复旦大学博士研究生入学考试英语试题

复旦大学2005年博士研究生入学考试英语试题

Part ⅠListening Comprehension (15 points)

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Part ⅡVocabulary and Structure (10 points)

Directions: There are 20 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ with a single line through the center.

21．The feeling of ______ that followed her victory was cut short hy her father's sudden death.

A．initiation B．intricacy C．interrogation D．intoxication 22．An independent adviser has been brought in to ______ between the two sides involved in the conflict.

A．conciliate B．waver C．vacillate D．linger

23．Robert's enthusiasm for the program of social reform seems to have ______, for he seldom mentions it any more.

A．broke through B．come up C．worn off D．fallen out

24．Talented ______ he is, he is not yet ready to turn professional.

A．since B．as C．until D．while

25．It is very ______ of Miss Bingley to refuse to give any money to the church appeal when she could so easily afford it.

A．considerate B．miserly C．belligerent D．touchy

26．Obviously what she did was wrong, but I don't think it ______ quite such severe punishment.

A．slashed B．surmised C．warranted D．evaluated

27．______ the time available to us, we will have to submit the report in draft form.

A．Giving B．To give C．Having given D．Given

28．On a warm sunny day the river seems ______ and benign, and it's hard to believe it can be dangerous.

A．treacherous B．perilous C．placid D．turbulent

29．The woman ______ the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn't put it back together again.

A．dismantled B．dispensed C．dissolved D．dissipated

30．Local residents claimed that the noise from the concert was causing a public ______.

A．nuisance B．nuance C．novelty D．notification

31．The candidate knew he could win the election when he saw the ______ with which his supporters worked.

A．zeal B．innocence C．magnetism D．indifference

32．______ your help, I might have failed in getting this high-paid job.

A．Thanks to B．But for C．Owing to D．Apart from

33．Police believe that many burglars are amateurs who would flee if an alarm sounded or lights ______.

A．came out B．came to C．came on D．came in

34．Even though strong evidence has proved the nicotine to be ______, the tobacco company still insists that its products are harmless.

A．minute B．soluble C．communicable D．addictive

35．He ______ the men’s faces closely, trying to work out who was lying.

A．slashed B．smacked C．slammed D．scrutinized

36．She was portrayed in the press as a ______ sort of character who was only interested in men for their money.

A．lofty B．deliberate C．courteous D．grasping

37．The table has a plastic coating which prevents liquids from ______ into the wood beneath.

A．rambling B．permeating C．eroding D．chasing

38．Going out for a walk when it's pouring with rain is a ______ idea.

A．conducive B．ludicrous C．flashy D．transient

39．The lorry was lodged in a very ______ way, with its front wheels hanging over the cliff.

A．precarious B．repulsive C．fastidious D．oblivious

40．Her mother taught her never to ______ if someone insulted her, as it would only make the situation worse.

A．retaliate B．deport C．outdo D．foil

Part ⅢReading Comprehension (40 points)

Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET Ⅰ with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Always at the beginning of any particular hunt there was one solemn ceremony to perform: an earnest consultation between all the hunters as to which spoor was most worthwhile following. The Bushmen would sit on their heels like elder statesmen discussing the size, mood, sex, and direction of the animals, study the wind, the sun, the hour and the weather generally. When they had picked out one particular spoor they revealed their decision by flicking their hands over it loosely from their wrists and making a sound like the wind between their teeth. They would do that, too, whenever spoor was fresh and promising and the gesture came so clearly from a background of meaning that we never saw it without an mediate quickening of our own pulses.

The decision made, they would set out at a steady trot, until there was evidence that their quarry was near. Sometimes they would stalk it, first on their knees and finally full on the stomach, until the animal came within range of their bows. Frequently, if seen, they would make no effort to hide themselves but go slowly, hands behind their backs, imitating the movements of ostriches pecking casually at the food in the veld. When hunting in a group they seemed to prefer shooting in pairs, coming up together on their knees like shadows within a bush. Without a word being spoken but by some process of wordless intercommunication of purpose, simultaneously they would let fly their arrow at the animal, the bowstrings resounding with a wild harp-like twang. That done they would stand up at leisure. They never expected the animal to drop dead at once, knowing they would have to wait until the poison began to do its deadly work.

But the first thing to establish was that the arrows had found their mark. The arrows were made in three sections for this very reason. First, the poisoned head was made in one short hollowed piece which fitted into another slightly larger one which was joined to the main shaft, notched at the far end to take the bow-string without slipping or fumbling. This made certain that the wounded animal would be unable to rid itself of the arrow by rubbing its wounded place

against a tree, for in this way the arrow-shaft either parted from the arrow-head on impact, or else when the animal started rubbing itself against trunks and thorn bushes. If the hunters recovered the arrows intact, of course, they made no attempt to follow the alerted quarry. But if they found only the shaft they would take up the spoor at once and the real business of the hunt began. How long it took before they closed in for the kill with their spears on an animal already half paralyzed by poison, depended on the sort of poison used, the size of the animal, and the nature and place of the wound. Sometimes the chase would last only an hour or two, but with the greatest of all quarries, the eland, it sometimes took a whole day.

