武汉大学2012博士研究生英语试题的阅读理解
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一、09专八
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(1) The other problem that aris from the employment of women is that of the working wife. It has two aspects: that of the wife who is more of a success than her husband and that of the wife who must rely heavily on her husband for help with domestic tasks. There are various ways in which the impact of the first difficulty can be reduced. Provided that husband and wife are not in the same or directly comparable lines of work, the harsh fact of her greater success can be obscured by a genial conspiracy to reject a purely monetary measure of achievement as intolerably crude（21题答案B出处）. Where there are ranks, it is best if the couple work in different fields so that the husband can find some special reason for the superiority of the lowest figure in his to the most elevated in his wife's.
(2) A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to re-allocate domestic tasks if there are children（22题答案D出处）. In The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell wrote of the unemployed of the Lancashire coalfields: "Practically never ... in a working-class home, will you e the man doing a stroke of the houwork. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it ems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but the woman is as busy as ever - more so, indeed, becau she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as my experience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lo his manhood if, merely becau he was out of work, he developed in a 'Mary Ann'."
(3) It is over the care of young children that this re-allocation of duties becomes really significant. For this, unlike the cooking of fish fingers or the making of beds, is an inescapably time-consuming occupation, and time is what the fully employed wife has no more to spare of than her husband.
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(4) The male initiative in courtship is a pretty indiscriminate affair, something that is tried on with any remotely plausible woman who comes within range and, of cour, with all degrees of tentativeness（25题答案A出处）. What decides the issue of whether a genuine courtship is going to get under way is the woman's respon. If she shows interest the engines of persuasion are t in movement. The truth is that in courtship society gives women the real power while pretending to give it to men.
(5) What does em clear is that the more men and women are together, at work and away from it, the more the comprehensive amorousness of men towards women will have to go, despite all its past evolutionary rvices. For it is this that makes inferiority at work abrasive and, more indirectly, makes domestic work em unmanly, if there is to be an equalizing redistribution of economic and domestic tasks between men and women there must be a compensating redistribution of the erotic initiative（24题答案A出处,在追求异性方面，过去是男人主动，现在变了）. If women will no longer let us beat them they
must allow us to join them as the blushing recipients of flowers and chocolates.
21. Paragraph One advis the working wife who is more successful than her husband to
A. work in the same sort of job as her husband.
B. play down her success, making it sound unimportant.
C. stress how much the family gains from her high salary.
D. introduce more labour-saving machinery into the home.
22. Orwell's picture of relations between man and wife in Wigan Pier (Paragraph Two) describes a relationship which the author of the passage大香蕉猫咪视频
A. thinks is the natural one.
B. wishes to e prerved.
C. believes is fair.
D. is sure must change.
23. Which of the following words is ud literally, NOT metaphorically?
A. Abrasive (Paragraph Five).
B. Engines (Paragraph Four).
C. Convention (Paragraph Two). （根据上下文，只有convention用的是字面意义）
D. Heavily (Paragraph One).
24. The last paragraph stress that if women are to hold important jobs, then they must
A. sometimes make the first advances in love.
B. allow men to flirt with many women.
C. stop accepting prents of flowers and chocolates.
D. avoid making their husbands look like "Mary Anns".
25. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the prent form of courtship?
A. Men are equally rious about courtship.
B. Each man "makes pass" at many women.
语文议论文素材C. The woman's reaction decides the fate of courtship.
D. The man leaves himlf the opportunity to give up the cha quickly
二、2007年英语专业四级
I am afraid to sleep. I have been afraid to sleep for the last few weeks. I am so tired that, finally, I do sleep, but only for a few minutes. It is not a bad dream that wakes me ; it is the reality I took with me into sleep . I try to think of something el.
金振口服液Immediately the woman in the marketplace comes into my mind.
I was on my way to dinner last night when I saw her . She was lling skirts. She moved with the same ea and loveliness I often saw in the women of Laos. Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was lling . In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue ,green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I ud to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair.
I don’t know the word for “ribbons”, so I put my hand to my own hair and , with three fingers against my head , I looked at her ribbons and said “Beautiful.” She lowered her eyes and said nothing. I wasn’t sure if she understood me (I don’t speak Laotian very well).
