2007年碩士研究生入學統一考試英語模擬試題

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Section I Use of English

Part A

Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)

The basic function of money is the enable buying to be separated from selling, thus permitting trade to take place without the so瞔alled double coincidence of barter. If a person has something to sell and wants something else 1 return, it is not necessary to search for someone able and 2to make the desired exchange of items. The person can sell the 3 item for general purchasing power—that is, “money”—to anyone who wants to buy it and then use the proceeds to buy the desired item from anyone who wants to sell it.

The importance of this function of money is 4 illustrated by the experience of Germany just after World War Ⅱ, 5 paper money was 6 largely useless because, despite inflationary conditions, price controls were effectively 7 by the American, French, and British armies of occupation. People had to8 to barter or to inefficient money substitutes. The result was to cut total output of the economy in half. The German “economic miracle” just after 1948 reflected partly a currency reform by the occupation authorities, 9 some economists hold that it stemmed primarily from the German government’s 10 of all price controls, 11 permitting a money economy to 12 a barter economy.

13 of the act of sale from the act of purchase 14 the existence of something that will be generally accepted in payment—this is the “15 of exchange” function of money. But there must also be something that can serve as a 16 abode of purchasing power, in which the seller holds the proceeds in the interim 17 the first sale and the 18 purchase, or from which the buyer can 19the general purchasing power with which to pay 20 what is bought. This is the “asset” function of money.

1. ［A］ on ［B］ in ［C］ by ［D］ for

2. ［A］ capable ［B］ likely ［C］ desirable ［D］ willing

3. ［A］ excess ［B］ extra ［C］ surplus ［D］ ample

4. ［A］ dramatically ［B］ urgently ［C］ faithfully ［D］ incidentally

5. ［A］ when ［B］ before ［C］ since ［D］ until

6. ［A］ developed ［B］ reserved ［C］ rendered ［D］ imagined

7. ［A］ encouraged ［B］ enlarged ［C］ endured ［D］ enforced

8. ［A］ conform ［B］ resort ［C］ commit ［D］ gear

9. ［A］ and ［B］ but ［C］ therefore ［D］ however

10. ［A］ deprivation ［B］ stimulation ［C］ elimination ［D］ restriction

11. ［A］ thereby ［B］ therefore ［C］ then ［D］ while

12. ［A］ alternate ［B］ establish ［C］ substitute ［D］ replace

13. ［A］ Introduction ［B］ Specification ［C］ Representation ［D］ Separation

14. ［A］ assumes ［B］ requires ［C］ focuses ［D］ undertakes

15. ［A］ medium ［B］ function ［C］ role ［D］ nature

16. ［A］ fashionable ［B］ favorable ［C］ temporary ［D］ token

17. ［A］ both ［B］ for ［C］ between ［D］ after

18. ［A］ consequent ［B］ relevant ［C］ inadequate ［D］ subsequent

19. ［A］ execute ［B］ extract ［C］ exceed ［D］ exchange

20. ［A］ for ［B］ off ［C］ back ［D］ in

Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

Two related paradoxes also emerge from the same basic conception of the aesthetic experience. The first was given extended consideration by Hegel, who argued roughly as follows: our sensuous attention and that gives to the work of art its peculiar individuality. Because it addresses itself to our sensory appreciation, the work of art is essentially concrete, to be understood by an act of perception rather than by a process of discursive thought.

At the same time, our understanding of the work of art is in part intellectual; we seek in it a conceptual content, which it presents to us in the form of an idea. One purpose of critical interpretation is to expound this idea in discursive form—to give the equivalent of the content of the work of art in another, nonsensuous idiom. But criticism can never succeed in this task, for, by separating the content from the particular form, it abolishes its individuality. The content presented then ceases to be the exact content of that work of art. In losing its individuality, the content loses its aesthetic reality; it thus ceases to be a reason for attending to the particular work and that first attracted our critical attention. It cannot be this that we saw in the original work and that explained its power over us.

For this content, displayed in the discursive idiom of the critical intellect, is no more than a husk, a discarded relic of a meaning that eluded us in the act of seizing it. If the content is to be the true object of aesthetic interest, it must remain wedded to its individuality: it cannot be detached from its “sensuous embodiment” without being detached from itself. Content is, therefore, inseparable from form and form in turn inseparable from content. (It is the form that it is only by virtue of the content that it embodies.)

Hegel’s argument is the archetype of many, all aimed at showing that it is both necessary to distinguish form from content and also impossible to do so. This paradox may be resolved by rejecting either of its premises, but, as with Kant’s antinomy, neither premise seems dispensable. To suppose that content and form are inseparable is, in effect, to dismiss both ideas as illusory, since no two works of art can then share either a content or a form-the form being definitive of each work’s individuality.

In this case, no one could ever justify his interest in a work of art by reference to its meaning. The intensity of aesthetic interest becomes a puzzling, and ultimately inexplicable, feature of our mental life. If, on the other hand, we insist that content and form are separable, we shall never be able to find, through a study of content, the reason for attending to the particular work of art that intrigues us. Every work of art stands proxy for its paraphrase. An impassable gap then opens between aesthetic experience and its ground, and the claim that aesthetic experience is intrinsically valuable is thrown in doubt.

21. Hegel argued that .

［A］ it is our sensuous appreciation that gives peculiar individuality to the work of art

［B］ it is the content of the work of art that holds our attention

［C］ the work of art cannot be understood without a process of logical thinking

［D］ the form of the work of art is what our sensuous appreciation concentrates on

22. It can be inferred from this passage that .

［A］ the paradox that it is both necessary to distinguish form content and also impossible to do so cannot be resolved by rejecting its premises

［B］ both content and form of the work of art are illusory

［C］ the content and form of the work of art are separable

［D］ aesthetic experience is not intrinsically valuable

23. Which of the following is NOT what Hegel believed?

［A］ The content and form of the work of art cannot be separated from each other.

［B］ The content of the work of art is always the true object of aesthetic interest.

［C］ The content presented without any individuality is not the content of the work of art.

［D］ The content understood by means of a process of discursive thought is no more than a husk.

24. Premises that are related to each other seems to be dispensable because .

［A］ Kant thinks they are indispensable

［B］ either of them can resolve the paradox

［C］ the premises are separated

［D］ the premises can account for the theory

25. This passage is mainly about .

［A］ the sensuous appreciation of art

［B］ the basic conception of the aesthetic experience

［C］ how to appreciate the work of art

［D］ the relationship between form and content of the work of art

Text 2

Every country with a monetary system of its own has to have some kind of market in which dealers in bills, notes, and other forms of short term credit can buy and sell. The“money market” is a set of institutions or arrangements for handling what might be called wholesale transactions in money and short term credit. The need for such facilities arises in much the same way that a similar need does in connection with the distribution of any of the products of a diversified economy to their final users at the retail level. If the retailer is to provide reasonably adequate service to his customers, he must have active contacts with others who specialize in making or handling bulk quantities of whatever is his stock in trade. The money market is made up of specialized facilities of exactly this kind. It exists for the purpose of improving the ability of the retailers of financial services—commercial banks, savings institutions, investment houses, lending agencies, and even governments—to do their job. It has little if any contact with the individuals or firms who maintain accounts with these various retailers or purchase their securities or borrow from them.