I have never seen a killing which seemed more innocent. It was killing in order to live. On their faces there was always an expression of profound relief and gratitude when the hunter's quest had been fulfilled. There was also a desire to complete the killing as quickly as possible. I have watched their faces many times while performing this deed and I could see only the strain of the hunt, the signs of fatigue from running all day under a cloudless sky in a high temperature, together with a kind of dedicated expression, but no gloating, or killing for the sake of killing.

41．According to the passage the hunters kill their prey by ______.

A．following their spoor B．shooting them with spears

C．trapping them D．shooting them with poisoned arrows

42．What did the writer find exciting to see?

A．Animals being chased and killed.

B．The hunter's hand gestures signaling a target.

C．The way the arrows are made.

D．The way hunters find their quarry.

43．The writer considers the hunters as ______.

A．sportsmen B．humane killers

C．childlike savages D．cunning ostrich impersonators

44．According to the passage, the hunters imitate ostriches because ______.

A．they want to gain the trust of their intended prey

B．they would like to entertain each other after a hard day's work

C．ostriches are easier to imitate than elands

D．if seen they could hide their heads in the ground

45．If the hunters found only the shaft of an arrow, it meant most importantly ______.

A．there was an animal dying somewhere

B．the arrow was well made

C．the arrow was badly made

D．they would never find arrow-head

Passage Two

As they turned into Upshot Rise where his parents lived, Jack let go of Ruth's hand. Upshot Rise was not a hand-holding street. When you turned into it, you wiped your feet and minded your manners. Each house was decently detached, each privet hedge crew cut and correct. Each drive sported a car or two, and the portals of most of the houses were framed by white pillars that had probably been delivered in polythene bags. Behind each set of white curtains lived people who touched each other seldom. Some had retired and moved into the suburb for the landscape and the silences. Whilst others had begun there, sprouting from the white sheets in the white beds behind the white curtains, who knew nothing of dirt except that of conception and delivery.

Jack' parents fitted neither of these categories. They were refugees from Nazi Germany. Not the mattress-on-the-the-donkey-cart type of refugee, winding in tracking-shot down the interminable highway, but respectable well-heeled emigrants．The flight of the Mullers had been in the early days, without panic and with all their possessions. Jack's father's business had been an export affair to England so that there was little upheaval in their change of address. Both his father and his mother spoke English fluently, and through the business were already well connected with the upper strata of English social life. They travelled first class from Ostend to Dover, and early in the morning when only the white cliffs were looking, they made a deft spelling change to their name, and landing as the Millar family, they spoke to the customs officer in faultless English, declaring their monogrammed silver. Upshot Rise was a natural home for them. It was almost a duplicate of the Beethovenstrasse where they had lived in Hamburg, quiet, silent, and reliable. Like Upshot Rise, it lay in a dream suburb, a suburb of dream houses, a spotlessly clean nightmare.

Jack and Ruth walked enjoined up the hill. They turned into the house that took in the bend of the road. Jack tried to silence the click of the gate as he opened it to let Ruth through. He knew that his mother would be waiting for the noise behind the bedroom window. It was the first time

she would see Ruth and Jack wanted to give her no time advantage. He wanted them to meet at the door and see each other at the same time.

46．It can be concluded from the passage that Upshot Rise has ______.

A．a strong community spirit

B．a problem with nosey neighbors

C．a sterile feel and appearance

D．residents with a flair for self-expression

47．The word “well-heeled” in paragraph 2 can be replaced by ______.

A．stingy B．rich C．conceited D．well-intentioned

48．Jack and Ruth did not hold hands as they turned into Upshot Rise because ______.

A．Jack had sweaty hands

B．holding hands was considered immoral behavior

C．holding hands was not correct behavior for Upshot Rise

D．they were too shy

49．How did Jack's parents adjust themselves to their new home?

A．They began to study English.

B．They invented new names for themselves.

C．They rarely went out.

D．They made an alteration to their name.

50．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．Jack's parents suffered much discomfort in the course of their moving to England.

B．Jack's parents were persecuted for being German.

C．Jack's parents hated Upshot Rise as much as their old home.

D．Jack's parents fitted naturally into Upshot Rise.

Passage Three

Medicine achieved its splendid eminence by applying the principle of fragmentation to the human condition. Our bodily ills have been split up and relegated to different experts: an itch to the dermatologist, a twitch to the neurologist and if all else fails, a visit to the psychiatrist. For this last, intangible function the family doctor has been taken over by the specialist confessional.

