2014年浙江大学考博真题和参考答案
1.
听力Part A 原文：
In my opinion, technology has become too advanced. I am 17-years-old, and I can still remember a time when I did not have a computer in my home, and if you did, it was uncommon. Not until the mid-1990s was it common for
（middle class families）to have computers. In our
society today, almost every single family has at least one computer if not more, and these computers are incredibly advanced compared to what you'd have had in your home a short ten years ago. Over the years, I have seen technology bloom; all I have known my entire lifetime, is that there is going to be something bigger, I should really say smaller, and better （out on the market）in no time. I can't believe how fast manufacturers are coming out with new technology. What will happen in the future, will technology become so advanced is changes the course of our humanity? You can do everything you want from a computer, work, play,（talk to friends）, research, and even order food! A person could live their entire life jammed up in a room with a computer, and they would have access to everything they need! It is insane! The advances in communication technology are blowing up all over the place as well. I, myself just bought a new camera phone, and this phone is amazing. The picture quality is superb, and not only that but I （have access to the）internet on my PHONE! I can't believe how the cell phone market has so drastically increased. The first phone I ever had was five years ago, when I was 12 years old. That phone today would be considered huge, clunky, heavy, and \I personally couldn't even imagine myself walking around with that phone
（without being embarrassed）. It just goes to
show how much things have changed in five years, and people just keep on taking it all in. Every time I have bought a new phone since that point, six months later, I have wanted a new one because my phone was not up to date. Can you believe it, after not even a year a phone can completely go off the market because it is not advanced enough? The manufacturers are putting these things out faster than people can buy them. 2. 听力Part B 原文括号内为答案
It is an honor to speak with you today on the issue of（public health disparities）. I would first like to thank the organizations that made this event possible. This has truly been a collaborative effort among a diverse group of constituents. I think this sets a positive tone and precedent for a healthy and spirited discussion. As many of you may know, reforming and improving our health care system is an issue that is close to my heart. I believe that in the richest and most powerful country in the world, we ought to be able to provide （basic health care）to all of our citizens. It is vitally important that we lessen the impact and burden of illness on all people in communities, regardless of race, gender, or religions. Our discussions today are critically important to rectify the injustices that many people face in our current health care system. Todaythan mere discussions and networking opportunities----and （necessary call for action）among our region
today’s conference signifies an increased ’s top health professionals. Public health is
at health care in a ’ look
’s sessions have a greater purpose
directly connected to poverty, income, education, and community. We cant
silo and assume it is only a luxury for the well off. Health care needs to be provided to all people of all color. We are morally responsible for （improving the disparities in health care）because a healthy society is the foundation on which we build our schools, our neighborhoods, and our economy. Health care is not a privilege----it is a right. I know we have along road to travel in
achieving equality in health status. I know that everyone here knows this. And I am hopeful that perhaps more people than ever are（finally waking up to this reality）. Part C1 原文3个选择题
There were very few places in the world that Jules Verne, the writer,, did not visit. He went round the world a hundred times or more. Once he did it in eighty days, unheard of in the nineteenth century. He voyaged sixty thousand miles under the sea, toured around the moon, exploded the center of the earth, and chatted with natives in Australia. Jules Verne, the man, was a stay-at-home. He was more likely to be tired from writing than from traveling. He did make a few visits to Europe and North Africa. And he made one six-week tour of New York State. But that was all. He spent less than one of his seventy-seven years really traveling. Yet he was the world
’s most
extraordinary tourist. His books are crowded with hunting and fishing expeditions. Jules actually went hunting only once. Then he raised his gun and shot off the guard
’s hat! He never held a tes
tube in his hand. But he was an inspiration to the scientist in the laboratory. Long before radio was invented, he had TV working in his books. His name for it was phono-telephoto. He had helicopters fifty years before the Wright brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk. In fact, there were few wonders of the twentieth century that this man of the nineteenth century did not foresee. In his stories you can read about neon lights, moving sidewalks, air-conditioners, sky-scrapers, guided missiles, tanks, electrically operated submarines, and air-planes,and so on. 第一个问题
问这个人是干什么的
选the writer
Part C2 原文第2篇 3个选择题
Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact
with them. Their values—this can’t be repeated too often—are not necessarily values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily things.
our
the most important
The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with
decaying food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone in bed, taking no notice of the worms. But is it interfering with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives
so that they might be taken better care
of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old.Indeed,
the old can be easily hurt
or harmed. The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right
through to the provision
of spare parts.
But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results
will be. And at what point should you stop to treat the old body? Is it morally
right to try to push off death by seeking the development of drugs to excite the forgetful
old mind and to activate
the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? to decide, because so long as they can see the
to give them a
try, on the principle
You can’t ask doctors or scientists technical opportunities, they will feel bound that while there第三篇
’s life, there
’s hope.
