考博英语547.docx

1、考博英语547考博英语-547(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、 Reading Comperehension(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：5.00)The table before which we sit may be, as the scientist maintains, composed of dancing atoms, but it does not reveal itself to us as anything of the kind, and it is not with dancing atoms but a sol

2、id and motionless object that we live.So remote is this real table-and most of the other realities with which science deals-that it cannot be discussed in terms which have any human value, and though it may receive out purely intellectual credence it cannot be woven into the pattern of life as it is

3、 led, in contradistinction to life as we attempt to think about it. Vibrations in the either are so totally unlike, let us say, the color purple that the gulf between them cannot be bridged, and they are, to all intents and purposes, not one but two separate things of which the second and less real

4、must be the most significant for us. And just as the sensation which has led us to attribute an objective reality to a nonexistent thing which we call purple is more important for human life than the conception of vibrations of a certain frequency, so too the belief in God, however ill founded, has

5、been more important in the life of man than the germ theory of decay, however true the latter may he.We may, if we like, speak of consequence, as certain mystics love to do, of the different levels or orders of truth. We may adopt what is essentially a Platonist trick of thought and insist upon post

6、ulating the existence of external realities which correspond to the needs and modes of human feeling and which, so we may insist, have their being is some part of the universe unreachable by science. But to do so is to make an unwarrantable assumption and to be guilty of the metaphysical fallacy of

7、failing to distinguish between a truth of feeling and that other sort of truth which is described as a truth of correspondence, and it is better perhaps, at least for those of us who have grown up in an age of scientific thought, to steer clear of such confusions and to rest content with the admissi

8、on that, though the universe with which science deals is the real universe, yet we do not and cannot have any but fleeting and imperfect contacts with it ; that the most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which scienc

9、e can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.（分数：5.00）(1).According to this passage, a scientist would conceive of a table as being _.（分数：1.00）A.a solid motionless objectB.certain characteristic vibrations in etherC.a form fixed in space and timeD.a mass of atoms on motion解析：解析 文章

10、第1句话指出了桌子在科学家眼中是无数跳动着的原子，进而建立了事物的本质与日常生活中人们对事物的感觉的不同，因此科学家把桌子假想成D。A静止的客观存在。B某种双方各自特有的感应。C固定在空间和时间的一种形式。(2).By objective reality the author means _.（分数：1.00）A.scientific realityB.a phenomenon we can directly experienceC.reality colored by emotionD.a symbolic existence解析：解析 文章第2段最后一句话作者提到客观现实与人们感官看到的不

11、同，对事物科学的解释才是客观现实，因此A正确。B我们直接体验的一种现象。C带有感情色彩的现实。D一个象征性的存在。(3).The author suggests that in order to bridge the puzzling schism between scientific truth and the world of illusions, the reader should _.（分数：1.00）A.try to rid himself of his world of illusionB.accept his world as being one of illusionC.app

12、ly the scientific methodD.establish a truth of correspondence解析：解析 文章最后一句话“.it is better perhaps, at least for those of US who have grown up in an age of scientific thought, to steer clear of such confusions and to rest content with the admission.”中可以判断出B答案正确。A尽量摆脱幻想的世界。C应用科学方法。D建立与之相一致的真理。(4).The t

13、opic of this selection is _.（分数：1.00）A.the distortion of reality by scienceB.the confusion caused by emotionsC.Platonic and contemporary views of truthD.the place of scientific truth in our lives解析：解析 本文虽无明显的主题句，但在文章第2段第1句中可以得到启示，通读全文可以概括出文章主要讲的是科学真理在人们日常生活中所应处的位置。A科学歪曲事实。B情感引起的混乱。C柏拉图和同时期对真理的观点。(5)

14、.Judging from the ideas and tone of the selection, one may reasonably guess that the author is _.（分数：1.00）A.a humanistB.a pantheistC.a nuclear physicistD.a doctor解析：解析 根据整篇文章的涵义和作者的语气可推断出是人文主义者，A选项正确。B是泛神论者；C是原子物理学家。D是医生。三、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：5.00)These days we hear a lot of nonsense about the grea

15、t classless society. The ideal that the twentieth century is the age of the common man has become one of the great cliches of our time. The same old arguments are put forward in evidence. Here are some of them: monarchy as a system of government has been completely discredited. The monarchies that s

16、urvive have been deprived of all political power. Inherited wealth has been savagely reduced by taxation and, in time, the great fortunes will disappear altogether. In a number of countries the victory has been complete. The people rule; the great millennium has become a political reality. But has it? Close examination doesnt