1、2007年对外经贸大学考博英语真题试卷及答案与解析 一、 Cloze 0 During the past ten or fifteen years a great deal of attention has been【 C1】_to“telling it like it is, “ or “ letting it all hang out“ My impression is that this overzealous devotion to speaking ones mind has more often led to hurt feelings and ruined relationshi
2、ps than to great joy and fulfillment I think we generally agree that never expressing real feelings and repressing all less-than-lovely thoughts about each other【 C2】 _leads to constructive communication. Its a great relief to allow ourselves the luxury of acknowledging our human frailties and pursu
3、ing more honest relationships with others. But we need to strike a【 C3】_between telling it all and telling nothing. Recently I received a letter from a mother who had been persuaded by her troubled twenty-five-year, old son to attend a weekend marathon with him. Under pressure from the group, her de
4、fenses collapsed and she heard herself telling her son for the first time that he had been an accident, that she hadnt been planning to have a child. He in【 C4】_told her that he couldnt recall a single day in his childhood that hed been happy. “At that time, “ this woman wrote, “it seemed helpful. W
5、e cried and we made【 C5】_;I thought telling the truth had been good for us. But the trouble is.it Washt the whole truth. By the time Tommy was born I did want him, and at【 C6】 _he was happy. Ever since that day, weve both been haunted by some terrible feelings we shared. “ I must admit that Ive come
6、 to the conclusion that some things are better left unsaid. Honesty is a fine policy as【 C7】 _as we know what the truth really is , but most of the time we dont Its a fine goal to encourage children to express their real feelings. And many marriages have been saved by an open confrontation of deep a
7、nd painful misunderstandings. But we need a new sense of balance. Disclosure is not a panacea for every problem【 C8】 _even an end in itself. Its useful and freeing under some circumstances and terribly hurtful and damaging under others. Its a good idea, I think, to【 C9】 _your tongue for ten or fifte
8、en minutes before saying whats【 C10】 _your mind. Try to decide whether its going to open up new and better avenues of communication or leave wounds that may never heal. 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 二、 Reading Comprehension 10 By about A. D. 500 th
9、e Mound Builder culture was declining, perhaps because of attacks from other tribes or perhaps because of severe climatic changes that undermined agriculture. To the west, another culture, based on intensive agriculture, was beginning to flourish. Its center was beneath present day St Louis, and it
10、radiated out to enclose most of the Mississippi watershed, from Wisconsin to Louisiana and Oklahoma to Tennessee. Thousands of villages were included in its orbit By about A. D. 700 this Mississippian culture, as it is known to archaeologists, began to send its influence eastward to transform the li
11、fe of most of the less technologically advanced woodland tribes. Like the Mound Builders of the Ohio region, these tribes, probably influenced by Meso-American cultures through trade and commerce, built gigantic mounds as burial and ceremonial places. The largest of them, rising in four terraces to
12、a height of one hundred feet, has a rectangular base of nearly fifteen acres, larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Egypt Built between A. D. 900 and 1, 100, this huge earthwork faces the site of a cliffy Indian city which contained more than one hundred small artificial mounds marking burial sit
13、es. Spread among them was a vast settlement containing some 30, 000 people by current estimations. The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered at Cahokis.as this center of Mississippi culture is called, include elaborate ceramics, finely sculpted stonework, carefully embossed and engraved coppe
