浙江财经大学-681综合英语【2010】考研真题
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2010 年攻读浙江财经学院硕士学位研究生入学考试试题
科目代码：681 科目名称：综合英语
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Part I READING COMPREHENSION (55 MIN, 50 分)
In this section there are five reading passages followed by a total of 20
multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and finish the multiple choices.
Text A
Americans today don‘t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are
athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where
we send our children to get a practical education——not to pursue knowledge for
the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools
aren’t difficult to find.
“Schools have always been in a society where practical is more important than
intellectual,” says education writer Diane Ravitch. “Schools could be a
counterbalance.” Razitch‘s latest bock, Left Back: A Century of Failed School
Reforms, traces the roots of anti-intellectualism in our schools, concluding they
are anything but a counterbalance to the American distaste for intellectual
pursuits.
But they could and should be. Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind
leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. Without the ability to think
critically, to defend their ideas and understand the ideas of others, they cannot
fully participate in our democracy. Continuing along this path, says writer Earl
Shorris, “We will become a second-rate country. We will have a less civil
society.”
“Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege,” writes historian and
professor Richard Hofstadter in Anti-Intellectualism in American life, a Pulitzer
Prize winning book on the roots of anti-intellectualism in US politics, religion,
and education. From the beginning of our history, says Hofstadter, our democratic
and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism.
Practicality, common sense, and native intelligence have been considered more
noble qualities than anything you could learn from a book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought
schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: “We
are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come
out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.” Mark Twain‘s
Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids
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being civilized——going to school and learning to read——so he can preserve
his innate goodness.
Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality
we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of
the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, re-order, and adjust, while
intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.
School remains a place where intellect is mistrusted. Hofstadter says our
country‘s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and
militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with
children who show the least intellectual promise.”
1. What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school?
A. The habit of thinking independently.
B. Profound knowledge of the world.
C. Practical abilities for future career.
D. The confidence in intellectual pursuits.
2. We can learn from the text that Americans have a history of
A. undervaluing intellect.
B. favoring intellectualism.
C. supporting school reform.
D. suppressing native intelligence.
3. The views of Ravish and Emerson on schooling are
A. identical.
B. similar.
C. complementary.
D. opposite.
4. Emerson, according to the text, is probably
A. a pioneer of education reform.
B. an opponent of intellectualism.
C. a scholar in favor of intellect.
D. an advocate of regular schooling.
5. What does the author think of intellect?
A. It is second to intelligence.
B. It evolves from common sense.
C. It is to be pursued.
D. It underlies power.
Text B
Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry —William
Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile
branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents
superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the
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Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come,
not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare‘s
birthplace and the other sights.
The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their
revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC's actors, them with their long hair and
beards and sandals and noisiness. It‘s all deliciously ironic when you consider
that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and
did his share of noise-making.
The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by
bus— and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side —
don't usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre
in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with
their play going. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the
town‘s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights)
pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in
everything and get out of town by nightfall.
The townsfolk don't see it this way and local council does not contribute
directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor
traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or
cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure
will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo
Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.
Anyway, the townsfolk can't understand why the Royal Shakespeare
Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three
years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 per cent occupied all year long
and this year they‘ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed
and ticket prices have stayed low.
It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away
the young people who are Stratford's most attractive clientele. They come
entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they
come from all over) —lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals,
eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the
theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and
sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.
6. From the first two paragraphs , we learn that
A. the townsfolk deny the RSC ' s contribution to the town‘s revenue.
B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage.
C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms.
D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism.
7. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that __________
A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately.
B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers.
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