The elemental functions of a money market must be performed in any kind of modern economy, even one that is largely planned or socialist, but the arrangements in socialist countries do not ordinarily take the form of a market. Money markets exist in countries that use market processes rather than planned allocations to distribute most of their primary resources among alternative uses. The general distinguishing feature of a money market is that it relies upon open competition among those who are bulk suppliers of funds at any particular time and among those seeking bulk funds, to work out the best practicable distribution of the existing total volume of such funds.

In their market transactions, those with bulk supplies of funds or demands for them, rely on groups of intermediaries who act as brokers or dealers. The characteristics of these middlemen, the services they perform, and their relationship to other parts of the financial vary widely from country to country. In many countries there is no single meeting place where the middlemen get together, yet in most countries the contacts among all participants are sufficiently open and free to assure each supplier or user of funds that he will get or pay a price that fairly reflects all of the influences (including his own) that are currently affecting the whole supply and the whole demand. In nearly all cases, moreover, the unifying force of competition is reflected at any given moment in a common price (that is, rate of interest) for similar transactions. Continuous fluctuations in the money market rates of interest result from changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon the market and in the pull of current demands upon the market.

26. The first paragraph is mainly about .

A. the definition of money market

B. the constitution of a money market

C. the basic functions of a money market

D. the general feature of a money market

27. According to this passage, the money market .

A. provides convenient services to its customers

B. has close contact with the individuals or firms seeking funds

C. maintains accounts with various retailers of financial services

D. is made up of institutions who specialize in handling wholesale monetary transactions

28. Which of the following statements concerning money market is not true according to this passage?

A. Money market does not exist in planned economies.

B. Money market has been established in some socialist countries.

C. Money market encourages open competition among bulk suppliers of funds.

D. Money market relies upon market processes to distribute funds to final users.

29. The author uses the example of middleman to show .

A. market transactions are important in different countries

B. dealers are needed in doing business

C. middlemen can play great role in different transactions and different countries.

D. middlemen in different countries have different actions in business.

30. According to this passage, .

A. brokers usually perform the same kinds of services to their customers

B. brokers have little contact with each other

C. open competition tends to result in a common price for similar transactions at any given moment

D. changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon market tends to maintain a common price for similar transactions

Text 3

Environmental issues raise a host of difficult ethical questions, including the ancient one of the nature of intrinsic value. Whereas many philosophers in the past have agreed that human experiences have intrinsic value and the utilitarians at least have always accepted that the pleasures and pains of nonhuman animals are of some intrinsic significance, this does not show why it is so bad if dodos become extinct or a rain forest is cut down. Are these things to be regretted only because of the loss to humans or other sentient creatures? Or is there more to it than that? Some philosophers are now prepared to defend the view that trees, rivers, species (considered apart from the individual animals of which they consist), and perhaps ecological systems as a whole have a value independent of the instrumental value they may have for humans or other sentient creatures.

Our concern for the environment also raises the question of our obligations to future generations. How much do we owe to the future? From a social contract view of ethics or for the ethical egoist, the answer would seem to be: nothing. For we can benefit them, but they are unable to reciprocate. Most other ethical theories, however, do give weight to the interests of coming generations. Utilitarians, for one, would not think that the fact that members of future generations do not exist yet is any reason for giving less consideration to their interests than we give to our own, provided only that we are certain that they will exist and will have interests that will be affected by what we do. In the case of, say, the storage of radioactive wastes, it seems clear that what we do will indeed affect the interests of generations to come.

The question becomes much more complex, however, when we consider that we can affect the size of future generations by the population policies we choose and the extent to which we encourage large or small families. Most environmentalists believe that the world is already dangerously overcrowded. This may well be so, but the notion of overpopulation conceals a philosophical issue that is ingeniously explored by Derek Parfit in Reasons and Persons (1984). What is optimum population? Is it that population size at which the average level of welfare will be as high as possible? Or is it the size at which the total amount of welfare—the average multiplied by the number of people—is as great as possible? Both answers lead to counterintuitive outcomes, and the question remains one of the most baffling mysteries in applied ethics.

31. The first paragraph is mainly about .

［A］ the intrinsic value of human experiences

［B］ the intrinsic value of the experiences of nonhuman animals

［C］ the intrinsic value of ecological system as a whole

［D］ an ancient ethical question about the nature of intrinsic value

32. , we owe nothing to the future generations.

［A］ In the author’s opinion

［B］ From a social contrast view of ethics

［C］ For a utilitarian

［D］ For most environmentalists

33. Population policy we take should be considered .

［A］ positive ［B］ negative ［C］ complex ［D］ reasonable

34. According to this passage, optimum population .

［A］ refers to the population size at which the average level of welfare will be as high as possible

［B］ refers to the population size at which the total amount of welfare will be as great as possible

［C］ is a difficult philosophical issue which remains to be resolved in the future

［D］ is a difficult philosophical issue which Derek Parfit has successfully settled in Reasons and Persons

35. The proper title for this passage should be .

［A］ A Mystery in Applied Ethics

［B］ Our Obligations to Future Generations

［C］ Environmental Ethics

［D］ Environmental issues

Text 4

Perhaps only a small boy training to be a wizard at the Hogwarts school of magic could cast a spell so powerful as to create the biggest book launch ever. Wherever in the world the clock strikes midnight on June 20th, his followers will flock to get their paws on one of more than 10m copies of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”. Bookshops will open in the middle of the night and delivery firms are drafting in extra staff and bigger trucks. Related toys, games, DVDs and other merchandise will be everywhere. There will be no escaping Pottermania.

Yet Mr Potter’s world is a curious one, in which things are often not what they appear. While an excitable media (hereby including The Economist, happy to support such a fine example of globalisation) is helping to hype the launch of J.K. Rowling’s fifth novel, about the most adventurous thing that the publishers (Scholastic in America and Britain’s Bloomsbury in English elsewhere) have organised is a reading by Ms Rowling in London’s Royal Albert Hall, to be broadcast as a live webcast. Hollywood, which owns everything else to do with Harry Potter, says it is doing even less. Incredible as it may seem, the guardians of the brand say that, to protect the Potter franchise, they are trying to maintain a low profile. Well, relatively low.

Ms Rowling signed a contract in 1998 with Warner Brothers, part of AOL Time Warner, giving the studio exclusive film, licensing and merchandising rights in return for what now appears to have been a steal: some $500,000. Warner licenses other firms to produce goods using Harry Potter characters or images, from which Ms Rowling gets a big enough cut that she is now wealthier than the queen—if you believe Britain’s Sunday Times rich list. The process is self瞘enerating: each book sets the stage for a film, which boosts book sales, which lifts sales of Potter products.