14、r and mica sheets, and one funeral blanket fashioned from 12, 000 shell beads. They indicate that Cahokia was a true urban center, with clustered housing, markets, and specialists in tool-making, hide-dressing , potting Jewelry-making, weaving, and salt-making. 11 What is the main topic of this pass
15、age? 12 In relation to the Mississippian culture, the Mound Builder culture was located_. 13 From this passage, we can infer that Meso-American cultures had a tradition of_. 13 A pessimist might argue:why seek to preserve the human species? Should we not rather rejoice in the prospect of an end to t
16、he immense load of suffering and hate and fear which has hitherto darkened the life of Man? Should we not contemplate with rejoicing anew future for our planet, peaceful at last, sleeping quietly at last after coming to the end of the long nightmare of pain and horror? To any student of history cont
17、emplating the dreadful record of folly and cruelty and misery that has constituted most of human life hitherto, such questions must come in moments of imaginative sympathy. Perhaps our survey may tempt us to acquiesce in an end, however tragic and however final, to a species so incapable of joy. But
18、 the pessimist has only half of the truth and to my mind the less important half. Man has not only the correlative capacities for cruelty and suffering, but also potentialities of greatness and splendor, realized, as yet, very partially, but showing what life might he in a freer and happier world. I
19、f Man will allow himself to grow to his full stature, what he may achieve is beyond our present capacity to imagine. Poverty, illness, and loneliness could become rare misfortunes. Reasonable expectation of happiness could dispel the night of fear in which too many now wander lost And with the progr
20、ess of evolution, what is now the shining genius of an eminent few might become a common posses sion of the many. All this is possible, indeed, probable, in the thousands of centuries that lie before us, if we do not rashly and madly destroy ourselves before we have reached the maturity that should
21、he our goal. No, let us not listen to the pessimist, for, if we do, we are traitors to Mans future. 14 What is the authors attitude towards Mans future? 15 According to the author, our goal should be_. 三、 English-Chinese Translation 16 Its raining again. As I lie awake in bed, listening to the sound
22、 of those razorsharp drops pounding on the pavement, my mind goes reeling down dark corridors teeming with agonizing flashbacks, and a chill from within fills me with dread. Its raining, again. 17 It does this year in Southern California;at least thats what they told me last year when I marveled at
23、the relentless determination of the rain. There seem to be two seasons here. During the rainy season, sometimes the storms drench the area nonstop for days. Sometimes the storms come and go. Often property damage and disrupted lives result Its hard to predict the intensity of the patterns from year
24、to year. Then there is the fire season. That takes care of the property that managed to survive the deluge, again disrupting lives. The days connecting these seasons are monotonous, with some sun, some smog and some more sun. This is nothing like back home in Colorado. 四、 Chinese-English Translation
25、 18 人们要想得到工作的胜利即得到预想的结果，一定要使自己的思想符合于客观外界的规律性，如果不符合，就会在实践中失败。人们经过失败之后，也就从失败中取得教训，改正自己的思想使之符合外界的规律性，人们就能变失败为胜利，所谓 “失败乃成功之母 ”， “吃一堑长一智 ”，就是这个道理。 五、 Writing 19 China is in the process of building a socialist harmonious society (社会主义和谐社会 ) for the time being. Write a composition of no less than 200 words
26、 to express your point of view on what harmonious society is, why to build it and how to build it. 2007年对外经贸大学考博英语真题试卷答案与解析 一、 Cloze 1 【正确答案】 paid 【试题解析】 此句话的意思是：在过去的 5或十年 里，大量的注意力都放在了“描述本真 ”上。这里应该填被动语态。 pay attention to注意，留心。 2 【正确答案】 hardly 【试题解析】 此处用否定形式即 hardly。本句的意思是为表达真正的感情很难达到有效沟通的效果。 3 【正确答案
27、】 balance 【试题解析】 strike a balance：建立平衡。本句的意思是为我们需要在告知所有事情和什么也不说之间找到平衡。 4 【正确答案】 turn 【试题解析】 此句话的意思是：他反过来告诉她，他回忆不出他童年时期有什么快乐经历。 in turn：轮流；反过来。 5 【正确答案】 up 【试题解析】 make up：弥补。本句的意思是母子告知对方秘密后互相弥补过错。 6 【正确答案】 times 【试题解析】 此句话的意思是：在汤米出生时，我的确希望他会幸福。 at times：有时，不时。 7 【正确答案】 long 【试题解析】 此句话的意思是：诚信是一种很好的品质，
28、只要我们知道真相到底是什么。 as long as：只 要。 8 【正确答案】 nor 【试题解析】 此处的连接词是否定的意思，本句话的意思是：揭发秘密不是解决任何问题的万能药，也不是完全的结束。 9 【正确答案】 bite 【试题解析】 此句话的意思是：这是一个好主意，在说出你的想法之前先忍住10到 15分钟，然后再说出来。 to bite ones tongue：忍住不说。 10 【正确答案】 on 【试题解析】 on ones mind：惦念，使人担心。 二、 Reading Comprehension 11 【正确答案】 The passage mainly introduces th
29、e development and achievement of Mississippi Culture 【试题解析】 题目问这篇文章主要讨论的是什么，也就是概括文章主旨。本文开篇就以 Mound Builder culture为参照，引出对 Mississippi Culture的介绍。 12 【正确答案】 in the east 【试题解析】 原文中的 “To the westwas beginning to flouris h”表明 Mound Builder culture位于 Mississippi Culture的东方。 13 【正确答案】 trade and commerce 【
30、试题解析】 根据原文 “probably influenced by Meso-American cultures through trade andcommerce”可知 Meso-American culture的传统是商业贸易。 14 【正确答案】 The author sees Mans future in an optimistic happy and hopeful attitude 【试题解析】 本文一开始就提出了悲观主义者对人类未来的态度，然后加以反驳，并且本文结尾 “let us not listento the pessimist”说明作者的态度是乐观积极的。 15 【正确
31、答案】 mature 【试题解析】 本文最后一段的倒数第二句 “before we have reached the maturity that should be our goal”，说明作者认为我们的目标是成熟的。 三、 English-Chinese Translation 16 【正确答案】 雨又下起来了。我躺在床上听着犀利的雨点重重地打在柏油路上的声音，思绪充满了痛苦的回忆，沿着黑暗的走廊徘徊下去。一个从内心深处的寒颤让我恐惧万分。天又在下雨了。 17 【正确答案】 今年的南加州就是这个样子。至少去年当我对无情的大雨感到无比惊讶的时候，他们是这样告诉我的。这里好像有两个季节。在下雨的
32、季节，有时暴风雨几天连续淹没着较高的地区；有时暴风雨又来去不定。这样常常会造成财产损失和生活混乱，而每一年的破坏程度难以预料。在干燥的季节 ，又要处理和看管在暴雨中存留下来的财物，再次干扰了人们的生活。在这些季节里，日子单调乏味，时而会有一些阳光，时而有烟雾，然后又是阳光灿烂。这儿一点也不像科罗拉多州。 四、 Chinese-English Translation 18 【正确答案】 If you want achieve success as you expected in your work, your thoughts must accord with objective laws of
33、 the world. Or you would fail in practice. After experiencing failure, you would learn the lesson from failure and adjust your thoughts to objective laws. Ultimately, you get success from failure which is reflected by the saying“failure is the mother of success“ and “a fall into a pit, a gain in you
34、r wit“. 五、 Writing 19 【正确答案】 Socialist Harmonious Society Socialist Harmonious Society is the needs of modern society. It is the requirements of developing our society which is democratic, jural, trustworthy, friendly, and full of juice, secure and orderly and compatible with the nature. The nature
35、of this slogan is to call out civilian to friendly use the resources our homeland, use scientific method to build a society that is propitious to the lives of us. After years of swift growth of Chinas Economy, various problems were create along with it, such as the relationship between human being a
36、nd the environment, unfair provisions and democratic society and legal systems. And these problems also change along with the variation of the developments. According to basic principles of Marxism, these provisions have to be altered to meet the requirements of current developments and take into mo
37、re and more factors of current phase. To perfect build an advanced and compatible Country and make our people hold happiness lives, we should fully play socialist democracy, take overall responsibility of managing state affairs according to the law, take care of coordination of benefits of the commo
38、nwealth, help and get along well with each other. Finally the socialist harmonious society is a destination which needs the together working of the nation. We must abide to the legal system and try our best to do all the things which would meet this requirement of friendly, compatible and durable development of China.
