四川大学博士入学考试英语真题及答案文档格式.docx

1、Directions: Read the following six passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C, or D. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage OneIn general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oile

2、d cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, Nell-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and the white-collar wor

3、kers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction of interesting life.

4、 They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are

5、even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and

6、independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again-by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than ones fellow-competit

7、or creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems the never solved by returning to a stage which one has alrea

8、dy outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system form, a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maxima, production and consumption are ends in themselves, into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities-those of all love and of reason-are the aims

9、of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end and should be prevented from ruling man.1. By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to deliver the idea that man is _. A a necessary part of the society though each individuals function is negl

10、igible B working in complete harmony with the rest of the society C an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society D a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly2. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that _. A they are likely to lose t

11、heir jobs B they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life C they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence D they are deprived of their individuality and independence3. From the passage we can conclude that real happiness of life belongs to those _. A who are at the bottom

12、of the society B who are higher up in their social status C who prove better than their fellow-competitors D who could dip fir away from this competitive world4. To solve the present social problems the author puts forward a suggestion that we should _. A resort to the production mode of our ancesto

13、rs B offer higher wages to the workers and employees C enable man to fully develop his potentialities D take the fundamental realities for granted5. The authors attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of _. A approval B dissatisfaction C suspicion D susceptibilityPassage TwoTh

14、e government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy.What kind of invader gives rise to such high-level monitoring

15、? Not man, not beast, but the lowly desert locust（蝗虫）. In recent moths, billions of the 3-inch-long winged warriors have descended on Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, blackening the sky and eating up crops and vegetation. The insect invasion, the worst in 30 years, is already creating great destruction in the Middle East and is now treating southern Europe. The current crisis began in late 1985 near the Red Sea. Unusually rainy weather moistened the sands of the Sudan, making them ideal breeding grounds for the locust, which lays its eggs in the earth. The insect onslaught