Globally, the first four Harry Potter books have sold some 200m copies in 55 languages; the two movies have grossed over $1.8 billion at the box office. This is a stunning success by any measure, especially as Ms Rowling has long demanded that Harry Potter should not be over commercialised. In line with her wishes, Warner says it is being extraordinarily careful, at least by Hollywood standards, about what it licenses and to whom. It imposed tough conditions on Coca Cola, insisting that no Harry Potter images should appear on cans, and is now in the process of making its licensing programme even more restrictive. Coke may soon be considered too mass market to carry the brand at all.

The deal with Warner ties much of the merchandising to the films alone. There are no officially sanctioned products relating to “Order of the Phoenix”; nor yet for “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, the film of the third book, which is due out in June 2004. Warner agrees that Ms Rowling’s creation is a different sort of commercial property, one with long-term potential that could be damaged by a typical Hollywood marketing blitz, says Diane Nelson, the studio’s global brand manager for Harry Potter. It is vital, she adds, that with more to come, readers of the books are not alienated. “The evidence from our market research is that enthusiasm for the property by fans is not waning.”

36. When the author says “there will be no escaping Potter mania”, he implies that .

［A］ Harry Potter’s appeal for the readers is simply irresistible

［B］ it is somewhat irrational to be so crazy about the magic boy

［C］ craze about Harry Potter will not be over in the near future

［D］ Hogwarts school of magic will be the biggest attraction world over

37. Ms Rowling’s reading in London’s Royal Albert Hall is mentioned to show .

［A］ publishers are really adventurous in managing the Potter’s business

［B］ businesses are actually more credible than media in Potter’s world

［C］ the media are promoting Pottermania more actively than Hollywood

［Ｄ］ businesses involved with Potter are moving along in an unusual way

38. The author believes that .

［A］ Britain’s Sunday Times rich list is not very convincing as it sounds

［B］ Time Warner’s management of licenses is a bit over commercialised

［C］ other firms may produce goods using Harry Potter images at will

［D］ what Ms Rowling got in return for her offering to Warner is a real bargain

39. Paragraph 4 intends mainly to show Warner’s .

［A］ determination to promote Potter

［B］ consistence in conducting busines

［C］ high regard for Ms Rowling’s request

［D］ careful restrictions on licensing to Coco-Cola

40. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that .

［A］ products of Potter films have brought enormous profits to Warner

［B］ current Hollywood’s marketing of Potter may damage its potential

［C］ readers could get tired of Ms Rowling’s writings sooner or later

［D］ Warner will maintain the same strategy with Potter in future

Part B

Sample 1

Directions:

In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)．

Large, multinational corporations may be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines. (41) Small businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ 60 percent of the workforce and expected to generate half of all new jobs between now and the year 2,000.(42)

Too many of these pioneers, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealists will overestimate the clamor for their products or fail to factor in the competition. (43). Midcareer executives, forced by a takeover or a restructuring to quit the corporation and find another way to support themselves, may save the idea of being their own boss but may forget that entrepreneurs must also. at least for a while, be bookkeepers and receptionists, too.(44) By 1995, more than 60 of those 100 start瞮ps, 77 percent of the companies surveyed were still alive. Most credited their success in large part to having picked a business they already were comfortable in Eighty percent had worked with the same product or service in their last jobs.

Thinking through an enterprise before the launch is obviously critical.(45) you must tenderly monitor its pulse, in their zeal, to expand. Small business owners often ignore early warning signs of a stagnant market or of decaying profitability. They hopefully four more and more into the enterprise, preferring not to acknowledge eroding profit margins that means the market for their ingenious service or product has evaporated, or that they must cut the payroll or vacate their lavish offices.

To snatch opportunity, you must spot the signals that it is time to conquer the new markets, add products or perhaps franchise your hot ideas.

［A］Only when the financial well runs dry do they see the seriousness of the illness, and by then the patient is usually too far gone to save.

［B］But many entrepreneurs forget that a firm’s health in its infancy may be little indication of how well it will age .

［C］Frequent checks of your firm’s vital signs will also guide you to a sensible rate of growth.

［D］Some 1.2 million small forms have opened their doors over the past 6 years of economic growth, and 1989 will see an additional 200,000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own.

［E］According to small Business Administration data, 24 of every 100 businesses starting out today are likely to disappear in two years, and 27 more will have shut their doors four years from now.

［F］But to a far greater extent than most Americans realize, the economy’s vitality depends on the fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and are factories.

［G］Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fatally, the capital that success requires

Sample 2

Directions:

The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order.For questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-G to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragrphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

［A］Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do, if she find him jealous.

［B］He that has wife and children has given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children, should have greatest care of future times; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges.

［C］Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses。

［D］But the most ordinary cause of a single life, is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives, are of that condition.

［E］Some there are, who though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences. There are some other, that account wife and children, but as bills of charges. There are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer. For perhaps they have heard some talk, Such an one is a great rich man, and another except to it, Yea, but he has a great charge of children; as if it were an abatement to his riches.

［F］Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry, —A young man not yet, an elder man not at all. It is often seen that bad husbands, have very good wives; whether it be, that it raiseth the price of their husband’s kindness, when it comes; or that the wives take a pride in their patience. But this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends consent; for then they will be sure to make good their own folly.

［G］A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, maketh the vulgar soldier more base.

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Sample 3

Directions:

You are going to read a text about the tips on books, followed by a list of examples. Choose the best example from the list A-F for each numbered subheading (41-45). There is one extra example which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

Man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

［41］A good book may be among the best of friends.

［42］Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love they have each for a book.

［43］A good book is often the best urn(甕) of a life enshrining（銘記） the best that life could think out;

［44］Books possess an essence of immortality.

［45］Books introduce us into the best society they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.

［A］We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

［B］The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.

［C］There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:“Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

［D］They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.

［E］For the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. “They are never alone,” said Sir Philip Sidney,“that are accompanied by noble thoughts.”

［F］It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

Sample 4

Directions:

You are going to read a list of headings and a text. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-F for each numbered paragraph (41-45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

Nowadays, as the developments of society progress forward, especially the achievement in the economy and technology, but more and more problems appear. Among these problems, what is the worst belongs to the area of environment.

［A］ It is futile to adjust to the chemicals.

［B］ The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

［C］ We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.

［D］ During the past quarter century the power to influence the nature has not only become increasingly great but it has changed in character（性質）.

［E］ The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.

［F］ It took hundreds of millions of years to produce the life that now inhabits the earth.

41

The new products come from our laboratories in an endless stream; almost five hundred annually find their way into actual use in the United States alone. Among them are many that are used in man’s war against nature. Since the mid 1940’s over 200 basic chemicals have been created for use in killing insects, weeds, and other organisms described as “pests.”

42

Given time not in years but in millennia life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. But in the modern world there is no time.

43

The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world the very nature of its life. Chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one to another in a chain of poisoning and death.

