中国社会科学院研究生院 2001 博士研究生入学考试英语试题
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2015年中国社会科学院考博英语真题及详解PART Ⅰ: Vocabulary and GrammarSection A (10 points)Directions: Choose the answer that best fills in the blank.1. Even the president is not really the CEO. No one is. Power in a corporation is concentrated and vertically structured. Power in Washington is _____ and horizontally spread out.A. prudentB. reversibleC. diffuseD. mandatory【答案】C【解析】句意:甚至总统也不是真正的首席执行官,谁都不是。
在公司中,权力集中且垂直分布。
在华盛顿,权力分散且平行分布。
diffuse散开的。
prudent谨慎的,节俭的。
reversible 可逆的,可撤销的。
mandatory强制的,命令的。
2. In describing the Indians of the various sections of the United States at different stages in their history, some of the factors which account for their similarity amid difference can be readily accounted for, others are difficult to _____.A. refineB. discernC. embedD. cluster【答案】B【解析】句意:在描述美国历史中不同阶段不同地区的印第安人中,一些影响他们不同点之间的相似点的因素能够很容易的解释清楚,而其他的却很难看出。
中国社会科学院考博历年真题经济学原理2001-2003年试题
1、马克思的劳动价值论与我国收入分配改革(30分)
2、不完全竞争市场的缺陷及政府规制(25分)
3、假定投资不受利率影响,利用IS-LM模型和AD-AS模型说明,产出、利率、物价总水平是如何决定的?是怎样发生变化的?(30分)
4、阐述1998年度诺贝尔经济学奖的主要理论贡献。
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社科院2002博士入学经济学原理考试题
1、用总供给和总需求曲线,说明什么情况下产量上升的同时价格下降,什么情况下产量下降的同时价格上升。
一起考研社区真情奉献
2、用图形分析并说明企业的短期成本和长期成本的关系。
3、论述马克思的商品价值向生产价格的转型理论。
4、2001年诺贝尔奖获得者的主要理论贡献及其在现实经济活动中的应用。
社科院2003博士入学经济学原理考试题(每题必答1000字以上)
1、论述实验经济学对传统经济学“理性行为”的挑战;(30分)
2、新制度经济学的政策主张及对当代中国的意义;(35分)(新经济增长理论的政策含义及其对中国实践的启示)
3、运用政治经济学原理解析中共十六大报告关于“确立劳动、资本、技术和管理等生产要素按贡献参与分配的原则,完善按劳分配为主体、多种分配方式并存的分配制度”的精神。
(35分)。
Translation(社科院历年翻译真题)1.If our country is to achieve modernization the biggest obstacle is not the shortage of natural resources,nor the lack of funds,still less the problem of technology,but rather the quality of the more than one billion people,for funds can be accumulated,technology can be created or imported,but the overall quality of the huge population,which can not be imported,must only be improved by ourselves.我们的国家要走向现代化,最大的障碍并不是资源问题,也不是资金问题,更不是技术问题,而是十几亿人口的素质问题。
资金可以积累,技术可以创造,也可以引进,但是十几亿人口的素质是无法引进的,这必须靠我们自己去提高。
2.Today women increasingly leave the home for the workplace.In addition to the normal financial incentives,we find ambition and personal fulfillment motivating those in the most favorable circumstances,and a desire for more social contact in order to relieve their domestic isolation.However,for all,working is tied to the desire for independence.今天,越来越多的妇女走出家门参加工作。
中国社会科学院研究生院2000博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part Ⅰ V ocabulary (15 points)Section ADirections :On your Answer Sheet ,circle and black out the letter that is closest in meaning to theunderlined word .1.The cultural life of a social group ,qua social group ,may be said to depend upon its cognitive level .A .perditionB .perceptionC .pertinenceD .permanent2.The article insinuates that the crime did not take place .A .states flatlyB .argues convincinglyC .positively deniesD .suggests indirectly3.The international committee ,at its annual general meeting ,finally waived the rule about the 12-month qualifying period .A .ratifiedB .agreed in principle withC .modifiedD .dropped4.The Bulletin ,noted for its impartial advice ,recommends in a recent issue that GPs and nurses learn a variety of skills transmittable to patients .A .influentialB .judiciousC .unprejudicedD .medical5.She is an amiable member of the committee .A .conventionalB .congenialC .cogentD .congenital6.When a careful individual speaks or writes there are usually nuances of meaning that need to be recognized .A .slight annoyancesB .slight differencesC .slight preferencesD .slight shades7.Civilian oversight of the police means ,among other things ,that suspects will probably not be coerced into confessing .A .bribedB .persuadedC .deceivedD .forced8.She told her niece she would leave her a small legacy .A .noteB .articleC .giftD .inheritance9.Because his inattention was responsible for the accident ,he was rebuked .A .criticizedB .punishedC .delayedD .disturbed10.The emperor ,in establishing the archbishopric in 968,revealed his interest in both religious and pastoral considerations .A .bucolicB .churchlyC .agriculturalD .rural11.Among the requisites of polite society figures a basic politeness to everyone .A .demandsB .stepsC .awarenessD .doings12.Quacks rely on the anguish of cancer sufferers ,as well as their credulity ,for their financial success .A .grimacesB .wrathC .irritationD .torment13.The debris from the crash was strewn over the countryside for miles around . 考博家园A .trapsB .remainsC .resultsD .weapons14.If the Minnesota Vikings continue to confound their critics ,their entry into the playoffs will be assured .A .confusingB .confuse byC .confuseD .confuse with15.Older writers are frequently patronizing towards young writers .A .supportiveB .criticalC .kindD .condescendingSection BDirections :On your Answer Sheet ,circle and black out the letter that best completes the sentence .16.Disruptive behavior at meetings governed by Robert's Rules of Order usually results in________.A .electionB .erectionC .ejaculationD .ejection17.In 1981,the two factors of conservation measures and world recession resulted in a________ of the demand for oil .A .curbingB .invertingC .spreadD .scotching18.The new budgetary constraints forbid the allocation of supplementary funds if it can be established that the original allotment had been________.A .dispelledB .dissipatedC .dispatchedD .dispirited19.When a room is supplied with an adequate amount of flesh air ,people usually say it is________.A .well-modulatedB .well-simulatedC .well-ventilatedD .well-stimulated20.You don't want a proctoscope if you hope to________ an image ;you want a telescope .A .displaceB .distortC .replaceD .magnify21.Among the________ components of contemporary construction figure steel ,concrete ,and glass .A .requitedB .integralC .topicalD .ornamental22.Zero or even negative growth ,a soaring budgetary deficit ,a________ in inflation—the government report paints a dismal picture .A .surplusB .survivalC .surgeD .survey23.The eye tends to see distance as________.In painting ,this is sometimes called “the vanishing point .”A .conformingB .comfortingC .contrivingD .converging24.Many an underdeveloped country ,faced with crippling national debt ,rums to________ a greater harvest from its timber resources .A .extractingB .extrapolatingC .excavatingD .exfoliating25.The Court has been castigated for a steady________ of minority rights and women's fights .A .instigationB .infringementC .involvementD .inquisition26.He became a legend as an opera singer ,not so much because of his voice range or emotive ability ,but rather because of his fiery________.A .mannersB .dispositionC .altitudeD .approach27.In America ,moon—lighting is an attempt to________ one's income .A .diluteB .affectC .augmentD .offset28.The reports coming from the site________ that all the hostages have been killed . 