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圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 2015年武汉大学考博英语真题及详解
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (2×20=40分)
Directions: In this part for the test, there will be 5 passages for you to read. Each passage is followed by 4 questions or unfinished statements, and each question or unfinished statement is followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are to decide on the best choice by blackening the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET.
Passage One
Justice in society must include both a fair trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven guilty. Because justice is regarded as one form of equality, we find in its earlier expressions the idea of a punishment equal to the crime. Recorded in the Old Testament is the expression “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” That is, the individual who has done wrong has committed an offence against society. To make up for his offence, society must get even. This can be done only by doing an equal injury to him. This conception of retributive justice is reflected in many parts of the legal documents and procedures of modern times. It is illustrated when we demand the death penalty for a person who had committed murder. This philosophy of punishment was supported by the German idealist Hegel. He believed that society owed it to the criminal to give a punishment equal to the crime he had committed. The criminal had by his own actions denied his true self and it is necessary to do something that will counteract
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 this denial and restore the self that has been denied. To the murderer nothing less than giving up his own will pay his debt. The demand of the death penalty is a right the state owes the criminal and it should not deny him his due.
Modern jurists have tried to replace retributive justice with the notion of corrective justice. The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of equality but to find a more adequate way to express it. It tries to preserve the idea of equal opportunity for each individual to realize the best that is in him. The criminal is regarded as being socially ill and in need of treatment that will enable him to become a normal member of society.
Before a treatment can be administered, the course of his antisocial behavior must be found. If the cause can be removed, provisions must be made to have this done. Only those criminals who are incurable should be permanently separated from the rest of the society. This does not mean that criminals will escape punishment or be quickly returned to take up careers of crime. It means that justice is to heal the individual, not simply to get even with him. If severe punishment is the only adequate means for accompanying this, it should be administered. However, the individual should be given every opportunity to assume a normal place in society. His conviction of crime must not deprive him of the opportunity to make his way in the society of which he is a part. 1. The best title for this passage is _____. A. Fitting Punishment to the Crime B. Approaches to Just Punishment
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 C. Improvement in Legal Justice D. Attaining Justice in the Courts
2. The passage implies that the basic difference between retributive justice and corrective justice is the _____. A. type of crime that was proven B. severity of the punishment C. reason for the sentence D. outcome of the trial
3. The punishment that would be most inconsistent with the views of corrective justice would be _____. A. forced labour B. imprisonment C. fair sentence D. the electric chair
4. The Biblical expression “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” was presented in order to _____.
A. prove that equality demands just punishment B. justifies the need for punishment as a part of law C. give moral backing to retributive justice
D. show that man has long been interested in justice 【答案与解析】
1.B 主旨大意题。通读全文，文章开头第一句“Justice in society must include both a fair
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven guilty（社会公平必须包括对被告公正的审判和对罪犯选择适当的量刑）”为主旨句，可判定本文中心内容为：保证公正审判的方法，故答案为B。
2.C 推理判断题。第一段重点介绍了报复性司法（retributive justice）的观点，它认为
“justice is regarded as one form of equality（司法公正是一种平等的形式）”，也就是说，如果罪犯对社会造成了伤害，那么社会也应当对罪犯施以同样的伤害；文章第二段重点介绍了矫正正义理论（corrective justice），其中提到“The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of equality but to find a more adequate way to express it ... The criminal is regarded as being socially ill and in need of treatment that will enable him to become a normal member of society.”，主张在维护公平的前提下帮助罪犯改正。所以两者之间的基本差异应为：判刑的原因，故选C。
3.D 推理判断题。文章第三段有关“corrective justice”的理论提到“the course of his
antisocial behavior must be found. If the cause can be removed, provisions must be made to have this done ... It means that justice is to heal the individual, not simply to get even with him（要先找出犯人犯罪的原因并想办法消除它，对犯人可以釆取严厉的惩罚，但惩罚是为使犯人改过，不是使之得到相应的报应）”，由此可知矫正正义理论主张通过惩罚来帮助犯人改过自新，D项是极端的做法，不符合此理论，故选D。
4.D 推理判断题。文章第一段第二句提到“we find in its earlier expressions the idea of
a punishment equal to the crime（在早期人们对公平的定义是犯罪就要受罚）”，接着列举了《圣经》中的句子，旨在说明人们长久以来就对社会公平有着极大的兴趣，
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www.100xuexi.com 圣才电子书 十万种考研考证电子书、题库视频学习平台 且本文是说明文，作者没有表达或反驳任何观点，只是做了介绍说明，所以A、B、C三项都是错误的，故选D。
Passage Two
Farmers in the developing world hate price fluctuations. It makes it hard to plan ahead. But most of them have little choice; they sell at the price the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the U. S. and Japan are luckier; they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteed prices or direct handouts. Last month U.S. President Bush signed a new farm bill that gives American farmers $ 190 billion over the next 10 years, or $ 83 billion more than they had been scheduled to get, and pushes U.S. agricultural support close to crazy European levels. Bush said the step is necessary to “promote farmer independence and preserve the farm way of life for generations”. It is also designed to help the Republican Party win control of the Senate in November’s mid-term elections.
Agricultural production in most poor countries accounts for up to 50% of GDP, compared to only 3% in rich countries. But most farmers in poor countries grow just enough for themselves and their families. Those who try exporting to the West find their goods whacked with huge tariffs or competing against cheaper subsidized goods. In 1999 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development concluded that for each dollar developing countries receive in aid they lose up to $14 just because of trade barriers imposed on the export of their manufactured goods. It’s not as if the developing world wants any favours, says
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