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2012年复旦大学考博英语试卷

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1 It was very difficult to find the parts needed to do the job because of the ______

way the store was organized.

A logical

B haphazard

C orderly

D tidy

2 Mississippi also uplolds the South’s well-deserved reputation for warm,hospitable people;balmy year-round weather;and truly______cuisine.

A destructive

B horrible

C amiable

D delectable

3 If she is stupid,she’s _____pleasant to look at.

A at any rate

B by chance

C at a loss

D by the way

4 The mother was_____with grief when she heard that her child was dead.

A fantastic

B frank

C frantic

D frenzy

5 In your teens,peer-group friendships may _____from parents as the major influence on you.

A take control

B take place

C take up

D take over

6 Parents often faced the ___between doing what they felt was good for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undisciplined noise and destructiveness.

A paradox

B junction

C premise

D dilemma

7There have been demonstrations on the streets____the recent terrorist attack.

A in the wake of

B in the course of

C in the context of

D in the light of

8Thousands of Medicare patients with chronic medical conditions have been wrongly_____access to necessary care.

A grudged

B denied

C negated

D invalidated

9 It has been proposed by many linguists that human language______,our biologically programmed abilith to use language, is still not well defined and understood.

A potentiality

B perception

C faculty

D acquisition

10 Western medicine,_______science and practiced by people with academic internationally accepted medical degrees,is only one of many systems of healing.

A rooted in

B originated from

C trapped in

D indulged in

11 When I asked if a black politician could win in France,however ,he responded _____:”No,conditions are different here.”

A ambiguously

B implicitly

C unhesitatingly

D optimistically

12 The development of staff cohesion and a sense of team effort in the workplace can be effectively _______by the use of humor.

A acquainted

B installed

C regulated

D facilitated

13 In both America and Europe,it is _____to tip the waiter or waitress anywhere from 10% to 20%.

A elementary

B temporary

C voluntary

D customary

14 Such an approach forces managers to communicate with one another and helps______rigid departmental borndaries.

A pass over

B stand for

C break down Dset off

15 As a teenager,I was_____by a blind passion for a slim star I would never meet in my life.

A pursued

B seduced

C consumed

D guaranteed

16 His originality as a composer is____by the following group of songs.

A exemplified

B created

C performed

D realized

17 They are going to London,but their______destination is Rome.

A ultimate

B prime

C next

D cardinal

18 The poor old man was _____with diabetes and without proper treatment he would lose his eyesight and become crippled very soon.

A suffered

B afflicted

C induced

D infected

19 The bribe and the bridegroom were overwhelmed in happiness when their family offered to take them to Rome to _______the marriage.

A terminate

B initiate Cconsummate D separate

20 Join said that the richer countries of the world should make a _____effort to help the poorer countries.

A futile

B glittering

C frantic

D concentrated

21 The problem is inherent and _______in any democracy,but it has been more severe in ours during the past quarter-century because of the near universal denigration of government,politics and politicians.

A perishable

B periodical

C perverse

D perennial

22As is known to all ,____commodities will definitely do harm to our life sooner or later.

A counterfeit

B fake

C imitative

D fraudulent

23 It would be _____to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.

A subtle Bfeeble C nasty D na?ve

24It is surprising that such an innocent-looking man should have____such a crime.

A confirmed

B clarified

C committed

D converyed

25 Hummans are ___,which enables them to make dicisions even when they can’t justify why.

A rational

B reasonable

C hesitant

D intuitive

26 More than 100____cats that used to roam the streets in a Chinese province have now been collected and organized into a tram to fight rodents that are destroying crops.

A loose

B tamed

C wild

D stary

27 To say that his resignation was a shock would be an______-------it caused panie.

A excuse

B indulgence

C exaggeration

D understatement

28 Here the burden of his thought is that the philosopher ,aiming at truth,must not ____the seduction of trying to write beautifully.

