武汉大学博士英语真题2005年(2)

Which one of the Views(Ⅰ--Ⅳ)expresses the strongest admiration for Menzies?

A Ⅰ B Ⅱ C Ⅲ D Ⅳ

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答案:A

四种观点中，第一种观点表达了人们对孟席斯极其强烈的钦佩之情。第一种观点是赞赏孟席斯；第二种观点和第三种观点的语气均是批评的语气；第四种观点中既有称赞的成分也有批评的成分，所以A。

10.

Which one of the Views(Ⅰ--Ⅳ) is most damning about Menzies' effect on Australia's cultural identity?

A Ⅰ B Ⅱ C Ⅲ D Ⅳ

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答案:C

孟席斯对澳大利亚的文化特征的影响而言，第三种观点最容易导致他身败名裂。根据第三种观点，孟席斯把以往的价值观强加给澳大利亚，忠于英国和英国的郡主制度，他又拘谨，又保守。他压制有创造力的、精力充沛的新一代，在50年代和60年代的澳大利亚培养自满、恐惧和冷漠的情绪。

11.

\t odds with the suggestion of Menzies' ______.

A easy authority (View Ⅰ) B hypocrisy (View Ⅱ)

C political cunning (View Ⅱ)

D devotion to Britain (View Ⅲ)

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答案:D

第四种观点中的aggressive independence(敢作敢为，保持独立人格)与第三种观点中的devotion to Britain(忠于英国)相矛盾。

12.

Views I to IV of Menzies all represent him as a man who was ______.

A dignified and remote B scheming and ruthless C rigid and old-fashioned D forceful and influential

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答案:D

将以上四种观点综合起来，可以得出这样的结论：孟席斯权力巨大，有影响力。 In the following passage, Philip Roth is talking to a friend, Joanna, about his father.

\I ever tell you what happened when he was mugged a couple of years ago? He could have got himself killed. ' \

\black kid about fourteen approached him with a gun on a side street leading to their little temple. It was the middle of the afternoon. My father had been at the temple office helping them with mailing or something and he was coming home. The black kids prey on the elderly Jews in his neighborhood even in broad daylight. They bicycle in from Newark, he tells me, take their money, laugh, and go home\my father. \not getting in any bushes,\my father says. \can have whatever you want, and you don't need that piece to get it. You can put that piece away.\wallet.\value to you, I wouldn't mind it back. \back the wallet, and he runs. And you know what my father does? He calls across the street, \counts it for him. \dollars, \kid says.\Good,\my father tells him-- \

Joanna laughed. \treats him like a son. He knows that the Jews in Bialystok were not

responsible for the New England slave trade.\

%usual way.\

\he's oblivious to it,\said. \won't give in to it. It makes for terrific insensitivity but also for terrific guts\

\mileage out of never recognizing the differences among people. All my life I have been trying to tell him that people are different one from the other. My mother understood this in a way that he didn't. Couldn't. This is what I used to long for in him, some of her forbearance and tolerance, this simple recognition that people are different and that the difference is legitimate. But he couldn't grasp it. They all had to work the same way, want the same way, be dutiful in the same way, and whoever did it different was meshugge--crazy.\

13.

Philip Roth's father refused to go into the bushes. This was most likely because he ______.

A didn't think it was necessary

B didn't believe the mugger was serious C thought he would lose his money if he did

D was showing the \

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答案:A

菲力普·罗思的父亲拒绝走进灌木丛。这很可能是因为他觉得没有这个必要。黑人小孩子持枪逼迫罗思的父亲走进灌木丛，然后欲对其进行抢劫，但罗斯的父亲拒绝走进灌木丛，他把钱包给了那个小伙子。因此，他觉得没有必要走进灌木丛。

14.

What is the most likely explanation for the kid's \(Line 15)?

A He felt sorry for the ma

B He was frightened by the old man's aggressivenes

C He responded spontaneously to the old man's natural manne D He realized he could compensate for his offence by behaving respectfull

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答案:C

那个黑人小孩顺从老人，因为他对老人很自然的态度作出了本能的反应。那个小孩拿走了钱，还回钱包，然后逃走了。罗思的父亲往大街那边喊：“你拿了多少钱?”那个小孩顺从地数了数钱，共23美元。可以这样说，小孩的顺从是一种本能的反应。

15.

Philip Roth tells Joanna that he used to long for his father to be less ______.

A gutsy and courageous B boring and conventional C powerless and vulnerable D rigid and uncompromising

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答案:D

作者在最后一段说，罗思长期告诉他父亲人是相互区别的，他母亲理解这一点。父亲却不理解，他不可能理解这一点，人们是有差异的，这种差异是合法的。但是他父亲领会不了这种差异。他渴望他父亲有母亲的宽容和忍耐。他们必须用同一种方式做事情，想要千篇一律，同样地忠于职守，用不同的方式做事情就意味着疯狂。由此可看出他父亲是一个固执僵化的、毫不妥协的人。因此，他希望他父亲不要那么固执、不要那么强硬。

16.

The whole passage suggests that Philip Roth is ______.

A unable to explain or come to terms with the contradictory elements of his father's natur

B able to assess his father's strengths generously while being conscious of his father's failing

C eager to accept Joanna's explanation of his father, and to conceal any flaws in the family's relationship

D resentful and bitter about his father's life-long antagonism to how he and his mother dealt with the worl

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答案:B

从整篇文章可以看出，菲力普·罗斯能总体上评价他父亲的优点：他父亲帮助黑人分发邮件，说明他乐于帮助黑人。遭到黑人男孩抢劫，他把钱都给了那个男孩，叫那个孩子不要把钱花在无用的东西上。他对待那个孩子就像对待自己的儿子一样，这说明他对黑人有同情心。但菲力普·罗斯在文章的末尾指出了他父亲的缺点：父亲没有母亲的宽容和忍耐力。 The nuclear age in which the human race is living, and may soon be dying, began for the general public with the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. But for nuclear scientists and for certain American authorities, it had been known for some time that such a weapon was possible. Work towards making it had been begun by the United States, Canada and Britain very soon after the beginning of the Second World War. The existence of possibly explosive forces in the nuclei of atoms had been known ever since the structure of atoms was discovered by Rutherford. An atom consists of a tiny core called the \electrons circling round it. The hydrogen atom, which is the simplest and lightest, has only one electron. Heavier atoms have more and more as they go up the scale. The first discovery that had to do with what goes on in nuclei was radioactivity, which is caused by particles being shot out of the nucleus. It was known that a great deal of energy is locked up in the nucleus, but, until just before the outbreak of the Second World War, there was no way of releasing this energy in any large quantity. A revolutionary discovery was that, in certain circumstances, mass can be transformed into energy in accordance with Einstein's formula which states that the energy generated is equal to the mass lost multiplied by the square of the velocity of light.

The A-bomb, however, used a different process, depending upon

radioactivity. In this process, called \into two lighter atoms. In general, in radioactive substances this fission proceeds at a constant rate which is slow where substances occurring in nature are concerned. But there is one form of uranium called \which, when it is pure, sets up a chain reaction which spreads like fire, though with enormously greater rapidity. It is this substance which was used in making the atom bomb.

The political background of the atomic scientists' work was the determination to defeat the Nazis. It was held--I think rightly--that a Nazi victory would be an appalling disaster. It was also held, in Western countries, that German scientists must be well advanced towards making an A-bomb, and that if they succeeded before the West did they would probably win the war. When the war was over, it was discovered, to the complete astonishment of both American and British scientists, that the Germans were nowhere near success, and as everybody knows, the Germans were defeated before any nuclear weapons had been made. But I do not think

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