44

To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight. Only in the present century has one species man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

45

Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom. The chemicals are the synthetic5 creations of man’s inventive mind, having no counterparts in nature.

Part C

Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHET 2.(10 points)

People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring and are less likely to fall chronically ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist.（46） Using census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in the northern German town of Rostock found the month of birth was related to life expectancy over the age of 50. Seasonal differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new瞓orn baby and could influence its life expectancy in older age. （47）“A mother giving birth in spring spends the last phase of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,” said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of scientists who carried out the research. （48）“When she stops breast瞗eeding and starts giving her baby normal food, it’s in the hot weeks of summer when babies are prone to infections of the digestive system.” In Austria, adults born in autumn (October-December) lived about seven months longer than those born in spring (April-June), and in Denmark adults with birthdays in autumn outlived those born in spring by about four months. （49）In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. Adults born in the Australian autumn—the European spring—lived about four months longer than those born in the Australian spring. （50）The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century, using death certificates and census data. Although nutrition at all times of the year has improved since then, the seasonal pattern persists, Doblhammer said.

Section Ⅲ Writing

51. Directions:

You have missed a date of your friend, now you have to write a letter for appologization in about 100 words. and do not need to write the address, you should use the name Li Ming.

52. Directions:

Now more people enjoy buying lottery tickets. Study the following picture carefully and write an article on the topic of Quality Control and Marketing. In your article, you should cover the following points:

（1）describe the phenomenon;

（2）analyze the phenomenon and give your comment on it.

You should write about 160-200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

考前預測試卷一參考答案及解析

Section Ⅰ Use of English

1. B in return是固定短語，表示“作為回報”，文中的意思正是如果一個人有什么東西要賣，而有希望得到什么作為回報; by return of post 表示立刻回信, 沒有on return 以及for return 的固定用法。

2. D 做買賣交易肯定是雙方自愿的，所以應該選擇willing，be willing to 表示“愿意”，capable 表示具有某種能力，be likely to 表示“可能”，此處不符合題意；be desirable of 表示“渴望得到”也不符合題意，所以正確答案為D。

3.C本題涉及到基本常識，在過去之所以產生商品買賣是因為個人手里有了多余的產品，所以此處應該選擇C 項“多余的，剩余的”，surplus的用法經常表示產品或者資金的剩余；A表示“過度、無節制”；B項表示“另外的，不包括在內的”；D項表示“足夠的”。

4.A此處是意思是表示變化巨大，形容這種狀況的只有A項具有這種含義；B項“緊急的”；C項“虔誠的”；D項表示“恰巧的”。

5.A此處是表示時間的定語從句，應該選擇A項，符合題意。

6.C該題所要表示的意思是二戰中的情況致使貨幣失去本身的價值，所以此處的詞不應該是褒義詞，但是，A和D 項都由褒義的詞性，B項表示“保持”不符合語境，因為前面沒有提到過貨幣失去價值。

7.D此處的含義是被“加強，執行”；A項表示“鼓勵”；B項表示“加大”；C項表示“忍受”，都不符合文章要求。

8.B resort to 表示“求助于”，二戰中，貨幣已經不具有價值了，人們為了購買生活必須用品，就只好“求助于其他方法”，所以此處應該選擇B；conform to 表示“一致”；commit to 表示“執行，做”；gear to 表示“使適合”。

9.B閱讀文章，很容易理解前后兩局之間的關系是轉折關系，howevrer 的用法是前后都要使用逗號，所以只能選擇B。

10.C 此處的含義應該是取消所有價格控制，C項具有“取消，消滅”的含義；A項表示“剝奪”；B項表示“刺激、促進”，對于價格控制不可能促進的；D項表示“限制”，限制也是不符合題意的，只有取消這種控制經濟才可能發展，限制已經無法達到目的。

11.A前后是承接的關系，表示“所以”；B項的用法同however 一樣，前后都需要使用逗號。所以正確答案為A。

12.D 根據上下文，貨幣經濟應該代替物物交換經濟，這是歷史的必然，A項表示“交替，輪流”；B項表示“建立”，與前后關系不符；C項雖然也表示“代替，替換”，但是必須使用詞組 substitute A for B。

13.D 本題涉及到經濟學的某些常識，由于買和賣分離，在一定程度上促使了貨幣的產生，所以此處應該選擇D 表示“分開，分離”，前三項都不符合題意要求。

14.B買和賣的分離就要求另一種物品來充當媒介，B項表示“需要，要求”，經常使用在這種語境中，例如，The emergency requires that it should be done盇項表示“承擔”；C項表示“集中”；D項表示“執行”， 　

15.A參照14題可知，需要的是中間媒介，所以選擇“A”，其他選項均不符合。

16.C在買和賣之間的這段之間，對于貨幣來說，人是暫時的擁有，所以選擇C，其他三項與本題意無關。

17.Cinterim表示“中間的”，那么后面的介詞必須是兩者之間，所以選擇between 。

18.D此處的含義是先賣，再買， 只有D項具有這種含義。

19.B表示只有先把自己的東西賣了，才能取得購買的能力，表示“取得”的含義也只有B項。A項表示“執行”；C項表示“超過”；D項表示“交換”。 都不符合題意。

20.Apay for 表示“付款”，為自己買的東西付款；B項pay off 表示“還清”；C項pay back 表示“還回”；D項表示“解款入”。

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貨幣比較基本的功能就是將買賣兩種行為分離開來，從而避免了所謂的物物交換行為。如一個人想賣掉一些東西同時又想得到其他東西，他無需找一個有能力并愿意同他交換物品的人。他可以先賣掉多余的物品以換取一般購買力——即“貨幣”——賣給任何想買這件物品的人，然后用所得收益從任何想賣他所需物品的人處來購買。

二戰后發生在德國的事件戲劇性地證明了貨幣這一功能的重要性。那時，紙幣幾乎變的一文不值，因為盡管通貨膨脹，美國、法國和英國的占領軍卻嚴格地控制著商品的價格。人們不得不求助于物物交換或者效率很低的貨幣替代品。其結果導致了經濟總產值銳減了一半。1948年后德國的“經濟奇跡”一部分顯示了占領當局的貨幣改革，但一些經濟學家卻認為，這主要源于德國政府解除了所有的價格控制，從而允許貨幣經濟取代物物交換經濟。

要分離買賣兩種行為，需要可以普遍接受的支付手段——也就是貨幣作為交換媒介的功能。但同時也需要購買力的臨時保存處，以便賣主在下次購買之前存放先前賣得的收益，或便于買主從中取出一般購買力來支付買到的東西。這就是貨幣作為資產的能力。

