这些分类法的代表作有 哪些？试分析这些分类法的适用范围及其优劣。 3、试论儒墨学说的异同及其对后世的影响。 4、试论“两个体系”（覆盖人民群众的档案资源体系和方便人民群众的 档案利用体系）的建设问题或者论述从藏书建设到文献资源建设到信 息资源建设理论嬗变的时代背景与发展进程。 5、略述春秋战国时期“百家争鸣”发生的社会背景和主要派别。 6、迄今为止，有关中国儒学史（或经学史）分期的观点主要有哪些？试 对这些分期法的优劣进行评析，谈谈你自己对中国儒学（或经学）发 展主要阶段的基本认识。 2010 一、必做题： 试述汉武帝时期实行的“罢黜百家，独尊儒术”政策的提出、内容及影响。 二、选做题： 1、举例说明战国时期著名的水利工程及其对当时社会经济的影响。 2、简论中国古代官私书目的历史发展及其功能。 3、试论秦统一的主要原因。
四川大学2005年博士研究生入学英语考试题 Passage 1 As the horizons of science have expanded, two main groups of scientists have emerged. One is the pure scientist; the other, the applied scientist. The pure or theoretical scientist does original research in order to understand the basic laws of nature that govern our world. The applied scientist adapts this knowledge to practical problems. Neither is more important than the other, however, for the two groups are very much related. Sometimes, however, the applied scientist finds the "problem" for the theoretical scientist to work on. Let's take a particular problem of the aircraft industry: heat-resistant metals. Many of the metals and alloys which perform satisfactorily in a car cannot be used in a jet-propelled plane. New alloys must be used, because the jet engine operates at a much higher temperature than an automobile engine. The turbine wheel in a turbojet must withstand temperatures as high as 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit, so aircraft designers had to turn to the research metallurgist for the development of metals and alloys that would do the job in jet-propelled planes. Dividing scientists into two groups is only one broad way of classifying them, however. When scientific knowledge was very limited, there was no need for men to specialize. Today, with the great body of scientific knowledge, scientists specialize in many different fields. Within each field, there is even further subdivision. And, with finer and finer subdivisions, the various sciences have become more and more interrelated until no one branch is entirely independent of the' others. Many new specialties --geophysics and biochemistry, for example -- have resulted from combining the knowledge of two or more sciences. 1. The applied scientist ______. A. is not always interested in practical problems B. provides the basic knowledge for practice C. applies the results of research to practice D. does original research to understand the basic laws of nature 2. The example given in the passage illustrates how ___. A. pure science operates independently of applied science B. the applied scientist discovers the basic laws of nature C. applied science defines all the areas in which basic research is done D. applied science suggests problems for the basic scientist 3. The problem discussed in the second paragraph called for____. A. selecting the best hear-resistant metal from existing metals B. developing a turbine wheel capable of generating heat up to 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit C. developing metals and alloys that would withstand terrific temperatures
首页- 我的作业列表- 《大学英语（四）》第一次作业答案 欢迎你， 你的得分： 完成日期：2018年06月12日08点35分 说明：每道小题选项旁的标识是标准答案。 一、单项选择题。本大题共40个小题，每小题分，共分。在每小题给出的选项中，只有一项是符合题目要求的。 1. o— How do you like your first term here at the university o— _______ C.To tell the truth, I don’t like it at all. D.I don’t know. E.H ow about you F.I don’t want to talk about it. 2. o—What’s your major o—_______ B.I take a course in literature. C.I’m interested in medicine. D.I’m thinking of taking the linguistics course. E.I take world history as my major. 3. o— Your library book is due next Thursday. If you want it for longer, you will have to renew it. o— _______ B.That’s impossible. C.Can I keep it a little longer D.It doesn’t matter at all. E.Thanks. I only need it for a few days. 4. o— Can I keep this book a little longer o— _______ B.No, you can’t. They are two days overdue. C.You can, but you will need to officially renew it for one week.
你的得分： 100.0 完成日期：2016年08月13日 11点47分 说明：每道小题选项旁的标识是标准答案。 一、单项选择题。本大题共40个小题，每小题 2.5 分，共100.0分。在每小题给出的选项中，只有一项是符合题目要求的。 1.—What a poor job I’ve done! —__D __ A.Do it again. B.You can do it. C.Do your best! D.Don’t be upset. No one can do it better than you. 2.—Are you doing anything special on Friday, Bill? —____B___ —Oh, what a pity! A.No, nothing special B.Yes, I have promised to call on some friends C.Yes, of course D.No, I’m not sure. Why? 3.—I’d like to make an appointment with Mr. White. —___C____ A.Sorry, he is busy at the moment. B.Why didn’t you call earlier? C.Certainly. May I know your name? D.Sorry. He doesn’t want to see you. 4.—This is the worst film ever produced. Do you think so? —____B___ A.You’re wrong B.I don’t think so, I’m afraid C.Not at all D.No, that’s not real 5.—My dear! I made a mistake again. —____B___ A.Be careful. B.Don’t worry. We can do something to make up for it. C.What a pity! D.You should worry about it.