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湘潭大学2010年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试英语试卷

Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15 points)
Directions: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and write the letter of your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Politicians, environmentalists and businessmen from all over the world assembled to discuss the way of _____ atmosphere pollution.
A. cutting up
B. cutting down
C. cutting off
D. cutting out

2. The test of any democratic society lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible _____.
A. altitude
B. longitude
C. latitude
D. multitude

3. Some people view life as a(n) _____ conflict between the forces of good and evil.
A. external
B. internal
C. maternal
D. eternal

4. Lines of latitude run horizontally and are parallel to the Equator and lines of longitude run vertically. They _____ at the North and South Poles.
A. converge
B. convoke
C. convoy
D. convulse

5. We were four scores left behind with five minutes to go, so the game looked completely _____.
A. irresistible
B. irretrievable
C. irremissible
D. irreplaceable

6. Just imagine the shock of the Prime Minister when three of his senior cabinet colleagues _____ and resigned in protest on Friday night.
A. revolved
B. resolved
C. revived
D. revolted

7. A man, with his mind _____ by personal trivia, cannot possibly accomplish anything at any post.
A. presumed
B. preceded
C. preoccupied
D. prescribed

8. The ability to _____ themselves by camouflage enables some defenseless animals to survive.
A. conceal
B. conceive
C. deceive
D. disguise

9. Without proper lesson, you could _____ a lot of bad habits when playing the piano.
A. get up
B. pick up
C. draw up
D. catch up

10. Had the explosion broken out, all the passengers in the plane should have been killed, for it was _____ timed with the plane’s take-off.
A. simultaneously
B. conscientiously
C. spontaneously
D. instantaneously

11. Because the monkeys under study are _____ the presence of human beings, they typically _____ human observers and go about their business.
A. ambivalent about … welcome
B. inhibited by … seek
C. unaware of … avoid
D. habituated to … disregard

12. No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in science. _____, the word “amateur” does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community.
A. Nevertheless
B. Then
C. Besides
D. As a result

13. Your Paradise used to be a fine magazine, but now that it _____ the taste of a completely different reading public it has gone down in quality.
A. deflects from
B. flirts with
C. caters to
D. hinges on

14. There are two basic ways to see personal growth: one as a product, which can easily be identified and measured; the other as a process, which, _____, is much more difficult to determine.
A. in addition
B. by contrast
C. furthermore
D. likewise

15. The _____ on the surface of the female kangaroo’s abdomen serves as a place of refuge for the young, who can get at the milk glands without leaving their shelter.
A. patch
B. porch
C. paunch
D. pouch

Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points)
Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and write the letter of your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.
Passage 1 Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage.
Lateral thinking (thinking in a roundabout way), first described by Edward de Bono in 1967, is just a few years older than Edward’s son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the de Bono name was so famous, Caspar’s parents worried that any time he would say something bright at school, his teachers might snap, “Where do you get that idea from?” “We had to be careful and not overdo it,” Edward admits. Now Caspar is at Oxford, which once looked unlikely because he is also slightly dyslexic. In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of his school teachers thought he had a chance. “So then we did several thinking sessions,” his father says, “using my techniques and, when he went up for the exam, he did extremely well.” Soon after, Edward de Bono decided to write his latest book, Teach Your Child How to Think, in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brain-storming businessmen into informal exercises for parents and children to share.
Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence, and everybody knows that children aren’t very logical. So isn’t it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? “You know,” Edward de Bono says, “if you examine people’s thinking, it is quite unusual to find faults of logic. But, the faults of perception are huge! Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.” Teach Your Child How to Think offers lessons in perception improvement, of clearly seeing the implications of something you are saying and of exploring the alternatives.

1. What is true about Caspar?
A. He is Edward’s son.
B. He is an adventurous thinker.
C. He first described lateral thinking.
D. He is often scolded by his teacher.

2. Caspar succeeded in applying for admission to Oxford because _____.
A. he was careful and often overworked
B. all of his school teachers thought he had a chance
C. he used in the exam the techniques provided by his father
D. he read the book, Teach Your Child How to Think, before the exam

3. Which of the following statements shows Edward de Bono’s view, according to paragraph 3?
A. Everybody knows that children aren’t very logical.
B. It is an uphill battle trying to teach children to think.
C. Thinking is something executed in a logical sequence.
D. We often think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.