Section ⅡReading Comprehension

Part A

Text 1

21.D本題的答案線索可以在第一段的比較后一句話中找到。A項應該是sensuous attention. B項沒有提到，C項正是黑格爾所反對的。

22.A根據第四段的內容，康德對開始兩句話的否定，表明對兩個前提中的一個予以否定是不可能的，這與A項的內容相符合。

23.B本項可以根據第二段中的內容得到答案，第二句話開始人們試圖對藝術品找到一個實在東西表達其含義，但是失敗了。所以B項的內容是錯誤的。

24.B因為二者對解決這個paradox沒有作用，所以他們是可有可無的。

25.D通讀全文即可知道，主要是黑格爾對藝術的內容和形式之間的關系進行的論述。所以很明顯正確答案為D。

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兩個相關的自相矛盾也產生于同一個基本概念——即美學經驗。黑格爾對第一個矛盾做了詳盡的論述，他大抵認為：我們的感覺注意及表現在藝術品方面的感覺注意是極其個性化的。因為藝術品將自己置入我們的感官鑒賞，所以它本質上是具體的，是被我們的感覺而不是游離的思想所理解。

同時，我們對藝術品的理解也需要部分智力，我們從中尋求概念化的內容，它以觀念的形式呈現給我們。批判性解釋的一個目的就是用游離的形式詳細地解釋這個觀念——將藝術品的內容用非感覺的方式呈現出來。但是批評永遠都不會成功，因為在將內容和某一形式分離的過程中已經破壞了其個性。此時呈現的內容已經不是那件藝術品的真實內容。丟失了個性，內容也就失去了其美學實體，從而它也就不會成為我們之所以注意那件作品和比較初吸引我們批判注意的原因。也正是因為這樣我們才會覺得與解釋相比，原作帶給我們的震撼力總是那么強大。

因為這種被游離思想批判過的內容充其量不過就是一個軀殼，一個逃避我們撲捉被拋棄了的意義。如果內容要成為美學欣賞的真正對象，它必須保持其個性：它不與自身分離就不會同其“感覺鏡像”分離。因此內容不能脫離形式，形式也不能脫離內容。（形式只能依靠內容來體現。）

黑格爾的觀點是很多觀點的原形，所有觀點都旨在說明將形式和內容分離的必要性和不可能性。拋棄他們各自的前提這一矛盾體也許可以解決，但正如康德的自相矛盾論，任何一個前提都是不可分割的。認為內容和形式不可分割，實際上就是認為這兩個觀念是虛幻的，因為沒有兩件藝術作品能夠共享一個內容或形式——每一個作品個性的確定形式。

因此，任何人都不能通過參考藝術作品的意義來欣賞它。強烈的美學興趣變成一種迷惑的，幾乎無法說明的精神世界的特征。如果另一方面，我們堅持內容和形式是可分的，我們永遠都不能通過研究內容來發現一件藝術作品吸引我們的真正原因。對每件藝術作品的解釋得到的都只是它的替身。在美學經驗和其本質之間就會出現不可逾越的鴻溝，而美學經驗在本質上是有價值的論斷也就值得懷疑。

Text 2

26.C第一段的描述很明顯就是貨幣市場的基本功能。所以選擇Ｃ項。

27.D關于“貨幣市場”的定義，可以通過第一段第二行的后半句話可知“ｍoney market is a set of institutions or arrangements…”該句的意思與D項符合。

28.B根據第二段第三行我們可以知道，貨幣市場不僅僅存在于社會主義國家，所以該項是錯誤的。

29.C三段中，對這些middleman 的作用進行了闡述，從中我們可以看到他們在不同的國家都起到了重要的作用。

30.C第二段的第五句話中，我們可以知道貨幣市場的一個分配特征就是依靠資金提供房和需求方各內部之間的競爭，所以可以得出C項的結論。A和B項不符合文中的題意。D項貨幣市場的浮動并不只是取決于資金提供方，還有市場的需要的因素。

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每一個擁有獨立金融系統的國家都應該有這樣的市場：在這里匯票、期票和其他形式的短期信貸可以進行買賣。“金融市場”就是一組用錢和短期信貸進行批發交易的公共機構或組織。在多樣經濟背景下在零售層面中將產品分配給比較終的用戶需要建立很多便利設施，同樣在批發方面這樣的設施的需求也在快速增長。如果零售商要為他的客戶提供充足的服務，他必須主動同大量制造及買賣他所要存貨物品的其他商人聯系。金融市場就是由這種專門的設施組成。其設立的目的是為了幫助金融機構——金融銀行、儲蓄機構、投資公司、信貸中介、甚至政府——的零售商們做好他們的工作。它與那些與不同零售商有關系的或購買它們的有價證券或借貸的個人或公司幾乎沒有什么聯系。

金融市場比較基本的功能必須以現代經濟形式來體現，甚至是高度計劃或社會主義，但社會主義國家不一定都要采取市場形式。金融市場存在于那些利用市場而不是計劃來分配資源的國家里。金融市場的基本特征是公平競爭，既存在于某一時間內資金的提供者之間，也存在于將這些資金合理分配的資金尋求者之間。

在市場交易中，提供資金和尋求資金者之間依靠經紀人或經銷商這些中間人來進行交易。這些中間人的特點，他們提供的服務，他們同其他金融之間的關系每個國家都不同。在許多國家，沒有這些中間人聚集的專門地點，但大多數國家中所有參與者之間的聯系都是公開進行，保證資金提供者和使用者能正確了解目前影響供需的所有因素（包括他自身）的情況下買賣商品。因此幾乎所有的情況中，競爭都顯示在某一特定時間相同交易的一般價格上（即利率）。市場上資金供應壓力和拉動市場需求的壓力的變化經常導致金融市場的持續波動。

Text 3

31．DD 前三個選項在第一段中都有提到，但并不是主要問題的所在，而第四個選項，在第二句話中就點了出來，前三個選項是第四個選項的展開說明。故D是正確答案。

32．B從文中第二段我們可以知道，C和D可以排除，因為功利主義者和環境學家反對這種毫不考慮將來的做法，文中沒有表示作者的觀點，而且文中也有“從社會契約的角度出發”的字樣。

33．C文中有明確指出情況將會是“complex”。

34．C文中提出了兩種情況，而且在結尾的比較后一句話中也表明成為一個謎，所以C應該是正確答案，只能留到將來解決的哲學問題。

35．C本文主要討論的并不是環境問題，而是由環境問題而引出的道德問題，對于應用道德中的謎是比較后一段提到的，還有第二段提到的我們對下一代的責任，二者都不足以代表整篇文章的思想內容。

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環境問題引起很多其他嚴重的道德倫理問題，包括內在固有的價值本質之一。雖然很多過去的哲學家認為人類經驗是具有內在固有的價值，而且功利論者至少認為非人類動物的快樂和痛苦具有某些內在價值，但是并不足以解釋我們為什么認為渡渡鳥滅絕或者熱帶雨林被破壞是非常糟糕的。這些事物僅僅被視為對人類或其他具有感情物種的一種損失嗎? 或者其他什么原因呢？一些哲學家開始準備為某些觀點進行辯護，即樹木、河流、物種和其他生態系統整體上具有一種獨立于功能主義的價值，所謂的功能主義是對于人類或其他感情物種來說具有某種價值。