Animals do not possess a language in the true sense of the word. In the higher vertebrates,
as also in insects,
particularly has a certain
in the socially
living
species of both
great groups, every individual number of inmate movements and sounds
for expressing feelings. It has also innate ways of reacting to these signals
whenever it sees or hears them in a fellow-member of the species. The highly social species of birds such as the jackdaw or the graylag goose, have a complicated code
of such signals which are uttered and understood by every bird without any previous experience. The perfect co-ordination of social behaviour which is brought about by these actions and reactions conveys to the human observer the impression that the birds are talking
and understanding
a language of the own. Of course, this purely
fundamentally
from human language,
Moreover, being
innate signal code of an animal species differs every word of which must be learned laboriously a genetically fixed character of the species
by the human child.
—just as much as any bodily
character—this so-called language is, for every individual animal species, ubiquitous in its distribution. Obvious though this fact may seem, it was, nevertheless, with something akin to
na?ve surprise that I heard the jackdaws in
“dialect
”as my birds at home
and human
northern Russia “talk”exactly the same, familiar in Altenberg.
The superficial
similarity
between these animal utterances
languages diminishes further as it becomes gradually clear to the observer that the
animal, in all these sounds and movements expressing its emotions, has in no way the conscious intention
of influencing
a fellow member of its species. This is proved
by the fact that even geese or jackdaws reared and kept singly make all these signals as soon as the corresponding mood overtakes them. Under these circumstances the automatic and even mechanical character of these signals becomes strikingly and reveals them as entirely different from human words. 二.（15题，15分）单选题（顺序打乱了）
The two friends sat in a corner and __B__ away to each other about the weather．a．talked b．chatted c．muttered d．whispered
apparent
He is going to __D__ the meeting on the subject of war and peace in a minute．a．speak b．talk c．remark d．address
Although not an economist himself, Dr. Smith has long been a severe critic of the government's ___A___ policies. a. economic
b. economical
c. economy
d. economics
There are not many teachers who are strong _C_of traditional methods in English teaching. a. sponsors b. contributors
c. advocates d. performers
A friendship may be ___B___ , casual, situational or deep and lasting. a. identical
b. superficial
c. critical
d. original
Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will _C_ down the economy. a. put
b. settle c. drag
d. knock
We are _D_ to the idea, but we doubt whether the time is ripe to put it into force. a. equal b. adequate c. considerate
d. sympathetic
People were surprised to find that Mr. Johnson had the ability to ___B__ everything he was involved in. a. Prevail
b. dominate
c. preside d. instruct
You can do it if you want to, but in my opinion ita. force b. trial c. attempt d. effort
’s not worth the __D__ it involves.
The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for __D__ her attitude toward customers. a. straightforward
b. partial c. favorable d. hostile
You must pack plenty of food for the journey. __D__, you will need warm clothes, so pack them too. a. Equally
b. Incidentally
c. Inevitably
d. Likewise
This __B_ was conducted to find out how many people prefer rice. a. examination b. survey c. inspection
d. test
As a defense against air-pollution damage, many plants and animals __B__ a substance to absorb harmful chemicals a. relieve
b. release
c. dismiss
d. discard
He said that very clearly so that nobody was in any___B__ about what was meant. a. wonder
b. doubt
c. question
d. consideration
三.完形填空（20题20分）
Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die. But people now live longer than they (1) . Yet, all living things still show the (2) of aging, which will eventually (3) death. Aging is not a disease, （4）as a person passes maturity, the cells of the body and the (5) they form do not function as well as they did in childhood and teenage years. The body provides less (6) against disease and is more (7) to have accident. A number of related causes may (8) aging. Some cells of the body have a （9）long life, but they are not (10) when they die. As a person ages, (11) of brain cells and muscle cells decreases. Other body cells die and are（12）by new cells. In an aging person the new cells may not be as workable or as capable (13) growth as those of a young person. Another (14) in aging may be changes within the cells(15). Some of the protein chemicals in cells are known to change with age and become less elastic. This is (16) the skin of old people wrinkles and hangs loose. This is also the reason why old people (17) in height. There may be other more important chemical changes in the cells. Some complex cell chemicals, （18）DNA and RNA, store and (19) information that the cells need.Aging may affect this (20) and change the informationcarrying molecules so that they do not transmit the information as well. 1.C 2.B 3.D 4.but 5.D 6.B 7.A 8.B 9.fairly
A．hands A．energy A．likely
B．feet
C．heart
C．vigor
D．organs
D．power D．alike D．devote to
A．would
B．be used to C．used to D．used
C．affect
D．sign D．result in
A．function B．effect A．lead in
B．give in C．run into
B．protection
B．probable C．possible
A．attend to B．contribute to C．add to
2014年浙江大学英语考博真题及参考答案
