1、考博英语-479 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part I Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：8.00)Albert Einstein once attributed the creativity of a famous scientist to the fact that he “never went to school, and therefore preserved the rare gift of thinking freely“. There is undoubtedly truth in
2、Einsteins observation. Many artists and geniuses seem to view their schooling as a disadvantage. But such a truth is not a criticism of schools. It is the function of schools to civilize, not to train explorers. The explorer is always a lonely individual whether his or her pioneering be in art, musi
3、c, science, or technology. The creative explorer of unmapped lands shares with the genius what William James described as the “faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way“. Insofar as schools teach perceptual patterns they tend to destroy creativity and genius. But if schools could somewhat exist sol
4、ely to cultivate genius, then society would break down. For the social order demands unity and widespread agreement, both traits are destructive to creativity. There will always be conflict between the demands of society and the impulses of creativity and genius.（分数：8.00）(1).Albert Einstein once tho
5、ught that schools _.（分数：2.00）A.helped develop the creativity of a scientistB.preserved a rare gift for a scientistC.prevented a scientist from thinking freelyD.contributed a lot to science and technology(2).In the authors opinion, schooling meets the need of _.（分数：2.00）A.geniusB.social orderC.facult
6、y of perceivingD.the impulses of creativity(3).There will always be contradiction between _.（分数：2.00）A.the demands of society and schoolingB.cultivation of creativity and faculty of perceivingC.social unity and schoolingD.creativity and widespread social agreement(4).Which statement best expresses t
7、he main idea of the passage?（分数：2.00）A.Einstein and artists have said schools limit creativity and genius.B.Schools should be designed to encourage creativity and social order.C.Explorers and geniuses look at the world differently from the way most people do.D.Schools can never satisfy the needs of
8、both genius and society as a whol三、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：8.00)There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion, the
9、student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signp
10、osts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles. In this process, the journey never really ends. There are always new ways to experience the wo
11、rld, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to confront the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail“ at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability
12、to grow. Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious? If so, then we tend to take more chances and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think were shy and indecisive? Then our sense of timidity can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and not to take a step until we know the ground is
13、 safe. Do we think were slow to adapt to change or that were not smart enough to cope with a new challenge? Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we do not confr
14、ont and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.（分数：8.00）(1).A person is generally believed to have achieved personal growth when _.（分数：2.00）A.he has given up his smoking habitB.he has made
15、great efforts in his workC.he is keen on learning anything newD.he has tried to determine where he is on his journey(2).In the authors eyes, one who views personal growth as a process would _.（分数：2.00）A.succeed in climbing up the social ladderB.judge his ability to grow from his own achievementsC.fa
16、ce difficulties and take up challengesD.climb high and reach his goal each time(3).When the author says “a new way of being“, he is referring to _.（分数：2.00）A.a new approach to experiencing the worldB.a new way of taking risksC.a new method of perceiving ourselvesD.a new system of adapting to change(
17、4).For personal growth, the author advocates all of the following EXCEPT _.（分数：2.00）A.curiosity about more chancesB.promptness in self-adaptationC.open-mindedness to new experiencesD.avoidance of internal fears and doubts四、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：8.00)In the long run a government will always encroach upo
18、n freedom to the extent to which it has the power to do so. This is almost a natural law of politics, since, whatever the intentions of the men who exercise political power, the sheer momentum of government leads to a constant pressure upon the liberties of the citizen. But in many countries society
19、 has responded by throwing up its own defenses in the shape of social classes or organized corporations which, enjoying economic power and popular support, have been able to set limits to the scope of action of the executive. Such, for example, in England was the origin of all our liberties-won from
20、 government by the stand first of the feudal nobility, then of churches and political parties, and latterly of trade unions, commercial organizations, and the societies for promoting various causes. Even in European lands which were arbitrarily ruled, the powers of the monarchy, though absolute in t
21、heory, were in their exercise. checked in a similar fashion. Indeed the fascist dictatorships of today are the first truly tyrannical governments which western Europe has known for centuries, and they have been rendered possible only because on coming to power they destroyed all forms of social orga
22、nization which were in any way rivals to the state.（分数：8.00）(1).The main idea of this paragraph is best expressed as _.（分数：2.00）A.limited powers of monarchiesB.the ideal of liberal governmentC.functions of trade unionsD.safeguards of individual liberty(2).The writer maintains that there is a natural
23、 tendency for governments to _.（分数：2.00）A.become more democraticB.become fascistC.suppress trade unions and social societiesD.assume more power(3).Monarchy was first checked in England by the _.（分数：2.00）A.trade unionsB.churchC.peopleD.nobles(4).Fascist dictatorships differ from monarchies of recent