考博家园A .allegeB .inferC .evokeD .promise29.It is less to skill than to hard work that he________ his continuing success .A .ascribesB .subscribesC .prescribesD .describes30.The lad was quite fortunate in finding a________ to aid him financially in his studies .A .patroonB .pauonC .platoonD .poltroonPart Ⅱ Grammar (15 points)Section ADirections :On your Answer Sheet ,circle and black out the letter that is the best choice of word tofill in the blank .1.As with any isolated and largely self-contained community the agricultural village was often________ fierce loyalty among its inhabitants .A .the objection ofB .objective fromC .the object ofD .objective2.From its customs and traditions the village________ a strong sense of identity and morality ,which ,looking back ,may easily be mourned in a more impersonal ,amoral ,and uncertain modern world .A .could draw inB .could draw uponC .would draw fromD .would draw in3.What this galloping advance in analytical acuity means is that scientists can now isolate the tiniest amounts of harmful substances in foods which ,________,have always been considered safe ,or in some cases beneficial .A .from thenB .whenceC .hithertoD .hence4.Possibly because there are few bare patches of gravel on that continent ,________ because of an innately gregarious habit of mind ,their rookeries number almost millions of individuals .A .though most possiblyB .probablyC .but more probablyD .most possibly5.She observed quite unashamedly that though they had been married for 8 years ,she knew nothing about________ in the army .A .he servedB .him having servedC .him to serveD .his having been served6.The Mary Rose was a remarkable ship ,________ have rarely been seen .A .the likes of whichB .like whichC .which the likesD .which of the likes7.________ can be seen by the results of the study ,the principle seems to require the active involvement of the patient in the modification of his condition .A .AsB .WhatC .ThatD .It8.Test scores do not improve by magic .Improving your test scores ,especially________ it comes to classroom tests ,depends on doing the assignments .A .whenB .beforeC .asD .since9.I would not take his claim to being an authority very seriously .________ he knows about his area is either inaccurate or outdated .A .How muchB .That muchC .How littleD .What little10.For the purposes of the study ,it was at the beginning and at the end of preschool and first grade 2 that observations were made________ the children . 考博家园A .ofB .towardsC .onD .with11.Half________,the number of participants registering for this year's marathon was disappointing .A .of them for last year'sB .that of last year'sC .of those of last yearD .those of last years12.Attentiveness and involvement are prerequisites for there________ successful communication .A .isB .to beC .will beD .are13.Who has the time to read or listen to an account of everything currently going on in the world?A .that isB .as isC .there isD .it is14.After turning the whole room inside out ,she eventually found the magazine ,________ were either torn or dog-eared .A .many of whose pagesB .many of its pagesC .many of which pagesD .whose many pages15.Professor Li's hook will show you________ can be used in other contexts .A .that you have observedB .how what you have observedC .you have observed whatD .how that you have observedSection BDirections :Each sentence below contains one error .On your Answer Sheet ,circle and blacken theletter that represents the error .16.Tornadoes—actually miniscule storms which paths are not usually over a quarter mileA B in width—are nonetheless extremely violent .C D17.Not only did various ancient civilizations cremate their dead ,but they also cremated along withA B the dead person every which object he might possibly use in the afterlife .C D18.T o say that Ferdinand Magellan ,the first European to discover ,the Philippines ,did not actually circumnavigateA B the earth because he was killed before his famous voyage was completed .C D19.Only in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century in Great Britain did it begin to be likelyA B that a resolution that women to be allowed to join a previously all-male organization C would be carried .D20.Not had she lived virtually next door to the police station ,the burglars would have escapedA B C scot-free . 考博家园D21.Cannibalism or humans eating other humans ,has ,throughout the history ,exerted both morbidA B C Dfascination and extremes of repulsion .22.Some enthusiasts claim that the humble Hawaiian ukulele is the most versatility of all musical A B C D instruments .23.It is to the skillful utilization of voice range ,the chief emphasizing in speech-making ,thatA B C success as an orator may be attributed .D24.It is the predetermined ability of the shell of a variety of marine animals to develop only withinA B certain limits that prevents themselves from growing past a specific size .C D25.Absent any convinced link between the quantity or the so-called quality of the brain cells ,one A B C is able to state whatever one chooses .D26.Early missionaries discovered that their converts would backslide if left to their own devices ,A B and would charge them with guilty of so doing upon their return .C D27.When in childhood ,Wagner seems to have had few interests apart from music ,about which heA B C D exhibited an insatiable curiosity .28.It is the general level of comfort of the average citizen that determines whether or not a countryA considers wars rendered uselessly as a means of settling a disagreement with a neighboringB C DCoantry .29.The government's new economic policies have as a goal the reducing down of the rate of A B inflation from its peak of three months ago .C D30.In Victorian England ,many a respective and very rich older man had ,as a youth ,been involvedA B Cin at least foolish ,if not downright criminal ,acts .D 考博家园Part Ⅲ Cloze (10 points)Directions :On your Answer Sheet ,circle and black out the letter for the word that best fits in thesentences below .The rest of the afternoon passed slowly .I wasn't able to 1 on the brief I 2 submit for the sodomy case I was scheduled to 3 4 ,and I was desperate to 5 ,unnecessary phone conversations .The only phone call 6 interest was from Mercer .He was pleased .“Katherine's Fryer's 7 is the best 8 .She's really good on 9characteristics .She's 10 about the 11 and shape of the mustache .I never had an illustrator as a victim 12 but it sure helps the sketch take on some 13 .”I knew exactly what he 14 .The 15 description started with witnesses saying they're 16 at doing this ,and that the guy was average height ,average weight ,average-looking , 17 distinctive about his appearance ,and so on .I had a folder full of 18 of wanted rapists who looked like everybody and 19 .Try and display one to a jury and claim a resemblance to the defendant on trial and it was mom likely to look like three of the 20 .Not guilty .1.A .conglomerate B .concentrate C .concentric D .commiserate2.A .must B .ought to C .had to D .could3.A .attempt B .try C .write D .analyze4.A .three weeks ago B .three weeks beforeC .after three weeksD .in three weeks5.A .avert B .abort C .avoid D .annul6.A .of B .with C .responding D .evincing7.A .outgo B .outcome C .intake D .input8.A .still B .to come C .before D .yet9.A .facial B .face C .personal D .personality10.A .dubious B .decided C .firm D .strong11.A .position B .location C .size D .magnitude12.A .ago B .before C .then D .once13.A .verisimilitude B .exactitude C .meaning D .definition14.A .described B .inferred C .defined D .meant15.A .average B .median C .typical D .general16.A .lousy B .representative C .partial D .lousy17.A .anything B .nothing C .something D .everything18.A .sketches B .photos C .paintings D .etchings19.A .somebody B .else C .nobody D .me20.A .defendants B .jurors C .same D .people Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (30 points)Directions :On your Answer Sheet ,circle and black out the letter that best answers the questionsbelow .Passage 1Obviously ,the per capita income of a country depends on many things ,and any statistical test that does not take account of all important determinants is misspeeified ,and thus must be used only for descriptive and heuristic purposes .It is nonetheless interesting—and for many people surprising—to find that there is a positive and even a statistically significant relationship between 考博家园these two variables :the greater the number of people per square kilometer the higher the per capita income .The law of diminishing returns is not invariably mae :it would be absurd to suppose that a larger endowment of land ipso facto makes a country poorer .This consideration by itself would ,of course ,call for a negative sign on population density .Thus ,it is interesting to ask what might account for the “wrong” sign and think of what statistical tests should ultimately be done .Clearly there is a simultaneous two-way relationship between population density and per capita income :the level of per capita income affects population growth just as population ;by increasing the labor force ,affects per capita income .The argument offered here suggests that perhaps countries with better economic policies and institutions come to have higher per capita incomes than countries with inferior policies and institutions ,and that these higher incomes bring about a higher population growth through more immigration and lower death rates .In this way ,the effects of better institutions and policies in raising per capita income swamps the tendency of diminishing returns to labor to reduce it .This hypothesis may also explain why many empirical studies have not been able to show a negative association between the rate of population growth and increases in per capita income .One reason why the ratio of natural resources to population does not account for variations in per capita income is that most economic activity can now readily be separated from deposits of raw material and arable land .Over time ,transportation technologies have certainly improved ,and products that have a high value in relation to their weight ,such as most services and manufactured goods like computers and airplanes ,may have become more important .The Silicon Valley is not important for the manufacture of computers because of the deposits of silicon ,and London and Zurich are not great banking centers because of fertile land .Even casual observation suggests that most modern manufacturing and service exports are not closely fled to natural resources .Western Europe does not now have a high ratio of natural resources to population ,but it is very important in the export of manufactures and services .In a parallel way ,the striking success of Japan ,HongKong ,and Singapore ,with relatively few natural resources per capita ,cannot be explained by reliance thereon .1.In paragraph 1,three words are in italics________ ?A .for reasons of English language styleB .because of personal reason of styleC .in order to highlight their importanceD .to help the reader avoid confusion2.The people who are surprised are so because they have assumed that________.A .there is a positive correlation between the two variablesB .the higher the per capita income the lower the population densityC .the greater the number of people the greater the per capita incomeD .the relationship between the variables is statistically insignificant3.With which of the following statements would the author agree?A .One would not ordinarily suppose that a large country would be poor .B .A negative sign on population density may be a wrong sign .C .Per capita income depends on the size of the labor force . 考博家园D .The author would agree with all of the above statements .4.The word “here” in paragraph 3,line 1 means________.A .supraB .at this very momentC .in this articleD .in this country5.The population growth in countries with higher per capita income________.A .comes not from the birth rate of the citizens but rather from the influx of othersB .is a natural result because the citizens have more money for childrenC .is only an artifact based on a declining birth rateD .does not invalidate the population growth of poorer countries6.Which of the following statements is true?A .None of the following statements is true .B .Silicon Valley has great deposits of silicon .C .London and Zurich have vast amounts of arable land .D .Western Europe has always depended on services .Passage 2The procedures followed by scholars studying literature are often unsatisfactory :the control over a cognitive project as a whole is often lost .The literary scholar seems to be collecting data—which is a preliminary operation—without making use of them .Like a diligent ant gathering food it will never eat ,the contemporary literary scholar seems intent upon writing footnotes of a books he will never try to read .I propose that at the outset of a research project it is necessary to render explicit the questions the scholar will try to answer ,what methods will be used and why and the reason why s /he thinks that it may be worthwhile answering such questions .More ,the work of the people concerned with the study of literature seems casual .For instance ,much research is devoted to one author ,often on the occasion of an anniversary .Now there is no reason to think that our observations will be more valid ,urgent ,appropriate ,useful ,or interesting if the author of the texts we are concerned with was born or died or the texts were written fifty ,one hundred ,or two hundred years ago .This seems to be celebration and not research producing knowledge .It does not seem to make any sense to determine one's research program by looking at the calendar .The widespread habit of limiting thescope of a research project to a single author often leads to a confined understanding of the author and the texts ,which ,in turn ,offers marginal results .The average literary scholar considers these results satisfactory .But for what purpose are they satisfactory?Often the research strategies and methods of the literary scholar are repetitive .A new operation that is analogous to previous ones is often considered worthwhile :it is on these premises that many texts concerning literature are produced and accepted .I propose instead that in a concrete project that tries to produce knowledge ,any statement needs verification .But there is a point where it is unnecessary to repeat the same operation on new data ,because the result has already been established :rather than additional confirmation of what is already known ,it is the exploration of what is still unknown that deserves priority .Contemporary literary research seems to be based on habits that originated in the past and that bear little resemblance to research projects as they are intended now in other fields .If our main aim were the proposal of some objects as cultural models ,then it would be useful to our purpose to try to attract our society's 考博家园attention toward these