我們對環境的擔心同時也引起了我們對下一代的責任問題。對于將來我們欠下了多少東西？從社會契約道德角度來說，或者道德自我注意的角度出發，答案似乎是什么也沒有。因為我們可以從中受益，然而他們卻不能互惠互利。其他很多的道德理論確實對下一代的利益予以重視。功利主義者并不會認為，就因為下一代還不存在就可以對他們利益的考慮要少于對我們本身的考慮，假如我們確定它們將會存在而且它們的利益將會受到我們現在的所作所為的影響，情況會是如何呢？例如，放射性廢棄物的堆積，似乎非常清楚，我們確實會影響下一代人民的利益。

但是當我們考慮到，我們所采取的人口和家庭政策，將會影響下一代的人口數量時，問題就變得更加復雜了。大部分的環境學家認為世界擁擠程度已經非常危險了。這也許還不那么糟糕，但是這種人口過剩的觀念隱蔽了一個哲學問題，這個哲學問題由Derek Parfit 在Reasons and Persons 這本書中提出的。什么是比較佳人口數量？是平均福利水平比較好時候的人口嗎？還是總體福利水平比較高的時候，即把平均水平按照人口數量翻番？兩個答案都會導致違反直覺的結果，而且這個問題成為應用道德中比較令人費解的一個謎。

Text 4

36. A這是一道句意題。第一段描述了波特迷們的世界性狂熱，沒有人能躲過哈利波特狂潮，暗示哈利波特的吸引力不可抵擋，所以A項為正確答案。

37. D這是一道例證題。文章說到Rowling應邀朗讀一事是為了說明此次商家的行為比較低調，這種舉措并不常見。故此答案為D。

38. D這是一道作者觀點題。依據“in return for what now appears to have been a steal: some $500,000.”，作者稱之為steal，可知答案為D。

39. C這是一道主旨題。段落的主要意思是華納按Rowling的要求做了，嚴禁過分的商業化。故答案為C。

40. D這是一道推論題。A項可以從上面推測到，但并不是比較后一段的引申，B項，本文對華納采取的政策時予以肯定的，C項與本文內容相反，前文說華納不想過分商業化Potter，比較后一段重申這種做法的正確性，并說市場調研表明Potter迷們的激情未減，可以推論，公司在未來還將保持這一策略。故答案為D。

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也許只有在Hogwarts魔術學校受訓并成為魔術師的小男孩才能產生如此大的魅力，造就有史以來比較大的銷書狂潮。6月20 日，無論在世界的什么地方，午夜的鐘聲一響，他的追隨者就蜂擁而至，搶購1000萬冊《哈利波特和菲尼克斯命令》中屬于自己的一本。書店半夜開門，送貨公司招募更多的雇員、租用更多的卡車。相關的玩具、游戲、DVD及其他商品處處皆是。哈里波特熱潮無所不在。

然而，波特的世界很奇怪，事情與往常不一樣。盡管易于激動的媒體(包括《經濟學家》雜志也樂于宣傳這樣一個全球化的經典之作)幫著鼓吹J.K. Rowling的第五部小說的發行，出版商所做的比較大膽的宣傳不過是請Rowling小姐到倫敦皇家阿爾伯特大廳朗讀一段，并在網上實況轉播。擁有除出版權之外與哈里波特有關的一切的好萊塢，動作也不多。真是不可思議，商標的擁有者說，為了保護與哈里波特相關的權利，他們正試圖保持低姿態，真的夠低。

Rowling小姐于1998年與華納兄弟，美國在線時代華納的一部分，簽訂了合約，賦予電影廠獨有的許可及商品開發權，而她所得到的現在看起來十分廉價：約50萬美元。華納許可其他公司使用哈里波特的人物形象生產產品，Rowling小姐也從中分得一大塊，使她比女王還富有——只要你相信英國Sunday Times所列的富人名單。這是一個增值的過程：書籍為電影搭建平臺，電影促進書的銷售，書的銷售又帶動哈里波特產品的銷售。

從全球來看，哈里波特的前四冊已被翻譯成55 種語言的文字，并銷售2億冊；兩部電影的票房也達到18億美元。怎么說，這也是令人震驚的成功，尤其是Rowling小姐還一直要求不要將哈里波特過于商業化。與她的要求一致，華納說他們一直很小心，至少按好萊塢的習慣標準來說是這樣，無論是發放哪類許可還是發放給誰都這樣。華納對Coca-Cola實施了嚴格的要求，堅持哈里波特的形象不能出現在易拉罐上，而目前正將許可的發放進一步嚴格化。Coca-Cola太大眾市場化了，不能持用波特商標。

與華納的交易使得商品的開發多系于電影本身。還沒有官方認可的與《哈利波特和菲尼克斯命令》相關的產品出來，《哈利波特和阿茲卡班囚徒》也沒有，后者是第三部書的電影版，電影將在2004 年6月發行。華納也認為，Rowling小姐的創作是一種不同的商品，它具有長期的潛力，用好萊塢的閃電式營銷方式會破壞它的前景，電影廠的哈里波特全球商標經理Diane Nelson就這么認為。她還說，由于更多的系列還未出版，不能將讀者疏遠很關鍵。“市場研究表明，波特迷們對波特的激情并沒有消減”。

Part B

Sample 1

正確答案：FDGEB

41.F 在文章開始提出大跨國公司的起伏牽動著媒體，而在該空后面卻對小企業進行了闡述，說明中間銜接的這句話應該與小企業有關，F中提到小企業在經濟中的地位，表示轉折的關系，所以比較佳答案應該為F。

42. D項中的內容仍然是對中小企業的發展狀況進行描述，所以應該放在該位置。對上句話進行承接和進一步說明。

43. 在本題后面的文字， 對企業家的失敗原因和狀況進行了描述，本題應該是一個具有概括含義的句子，G項認為很多企業家失敗的原因是低估了成功的要素。正好符合該題的要求。

44. 根據本提前一句話，人們預測這100家企業在將來的結果。E項內容恰好是該句話中100家企業比較終得到的真實結果的闡述，雖然結果與預測的相反。

45. 本段的第一句表明在策劃成立企業階段是非常重要，B項是對該句話的一個轉折，而且根據下文企業可能出現問題的描述，可以肯定該內容應該放在此處。

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大跨國公司可能是那些經常成為頭條的企業。但是超出美國人意料的是，經濟的活力需要依靠那些小商店、飯館、相關服務業以及工廠的命運。小企業，被定義為那些員工不超過100的企業，現在卻雇用了市場勞動力的60%，并且從現在到2000年間其創造的就業機會有望占總量的一半。在過去的經濟增長的6年中120萬家這種企業相繼開業，并且1989年將再增加20萬家。

但是，很多企業會在準備之前就會失敗。理想者們將會過高地估計他們產品的魅力或競爭中的失敗因素。中等創業者，由于被收購或整頓放棄企業而另謀他路，他們可能會保留自己當老板的念頭，但同時也可能會忘記企業家至少在一段時間內也是秘書和接待人員。根據小企業管理數據，在今天開業的100個企業中的24家很可能在兩年內就會倒閉，而27家將在4年內倒閉。到1995年，其中60%的企業啟動，而且77%的企業仍然存在。比較成功者中80%都是做自己以前做過的。

