五邑大学904综合英语2022年考研真题
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五邑大学2022 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试卷
试卷名称：《综合英语》代码：（904）
请把答案写在答题纸上，写在试卷上不给分。
答案应清楚标明题号，字迹应清晰，卷面要整洁。（满分150 分）
Part I. Writing
Section I (35 points) (45 minutes)
Directions: College students are being encouraged to do volunteer work in western China.
Is it really worthwhile to spend a year or two volunteering in an underdeveloped region? Write
an essay of about 400 words to state your view. Please write your essay on the ANSWER
SHEET 1.
Section II (15 points) (15 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 15 minutes to write an email (at least 150 words)
to Professor Bloom, a famous scholar at Harvard University about the following issues: 1
、就你
正在研读的他的一本书中的问题向他请教；
2
、你对该问题的研究兴趣和研究计划。
Write
your email on the ANSWER SHEET 2 .
Part II. Reading Comprehension (30 points) （50 minutes)
Directions: There are 6 reading passages in this part and each of them is followed with five
questions. For each question, there are four suggested answers marked A.B.C and D. Choose the
best one and write it on the ANSWER SHEET 3.
Passage 1
Sunny Side of “The Winter’s Tale”
Even scholars who are firmly convinced that the author of Shakespeare’s plays was
Shakespeare must wonder when they read The Winter’s Tale. It seems to be two plays
mysteriously stuck together, the first act a grim tragedy about an unmotivated eruption of
jealousy, the second an elaborate happy ending full of lovable bumpkins. Even the poetry is
forgettable. Surely one of the usual suspects (Christopher Marlowe?) had a hand in this mess.
But wait. Shakespeare wrote plays, not Pelican editions with footnotes. And when The
Winter’s Tale bursts into glorious life onstage—as it does in Adrian Noble’s production for the
Royal Shakespeare Company—all complaints evaporate. (After a stop at New York’s Brooklyn
Academy of Music, the show moved to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., where it’s on
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until May 22.) Noble and designer Anthony Ward deck the stage with balloons, conjuring an air
of fantasy that dissipates any cavils about the plot. But their masterstroke is to set the play in
1930s Britain, a time that lends itself wonderfully to both the dark and sunny aspects of the story.
The Winter’s Tale may not be a masterpiece, but the RSC proves it can be great theater.
The inexplicable jealousy of Leontes (John Nettles), for instance, becomes plausible when
we see him watching his pregnant wife, Herminone (Suzanne Burden), dance graciously with his
best friend, Polixenes (Julian Curry). Suddely wrath floods Leontes’s countenance. The spectacle
of a man transformed by his own mounting suspicion as it feeds upon itself is powerful—and
credible.
Now the stage is set for disaster: the innocent Hermione goes to prison, their son dies of grief,
the newborn is left to die. The king’s pigheaded rampage looks even more chilling when
horrified courtiers try to stop him, fail—and then stand by, silently acquiescing. Only
Hermione’s outraged friend Pauline (Gemma Jones) dares confront Leontes, but as a woman she
is powerless. The prewar setting makes this scene all the more resonant.
Baggy pants: Act II shows the sunny side: a country fete, with local maids atwitter in their
dumpy, mismatched skirts and cardigans—perfect modern counterparts to the rustics
Shakeapeare so loved. The crowd is agog over the stranger Autolycus (Mark Hadfield), a rogue
straight out of the British music-hall tradition. To see Shakespeare’s songs (“With high! With
high!) performed in baggy pants and floppy coats, to a spry soft-shoe with many a leer, is
awe-inspiring. Those ditties were made for this.
With stellar performances throughout, every moment offers revelations. At the end, along
with the usual spree of couples off to the altar, Shakespeare throws in a mother-child reunion
shamelessly guaranteed to prompt a tear or two. And why not? The play’s the thing, as Noble
makes clear—even this play.
1. The author of the article is of the opinion that in regards to The Winter’s Tale, Shakespearean
critics
A. think the play is a forgery . B. dismiss the play as a disaster.
C. agree the playwright was Marlowe. D. should see the play performed.
2. The article depicts The Winter’s Tale as
A. overwhelmingly tragic. B. inappropriately cast.
C. oddly structured. D. authored by Shakespeare.
3. The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the play “dissipates any cavils about the
plot.” In other words, the production
A. makes the story line credible. B. demonstrates the play is a masterpiece.
C. deserves popular acclaim. D.trivializes critical objections.
4. From the reviewer’s description we can assume that King Leontes’ behavior is tragic because
it is
A. groundless. B. inevitable.
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C. unexpected. D. incomprehensible
5. The passage implies that Shakespearean plays
A. are outdated but worthwhile. B. can be effectively updated.
C. are too outdated for modern tastes. D. need updating for today’s audiences.
Passage 2
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the
country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over
five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of
this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930s and the war had
held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued
through the decade of the 1950s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in
the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in
Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911 when the prairies were being settled.
Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950s supported a growth in the
population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an
increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per
thousand, one of the highest in the world. After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in
Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25
years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war,
but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school
longer, more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or
houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families.
It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families
that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the
first half of the 1960s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming
over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of
the high birth rate prior to 1957.
6. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Educational changes in Canadian society.
B. Canada during the Second World War.
C. Population trends in postwar Canada.
D. Standards of living in Canada.
7. According to the passage, when did Canada’s baby boom begin?
A. In the decade after 1911. B. After 1945.
C. During the depression of the 1930s. D. In 1966.
8. The author suggests that in Canada during the 1950s
A. the urban population decreased rapidly. B. fewer people married.
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