1、武汉大学考博英语模拟试卷 9及答案与解析 一、 Reading Comprehension 0 Granted,its a pretty serious time to be living on this planet. Insane terrorists,political finger-pointing, a string of awful hurricanes,you name it,all filling the headlines with grim reminders that life isnt so peachy. Even reading the smaller storie
2、s in national publications seems to indicate that the world is run by grownups, and theyre busy taking the fun out of everything. The other day I was browsing through one of those magazines that explain serious science news to us dumbbells, and came across an item which announced that two different
3、companies have perfected a pill that contains all the good-for-you stuff found in a glass of red wine and is completely non-alcoholic. Now Im sure there are other adults out there who, like me,were pleasantly surprised to learn that a little tipple of pinot noir with the roast duckling might not tur
4、n one into a slobbering drunk but may actually be beneficial to your health. The news was a single candle,lit in a world of darkness,easing a tiny part of that big rock of guilt we constantly lug uphill. Of course,the minute the news got around,some Italian scientists began putting that age-old inno
5、cent beverage through a freeze-drying process that preserved the benefits while removing the alcohol along wit all that unnecessary enjoyment. Swell news for teetotalers,but just another indication that our main focus is on getting through each grim day without a moment of relief. Sound far-fetched?
6、 Even comic books (a main source of amusement,when I was a tad) have become literary vehicles for philosophical messages. I figure its all a big plot. Something probably cooked up by,urn,mommies and dictators and insurance companies and people who play their boom boxes too loudly. Just to make sure
7、that you and I are prevented from squeezing a dollop of guilt-free enjoyment from a modest amount of fermented grape juice. Mark my words,the next great leap in science wont be in the field of cloning or DNA research or rocket science. What theyll do is develop a way to turn a big juicy standing rib
8、 roast into a pinch of tasteless grey protein-packed powder you can sprinkle on a piece of white bread and have for dinner. Remember: just because were paranoid dont mean they aint out to get us. 1 When the author says, “the world is run by grownups,and theyre busy taking the fun out of everything“,
9、 he means to say_. （ A） they are busy making fun to their people （ B） they have become more and more friendly to their people （ C） they are doing things disregard of the ways things develop themselves （ D） they are occupied everyday with trivial instead of key issues of the world 2 In Paragraphs 2 a
10、nd 3 the author wants to say that_. （ A） people nowadays become more interested in science matters （ B） the researchers nowadays are more interested in developing all the good-for-you stuff （ C） some people want to find things which are beneficial to their health （ D） people nowadays tend to oversta
11、te and publicize what they have done 3 The word“cooked up“(in Paragraph 5)probably is used in the context means_. （ A） food prepared （ B） falsely-prepared （ C） concocted （ D） carefully done 4 Which of the following can be a proper summary of the last paragraph of the passage? （ A） The world will soo
12、n be made unbelievable by the groundless cooked-up miracles and wonders. （ B） There will be more and more people in the world who will become cheaters. （ C） There will be more and more people who will be able to create what seemed impossible years ago. （ D） Nobody knows what the future world would b
13、e like with the fast development of modern science and technology. 5 The tune of the author in this passage sounds_about what he says. （ A） fully confident （ B） highly positive （ C） fully suspicious （ D） emotionally discriminative 5 One hundred boats bearing one million desperate uninvited immigrant
14、s set sail from the Ganges (恒 河 )for the fabled coast of the French Riviera. They are totally destitute and have decided that their only chance of survival is in a country with a conscience that traditionally welcomes refugees from the Third Word. Their journey will take 50 days. In France,the news
15、is trumpeted with pride by the liberal media,churchmen and left-wing activists. Favorable media echoes are heard all over Europe. Political leaders and the armed forces fumble for common policies. Publicly,French authorities praise the intrepid voyagers. Privately,they exchange ideas on how they can
16、 divert one million hungry souls to other shores. A trendy French Radio journalist,Albert Dufort, sees the makings of a historical redistribution of wealth between the First and Third Worlds. “Were all from the Ganges now. “he proclaims. Schoolchil-dren write essays eulogizing latter day“sans culott
17、es“. The theme is picked up and sweeps across the continent. As the armada makes it through the Straits of Gibraltar, panic sets in. The inhabitants of the French Riviera begin to flee north. The president of France orders the armed forces deployed along the coast. They are told their mission is to