4. Lateral thinking involves all the following except _____.
A. improving one’s perception in thinking
B. following a logic sequence while thinking
C. seeing the implication of what you are saying
D. knowing the implied meaning of using the alternatives

Passage 2 Questions 5 to 8 are based on the following passage.
From the health point of view we are living in a marvelous age. We are immunized from birth against many of the most dangerous diseases. A large number of once fatal illnesses can now be cured by modern drugs and surgery. It is almost certain that one day remedies will be found for the most stubborn remaining diseases. The expectation of life has increased enormously. But though the possibility of living a long and happy life is greater than ever before, every day we witness the incredible slaughter of men, women and children on the roads. Man versus motor-car! It is a never-ending battle which man is losing. Thousands of people the world over are killed or horribly injured each year and we are quietly sitting back and letting it happen.
It has been rightly said that when a man is sitting behind a steering wheel, his car becomes the extension of his personality. There is no doubt that the motor-car often brings out a man’s very worst qualities. People who are normally quiet and pleasant may become unrecognizable when they are behind the steering wheel. They swear, they are ill-mannered and aggressive, willful as two-year-olds and utterly selfish. All their hidden frustrations, disappointments and jealousies seem to be brought to the surface by the act of driving.
The surprising thing is that society smiles so benignly on the motorist and seems to condone his behavior. Everything is done for his convenience. Cities are allowed to become almost uninhabitable because of heavy traffic; towns are made ugly by huge car parks; the countryside is desecrated by road networks; and the mass annual slaughter becomes nothing more than a statistic, to be conveniently forgotten.
It is high time a world code were created to reduce this senseless waste of human life. With regard to driving, the laws of some countries are notoriously lax and even the strictest are not strict enough. A code which was universally accepted could only have a dramatically beneficial effect on the accident rate. Here are a few examples of some of the things that might be done. The driving test should be standardized and made far more difficult than it is; all the drivers should be made to take a test every three years or so; the age at which young people are allowed to drive any vehicle should be raised to at least 21; all vehicles should be put through stringent annual tests for safety. Even the smallest amount of alcohol in the blood can impair a person’s driving ability. Present drinking and driving laws (where they exist) should be made much stricter. Maximum and minimum speed limits should be imposed on all roads. Governments should lay down safety specifications for manufacturers, as has been done in the USA. All advertising stressing power and performance should be banned. These measures may sound inordinately harsh. But surely nothing should be considered as too severe if it results in reducing the annual toll of human life. After all, the world is for human beings, not motor-cars.

5. The main idea of this passage is that _____.
A. traffic accidents are mainly caused by motorists
B. only stricter traffic laws can prevent road accidents
C. the laws of some countries about driving are too lax
D. thousands of people over the world are killed each year

6. Which of the statements below is NOT in keeping with the implication of the 2nd paragraph?
A. People usually cannot stay quiet and pleasant while driving.
B. People are usually beside themselves when they are driving.
C. People’s hidden abilities are often brought into full play by the act of driving.
D. People’s bad qualities and emotions can be fully exposed by the act of driving.

7. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a counter-measure against traffic accidents?
A. Making driving test standardized and more difficult.
B. Raising age limit for drivers and retesting them regularly.
C. Restricting the speed of driving within reasonable limits.
D. Testing the amount of alcohol in drivers’ blood frequently.

8. The author’s attitude toward the social phenomenon is _____.
A. ironical
B. critical
C. indifferent
D. militant

Passage 3 Questions 9 to 12 are based on the following passage.
The spectacular aurora light displays that appear in the Earth’s atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mysterious phenomena. Now, scientists have data from satellites and ground-based observations from which we know that the aurora brilliance is an immense electrical discharge similar to that occurring in a neon sign.
To understand the cause of auroras, first picture the Earth enclosed by its magnetosphere, a huge region created by the Earth’s magnetic field. Outside the magnetosphere, blasting toward the Earth is the solar wind, a swiftly moving plasma of ionized gases with its own magnetic field. Charged particles in this solar wind speed earthward along the solar wind’s magnetic lines of force with a spiraling motion. The Earth’s magnetosphere is a barrier to the solar wind and forces the charged particles of the solar wind to flow around the magnetosphere itself. But in the polar regions, the magnetic lines of force of the Earth and of the solar wind bunch together. Here many of the solar wind’s charged particles break through the magnetosphere and enter Earth’s magnetic field. They then spiral back and forth between the Earth’s magnetic poles very rapidly. In the polar regions, electrons from the solar wind ionize and excite the atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere, causing them to emit aurora radiation of visible light.
The colors of an aurora depend on the atoms emitting them. The dominant greenish white light comes from low energy excitation of oxygen atoms. During huge magnetic storms oxygen atoms also undergo high energy excitation and emit a crimson light. Excited nitrogen atoms contribute bands of color varying from blue to violet. Viewed from outer space, auroras can be seen as dimly glowing belts wrapped around each of the Earth’s magnetic poles. Each aurora hangs like a curtain of light stretching over the polar regions and into the higher latitudes. When the solar flares that result in magnetic storms and aurora activity are very intense, aurora displays may extend as far as the southern regions of the United States. Studies of aurora have given physicists new information about the behavior of plasmas, which has helped to explain the nature of outer space and is being applied in attempts to harness energy from the fusion of atoms.

9. Which of the following statements about scientists’ understanding of auroras is true according to the passage?
A. Scientists have long been able to explain the causes of auroras’ various colors.
B. New knowledge about the fusion of atoms enabled scientists to learn more about auroras.
C. Before advances in technology, scientists knew little about auroras.
D. Little will be known about auroras until scientists have learned more about plasma physics.

10. What serves as the Earth’s means of protection against the solar winds?
A. The magnetosphere.
B. The plasma of ionized gases.
C. The magnetic lines of force of the solar wind.
D. The magnetic poles of the Earth.

11. Why do auroras show different colors?
A. Because auroras come from excitations of all kinds of atoms and hang like curtains of light over the polar regions.
B. Because the oxygen and nitrogen atoms undergo low or high energy excitation and give lights of various colors.
C. Because the magnetic storms are not stable while the aurora activities are very intense.
D. Because the dominant greenish white light itself contains lights of seven colors.

12. What is the subject matter of this passage?
A. The methods of observing auroras from satellites.
B. The formation and colors of auroras above the Earth’s poles.
C. The factors that cause the variety of colors of auroras.
D. The influence of auroras on the Earth.

Passage 4 Questions 13 to 16 are based on the following passage.
Almost since its inception, Israel has been in conflict. What role does war play in shaping the Jewish states’ identity?
I’m on this whirlwind tour of the Holy Land courtesy of Birthright, a foundation that offers every American with Jewish heritage a free trip to Israel. The only requirements are that you’re between the ages of 18 and 26 and you have at least one Jewish parent. That’s it. Birthright gives you an all-expenses paid tour (I’m talking airfare, food, accommodation, everything) around Israel to learn about the country and its complicated past and precarious future.
I went into my trip to Israel a veritable clean slate, a sheltered girl from small-town Nevada with no strong political convictions. An agnostic in faith and in life. At this point in my life I don’t follow Judaism or any religion for that matter. Culturally, I’m kind of whatever, celebrating Christmas and Groundhog Day and any other holiday that seems like fun. I didn’t know much about Israelis as a people, and knew hardly anything about the politics of the region.
I’m on a bus in Israel leaving the airport. It’s very early in the morning. The day is already so hot you can see waves of heat shimmering off the highway. I feel like I always do at the start of a great adventure: jet lagged, thirsty, excited. The buildings of Tel Aviv are getting smaller the further we drive.
Our tour guide, his name is Eitan, is talking into a microphone. “As we head out of the city you’ll see a lot of countryside,” he says, his blue eyes gazing fondly out the window at his adopted homeland (Eitan is American, you see, and he has “made aliyah,” or taken Israel as his homeland and chosen a Hebrew name).
“Israel is not all desert like you might have thought.” I pay attention now, because this is what I did in fact think. “Look at that field of sunflowers, for example.”
I look out the window to my left and see the tall yellow flowers. I’m thinking they are pretty and picturesque, then Eitan says, “Don’t they look like proud soldiers lined up ready for battle?”
It won’t occur to me until much later, when my ten-day tour around Israel is finished and I’m back in the safety of my predictable, air-conditioned American life, that this comment represents two things I’ve come to understand about Israel and its people. One: Israelis are determined to show the world their country is beautiful, not just bombs and problems. Two: They have an unwavering belief in their right to belong as a nation and their right to defend it. Conclusion: Where Americans see sunflowers, Israelis see soldiers.
I came out of my trip with dates and history and passionate speeches rattling around in my head, less sure than ever who should have rightful “ownership” of the land.