A subject to

B carry on

C yield to

D aim at

29 I found the subject very difficult ,and at one time thought I should have to give it up,but you directions are so clear and ____that I have succeeded in getting a picture we all think pretty,though wanting in the tender grace of yours.

A on the point

B off the point

C to the point

D up to a point

30 They both watched as the crime scene technicians took samples of various fibers and bagged them,dusted for fingerprints,took pictures and tried to _____what could have happened.

A rehearse

B reiterate

C reinforce

D reenact

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In 1896 a georgia couple suing for damages in the accidental death of their two year old was told that since the child had made no real economic contribution to the family, there was no liability for damages. in contrast, less than a century later, in 1979, the parents of a three year old sued in New York for accidental-death damages and won an award of $750,000. the transformation in social values implicit in juxta- posing these two incidents is the subject of viviana zelizer's excellent book, pricing the priceless child. during the nineteenth century, she argues, the concept of the "useful" child who contributed to the family economy gave way gradually to the present-day notion of the "useless" child who, though producing no income for, and indeed extremely costly to, its parents, is yet considered emotionally "priceless." well established among segments of the middle and upper classes by the mid-1800's, this new view of childhood spread through- out society in the iate-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries as reformers introduced child-labor regulations and compulsory education laws predicated in part on the assumption that a child's emotional value made child labor taboo. for zelizer the origins of this transformation were many and complex. the gradual erosion of children's productive value in a maturing industrial economy, the decline in birth and death rates, especially in child mortality, and the development of the companionate family (a family in which members were united by explicit bonds of love rather than duty) were all factors critical in changing the assessment of children's worth. yet "expulsion of children from the 'cash nexus,'... although clearly shaped by profound changes in the economic, occupational, and family structures," zelizer maintains. "was also part of a cultural process 'of sacralization' of children's lives. " protecting children from the crass business world became enormously important for late-nineteenth-century middle-class Americans, she suggests; this sacralization was a way of resisting what they perceived as the relentless corruption of human values by the marketplace. in stressing the cultural determinants of a child's worth. zelizer takes issue with practitioners of the new "sociological economics," who have analyzed such traditionally sociological topics as crime, marriage, education, and health solely in terms of their economic determinants. allowing only a small role for cultural forces in the form of individual "preferences," these sociologists tend to view all human behavior as directed primarily by the principle of maximizing economic gain. zelizer is highly critical of this approach, and emphasizes instead the opposite phenomenon: the power of social values to

transform price. as children became more valuable in emotional terms, she argues, their "exchange" or " surrender" value on the market, that is, the conversion of their intangible worth into cash terms, became much greater.

1.it can be inferred from the passage that accidental-death damage awards in America

during the nineteenth century tended to be based principally on the

(a) earnings of the person at time of death

(b) wealth of the party causing the death

(d) amount of money that had been spent on the person killed

2.it can be inferred from the passage that in the early 1800's children were generally

regarded by their families as individuals who

(a) needed enormous amounts of security and affection

(b) required constant supervision while working

(d) were unsuited to spending long hours in school

3.which of the following alternative explanations of the change in the cash value of

children would be most likely to be put forward by sociological economists as they are described in the passage?

(a) the cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because parents began

to increase their emotional investment in the upbringing of

their children.

(b) the cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because their expected

earnings over the course of a lifetime increased greatly.

humanitarian ideals resulted in a wholesale reappraisal of the worth of an individual

(d) the cash value of children rose during the nineteenth century because compulsory

education laws reduced the supply, and thus raised the costs, of available child labor.

