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1、四川大学2023年博士硕士入学考试英语试题I.Reading Comprehension (30%; one mark each):Direction: Read the following six passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D, Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Passage OneOver the past several decades, the U.S., Canada, and Europe have received
2、a great deal of media and even research attention over unusual phenomena and unsolved mysteries. These include UFOs as well as sightings and encounters with nonhuman creatures such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Only recently has Latin America begun to receive some attention as well. Although
3、 the mysteries of the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca civilizations have been known for centuries, now the public is also becoming aware of unusual, paranormal phenomena in countries such as Peru.The Nazca lines of Peru Were discovered in the 1930s. These lines are deeply carved into a flat, stony plain, and
4、 form about 300 intricate pictures of animals such as birds, a monkey, and a lizard. Seen at ground level, the designs area jumbled senseless mess. The images are so large that they can only be viewed at a height of 1,000 feet- meaning from an aircraft Yet there were no aircraft in 300 B.C., when it
5、 is judged the designs were made. Nor were there then, or are there now, any nearby mountain ranges from which to view them. So how and why did the native people of Nazca create these marvelous designs? One answer appeared in 1969, when the German researcher, and writer Erich yon Daniken proposed th
6、at the lines were drawn by extraterrestrials as runways for their aircraft. The scientific community did not take long to scoffat and abandon yon Danikens theory. Over the years several other theories have been put forth, but none has been accepted by the scientific community.Today there is a new an
7、d heightened interest in the Nazca lines. It is a direct result of the creation of the Internet. Currently there are over 60 sites dedicated to this mystery from Latin Americas past, and even respected scientists have joined the discussion through e-mail and chat rooms.Will the Internet help explain
8、 these: unsolved mysteries? Perhaps it is a step in the right direction.1.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?ALatin America has long received attention for unusual phenomena.BPublic attention is now directed towards countries like Peru.CPublic interest usually focuses on North America an
9、d EuropeDSome ancient civilizations have unsolved mysteries.2.According to the passage, the Nasa lines were foundAin mountainsB in stonesC on animalsD on a plain3.We can infer from the passage that the higher the lines are seen, the the images they present.Asmaller Blarger C clearerDbrighter4.There
10、has been increasing interest in the Nazca lines mainly because of .Athe participation of scientistsBthe emergence of the InternetCthe birth of new theoriesDthe interest in the Internet5.The author is about the role of the Internet in solving mysteries.AcautiousBpessimisticC uncertainDoptimisticPassa
11、ge TwoSocial circumstances in Early Modem England mostly served to repress womens voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions constructed them as chaste, silent, obedient, and subordinate. At the beginning of 17th century, the ideology of patriarchy, political absolutism, and gender hierarchy were
12、reaffirmed powerfully by King James in The. Trew Law of Free Monarchic and the Basilikon Doron; by that ideology the absolute power of God the supreme patriarch was seen to be imaged in the absolute monarch of the state and in the husband and father of a family. Accordingly, a womans subjection, fir
13、st to her father and then to her husband, imaged the subjection of English people to their monarch, and of all Christians to God. Also, the period saw an outpouring of repressive or overtly misogynist sermons, tracts, and plays, detailing womens physical and mental defects, spiritual evils, rebellio
14、usness, shrewishness, and natural inferiority to men.Yet some social and cultural conditions served to empower women. During the Elizabethan era (1558-1603) the culture was dominated by a powerful Queen, who provided an impressive female example though she left scant cultural space for other women E
15、lizabethan women writers began to produce original texts but were occupied chiefly with translation. In the 17th century, however, various circumstances enabled women to write original texts in some numbers. For one thing, some counterweight to patriarchy was provided by female communities - mothers
16、 and daughters, extended kinship networks, close female friends, the separate court of Queen Anne (King Jamess Consort) and her often oppositional masques and political activities. For another, most of these women had a reasonably good education (modem, languages, history, literature, religion, musi
17、c, occasionally Latin) and some apparently found in romances and histories more expansive terms for imagining womens lives. Also, representation of vigorous and rebellious female characters in literature and especially on the stage no doubt helped to undermine any monolithic social construct of wome
18、ns nature and role.Most important, perhaps, was the radical potential inherent in the Protestant insistence on every Christians immediate relationship with God and primary responsibility to follow his or her individual conscience. There is plenty of support in St Pauls epistles and elsewhere in the
19、Bible for patriarchy and a wifes subjection to her husband, but some texts (notably Galatians 3:28) inscribe a very different politics, promoting womens spiritual equality: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus C
20、hrist. Such texts encouraged some women to claim the support of God the supreme patriarch against the various earthly patriarchs who claimed to stand toward them in his Stead.There is also the gap or slippage between ideology and common experience. English women throughout the 17th century exercised
21、 a good deal of actual power: as managers of estates in their husbands absences at court or on military and diplomatic missions; as members of guilds; as wives and mothers who sometimes dominated their men by sheer force of personality or outright defiance. Their power reached its apex during the En
22、glish Civil War and Interregnum (1640-60) as the execution of the King and the attendant disruption of social hierarchies led many women-to seize new roles as preachers, as prophetesses, as deputies for exiled royalist husbands, as writers of religious and political tracts.6.What is the best title f
23、or this passage?AWomens Position in the 17th Century.BWomens Subjection to Patriarchy.CSocial Circumstances in the 17th Century.DWomens Objection in the 17th Century.7.What did the Queen Elizabeth do-for the women in culture?AShe set an impressive female example to follow.BShe dominated the culture.
24、CShe did little.DShe allowed Women to translate something.8.Which of the following is Not mentioned as a reason to enable women to original texts?AFemale communities provided some counterweight to patriarchy.BQueen Annes political activities.CMost women had a good education.DQueen Elizabeths politic
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