13. A free trip to Israel is offered to every young American with Jewish heritage in order for them _____.
A. to find out what roles war plays in shaping the Jewish states’ identity
B. to see a lot of pretty and picturesque countryside scenery out of the city
C. to learn about the country and its complicated past and precarious future
D. to save them the expenses on everything including airfare, food, accommodation

14. By “I went into my trip to Israel a veritable slate”, the author implies that she went into Israel _____.
A. open-minded, without any restrictions of conventional ideas
B. simple-minded, without any thought of the purpose of the trip
C. empty-minded, without much knowledge about Israelis as a people
D. pure-minded, without any political, religious and cultural inclination

15. The sentence, “Where Americans see sunflowers, Israelis see soldiers”, suggests that subconsciously _____.
A. Israelis have an unrealistic cast of mind as a people with Jewish heritage
B. Israelis are very patriotic and always ready to defend their right to belong
C. Israelis are much more imaginative than Americans about things in nature
D. Israelis are so panic-stricken by war that they mistake sunflowers for soldiers

16. As can be inferred from the passage, the author finds her ten-day tour around Israel _____.
A. meaningless and boring
B. adventurous and thrilling
C. incredible and bewildering
D. impressive and rewarding

Passage 5 Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage.
Extraordinary creative activity has been characterized as revolutionary, flying in the face of what is established and producing not what is acceptable but what will become accepted. According to this formulation, highly creative activity transcends the limits of an existing form and establishes a new principle of organization. However, the idea that extraordinary creativity transcends established limits is misleading when it is applied to the arts, even though it may be valid for the science. Differences between highly creative art and highly creative science arise in part from a difference in their goals. For the sciences, a new theory is the goal and end result of the creative act. Innovative science produces new propositions in terms of which diverse phenomena can be related to one another in more coherent ways. Such phenomena as a brilliant diamond or a nesting bird are relegated to the role of data, serving as the means for formulating or testing a new theory. The goal of highly creative art is different: the phenomenon itself becomes the direct product of the creative act. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a tract about the behavior of indecisive princes or the uses of political power, nor is Picasso’s painting Guernica primarily a propositional statement about the Spanish Civil War or the evils of fascism. What highly creative activity produces is not a new generalization that transcends established limits, but rather an aesthetic particular. Aesthetic particulars produced by the highly creative artist extend or exploit rather than transcend that form.
This is not to deny that a highly creative artist sometimes establishes a new principle of organization in the history of an artistic field; the composer Monteverdi, who created music of the highest aesthetic value, comes to mind. More generally, however, whether or not a composition establishes a new principle in the history of music has no bearing on its aesthetic worth. Because they embody a new principle of organization, some musical works, such as the operas of the Florentine Camerata, are of signal historical importance, but few listeners or musicologists would include these among the great works of music. On the other hand, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is surely among the masterpieces of music even though its modest innovations are confined to extending existing means. It has been said of Beethoven that he toppled the rules and freed music from the stifling confines of convention. But a close study of his composition reveals that Beethoven overturned no fundamental rules. Rather, he was an incomparable strategist who exploited limits—the rules, forms, and conventions that he inherited from predecessors such as Haydn and Mozart, Handel and Bach—in striking original ways.

17. According to the author, distinctions between those engaged in the creative arts and in natural sciences can in part be explained by _____.
A. the different objectives of those involved in these respective pursuits
B. the different methods they employ in collecting data to support their theories
C. the different ways in which they attempt to extend accepted conventional forms
D. the different principles of organization that they utilize in order to create new works

18. Why is Beethoven rated among highly creative artists, from the author’s point of view?
A. Because he sought to become the only composer of his time to challenge accepted musical conventions.
B. Because he adopted a new principle of organization in his work by utilizing innovative strategies.
C. Because he creatively manipulated the accepted rules and forms governing musical composition.
D. Because he synthesized a transition between the older stylistic convention and the newer musical form.

19. The passage implies that an original contribution in science is one that _____.
A. is often quoted in the work of other scientists
B. is careful not to make a value judgment about the use of data
C. is applauded by all distinguished experimentalists
D. generates a novel and well-founded generalization

20. Which of the following would most likely follow the final sentence of the passage?
A. In the similar manner, several modern composers successfully established musical conventions.
B. Similarly, the succeeding generation of composers manipulated accepted musical forms.
C. In contrast to Beethoven, however, even great modern composers like Bela Bartok did not attempt to alter accepted musical conventions.
D. Musicologists are continuing to study the compositional styles of composers in order to determine whether their contributions have been innovative.