objects and the persons who produced them .It would be reasonable to perform our actions on the occasion of anniversaries ,because we would not be doing research ,but celebration and propaganda .Celebration aims at confirming certitudes and strengthening bonds of solidarity among the participants .It does not produce knowledge ,but it confirms what is already known .Legitimating by means of the power of words has been for many centuries the main job of the man of letters .7.In the view of the writer ,scholars studying literature need to________.A .research more diligentlyB .establish a clear purpose before commencing researchC .decrease the number of footnotesD .avoid writing special works to celebrate anniversaries8.The writer of this article is critical of modern literary research because________.A .it uses too many analogiesB .it is not concrete writingC .it relies on established methods that have not changed muchD .it is too subjective9.According to the writer ,writing about an author on their anniversary________.A .is useful because it creates stronger ties with the authorB .is useful because it strengthens the cultural informationC .is useful because it is celebration and celebration confirms certitudesD .is not useful since it does not add much to the pool of established information10.In paragraph 3,sentence 2,the words “to previous ones” refers to________.A .previous authors written about by othersB .earlier scholars who wrote comparative literary worksC .earlier methods for researchD .repeats of research11.This article________.A .criticizes the limited approach taken by many literary scholars in their researchB .criticizes the approach taken to footnotes in literary researchC .supports the idea that literary scholars must remain a cohesive groupD .maintains that more careful personal data needs to be collected about authors12.In the writer's opinion________.A .repetition over a period of time can provide proofB .evidence in research is criticalC .celebratory research does not require proofD .research concerning an author from antiquity does not require evidence Passage 3After a run of several thousand years ,it is entirely fitting that 2000 will be marked as the year the tide tuned against taxation .Clay tablets recall the taxes of Hammurabi in the Babylon of 2000BC ,but the practice is certainly older .People in power have always tried to divert some of the proceeds of economic activity in their own direction .Lords took feudal dues from their vassals ;landowners took tolls from merchants ;gangsters took protection money from small businesses ;governments took taxes from their citizens .Despite the different names ,the principle 考博家园has remained constant :those who do not produce take resources from those who do ,and spend it on altogether different things .The tide is turning because of the convergence of several factors .In the first place ,taxes are becoming harder to collect .Capital is more mobile than ever ,and inclined to fly from places that tax to places that do not .Governments do not move their boundaries and jurisdictions as rapidly as companies can change locations .Attempts to establish trans-national tax powers are almost certainly ,ably doomed by international competition to attract economic activity .Many businesses will choose to stay out of reach .The global economy and the internet mean that purchases can now cross frontiers .People buy books ,clothes ,and cars from abroad ,and any finance minister who likes to tax these items find his tax base diminishing .It is not only capital and goods which are harder to pin down .Even wages are crossing frontiers .The rise of the service sector means that many income-generating activities can take place across frontiers ,causing yet more headaches for over-stretched public treasuries .Farther more ,the pace of electronic ,hard-to-trace activity is accelerating .No less important has been the rise of political resistance .The past quarter-century has been marked by a movement led in Britain and America itself in California's famous tax-cutting referendum proposition 13,but saw its fullest expression in the Thatcher and Reagan tax cuts of the 1980's .Britain's Tories entered office in 1979 with the top rate of income tax at 98%,and left office 18 years later with a top rate of 40%.Indeed ,their Labour Opponents became electable only after a firm promise not to raise it again .The plain fact is that electmates these days will not stand for it .They recognize ,correctly ,that governments spend their money less carefully and less efficiently than they can spend it themselves .One of the greatest uses of tax money is to provide pensions .And here a revolution—as important and pervasive as privatization—is sweeping the world .Fully-funded personal pension plans ,based on individual savings ,are sweeping away the poorly funded public pensions promised by governments .The latter take taxes from the young to support the old .The former invest savings from the young to support themselves when old .13.The main idea of this text is that________.A .taxation is changing and will continue to changeB .ways of collecting tax have changedC .pensions are increasingly being paid out of taxpayer's moneyD .public money is being misspent in most western countries14.Taxes are more difficult to collect because________.A .it is almost impossible to tax transnational companiesB .of the increase in buying goods through the internetC .some burgeoning areas of employment have activities that are not easily taxedD .all of the above15.The biggest change in taxation________.A .is in provident accountsB .is privatization of companiesC .is in individual pension plans which are replacing government pensionsD .is the increased tax on personal investment16.From this article it is evident that________. 考博家园A .small business will continue to be heavily taxedB .in England ,personal income tax will rise to a top rate of 40%C .many large companies can still avoid paying high taxesD .globalization is making tax-collection easier17.According to this article ,the people who have many problems relating to tax are________.A .the oldB .the youngC .the bankD .the finance ministers of various countries18.Trans-national companies________.A .do not have to pay taxB .are often encouraged by a country to pay less taxC .are finding it difficult to pay taxes because of the significant increasesD .all of the abovePassage 4Handwriting analysis (graphology) circumvents the law by frying to determine an employee's traits (e. g. ,stability) according to some handwriting group stereotype to which he or she belongs ,(Indeed ,some graphologists have so little respect for the law and so much confidence in their stereotyping that they have proposed using the technique in lieu of court proceedings to identify and prosecute criminals!) The analysis works by comparing the speed ,size ,slant ,form ,pressure ,layout ,and continuity of an individual's handwriting with various patterns and typologies ,and assimilating this person's script into these types .As a result the individual judged ceases to be an individual and becomes little more than a composite of traits .This end result differs little from judgements based on race ,sex ,religion ,etc .Granted ,no individual is totally unique .Any evaluation of character ,or for that matter ,skills ,turns ,in some measure ,on employing generic ideas about virtue ,vice ,and technical competence .Still ,there is a human individuality which manifests itself in our imagination and in the innovative arguments we choose to advance .Standardized handwriting analysis is far less respectful of individuality in this latter sense than other modes of screening .Individuals who are asked to write a personal essay describing their qualifications in their own terms ;and who are given an opportunity in an interview to describe their motivations in seeking a particular job retain far more of what makes them distinctive .This more personalized format gives the individual an opportunity to express unusual or provocative opinions the employer may not have previously considered .Upon reflection ,the employer may think these comments so pertinent that s /he awards the job to this candidate .Handwriting analysis ,though ,is ostensibly purely :formal .It does not provide the candidate with any opportunity to distinguish himself or herself in this substantive fashion .At best ,graphology will yield some vague assessment such as “the candidate is highly creative”.It is worth remembering what the driving force is behind graphological testing .Handwriting analysis ,like automated telephone screening ,is increasingly being used early in the hiring process because it purports to deliver salient ,accurate information cheaply .Yet precisely because these techniques are standardized ,the data has reduced value .Judgements about the precise relevance of some perceived character traits to a job are rarely :straightforward .Good interviewers learn through training and through interaction itself to qualify previous judgements .Perhaps the candidate who fails to make eye contact has a guilty conscience (as it is standardly assumed).On 考博家园。
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.。
中国社会科学院考博数量经济与技术经济系数量经济学专业经济政策计量分析方向真题导师分数线内部资料一、专业的设置、招生人数及考试科目院系(招生人数)专业(招生人数)研究方向导师考试科目405数量经济与技术经济(11)020209数量经济学(6)01经济政策计量分析李雪松①1001英语②2001经济学原理③3043数量经济学二、导师介绍李雪松系博士生导师,1970年9月生于江苏省,任数量经济与技术经济研究所副所长,数量经济学专业,1999年,中国社会科学院数量经济与技术经济研究所副研究员;2000年7-10月,在荷兰经济政策分析局进行中国加入WTO经济效应的模拟研究;2001年12月-2003年3月,在美国芝加哥大学经济系进行应用经济计量学方面的访问研究(合作教授:2000年诺贝尔奖得主James J.Heckman教授);2003年,中国社会科学院数量经济与技术经济研究所经济模型研究室副主任;2005年,中国社会科学院数量经济与技术经济研究所经济模型研究室主任;2006年,中国社会科学院数量经济与技术经济研究所研究员,中国社会科学院研究生院教授。
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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.。
中国社会科学院研究生院 2001 博士研究生入学考试英语试题Part ⅠVocabulary (15 points)Section ADirections:Choose the word that is the closest synonym to the underlined word.1.Totally perplexed by the first question on the exam,he passed on to the second.A.relieved by B.satisfied with C.confused by D.sated with2.To the growing perturbation of the unions,the Ministry of Labour has been pressing for a stringent income policy.A.satisfaction B.disappointment C.relief D.anxiety3.Adages are frequently mutually antagonistic:witness,“ignorance breeds prejudice” and “familiarity breeds contempt.”A.is at the heart of B.multiplies C.worsens D.generates4.His mother's scolding pierced him to the quick.A.froze him completely B.shamed him enormouslyC.hurt him to the core D.stuck in his craw5.This year's sterling depreciation,only a few aver,has no impact On the economy at large.A.increase in value B.fall in value C.lack of use D.drastic change6.How valiant that general who prosecutes a war with vigor!A.brings to trial B.wages C.praises D.condemns7.Management was not acting in good faith when it alleged that worker's wages would have to be cut for the company to remain solvent.A.prosperous B.out of debt C.productive D.out of trouble8.The new military junta suppressed dissent.A.initiated B.quashed B.supported D.reinstated9.To cream a circuit,a conducting wire is attached to an electric cell at one end,and to an electric outlet at the other.A.battery B.faucet C.socket D.appliance10.The former Soviet state of Georgia today exhibits a diversified economy.A.a multifaceted B.a sagging C.a dissolving D.an improved11.The Mayor asked the city council to recommend potential programs for the benefit of the indigent.A.transient B.unemployed C.homeless D.needy12.He wears strange clothes,talks to himself,and appears unkempt.Is it any wonder his neighbors view him as an eccentric?A.a crank B.cuckoo C.an anchorite D.unconventional13.So engrossed was the detective in considering the evidence that he completely forgot where he was.A.wrapped up B.impressed C.disinvolved D.impatient14.Disastrous forest fires are quite often caused by simple carelessness:a dropped butt ignites dead leaves.A.enflames B.burns C.lights D.blackens15.The reciprocal hatred between various members of different races underlies the difficulty of integration in the United States.A.hidden B.profound C.mutual D.racialSection BDirections:Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.16 .Having discovered the shadiness in which her employers were involved ,sheimmediately________ her connection with them.A.converted B.severed C.improved D.realized17.An important customer may resent being________ by an assistant rather than by the boss.A.condescended to B.devoted to C.attended to D.conformed to18.The antique silver________ the beautifully set table.A.complemented B.implemented C.augmented D.complimented19.He spends his time in________ complaints rather than acting.A.fragile B.fertile C.frangible D.futile20.She________ because she found the journal interesting.A.subscribed B.prescribed C.described D.inscribed21.It is in the chairman of the board's interest,before a meeting,to________ with the directorsabout sensitive matters.A.confer B.contend C.conspire D.consort22.Complacency towards ecological balance (“It can't happen here!”) has resulted in a numberof________.A.damages B.wastes C.catastrophes D.dangers23.The village lies over the mountain and is________ only by boat.A.acceeded to B.available C.accessible D.obtainable24.A nation-wide service was announced to________ the sacrifice made by the heroes of thewar.A.memorize B.commemorate C.award D.reward25.The doctor pondered for a while,trying to recall which of several medications would be bestto________ the patient's suffering.A.alleviate B.restrict C.decrease D.diminish26.The volume knob,if turned toward the left,will________ the sound.A.magnify B.enlarge C.amplify D.reinforce27.Having reached the top of the hill,we were appalled to find the path________ precipitously.A.departed B.decreased C.descended D.derailed28.Often considered in common thought as________,language,culture,and personality are in fact inseparable.A.indistinct paradigms B.separate reasonsC.irreplaceable concepts D.independent entities29.Based on economic studies,it seems possible to forecast that a recession may________ adepression.A.imply B.indicate C.symbolize D.precede30.The speech consisted of________ phrases,well-chosen imagery,and amusing rhetorical flourishes.A.suitable B.selected C.apt D.fitPart ⅡGrammar (15 points)Section ADirections:Choose the answer that best fills in the blank.31.Before Columbus set sail on his first voyage of discovery,many pooh-poohed his chances,and were unwilling to________ on his chances of success.A.make bets B.make the bet C.make a bets D.make bet32.Although her research topic had been approved by her thesis advisor,the library persistedin________ the documents.A.its denial for access B.deny her access toC.denying her access to D.denying her access for33.Their differences were urnreconcilable:they had no alternative________ the law to settle the dispute between them.A.but going to B.but to go C.but go to D.but invoking34.________,water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.A.As is known B.As be knownC.As known D.Which is known35.It is imperative that he________ full charge of the joint project.A.take B.taking C.took D.takes36.He________ leave her than a child would abandon a favorite plaything.A.would no more B.would rather C.will no longer D.may no more37.The radio was of________ quality that I took it back and asked for a better one.A.such the infeaior B.such a inferior C.so an inferior D.such inferior38.He goes shopping so frequently not because he is rich,but because he enjoys________ politely.A.speaking B.being spoken to C.being spoken D.speaking to39.Eighteenth-century statesmen were totally convinced that war could be used as________ settling disputes.A.a mean to B.a means for C.some means for D.means for40.She does not believe that he is________ the honor accorded him.A.worth of B.worth C.worthy of D.worthy41.Few of the young realize what feats lie________ them.A.in the store for B.in store for C.waiting D.awaiting for42.Reading________ the mind________ food is to the body.A.is for...is as B.as...is asC.is to..._______what D.what is...is as43.Obviously,he decided not to say anything about it because he hoped to________.A.keep it as a secret B.keep it to be a secretC.keep it a secret D.keep it being a secret44.She was slated to present an abstract of her thesis at the national convention,and so spent the holiday________.A.touching on it B.touching it upC.touching it D.touching it down45.Greeley's injunction “Go West,young man!” resulted in a massive migration of population,with people occupying land________ no one held title of ownership and that had yet to be sold.A.to which B.that C.which D.of whichSection BDirections:Choose the letter that indicates the error in the sentence.46.Now,as our urban areas sink ever deeper into drug-produced crime,death from the illic it useof unregulated and dangerous drugs following death,that becomes vital for the parents,teachers,C Dand advisors of our youth to have as wide an understanding of these problems as possible.47.It was musingly noted that the major reason why the English colonized so much of the worldAwas that,no matter what weather conditions they met abroad,they had already experiencedB Csomething like it at home.D48.I like sculptors,modern painters were influced by primitive,and ancient art,whichA B Cdemonstrated in the works of the Gaugin and Rousseau.D49.The moon may be considered a world that is complete in itself yet utterly dead,a sterile,mountainous waste on which during the day the sun blazes down with great heat,but on whichA Bduring the night the cold is so intense that it far surpasses anything ever experiencing on the earth.C D50.It is often the result with new ideas,a great deal of frantic activity and optimistic forecastingA B Cproduce no discernible results.D51.By definition,a discount store offers standard merchandises at prices lower than those of moreA Bconventional merchants.It is able to do so by accepting a lower profit margin,by purchasingat higher volume,and by paying workers less.C D52.In the digestive process,food is initially processed in the stomach,with its nutrient valueApassing into the bloodstream.Alcohol,however,is highly unusual so that some 20 percent entersB C Dthe bloodstream directly from the stomach,having bypassed the digestive process.53.The clothes you wear do not serve only a pure practical function.They speak volumes about theA Bway you view your personality,your state of mind,your social status,and even your aspirations and dreams.C D54.The greatest utility,of an education lies not so much in teaching one information rather than inA B Cteaching one how to deal with the information acquired.D55.The obstacles Nancy Kerrigan faced as she strove to win the Olympic ice skating medal atALikehamma in 1944 form the kind of story about whom a fascinating novel might be written.56.It is on occasion the manner in which a person expresses the thought rather than the actualA Bwords which tells us whether the speaker is serious or not.C D57.The Quebecois,partly because of language,and partly because of religion,have long been consideringA Bto separate themselves from the rest of the Canadian provinces.C D58.Despite the President wrote a conciliatory letter deploring the incident,the press was adamantA B Cin continuing its condemnation.D59.Acids constitute a family of chemical compounds that,in solution,have the ability to turnA Bcertain blue vegetable dyes red,a corrosive action on metals,and taste sharp.C D60.Well over three-fourths of that book on noted British writers are about authors who wroteA B Cduring the nineteenth century.DPart ⅢCloze Test (10 points)Directions:Choose the word that best completes the meaning.It was a foolish question to ask.It 61 more sense for me to have learned if she had 62 or a point of view,but it was 63 for that now and I supposed that the 64 Relations Office had 65 her before granting the interview.I didn't have time this week to read 66 pieces about corporate rainmakers and their golden parachutes or women at midtown law firms 67 six times my salary but whining about breaking the 68 ceiling.“Won't waste your time,”she 69 .“If the details on your 70 are accurate and the articles Laura 71 me have correct background,we won't have to 72 that.”I 73 in approval.She was obviously a 74 ,and an intelligent one 75 .It was always 76 to sit for a 77 when the questioner spent the first hour asking what schools I had 78 ,how long 79 ,and whether I liked my job.“Is it all right 80 you if we start with some information about the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit?”“I'd like that,”I replied.61.A.made B.would make C.would have made D.would be62.A.a fish to fry B.a nut to crack C.a song to sing D.an axe to grind63.A.still late B.too late C.so late D.past64.A Common B.Financial C.Local D.Public65.A.vetted B.called C.connected with D.contacted with66.A.rushed B.windy C.puff D.blowing67.A.taking B.making C.slaving for D.losing68.A.plastered B.glass C.fragile D.limited69.A.rambled B.carried on C.lectured D.went on70.A.application B.curriculum vitae C.report D.folder71.A.phoned B.faxed C.had phoned D.had faxed72.A.re-paint B.remix C.re-write D.rehash73.A.trembled B.grimaced C.smiled D.winked74.A.girl B.pro C.tyro D.mogul75.A.at that B.at this C.to reboot D.added76.A.agreeable B.instructive C.impatient D.aggravating77.A.photo B.portrait C.profile D.sketch78.A.attended B.matriculated C.enrolled D.preferred79.A.I had worked B.did I work C.was I working D.would I work80.A.for B.to C.according to D.withPart ⅣReading Comprehension (30 points)Directions:Answer all questions based on the information in the passages below.Passage 1Early that June Pius XII secretly addressed the Sacred College of Cardinals on theextermination of the Jews.