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考博士英语试题及答案

考博士英语试题及答案

考博士英语试题及答案一、阅读理解(共40分)1. 阅读下列短文,然后根据短文内容回答问题。

(每题2分,共10分)[短文内容略](1) What is the main idea of the passage?(2) What does the author suggest about the future of technology?(3) Why are some people hesitant to adopt new technologies?(4) What is the role of education in technological advancement?(5) How can individuals contribute to the development of technology?2. 阅读以下文章,然后根据文章内容选择最佳答案。

(每题2分,共10分)[文章内容略](1) A(2) B(3) C(4) D(5) E3. 阅读以下文章,并根据文章内容回答问题。

(每题3分,共20分) [文章内容略](1) What is the primary purpose of the article?(2) How does the author describe the impact of globalization?(3) What are some of the challenges faced by developing countries?(4) What solutions does the author propose to address the issues?(5) What is the author's conclusion regarding the futureof globalization?二、词汇与语法(共30分)1. 根据句子意思,选择正确的词汇填空。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第17期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第17期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题She once () with another musician to compose a piece of pop music.问题1选项A.mergedB.coincidedC.constitutedD.collaborated【答案】D【解析】动词搭配。

merge“合并, 吞没”;coincide“一致, 符合, 同时发生”;constitute“组成, 构成”;collaborate“合作”。

句意:她曾经与另一位音乐家合作创作了一首流行乐曲。

选项D符合句意。

2.单选题The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birth rates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in 1976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.It is true that Americans do not typically plan their births to set an example for developing nations. We are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid jobs are careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties, introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage一tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries in the near future. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the 19th century.Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the good harvests of 1998 and 1999 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of the developing nations struggling under the weight of twice their present populations by the year 2010. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspiration will exceed resources. All this will lead to a population in the new century that is smaller than was feared a few years ago. For those anxious to see world population brought under control, the news is encouraging.1.What influences the birth rate most in the United States is () .2.The sentence “From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive” implies that () .3.A chief factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the 19th century is () .4.The population in the new century, according to the writer, () .问题1选项A.highly paid jobsB.women’s desire for independenceC.expenses of child raisingD.high divorce rate问题2选项A.food and clothing for babies are becoming incredibly expensiveB.prices are going up dramatically all the timeC.to raise children women have to give up interesting and well-paid jobsD.social development has made child-raising inexpensive问题3选项A.birth controlB.the desire to seek fortune in citiesC.the instability of marriageD.the changed place of women问题4选项A.will be smaller than a few years agoB.will not be as small as people expectC.will prove to be a threat to the worldD.will not continue as serious a problem as expected【答案】第1题:B第2题:C第3题:B第4题:D【解析】1.信息推断题。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第99期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第99期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题In that country, a person who marries before legal age must have a parent’s () to obtain a license.问题1选项A.warrantB.sanctionC.malignanceD.affirmation【答案】B【解析】名词词义辨析。

warrant“证明, 正当理由”;sanction“认可, 支持;malignance“恶意, 恶性”;affirmation“主张, 肯定, 断言”。

句意:在那个国家, 一个人在法定年龄前结婚的话必须得到父母的认可才能领证。

选项B符合句意。

2.单选题The ancient Greeks had the notion of science as methodical knowledge, () and universally valid.问题1选项pellingly certainpel certainplete certainD.very sure【答案】A【解析】副词搭配。

句意:古希腊人认为科学是一种有系统的知识,具有令人信服的确定性和普遍有效性。

根据后面的“universally valid”可推测,填空处也应该为副词+形容词的搭配,所以首先排除选项B和C,compellingly与certain搭配使用, 表示“令人信服地确定”的意思。

所以选项A更符合语境。

3.单选题The senator agrees that his support of the action would () his chances for reelection. 问题1选项A.obscureB.mystifyC.jeopardizeD.distinguish【答案】C【解析】近义词词义辨析。

南开大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题附答案和解析

南开大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题附答案和解析

南开大学20XX年博士研究生入学考试英语试题Part ⅠListening Comprehension(略)Part ⅡReading Comprehension (20 points)Passage 1Traffic statistics paint a gloomy picture.To help solve their traffic woes, some rapidly growing U.S. cities have simply built more roads. But traffic experts say building more roads is a quick-fix solution that will not alleviated the traffic problem in the long run. Soaring land costs, increasing concern over social and environmental disruptions caused by road-building, and the likelihood that more roads can only lead to more cars and traffic are powerful factors bearing down on a 1950s-style construction program.The goal of smart-highway technology is to make traffic systems work at optimum efficiency by treating the road and the vehicles traveling on them as an integral transportation system. Proponents of the advanced technology say electronic detection systems, closed-circuit television, radio communication, ramp metering, variable message signing, and other smart-highway technology can now be used at a reasonable cost to improve communication between drivers and the people who monitor traffic.Pathfinder, a Santa Monica, California-based smart-highway project in which a 14-mile stretch of the Santa Monica Freeway, making up what is called a “smart corridor”, is being instrumented with buried loops in the pavement.Closed-circuit television cameras survey the flow of traffic, while communication linked to property equipped automobiles advise motorists of the least congested routes or detours.Not all traffic experts, however, look to smart-highway technology as the ultimate solution to traffic gridlock.Some say the high-tech approach is limited and can only offer temporary solutions to a serious problem.“Electronics on the highway addresses ju st one aspect of the problem: how to regulate traffic more efficiently,” explains Michael Renner, senior researcher at the world-watch Institute.“It doesn't deal with the central problem of too many cars for roads that can't be built fast enough. It sends people the wrong message.They start thinking ‘Yes, there used to be a traffic congestionproblem, but that's been solved now because we have, advanced high-tech system in place.'” Larson agrees and adds, “Smart highways is just one of the tools that we u se to deal with our traffic problems.It's not the solution itself, just part of the package.There are different strategies.”Other traffic problem-solving options being studied and experimented with include car pooling, rapid mass-transit systems, staggered or flexible work hours, and road pricing, a system whereby motorists pay a certain amount for the time they use a highway.It seems that we need a new, major thrust to deal with the traffic problems of the next 20 years. There has to be a big change.1.What is the appropriate title for the passage?A.Smart Highway Projects—The Ultimate Solution to Traffic Congestion.B.A Quick Fix Solution for the Traffic Problems.C.A Venture to Remedy Traffic Woos.D.Highways Get Smart—Part of the Package to Relieve Traffic Gridlock.2.The compound word “quick-fix” in Paragraph 1, sentence 3 is closest in meaning to ______.A.an optional solution B.an expedient solutionC.a ready solution D.an efficient solution3.According to the passage, the smart-highway technology is aimed to ______.A.develop sophisticated facilities on the interstate highwaysB.provide passenger vehicle with a variety of servicesC.optimize the highway capabilitiesD.improve communication between driver and the traffic monitors4.According to Larsen, to redress the traffic problem, ______.A.car pooling must be studiedB.rapid mass transit system must be introducedC.flexible work hours must be experimentedD.overall strategies must be coordinated5.Which of the following best describes the organization of the whole passage?A.Two contrasting views of a problem are presented.B.A problem is examined and complementary solutions are proposed or offered.C.Latest developments are outlined in order of importance.D.An innovation is explained with its importance emphasized.Passage 2A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage.Rage is presumably an emotion resulting from survival instinct, but the surprising thing about it is that we do not deploy it against other animals.If we encounter a dangerous wild animal—a poisonous snake or a wildcat—we do not fly into a temper. If we are unarmed, we show fear and attempt to back away; if we are suitably armed, we attack, but in a rational manner not in a rage. We reserve rage for our own species. It is hard to see any survival value in attacking one's own, but if we take account of the long competition which must have existed between our own subspecies and others like Neanderthal mar —indeed others still more remote from us than Neanderthal man—man rage becomes more comprehensible.In our everyday language and behavior there are many reminders of those early struggles. We are always using tile words “us and them”.“Our” side is perpetually trying to do dow n the “other”side.In games we artificially create other subspecies we can attack.The opposition of “us” and “them” is the touchstone of the two-party system of “democratic” politics.Although there are no very serious consequences to many of this modern psychological representation of the “us” and “them” emotion, it is as well to remember that the original aim was not to beat the other subspecies in a game but to exterminate it.The readiness with which human beings allow themselves to be regimented has permitted large armies to be formed, which, taken together with the “us” and “them” blind rage, has led to destructive clashes within our subspecies itself.The First World War is an example in which Europe divided itself into two imaginary subspecies. And there is a similar extermination battle now in Northern Ireland. The idea that there is a religious basis for this clash is illusory, for not even the pope has been able to control it. The clash is much more primitive than the Christian religion, much older in its emotional origin.The conflict in Ireland is unlikely to stop until a greater primitive fear is imposed from outside the community, or until tile combatants become exhausted.6.A suitable title for this passage would be ______.A.Wily Human Armies Are Formed B.Man's Anger Against the WorldC.The Human Capacity for Rage D.Early Struggles of Angry Mail7.According to the author, the surprising aspect of human anger is ______.A.its lengthy and complex developmentB.a conflict such as is now going on in Northern IrelandC.that we do not fly into a temper more oftenD.that we reserve anger for mankind8.The passage suggests that ______.A.historically, we have created an “us” versus “them” societyB.humans have had a natural disinclination toward formal groupingC.the First World War is an example of how man has always avoided dominationD.the emotional origin of the war in Ireland is lost in time9.From the passage we can infer that ______.A.the artificial creation of a subspecies unlike us is something that never happensB.games are psychologically unhealthyC.any artificially created subspecies would be our enemyD.the real or imagined existence of an opposing subspecies is inherent in man's activities 10.The author believes that a religious explanation for the war in Northern Ireland is ______.A.founded in historical fact B.deceptiveC.apparent D.accuratePart ⅢVocabulary (5 points)Directions: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.1.Most of the young people hold the mistaken belief that goods produced in our own country are ______ to imported ones.A.inadequate B.inappropriate C.inferior D.interior2.It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he ______ what he knows.A.makes for B.makes of C.makes up D.makes out3.Throughout the empire of Kublai Khan, money made of paper was used for business_______, something unheard of in Europe.A.transformations B.transmissions C.transitions D.transactions4.As the pressure ______ the liquid rock is forced up through channels in the resistant rock to the earth's surface.A.intensifies B.magnifies C.heightens D.deviates5.The strong scent of Kate's perfume ______ the air in the small room.A.radiated B.permeated C.extracted D.dispersed6.The scientific and medical prizes have proved to be the least ______, while those for literature and peace by their very nature have been the most exposed to critical differences.A.radical B.prominent C.confidential D.controversial7.They are ______ to industrialists, who need the valuable copper and nickel in them.A.tempting B.tickling C.tormenting D.tricking8.Another popular misconception is the ______ that great talent is usually highly specific.A.notion B.dilemma C.domain D.analogy9.You can ______ the loudness of the radio by turning the knob to right or left.A.change B.vary C.alter D.transform10.The distance between the earth and the sun may be said to be ______.A.enormous B.huge C.vast D.immensePart ⅣError Correction (10 points)Directions: In the following passage, there are 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided, If you cross out a word, put a slant (/) in the blank.When a consumer finds that an item she or he bought is in faulty or insome other way does not live to the manufacturer's claim for it, the firststep is to present the warranty or any other records which might help, at the store of purchase.In most cases, this action will produce results. Moreover,if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction.1._____ ___2._____ ___3._____ ___A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager.In general, the “high up” the consumertakes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect to be settled. In such case, it is usually settled in the consumer's favor, assumed heor she has a just claim. Consumers should complain about in person whenever possible, but if it cannot get to the place of purchase, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint with a letter. Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can demonstrate that is wrong with the item in question.4._____ ___5._____ ___6._____ ___7._____ ___8._____ ___9._____ ___10.____ ____Part ⅤWriting (10 points)Directions: For this part, you are asked to write a composition on the topic “It pays to be honest”.Your composition should be no less than 150 words based on the given outline. Remember to write clearly on the ANSWER SHEET.Outline:1.Honest is the best policy.2.Give examples to support your point of view.3.Conclusion.南开大学20XX年博士研究生入学考试英语试题参考答案与解析Part ⅠListening Comprehension(略)Part ⅡReading Comprehensionpassage 11.【答案】D【解析】本题中,A项与第四段第一句话的意思不符;B项不正确,本文主要讲的不是修路;C项在文中未被提及。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:24

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:24

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题They had planned to go outing this weekend, but they finally had to () it because of the rainy weather.问题1选项A.cancelB.eliminateC.delayD.prolong【答案】A【解析】动词词义辨析。

cancel“取消, 撤销”;eliminate“消除, 排除”;delay“延期, 耽搁”;prolong“延长, 拖延”。

句意:他们原计划这个周末去郊游, 但由于下雨, 最后不得不取消了。

选项A符合句意。

2.单选题The discussion was so prolonged and exhausting that () we had to stop for refreshments. 问题1选项A.at largeB.at easeC.at randomD.at intervals 【答案】D【解析】固定搭配词组辨析。

at large“详尽的”;at ease“安逸, 舒适”;at random“随便地, 任意地”;at intervals“不时地, 间断地”。

句意:讨论时间太长, 使人精疲力竭, 我们不得不不时地停下来吃点点心。

选项D符合句意。

3.单选题Making private phone calls on the office phone is severely () on in our country.问题1选项A.criticizedB.regardedC.objectedD.frowned【答案】A【解析】动词词义辨析。

句意:在我国,用办公室电话打私人电话会受到严厉的批评。

选项A符合句意。

frowned皱眉,不满。

4.单选题Hotel rooms must be () by noon, but luggage may be left with the porter.问题1选项A.departedB.abandonedC.vacatedD.displaced【答案】C【解析】动词词义辨析。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:12

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:12

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题The torch was () by a famous athlete at the opening of the sports meeting.问题1选项A.deceivedB.ignitedC.implementedD.designated【答案】B【解析】动词词义辨析。

deceive“欺骗, 行骗”;ignite“点燃, 使燃烧”;implement“实施, 执行”;designate“指定, 指派”。

句意:在运动会开幕式上火炬由一名著名的运动员点燃。

选项B符合句意。

2.单选题However important we regard school life to be, there is no gainsaying the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the great influence of parents cannot be ignored or discounted by the teacher. They can become strong allies of the school personnel or they can consciously or unconsciously hinder and thwart curricular objectives. Administrators have been aware of the need to keep parents apprised of the newer methods used in schools. Many principals have conducted workshops explaining such matter as the reading readiness program, manuscript writing and developmental mathematics.Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors, can also play an important role in enlightening parents. The informal tea and many interviews carried on during the year, as well as new ways of reporting pupils’ progress, can significantly aid in achieving a harmonious interplay between school and home.To illustrate, suppose that a father has been drilling Junior in arithmetic processes night after night. In a friendly interview, the teacher can help the parent sublimate his natural paternal interest into productive channels. He might be persuaded to let Junior participate in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a yardstick or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating mileage on a trip and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to assume that he will soon realize his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics, and at the same time, enjoying the work. Too often, however, teachers’ confere nces with parents are devoted to petty accounts of children’s misdemeanors, complaints about laziness and poor work habits, and suggestion for penalties and rewards at home.What is needed is more creative approach in which the teacher, as a professional adviser, plants ideas in parents’ minds for the best utilization of the many hours that the child spends out of the classroom. In this way, the school and the home join forces in fostering the fullest development of youngsters’ capacities.1.The central idea conveyed in the above passage is that().2.It can reasonably be inferred that the author () .3.We may infer that the writer of this article does not favor () .问题1选项A.home training is more important than school training because a child spends so many hours with his parentsB.teachers can and should help parents to understand and further the objectives of the schoolC.there are many ways in which the mathematics program can be implemented at homeD.parents unwittingly have hindered and thwarted curricular objectives问题2选项A.is satisfied with present relationships between home and schoolB.feels that the traditional program in mathematics is slightly superior to the developmental programC.feels that parent-teacher interviews can be made much more constructive than they are at presentD.is of the opinion that teachers of this generation are inferior to those of the last generation问题3选项A.a father’s helping his son with the latter’s studiesB.written communications to the parent from the teacherC.having the parents observe lessons which the children are being taughtD.principal-parent conferences rather than teacher-parent conferences【答案】第1题:B第2题:C第3题:D【解析】1.主旨大意题。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:11

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:11

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题The torch was () by a famous athlete at the opening of the sports meeting.问题1选项A.deceivedB.ignitedC.implementedD.designated【答案】B【解析】动词词义辨析。

deceive“欺骗, 行骗”;ignite“点燃, 使燃烧”;implement“实施, 执行”;designate“指定, 指派”。

句意:在运动会开幕式上火炬由一名著名的运动员点燃。

选项B符合句意。

2.单选题They advised their clients to () with another company.问题1选项A.mergeB.engageC.emergeD.submerge 【答案】A【解析】动词词义辨析。

merge with合并,与...联合;engage with交战,与...接洽;emerge浮现,暴露;submerge淹没。

句意:他们建议客户与另一家公司合作。

选项A符合句意。

3.单选题You must let me have the annual report without ()by ten o’clock tomorrow morning.问题1选项A.failureB.hesitationC.troubleD.fail【答案】D【解析】固定搭配。

without fail为固定搭配, 表示“必定, 务必”。

句意为:你必须在明天早上十点之前把年度报告交给我。

所以选项D正确。

4.单选题Of all the wild dogs, none is more closely related to the () dog than to the wolf.问题1选项A.domesticatedB.barkingzyD.running【答案】A【解析】语境判断。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第20期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第20期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题The failure of electricity put all the computers in the region out of () .问题1选项A.workB.tuneC.gearingD.action【答案】D【解析】固定搭配。

out of work失业;out of tune不协调;out of gearing没有这种搭配;out of action损坏,不运转。

句意:电力故障使该地区所有的计算机无法工作。

选项D符合句意。

2.单选题As regards to the development of moral standards in the growing child, () is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality.问题1选项A.persistenceB.regularityC.consistencyD.conformity 【答案】C【解析】名词词义辨析。

persistence持续,固执;regularity规则性,整齐;consistency一致性;conformity一致,符合。

句意:关于成长中的孩子道德标准的发展,一致性在父母的教学中是非常重要的。

今天禁止一件事,明天又原谅它,这不是道德的基础。

强调一致的性质,所以选项C更恰当3.单选题Crisis would be the right term to describe the () in many animal species.问题1选项A.minimizationB.restrictionC.descentD.decline【答案】D【解析】名词词义辨析。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第10期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第10期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题We should always keep in mind that () decisions often lead to bitter regrets.问题1选项A.urgentB.hastyC.instantD.prompt【答案】B【解析】形容词词义辨析。

根据句意可知,既然是痛苦的后悔,说明决定很草率,选项B符合语境。

2.单选题I think you can take a(n) () language course to improve your English.问题1选项A.middleB.intermediateC.mediumD.average【答案】B 【解析】近义词辨析。

middle“中间的,中部的”, 侧重方位;intermediate“中间的,中级的”, 侧重难易的程度;medium“中等的”, 侧重尺寸上的大小;average“平均的,普通的”。

句意:我觉得你可以上一门中级语言课程来提高你的英语水平。

选项B符合语境。

3.单选题Although Venus is the nearest planet of the Earth, little is known about it because it is () covered by thick clouds.问题1选项A.closelyB.curiouslyC.regularlyD.constantly【答案】D【解析】副词词义辨析。

closely紧密地,严密地;curiously好奇地;regularly 有规律地;constantly 不断地,时常地。

句意:尽管金星是离地球最近的行星,但由于它时常被厚厚的云层所覆盖,人们对它知之甚少。

选项D符合句意。

4.单选题We can rely on William to carry out this mission, for his judgment is always() .问题1选项A.inexplicableB.healthyC.soundD.straight【答案】C【解析】形容词词义辨析。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:83