Part III Cloze (10 points)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage and write the letter of your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.
Changes in residence and jobs place a tremendous (1)_____ of stress and pressure on people (2)_____ they try to adjust themselves to new people and places. Yet transient relationships are not (3)_____ only to people and places. Objects move in and out of our lives at an astonishing rate. America, the “consumer society”, has also (4)_____ the name “the throw away society”. Every year we throw away (5)_____ quantities of bottles, cans, paper, and on and on. Buildings are torn (6)_____ around us, and new ones take their place, for they are (7)_____ to replace than to repair. (8)_____ every major change, our places feel (9)_____ familiar. Our lives become filled with a sense of impermanence and uncertainty. The rate at which new and sometimes contradictory information comes at us (10)_____ contributes to our feelings of instability and transience. It’s estimated that 90 percent of all scientists who ever lived are (11)_____ today. New scientific discoveries are being made every day of the week, (12)_____ unlike in other ages, new ideas are quickly applied in practical ways. The (13)_____ of new technology on our lives is felt almost immediately. As we look (14)_____ on history, we think in terms of large periods of time, from the ten thousand years of the agricultural revolution to the three hundred years of the industrial (15)_____. Today time (16)_____ like it’s accelerating. We no longer (17)_____ to think of change in terms of centuries (18)_____ in terms of (19)_____: the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The day may come when we think of great (20)_____ of historical change in terms of years, even months.