在創業之前仔細考慮是非常關鍵的。但是很多企業家忘記了嬰兒時期的健康對以后成長是多么的重要。所以你必須體貼地測試它的脈搏，在他們熱情的時候進行擴張。小企業主經常忽視早期的市場停滯和收益萎縮的警告。他們情愿不去承認較少的收益意味著自己的商品失去了市場，他們必須削減薪水或者減少奢侈的辦公室。只有當他們的運轉資金干枯了，他們才能看到嚴重性，但是這個時候企業已經無力回天了。

經常檢查企業的活力信號也能引導你對增長率進行判斷。為了抓住機會，你必須確定信號是時候征服新的市場，增加產品或者把自己的好主意付諸實施

Sample 2

正確答案：EDGCA

41．第一段在比較后一句話提到很多人愿意單身是怕家庭的緣故，E項的主要內容也是說的家庭，所以此處的比較佳答案為E。

42．此處有一個關鍵連詞就是“but”，而且說明單身比較大的理由就是自由，也是對上段內容的否定，根據正常邏輯此項應該緊跟在上個段落。

43．G項敘述的內容是對其他種類的單身進一步說明，頭三段的內容緊密相連，該段也是關于單身的，所以只能放在這個位置，此后的幾項就轉向了家庭的方面。

44．前三段對單身的原因及各方面進行了論述，此處進行了一個轉折，表明家庭也有益處，可以鍛煉一個人的意志。

45．由于比較后一段的開頭就說妻子的角色，可知，上一段的主要內容肯定是和妻子有關或者與女人有關的內容，所以此處選擇A。

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成了家的人，可以說對命運之神付出了抵押品。因為家庭難免拖累事業，而無論這種事業的性質如何。所以是能為公眾獻身的人，應當是不被家室所累的人。因為只有這種人，才能夠把他的全部愛情和財產，都奉獻給唯一的情人——公眾。而那種有家室的人，恐怕寧愿把比較好的東西留給自己的后代。

有的人在結婚后仍然愿意過獨身生活。因為他們不喜歡家庭，把妻子兒女看作經濟上的累贅。還有一些富人甚至以無子嗣為自豪。也許他們是擔心，一旦有了子女就瓜分現有的財產吧。

但是獨身比較好的理由是為了保持自由，以避免受約束于對家庭承擔的義務和責任。但這種人，可能會認為腰帶和鞋帶，也難免是一種束縛呢！實際上，獨身者也許可以成為比較好的朋友，比較好的主人，比較好的仆人，但很難成為比較好的公民。因為他們隨時可以遷逃，所以差不多一切流竄犯都是無家者。

作為獻身宗教的，是有理由保持獨身的。否則他們的慈悲就先布施于家人而不是供奉于上帝了。作為法官與律師，是否獨身關系并不大。因為只要他們身邊有一個壞的幕僚，其進讒言的能力就足以抵上5個妻子。作為軍人，有家室則是好事，這正可以在戰場上激發他 們的責任感和勇氣。這一點可以從土耳其的事例中得到反證——那里的風俗不重視婚姻和家庭，結果他們士兵的斗志很差。

對家庭的責任心不僅是人類的一種約束，也是一種訓練。那種獨身的人，雖然在用起來似乎很盡力，但實際上往往是心腸很硬的，因為他們不懂得對他人的愛。 一種好的風俗，能教化出情感堅貞的男子漢，例如像尤里西斯（Ulysses)那樣，他曾抵制美麗女神的誘惑，而保持了對妻子的忠貞。

一個獨身的女人常常是驕橫的。因為她需要顯示，她的貞節似乎是自愿保持的。如果一個女人為丈夫的聰明優秀而自豪，那么這就是使她忠貞不渝的比較好保證。但如果一個女人發現她的丈夫是妒忌多疑的，那么她將絕不會認為他是聰明的。

在人生中，妻子是青年時代的情人，中年時代的伴侶，暮年時代的守護。所以在人的一生中，只要有合適的對象，任何時候 結婚都是有道理的。但也有一位古代哲人，對于人應當在何時結婚這個問題是這樣說的：“年紀少時還不應當，年紀大時已不必要。”美滿的婚姻是難得一遇的。常可見到許多不出色的丈夫卻有一位美麗的妻子。這莫非是因為這種丈夫由于具有不多的優點而更值得被珍視嗎？也許因為伴隨這種丈夫，將可以考驗一個婦人的忍耐精神吧？如果這種婚姻出自一個女人的自愿選擇，甚至是不顧親友的勸告而選擇的，那么就讓她自己去品嘗這枚果實的滋味吧。

Sample 3

正確答案：FGEDA

41．本題說書是人類比較好的朋友，而在F中解釋到無論在什么時候書都會對你不離不棄，剛好符合本題的意義。

42．G中提到人們可能會仰慕同一個人而成為至交，同樣也可以因為一本書而結交為好朋友，這與本題的意思相符。

43．書可以珍藏人的思想，成為思想的容器，可以作為題干的例子。

44．書可以使人的思想不朽，被人類一代代的流傳下來，所以D項為正確答案。

45．A項提到我們可以接觸偉人的生活，而題干說書籍可以讓我接觸到很多偉大的事務，所以A項正是該題的例子。

譯文

看一個人讀些什么書就可知道他的為人，就像看一個同什么人交往就可知道他的為人一樣。因為世界上有人的伴侶，也有書的伴侶。無論是書友或朋友，我們都應該擇其比較佳者而從之。

一本好書就像是一個比較好的朋友。它始終不渝，過去如此，現在仍然如此，將來也永遠不變。它是比較有耐心、比較令人愉快的伴侶。在我們窮困潦倒、臨危遭難的時候，它也不會拋棄我們，對我們總是一往情深。在我們年輕時，好書陶冶我們的性情，增長我們的知識；到我們年老時，它又給我們以安慰和勉勵。

人們常常因為同愛一本書而結為知己。古諺說：“愛屋及烏”。但是，“愛我及書”這句話卻有更深的哲理。書是更為堅實而高尚的情誼紐帶。人們可以通過共同愛好的作家溝通思想感情，彼此息息相通。他們的思想共同在作者的著述里得到體現，而作者的思想反過來又化為他們的思想。

好書常如比較精美的寶器，珍藏著人的一生思想的精華。人生的境界，主要就在于他思想的境界。所以，比較好的書是金玉良言的寶庫，若將其中的崇高思想銘記于心，就成為我們忠實的伴侶和永恒的慰籍。菲利普•悉尼爵士說得好：“有高尚思想作伴的人永不孤獨。”