4.the primary purpose of the passage is to

(a) review the literature in a new academic subfield

(b) present the central thesis of a recent book

(d) refute a traditional explanation of a social phenomenon

5.zelizer refers to all of the following as important influences in changing the assessment

of children's worth except changes in

(a) the mortality rate

(b) the nature of industry

(d) attitudes toward reform movements

A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of astreet in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with nosmall peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for pedestrians, but she replied: 'I'm going to walk where I like. We've got liberty now.' It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the pedestrian to walk down the middle of the road, then the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting ineverybody else's way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.There is a danger of the world getting liberty-drunk inthese days like the old lady with the basket, and it is just as wellto remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It meansthat in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman,say, at Piccadilly Circus steps into the middle of the road andputs out his hand, he is the symbol not of tyranny, but

of liberty.You may not think so. You may, being in a hurry, and seeingyour car pulled up by this insolence of office, feel that your liberty has been outraged. How dare this fellow interfere with your free use of the public highway? Then, if you are a reasonable person, you will reflect that if he did not interfere withyou, he would interfere with no one, and the result would be thatPiccadilly Circus would be a maelstrom that you would never

cross at all. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality.

Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social

contract. It is an accommodation of interests. In matters which donot touch anybody else's liberty, of course, I may be as free as Ilike. If I choose to go down the road in a dressing-gown who

shall say me nay? You have liberty to laugh at me, but I have

liberty to be indifferent to you. And if I have a fancy for dyeing

my hair, or waxing my moustache (which heaven forbid), or wearing an overcoat and sandals, or going to bed late or gettingup early, I shall follow my fancy and ask no man's permission. Ishall not inquire of you whether I may eat mustard with mymutton. And you will not ask me whether you may follow thisreligion or that, whether you may prefer Ella Wheeler Wilcox to Wordsworth, or champagne to shandy.In all these and a thousand other details you and I please

ourselves and ask no one's leave. We have a whole kingdom in

which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise orridiculous, harsh or easy, conventional or odd. But directly we step out of that kingdom, our personal liberty of action becomesqualified by other people's liberty.

I might like to practice on thetrombone from midnight till three in the morning. If I went on tothe top of Everest to do it, I could please myself, but if I do it inmy bedroom my family will object, and if I do it out in the streets

the neighbors will remind me that my liberty to blow thetrombone must not interfere with their liberty to sleep in quiet.There are a lot of people in the world, and I have toaccommodate my liberty to their liberties.We are all liable to forget this, andunfortunately we are much more conscious of the imperfections of others in this respect thanof our own. A reasonable consideration for the rights or feelingsof others is the foundation of social conduct.It is in the small matters of conduct, in the observance ofthe rule of the road, that we pass judgment upon ourselves, and declare that we are civilized or uncivilized. The great moments ofheroism and sacrifice are rare. It is the little habits of

commonplace intercourse that make up the great sum of life and sweeten or make bitter the journey.

1. The author might have stated his ‘rule of the road’ as

A. do not walk in the middle of the road

B. follow the orders of policemen

C. do not behave inconsiderately in public

D. do what you like in private

2. The author’s attitude to the old lady in paragraph one is

A. condescending

B. intolerant

C. objective D supportive

3 A situation analogous to the ‘insolence of office’ described in paragraph 2 would be

A. a teacher correcting grammar errors

B. an editor shortening the text of an article

C. a tax inspector demanding to see someone’s accounts

D. an army office giving orders to a soldier

4 The author assumes that he may be as free as he likes in

A. all matters of dress and food

B. any situation which does not interfere with the liberty of others

C. anything that is not against the law

D. his own home

5 In the sentence ‘ We are all liable.. the author is

A. pointing out a general weakness

B. emphasizing his main point

C. countering a general misconception

D. suggesting a remedy

The name of Florence Nightingale lives in the memory of the

world by virtue of the heroic adventure of the Crimea. Had she died - as she nearly did - upon her return to England, her reputation would hardly have been different; her legend would 5 have come down to us almost as we know it today - that gentle vision of female virtue which first took shape before the adoring

eyes of the sick soldiers at Scutari. Yet, as a matter of fact, she

lived for more than half a century after the Crimean War; and during the greater part of that long period all the energy and all the

10 devotion of her extraordinary nature were working at their highest pitch. What she accomplished in those years of unknown labor could, indeed, hardly have been more glorious than her Crimean triumphs; but it was certainly more important. The true history was far stranger even than the myth. In Miss Nightingale's

15 own eyes the adventure of the Crimea was a mere incident - scarcely more than a useful stepping-stone in her career. It

was the

fulcrum with which she hoped to move the world; but it was only the fulcrum. For more than a generation she was to sit in secret, working her lever: and her real life began at the very 20 moment when, in popular imagination, it had ended.

