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华南理工大学
2014 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
（试卷上做答无效，请在答题纸上做答，试后本卷必须与答题纸一同交回）
科目名称：英语综合水平测试
适用专业：英语语言文学，外国语言学及应用语言学
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Part I. Reading Comprehension (60 marks, 2 marks each)
Directions: There are 6 passages in this section. 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the centre.
Passage 1
A new study from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University shows that today's youth vote in larger numbers
than previous generations, and a 2008 study from the Center for American Progress adds that
increasing numbers of young voters and activists support traditionally liberal causes. But
there's no easy way to see what those figures mean in real life. During the presidential
campaign, Barack Obama assembled a racially and ideologically diverse coalition with his
message of hope and change; as the reality of life under a new administration settles in, some
of those supporters might become disillusioned. As the nation moves further into the Obama
presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his
agenda, or will they gradually drift away?
The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to
chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question. For
the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will
blog about life across mainstream America, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and
experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a
conversation about what it means to be young and politically active in America today. Malena
Amusa, a 24-year-old writer and dancer from St. Louis sees the project as a way to preserve
history as it happens. Amusa, who is traveling to India this spring to finish a book, then to
Senegal to teach English, has ongoing conversations with her friends about how the Obama
presidency has changed their daily lives and hopes to put some of those ideas, along with her
global perspective, into her posts. She's excited because, as she puts it, "I don't have to wait
[until] 15 years from now" to make sense of the world.
Henry Flores, a political-science professor at St. Mary's University, credits this younger
generation's political strength to their embrace of technology. "[The Internet] exposes them to
more thinking," he says, "and groups that are like-minded in different parts of the country start
to come together." That's exactly what the Generation O bloggers are hoping to do. The result
could be a group of young people that, like their boomer parents, grows up with 9 / 13 a strong
sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy they've inherited from Generation X. It's no
small challenge for a blog run by a group of ordinary—if ambitious—young people, but the
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