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:83

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.写作题Nowadays, advertisements can be found everywhere in a big city such as Shanghai. They shout at us from the television screen and radio loudspeakers, wave to us from every page of the newspaper, signal to us from the roadside billboards all day and flash messages to us in colored lights all night. What do you think of the flood of advertising make any contribution to our society?For this part you are to write a composition on the topic If There Were No Advertisements. You should illustrate your viewpoints on advertisement in no less than 200 words.【答案】2.单选题Researchers have found that migrating animals use a variety of inner compasses to help them navigate. Some direct themselves by the position of the sun. Others navigate by the stars. Some use the sun as their guide during the day, and then switch tn star navigation by night. One study shows that the homing pigeon uses the Earth's magnetic fields as a guide in finding its way home, and there are indications that various other animals, from insects to mollusks, can also make use of magnetic compasses. It is of course very useful for a migrating bird to be able to switch to a magnetic compass when clouds cover the sun; otherwise it would just have to land and wait for the sun to come out again.Even with the sun or stars to guide by, the problems of navigation are more complicated than they might seem at first. For example, a worker honeybee that has found a rich source of nectar and pollen flies rapidly home to report. A scientist has discovered that the bee sent out to look for food delivers her report through a complicated dance to the other workers not only how far away the food is, but also what direction to fly in relation to the sun. But the sun does not stay in one place all day. As the workers start out to gather the toed, the sun may already have changed its position in the sky somewhat. In later trips during the day, the sun will seem to move farther and farther toward the west. Yet the worker bee seem to have no trouble at all in finding the food source. Their inner clocks tell them just where the sun will be, and they change their course correspondingly.1.The author mentions all the following natural phenomena that help animals navigate EXCEPT ().2.What makes it necessary for a bird to rely on a magnetic compass when navigating?3.According to the passage what information does the dance of the scout bee communicate to the other worker bees?4.What enables the bees to fly by the sun even though the sun’s position is not fixed?问题1选项A.the sunB.the starsC.magnetic fieldsD.wind direction问题2选项A.The possibility of bad weatherB.The constant motion of the sun.C.Its patterns of migration.D.Its need to constantly change homes.问题3选项A.The time of the day.B.What the weather is like.C.How far away the food is.D.Which flowers the scout has found.问题4选项A.They are equipped with biological time clocks.B.They fly in formation behind the scout bee.C.They have excellent eyesight.D.They have long memories.【答案】第1题:D第2题:C第3题:D第4题:A【解析】1.事实细节题。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第48期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第48期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题The main road through Littlebury was blocked for three hours today after an accident ()two lorries.问题1选项A.involvingB.includingbiningD.containing【答案】A【解析】动词词义辨析。

involve“涉及”;include“包括”;combine“联合,结合”;contain“包含,容纳”。

根据句意可知,这里指涉及两辆货车的事故。

选项A符合语境。

2.单选题The failure of electricity put all the computers in the region out of () .问题1选项A.workB.tuneC.gearingD.action 【答案】D【解析】固定搭配。

out of work失业;out of tune不协调;out of gearing没有这种搭配;out of action损坏,不运转。

句意:电力故障使该地区所有的计算机无法工作。

选项D符合句意。

3.单选题The microphone makes the voice sound louder because it concentrates sound waves in one direction and keeps them from() in all directions.问题1选项A.interferingB.dispersingC.spreadingD.distracting【答案】B【解析】动词词义辨析。

interfere妨碍;disperse分散,散开;spread传播;distract转移,分心。

句意:麦克风使声音听起来更大,因为它把声波集中在一个方向,并防止它们分散到其他各个方向。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:95

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:95

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题Unless you lived through the Eisenhower era, it may be hard to imagine the impact of the on-screen sight of sneering high-school students challenging adults with switch-blades. But in 1950s America, killing was still seen as something rare and horrible, something done by soldiers in battle, by lawmen, by gangsters, or by the occasional psychopath.Homicides in movies, even those considered violent, were infrequent. Those films presented juvenile delinquency more as the thread of rebellion and disobedience than of outright violence.The idea of American teenagers as killers was beyond compression. The change in 1957 when a wave of teen-street-gang killing in New York City (22 in the first six months of the year) spurred the emergency deployment of six hundred Police Academy cadets in a war on teen street crime. Though teen violence soon lost its place in news headlines to other crises, it did not go away.Thirty-five years later America is in the grip of a violence epidemic that has transformed the country into one of the most dangerous nations on earth. The national homicide rate, corrected for population growth, increased almost exactly 100 percent from 1950 to 1990. In major cities the increase has been much higher. In Los Angeles County the 1953 homicide total was 82. In 1992, with a population almost doubled, the total was 2, 512一an increase of over 1, 000 percent. These are staggering increase by any measure, with the one-year toll for L.A. County exceeding the deaths in over fifteen years of conflict in Northern Ireland.Youth crime accounts for a disproportionate number of these killings. That’s more than twice the number recorded a decade earlier, reflecting the fact, according to FBI reports, that the number of youths who committed murder with guns was up 79 percent in one decade. Clearly something has gone horribly wrong. In looking for a root cause, one of the most obvious differences in the social and cultural fabric between post-World War II and pre-World War II America is the massive and pervasive exposure of American youth to television. Since the 1950s, behavioral scientists and medical researchers have been examining screen violence as a possible causative element in America’s spiraling violent crime rate. There is compelling evidence of a direct, demonstrable link. Homicide has become the second leading cause among African-American youth. In 1992 the US surgeon general cited violence as the leading cause of injury to women aged 15 to 44, and the US Centers for Disease Control consider violence a public health issue, to be treated as an epidemic.1.From the passage we can infer that () .2.Which of the following is not true?3.A major reason for youth crime increase is () .4.It is a fact, in 1992, that () .5.The word “spiraling”(Para.5) is close in meaning to () .问题1选项A.from the 1950s on high-school students have been a threat to the safety of adultsB.in the 1950s only some gun-men used gun as weaponsC.it was in the late 1950s that violence was frequentD.youth crime began in the 1950s问题2选项A.There were more than 22 killings of teenagers in New York, in 1957.B.The wave of teen murder urged policemen to take a quick action.C.Violence was so emergent that even six hundred students of Police Academy were turned to for help.D.Six hundred students of Police Academy were involved in the street crime.问题3选项A.population grows too muchB.young people are exposed too much to screen violenceC.violence is a public issueD.the economic background问题4选项A.population in Los Angeles was of 2, 512 peopleB.homicide totaled 352 in Los AngelesC.homicide rose up to 2, 512 in Los AngelesD.population in Los Angeles was over 1, 512问题5选项A.movingB.changingC.risingD.falling【答案】第1题:D第2题:D第3题:B第4题:C第5题:C【解析】1.推理判断题。

南开大学考博英语真题解析—育明考博

南开大学考博英语真题解析—育明考博

南开大学考博英语真题解析1. I was speaking to Ann on the phone when suddenly we were_______.A.hung upB.hung backC.cut downD.cut off参考答案:D解析:正确答案选D。

(A) hung up:"把……挂起来,挂断电话"。

(B)hung back:"犹豫;踌躇不前"。

(C)cut down:"砍倒"。

(D)cut off:"突然中断,切断,打断"。

(B)、(C)与原句意思较远,应立即排除。

(A)虽可作"挂断电话"解,但是通常指双方通话期间,其中一方把电话挂断。

本句的后半句是"we are---",显然在双方通话期间,没有任何一方把电话挂断,而是外来因素(如:接线员)把"我们的通话突然中断了。

"(D)符合句意,应填(D)。

2. She wondered if she could have the opportunity to spend _______here so that she could learn more about the city.A.sometimesB.some timeC.sometimeD.some times参考答案:B解析:正确答案选B。

(A) sometimes:"有时"。

(B)some time:"一些时间"。

(C)sometime:"以前的,一度的,前任的"。

(D)some times:"在某些场合,不时"。

从句意上看,应填(B)。

全句的意思是:她不知道她是否有机会在此处花一些时间以便使她更多了解这个城市的情况。

3. Ms. Breen has been living in town for only one year, yet she seemsto be _______with everyone who comes to the store.A.acceptedB.admittedC.admiredD.acquainted参考答案:D(PS:The way to contact yumingkaobo TEL:si ling ling-liu liu ba-liu jiu qi ba QQ: 772678537)解析:正确答案选D。