書籍具有不朽的本質，是人類勤奮努力的比較為持久的產物。寺廟會倒坍，神像會朽爛，而書卻經久長存。對于偉大的思想來說，時間是無關重要的。多少年代前初次閃現在作者腦海里的偉大思想今天依然清新如故。他們當時的言論和思想刊于書頁，如今依然那么生動感人。時間唯一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因為只有真正的佳作才能經世長存。

書籍引導我們與比較優秀的人物為伍，使我們置身于歷代偉人巨匠之間，如聞其聲，如觀其行，如見其人。同他們情感交融，悲喜與共。他們的感受成為我們自己的感受，我們覺得有點像是在作者所描繪的人生舞臺上跟他們一起粉墨登場了。

即使在人世間，偉大杰出的人物，也是永生不滅的，他們的精神載入史冊，傳之四海。書是人們至今仍在聆聽的智慧之聲，永遠充滿著活力。所以，我們永遠都是在受著歷代偉人的影響。多少世紀以前的蓋世英才，如今仍同當年一樣，顯示著強大的生命力。

Sample 4

正確答案：FDBEA

41．指出環境的變化不再跟隨自然的節奏，而受到了人的主宰，在F項中就提到了大自然沒有，由人類創造的一種物質，并對大自然形成巨大的負面影響。

42．提干中說人對自然的影響不僅表現在數量上還有質量上，選項中沒有對正面作用的表述，但是對反面作用進行了大量的闡述，也就是D項，提到了大量人類帶給環境的惡劣影響。

43．該提說到地球上的生命是要經過進化很多年，在B項中涉及到了時間的概念，生物需要幾千年的時間來適應環境，而且比較后一個句子正好與題干形成強烈的對比。

44．題干涉及的是人和自然的相互作用構成了歷史。那些在尋找例子的時候就要注意關于說明二者關系的段落，而E選項的內容提出地球上動植物的形態由外部環境構成，同時又影響了周圍的環境，正式說明二者的關系是相輔相成的。

45．題干的意思是適應這些化學物質的是徒勞的，在A項中，說明為什么是徒勞的。

譯文

地球上生命的歷史一直就是一部生物與其環境相互作用的歷史。在很大程度上，地球上動植物的形態以及習性都是由外部環境所塑造的。考慮到地球上生命存在的整個時間，相反作用，即生命對其周圍環境的實際改變作用，卻相對很小。只有在當前這個世紀(指20世紀)才有一個物種——人類，獲得了強大的力量，改變了其所生存的世界的自然狀態。

在過去的1/4世紀中，這種力量不僅日趨強大，而且其性質也發生了變化。在人類破壞環境的種種行為中，比較令人擔憂的是人類向大氣、土壤、河流以及海洋中排放危險甚至致命物質，而當今這種污染在很大程度上是無法挽救的。在當今這種對環境的普遍污染中，化學制品與輻射狼狽為奸，改變著地球的自然狀態，也就是改變著地球上生命的自然狀態。噴灑到農田、森林或者花園里的化學物質長期滯留于土壤中，滲入有機體內，并彼此相傳，形成了一個中毒與死亡的鏈條。化學物質還神秘地通過地下水傳遞，比較終以新的形式出現并結合，使植物毒死，牲畜害病，并使飲用一度純凈的井水的人遭受了不明之害。正如一位科學家所言：“人類甚至對自己創造的惡魔都不認識。”

地球歷經了許多億年才創造了棲息其上的生命。經過了一定時間——不是以若干年計而是以若干千年計的時間——生命開始適應環境，并形成了一種與環境的平衡。但是在現代世界中，時間這一因素已經沒有了。

環境改變的速度不再順從大自然從容不迫的節奏，而是順從人類急匆匆的步伐。輻射是當今人類通過支配原子而得到的一種非自然的創造物。化學制品則是人類有發明創造力的頭腦創造出來的合成物，在自然界本無相應的東西。

為了適應這些化學制品，人類需要付出的時間不會只是一個人一生的時間，而是幾代人的時間。而即使這樣，就算出現奇跡成為可能，這種適應也是徒勞的，因為新的化學制品從我們的實驗室中源源不斷地涌出。僅在美國，每年就有大約500種化學制品投入使用，其中許多是用于人類對自然的戰爭中。從20世紀40年代中期起，人類已經創造了200多種基本化學制品用來消滅昆蟲、野草以及其他所謂的“有害生物”。

我不是說人類決不能使用化學殺蟲劑。我要說的是，我們不分青紅皂白地將這些有毒的、具有強大生物功能的化學制品，交給了那些對這些制品的潛在危害基本上或者完全無知的人去使用。我們使眾多的人接觸這些有毒物質，卻沒有征得他們的同意，并常常將他們蒙在鼓中。我還要說的一點是，我們允許使用這些化學制品，卻事先很少或者根本沒有調查它們對土壤、水、野生生物以及人類自身造成的影響。我們缺乏對萬物賴以生存的自然界生態統一的關心，對此，我們的后代是不可能原諒的。

Part C

46. 馬克斯-普朗克人口研究學院位于德國北部城市羅斯托克，該學院的科學家們通過分析奧地利、丹麥和澳大利亞3國超過100萬的人口普查數據得出結論，人們50歲以后的平均壽命與出生月份之間存在關聯。

47. 春天分娩的母親孕期的比較后階段適逢冬季，因此她攝入的維生素要比夏季時少。

48. 她停止哺乳開始讓嬰兒正常進食的時候又正好趕上夏天比較熱的那幾個星期，這時候嬰兒容易發生消化系統感染。

49. 生于澳洲秋天——歐洲的春天——的成人壽命比春天出生的長大約4個月。

50. 研究者們使用死亡證明和人口普查數據作為參考資料，主要對象是20世紀初出生的人。多布哈默說，盡管人們在一年中各個時期的營養狀況與那時相比都已經有所改善，這樣的季節性差異卻依然存在。

Section Ⅲ Writing

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May 20th

Dear Lily,

I am sorry I missed seeing you yesterday. I know that you must have been disappointed. I also feel worried and anxious in my heart. The fact is that my manager at the last moment asked me to prepare a urgent plan while I could not get to a phone to call you and yesterday I have worked late until about 8:30 p.m. I am terribly sorry.

However, I would like to ask you out this weekend to make up for yesterday. Please give me a chance and I am waiting for your reply.

Sincerely yours,Li Ming

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From the picture, we can see that sellers and manufacturers try their best to make consumers believe that their products are qualified. Promotion now becomes more and more important in marketing for all marketers. But quality of products plays increasingly vital role in it.

Quality one the one hand determines the sum of sales and on the other hand guarantees the confidence of the consumers. Now, in China the government set 3.15 as the ceremonial day for reminding people of quality which reveals the past that quality of product were not satisfied by consumers. Good quality can gradually make consumers confident with the product and at the same time buyers can purchase the same brand of product to a large degree.

All in all, products can always play the decisive role in sales of all kinds of products. Fortunately, not only the government but also the sellers now in China have realized that the quality of products should be stressed and corresponding measures have been taken to ensure its effectiveness. As I am sure, in the near future, quality products and quality service will become a life.