1.
A. number
B. amount
C. sum
D. series

2.
A. until
B. since
C. as
D. so that

3.
A. adapted
B. referred
C. applied
D. limited

4.
A. earned
B. taken
C. given
D. called

5.
A. credible
B. incredible
C. credulous
D. incredulous

6.
A. away
B. up
C. off
D. down

7.
A. faster
B. lighter
C. cheaper
D. better

8.
A. In
B. By
C. With
D. Through

9.
A. less
B. more
C. quite
D. too

10.
A. even
B. ever
C. farther
D. further

11.
A. alive
B. dead
C. long-lived
D. short-lived

12.
A. so
B. but
C. for
D. or

13.
A. result
B. force
C. influence
D. impression

14.
A. down
B. round
C. out
D. back

15.
A. date
B. age
C. time
D. day

16.
A. feels
B. looks
C. should
D. would

17.
A. manage
B. incline
C. tend
D. intend

18.
A. but rather
B. or rather
C. would rather
D. rather than

19.
A. pentathlons
B. decathlons
C. pentads
D. decades

20.
A. deals
B. periods
C. times
D. portions

Part IV Translation (10 points)
Directions: Translate the underlined sentences in the following passage into Chinese. You should write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.
The collapse of belief we have been witnessing throughout the twentieth century comes with globalism. The post modern condition is not an artistic movement or a cultural fad or an intellectual theory—although it produces all of those and is in some ways defined by them. It is what inevitably happens as people everywhere begin to see that there are many beliefs, many kinds of belief, many ways of believing. (1) Postmodernism is globalism; it is the half-discovered shape of the one unity that transcends all our differences.
In a global—and globalizing—era, all of the old structures of political reality, all the old ways of saying who we are and what we are for and what we are against, seem to be melting away into air.
How to have an identity in such a world? Nationalism becomes semi-obsolete before it even completes its conquest; national governments everywhere are challenged from front and rear, past and future. They are forced to do battle against pre-modern tribal and ethnic identities even as they resist the threats to their fragile sovereignties that are posed by international organizations and movements and economic forces. (2) The weaker national sovereignty is as an absolute principle, the less secure we are in defining ourselves according to national citizenship.
How about ideology? Throughout the era of the Cold War, global ideologies seemed to be replacing national loyalties as the supreme definers of political reality. (3) For a time, the world appeared to be divided into two opposed belief systems rather than into many nations. But the international ideologies never quite managed to separate themselves from nationalism (Marxism had a particularly hard time with that, was widely suspected of being merely a tool of Russian ambitions), and today hardly anybody other than a few intransigent communists and die-hard anti-communists believe that the world is politically bipolar.
Religion is still a potent definer of political reality and still an explosive one—we may still be having holy wars when we have stopped having any other kind—but it is also the most vulnerable of all to being unveiled as a creation of the human mind.
Each of these sets of categories, each of these ways that people construct who they are and what they believe is increasingly chimerical, capable of evaporating in a moment when people look at the world with different eyes.
(4) Class and race may prove to be more durable definers of reality, more stable markers of who is “us” and who is “them”. But each of those, too, becomes anything but predictable in a postmodern world. The wretched of the earth may be a force for rebellious change because they believe some form of Marxist doctrine about class conflict, or merely because they cease to believe in the various social constructions of reality that held their condition to be part of God’s own arrangement. (5) Oppressed races grow skeptical (as the world gains understanding of the games oppressors play) about the social constructions of reality that define their place and strive to keep them in it.
Part V Writing (25 points)
1. Summary Writing (10 points)
Directions: For this part, you are required to summarize the main idea of the following passage in plain language in less than 150 words, trying to use your own expressions as much as possible. You should write your summary on the ANSWER SHEET.
“Attitude is everything” goes the copy of an advertisement that you must have seen on hoardings in many places. The one line says it all. Just reflect upon it and you’ll realize the simple truth in it.
What is it that makes the difference between a happy and a sad person? His attitude to the prevailing circumstances. Agreed, not everybody can be happy always, but one can attempt to derive happiness from as many situations as possible. What needs to be changed is the way we look at certain things, the attitude we have towards them.
Think about the times you have been upset over trivial matters and ruined your day going around with a long face and a lousy mood that would have affected not only you but also those close to you.
On hindsight, you may feel terrible about having done that. You may even resolve not to let such a situation trap you again. Resolutions are fine, but you do need something to sustain it. And what is that something? That magic ingredient is a positive, winning attitude. Having the right attitude is half the battle won.
The right attitude can make all the difference between winning and losing. You cannot win in every situation. But, you can extract something beneficial from every situation. A positive attitude will help you analyze situations, whereas a negative attitude will highlight obstacles, both real and imaginary.
Let us take an example of an active person who is in a situation wherein he has to give up many of his activities due to an injury. If the person has a negative approach, he will become bitter, always regretting the accident and thinking back on how he could have prevented it from happening and torturing himself in the process. Such an attitude is bound to spill over into the person’s behavior and will affect those around him.
On the other hand, a person armed with a positive attitude will be able to face the fact of his accident, put it behind him and try to adapt to the new circumstances he finds himself in. He may try to learn new skills that suit his present physical capacities. His positive attitude will encourage him to try to be as self-reliant as possible, both mentally and physically, though the physical self-sufficiency might pose practical problems. In which case, he will accept his shortcomings and try to build upon his strengths instead.
Your attitude reflects the real you. A positive attitude will bring you bouncing back from great adversities, whereas a pessimistic attitude can pull you down into the depths of gloom. Through the ages, humans have been through various calamities, wars and what not. But each incident has seen us bounce back into normal life with greater intensity than before.
Mentally strong people can come out unscathed from the worst of situations. World War II saw prisoners being subjected to untold misery, but there were those few strong men among them who used to bolster confidence in their fellow prisoners by comforting them and supporting them in their hour of need. Remember these were people who themselves could have used some help, but they found it in themselves to help others. That is the mark of a strong human being. One who will lead others to survival and success.
So resolve to develop a positive attitude if you want to be a winner and a leader. How? You may ask. Well, it is all there in you, you just need to find it. Remind yourself from time to time of what you have and how you can use that. Pining for what you do not have will only make you unhappy. Instead, do your best with the best of your resources and see yourself reaching out for success and happiness.
Happiness is not a measure of your material possessions but your state of mind. A person with limited income but with the right attitude towards life can be a more contented and happy person than the richest person on earth. (word count: 687)
2. Composition (15 points)
Directions: For this part, you are required to write a composition entitled My View on the Development of Low Carbon Economy in 300 words or so. Write your composition on the ANSWER SHEET.
In the first part of your writing you should state what low carbon economy is and the significance of developing low carbon economy, and in the second part you ought to dwell on what measures the government should take to develop low carbon economy. In the last part you should talk about what you are going to do as an ordinary individual for the development of low-carbon economy.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriate wording. Failure to follow the above directions may result in a loss of marks.
My View on the Development of Low Carbon Economy