18、defend the country against the now imminent invasion of one million poverty-stricken people from the Ganges. But with ears glued to their transistor radios,they heed Duforts call not to oppose the landings. They desert en masse. Police open jail cells before shedding their uniforms and hotfooting it
19、 home to take care of their families. Terrified by what he has wrought, Dufort heads for Switzerland in his expensive sports car,but he js recognized en route and murdered. As hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of coastal towns and the surrounding Provence country move north,tens of thousands of r
20、evolutionary students travel south to greet their Ganges brothers. Unbeknownst to the welcoming throngs of idealists,the Ganges multitudes are coming to settle scores with the wealthy West that has kept them subjugated without hope of a better life. They hate the West their leaders said had robbed t
21、hem of the higher standard of living they are entitled to. The one million Ganges folk are not alone. Millions of others are monitoring their progress from all over the Third World and plan to follow them to the promised Land. Thus the Third World conquers mod-em industrialized societies, but not be
22、fore much mayhem and unspeakable carnage and atrocities. 6 That part of the sentence “a country with a conscience that traditionally welcomes refugees from the Third World“probably means_. （ A） a country showing sympathy for the refugees from the Third World （ B） a place with clean conscience that a
23、ll men in the world should be equal in every way （ C） a nation that shares the same tradition with the third world countries （ D） a state that strongly believes that all refugees should be treated as a human being 7 From Paragraph 2, it can be inferred that_. （ A） France is the unique country that s
24、hows unconditional sympathy for the Indian refugees （ B） France intends to make the refugee problem politically publicized for its own benefit （ C） some French people actually hate the intrusion of so many refugees from the Ganges （ D） political leaders and the armed forces are particularly enthusia
25、stic in receiving the refugees 8 All of the following about Paragraph 3 are true EXCEPT that_. （ A） Albert Dufort sees the large size emigration from the Ganges is historical redistribution of wealth between the First and Third Worlds （ B） the theme on the large size emigration from Ganges is report
26、ed widely across the European continent （ C） Albert Dufort believes that even his own country, fellows are also originated from the Ganges （ D） schoolchildren write compositions showing their shock at the historical move of immigrants 9 What happened to the trendy French radio journalist,Albert Dufo
27、rt,according to the passage? （ A） He was recognized as a famous reporter after the historical move of immigrants. （ B） He was killed for some unknown reason （ C） He believed that he was also an immigrant from India. （ D） Tens of thousands of students travel south to greet him. 10 From the last parag
28、raph it can be concluded that_. （ A） the author of the passage believes that the Third World will conquer the modem industrialized societies in the near future （ B） the author of the passage reveals his doubtful attitude toward the historical move of the Indian emigrants （ C） the author of the passa
29、ge thinks that there wont be any more large-scaled move from the Third World to the industrialized countries （ D） the author of the passage thinks highly of what France has done in receiving the one million desperate uninvited immigrants 10 Back in Seattle,around the corner from the Discovery Instit
30、ute,Stephen Meyer offers some peer-reviewed evidence that there truly is a controversy that must be taught. “The Darwinists are bluffing, “he says over a plate of oysters at a downtown seafood restaurant. “They have the science of the steam engine era,and its not keeping up with the biology of the i
31、nformation age. “ Meyer hands me a recent issue of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews with an article by Carl Woese.an eminent microbiologist at the University of Illinois. In it. Woese decries the failure of reductionist biologythe tendency to Jook at systems as merely the sum of their part
32、sto keep up with the developments of molecular biology. Meyer says the conclusion of Woeses argument is that the Darwinian emperor has no clothes. Its a page out of the antievolution playbook: using evolutionary biologys own literature against it, selectively quoting from the likes of Stephen Jay Go
33、uld to illustrate natural selections downfalls. The institute marshals Journal articles discussing evolution to provide policymakers with evidence of the raging controversy surrounding the issue. Woese scoffs at Meyers claim when I call to ask him about the paper. “To say that my criticism of Darwin