I looked back down at the skirts. They had designs on them: squares and triangles and circles of pink and green silk. They were very pretty. I decided to buy one of tho skirts, and I began to bargain with her over the price. It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness.
She smiled, more with her eyes than with her lips. She was plead by the few words I was able to say in her language, although they were mostly numbers, and she saw that I understood something about the soft playfulness of bargaining. We shook our heads in disagreement over the price; then, immediately, we made another offer and then another shake of the head. She was so plead that unexpectedly, she accepted the last offer I made. But it was too soon. The price was too low. She was being too generous and wouldn’t make enough money. I moved quickly and picked up two more skirts and paid fo
r all three at the price t; that way I was able to pay her three times as much before she had a chance to lower the price for the larger purcha. She smiled openly then, and, for the first time in months, my spirit lifted. I almost felt happy.
The feeling stayed with me while she wrapped the skirts in a newspaper and handed them to me. When I left, though, the feeling left, too. It was as though it stayed behind in marketplace. I left tears in my throat. I wanted to cry. I didn’t , of cour.
I have learned to defend mylf against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend mylf against what is soft and what should be easy.
I get up, light a candle and want to look at the skirts. They are still in the newspaper that the woman wrapped them in. I remove the paper, and rai the skirts up to look at them again before I pack them. Something falls to floor. I reach down and feel something cool in my hand. I move clo to the candlelight to e what I have. There are five long silk ribbons in my hand, all different colors. The woman in the marketplace! She has given the ribbons to me!
There is no defen against a generous spirit, and this time I cry, and very hard, as if I co
uld make up for all the months that I didn’t cry.
89. According to the writer, the woman in the marketplace ____B____ .
A. refud to speak to her.
B. was pleasant and attractive.
C. was lling skirts and ribbons.
D. recognized her immediately.
解析：B。根据第天津市博物馆3段对她的细节描写。 “She moved with the same ea and loveliness … Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was lling . In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue ,green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I ud to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair.” 由此可见，作者对她的印象是愉快的。
90. Which of the following in NOT correct? ____A____
新浪邮箱登陆A. The writer was not ud to bargaining.
B. People in Asia always bargain when buying things.
王小波黄金时代C. Bargaining in Laos was quiet and peaceful.
D. The writer was ready to bargain with the woman.
解析：A。第5段 “It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness.” （在亚洲，人们有讨价还价的习俗。在老挝，人们讨价还价时总是轻言细语），由此可知，B、C、D是正确的。作者了解当地的习俗，所以很自然地开始bargain，所以A选项不对。
91. The writer assumed that the woman accepted the last offer mainly becau woman ____A/C____ .
A. thought that the last offer was reasonable.
B. thought she could still make much money.
C. was glad that the writer knew their way of bargaining.
D. was tired of bargaining with the writer any more.
解析：A/C。“she accepted the last offer I made. But it was too soon. The price was too lo
w. She was being too generous and wouldn’t make enough money.”
92. Why did the writer finally decide to buy three skirts? ____C____
A. The skirts were cheap and pretty.
B. She liked the patterns on the skirts.
C. She wanted to do something as compensation.
D. She was fed up with further bargaining with the woman.
解析：C。第6段: “that way I was able to pay her three times as much before she had a chance to lower the price for the larger purcha.” 由此可知，作者因为价格很低，所以想多买几件作为对卖裙子的姑娘的一种补偿。
93.When did the writer left the marketplace, she wanted to cry, but did not becau ____A____.
A. she had learned to stay cool and unfeeling.
B. she was afraid of crying in public.
C. she had learned to face difficulties bravely.
D. she had to show in public that she was strong.
解析：A。第8段：“I have learned to defend mylf against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend mylf against what is soft and what should be easy.”（我学会了抗拒困难，不知不觉中，我也学会了不被温柔和轻松俘获。）由此可知，作者没有哭是因为她已经学会控制自己的情绪不会轻易受到影响，所以选A。
94. Why did the writer cry eventually when she looked at the skirts again? ____C____
A. she suddenly felt very sad.
B. she liked the ribbons so much.
C. she was overcome by emotion.
D. she felt sorry for the woman.
解析：C。最后一段：“There is no defen against a generous spirit, and this time I cry…”（对于一颗慷慨的心你是无法防备的，所以这次我哭了，…）由此可知我哭是因为被卖丝绸裙子的姑娘感动了。