参考答案及解析
Part I Vocabulary and Structure
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. A
11. D 12. A 13. C 14. B 15. D
1.【答案】B 动词短语辨析。cut up“切碎”；cut down“砍倒，减少”；cut off“切断，隔绝”；cut out“切断，删掉”。句意为讨论减少大气污染的方法，应选表示“减少”之意的cut down。
2.【答案】C 名词词义辨析。altitude“海拔高度”；longitude“经度，经线”；latitude“纬度，界限”；multitude“多数”。the widest possible latitude“最大限度”，符合题意。
3.【答案】A 形容词词义辨析。external“外部的”；internal“内部的”；maternal“母性的”；eternal“永恒的”。句意为将生活看作善与恶之间的外部冲突，应选A。
4.【答案】A 动词词义辨析。converge“聚集，靠拢”；convoke“召集”；convoy“护航”；convulse“震撼”。经线和纬线在南北两极聚集，应选A。
5.【答案】B 形容词词义辨析。irresistible“不可抵抗的”；irretrievable“不能弥补的，无法挽回的”；irremissible“无法逃避的”；irreplaceable“不可替代的”。比分悬殊、比赛胜利已无法挽回，应选B。
6.【答案】D 动词词义辨析。revolve“旋转”；resolve“解决”；revive“使复活，使恢复”；revolt“反叛，起义”。revolted与resigned in protest相对应，应选D。
7.【答案】C 动词词义辨析。presume“假定”；precede“领先，优于”；preoccupy“使全神贯注”；prescribe“规定，开处方”。be preoccupied by……“专注于……”，应选C。
8.【答案】D 动词词义辨析。conceal“隐藏”；conceive“构想，设想”；deceive“欺骗”；disguise“掩饰，伪装”。disguise oneself“伪装自己”更符合通过 camouflage 求得生存的语境，应选D。
9.【答案】B 动词短语辨析。get up“起床”；pick up“捡起；（偶然）学会，养成”；draw up“起草”；catch up“赶上”。pick up bad habits“染上坏习惯”，应选B。
10.【答案】A 副词词义辨析。simultaneously“同时地”；conscientiously“认真地”；spontaneously“自发地”；instantaneously“即刻，马上”。由关键词timed可知与时间有关，simultaneously符合语境，应选A。
11.【答案】D 固定短语辨析。ambivalent about“对……是矛盾的”；inhibited by“被……抑制”；unaware of“没有意识到”；habituated to“适应于……”。被研究的猴子已习惯人类的存在，所以无视人类观察者，应选D。
12.【答案】A 连词辨析。前后两句为转折关系。then表承接；besides表递进；as a result表因果；nevertheless“然而，不过”表转折，应选A。
13.【答案】C 动词短语辨析。deflect from“从……偏斜”；flirt with“同……调情；不认真考虑”；cater to“迎合，满足……的需要”；hinge on“取决于，以……为转移”。句意为迎合不同读者的口味，应选C。
14.【答案】B 副词辨析。in addition“此外”表递进；by contrast“相比之下，与之相比”表对比；furthermore“此外”表递进；likewise“同样地”。两种方法进行比较，应选B。
15.【答案】D 名词词义辨析。patch“眼罩，斑点”；porch“门廊”；paunch“肚子，腹部”；pouch“小袋，育儿袋”。袋鼠腹部的育儿袋，应选D。
Part II Reading Comprehension
Passage 1: 1. A 2. C 3. D 4. B
Passage 2: 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. B
Passage 3: 9. C 10. A 11. A 12. B
Passage 4: 13. C 14. D 15. B 16. D
Passage 5: 17. A 18. D 19. D 20. A
Part III Cloze
1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. D 8. C 9. A 10. D
11. D 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. A 19. D 20. D
1.【答案】B 量词辨析。a number of后接可数名词复数；an amount of后接不可数名词；stress and pressure为不可数概念，应选B。
2.【答案】C 连词辨析。until“直到”；since“自从”；as“当……时”；so that“以便”。句意为当人们努力适应新的人和地方时，应选C。
3.【答案】D 动词辨析。adapt“适应于”；refer“参考，查阅”；apply“应用于”；limit“限制，局限”。not limited only to“不仅局限于”，应选D。
4.【答案】A 动词辨析。earn“赚得，获得”；take“携带”；give“给予”；call“呼叫”。earn the name“获得……的名字/称号”，应选A。
5.【答案】B 形容词辨析。credible“可靠的”；incredible“难以置信的”；credulous“轻信的”；incredulous“怀疑的”。每年扔掉数量惊人的瓶子、罐子，应选B。
6.【答案】D 动词短语辨析。tear away“疾驰”；tear up“撕毁”；tear off“撕下”；tear down“拆卸，拆毁”。建筑物被拆掉，应选D。
7.【答案】D 形容词比较级。faster“更快”；lighter“更轻”；cheaper“更便宜”；better“更好”。重建比重修更好些，应选D。
8.【答案】C 介词辨析。in“在……里面”；by“通过，被”；with“伴随，随着”；through“通过”。with every major change“随着每一次重大变化”，应选C。
9.【答案】A 副词辨析。less“更少”；more“更多”；quite“相当”；too“也”。地方变得不再熟悉，熟悉感越来越少，应选A。
10.【答案】D 副词辨析。even“甚至”；ever“曾经”；farther“更远”；further“进一步，更深一层”。信息涌来的频率进一步加剧了不稳定感，应选D。
11.【答案】D 形容词辨析。alive“活着的”；dead“无生命的”；long-lived“长命的”；short-lived“短命的”。90%的科学家如今寿命很短，应选D。
12.【答案】B 连词辨析。so/for表因果；but表转折；or表选择。新发现每天都在产生，但新想法却不像过去那样迅速付诸实践，前后转折，应选B。
13.【答案】C 名词辨析。result“结果”；force“力量”；influence“影响”；impression“印象”。the influence of new technology“新技术的影响”，应选C。
14.【答案】D 动词短语辨析。look down“轻视”；look round“环顾四周”；look out“小心”；look back on“回顾，回忆”。look back on history“回顾历史”，应选D。
15.【答案】B 名词辨析。date“日期”；age“年代，时代”；time“时间”；day“天”。the industrial age“工业时代”，应选B。
16.【答案】B 动词辨析。feel like“感觉像”；look like“看起来像”；should“应该”；would“想要”。如今时代看起来像是在加速，应选B。
17.【答案】C 动词辨析。manage“管理”；incline“使倾斜”；tend“倾向”；intend“打算”。tend to do sth.“倾向于做某事”，应选C。
18.【答案】A 固定搭配。but rather“而是”；or rather“更精确地说”；would rather“宁愿”；rather than“而不是”。不再从世纪角度而是从年代角度思考，应选A。
19.【答案】D 名词辨析。pentathlon“五项全能运动”；decathlon“十项运动”；pentad“五个一组”；decades“十年，年代”。由1960s、1970s、1980s可知应选D。
20.【答案】D 名词辨析。deals“交易”；periods“时期”；times“时代”；portions“部分”。great portions of historical change“历史变化的大部分”，应选D。
Part IV Translation 参考译文
(1) 后现代主义正在全球化；据发现，它是超越我们所有差异而形成统一体的那半个轮廓。
(2) 国家主权作为一项绝对原则越弱，我们根据国籍来定义自身就越不安全。
(3) 有一段时期，世界似乎被划分成两个对立的信仰体系，而不是被划分成许多个国家。
(4) 阶级和种族可能被证明是对现实更持久的定义者，是“我们”和“他们”之间最稳定的标志。
(5) 受压迫的族群开始（随着世界更深入地理解压迫者所玩弄的把戏）质疑那些定义其地位并力图使其安于现状的社会现实建构。
Part V Writing 参考范文
1. Summary 参考范文
It is attitude that makes the difference between a happy and a sad person. Different attitudes to the prevailing circumstances can result in different consequences. What needs to be changed is the way we look at certain things and the attitude we have. Sometimes we are upset over trivial matters and ruin the day going around with a long face and a lousy mood. In fact, we can transform a pessimistic attitude into an optimistic one. A positive attitude will help you analyze situations, whereas a negative attitude will highlight obstacles.
Your attitude reflects the real you. A positive attitude will bring you bouncing back from great adversities, whereas a pessimistic attitude will pull you down into the depths of gloom.
So if you want to be a winner and a leader, try to develop a good attitude towards life. Just do your best with the best of your resources and see yourself reaching out for success and happiness.
2. Composition 参考范文：My View on the Development of Low Carbon Economy
Low-carbon economic development goals are to achieve low power consumption, low emissions, and low pollution and curb global warming, and to achieve sustainable economic development. The development of low-carbon economy relies on arrangements of a comprehensive institutional system. Under the development of global low carbon economy, the status and objectives of the basic demands of low carbon economy and irrational allocation of current policy resources for low-carbon economy delayed its development in China.
With an outlook of our motherland’s economy, we completely ignore the protection for our environment and saving the energy. This may lead to a great waste of energy and damage to the environment. So how should we develop low-carbon economy?
Above all, changes in the investment-based approach to promote economic growth based on consumption to drive economic growth, and actively expand exports, industrial restructuring, change and promote growth of over-reliance on industry practice, to reduce energy consumption, speed up the development of service industries. Then, clean energy instead of the traditional energy efficient can greatly alleviate the current energy supply situation. Development of new energy to solve the shortage of resources and optimize energy structure, especially preserving the environment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions is important. Focus on the development of new energy, a gradual change of the coal-dominated energy structure is an important strategy.
In addition, promoting low carbon lifestyles also plays an important role. Low-carbon economy not only implies a consumption of fewer resources and an effective way to improve the ecological environment, but also a new way of life. Low carbon economy in China is still a new thing, to step up publicity so that the cadres and the masses understand low-carbon economy and are fully aware of its benefits.