2023年北京大学博士英语考试试题及解析.doc

Part Two：Structure and Written Expression（20%）
Directions：For each question decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Mark your choices on the Answer Sheet.
11． Whether the extension of consciousness is a “good thing” for human being is a question that
a wide solution. 
A．admits of B. requires of C. needs of D. seeks for
12．In a culture like ours, long all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that the medium is the message.
A．accustomed to split and divided
B．accustomed to splitting and dividing
C．accustomed to split and dividing
D．accustomed to splitting and divided
13．Apple pie is neither good nor bad; it is the way it is used that determines its value.
A. at itself B. as itself C. on itself D. in itself
14． us earlier, your request to the full.
A. You have contacted … we could comply with
B. Had you contacted … we could have complied with
C. You had contacted … could we have complied with
D. Have you contacted … we could comply with
15．The American Revolution had no medieval legal institutions to or to root out, apart from monarchy.
A. discard B. discreet C. discord D. disgorge
16. Living constantly in the atmosphere of slave, he became infected the unconscious their psychology. No one can shield himself such an influence.
A. on…by…at B. by… for…in
C. from… in…on D. through…with…from
17. The effect of electric technology had at first been anxiety. Now it appears to create
. 
A. bore B. bored C. boredom D. bordom
18. Jazz tends to be a casual dialogue form of dance quite in the receptive and mechanical forms of the waltz.
A. lacked B. lacking C. for lack of D. lack of
19. There are too many complains about society move too fast to keep up with the machine.
A. that have to B. have to C. having to D. has to
20. The poor girl spent over half a year in the hospital but she is now for it.
A. none the worse B. none the better
C. never worse D. never better
21. As the silent film sound, so did the sound film color.
A. cried out for…cried out for B. cry out for…cry out for
C. had cried out for…cried out for D. had cried out for…cry out for
22. While his efforts were tremendous the results appeared to be very .
A. trigger B. meager C. vigor D. linger
23. Western man is himself being de-Westernized by his own speed-up, by industrial technology.
A. as much the Africans are detribalized
B. the Africans are much being detribalized
C. as much as the Africans are being detribalized
D. as much as the Africans are detribalized
24. We admire his courage and self-confidence.
A. can but B. cannot only C. cannot but D. can only but
25. In the 1930’s, when millions of comic books were the young with fighting and killing, nobody seemed to notice that the violence of cars in the streets was more hysterical.
A. inundating B. imitating C. immolating D. insulating
26. you promise you will work hard, support you to college.
A. If only…will I B. Only…I will
C. Only if…will I D. Only if…I will
27. It is one of the ironies of Western man that he has never felt invention as a threat to his way of life.
A. any concern with B. any concern about
C. any concern in D. any concern at
28. One room schools, with all subjects being taught to all grades at the same time, simply
when better transportation permits specialized spaces and specialized teaching.
A. resolved B. absolved C. dissolved D. solved
29. People are living longer and not saving enough, which means they will either have to work
longer, live less in retirement or bailed by the government.
A. in…for…up B. for…on…out
C. by…in…on D. on…for…out
30. The countrys deficit that year to a record 1698 billion dollars
A. soared B. soured C. sored D. sourced
Part Three: Close Test (10%)
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and choose ONE best word for each numbered blank. Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
2023 was the worst year for the record labels in a decade 31 was 2023, and before that 2023 and 2023. In fact, industry revenues have been 32 for the past 10 years. Digital sales are growing, but not as fast as traditional sales are falling.
Maybe that’s because illegal downloads are so easy. People have been 33 intellectual property for centuries, but it used to be a time-consuming way to generate markedly 34 copies. These days, high-quality copies are 35 . According to the Pew Internet project, people use file-sharing software more often than they do iTunes and other legal shops.
I’d like to believe, as many of my friends seem to, that this practice won’t do much harm. But even as I’ve heard over the past decade that things weren’t 36 bad, that the music industry was moving to a new, better business model, each year’s numbers have been worse. Maybe it’s time to admit that we may never find a way to 37 consumers who want free entertainment with creators who want to get paid.
38 on this problem, the computational neuroscientist Anders Sandberg recently noted that although we have strong instinctive feelings about ownership, intellectual property doesn’t always 39 that framework. The harm done by individual acts of piracy is too small and too abstract. “The nature of intellectual property,” he wrote, “makes it hard to maintain the social and empathic 40 that keep(s) us from taking each other’s things.”
31. A. As B. Same C. Thus D. So
32. A. stagnating B. declining C. increasing D. stultifying
33. A. taking B. robbing C. stealing D. pirating
34. A. upgraded B. inferior C. ineffective D. preferable
35. A. numerous B. ubiquitous C. accessible D. effortless
36. A. so B. this C. that D. much
37. A. satisfy B. help C. reconcile D. equate
38. A. Based B. Capitalizing C. Reflecting D. Drawing
39. A. match up with B. fill in C. fit into D. set up
40. A. constraints B. consciousness C. norm D. etiquette
Part IV: Reading Comprehension(20%)
Directions: Each of the following four passages is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each question or unfinished statement, four answers are given. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Mark your choices on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
Cancer has always been with us, but not always in the same way. Its care and management have differed over time, of course, but so, too, have its identity, visibility, and meanings. Pick up the thread of history at its most distant end and you have cancer the crab—so named either because of the ramifying venous processes spreading out from a tumor or because its pain is like the pinch of a crab’s claw. Premodern cancer is a lump, a swelling that sometimes breaks through the skin in ulcerations producing foul-smelling discharges. The ancient Egyptians knew about many tumors that had a bad outcome, and the Greeks made a distinction between benign tumors (oncos) and malignant ones (carcinos). In the second century A．D．, Galen reckoned that the cause was systemic, an excess of melancholy or black bile, one of the body’s four “humors,” brought on by bad diet and environmental circumstances. Ancient medical practitioners sometimes cut tumors out, but the prognosis was known to be grim. Describing tumors of the breast, an Egyptian papyrus from about 1600 B．C．concluded: “There is no treatment.”