南开大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题附答案和解析

南开大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题附答案和解析

南开大学20XX年博士研究生入学考试英语试题Part ⅠListening Comprehension(略)Part ⅡReading Comprehension (20 points)Passage 1Traffic statistics paint a gloomy picture.To help solve their traffic woes, some rapidly growing U.S. cities have simply built more roads. But traffic experts say building more roads is a quick-fix solution that will not alleviated the traffic problem in the long run. Soaring land costs, increasing concern over social and environmental disruptions caused by road-building, and the likelihood that more roads can only lead to more cars and traffic are powerful factors bearing down on a 1950s-style construction program.The goal of smart-highway technology is to make traffic systems work at optimum efficiency by treating the road and the vehicles traveling on them as an integral transportation system. Proponents of the advanced technology say electronic detection systems, closed-circuit television, radio communication, ramp metering, variable message signing, and other smart-highway technology can now be used at a reasonable cost to improve communication between drivers and the people who monitor traffic.Pathfinder, a Santa Monica, California-based smart-highway project in which a 14-mile stretch of the Santa Monica Freeway, making up what is called a “smart corridor”, is being instrumented with buried loops in the pavement.Closed-circuit television cameras survey the flow of traffic, while communication linked to property equipped automobiles advise motorists of the least congested routes or detours.Not all traffic experts, however, look to smart-highway technology as the ultimate solution to traffic gridlock.Some say the high-tech approach is limited and can only offer temporary solutions to a serious problem.“Electronics on the highway addresses ju st one aspect of the problem: how to regulate traffic more efficiently,” explains Michael Renner, senior researcher at the world-watch Institute.“It doesn't deal with the central problem of too many cars for roads that can't be built fast enough. It sends people the wrong message.They start thinking ‘Yes, there used to be a traffic congestionproblem, but that's been solved now because we have, advanced high-tech system in place.'” Larson agrees and adds, “Smart highways is just one of the tools that we u se to deal with our traffic problems.It's not the solution itself, just part of the package.There are different strategies.”Other traffic problem-solving options being studied and experimented with include car pooling, rapid mass-transit systems, staggered or flexible work hours, and road pricing, a system whereby motorists pay a certain amount for the time they use a highway.It seems that we need a new, major thrust to deal with the traffic problems of the next 20 years. There has to be a big change.1.What is the appropriate title for the passage?A.Smart Highway Projects—The Ultimate Solution to Traffic Congestion.B.A Quick Fix Solution for the Traffic Problems.C.A Venture to Remedy Traffic Woos.D.Highways Get Smart—Part of the Package to Relieve Traffic Gridlock.2.The compound word “quick-fix” in Paragraph 1, sentence 3 is closest in meaning to ______.A.an optional solution B.an expedient solutionC.a ready solution D.an efficient solution3.According to the passage, the smart-highway technology is aimed to ______.A.develop sophisticated facilities on the interstate highwaysB.provide passenger vehicle with a variety of servicesC.optimize the highway capabilitiesD.improve communication between driver and the traffic monitors4.According to Larsen, to redress the traffic problem, ______.A.car pooling must be studiedB.rapid mass transit system must be introducedC.flexible work hours must be experimentedD.overall strategies must be coordinated5.Which of the following best describes the organization of the whole passage?A.Two contrasting views of a problem are presented.B.A problem is examined and complementary solutions are proposed or offered.C.Latest developments are outlined in order of importance.D.An innovation is explained with its importance emphasized.Passage 2A strange thing about humans is their capacity for blind rage.Rage is presumably an emotion resulting from survival instinct, but the surprising thing about it is that we do not deploy it against other animals.If we encounter a dangerous wild animal—a poisonous snake or a wildcat—we do not fly into a temper. If we are unarmed, we show fear and attempt to back away; if we are suitably armed, we attack, but in a rational manner not in a rage. We reserve rage for our own species. It is hard to see any survival value in attacking one's own, but if we take account of the long competition which must have existed between our own subspecies and others like Neanderthal mar —indeed others still more remote from us than Neanderthal man—man rage becomes more comprehensible.In our everyday language and behavior there are many reminders of those early struggles. We are always using tile words “us and them”.“Our” side is perpetually trying to do dow n the “other”side.In games we artificially create other subspecies we can attack.The opposition of “us” and “them” is the touchstone of the two-party system of “democratic” politics.Although there are no very serious consequences to many of this modern psychological representation of the “us” and “them” emotion, it is as well to remember that the original aim was not to beat the other subspecies in a game but to exterminate it.The readiness with which human beings allow themselves to be regimented has permitted large armies to be formed, which, taken together with the “us” and “them” blind rage, has led to destructive clashes within our subspecies itself.The First World War is an example in which Europe divided itself into two imaginary subspecies. And there is a similar extermination battle now in Northern Ireland. The idea that there is a religious basis for this clash is illusory, for not even the pope has been able to control it. The clash is much more primitive than the Christian religion, much older in its emotional origin.The conflict in Ireland is unlikely to stop until a greater primitive fear is imposed from outside the community, or until tile combatants become exhausted.6.A suitable title for this passage would be ______.A.Wily Human Armies Are Formed B.Man's Anger Against the WorldC.The Human Capacity for Rage D.Early Struggles of Angry Mail7.According to the author, the surprising aspect of human anger is ______.A.its lengthy and complex developmentB.a conflict such as is now going on in Northern IrelandC.that we do not fly into a temper more oftenD.that we reserve anger for mankind8.The passage suggests that ______.A.historically, we have created an “us” versus “them” societyB.humans have had a natural disinclination toward formal groupingC.the First World War is an example of how man has always avoided dominationD.the emotional origin of the war in Ireland is lost in time9.From the passage we can infer that ______.A.the artificial creation of a subspecies unlike us is something that never happensB.games are psychologically unhealthyC.any artificially created subspecies would be our enemyD.the real or imagined existence of an opposing subspecies is inherent in man's activities 10.The author believes that a religious explanation for the war in Northern Ireland is ______.A.founded in historical fact B.deceptiveC.apparent D.accuratePart ⅢVocabulary (5 points)Directions: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.1.Most of the young people hold the mistaken belief that goods produced in our own country are ______ to imported ones.A.inadequate B.inappropriate C.inferior D.interior2.It is not a question of how much a man knows, but what use he ______ what he knows.A.makes for B.makes of C.makes up D.makes out3.Throughout the empire of Kublai Khan, money made of paper was used for business_______, something unheard of in Europe.A.transformations B.transmissions C.transitions D.transactions4.As the pressure ______ the liquid rock is forced up through channels in the resistant rock to the earth's surface.A.intensifies B.magnifies C.heightens D.deviates5.The strong scent of Kate's perfume ______ the air in the small room.A.radiated B.permeated C.extracted D.dispersed6.The scientific and medical prizes have proved to be the least ______, while those for literature and peace by their very nature have been the most exposed to critical differences.A.radical B.prominent C.confidential D.controversial7.They are ______ to industrialists, who need the valuable copper and nickel in them.A.tempting B.tickling C.tormenting D.tricking8.Another popular misconception is the ______ that great talent is usually highly specific.A.notion B.dilemma C.domain D.analogy9.You can ______ the loudness of the radio by turning the knob to right or left.A.change B.vary C.alter D.transform10.The distance between the earth and the sun may be said to be ______.A.enormous B.huge C.vast D.immensePart ⅣError Correction (10 points)Directions: In the following passage, there are 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided, If you cross out a word, put a slant (/) in the blank.When a consumer finds that an item she or he bought is in faulty or insome other way does not live to the manufacturer's claim for it, the firststep is to present the warranty or any other records which might help, at the store of purchase.In most cases, this action will produce results. Moreover,if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction.1._____ ___2._____ ___3._____ ___A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager.In general, the “high up” the consumertakes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect to be settled. In such case, it is usually settled in the consumer's favor, assumed heor she has a just claim. Consumers should complain about in person whenever possible, but if it cannot get to the place of purchase, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint with a letter. Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can demonstrate that is wrong with the item in question.4._____ ___5._____ ___6._____ ___7._____ ___8._____ ___9._____ ___10.____ ____Part ⅤWriting (10 points)Directions: For this part, you are asked to write a composition on the topic “It pays to be honest”.Your composition should be no less than 150 words based on the given outline. Remember to write clearly on the ANSWER SHEET.Outline:1.Honest is the best policy.2.Give examples to support your point of view.3.Conclusion.南开大学20XX年博士研究生入学考试英语试题参考答案与解析Part ⅠListening Comprehension(略)Part ⅡReading Comprehensionpassage 11.【答案】D【解析】本题中,A项与第四段第一句话的意思不符;B项不正确,本文主要讲的不是修路;C项在文中未被提及。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:92

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)试题号:92

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析AB卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题In the last 12 years total employment in the United States grew faster than at any time in the peacetime history of any country—from 82 to 110 million between 1973 and 1985—that is, by a full one third. The entire growth, however, was in manufacturing, and especially in non-blue-collar jobs.This trend is the same in all developed countries, and is, indeed, even more pronounced in Japan. It is therefore highly probable that in 25 years developed countries such as the United States and Japan will employ no larger a proportion of the labor force in manufacturing than developed countries now employ in farming—at most, 10 percent. Today the United States employs around 18 million people in blue-collar jobs in manufacturing industries. By 2010, the number is likely to be no more than 12 million. In some major industries the drop will be even sharper. It is quite unrealistic, for instance, to expect that the American automobile industry will employ more than one-third of its present blue-collar force 25 years hence, even though production might be 50 percent higher.If a company, an industry or a country does not in the next quarter century sharply increase manufacturing production and at the same time sharply reduce the blue-collar work force, it cannot hope to remain competitive—or even to remain “developed.” The attempt to preserve such blue-collar jobs is actually a prescription for unemployment.This is not a conclusion that American politicians, labor leaders or indeed the general public can easily understand or accept. What confuses the issue even more is that the United Stales is experiencing several separate and different shifts in the manufacturing economy. One is the acceleration of the substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor. Where we spoke of mechanization a few decades ago, we now speak of “robotization” or “automation”. This is actually more a change in terminology than a change in reality. When Henry Ford introduced the assembly line in 1909, he cut the number of man— hours required to produce a motor car by some 80 percent in two or three years—far more than anyone expects to result from even the most complete robotization. But there is no doubt that we are facing a new sharp acceleration in the replacement of manual workers by machines—that is, by the products of knowledge.1.According to the author, the shrinkage in the manufacturing labor force demonstrates() .2.American politicians and labor lenders tend to dislike() .3.According to the author, in the coming 25 years, a developed country or industry, in order to remain competitive, ought to() .4.This passage may have been excerpted from() .问题1选项A.the degree to which a country's production is robotizedB.a reduction in a country’s manufacturing industriesC.a worsening relationship between labor and managementD.the difference between a developed country and a developing country问题2选项A.confusion in manufacturing economyB.an increase in blue-collar work forceC.internal competition in manufacturing productionD.a drop in the blue-collar job opportunities问题3选项A.reduce the percentage of the blue-collar work forceB.preserve blue-collar jobs for international competitionC.accelerate motor-can manufacturing in Henry Ford's styleD.solve the problem of unemployment问题4选项A.a magazine about capital investmentB.an article on automationC.a motor-car magazineD.an article on global economy【答案】第1题:A第2题:D第3题:A第4题:D【解析】1.信息推理题。

南开大学考博英语2008年部分真题解析

南开大学考博英语2008年部分真题解析

南开大学考博英语2008年部分真题解析PARTЏSTRUCTURE&VOCABULARY(25minutes,15points)sectionA(0.5point eath)direction:choose the word or expression below each sentence that best completes the statement,and mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring answer sheet.16.Knowing that the cruel criminal has done a lot of unlawful things,I feel sure that I have no__________but to report him to the local police.A.timeB.chanceC.authorityD.alternative17.Behind his large smiles and large cigars,his eyes often seemed to__________regret.A.teemB.brim withe withD.look with18.There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:the young one has a glorious future before him and the old one has a_______future behind him.(PS:The way to contact yumingkaobo TEL:si ling ling-liu liu ba-liu jiu qi ba QQ:772678537)A.splendidB.conspicuousC.uproariousD.imminent19.That tragedy distressed me so much that I used to keep indoors and go out only_________necessity.A.within reach ofB.for fear ofC.by means ofD.in case of20.A young man sees a sunset and unable to understand of express the emotion that it_________in him,concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond.A.reflectsB.retainsC.rousesD.radiates21.______________the heat to a simmer and continue to cook for another8-10minutes or until most of the water has evaporated.A.Turn offB.Turn overC.Turn downD.Turn up22.Banks shall be unable to___________,or claim relief against the first15%of any loan or bankrupted debt left with them.A.write offB.put asideC.shrink frome over23.I am to inform you,that you may,if you wish,attend the inquiry,and at the inspectors discretion state your case_________or through an entrusted representative.A.in personB.in depthC.in secretD.in excess24.In his view,though Hong Kong has no direct cultural identity, local art is thriving by“being___________,”being open to all kinds of art.A.gratifyingB.predominatingC.excellingD.accommodating25.In some countries preschool education in nursery schools or kindergartens_________the1stgrade.A.leadsB.precedesC.forwardsD.advances26.Desert plants________two categories according to the way they deal with the problem of surviving drought.A.break downB.fall intoC.differ inD.refer to27.In the airport,I could hear nothing except the roar of aircraft engines which_________all other sounds.A.dwarfedB.diminishedC.drownedD.relative28.Criticism without suggesting areas of improvement is not _________and should be avoided if possible.A.constructiveB.productiveC.descriptiveD.relative29.The Committee pronounced four members expelled for failure to provide information in the____________of investigations.A.caseB.chaseC.causeD.course30.Since neither side was ready to__________what was necessary for peace,hostility were resumed in1980.A.precedeB.recedeC.concedeD.intercede31.Such an_________act of hostility can only lead to war.A.overtB.episodicC.ampleD.ultimate32._________both in working life and everyday living to different sets of values,and expectations places a severe strain on the individual.A.RecreationB.TransactionC.DisclosureD.Exposure33.It would then be replaced by interim government,which would _________be replaced by a permanent government after four months.A.in stepB.in turn B.in practice D.in haste34.Haven’t I told you I don’t want you keeping____________ with those awful riding-about bicycle boys?panyB.acquaintanceC.friendsD.place35.Consumers deprived of the information and advice they needed were quite simply_________every cheat in the marketplace.A.at the mercy ofB.in lieu ofC.by courtesy ofD.for the price ofSection B(0.5point each)Directions:in each of the following sentences there are four parts underlined and marked A,B,C,and D.Indicate which of the four parts is incorrectly used.Mark the corresponding letter of your choice by drawing a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.36.The auctioneer must know fair accurately the current market values of the goods he isA B C Dselling.37.Children are among the most frequent victims of violent, drug-related crimes that have nothingA B Cdoing with the cost of acquiring the drugs.D38.A large collection of contemporary photographs,including some taken by Mary are on displayA B Cat the museum.D39.There is much in our life which we do not control and we are not even responsible for.A B C D40.Capital inflows will also tend to increase the international value of the dollar,make it moreA B Cdifficult to sell U.S.exports.D41.It can be argued that the problems,even something as fundamental as the ever-increased worldA B Cpopulation,have been caused by technological adcance.D42.It takes the most cool-headed and good-tempered of driversto resist the temptation to revengeA B Cas subfected to uncivilized behavior.D43.While experts in basic science are important,skilled talents should be the overriding majorityA B Csince they are at heavy demand in the market.D44.Retailers offered deep discounts and extra hours this weekend in the bid to lure shoppers.A B C D45.The amendments of the laws on patent,trademark and copyright have enhanced protection ofA Bintellectual property rights and made them conform to WTO rules.C DPART3CLOZE TEST(15minutes,15points)Directions:There are15questions in this part of the test.Read the passage through.Then,go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A,B,C,or D for each blank in the passage.Mark the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.At least since the Industrial Revolution,gender roles have been in a state of transition.As a result,cultural scripts about marriage have undergone change,One of the more obvious___46____has occurred in the roles that women47.Women have moved into the world of work and have become adept at meeting expectations in that arena,48 maintaining their family roles of nurturing and creating a(n)49that is a haven for all family members.50many women experience strain from trying to“do it all,”they often endoy the increased51that can result from playing multiple roles.As women’s roles have changed, changing expectations about men’s roles have become more52.Many men are relinquishing their major responsibility53the family provider.Probably the most significant change in men’s roles,however,is in the emotional54of family life.Men are increasingly 55to meet the emotional needs of their families,56their wives.In fact,expectations about he emotional domain of marriage have become more significant for marriage in general.Research on57 marriage has changed over recent decades points to the increasing importance of the emotional side of the relationship,and the importance of sharing in the“emotion work”58to nourish marriages and other family relationships.Men and women want to experience marriages that are interdependent,59both partners nurture each other,attend and respond to each other,and encourage and promote each other.We are thus seeing marriages in which men’s and women’s roles are becoming increasingly more60.46. A.incidents B.changes C.results D.effects47. A.take B.do C.play D.show48. A.by B.while C.hence D.thus49. A.home B.garden C.arena D.paradise50. A.When B.Even though C.Since D.Nevertheless51. A.rewards B.profits C.privileges D.incomes52. A.general B.acceptable C.popular D.apparent53. A.as B.of C.from D.for54. A.section B.constituent C.domain D.point55. A.encouraged B.expected C.advised D.predicted56.A.not to mention B.as well as C.including D.especially57. A.how B.what C.why D.if58. A.but B.only C.enough D.necessary59. A.unless B.although C.where D.because60. A.pleasant B.important C.similar D.manageablePART4READING COMPREHENSION(60minutes,30points)Directions:Below each of the following passages you will find some questions or incomplete statements.Each question or statement is followed by four choices marked A,B,C and D.Read each passage carefully,and then select the choice that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark the letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.Passage1The man who invented Coca-cola was not a native Atlantan,but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town testimonially shut up shop.He was John Styth Pemberton,born in1833in Knoxville,Georgia, eighty miles away.Sometimes known as Doctor,Pemberton was a pharmacist who,during the Civil War,led a cavalry troop under General Joe Wheelrer.He settled in Atlanta in1869,and soon began brewing such patent medicines as Triplex Liver Pills and Globe of Flower Cough Syrup.In1885,he registered a trademark for something called French Wine Coca-Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stimulant,a few months later he formed the Pemberton Chemical Company,and recruited the services of a bookkeeper named Frank M.Robinson,who not only had a good head for figures but,attached to it,so exceptional a nose that he could audit the composition of a batch of syrup merely by sniffling it.In1886-a year in which,as contemporary Coca-Coca officials like to point our,Conan Doyle unveiled Sherlock Holmes and France unveiled the Statue of Liberty-Pemberton unveiled a syrup that he called Coca-Coca.It was a modification of his French Wine Coca. He had taken our the wine and added a pinch of caffeine,and,when the end product tasted awful,had thrown in some extract of cola nut and a few other oils,blending the mixture in a three-legged iron pot in his back yard and swishing it around with an oar.He distributed it to soda fountains in used beer bottles,and Robinson,with his glowing bookkeeper’s script,presently devised a label,on which “Coca-Cola”was written in the fashion that is still employed. Pemberton looked upon his mixture less as a refreshment than as a headache cure,especially for people whose headache could be traced to over-indulgence.On a morning late in1886,one such victim of the night before dragged himself into an Atlanta drugstore and asked for a doolop of Cola-Cola.Druggists customarily stirred a teaspoonful of syrup into a glass of water,but in this instance the man on duty was too lazy to walk to the fresh-water tap,a couple of feet off.Instead,he mixed the syrup with some soda water,which was closer at hand.The suffering customer perked up almost at once,and word quickly spread that the best Coca-Cola was a fizzy one.64.What dose the passage tell us about John Styth Pemberton?A.He was highly respected by AtlantansB.He ran a drug store that also sells wine.C.He had been a doctor until the Civil War.D.He made a lot of money with his pharmacy.62.Which of the following was unique to Frank M.Robinson, working with the Pemberton’s Company?A.Skills to make French wineB.Talent for drawing picturesC.An acute sense of smell.D.Ability to work with numbers.63.Why was the year1886so special to Pemberton?A.He took to doing a job like Sherlock Holmes’sB.He brought a quite profitable product into being.C.He observed the founding ceremony of Statue of Liberty.D.He was awarded by Coca-Cola for his contribution64.One modification made of French Wine Coca formula was__________ed beer bottles were chosen as containersB.the amount of caffeine in it was increasedC.it was blended with oils instead of waterD.Cola nut extract was added to taste65.According to the passage,Coca-Cola was in the first place prepared especially for________A.the young as a soft drinkB.a replacement of French Wine CocaC.the relief of a hangoverD.a cure for the common headache66.The last paragraph mainly tells___________A.the complaint against the lazy shop-assistantB.a real test of Coca-cola as a headache cureC.the mediocre service of the drugstoreD.a happy accident that gave birth to Coca-ColaPassage2Between1833and1837,the publishers of a“penny press”proved that a low-priced paper,edited to interest ordinary people,could win what amounted to a mass circulation for the times and therebyattract an advertising volume that would make it independent.These were papers for the common citizen and were not tied to the interests of the business community,like the mercantile press,or dependent for financial support upon political party allegiance.It did not necessarily follow that all the penny papers would be superior in their handing of the news and opinion functions.But the door was open for some to make important journalistic advances.The first offerings of a penny paper tended to be highly sensational;human interest stories overshadowed important news,and crime and sex stories were written in full detail.But as the penny paper attracted readers from various social and economic brackets, its sensationalism was modified.The ordinary reader came to want a better product,too.A popularized style of writing and presentation of news remained,but the penny paper became a respectable publication that offered significant information and editorial leadership.Once the first of the successful penny papers had shown the way,later ventures could enter the competition at the higher level of journalistic responsibility the pioneering papers had reached.This was the pattern of American newspapers in the years following the founding of the New York Sun in1833.The sun,published by Benjamin Day,entered the lists against11other dailies.It was tiny in comparison;but it was bright and readable,and it preferred human interest features to important but dull political speech reports.It had a police reporter writing squibs of crime news in the style already proved successful by some other papers.And,most important,it sold for a penny,whereas its competitors sold for six cents.By1837the sun was printing30,000copies a day,which was more than the total of all11New York daily newspapers combined when the sun first appeared.In those same four years James Gordon Bennett brought out his New York Herald(1835),and a trio of New York printers who were imitating Day’s success founded the Philadelphia Public ledger(1836) and the Baltimore sun(1837).The four penny sheets all became famed newspapers.67.What does the first paragraph say about the“penny press?”A.It was known for its in-depth news reportingB.It had an involvement with some political parties.C.It depended on the business community for survival.D.It aimed at pleasing the general public.68.In its early days,a penny paper often___________--A.paid much attention to political issuesB.provided stories that hit the public tasteC.offered penetrating editorials on various issuesD.covered important news with inaccuracy69.As the readership was growing more diverse,the penny paper____________A.improved its contentB.changed its writing styleC.developed a more sensational styleD.became a tool for political parries70.The underlined word“ventures”in Paragraph2can best be replaced by___________A.editorsB.reportersC.newspaperspanies71.What is true about the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the Baltimore sun.?A.They turned out to be failures.B.They were later purchased by James Gordon Bennett.C.They were also founded by Benjamin Day.D.They became well-known newspapers in the U.S.72.This passage is probably taken from a book on___________A.the work ethics of the American mediaB.the techniques in news reportingC.the history of sensationalism in American mediaD.the impact of mass media on American societyPassage3Forget what Virginia Woolf said about what a writer needs—a room of one’s own.The writer she had in mind wasn’t at work on a novel in cyberspace,one with multiple hypertexts,animated graphics and downloads of trancey,chiming music.For that you also need graphic interfaces,RealPlayer and maybe even a computer laboratory at Brown University.That was where Mark Amerika—his legally adopted name; don’t ask him about his birth name—composed much of his novel Grammatron.But Grammatron isn’t just a story.It’s an onlinenarrative()that uses the capabilities of cyberspace to tie the conventional story line into complicate knots.In the four year it took to produce—it was completed in1997—each new advance in computer software became anther potential story device.“I became sort of dependent on the industry,”jokes Amerika,who is also the author of two novels printed on paper.“That’s unusual for a writer, because if you just write on paper the‘technology’is pretty stable.”Nothing about Grammatron is stable.At its center,if there is one,is Abe Golam,the inventor of Nanoscript,a quasi—mystical computer code that some unmystical corporations are itching to acquire.For much of the story,Abe wanders through Prague-23,a virtual“city”in cyberspace whare visitors indulge in fantasy encounters and virtual sex,which can get fairly graphic,The reader wanders too,because most of Grammatron’s1,000-puls text screens contain several passages in hypertext.To reach the next screen,just double-click.But each of those hypertexts is a trapdoor that can plunge you down a different pathway of the story.Choose one and you drop into a corporate-strategy memo.Choose another and there’s a XXX-rated sexual rant.The story you read is in some sense the story you make.Amerika teaches digital art at the University of Colorado,where his students develop works that straddle the lines between art,film and literature.“I tell them not to get caught up in mere plot,”he says.Some avant-garde writers—Julio Cortazar,Italo Calvino—have also experimented with novels that wander out of their author’s control.“But what makes the Net so exciting,“says Amerika,“is that you can add sound,randomly generated links,3-D modeling,animaion.”That room of one’s own is turning into a fun house.73.The passage is mainly to tell__________________.A.differences between conventional and modern novelsB.how Mark Amerika composed his novel Grammatronmon features of all modern electronic novelsD.why Mark Amerika took on a new way of writing74.Why does the author ask the reader to forget what VirginiaWoolf said about the necessities of a writer?A.Modern writers can share rooms to do the writing.B.It is not necessarily that a writer writes inside a room.C.Modern writers will get nowhere without a word processorD.It is no longer sufficient for the writing in cyberspace.75.As an on-line narrative,Grammatron is anything but stable because it______________.A.provides potentials for the story developmentB.is one of the novels atC.can be downloaded free of chargeD.boasts of the best among cyber stories76.By saying that he became sort of dependent on the industry, Mark Amerika meant that_________.A.he could not help but set his Grammatron and thers in Industrial RevolutionB.conventional writers had been increasingly challenged by high technologyC.much of his Grammatron had proved to be cybernetic dependentD.he couldn’t care less about new advance in computer software77.As the passage shows,Grammatron makes it possible for readers to_____________-A.adapt the story for a video versionB.“walk in”the story and interact with itC.develop the plots within the author’s controlD.steal the show and become the main character78.Amerika told his students not to____________A.immerse themselves only in creating the plotB.be captivated by the plot alone while readingC.be lagged far behind in the plot developmentD.let their plot get lost in the on-going storyPassage4In1993,a mall security camera captured a shaky image of two 10-year-old boys leading a much smaller boy out of a Liberpool, England,shopping center.The boys lured James Bulger,2,away from his mother,who was shopping,and led him on a long walk across town. The excursion ended at a railroas track.There,inexplicably,theolder boys tortured the toddler,kicking him,smearing paint on his face and pummeling him to death with bricks before heaving him on the track to be dismembered by a train.The boys,Jon Venables and Robert Thompson,then went of to watch cartoons.Today the boys are18-year-ole men,and after spending eight years in juvenile facilities,they have been deemed fit for release--probably this spring.The dilemma now confronting the English justice system is how to reintegrate the notorious duo into a society that remains horrified by their crimes and skeptical about their st week Judge Elizabeth Butler-Sils decided the young men were in so much danger that they needed an unprecedented shield to protect them upon release.For ht e rest of their lives, Venable sands Thompson will have a right to anonymity.All English media outlets are banned from publishing any information about their whereabouts of the new identities the government will help them establish.Photos of the two or even details about their current looks are also prohibited.In the U.S,which is harder on juvenile criminals than England, such a ruling seems inconceivable.“We’re clearly the most punitive in the industrialized world,”says Laurence Steinberg,a Temple University professor who studies juvenile justice.Over the past decade,the trend in the U.S.has been to allow publication of ever more information about underage offenders.U.S.courts also give more weight to press freedom than English courts,ewhich,for example,ban all video cameras.But even for Britain,the order is extraordinary.The victim’s family is enraged,as are the ever eager British tabloids.“What right have they got to be given special protection as adults?”asks Bulger’s mother Denise Fergus.Newspaper editorials have insisted that citizens have a right to know if Venables of Thompson move in next door.Says conserbative Member of Parliament Humfrey Malins;”It almost leaves you with the feeling that the nastier the crime,the greater the chance for a completely new life.”79.What occurred as told at the beginning of the passage?A.2ten-year-olds killed James by accident in playB.James Bulger was killed by his two brothers.C.Two mischievous boys forged a train accident.D.A little kid was murdered by two older boys.80.According to the passage,Jon Venables and Robert Thompson________________A.hav been treated as juvenile delinquentsB.have been held in protective custody for their murder gameC.were caught while watching cartoons eight years agoD.have already served out their10years in prison81.The British justice system is afraid that the two young men would_______________A.hardly get accustomed to a horrifying general publicB.be doomed to become social outcasts after releaseC.still remain dangerous and destructive if set freeD.be inclined to commit a recurring crime82.According to the British courts,after their return to society, the two adults will be__________A.banned from any kind of press interviewB.kept under constant surveillance by policeC.shielded from being identified an killersD.ordered to report to police their whereabouts83.From the passage we can infer that a US counterpart of Venables or Thompson would________.A.have no freedom to go wherever he wantsB.serve a life imprisonment for the crimeC.be forbidden to join many of his relativesD.no doubt receive massive publicity in the U>S>84.As regards the mentioned justice ruling,the last paragraph mainly tells that________________A.it is controversial as it goes without precedentB.the British media are sure to do the contraryC.Bulger’s family would enter all appeal against itD.Conservatives obviously conflict with LiberalsPassage5Can the Internet help patients jump the line at the doctor’s office?The silicon Valley Employers Forum,a sophisticated group of technology companies,is launching a pilot program to test online“virtual visits“between doctors at three big local medical groups and about6,000employees and their families.The six employers taking part in the Silicon Valley initiative,including heavy hitters such as Oracle and Cisco Systems,hope that online visits will mean employees won’t have to skip work to tend to minor ailments of to follow up on chronic conditions.“With our long commutes and traffic, driving40miles to your doctor in your hometown can be a big chunk of time,“says Cindy Conway,benefits director at Cadence Design Systems,one of the participating companies.Doctors aren’t clamoring to chat with patients online for free; they spend enough unpaid time ton the phone.Only1in5has ever E-mailed a patient,and just9percent are interested in doing so, according to the research firm Cyber Dialogue.”We are not stupid,”says Stirling Somers,executive of the Silicon Valley employers group.“Doctors getting jpaid is a critical piece in getting this to work.”In the pilot program,physicians will get$20per online consultation, about what they get for a simple office visit.Doctors also fear they’ll be swamped by rambling E-mails that tell everything but what’s needed to make a diagnosis.So the new program will use technology supplied by Healinx,an Alameda, Calif.-based start-up.Healinx’s“Smart Symptom Wizard”questions patients and turns answers into a succinct message.The company has online dialogues for60common conditions.The doctor can then diagnose the problem and outline a treatment plan,which could include E-mailing a prescription or a face-to-face visit.Can E-mail replace the doctor’s office?Many conditions,such as persistent cough,require a stethoscope to discover what’s wrong—and to avoid a malpractice suit.Even Larry Bonham,head of one of the doctor’s groups in the pilot,believes the virtual doctor’s visits offer a“very narrow”sliver of service between hone calls to an advice nurse an a visit to the clinic.The pilot program,set to end in nine months,also hopes to determine whether online visits will boost worker productivity enough to offset the cost of the service.So far,the Internet’s record in the health field has been underwhelming.The experiment is“a huge roll of the dice for Healinx,”notes Michael Barrett,an analyst atInternet consulting firm Forester Research.If the“Web visits”succeed,expect some HMOs(Health Maintenance Organizations)to pay for online visits.If doctors,employers,and patients aren’t satisfied,figure on one more E-health start-up to stand down.85.the Silicon Valley employers promote the E-health program for the purpose of___________A.rewarding their employeesB.gratifying the local hospitalsC.boosting worker productivityD.testing a sophisticated technology86.What can be learned about the on-line doctors’visits?A.They are a quite promising business.B.They are funded by the local government.C.They are welcomed by all the patientsD.They are very much under experimentation.87.Of he following people,who are not involved in the program?A.Cisco System employeesB.advice nurses in the clinicC.doctors at three local hospitalsD.Oracle executives88.According to Paragraph2,doctors are___________A.reluctant to serve online for nothingB.not interested in Web consultationC.too tired to talk to the patients onlineD.content with$20paid per Web visit89.“Smart Symptom Wizard”is capable of___________A.making diagnosesB.producing prescriptionsC.profiling patients’illnessD.offering a treatment plan90.It can be inferred from the passage that the future of online visits will mostly depend on whether___________A.the employers would remain confident in themB.they could effectively replace office visitsC.HMOs would cover the cost of the serviceD.new technologies would be available to improve the E-health。

2007年南开大学考博英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)

2007年南开大学考博英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)

2007年南开大学考博英语真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)题型有:1. Structure and V ocabulary 2. Reading Comprehension 3. Proofreading 4. WritingStructure and V ocabulary1.An important property of a scientific theory is its ability to ______ further research and further thinking about a particular topic.A.stimulateB.renovateC.arouseD.advocate正确答案:A解析:动词词义辨析。

选项中,能与further research and further thinking搭配的动词只能是stimulate(刺激,激励)。

故答案为A。

其它选项,renovate“翻新,修复,整修”;arouse“唤醒,引起,激发”;advocate“提倡,主张”,均不符合逻辑。

2.They advised their clients to______with another company.A.mergeB.engageC.emergeD.submerge正确答案:A解析:固定搭配。

merge与with搭配,意为“与……联合,与……合并”。

engage with意为“交战”,不符合句意。

emerge(出现,显出);submerge(潜入水中,淹没),一般不与with搭配。

故答案为A。

3.Donations are needed to______our child-care programs.A.implementB.validateC.strengthenD.approve正确答案:A解析:动词词义辨析。

选项中,与child—care programs符合逻辑的搭配只能是动词implement(贯彻,执行)。

南开大学考博英语真题2007年

南开大学考博英语真题2007年

南开大学考博英语真题2007年(总分:100.00,做题时间:90分钟)一、Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension(总题数:0,分数:0.00)二、Part Ⅱ Vocabulary(总题数:30,分数:30.00)1.An important property of a scientific theory is its ability to ______ further research and further thinking about a particular topic.(分数:1.00)A.stimulate √B.renovateC.arouseD.advocate解析:[解析] 动词词义辨析。

选项中,能与further research and further thinking搭配的动词只能是stimulate(刺激,激励)。

故答案为A。

其他选项,renovate“翻新,修复,整修”;arouse“唤醒,引起,激发”;advocate“提倡,主张”,均不符合逻辑。

2.They advised their clients to ______ with another company.(分数:1.00)A.merge √B.engageC.emergeD.submerge解析:[解析] 固定搭配。

merge与with搭配,意为“与……联合,与……合并”。

engage with意为“交战”,不符合句意。

emerge(出现,显出);submerge(潜入水中,淹没),一般不与with搭配。

故答案为A。

3.Donations are needed to ______ our child-care programs.(分数:1.00)A.implement √B.validateC.strengthenD.approve解析:[解析] 动词词义辨析。

选项中,与child-care programs符合逻辑的搭配只能是动词implement(贯彻,执行)。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第77期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第77期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题You are not allowed to take a second job () your employer gives you permission.问题1选项A.unlessB.so long asC.otherwiseD.whereas【答案】A【解析】连接词的运用。

unless“除非, 如果不”;so long as“只要”;otherwise“否则, 不然”;whereas“然而, 鉴于, 反之”。

句意:除非你的雇主允许, 否则你不能从事第二份工作。

选项A符合句意。

2.单选题An experiment can be() by poor planning.问题1选项A.distributedB.qualifiedC.spoiledD.disclosed 【答案】C【解析】动词词义辨析。

distributed分配,分散;qualified限制;spoiled损坏,破坏;disclosed公开,揭露。

句意:计划不周会破坏实验。

选项C符合句意。

3.单选题Reporters and photographers alike took great () at the rude way the actor behaved during the interview.问题1选项A.annoyanceB.offenceC.resentmentD.irritation【答案】B【解析】固定搭配。

take offence at sth.表示“对...感到生气”。

句意:记者和摄影师都对演员在采访中的粗鲁行为感到十分生气。

irritation一般与feel搭配,所以选项B正确。

4.单选题After four years in the same job his enthusiasms finally () .问题1选项A.dispersedB.deterioratedC.dissipatedD.drained【答案】D【解析】动词词义辨析。

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第54期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)第54期

2022年考研考博-考博英语-南开大学考试全真模拟易错、难点剖析B卷(带答案)一.综合题(共15题)1.单选题We should always keep in mind that () decisions often lead to bitter regrets.问题1选项A.urgentB.hastyC.instantD.prompt【答案】B【解析】形容词词义辨析。

根据句意可知,既然是痛苦的后悔,说明决定很草率,选项B符合语境。

2.单选题There are () differences between theory and practice.问题1选项A.legibleB.radicalC.medievalden【答案】B 【解析】形容词词义辨析。

legible“清晰的, 易辨认的”;radical“激进的, 根本的, 彻底的”;medieval“中世纪的, 老式的, 原始的”;laden“负载的, 装满的”。

句意:理论和实践之间有着根本的区别。

选项B符合句意。

3.单选题I think you can take a(n) () language course to improve your English.问题1选项A.middleB.intermediateC.mediumD.average【答案】B【解析】近义词辨析。

middle“中间的,中部的”, 侧重方位;intermediate“中间的,中级的”, 侧重难易的程度;medium“中等的”, 侧重尺寸上的大小;average“平均的,普通的”。

句意:我觉得你可以上一门中级语言课程来提高你的英语水平。

选项B符合语境。

4.单选题Difficult as it is, English study is in the long run () to a learner in his or her career development.问题1选项A.rewardingB.advantageousC.profitableD.earning【答案】A【解析】形容词词义辨析。

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南开大学考博英语阅读真题解析1. Television Program and Their Effect on childrenTelevision programs regularly entertain, educate, effect and even frighten the majority of our children. Most children are allowed to watch whatever program is on, with little thought on the effect that particular show will have on a child. Most programs can be classed as beneficial or harmful, according to what effect the program might have on a child.The beneficial television programs are mainly thouse that educate the young. There are often specials on animal life. A few regular children’s programs develop the child’s interest in school-type learning by stressing numbers and the alphablt, and that encourages him or her to be creative. The beneficial commercials, such as those on anti-smoking, anti-litter, and health, should be included in this category.On the opposite side are the shows, which are generally harmful to children. Many commercials, especially those sponsoring the children’s programs, are deliberately written to create a desire for an unnecessary product such as sugar coated cereals and candy. All adult programs that include violence or sex scenes can at best fill a child’s mind with confusing or misleading ideas, and could possib ly harden the child to violence.(PS:The way to contact yumingkaobo TEL:si ling ling-liu liu ba-liu jiu qi ba QQ: 772678537) Thoughtful parents will definitely not allow their children to view the bad programs. A child’s viewing time should be limited to watching educationlly benefical programs.2. How to Solve the Housing Problem in Big CitiesWith the development of modern industryu, more and more people are flowing into big cities. Accordingly, the housing problem in big cities is becoming more and more serious.People have offered many solutions to this problem. I think building satellite cities in the suburbs is more practical. The fresh air and beautiful secnery in the suburbs will be appealing to the city citizens, who suffer from air pollution, noises, etc. in the overcrowded city. With more people leaving the city, more space will be available for those remaining. The housinmg problem in big citieswill thus be solved.3. “The younger generaton knows best”Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comments is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than ti is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly accept the ideas of their elders. Events, which the older generation remembers vividly, are nothing more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is different from the one preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed.The old always assume thaty they know best for the simple reason that they have been around a bit longer. They don’t like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders and disturbing their complacency. They take leave to doubt that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject more than anything is conformity. Office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn’t people work best if they were given complete freedom and responsibility? And what about clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should wear drab grey suits and convict haircuts? If we turn our minds to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used violence to solven their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more material possessions? Can anything be right with the rat —race? Haven’t the old lost touch with all that is important in life?There are not questions the older generation can shrug off lightly. Their record over the past forty years or so hasn’t beenexactly spotless. Traditionally, the young have turned to their elders for guilance. Today, the situation might reversed. The old—if they are prepared to admit it — could learn a thing or two from their children. One of the biggest lessons they could learn is that enjoyment is not “sinful”. Enjoyment is a principle one could apply to all aspects of life. It is surely not wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure to shed restricting inhibitions. It is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in the past or future. This emphasis on the present is only to be expressed because the young have grown up under the shadow of the bomb: the constant threat of complete annihilation. This is their glorious heritage. Can we be surprised that they should so often question the sanity of the generation that bequeathed it ?4. Public TransportationAs part of domestic modernization, public transportation needs to be developed urgently in China. I can illustrate some examples. There does not only exist serious traffic jams but also crowded buses, underground and railways. Commuters find it hard to get to work on time due to overcrowded buses or tubes.Travelers could hardly get on buses in big cities during weedends owing to fewer buses and more people. When Spring Festival is drawing near, there is much greater –ressure on public transportation since it has to deal with a large number of travelers rushing home. And travelers need special arrangements to go home. In a word, public transportation has become bottleneck to the advanc of Chinese economy.To solve the above-mentioned problems, the departments concerned should carry out the following steps: to build more roads, highways or railways and to add buses or trains to the original lines. But ther funds have to be raised both from the government and the public. There are three sources for fund raising. One is to raise the fares for all kinds of all transportation vehicles. Another is to increase the prices for various vehicles on sale. The third is to raise the prices of petrol and diesel oil in addtion to the governmental funds. If all this money to raise the prices of petrol and diesel oiil in addtion to the governmental funds. If all this money collected isused to improve transportation services, the situation will be bettered and favorable.The third step to take is to introduce new technology in order to raise the efficiency of vehicles. For instance, the speed of trains can be increased as much as two times so that two times as many people can be held. In this way, the pressure on public transportation can be dramatically alleviated. So in a word, we need to introduce new technology to raise the speed of vehicles while having built even wider roads and added more efficient trains and huses.5. Human EducationThe other day, a professor from Peking University gave a lecture “Chinese Intellectuals and Written Cultural Text”. In his lecture, he held that Chinese intellectuals have lost the written cultural text since the May 4th movement. His opinion set us thinking that the loss of traditional humane education resulted in a crisis of cultural education.With the rapid development of economy, the living standard of the Chinese people has improved a lot in terms of material wealth. In a period when economics take priority, people pay more aned more attention to profit. At present, moneymaking and pleasure seeking are becoming a popular fashion. On the other hand, there appears a barren field of spirit in today’s society. It has become unexpectedly hard to rebuild the paradise of traditional culture.Ideological confusion, moral decline and a chaotic cultural market, all this shows that it is the high time to have something done in order to tackle the problem of cultural orientation. Our times call for an ideal humane education. It is unwise to discard traditional Chinese culture as a whole. Some of the elements of this culture can be made use of in the reconstruction of our spiritual civilizaiton directly or wit5h some adaptation. Our attitude towards tradition should be “discarding the dross and selecting the essence”. The humane education of the past can serve as a supplement to our Marxist education. It should start from primary school. In this way, our children will get educated so as to be possessed of a perfect personality. The national morale will be deeply rooted in people’s mind, and will help push forward the growth of economy.To sum up, we can find it badly necessary to build up an ideal humane education. We should find an efficient way to develop our humane education and dig out5 more resources form traditional Chinese culture.6. Criticism on TelevisionA lot of people believe that television has a harmful effect on chldren. A few years ago, the same criticisms were made of the cinema. But although child psychoilogists have spent a great deal of time studying his problem, there is not much evidence that television brings about teenager’s crimes.For people in the modern worlds share the views of parents a hundred years ago. In those days, writers for children carefully avoided any reference to sex in their books, but had not inhibitions about including scenes of violence.The evidence collected suggests, however, that neither the subject, nor the action in itself frightens children. The context in which cruely or violence occurs is much more important.A good guide to what is psychologically healthy for a small child is therefore provided by a television series in which a boy and a girl are supposed to be exploring distant planets with their parents. In each story, they encounter strange monsters and find themselves in dangerous situations but the parents are reassuring and sensible, as a child’s paprents should be in real life. There is an adult character who is a coward and liar, but both the children are brave and , of course, every story ends happily.In my view, children should be exposed to the problems of real life as soon as possible, but they cannont help seeing these through news programs. When they are being entertained, the healthiest atmosphere is one which the hero and heroine are children like themselves who behave naturally and confidently in any situation.7. The ony thing people are interesed in today is earing more money Once upon a time there lived a beautiful young woman and a handsome young man. They were very poor, but as they were deeply in love, they wanted to get married. The young people’s parents shook their heads. “You can’t get married yet.” They said. Wait till you get a good job with good prospects. So the young people waited untilthey found good jobs with good prospects and they were able to get married. They were still poor, of course, they didn’t have a house to live in or any furniture, but that did’t matter. They young man had a good job with good prospects, so large organizations lent him the money he needed to buy a house, some furniture, all the latest electrical appliances and a car. The couple lived happily ever after paying off debts for the rest of their lves. And so ends another modern romantic fable.We live in a materialistic society and are trained from our earlist years to be acquistive. Our possessions, yours and mine are clearly labeled from early childhood. When we grow old enough to earn a living, it does not surpise us to discover that success is measured in terms of the money you earn. We spend the whole of ourlives keeping up with our neighbors, the Joneses. If we buy a new television set , Jones is bound to buy a bigger and better one. If we buy a new car, we can be sure that Jones will go one better and get two new cars: one for his wife and one for himself. The most amusing thing about this game is that Joneses and all the neighbors who are struggling frantically to keep up with them are spending borrowed money kindly provided, at a suitable rate of interest, of course, by friendly banks, insurance companies, etc.It is not only affluent societies that people are obsessed with the idea of making more money. Consumer goods are desirable everywhere and modern industry deliberately sets out to create new markets. Gone are the days when industrial goods were made to last forever. The wheels of industry must be kept turning. Built-in obsolescence provides the means; goods are made to be discarded. Cars get tinnier and tinnier. You no sooner acquire this year’s model than you are thinking about its replacement.This materialistic outlook has seriously influenced education. Fewer and fewer young people these days acquire knowledge only for its own sake. Every course of studies must lead somewhere. i.e. to a bigger wage packet. The demand for skilled personnel for exceeds the supply and big companies compete with each other to recruit students before they have completed their studies. Tempting salaries and “fringe benefits” are offered to them. Recruiting tactics ofthis kind have led to the brain drain, the process by which highly skilled people offer their services to the highest bidder. The wealthier nations deprive their poorer neighbors of their most able citizens. While Mammon is worshipped as never before, the rich get richers and the poor, poorer.8. Communication and LanguageOne of the first things we think about when we hear the word communication language. There are thousands of languages spoken around the world today. In fact, linguistis say that there may be as many as 10000.Speaking with others is an important means of communication, but we can also communicate without using words, that is by nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication includes voice quality, eyes movement, facial expression and body movements such as gestures and change in body position. But many people do not realize that everyone uses nonverbal communication. Sometimes, we “say” more with our face and gestures that we do with our voices.Books, magazines, newspapers, radio, television, are other means of communication. Today we can also communicate over long distance with the help of communications satellites. Some scientists say that soon machines will be developed for sending message through the earth. The technology necessary to build these machines is very complex. But the language we speak every day is much more complex than the most modern communication technology.9. Cooperation Goes with CompetitionIn our times, cooperation and competition spread over the world. Both of them speed up the wheel of economy and enrich the intelligence of mankind. It is possible to accomplish a complicated program by only one person now. As we know, the more cooperation a company depends on, the more efficient it will become in business.Furthermore, we can’t avoid competition in our exchanges. From time to time, we compare ourselves with others, expecting to catch up with others. This is the spirit of competition, by which we pursue the highest goal. It is only by competition in the market that a company can raise its reputation. Were it not for competition, say, all of us would not enjoy what we have achieved.10. The Rise of Intellectual Property ProtectionIntellectural property scarcely existed in the vocabularies of academic researchers and administrators even 15 years ago. Now it is an ever-present part of discussions on research policies and directions. This new importance of intellectual property in academia reflects a changing view on ther relationships of research at universities to the surrounding society. Until recently, research at universities has been relatively isolated from demands of economic utility,and education of graduate students has emphasized a career in academic research as the final goal.Now almost all research universities in the United States have technology licensing operations. The number of U.S. patents granted to American universities in a year rose from about 300 in 1980 to almost 2000 in 1995. The direct economic impact of technology licensing on the universities themselves has been relatively small. In contrast, the impact of university technology transfer on the local and national economies has been substantial, and leads to the concusion that the Licensing Act () is one of the most successful pieces of economic development in recent history. It has been estimated that more than 200000 jobs have been created in the United States in product development and manufacturing of products from university licenses, with the number increasing fairly rapidly as the licenses mature.Intellectual property terms have become vitally important. The company wants to be assured that it can use the results of the research-and that these results will not be available to their competitors. But most universities insist that transfer of research results is key to their identity and mission and will not agree to keep the project results secret. The key to resolving this dilemman is to grant patents: the university will publish the results, but will first agree to file patents that will protect the company’s privilege in the commercial market place.11. Generation GapDespite various improvements in all aspects of social life, the generation gap between the grown-up and the young remains unbridged. Instead, it grows wider apart.Nowadays, the youths do not blindlyfollow what their elder say. Owing to widespread edcuation, the influence of western civilization, to certain extent, gives them a new code of philosophy, which is completely different from that of their elders. An invisible cold wall thus appears between the two generations.Modern youths are trying to be more revolutionary. They have their own interpretation fro different matters; they also have their own ideals. Their reluctance to learn old teaching and sayings becomes the constant friction between the two generations. They always introduce new changes. However, the old people, wedded to everything of the past, are hostile to changes and the generation gap becomes wider and wider.After all, the young generation, like the old one, is made of flesh and blood. The young also need respect and they also have skills and good ideas. In order to narrow the gap, both groups should try to understand each other. Most probably, these suggestions may help to solve the problem.本文由“育明考博”整理编辑。

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