师范大学招考硕士研究生课程七二四试卷
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The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus---and often take in WarwickCastle and BlenheimPalace on the side---don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.
An answer (5) t_______ the first of these has (6) b_______ difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to (7) i_______ from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their (8) c_______ wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We will need to know how large this consumer market was and (9) h_______ far down the social scale the consumer for (10) l_______ goods penetrated. With (11) r_______ to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people 1(12)
t_______ the stage of eighteenth-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism (13) i_______ general: for example, laboring people in eighteenth-century England readily shifted (14) f_______ home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.
That future exploration of these key (29) q_______ is undoubtedly necessary should not, however, diminish the force of the conclusion of recent studies: the insatiable (30) d_______ in eighteenth-century England for frivolous as well as useful goods and services foreshadows our own world.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his at were the consequences of this consumer demand for luxuries? McKendrick claims that it goes a long (25) w_______ toward explaining the coming of the (26) I_______ Revolution. But does it? What, for example, does the production of high-quality pottery and toys have to do (27) w_______ the development of iron manufacture and textile mills? It is perfectly possible to have the psychology and reality of a (28) c______ society without a heavy industrial sector.
II. Reading Comprehension (每小题 2 分，共 60 分) Directions: There are 6 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are
Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm’s remarkable (1) s_______ in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children’s toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly (2) i______ doubt, three key questions remain: who were the consumers? What were their motives? And (3) w_______ were the effects of the new demand (4) f_______ luxuries?
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry---William Shakespeare---but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
杭州师范大学
招收攻读硕士研究生入学考试题
考试科目代码： 724
考试科目名称： 综合英语
说明：考生答题时一律写在答题纸上，否则漏批责任自负。
I. Cloze（每小题 1 分，共 30 分） Directions: Fill in the blanks with proper words (the first letter is given).
To answer the question of (15) w________ consumers became so eager to buy, some historians have pointed to the ability of manufacturers to advertise in a relatively uncensored press. This, however, hardly seems a sufficient (16) a________. McKendrick favors a Veblen model of conspicuous consumption stimulated by (17) c_______ for status. The ‘‘middling sort’’ bought (18) g_______ and services because they wanted to (19) f________ fashions (20) s_______ by the rich. Again, we may (21) w_______ whether this explanation is sufficient. Do not people enjoy (22) b_______ things as a form of self-gratification? If so, consumerism could be (23) s_______ as a product of the (24) r______ of new concept of individualism and materialism, but not necessarily of the frenzy for conspicuous competition.
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four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
An answer (5) t_______ the first of these has (6) b_______ difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to (7) i_______ from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their (8) c_______ wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We will need to know how large this consumer market was and (9) h_______ far down the social scale the consumer for (10) l_______ goods penetrated. With (11) r_______ to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people 1(12)
t_______ the stage of eighteenth-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism (13) i_______ general: for example, laboring people in eighteenth-century England readily shifted (14) f_______ home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.
That future exploration of these key (29) q_______ is undoubtedly necessary should not, however, diminish the force of the conclusion of recent studies: the insatiable (30) d_______ in eighteenth-century England for frivolous as well as useful goods and services foreshadows our own world.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his at were the consequences of this consumer demand for luxuries? McKendrick claims that it goes a long (25) w_______ toward explaining the coming of the (26) I_______ Revolution. But does it? What, for example, does the production of high-quality pottery and toys have to do (27) w_______ the development of iron manufacture and textile mills? It is perfectly possible to have the psychology and reality of a (28) c______ society without a heavy industrial sector.
II. Reading Comprehension (每小题 2 分，共 60 分) Directions: There are 6 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are
Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm’s remarkable (1) s_______ in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children’s toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly (2) i______ doubt, three key questions remain: who were the consumers? What were their motives? And (3) w_______ were the effects of the new demand (4) f_______ luxuries?
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry---William Shakespeare---but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights.
杭州师范大学
招收攻读硕士研究生入学考试题
考试科目代码： 724
考试科目名称： 综合英语
说明：考生答题时一律写在答题纸上，否则漏批责任自负。
I. Cloze（每小题 1 分，共 30 分） Directions: Fill in the blanks with proper words (the first letter is given).
To answer the question of (15) w________ consumers became so eager to buy, some historians have pointed to the ability of manufacturers to advertise in a relatively uncensored press. This, however, hardly seems a sufficient (16) a________. McKendrick favors a Veblen model of conspicuous consumption stimulated by (17) c_______ for status. The ‘‘middling sort’’ bought (18) g_______ and services because they wanted to (19) f________ fashions (20) s_______ by the rich. Again, we may (21) w_______ whether this explanation is sufficient. Do not people enjoy (22) b_______ things as a form of self-gratification? If so, consumerism could be (23) s_______ as a product of the (24) r______ of new concept of individualism and materialism, but not necessarily of the frenzy for conspicuous competition.
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four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: