1、四川大学真题 2006 年及答案解析(总分：105.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Reading (总题数：2，分数：10.00)BPassage One/BSuperstition is a biased word. Look up almost any dictionary definition and you will see that it implies that every religion not based on reason or knowledge is called a superstition. Even the word knowledge is a t
2、wo-faced word. Presumably, it is used as a synonym for reason. What it all comes down to is that people designate as superstitious what they do not think reasonable in someone elses religion.It is true that a persons religion must be based on some kind of knowledge. But what kind of knowledge is mea
3、nt? Scientific, experimental, rational? Such knowledge is natural and maybe ethical and then it is natural religious knowledge. A person may quite easily conclude from observing the universe that only God could have produced it. That knowledge is not religion, not even if a person is bound to recogn
4、ize a creator of the universe. It is natural knowledge such as Confucius, Socrates or Zoroaster possessed. Natural religious knowledge, as is evident in the history of the human race, although it helps to make a malt good, hardly, suffices to keep him good, especially in times of crisis. Will such n
5、atural knowledge, for instance, sustain a man when he has suddenly lost all his money and even his wife and children? Will it offer the hope of ever seeing them again? Will it influence him gladly to sacrifice his life for his family, his country, his religion? Only a strong sense of supernatural re
6、ligion, a reliance upon God, will provide the necessary courage for right action.All the great religions of the world-Christianity, Hinduism, Chinese Buddhism and Islam-have shown men the way to such courage and its resulting peace of mind and heart and peace with all men. They point to a better sor
7、t of life, mostly a life somewhere else, or, at least, an end to the troubles of this life.Christianity and Islam direct men to look up, hope for and strive after an eternal life of happiness in the possession of God. Hinduism also encourages its adherents to achieve successively higher incarnations
8、 until they achieve unity, become one with Brahman-God. The agnostic or the atheist thinks of all of these creeds as religious superstition. Are the agnostic and the atheist free of superstition? Hardly. Every thinking man has a natural bent for religion, for ideals above and beyond earthly ones. If
9、 he crushes his natural inclination, which is God-inspired ideals, he most likely will substitute a series of self-inspired ideals or some fad like astrology, which will become a religion for him. There is a line between religion and superstition which everyone must learn to identify, of forfeit a t
10、rue direction in his life.（分数：5.00）(1).According to the passage, people define superstition as _.（分数：1.00）A.some religious knowledge not based on reasonB.anything that seems unreasonable to themC.anything that seems unreasonable in another persons religionD.any natural knowledge of a religion that i
11、s two-faced and totally different from another(2).The second paragraph tells us that natural religious knowledge can hardly keep a person good because _.（分数：1.00）A.he is not always willing to sacrifice himselfB.he does not rely upon GodC.he may sometimes die for right actionD.he may suffer crisis in
12、 his career(3).According to the author, all the great religions of the world _.（分数：1.00）A.bring peace of mind and peace with other human beingB.put forth a better life now and promise eternal life in the Western ParadiseC.give courage to their adherents to live and to die peacefullyD.urge their adhe
13、rents to achieve higher incarnations(4).From the passage we are told that the atheists _.（分数：1.00）A.have little or no religious knowledgeB.have ideals that are beyond earthly onesC.are mostly astrologers who have too many materialistic ideals in lifeD.are actually not free from superstition(5).Of th
14、e following suggested title, the one that most accurately sums UP the passage is _.（分数：1.00）A.The Great Religions on EarthB.What Is SuperstitionC.Religion and SuperstitionD.Achieve Unity with GodBPassage Two/BWhen we think of Hollywood-a term I use loosely to describe American movie production in ge
15、neral, not simply films made in Los Angeles-we think of films aimed at amusing audiences and making money for producers.During the early years of the new century, as workers won their demands for higher wages and a shorter working week, leisure assumed an increasingly important role in everyday life
16、. Amusement parks, professional baseball games, nickelodeons, and dance halls attracted a wide array of men and women anxious to spend their hard earned dollars in the pursuit of fun and relaxation. Yet of all these new cultural endeavors, films were the most important and widely attended source of
17、amusement. For a mere five or ten cents, even the poorest worker could afford to take himself and his family to the local nickelodeon or storefront theatre. Taking root in urban working-class and immigrant neighborhoods, cinemas soon spread to middle-class districts of cities and into small communit
18、ies throughout the nation. “Every little town that has never been able to afford and maintain an opera house,“ observed one journalist in 1908, “now boasts one or two Bijou Dreams.“ By 1910, the appeal of film was so great that nearly one-third of the nation flocked to the cinema each week; ten year
19、s later, weekly attendance equaled 50 per cent of the nations population.Early films were primarily aimed at entertaining audiences, but entertainment did not always come in the form of escapist fantasies. Many of the issues that dominated progressive-era polities were also portrayed on the serene.
20、“Between 1990 and 1917,“ observes Kevin Brownlow, “literally thousands of films dealt with the most pressing problems of the day-white slavery, political corruptions, gangsterism, loansharking: slum landlords, capital vs. labor, racial prejudice, etc.“ While most of these films were produced by stud
21、ios and independent companies, a significant nmnber were made by what we might call today “special interest groups“. As films quickly emerged as the nations most popular form of mass entertainment, they attracted the attention of a wide range organizations that recognized the mediums enormous potent
22、ial for disseminating propaganda to millions of viewers.（分数：5.00）(1).We can almost be sure that a “nickelodeon“ is _.（分数：1.00）A.a luxurious theatreB.an opera houseC.a simple cinemaD.a cheap film(2).“Bijou Dreams“ in the 2nd paragraph probably refers to _.（分数：1.00）A.cinemasB.dance hallsC.theatresD.am
23、usement parks(3).From the context, “medium“ as use in the last sentence refers to _.（分数：1.00）A.studios and companiesB.mass entertainmentC.filmsD.the pursuit of fan and relaxation(4).The passage is about _.（分数：1.00）A.Hollywood and filmsB.the history and function of filmC.American movie productionD.th
24、e development of film production(5).It can be concluded from the last paragraph that _.（分数：1.00）A.films quickly became a very form of entertainment and are welcome by people of all classesB.many of the social and political problems were reflected on the screen of the filmsC.films often dealt with th
25、e most important problems of the dayD.because of the large attendance, films had a great influence on a large number of people二、BPassage Three(总题数：3，分数：15.00)略BPassage Four/BIn the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffa
26、lo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl and to provide some fresh meat for his use. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals and ate part of one of then and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between all anaconda and an earl, I h
27、ad seven lambs turned into the anacondas cage. The grateful snake immediately crashed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the lambs and no inclination to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas, always with same result. The fact sto
28、od proven that the difference between and earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isnt; and the earl wantonly destroyed what not descended from the earl. It also seemed to suggest that the earl was descended from the anaconda and had lost a good deal in the transition.I was a
29、ware that many men who have accumulated more money than they can ever use have shown a hunger for more and have not hesitated to cheat ignorant and the help- less out of their poor serving in order to partially satisfy that appetite. I furnished a hundred different kinds of wild and domestic animals
30、 the opportunity to accumulate vast stores of food but none of them would do it. The squirrels and bees and certain birds made accumulations, but stopped when they gathered a winters supply, and could not be persuaded to add to it either honestly or by trickery. These experiments convinced me that t
31、here is this difference between man and the higher animals: he is greedy.In the course of my experiments I convinced myself that among the animals man is the only one that harbors insults and injuries, broods over them, waits till a chance offer, then takes revenge, The passion of revenge is unknown
32、 to the higher animals.（分数：5.00）(1).By describing the buffalo hunting and his experiment with the anaconda, the author mainly wants to tell us that _.（分数：1.00）A.the earls ancestor turned out to be the anacondaB.the earl is capable of committing wanton crueltyC.the anaconda is easily satisfiedD.the a
33、naconda does not harm other animals except when it is hungry(2).According to the author, in human society, the rich _.（分数：1.00）A.are not always ready to help the poorB.are inclined to gather more richesC.tend to accumulate vast of wealthD.cheat the ignorant and commit wanton cruelty(3).The authors e
34、xperiments with different kinds of animals seem to prove that _.（分数：1.00）A.man and other animals have some similaritiesB.man is the cruelest among animalsC.man is superior to other animals in some aspectsD.man is inferior to other animals in certain aspects(4).We learn from the last part of the pass
35、age that _.（分数：1.00）A.love of revenge is a unique characteristic of manB.man is the only animal capable of thinking and revengingC.human beings arc capable of insulting and injuring each otherD.man is better at taking chances to revenge than other animals(5).In this passage, the author writes in a (
36、n) _.（分数：1.00）A.serious toneB.angry toneC.ironic tonedD.matter-of-fact toneBPassage Five/BThe spectacular auroral light displays that appear in Earths atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mysterious phenomena. Now, scientists have data from satellites and ground-based obser
37、vations from which we know that the auroral brilliance is an immense electrical discharge similar to that occurring in a neon sign.To understand the cause of auroras, first picture the Earth enclosed by its magnetosphere, a huge region crated by the Earths magnetic field. Outside the magneto-sphere,
38、 blasting, toward the Earth is the solar wind, a swiftly moving plasma of ionized gases with its own magnetic field. Charged particles in this solar wind speed earth- ward along the solar winds magnetic lines of force with a spiraling motion. The Earths magnetosphere is a barrier to solar wind, and
39、forces the charged particles of the solar wind to flow around the magnetosphere itself. But in the polar regions, the magnetic lines of force of the Earth and of the solar wind bunch together. Here many of the solar winds charged particles break through the magnetosphere and enter Earths magnetic fi
40、eld. They then spiral back and forth between the Earths magnetic poles very rapidly. In the polar regions, electrons from the solar wind ionize and excite the atoms and molecules of the upper .atmosphere, causing them to emit auroral radiations of visual light.The colors of an aurora depend on the a
41、toms emitting them. The dominant greenish-white light comes from low energy excitation of oxygen atoms. During huge magnetic storms oxygen atoms also undergo high energy excitation and emit a crimson light. Ex- cited nitrogen atoms contribute bands of color varying from blue to violet.Viewed from ou
42、ter space, auroras can be seen as dimly glowing belts wrapped around each of the Earths magnetic poles. Each aurora hangs like a curtain of light stretching over the polar regions and into the higher latitudes. When the solar flares that result in magnetic storms and auroral activity are very intens
43、e, auroral displays may extend as far as the southern regions of the United States. Studies of auroras have given physicists new information about the behavior of plasmas, which has helped to explain the nature of outer space and is being applied in attempts to harness energy from f the fusion of at
44、oms.（分数：5.00）(1).What does the passage mainly discuss?（分数：1.00）A.The periodic variation in the displays of auroras.B.The information and appearance of auroras around the Earths poles.C.The factors that cause the variety of colors in auroras.D.The methods used to observe auroras from outer space.(2).
45、The passage describes the magnetosphere as a barrier because _.（分数：1.00）A.it is strongest in the polar regions and the magnetic lines bunch togetherB.it increases the speed of the particles from the solar windC.it prevents particles from the solar wind from easily entering the Earths atmosphereD.its
46、 position makes it difficult to be observed from the Earth(3).The word “undergo“ in Paragraph 3 most probably means _.（分数：1.00）A.endureB.encounterC.experienceD.confront(4).Auroras may be seen in the southern regions of the United States when _.（分数：1.00）A.the speed of the solar wind is reducedB.they
47、are wrapped around the Earths magnetic polesC.magnetic storms do not affect the EarthD.solar flares are very intense(5).The passage supports which of the following statements about scientists understanding of auroras?（分数：1.00）A.Before advances in technology, scientists knew little about auroras.B.Sc
48、ientists cannot yet explain the causes of the different colors in auroras.C.New knowledge about the fusion of atoms allowed scientists to learn more about auroras.D.Until scientists learn more about plasma physics, little knowledge about auroras will be available.BPassage Six/BWe all have offensive
49、breath at one time of another. In most cases, offensive breath emanates from bacteria in the mouth, although there are other more surprising causes.Until a few years ago, what the most doctors could do was to counsel patients with bad breath about oral cleanliness. Now they are finding new ways to treat the usually curable condition. Bad breath can happen whenever the normal flow of saliva slows. Our mouths are full of bact
