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2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on
ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points).
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the
diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 1 As was discussed
before, it was not 2 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic
3 following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 4 of the periodical. It
was during the same time that the communications revolution 5 up, beginning with transport, the
railway, and leading 6 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 7 the
20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in 8 It is
important to do so.
It is generally recognized, 9 that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,
10 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 11
its impact on the media was not immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smaller and
more powerful, and they became “personal" too, as well as 13 with display becoming sharper and
storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 15 generations, with the distance
between generations much 16 .
It was within the computer age that the term ''information society^^ began to be widely used to
describe the 17 within which we now live. The communications revolution has 18 both work
and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 19 views
about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. uBeneflts^^ have been weighed 20
“harmfid“ outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
第 1 页 共 12页1. [A] between [B] before ：C] since [D] later
2. [A] after ：B] by ：c] during CD] until
3. [A] means [B] method [C] medium [D] measure
4. ：A] process [B] company [C] light ：D] form
5. [A] gathered [B] speeded [C] worked [D] picked
6. [A] on ：B] out [C] over [D] off
7. [A] of [B] for [C] beyond [D] into
8. ：A] concept [B] dimension ：c] effect [D] perspective
9. [A] indeed ：B] hence [C] however [D] therefore
10. [A] brought [B] followed [C] stimulated CD] characterized
11. [A] unless [B] since [C] lest [D] although
12. [A] apparent [B] desirable [C] negative [D] plausible
13. [A] institutional [B] universal [C] fundamental [D] instrumental
14. [A] ability [B] capability [C] capacity [D] faculty
15. [A] by means of [B] in terms of [C] with regard to CD] in line with
16. [A] deeper [B] fewer [C] nearer CD] smaller
17. [A] context [B] range [C] scope [D] territory
18. [A] regarded [B] impressed [C] influenced ：D] effected
19. [A] competitive [B] controversial [C] distracting CD] irrational
20. ：A] above [B] upon [C] against ：D] with
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D].
Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
第 2 页 共 12页Text 1
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify
shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to
show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with
their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are
talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries;
alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses9 convention, of a story which works well because
the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around
by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on.
Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is
suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and
stomps over to a table by himself. 64Who is that?,? the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, thafs God,“
came the reply, Ubut sometimes he thinks he's a doctor79
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the
experiences and problems which are common to all of you and if 11 be appropriate for you to make a
passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious bad taste in ties. With other
audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging
remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats
like the Post Office or the telephone system.
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include
a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced
manner. Often it?s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that
a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at first
you don?t succeed, give up55 or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and
understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about
and inject with humor.
第 3 页 共 12页21. To make your humor work, you s h o u l d .
[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience
[B] make fun of the disorganized people
[C] address different problems to different people
[D] show sympathy for your listeners
22. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they a r e .
[A] impolite to new arrivals
[B] very conscious of their godlike role
[C] entitled to some privileges
[D] very busy even during lunch hours
23. It can be inferred from the text that public s e r v ic e s .
[A] have benefited many people
[B] are the focus of public attention
[C] are an inappropriate subject for humor
[D] have often been the laughing stock
24. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be d e liv e re d .
[A] in well-worded language
[B] as awkwardly as possible
[C] in exaggerated statements
[D] as casually as possible
25. The best title for the text may b e .
[A] Use Humor Effectively
[B] Various Kinds of Humor
[C] Add Humor to Speech
[D] Different Humor Strategies
第 4 页 共 12页Text 2
Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with
work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in
robotics—the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet
to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.
As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we
barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the
rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with
mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers.
And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already
robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy一
far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone.
But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less
human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves—goals that pose a real
challenge.44While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error/* says Dave Lavery, manager
of a robotics program at NASA, “we can't yet give a robot enough 'common sense9 to reliably interact
with a dynamic world.^^
Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of
initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors
might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to
extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.
What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain*s roughly one hundred
billion nerve cells are much more talented - and human perception for more complicated - than
previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a
fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly
changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing
on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The
most advanced computer systems on Earth can*t approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still
don?t know quite how we do it.
第 5 页 共 12页26. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in .
[A] the use of machines to produce science fiction.
[B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry.
[C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work.
[D] the elite's cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work.
27. The word “gizmos” (Line 1, Paragraph 2) most probably means .
[A] programs
[B] experts
[C] devices
[D] creatures
28. According to the text, what is beyond man's ability now is to design a robot that can
[A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery
[B] interact with human beings verbally
[C] have a little common sense
[D] respond independently to a changing world
29. Besides reducing human labor, robots can also .
[A] make a few decisions for themselves
[B] deal with some errors with human intervention
[C] improve factory environments
[D] cultivate human creativity
30. The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are .
[A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure
[B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately
[C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information
[D] best used in a controlled environment
第 6 页 共 12页Text 3
Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to
supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10
last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when
prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in
double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and
doom this time?
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports.
Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push
the price higher still in the short term.
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the
1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol
than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite
big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.
Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in
the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy,
energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile
telephones use for less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich
economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic
Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would
increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter
of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies一to which
heavy industry has shifted- have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously
squeezed.
One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it
has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess
demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist's
commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by
70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.
第 7 页 共 12页31. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price i s .
[A] global inflation
[B] reduction in supply
[C]fast growth in economy
[D] Iraq's suspension of exports
32. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go up dramatically if
[A] price of crude rises
[B] commodity prices rise
[C] consumption rises
[D] oil taxes rise
33. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich c o u n t r i e s .
[A] heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive
[B] income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices
[C] manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed
[D] oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP
34. We can draw a conclusion from the text t h a t .
[A] oil-price shocks are less shocking now
[B] inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks
[C] energy conservation can keep down the oil prices
[D] the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry
35. From the text we can see that the writer s e e m s .
[A] optimistic
[B] sensitive
[C] gloomy
[D] scared
第 8 页 共 12页Text 4
The Supreme Courfs decisions on physician-assisted suicide cany important implications for
how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.
Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in
effect supported the medical principle of “double effect, “a centuries-old moral principle holding that
an action having two effects- a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen- is
permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.
Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control
terminally ill patients^ain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.
Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield
doctors who "until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient
medication to control their pain if that might hasten death”.
George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as
a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if
the patient uses the drug to hasten death. "It's like surgery/5 he says. "We don't call those deaths
homicides because the doctors didn't intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If
you're a physician, you can risk your patienfs suicide as long as you don't intend their suicide.^^
On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate
has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the
physical agony of dying.
Just three weeks before the Court's ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of
Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life.
It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of ^ineffectual and forced medical
procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying“ as the twin problems of
end-of-life care.
The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of
aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and
to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.
Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives
translate into better care. uLarge numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients
are needlessly and predictably suffering”, to the extent that it constitutes "systematic patient abuse”.
He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear...that painful deaths are presumptively ones that
are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension.^^
第 9 页 共 12页36. From the first three paragraphs, we learn t h a t .
[A] doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients'pain
[B] it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives
[C] the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide
[D] patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide
37. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
[A] Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients9 death.
[B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.
[C] The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can be prescribed.
[D] A doctor's medication is no longer justified by his intentions.
38. According to the NAS's report, one of the problems in end-of-life care i s .
[A] prolonged medical procedures
[B] inadequate treatment of pain
[C] systematic drug abuse
[D] insufficient hospital care
39. Which of the following best defines the word "aggressive” (Line 3, Paragraph 7)?
[A] Bold.
[B] Harmful.
[C] Careless.
[D] Desperate.
40. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if t h e y .
[A] manage their patients incompetently
[B] give patients more medicine than needed
[C] reduce drug dosages for their patients
[D] prolong the needless suffering of the patients
第 10页 共 12页Part B
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your
translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
Almost all our major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be solved by physical
and biological technology alone. What is needed is a technology of behavior, but we have been slow to
develop the science from which such a technology might be drawn.(41) One difficulty is that almost
all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of
character, human nature, and so on. Physics and biology once followed similar practices and advanced
only when they discarded them. (42) The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because
the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of
explanations have been hard to 行nd. The environment is obviously important, but its role has remained
obscure. It does not push or pull, it selects, and this function is difficult to discover and analyze.
(43) The role of natural selection in evolution was fbrmulated only a little more than a hundred years
ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the
individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied. As the interaction between organism and
environment has come to be understood, however, effects once assigned to states of mind, feelings,
and traits are beginning to be traced to accessible conditions, and a technology of behavior may
therefore become available. It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces traditional
prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched. Freedom and dignity illustrate the difficulty.
(44) They are the possessions of the autonomous (selRgoverning ) man of traditional theory, and they
are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his
achievements. A scientific analysis shifts both the responsibility and the achievement to the
environment. It also raises questions concerning "values." Who will use a technology and to what ends?
(45) Until these issues are resolved, a technology of behavior will continue to be rejected, and with it
possibly the only way to solve our problems.
第 11页 共 12页Section III Writing
46. Directions:
Study the following picture carefully and write an essay entitled “Cultures — National and
International”.
In the essay you should
1) describe the picture and interpret its meaning, and
2) give your comment on the phenomenon.
You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)
An American girl in traditional Chinese costume (月艮装)
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