1、武汉大学考博英语模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 一、 Reading Comprehension 0 The main idea of these business-school academics is appealing. In a word where companies must adapt to new technologies and source of competition, it is much harder than it used to be to offer good employees job security and an opportunity to climb the
2、 corporate ladder. Yet it is also more necessary than ever for employees to invest in better skills and sparkle with bright ideas. How can firms get the most out of people if they can no longer offer them protection and promotion? Many bosses would love to have an answer. Sumantrra Ghoshal of the Lo
3、ndon Business School and Christopher Bartlett of the Harvard Business School think they have one: “Employability.“ If managers offer the right of training and guidance, and change their attitude towards their underlings, they will be able to reassure their employees that they will always have the sk
4、ills and experience to find a good jobeven if it is with a different company. Unfortunately, they promise more than they deliver. Their thoughts on what an ideal organization should accomplish are hard to quarrel with: encourage people to be creative, make sure the gains from creativity are shared w
5、ith the pains of the business that can make the most of them, keep the organization from getting stale and so forth. The real disappointment comes when they attempt to show how firms might actually create such an environment. At its nub is the notion that companies can attain their elusive goals by
6、changing their implicit contract with individual workers, and treating them as a source of value rather than a cog in a machine. The authors offer a few inspiring example of companiesthey include Motorola, 3M and ABBthat have managed to go some way towards creating such organizations. But they offer
7、 little useful guidance on how to go about it, and leave the biggest questions unanswered. How do you continuously train people, without diverting them from their everyday job of making the business more profitable? How do you train people to be successful elsewhere while still encouraging them to m
8、ake big commitments to your own firm? How do you get your newly liberated employees to spend their time on ideas that create value, and not simply on those they enjoy? Most of their answers are platitudinous, and when they are not they are unconvincing. 1 We can infer from the passage that in the pa
9、st an employee_. （ A） had job security and an opportunity of promotion （ B） had to compete with each other to keep his job （ C） had to undergo training all the time （ D） had no difficulty climbing the corporate ladder 2 According to Christopher Bartlett what will improve “employability“? （ A） Abilit
10、y to lay out ones talents to employers. （ B） Skills and knowledge accumulated from school education. （ C） Training opportunity and guidance offered by company. （ D） Being creative and ready to share collective wisdom. 3 What does the writer of this passage think of the ideas of Ghoshal and Bartlett?
11、 （ A） Very instructive. （ B） Very inspiring. （ C） Hard to implement. （ D） Quite harsh. 4 In their work, Ghoshal and Bartlett discuss_. （ A） changes in business organizations （ B） contracts between employers and employees （ C） employment situation （ D） management ideas 5 This passage seems to be a (n
12、) _. （ A） book review （ B） advertisement （ C） news report （ D） research paper 5 Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packards chief executive, came out fighting on November 14th. In a conference call with analysts, she announced better-than-expected quarterly results, even though profits were down. Ms Fiorina als
13、o reiterated why she believes her $24 billion plan to acquire Compaq is the best way forward for HP, despite objections by Hewlett and Packard family members. Last week Walter Hewlett, whose father co-founded the company, expressed concern that the merger would increase HPs exposure to the shrinking
14、 PC market and would distract managers from the more important task of navigating through the recession. There are two ways to defend the deal. One is to point out its advantages, which is what Ms Fiorina did this week. Merging with Compaq, she said, would enable HP to reach its goals faster than it
15、 could on its own. The deal would improve HPs position in key markets such as storage and high-end computing, as well as the economics of its PC business. It would double the size of HPs sales force and broaden its customer base, providing more potential clients for its services and consulting arms.