Abroad, the family doctor is almost extinct. In Germany, every doctor “specializes.” In Israel,

you queue at one desk for a cut finger, at another for a sprain, and a third for shock—even if all three symptoms resulted from one accident. In Britain, both the growing importance of hospital facilities and the reluctance of G. P. s to unit their resources has gone far towards making the surgery an overloaded sorting depot for hospital clinics. There is no room for the amateur—be it in delivering a baby or calming a neurotic.

Consultants and G. P. s begin the same way, as medical students obliged to cultivate detachment. But whereas a family doctor gets involved in the intimate details of his “parish”, the consultant need only meet aspects of the patient relevant to his specialty. The more he endeavours to specialize，the more extraneous phenomena must be shut out. Beyond the token bedside exchanges he need not go. Consequently, in a surgical ward, there are no people at all：only an appendectomy, a tumor, two hernias, and a “terminal case” (hospitals avoid the word “dying”). To make impersonality easier, beds are numbered and patients are known by numbers. Remoteness provides the hospital with a practical working code.

Nurses too have evolved their own defense system. Since they care for individuals, they could with dangerous case become too involved. The nursing profession has therefore perfected its own technique of fragmentation, “task assignment.” This enables one patient's needs to be split up among many nurses. One junior will go down a row of beds inserting a thermometer into a row of mouths. Whether the owners are asleep or drinking tea is irrelevant, the job comes first．In her final year, a student will undertake the premedication of patients on theatre-list. She has by that time learnt to see them as objects for injection, not frightened people.

Nursing leaders realize the drawbacks in this system. There has been talk of group assignment to link nurses with particular patients and give some continuity. But the actual number of experiments can be counted on one hand. Nurses, as they often plead, touchingly, “are only human.” They shun responsibility for life and death. If responsibil ity is split into a kaleidoscope of routines, it weighs less on any one person.

51．In this passage, the writer is ultimately suggesting that ______.

A．healthcare has become more efficient

B．healthcare has become less caring

C．hospitals have too many specialists

D．there should be more opportunities for amateurs in hospitals

52．According to the passage nurses are ______.

A．overpaid and uncaring B．overworked and unfairly criticized

C．overwhelmed and undervalued D．uncaring but efficient

53．The writer holds that hospitals abroad are ______.

A．more efficient than those in Britain

B．much cleaner than those in Britain

C．ultimately no better than those in Britain

D．ideal examples of an ideal healthcare system

54．According to the writers the attempts by nursing leaders to improve the system are ______.

A．a step in the fight direction B．impressive

C．few D．flawed

55．The word “shun” in the last paragraph means ______.

A．dodge B．claim C．appreciate D．undertake

Passage Four

In the 1350s poor countrymen began to have cottages and gardens which they could call their own. Were these fourteenth-century peasants, then, the originators of the cottage garden? Not really: the making and planting of small mixed gardens had been pioneered by others, and the cottager had at least two good examples which he could follow. His garden plants might and to some extent did come from the surrounding countryside, but a great many came from the monastery gardens. As to the general plan of the small garden, in so far as it had one at all, that had its origin not in the country, but in the town．

The first gardens to be developed and planted by the owners or tenants of small houses town cottages as it were, were almost certainly those of the suburbs of the free cities of Italy and Germany in the early Middle Ages. Thus the suburban garden, far from being a descendant of the country cottage garden, is its ancestor, and older, in all probability, by about two centuries. On the face of it a paradox, in fact this is really logical enough: it was in such towns that there first emerged a class of man who was free and who, without being rich, owned his own small house: a craftsman or tradesman protected by his guild from the great barons, and from the petty ones too. Moreover, it was in the towns, rather than in the country, where the countryside provided herbs

and even wild vegetables, that men needed to cultivate pot-herbs and salads. It was also in the towns that there existed a demand for market-garden produce.

London lagged well behind the Italian, Flemish, German and French free cities in this bourgeois progress towards the freedom of having a garden; yet, as early as the thirteenth century, well before the Black Death, Fitz Steven, biographer of Thomas a Becket, was writing that, in London: “On all sides outside the house of the citizens who dwell in the suburbs there are adjoining gardens planted with trees, both spacious and pleasing to the sight.”