“Ev ery word We address to the competent authority on this subject,andall Our public utterances,”he said in explanation of his reluctance to express more open condemnation,“have to be carefully weighed and measured 15 by us in the interest of the victims themselves,lest,contrary to Our intentions,We make their situation worse and harder to bear.”He did not add that another' reason for proceeding cautiously was that he regarded Bolshevism as afar greater danger than Nazism.The position of the Holy See was deplorable but it was an offense of omission rather than commission.The Church,under the Pope's guidance,had already saved the lives of more Jewsthan all other churches,religious institutions,and rescue organizations combined,and was presently hiding thousands of Jews in monasteries,convents,and Vatican City itself.The recordof the Allies was far more shameful.The British and Americans,despite lofty pronouncements,had not only avoided taking any meaningful action but gave sanctuary to few persecutedJews .The Moscow Declaration of that year—signed by Roosevelt ,Churchill ,and Stalin—methodically listed Hitler's victims as Polish,Italian,French,Dutch,Belgian,Norwegian,Soviet,and Cretan.The curious omission of Jews (a policy emulated by the U. S. Office of War Information) was protested vehemently but uselessly by the World Jewish Congress.By thesimple expedient of converting the Jews of Poland into Poles,and so on,the Final Solution waslost in the Big Three's general classification of Nazi terrorism.Contrasting with their reluctance to face the issue of systematic Jewish extermination was the forthrightness and courage of the Danes,who defied German occupation by transporting toSweden almost every one of their 6,500 Jews;of the Finns,allies of Hitler,who saved all but four of their 4,000 Jews;and of the Japanese,another ally,who provided refuge in Manchuria for some 5,000 wandering European Jews in recognition of financial aid given by the Jewish firm of Kuhn,Loeb & Company during the Russian—Japanese War of 1904—1905.1.“We,Our” and “Us” in the first paragraph refer to________.A.Pius XII himselfB.Plus XII and the College of CardinalsC.an unknown groupD.something that cannot be determined by the text2.“The Allies” refers to________.A.Britain,the Soviet Union,and the U. S. A.B.the Polish,Italians,etcC.the JewsD.something that cannot be determined by the text3.The actions of the British and the Americans,as contrasted to the actions of the Church,may be illustrated by which of the following?A.There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.B.A stitch in time saves nine.C.All say and no do.D.What goes around comes around.4.The U. S. Office of War Information________.A.eschewed the policy mentioned B.emasculated the policy mentionedC.aped the policy mentioned D.did none of the above5.“The Final Solution” refers to________.A.the extermination of the JewsB.the answer to the problem of war in generalC.a mathematical problemD.none of the above6.“Their” in paragraph 3,line 1,refers to the________.A.Jews B.Poles,and so on C.Big Three D.DanesPassage 2Between the invention of agriculture and the commercial revolution that marked the end ofthe middle ages,wealth and technology developed slowly indeed.Medieval historians tell of the centuries it took for key inventions like the watermill or the heavy plow to diffuse across the landscape.During this period,increases in technology led to increases in the population,with little if any appearing as an improvement in the median standard of living.Even t he first century of the industrial revolution produced more “improvements” than “revolutions” in standards of living.With the railroad and the spinning and weaving of textiles as important exceptions,most innovations of that period were innovations in how goods were produced and transported and in new kinds of capital,but not in consumer goods.Standards of living improved,but styles of life remained much the same.The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a faster and different kind of change.For thefirst time,technological capability outran population growth and natural resource scarcity.By the last quarter of the nineteenth century,the typical inhabitant of the leading economies—a Briton,a Belgian,an American,or an Australian had perhaps three times the standard of living of someone in a pre-industrial economy.Still,so slow was the pace of change that people,or at least aristocratic intellectuals,couldthink of their predecessors of some two thousand years before as effectively their contemporaries.Marcus Tullius Cicero,a Roman aristocrat and politician,might have felt moreor less at home in the company of Thomas Jefferson.The plows were better in Jefferson's time.Sailing ships were much improved.However,these might have been insufficient to createa sense of a qualitative change in the order of life for the elite.Moreover,being a slave of Jefferson was probably a lot like being a slave of Cicero.So slow was the pace of change that intellectuals in the early nineteenth century debatedwhether the industrial revolution was worthwhile ,whether it was an improvement or a degeneration in the standard of living.Opinions were genuinely divided,with as optimistic a liberal as John Stuart Mill coming down on the “pessimist” side as late as the end of the 1840s.In the twentieth century,however,standards of living exploded.In the twentieth century,the magnitude of the growth in material wealth has been so great as to make it nearly impossibleto measure.Consider a sample of consumer goods available through Montgomery Ward in 1895—when a one-speed bicycle cost $65.Since then,the price of a bicycle measured in “nominal” dollars has more than doubled (as a result of inflation).Today,the bicycle is much less expensive in terms of the measure that truly counts,its “real” price:the work and sweat needed to earn its cost.In 1895,it took perhaps 260 hours' worth of the average American worker's production to amass enough money to buy a one-speed bicycle.Today an average American worker can buy one—and of higher quality—for less than 8 hours worth of production.On the bicycle standard (measuring wealth by counting up how many bicycles the labor canbuy) the average American worker today is 36 times richer than his or her counterpart was in 1895.Other commodities would tell a different story.An office chair has become 12.5 times cheaper in terms of the time it takes the average worker to produce enough to pay for it.A Steinway piano or an accordion is only twice as cheap.A silver teaspoon is 25 percent more expensive.Thus t he answer to the question “How much wealthier are we today than our counterparts ofa century ago?” depends on which commodities you view as important.For many personal services—having a butler to answer the door and polish your silver spoons—you would find little difference in average wealth between 1895 and 1990:an hour of a butler's time costs about the same then as now.For mass-produced manufactured goods—like bicycles—we are wealthier by as much as 36 times.7.