The experience of cancer has always been terrible, but, until modern times, its mark on the culture has been light. In the past, fear coagulated around other ways of dying: infectious and epidemic diseases (plague, smallpox, cholera, typhus, typhoid fever); “apoplexies” (what we now call strokes and heart attacks); and, most notably in the nineteenth century, “consumption” (tuberculosis). The agonizing manner of cancer death was dreaded, but that fear was not centrally situated in the public mind—as it now is. This is one reason that the medical historian Roy Porter wrote that cancer is “the modern disease par excellence,” and that Mukherjee calls it “the quintessential product of modernity.”
At one time, it was thought that cancer was a “disease of civilization,” belonging to much the same causal domain as “neurasthenia” and diabetes, the former a nervous weakness believed to be brought about by the stress of modern life and the latter a condition produced by bad diet and indolence. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some physicians attributed cancer—notably of the breast and the ovaries—to psychological and behavioral causes. William Buchan’s wildly popular eighteenth-century text “Domestic Medicine” judged that cancers might be caused by “excessive fear, grief, religious melancholy.” In the nineteenth century, reference was repeatedly made to a “cancer personality,” and, in some versions, specifically to sexual repression. As Susan Sontag observed, cancer was considered shameful, not to be mentioned, even obscene. Among the Romantics and the Victorians, suffering and dying from tuberculosis might be considered a badge of refinement; cancer death was nothing of the sort. “It seems unimaginable,” Sontag wrote, “to aestheticize” cancer.
41. According to the passage, the ancient Egyptians .
A. called cancer the crab
B. were able to distinguish benign tumors and malignant ones
C. found out the cause of cancer
D. knew about a lot of malignant tumors
42. Which of the following statements about the cancers of the past is best supported by the passage?
A. Ancient people did not live long enough to become prone to cancer
B. In the past, people did not fear cancer
C. Cancer death might be considered a badge of refinement
D. Some physicians believed that ones own behavioral mode could lead to cancer
43. Which of the following is the reason for cancer to be called “the modern disease”?
A. Modern cancer care is very effective
B. There is a lot more cancer now
C. People understand cancer in radically new ways now
D. There is a sharp increase in mortality in modern cancer world
44.“Neurasthenia” and diabetes are mentioned because .
A. they are as fatal as cancer
B. they were considered to be “disease of civilization”
C. people dread them very much
D.they are brought by the high pressure of modern life
45. As suggested by the passage, with which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?
A. The care and management of cancer have development over time
B. The cultural significance of cancer shifts in different times
C. Cancers identity has never changed
D. Cancer is the price paid for modern life
Passage Two
If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press, the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U．S． economy had become “very distorted.” In the wake of the recession, this guest explained, high-income individuals, large banks, and major corporations had experienced a “significant recovery”; the rest of the economy, by contrast—including small businesses and “a very significant amount of the labor force”—was stuck and still struggling. What we were seeing, he argued, was not a single economy at all, but rather “fundamentally two separate types of economy,” increasingly distinct and divergent.
This diagnosis, though alarming, was hardly unique: drawing attention to the divide between the wealthy and everyone else has long been standard fare on the left. (The idea of “two Americas” was a central theme of John Edwards’s 2023 and 2023 presidential runs.) What made the argument striking in this instance was that it was being offered by none other than the former five-term Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: iconic libertarian, preeminent defender of the free market, and (at least until recently) the nation’s foremost devotee of Ayn Rand. When the high priest of capitalism himself is declaring the growth in economic inequality a national crisis, something has gone very, very wrong.
This widening gap between the rich and non-rich has been evident for years. In a 2023 report to investors, for instance, three analysts at Citigroup advised that “the World is dividing into two blocs—the Plutonomy and the rest”.
In a plutonomy there is no such animal as “the U．S．consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed “the Russian consumer”. There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the “non-rich”, the multitudinous many, but only accounting for surprisingly small bites of the national pie.
Before the recession, it was relatively easy to ignore this concentration of wealth among an elite few. The wondrous inventions of the modern economy—Google, Amazon, the iPhone broadly improved the lives of middle-class consumers, even as they made a tiny subset of entrepreneurs hugely wealthy. And the less-wondrous inventions—particularly the explosion of subprime credit—helped mask the rise of income inequality for many of those whose earnings were stagnant.
But the financial crisis and its long, dismal aftermath have changed all that. A multi-billion-dollar bailout and Wall Street’s swift, subsequent reinstatement of gargantuan bonuses have inspired a narrative of parasitic bankers and other elites rigging the game for their own benefit. And this, in turn, has led to wider-and not unreasonable-fears that we are living in not merely a plutonomy, but a plutocracy, in which the rich display outsize political influence, narrowly selfinterested motives, and a casual indifference to anyone outside their own rarefied economic bubble.
46. According to the passage, the U．S．economy . 
A. fares quite well
B. has completely recovered from the economic recession
C. has its own problems
D. is lagging behind other industrial economies
47. Which of the following statement about today’s super-elite would the passage support?
A. Today’s plutocrats are the hereditary elite
B. Today’s super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves
C. They are the deserving winners of a tough economic competition