16、 It would improve cashflow, margins and efficiency by adding “breadth and depth“ to HP. “Having spent the last several months planning the integration of these two companies, we are even more convinced of the power of this combination,“ Ms Fiorina concluded. It sounds too good to be true, and it alm
17、ost certainly is. But the other way to defend the deal is to point out that, even if it was a bad idea to start with, abandoning it could be even worsea view that, unsurprisingly, Ms Fiorina chose not to advance, but is being quietly put forward by the deals supporters. Scrapping the merger would be
18、 extremely painful for a number of reasons. Since the executive teams of both firms have committed themselves to the deal, they would be utterly discredited if it fell apart, and would probably have to go. Under the terms of the merger agreement, HP might have to pay Compaq as much as $675m if it ba
19、cked out. The two firms would be considerably weakened; they would also be rivals again, despite having shared confidential technical and marketing information with each other over the past few months. In short, it would all be horribly messy. What can be done to save the deal? Part of the problem i
20、s that HP has no plan B. “They need a brand-recovery effort immediately,“ says one industry analyst. HP must give the impression that it is strong and vital, rather than desperate, and that its future is not dependent on the deal going forward. That could make the merger look more attractive and bri
21、ng investors back on board. This weeks results will certainly help. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which owns just over one-tenth of HPs shares, will decide whether to back the merger in the next few weeks, and HPs shareholders are to vote on it early next year. The more credible HPs plan
22、B, the less likely it is that it will be needed. 6 What is Ms Fiorinas attitude toward the merging of HP and Compaq? （ A） Reserved consent. （ B） Strong disapproval. （ C） Enthusiastic support. （ D） Slight contempt. 7 Which of the following is NOT the good reason to promote the merger? （ A） The majori
23、ty of the firm are in favor of the merger. （ B） No combination is even worse than merger. （ C） It can bring about a lot of advantages. （ D） There is no plan B to save the firm from trouble. 8 The expression “The more credible HPs plan B, the less likely it is that it will be needed.“ most probably i
24、ndicates_. （ A） plan B can win peoples trust （ B） the merger needs peoples trust in plan B （ C） the reliance on plan B determines the success of the merger （ D） appearing not to be dependent on the merger will make the merger go well 9 What can we learn from the fourth paragraph? （ A） The executive
25、teams of both firms can benefit a lot from the merger. （ B） The future of HP depends much on the merger. （ C） The two sides are eager to make this deal. （ D） Plan B can save HP out of trouble. 10 What is the authors attitude toward the merger of HP? （ A） Negative. （ B） Supportive. （ C） Objective. （
26、D） Apprehensive. 10 Most of us have seen a dog staring at, sometimes snarling at, and approaching a reflection of itself. For most animals, seeing their own image in a mirror acts as a social stimulus. But does the dog recognize itself, or does the reflection simply signal a potential companion or t
27、hreat? This question is interest for a number of reasons. Apart from curiosity about the level of animals understanding, research on self-recognition in animals has several benefits. It provides some insight into the evolutionary significance of this skill of self-recognition and into the level and
28、kinds of cognitive competence that the skill requires. Such research also indicates the kinds of learning experiences that determine the development of self-recognition. In addition, work with animals fosters the use of techniques that are not dependent on verbal responses and that may therefore be
29、suitable for use with preverbal children. The evidence indicates that dogs and almost all other nonhumans do not recognize themselves. In a series of clever experiments, however, Gallup has shown that the chimpanzee does have this capacity. Gallup exposed chimpanzees in a small cage to a full-length
30、 mirror for ten consecutive days. It was observed that over this period of time the number of self-directed responses increased. These behaviors included grooming parts of the body while watching the results, guiding fingers in the mirror, and picking at teeth with the aid of the mirror. Describing
31、one chimp, Gallup said, “Marge used the mirror to play with and inspect the bottom of her feet; she also looked at herself upside down in the mirror while suspended by her feet from the top of the cage; she was also observed to stuff celery leaves up her nose using the mirror for purposes of visuall
32、y guiding the stems into each nostril.“ Then the researchers devised a further test of self-recognition. The chimps were anesthetized and marks were placed over their eyebrows and behind their ears, areas the chimps could not directly observe. The mirror was temporarily removed from the cage, and ba
33、seline data regarding their attempts to touch these areas were recorded. The data clearly suggest that chimps do recognize themselves, or are self-aware, for their attempts to touch the marks increased when they viewed themselves. Citing further evidence for this argument, Gallup noted that chimpanz
34、ees with no prior mirror experience did not direct behavior to the marks when they were first exposed to the mirror; that is, the other chimpanzees appeared to have remembered what they looked like and do have responded to the marks because they noticed changes in their appearance. 11 The idea of th
35、is passage is to discuss_. （ A） whether dogs recognize themselves in mirrors （ B） whether the grooming practices of chimps can be altered （ C） whether nonhumans have a self-concept （ D） whether chimps change their behavior when a mirror is present 12 The first sentence of Paragraph 3 may be interpre
36、ted to mean that_. （ A） nearly all animals have some self-concept （ B） nearly all animals have no self-concept （ C） nearly all animals have an awareness of the uses of mirrors （ D） nearly all animals have a fear of mirrors 13 The writer of the passage probably_. （ A） prefer dogs to chimps （ B） have
37、done more research with chimps than dogs （ C） enjoyed the experience involved in working with animals. （ D） want to see more research on non-human awareness 14 The authors purpose in the passage is_. （ A） to compare dog behaviors to chimp behavior （ B） to defend an idea （ C） to explore recent resear
38、ch on nonhuman self-awareness （ D） to evaluate a hypothesis 15 The purpose of the experiment introduced in the last paragraph is_. （ A） to prove that the chimps are not self-precognitive （ B） to prove that the chimps have the ability to remember their own appearance （ C） to prove that the chimps hav
39、e realized that the figures they see in the mirrors are themselves （ D） to prove that the chimps are non-human 15 Religion consists of conscious ideas, hopes, enthusiasms, and objects of worship; it operates by grace and flourishes by prayer. Reason, on the other hand, is a mere principle or potenti
40、al order, on which indeed we may come to reflect but which exists in us ideally only, without variation or stress of any kind. We conform or do not conform to it; it does not urge or chide us, not call for any emotions on our part other than those naturally aroused by the various objects which it un
41、folds in their true nature and proportion. Rationality is nothing but a form, an ideal constitution which experience may more or less embody. Religion is a part of experience itself, a mass of sentiments and ideas. The one is an inviolate principle, the other a changing and struggling force. And yet
42、 this struggling and changing force of religion seems to direct man toward something eternal. It seems to make for an ultimate harmony within the, soul and for an ultimate harmony between the soul and all that the soul depends upon. Religion, in its intent, is a more conscious and direct pursuit of
43、the Life of Reason than is society, science, or art, for these approach and fill out the ideal life tentatively and piecemeal, hardly regarding the foal or caring for the ultimate justification of the instinctive aims. Nevertheless, we must confess that this religious pursuit of the Life of Reason h
44、as been singularly abortive. Those within the pale of each religion may prevail upon themselves, to express satisfaction with its results, thanks to a fond partiality in reading the past and generous draughts of hope for the future; but any one regarding the various religions at once and comparing t
45、heir achievements with what reason requires, must feel how terrible is the disappointment which they have one and all prepared for mankind. To confuse intelligence and dislocate sentiment by gratuitous fictions is a short-sighted way of pursuing happiness. Thus religion too often debauches the moral
46、ity it comes to sanction and impedes the science it ought to fulfill. Religion pursues rationality through the imagination. When it explains events or assigns causes, it is an imaginative substitute for science. When it gives precepts, insinuates ideals, or remoulds aspiration, it is an imaginative
47、substitute for wisdomI mean for the deliberate and impartial pursuit of all food. The condition and the aims of life are both represented in religion poetically, but this poetry tends to arrogate to itself literal truth and moral authority, neither of which it possesses. Hence the depth and importan
48、ce of religion becomes intelligible no less than its contradictions and practical disasters. Its object is the same as that of reason, but its method is to proceed by intuition and by unchecked poetical conceits. 16 Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? （ A） Religion seeks the truth through
49、 imagination, reason, in its search, utilizes the emotions. （ B） Religion has proved an ineffective tool in solving mans problems. （ C） Science seeks a piece meal solution to mans questions. （ D） The functions of philosophy and reason are the same. 17 The author states that religion differs from rationality in that_. （ A） it relies on intuition rather than reasoning （ B） it is not concerned with the ultimate justification of its instinctive aims （ C） it has disappointed mankind （ D） it has inspired mankind 18 Acc