24、times in _.（分数：2.00）A.setting limits to their scope of actionB.getting things done by sheer momentumC.promoting various causesD.destroying people% organizations五、Passage 4(总题数：1，分数：8.00)Foreign propagandists have a strange misconception of our national character. They believe that we Americans must
25、be hybrid, mongrel, undynamic; and we are called so by the enemies of democracy because, they say, so many races have been fused together in our national life. They believe we are disunited and defenseless because we argue with each other, because we engage in political campaigns, because we recogni
26、ze the sacred right of the minority to disagree with the majority and to express that disagreement even loudly. It is the very mingling of races, dedicated to common ideals, which creates and recreates our vitality. In every representative American meeting there will be people with names like Jackso
27、n and Lincoln and Isaacs and Schultz and Kovack and Sartori and Jones and Smith. These Americans with varied. backgrounds are all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. All of them are inheritors of the same stalwart tradition of unusual enterprise, of adventurousness, of courage-courage to “p
28、ull up stakes and git moving“. That has been the great compelling force in our history. Our continent, our hemisphere, has been populated by people who wanted a life better than the life they had previously known. They were willing to undergo all conceivable hardships to achieve the better life. The
29、y were animated, just as we are animated today, by this compelling force. It is what makes us Americans.（分数：8.00）(1).The title below that best expresses the main idea of this selection is _.（分数：2.00）A.No Common IdealsB.Americas Motivating ForceC.American ImmigrantsD.The Evils of Foreign Propaganda(2
30、).According to the paragraph, our national character thrives because we have _.（分数：2.00）A.immigrant bloodB.majority groupsC.been uprootedD.driving ambition(3).Foreign propagandists believe that Americans _.（分数：2.00）A.are enemies of democracyB.lack a common heritageC.have a unified national character
31、D.refuse to argue with each other(4).Foreign propagandists and the author both agree that Americans _.（分数：2.00）A.are disunitedB.have no common traditionC.come from varied backgroundsD.have the courage of their convicitons六、Passage 5(总题数：1，分数：8.00)During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were
32、neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which acci
33、dents of light and shade, which moon-light or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself-(to which of us I do not recollect)-that a series of poems might be composed of
34、two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to he, in part at least, supernatural. And the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sens
35、e they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life. The characters and incidents were lo be such as will be found in every village and its vicinit
36、y, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves.In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic. Yet
37、so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, t
38、o give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the minds attention to the. lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us. And inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence
39、 of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.（分数：8.00）(1).Mr. Coleridge, the author this passage, felt that one characteristic of his poetry in Lyrical Ballads was its emphasis on _.（分数：2.00）A.ordinary
40、lifeB.natureC.the supernaturalD.the lethargy of custom(2).Familiarity ofter _.（分数：2.00）A.breeds contemptB.is an exhaustible treasureC.has novel elementsD.hides the beauty of the surroundings(3).Mr. Coleridge wrote _.（分数：2.00）A.none of the poems in Lyrical BalladsB.some of the poemsC.half of the poem
41、sD.most of the poems(4).The best title for this passage is _.（分数：2.00）A.Suspension of BeliefB.Great CollaborationC.Adherence to NatureD.The Poetry of Nature七、Part English-Chine(总题数：1，分数：20.00)21. Next to Sir Andrew in the clubroom sits Captain Sentry, a gentleman of great courage, good understanding
42、, but invincible modesty. He is one of those that deserve very well, but are very awkward at putting their talents within the observation of such as should take notice of them. He was some years a captain, and behaved himself with great gallantry in several engagements and at several sieges, but hav
43、ing a small estate of his own, and being next heir to Sir Roger, he has quitted a way of life in which no man can rise suitably to his merit, who is not something of a courtier as well as a soldier. 22. I have heard him often lament that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view
44、, impudence should get the better of modesty. When he had talked to this purpose, I never heard him make a sour expression, but frankly confess that he left the world because he was not fit for it. 23. A strict honesty, and an even regular behavior, are in themselves obstacles to him that must press
45、 through crowds, who endeavor at the same end with himself, the favor of a commander. 24. He will, however, in his way of talk excuse generals for not disposing according to mens deserts, or inquiring into it. For, says he, that the great man who has a mind to help me, has as many to break through t
46、o come at me, as I have to come at him: therefore he will conclude that the man who would make a figure, especially in a military way, must get over all false modesty, and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders, by a proper assurance in his own vindication. He says it is a civ
47、il cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military fear to be slow in attacking when it is your duty. With this candor does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished
48、 him with many adventures, in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company, for he is never overbearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him, nor ever too obsequious, from a habit of obeying men highly above him.（分数：20.00）_八、Part Chinese-Engli(总题数：2，分数：20.00)1.爱情被认为是文学作品的永恒主题，中西方文化都产生了许多以爱情为主题的伟大作品。我国伟大的古典小说家曹雪芹所著的红楼梦和“英国文学之父”威廉：莎士比亚的罗密欧与朱丽叶，都是以爱情为主题的文学作品。曹雪芹于 18世纪末期完成红楼梦，而莎士比亚的
