1、2015年武汉大学考博英语真题试卷及答案与解析 一、 Reading Comprehension 0 Justice in society must include both a fair trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven guilty. Because justice is regarded as one form of equality, we find in its earlier expressions the idea of a punishment
2、 equal to the crime. Recorded in the Old Testament is the expression: “ an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. “ That is, the individual who has done wrong has committed an offence against society. To make up for his offence, society must get even. This can be done only by doing an equal injury
3、 to him. This conception of retributive justice is refleeted in many parts of the legal documents and procedures of modern times. It is illustrated when we demand the death penalty for a person who had committed murder. This philosophy of punishment was supported by the German idealist Hegel. He bel
4、ieved that society owed it to the criminal to give a punishment equal to the crime he had committed. The criminal had by his own actions denied his true self and it is necessary to do something that will counteract this denial and restore the self that has been denied. To the murderer nothing less t
5、han giving up his own will pay his debt. The demand of the death penalty is a right the state owes the criminal and it should not deny him his due. Modern jurists have tried to replace retributive justice with the notion of corrective justice. The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of e
6、quality but to find a more adequate way to express it. It tries to preserve the idea of equal opportunity for each individual to realize me best that is in him. The criminal is regarded as being socially ill and in need of treatment that will enable him to become a normal member of society. Before a
7、 treatment can be administered, the course of his antisocial behavior must be found. If the cause can be removed, provisions must be made to have this done. Only those criminals who are incurable should be permanently separated from the rest of the society. This does not mean that criminals will esc
8、ape punishment or be quickly returned to take up careers of crime. It means that justice is to heal the individual, not simply to get even with him. If severe punishment is the only adequate means for accompanying this, it should be administered. However, the individual should be given every opportu
9、nity to assume a normal place in society. His conviction of crime must not deprive him of the opportunity to make his way in the society of which he is a part. 1 The best title for this passage in_. （ A） Fitting Punishment to the Crime （ B） Approaches to Just Punishment （ C） Improvement in Legal Jus
10、tice （ D） Attaining Justice in the Courts 2 The passage implies that the basic difference between retributive justice and corrective justice is the_. （ A） type of crime that was proven （ B） severity of the punishment （ C） reason for the sentence （ D） outcome of the trial 3 The punishment that would
11、be most inconsistent with the views of corrective justice would be_. （ A） forced labour （ B） imprisonment （ C） fair sentence （ D） the electric chair 4 The Biblical expression “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth“ was presented in order to_. （ A） prove that equality demands just punishment （ B
12、） justifies the need for punishment as a part of law （ C） give moral back to retributive justice （ D） show that man has long been interested in justice 4 Farmers in the developing world hate price fluctuations. It makes it hard to plan ahead. But most of them have little choice: they sell at the pri
13、ce the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the U. S. and Japan are luckier: they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteed prices or direct handouts. Last month U. S. President Bush signed a new farm bill that gives American farmers $ 190 billion over the next 10 years, or $83 billi
14、on more than they had been scheduled to get, and pushes U. S. agricultural support close to crazy European levels. Bush said the step is necessary to “ promote farmer independence and preserve the farm way of life for generations“. It is also designed to help the Republican Party win control of the
15、Senate in Novembers mid-term elections. Agricultural production in most poor countries accounts for up to 50% of GDP, compared to only 3% in rich countries. But most farmers in poor countries grow just enough for themselves and their families. Those who try exporting to the West find their goods wha
16、cked with huge tariffs or competing against cheaper subsidized goods. In 1999 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development concluded that for each dollar developing countries receive in aid they lose up to $ 14 just because of trade barriers imposed on the export of their manufactured good
17、s. Its not as if the developing world wants any favours, says Ugandas Minister of Finance. “What we want is for the rich countries to let us complete. “ Agriculture is one of the few areas in which the Third World can compete. Land and labour are cheap, and as farming methods develop, new technologi
18、es should improve output. This is no pie-in-the-sky speculation. The biggest success in Kenyas economy over the past decade has been the boom in exports of cut flowers and vegetables to Europe. But that may all change in 2008, when Kenya will be slightly too rich to qualify for the “ least-developed
19、 country“ status that allows African producers to avoid paying stiff European import duties on selected agricultural products. With trade barriers in place, the horticulture industry in Kenya will shrivel as quickly as a discarded rose. And while agriculture exports remain the great hope for poor co
20、untries, reducing trade barriers in other sectors also works: Americans African Growth and Opportunity Act, which cuts duties on exports of everything from handicrafts to shoes, has proven a boon to Africas manufacturers. The lesson: the Third World can prosper if the rich world gives it a fair go.
21、This is what makes Bushs decision to increase farm subsidies last month all the more depressing. Poor countries have long suspected that the rich world urges trade liberalization only so it can wangle its way into new markets. Such suspicions caused the Seattle trade talks to break down three years
22、ago. But last November members of the World Trade Organization, meeting in Doha, Qatar, finally agreed to a new round of talks designed to open up global trade in agriculture and textiles. Rich countries assured poor countries, that their concerns were finally being addressed. Bushs Handout last mon
23、th makes a lie of Americas commitment to those talks and his personal devotion to free trade. 5 By comparison, farmers_receive more government subsidies than others. （ A） in the developing world （ B） in Japan （ C） in Europe （ D） in America 6 In addition to the economic considerations, there is a_mot
24、ive behind Bushs signing of the new farm bill. （ A） partisan （ B） social （ C） financial （ D） cultural 7 The message the writer attempts to convery throughout the passage is that_. （ A） poor countries should be given equal opportunities in trade （ B） the least-developed country status benefits agricu
25、ltural countries （ C） poor countries should remove their suspicions about trade liberalization （ D） farmers in poor countries should also receive the benefit of subsidies 8 The authors attitude towards new farm subsidies in the U. S. is_. （ A） favourable （ B） ambiguous （ C） critical （ D） reserved 8
26、“In every known human society the males needs for achievement can be recognized. In a greater number of human societies mens sureness of their sex role is tied up with their right, or ability, to practice some activity that women are not allowed to practice. Their maleness in fact has to be underwri
27、tten by preventing by preventing women from entering some field or performing some feat. “ This is the conclusion of anthropologist Margaret Mead about the way in which the roles of men and women in society should be distinguished. If talk and print are considered it would seem that the formal emanc
28、ipation of women is far from complete. There is a flow of publications about the continuing domestic bondage of women and about the complicated system of defenses which men have thrown up around their hitherto accepted advantages, taking sometimes the obvious form of exclusion from types of occupati
29、on and sociable groupings, and sometimes the more subtle form of automatic doubt of the seriousness of womens pretensions to the level of intellect and resolution that men, it is supposed, bring to the business of running the world. There are a good many objective pieces of evidence for the erosion
30、of mens status. In the first place, there is the widespread postwar phenomenon of the woman Prime Minister, in India, Sri Lanka and Israel. Secondly, there is the very large increase in the number of women who work, especially married women and mothers of children. More diffusely there are the incre
31、asingly numerous convergences between male and female behavior, the approximation to identical styles in dress and coiffure, the sharing of domestic tasks, and the admission of women to all sorts of hitherto exclusively male leisure-time activities. Everyone carries round with him a fairly definite
32、idea of the primitive or natural conditions of human life. It is acquired more by the study of humorous cartoons than of archaeology, but that does not matter since it is not significant as theory but only as an expression of inwardly felt expectations of peoples sense of what is fundamentally prope
33、r in the differentiation between the roles of the two sexes. In this rudimentary natural society men go out to hunt and fish and to fight off the tribe next door while women keep the fire going. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who set about courtship with a club. 9 The phrase “mens
34、 sureness of their sex role“ in the first paragraph suggests that they_. （ A） are confident in their ability to charm women （ B） take initiative in courtship （ C） have a clear idea of what is considered “manly“ （ D） tend to be more immoral than women are 10 The third paragraph_. （ A） generally agree
35、s with the first paragraph. （ B） has no connection with the first paragraph （ C） repeats the argument of the second paragraph （ D） contradicts the last paragraph 11 The usual idea of the cave man in the last paragraph_. （ A） is based on the study of archaeology （ B） illustrates how people expect men
36、 to behave （ C） is dismissed by the author as an irrelevant joke （ D） proves that the man, not woman, should be the wooer 12 The opening quotation from Margret Mead sums up a relationship between man and woman which the author_. （ A） approves of （ B） argues is natural （ C） completely （ D） expects to
37、 go on changing 12 Roger Rosenblatts book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary rather than sociopolitical criteria to its subject, successfully alters the approach taken by most previous studies. As Rosenblatt notes, criticism of black writing has often served as a pretext for expounding o
38、n Black history. Addison Gayles recent work, for example, judges the value of black fiction by overtly political standards, rating each work according to the notions of Black identity which it propounds. Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its authors react to those circ
39、umstances in ways other than ideological, and talking about novels and stories primarily as instruments of ideology circumvents much of the fictional enterprise. Rosenblatts literary analysis discloses affinities and connections among works of Black fiction which solely political studies have overlo
40、oked or ignored. Writing acceptable criticism of black fiction, however, presupposes giving satisfactory answers to a number of questions. First of all, is there a sufficient reason, other than the racial identity of the authors, to group together works by Black authors? Second, how does Black ficti
41、on make itself distinct from other modern fiction with which it is largely contemporaneous? Rosenblatt shows that black fiction constitutes a distinct body of writing that has an identifiable, coherent literary tradition. Looking at novels written by blacks over the last eighty years, he discovers r
42、ecurring concerns and designs independent of chronology. These structures are thematic, and they spring not surprisingly, from the central fact that the Black characters in these novels exist in a predominantly white culture, whether they try to conform to that culture or rebel against it. Black fic
43、tion does leave some aesthetic questions open. Rosenblatts thematic analysis permits considerable objectivity; he even explicitly states that it is not his intention to judge the merit of the various works yet his reluctance seems misplaced, especially since an attempt to appraise might have led to
44、interesting results. For instance, some of the novels appear to be structurally diffuse. Is this a defect, or are the authors working out of, or trying to forge, a different kind of aesthetic? In addition, the style of some black novels, like Jean Toomers Cane, verges on expressionism or surrealism;
45、 does this technique provide a counterpoint to the prevalent theme that portrays the fate against which Black heroes are pitted, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression? In spite of such omissions, what Rosenblatt does include in his discussion makes for an astute and worth
46、while study. Black Fiction surveys a wide variety of novels, bringing to our attention in the process some fascinating and little-known works like James Weldon Johnsons Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Its argument is tightly constructed, and is forthright, lucid style exemplifies levelheaded and
47、 penetrating criticism. 13 The author of the passage objects to criticism of black fiction like that by Addison Gayle because it_. （ A） emphasizes purely literary aspects of such fiction （ B） misinterprets the ideological content of such fiction （ C） misunderstands the notions of Black identity cont
48、ained in such fiction （ D） substitutes political for literary criteria in evaluating such fiction 14 The author of the passage is primarily concerned with_. （ A） evaluating the soundness of a work of criticism （ B） comparing various critical approaches to a subject （ C） discussing the limitations of
49、 a particular kind of criticism （ D） summarizing the major points made in a work of criticism 15 The authors discussion fo Black Fiction can be best described as_. （ A） pedantic and contentious （ B） critical but admiring （ C） ironic and deprecating （ D） argumentative but unfocused 16 It can be inferred that the author of the passage would be LEAST likely to approve of which of the following? （ A） An analysis of the influence of political events on the personal ideology of Black writers. （