Then there is the monastery garden, quoted often as a “source” of the cottage garden in innumerable histories of gardening. The gardens of the great religious establishments of the eighth and ninth centuries had two origins：St. Augustine, copying the Greek academe did his teaching in a small garden presented to him for that purpose by a rich friend. Thus the idea of a garden-school, which began among the Greek philosopher-teachers, was carried on by the Christian church. In the second place, since one of the charities undertaken by most religious orders was that of healing, monasteries and nunneries needed a garden of medicinal herbs. Such physic gardens were soon supplemented by vegetable, salad and fruit gardens in those monasteries which enjoined upon their members the duty of raising their own food, or at least a part of it. They tended next to develop, willy-nilly into flower gardens simply because many of the herbaceous plants grown for medicinal purposes, or for their fragrance as strewing herbs, had pretty flowers—for example, violets, marjoram, pinks, primroses, madonna lilies and roses．In due course these flowers came to be grown for their own sakes, especially since some of them, lilies and roses notably, had a ritual or religious significance of their own. The madonna lily had been Aphrodite's symbolic flower, it became Mary's; yet its first association with horticulture was economic: a salve or ointment was made from the bulb.

Much earlier than is commonly realized, certain monastic gardeners were making remarkable progress in scientific horticulture—for example, in forcing flowers and fruit out of season in cloister and courtyard gardens used as conservatories—which had lessons to teach cottagers as well as castle-dwellers.

56．Small city gardens were first established in certain Italian and German cities ______.

A．in the central areas, unlike the earlier English gardens

B．by citizens whose forebears had obtained permission from the monks

C．by citizens who had surplus land by their cottages

D．on lines that anticipated cottage gardens

57．What reason is given for the development of gardens in towns?

A．There were special market areas in the large towns.

B．The medieval citizen could cultivate the plants he wanted.

C．The town dwellers longed for the edible wild plants they knew in their youth. D．The market sellers had not enough of their own cultivated herbs for sale. 58．The religious orders had gardens because they ______.

A．did their healing in the gardens

B．liked their food strongly spiced with herbs

C．required them for their healing work

D．conducted their teaching mainly out of doors

59．Special interest was taken in some plants, because of their ______.

A．ancient origin

B．fragrance when crashed

C．association with special seasons

D．beauty and their spiritual associations

60．What cottage gardeners could learn from the monasteries was ______. A．how to control growth by special conditions

B．the need for earlier planting

C．how to choose the best plants for that climate

D．the need for sheltered conditions

Part ⅣCloze (10 points)

Directions：Fill in each of the following blanks with ONE word to complete the meaning of the passage. Write your answer on ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ.

Even before he is 80, the aging person may undergo another identity crisis like that of adolescence. Perhaps there had also been a middle-aged crisis, but for the rest of adult life he had taken himself for 61 , with his capabilities and failings. Now, when he looks in the mirror, he asks himself, “Is this really me?” —or he avoids the mirror out of distress at 62 it reveals, those bags and wrinkles. In his new makeup he is 63 upon to play a new role in a play that must be improvised. Andre Gide, that longlived man of letters, wrote in his journal, “My heart has remained so young that I have the continual feeling of playing a part, the part of the 70-year-old that I certainly am; and the infirmities and weaknesses that remind me of my age act like a prompter reminding me of my lines when I tend to stray. Then, like the good actor I want to 64 , I go back into my role, and I pride 65 on playing it well.”

In his new role the old person will find that he is tempted by new vices, that he receives new compensations (not so widely known), and that he may possibly achieve new virtues. Chief among these is the heroic or merely obstinate refusal to surrender in the 66 of time. One admires the ships that go down with all flags 67 and the captain on the bridge.

Among the vices of age are avarice, untidiness, and vanity, which last takes the form of a craving to be loved or simply admired. Avarice is the worst of those three. Why do so many old persons, men and women 68 , insist on hoarding money when they have no prospect of using it and even when they have no heirs? They eat the cheapest food, buy no clothes, and live in a single room when they could afford better lodging. It may be that they regard money as a form of power: there is a comfort in watching it accumulate while other powers are dwindling 69 . How often we read of an old person found dead in a hovel, on a mattress partly stuffed 70 bankbooks and stock certificates? The bankbook syndrome, we call it in our family, which has never succumbed.

Part ⅤTranslation(10 points)

Directions：Put the following passage into English．Write your English version on ANSWER SHEETⅡ．

人们发现，所有在国外旅行的人都根据他们自己的风俗习惯来评价他们的所见所闻和他们所吃的东西。凡是广泛阅读过有关外国情况的书刊的人，他们往往比较能适应，也比较宽容，这是因为在开始旅行之前，他们的心胸就已经比较开阔了。事实上，人们在没有直接接触那些事物时是比较容易抱宽容态度的。当一个美国人怡然自得地待在装有集中供暖设备的家里时，对于大多数中国家庭的住宅里没有集中供暖设备这种情况，他会付之一笑，表示谅解。他能够轻而易举地做到宽宏大量。但是一接触到现实，事情就难办了。人们在直接接触到自己不习惯的事物时，要容忍、谅解就难得多了。

Part Writing (15points)

Directions: Write a composition of about 200 words on the following topic. Remember to write your composition on ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ .

My Opinion about Traditional Holidays in Modern China