文档介绍：2002年湖北省博士研究生入学考试
英语联考试卷解析
Part I prehension
Passage One
导读:
这是一篇自然科学类有关动物睡眠的说明性文章。作者首先提出问题,(是否所有动物都需睡眠以及如何判定睡眠状态),然后进行了解答(可通过观察和仪器检测确定动物是否处于睡眠状态)。
点评:
1. 这是一道事实辨别题。答案是A。根据文章第一句:All animals must rest, 所有动物都有休息的需要。
。答案是D。第二段第四句指出:Yet this does not necessarily mean that they do not sleep. 虽然有些动物很少或者无法闭眼,这并不说明他们不睡觉。由此可知牛马都是睁眼睡觉的。
。答案是B。第三段指出:The e from doing experiments in “sleep laboratories” using a machine called the electroencephalograph (EEC). The machine is connected to animals and measures their brain signals, breathing, heartbeat, and muscle activity. The measurements are different when the animals appear to be sleeping than when they appear to be awake. 研究人员是根据脑波仪测量出的脑电波、呼吸、心跳和肌肉活动,来判断动物是否处于睡眠状态。
。答案是C。根据第三段的第六句:There is some evidence that reptiles, such as snakes and turtles, do not truly sleep, 爬行动物并没有真正的睡眠。
。答案是D。倒数第二句指出:Interestingly, the good sleepers are nearly all hunters with resting places that are safe from their enemies. 睡眠良好的动物都有安全的休息地点。
Passage Two
导读:
这是一篇文化类有关幽默的说明性文章。作者首先点题,(指出幽默是不适合剖析的),然后进行了阐述(说明幽默和幽默者的特性)。
点评:
6. 这是一道事实辨别题。答案是B。第一段的第二句指出:Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. 作者将幽默比作青蛙,虽可以剖析,其过程中却会丧失美学价值。
。答案是B。第二段指出:Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is plete mystery. 作者将幽默比作肥皂泡,既不能吹得太大,又不能戳破,也就是说过分的夸张跟直白都不适合于幽默。
。答案是C。第三段的第三句指出:It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. 悲伤贯穿人的一生,而幽默者也许能比常人有更深刻的领会,然后以积极正面的形式表现出来。
。答案是A。第四段的第二句指出:But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece o