[外语类试卷]2015年湖北省考博英语真题试卷及答案与解析.doc
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1、2015年湖北省考博英语真题试卷及答案与解析 一、 Reading Comprehension 0 I am standing on the seventh-floor balcony of an apartment building overlooking the heart of Moscow. It is a dark city, some might say grim. It looks and feels as if it has been worn down to its bare bones: broken sidewalks, cracked facades, weeds ro
2、oted in the very mortar. This city is not easy to look at. So I avert my eyes, and they settle on a little boy sleeping inside the apartment. His name is Alexei. He is 7. With every rise and fall of his chest, Moscow, the used, broken city, is renewed for me a thousand times. A dark place has given
3、me light in the form of my adoptive son. Alexei has been my son for only two days, but I have been waiting three years for him. Thats when I began the adoption process, three years ago, before I even knew of Alexeis existence. Never in my imaginings did I think that I would one day be so far from ho
4、me, counting my sons breaths, counting the hours until we would board a plane for America, a place that he had no conception of “Alexei, “ I had said through a translator as I knelt before him at the orphanage and helped him with his socks. “ What do you know about America?“ His reply was immediate:
5、 “I will have all the gum I want. “ Most people adopt infants or very little children so that as much of their history as possible will be given to them by their parents. But Alexei carries a radiance of native culture: his memories of orphanage life in the once-closed city of Tula; the large, graci
6、ous, doting Russian women who have cared for him all his life; the aromatic Russian food he loves, and the language, that impossible, expressive, explosive Russian language that sometimes separates me from him like a wall, but also summons us to heroic legends as we attempt to communicate. I have be
7、en in Russia for two weeks. But it wasnt until the fourth day that I was brought to see Alexei. My Russian contact drove me through 100 miles of a country struggling to get back on its feet after years of internal neglect; pitted roadways, crumbling bridges, warped roofs. It made me recall what some
8、one had once said about Russia, that she is a third-world country with a first-world army. We finally came to an orphanage. Once inside, I stood in a near-empty room, reminding myself that this was the culmination of three years of scrutiny, disappointment, and dead-ends. There were moments when I h
9、ad told myself, “Its so much easier to have a kid the natural way. Nobody asks any questions. “ But as a single man, a biological child was not a ready option. I now recognized these as idle thoughts, for I realized that Alexei, even sight unseen, would be as much mine as if he were my natural son.
10、The door opened. A woman came out, her hand on the shoulder of a little boy just awakened from sound sleep. I gave Alexei a Pez candy dispenser, something as alien to him as life in America. After a few moments of scrutiny, he filled with candy, a sure sign of intelligence, for Pez, dispensers are n
11、otoriously difficult to load. At the end of our first meeting I knelt before Alexei and told him I would be back to get him in a week. 1 The author watched every rise and fall of Alexeis chest ( A) counting his sons breaths and biding his time to board the plane ( B) turning his eyes away from the g
12、loomy and dilapidated city ( C) feeling a nameless pang of regret about the adoption process ( D) visualizing the potential of the city to regain its vigor and power 2 The author apparently appreciates and respects ( A) the rich and brilliant culture of the country ( B) the orphans history given by
13、their parents ( C) the great country for nurturing his lovely son ( D) the gracious woman for bringing up his lovely son 3 When the author was travelling 100 miles of a country, which of the following is NOT a sign showing it was pretty worn-out? ( A) Roads scarred with holes. ( B) Walls overgrown w
14、ith weeds. ( C) Streets leading to dead-ends. ( D) Bridges falling into decay. 4 The author dismissed the idea of having a kid the natural way because ( A) it was an idle thought to have moments of scrutiny ( B) it was not easy to do so for an unmarried man ( C) he was looking forward to adopting a
15、Russian boy ( D) he preferred to adopt a Russian boy sight unseen 4 Most people seek some degree of inner peace at work, and it can be difficult to obtain. Work is stressful, and most of us tend to either overwork ourselves or we are, for other reasons, negatively affected by things happening at wor
16、k. The struggle to maintain ones inner peace and avoid burnout(职业倦怠症 )has become a standard ingredient, of modern working life. Many of us attend seminars on work life-balance, we see therapists, we meditate, or we seek advice on how to handle stressful careers. The balancing of ones personal life a
17、nd work life is a challenge to all of us who aspire to be successfulby whatever relevant metric. It is not surprising that so much is being said and written on the topic. Unfortunately, I have noticed a tendency to talk about the dangers of burnout at work in terms that provoke fear and panic in the
18、 stressed individual rather than lead him or her to slow down. Our methods of discussing the dangers of stress and burnout are too defensive and too reactive. We tend to think that the busyness of work is somehow dangerous, and that we need to balance out the busyness with the emptiness of non-work.
19、 Our emphasis on practices such as meditation, yoga, mindfulnessor simply just periods of nothingnessas means of balancing out the stress of work illustrates this point. All of these things can be good and helpful in their own right, but they all stand for a “letting go“ of things. They are defined
20、by inactivity. This logic leads to a kind of life where the “active“ is considered to be dangerous and something that should always be balanced out by the “inactive“. We oscillate between the two extremesfearful of staying too long in any of the camps. This oscillation is stressful in itself. It wou
21、ld be much better if we had a way of living that could embrace, enjoy, and handle the tough, everyday work life rather than constantly looking for ways to escape it. 5 The author of the passage seems to reject the statement that ( A) we are negatively affected by things happening at work ( B) balanc
22、ing ones personal life and work life is a challenge to all of us ( C) burnout provokes fear and panic in the stressed individual ( D) the emptiness of non-work is the best way to balance out the busyness 6 According to the passage, which statement is NOT true? ( A) In modern life some degree of inne
23、r peace at work can be difficult to obtain. ( B) Meditation is the best way to achieve inner peace in individuals. ( C) Practices such as meditation, yoga, mindfulness are defined as inactivity. ( D) Those who aspire to be successful have to balance between work and life. 7 The underlined word “osci
24、llate“ in paragraph 6 means ( A) move or swing from side to side regularly ( B) search here and there ( C) vary between opinions or courses of action ( D) jump up and down 8 What will the author continue to discuss in the part that follows the passage? ( A) Suggestions for how to achieve the perfect
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