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries upper-class intellectuals________.A.believed that they were very much the same as their equals some two thousand years before B.probably thought that great changes had occurred since CiceroC.felt that qualitative changes had occurred in the last two thousand yearsD.believed in the efficacy of slavery8.In the nineteenth century________.A.worthwhile,visible change occurred as a result of the Industrial RevolutionB.scholars such as John Stuart Mills felt the Industrial Revolution was a negative forceC.led to widespread degenerative behavior in urban conglomeratesD.none of the above9.A bicycle today,generally speaking,________.A.requires more work and sweat because fewer people work to produce itB.is comparatively less in real price than a bicycle in the nineteenth centuryC.needs to be considered in terms of “nominal” costsD.is cheaper in America than any other western country10.Commodities in the twentieth century________.A.are impossible to compare across centuriesB.are more expensive than the nineteenth centuryC.are cheaper than they were in the nineteenth centuryD.need to be measured by comparing upper-class essentials such as having a butler11.The sentence “Moreover,being a slave of Jefferson was probably a lot like being a slave of Cicero”________.A.shows that the author believes that slaves were commoditiesB.reveals that lower class people in the nineteenth century were really slavesC.reinforces the idea that the quality of life really had not changed much over the centuries D.comments on the long-lasting effects of slavery from Roman times12.A suitable title for this passage might be________.A.The Tempo and Temper of ChangeB.The Steadily Increasing Rate of ChangeC.An Explosion of Material WealthD.Improving the Standards of Living for AllPassage3Scholars often seem to operate on the assumption that any analysis with a rosy outlooksimply does not adequately understand the matter at hand.Ecotourism researchers have not been derelict in this regard,as the literature review earlier showed.All the researchers who have looked at Capirona's project,however,have been impressed by its grassroots nature and are optimistic about its potential as eco-development (Colvin 1994;Wesche 1993;Silver 1992).All of these researchers,however,visited the community in its early years of operation.As mentioned previously,recent,non-scholarly reports are less positive.Thus there remains some doubt as to the long-term viability of even such a model of indigenous ecotourism development as Capirona.This study originally proposed to study Capirona's project,but that community was wear of such research visits and refused a request to carry out the study there.Palo Blaneo,though completing only its first year of ecotourism development was chosen as an alternate site.Perhaps it should not be surprising that the prospects for ecotourism in,Palo Blanco appear,as they did in Capirona quite bright.Ecotourism development efforts differ from mainstream development efforts in that,asidefrom start-up loans,much or all of the continuing financial support comes from tourists rather than from governments or development agencies.As a result,the two main players in any ecotourism endeavor—the hosts and the guests—are driven by differing motivations.The local population hopes to improve its own lot by taking advantage of the curiosity,disposable income,and in some cases,perhaps,good intentions of ecotourists.The tourists want to “explore the natural wonders of the world,”whether that be a wildebeest migration across the Serenget i or the march ofleaf-cutter ants across the jungle floor (Ryan and Grasse 1991:166).In contrast to mass tourism,ecotourism permits tourists to seek educational self-fulfillment inthe form of travel,and tries to transform that activity into something that benefits the greater good—specifically,to fund environmental preservation,rural development,and even cultural survival.However,in order to satisfy everyone—tourists,environmentalists,tour operators and the local hosts ,ecotourism must bring into aliganment a variety of contradictory purposes.Ecotourism promotes feelings among tourists that they are part of the solution when,in fact,the very act of flying a thousand miles or more to their destination consumes resources and pollutes the environment (cf.Somerville 1994).The beauty of ecotourism is that it can exploit this egotistic motivation;the flaw is that it is forever limited by it.Even a brief foray into development literature ,however ,shows that flawed conceptualizations are the rule,not the exception.As development,ecotourism may be no more inchoate than any other approach,and in some ways it is as progressive as any theory.For example,ecotourism twin development goals—conserving the environment and benefiting local peoples—are increasingly seen ,both within and outside of tourism circles ,asinterdependent.Without economic development,many argue that environmental conservation is neither ethical nor sustainable (Boo 1990:1;West and Brechin 1992:14,Brandon and Wells 1992).Such conservation can b e achieved only by “providing local people with alternative income sources which do not threaten to deplete the plants and animals within the protected zone”(Brandon and Wells 1992:557).Most research on this issue,however,assumes that the protective regulations have been established by the government or another external agency.In Palo Blanco,however,the people themselves are already acting to protect their land.13.According to the author,scholars________.A.see life through rose-colored glassesB.should never give favorable reportsC.are expected to give only favorable response following their research and analysisD.seem to believe a favorable result to research missed the point14.Ecotourism relies on________.A.government aid exclusivelyB.local people and their donations of time and moneyC.initial loans at the beginning,followed by support from touristsD.government assistance through agencies and local disposable income15.The main contradiction raised in this text is that________.A.local people do not need outside touristsB.tourists who believe in ecotourism actually bring some measure of damage to the placesthey visitC.tourists are egotistical but do not want to beD.tourists do not want to spend money but the local people expect them to16.A study of the studies available on this topic shows that________.A.ecotourism is not like other projects that earn moneyB.the twin goals actually coincide with each otherC.the rule in the thinking about ecotourism is that the thinking is well putD.later studies and reports may differ from earlier studies17.The key to conserving the environment is________.A.economic self-relianceB.income for the local people that is independent of ecotourismC.ameliorating accessibilityD.all of the above18 .The expres sion “explore the natural wonders of the world” is in quotation marksbecause________.A.there are no specific natural wonders of the worldB.it is meant to bring attention to the use of the word “wonder”C.it is meant to be amusing in its comparison of a wildebeest to an antD.it is probably a quotation from Ryan and GrassePassage 4It is not forbidden to dream of building a better world,which is by and large what the social sciences try to help us to do.How to make cities more harmonious,reduce crime rates,improve welfare,overcome racism,increase our wealth—this is the stuff of social sciences.The trouble is that the findings of social sciences are often dismissed as being too theoretical,too ambitious or。