34、ists says that evolutionists have no clothes,“Woese says, “is like saying that Einstein is criticizing Newton,therefore Newtonian physics is wrong“. Debates about evolutions mechanisms,he continues, dont amount to challenges to the theory. And intelligent design “is not science. It makes no predicti
35、ons and doesnt offer any explanation whatsoever, except forGod did it. “ Of course Meyer happily acknowledges that Woese is an ardent evolutionist. The institute doesnt need to impress Woese or his peers; it can simply co-opt the vocabulary of science“academic freedom. “ “sci-entific objectivity,“te
36、ach the controversy“and redirect it to a public trying to reconcile what ap-pear to be two contradictory scientific views. By appealing to a sense of fairness. ID finds a place at the political table,and by merely entering the debate it can claim victory. “We dont need to win every argu-ment to be a
37、 success, “Meyer says,“Were trying to validate a discussion thats been long suppressed. “ This is precisely what happened in Ohio. “Im not a PhD in biology, “says board member Michael Cochran. “But when I have X number of PhD experts telling me this, and X number telling me the opposite, the answer
38、is probably somewhere between the two. “ An exasperated Krauss claims that a truly representative debate would have had 10000 pro-evolution Scientists against two Discovery executives. “What these people want is for there to be a debate, “says Krauss. “People in the audience say,Hey,these people sou
39、nd reasonable. They argue, people have different opinions, we should present those opinions in school.That is nonsense. Some people have opinions that the Holocaust never happened, but we dont teach that in history. “ Eventually, the Ohio board approved a standard mandating that students learn to “d
40、escribe how scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory. “Proclaiming victory, Johnson barnstormed Ohio churches soon after notifying congregations of a new, ID-friendly standard. In response, anxious board members added a clause stating that the standard
41、 “does not mandate the teaching or testing of intelligent design.“Both sides claimed victory. A press release from IDNet trumpeted the mere inclusion of the phrase intelligent design,saying that “the implication of the statement is that the teaching or testing of intelligent designis permitted. “Som
42、e pro-evolution scientists, meanwhile,say theres nothing wrong with teaching students how to scrutinize theory. “I dont have a problem with that,“ says Patricia Princehouse， a professor at Case Western Reserve and an outspoken opponent of ID.“Critical analysis is exactly what scientists do.“ 11 Step
43、hen Meyer seems to be criticizing Darwinists because_. （ A） the evidence for their theories is peer-reviewed （ B） they were born in the age of steam engine （ C） their theories are already out of date （ D） they can not catch up with the information technology 12 What does Woese mean when he answers b
44、ack for his remark“.evolutionists have no clothes? “ （ A） His criticism of Darwinists should not be understood as the denial of it. （ B） Clothes themselves are not what evolutionists are interested in. （ C） Einstein is right when he is criticizing Newtonian physics. （ D） Einsteinian physics is an im
45、provement on Newtonian physics. 13 Why did Meyer initiate the debate between him and Woese as he claimed? （ A） To make it possible the alternative use of the vocabulary of science （ B） To reconcile what appear to be two contradictory scientific views （ C） To claim victory for the views which are so
46、significant （ D） To establish the soundness of a discussion thats been long suppressed 14 What does the“exasperated Krauss“mean when he talks about the audience? （ A） He disagrees there should be a representative debate. （ B） He stresses that what these people require is reasonable. （ C） He insists
47、that different opinions should be presented in school. （ D） He rejects the idea that we should teach whatever is presented. 15 Which of the following is NOT one of the responses to the standard approved by the Ohio board? （ A） Many of ID scholars expressed friendly-welcome to the standard. （ B） Some
48、 anxious board members suggested an additional clause. （ C） IDNet understood the standard as s permission of teaching or testing of intelligent design. （ D） Pro-evolution scientists claimed that critical analysis is exactly what scientists should do. 15 Home schooling appears to be a great success f
49、or middle-class and wealthy families when one parent is home most of the time. However, home schooling does not work in inner-city neighborhoods because parents either work during the day or actively look for work. Numerous estimates between 1 and 2 million have been made regarding the number of home-schooled children in this country. Home schooling will grow in the future as course materials and tutoring systems vastly improve. Not too many years ago, learning at home meant reading a book and doing homework wi