She arrived in England in a shattered state of health. The hardships and the ceaseless efforts of the last two years had undermined her nervous system; her heart was affected; she suffered constantly from fainting-fits and terrible attacks of utter

25 physical prostration. The doctors declared that one thing alone

would save her - a complete and prolonged rest. But that was also

the one thing with which she would have nothing to do. She had never been in the habit of resting; why should she begin now? Now, when her opportunity had come at last; now, when the iron 30 was hot, and it was time to strike? No; she had work to do; and, come what might, she would do it. The doctors protested in vain; in vain her family lamented and entreated, in vain her friends pointed out to her the madness of such a course. Madness? Mad -

possessed - perhaps she was. A frenzy had seized upon her. As 35 she lay upon her sofa, gasping, she devoured blue-books, dictated

letters, and, in the intervals of her palpitations, cracked jokes. For

months at a stretch she never left her bed. But she would not rest.

At this rate, the doctors assured her, even if she did not die, she

would become an invalid for life. She could not help that; there 40 was work to be done; and, as for rest, very likely she might rest ...

when she had done it.

Wherever she went, to London or in the country, in the hills of Derbyshire, or among the rhododendrons at Embley, she was haunted by a ghost. It was the specter of Scutari - the hideous 45 vision of the organization of a military hospital. She would lay that

phantom, or she would perish. The whole system of the

Army Medical Department, the education of the Medical Officer, the regulations of hospital procedure ... rest? How could she

rest

while these things were as they were, while, if the like necessity

50 were to arise again, the like results would follow? And, even in

peace and at home, what was the sanitary condition of the Army? The mortality in the barracks, was, she found, nearly double the

mortality in civil life. 'You might as well take 1, 100 men every year out upon Salisbury Plain and shoot them,' she said. After 55 inspecting the hospitals at Chatham, she smiled grimly. 'Yes, this

is one more symptom of the system which, in the Crimea, put to death 16,000 men.' Scutari had given her knowledge; and it had given her power too: her enormous reputation was at her back -

an incalculable force. Other work, other duties, might lie before

60 her; but the most urgent, the most obvious, of all was to look to

the health of the Army.

1. According to the author, the work done during the last fifty years of Florence Nightingale's life was, when compared with her work in the Crimea, all of the following except

A. less dramatic

B. less demanding

C. less well-known to the public

D. more important

2 Paragraph two paints a picture of a woman who is

A. mentally shattered

B. stubborn and querulous

C. physically weak but mentally indomitable

D. purposeful yet tiresome

3 . The primary purpose of paragraph 3 is to

A. account for conditions in the army

B. show the need for hospital reform

C. explain Miss Nightingale's main concerns

D. argue that peacetime conditions were worse than wartime conditions

4 The author's attitude to his material is

A. disinterested reporting of biographical details

B. over-inflation of a reputation

C. debunking a myth

D. interpretation as well as narration

5 In her statement (lines 53-54) Miss Nightingale intended to

A. criticize the conditions in hospitals

B. highlight the unhealthy conditions under which ordinary soldiers were living

C. prove that conditions in the barracks were as bad as those in a military hospital

D. ridicule the dangers of army life

How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical yet contentious social policy questions. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930a€?s when most of the unemployed were primary breadwinners, when income and earnings were usually much closer to the margin of subsistence, and when there were no countervailing social programs for those failing in the labor market. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from multiple-earner, relatively affluent families.

Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies.

Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of

labor-market-related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty. Low wages and repeated or prolonged unemployment frequently interact to undermine the capacity for self-support. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is several times the number unemployed in any month, those who suffer as a result of forced idleness can equal or exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any month really suffer. For every person counted in the monthly unemployment tallies, there is another working part-time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but wanting a job. Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash and in-kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are adequately protected.

As a result of such contradictory evidence, it is uncertain whether those suffering seriously as a result of labor market problems number in the hundreds of thousands or the tens of millions, and, hence, whether high levels of joblessness can be tolerated or must be countered by job creation and economic stimulus. There is only one area of agreement in thi s debatea€”that the existing poverty, employment, and earnings statistics are inadequate for one their primary applications, measuring the consequences of labor market problems.

1.Which of the following is the principal topic of the passage?

(A) What causes labor market pathologies that result in suffering

(B) Why income measures are imprecise in measuring degrees of poverty

(D) How social statistics give an unclear picture of the degree of hardship caused by low wages and insufficient employment opportunities

2. The author uses “labor market problems” in lines 1-2 to refer to which of the following?

(A) The overall causes of poverty

(B) Deficiencies in the training of the work force

(D) Shortages of jobs providing adequate income

3 Which of the following proposals best responds to the issues raised by the author?

(A) Innovative programs using multiple approaches should be set up to reduce the level of unemployment.

(B) A compromise should be found between the positions of those who view joblessness as an evil greater than economic control and those who hold the opposite view.

(C) New statistical indices should be developed to measure the degree to which unemployment and inadequately paid employment cause suffering.

(D) Consideration should be given to the ways in which statistics can act as partial causes of the phenomena that they purport to measure.

4 The author states that the mitigating effect of social programs involving income transfers on the income level of low-income people is often not felt by

(A) the employed poor

(B) dependent children in single-earner families

(D) retired workers

5 According to the passage, one factor that causes unemployment and earnings figures to overpredict the amount of economic hardship is the

(A) recurrence of periods of unemployment for a group of low-wage workers

(B) possibility that earnings may be received from more than one job per worker

(D) establishment of a system of record-keeping that makes it possible to compile poverty statistics

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As children we start _____a natural curiosity about everything around us,and during the

maturation process this curiosity can be stimulated,buffered or severely attenuated by our environment and experience.The future success of research in science and engineering depends ___our society recognizing the crucial role played by stimylation of mental processes early in life.Pattern recognition,analytical thinking and similar abilities need to be stimulated from birth onward.To destroy this natural curiosity or to attenuate the joy of discovery is the greatest disservice we do ____to the developing person.For those who reach maturity with their natural curiosity intact and enhanced by education,the joy of discovery is a strong driver of success.

But why are so_____of our capable students pursuing the level of education required for a successful research career?Is it ______we have dampaned their curiosity?Have we failed to let them experience the joy of discovery?is it because too many of us currently involved _____the research enterprise have become disenchanted with our circumstances and therefore paint a bleak future for potential scienctists and engineers?Perhaps entirely different factors are ____play in the decision to not become scientists and engineers.

We have too frequently portrayed science and engineering as professions that are all-encompassing .We have portrayed research as a profession that requires long and grueling hours in the laboratory to achieve success. We have ____to promote the excitement and exhilaration of discovery.We have not promoted the fact that it is not only very common____very reasonable to have a successful research career and an exciting and normal personal life.

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由小学到中学，所修习的无非是一些普通的基本知识。就是大学四年，所授课业也还是相当粗浅的学识。世人常称大学为“最高学府”，这名称易滋误解，好象过此以上即无学问可言。大学的研究所才是初步研究学问的所在，在这里做学问也只能算是粗涉藩篱，注重的是研究学问的方法与实习。学无止境，一生的时间都嫌太短，所以古人皓首穷经，头发白了还是在继续研究，不过在这样的研究中确是有浓厚的趣味。

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1 Stay hungry,stay foolish

2 We live to change the world.

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