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2015年湖北省考博英语真题试卷 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有：1. Reading Comprehension 2. Cloze 3. English-Chine Translation 4. Chine-English Translation 5. Writing
Reading Comprehension
I am standing on the venth-floor balcony of an apartment building overlooking the heart of Moscow. It is a dark city, some might say grim. It looks and feels as if it has been worn down to its bare bones: broken sidewalks, cracked facades, weeds rooted in the very mortar. This city is not easy to look at. So I avert my eyes, and they ttle on a little boy sleeping inside the apartment. His name is Alexei. He is 7. With every ri and fall of his chest, Moscow, the ud, broken city, is renewed for me a thousand times. A dark place has given me light in the form of my adoptive son. Alexei has been my son for only two days, but I have been waiting three years for him. That’s when I began the adoption process, three years ago, before I even knew of Alexei’s existence. Never in my imaginings
did I think that I would one day be so far from home, counting my son’s breaths, counting the hours until we would board a plane for America, a place that he had no conception of “Alexei, “ I had said through a translator as I knelt before him at the orphanage and helped him with his socks. 干煸蚕蛹的做法“ What do you know about America?” His reply was immediate: “I will have all the gum I want. “ Most people adopt infants or very little children so that as much of their history as possible will be given to them by their parents. But Alexei carries a radiance of native culture: his memories of orphanage life in the once-clod city of Tula; the large, gracious, doting Russian women who have cared for him all his life; the aromatic Russian food he loves, and the language, that impossible, expressive, explosive Russian language that sometimes parates me from him like a wall, but also summons us to heroic legends as we attempt to communicate. I have been in Russia for two weeks. But it wasn’t until the fourth day that I was brought to e Alexei. My Russian contact drove me through 100 miles of a country struggling to get back on its feet after years of internal neglect; pitted roadways, crumbling bridges, warped roofs. It made me recall what someone had once said about Russia, that she is a
third-world country with a first-world army. We finally came to an orphanage. Once inside, I stood in a near-empty room, reminding mylf that this was the culmination of three years of scrutiny, disappointment, and dead-ends. There were moments when I had told mylf, “It’s so much easier to have a kid the natural way. Nobody asks any questions. “ But as a single man, a biological child was not a ready option. I now recognized the as idle thoughts, for I realized that Alexei, even sight unen, would be as much mine as if he were my natural son. The door opened. A woman came out, her hand on the shoulder of a little boy just awakened from sound sleep. I gave Alexei a Pez candy dispenr, something as alien to him as life in America. After a few moments of scrutiny, he filled with candy, a sure sign of intelligence, for Pez, dispenrs are notoriously difficult to load. At the end of our first meeting I knelt before Alexei and told him I would be back to get him in a week.
1． The author watched every ri and fall of Alexei’s chest
A．counting his son百年孤独读后感’s breaths and biding his time to board the plane
B．turning his eyes away from the gloomy and dilapidated city
C．feeling a nameless pang of regret about the adoption process
D．visualizing the potential of the city to regain its vigor and power
正确答案：D
解析：作者注视阿列克谢胸部一起一伏，想象该市恢复生机的潜力。第一段最后两句说，随着阿列克谢胸部的起伏，破烂不堪的莫斯科对我来说已焕然一新。由于我有了养子，黑暗的地方给了我光亮。
2． The author apparently appreciates and respects
A．the rich and brilliant culture of the country
B．the orphans’虫草的功效与作用 history given by their parents
C．the great country for nurturing his lovely son
D．the gracious woman for bringing up his lovely son
正确答案：A
解析：作者欣赏并尊重该国丰富而又灿烂的文化。根据第三段，阿列克谢的身上弥漫着光辉灿烂的俄罗斯文化气息：他回想起在曾经关闭的图拉城中度过了孤儿院的生活；在他一生中，那些身材硕大、举止优雅、宠爱孩子的俄罗斯妇女对他关怀备至；他爱吃芳香四溢的俄罗斯食品；此外，让人难以接受的、富于表现力的、极有争议的俄语有时像一堵墙把我同他分隔开来，但在我们试图交流时，这门语言把我们召唤到英雄传奇中去。
皮衣清洗3． When the author was travelling 100 miles of a country, which of the following is NOT a sign showing it was pretty worn-out?
A．Roads scarred with holes.
B．Walls overgrown with weeds.
C．Streets leading to dead-ends.
D．Bridges falling into decay.
乒乓球历史正确答案：B
解析：作者在俄国旅行100英里时，以下哪一项不是证明该国相当破旧的迹象?第四段中的pitted roadways(坑坑洼洼的路面)与A(Roads scarred with holes)同义；crumbling bridges(损坏了的桥梁)与D(Bridges falling into decay)同义；dead—ends(死胡同)与C(Streets leading to dead—ends)相关；没有提到B(Walls overgrown with weeds)。
4． The author dismisd the idea of having a kid the natural way becau
A．it was an idle thought to have moments of scrutiny
B．it was not easy to do so for an unmarried man
C．he was looking forward to adopting a Russian boy
D．he preferred to adopt a Russian boy sight unen
正确答案：D
解析：作者拒绝考虑自然生子，因为他宁愿收养双目失明的俄国男孩。倒数第四段说，他意识到，即使阿列克谢双目失明，阿列克谢也是他的儿子，就像是他的亲生儿子。这说明作者宁愿收养双目失明的俄国男孩。
Most people ek some degree of inner peace at work, and it can be difficult to obtain. Work is stressful, and most of us tend to either overwork ourlves or we are, for other reasons, negatively affected by things happening at work. The struggle to maintain one’s inner peace and avoid burnout(职业倦怠症)has become a standard ingredient, of modern working life. Many of us attend minars on work life-balance, we e therapists, we meditate, or we ek advice on how to handle stressful careers. The balancing of one’s personal life and work life is a challenge to all of us who aspire to be successful—by whatever relevant metric. It is not surprising that so much is being said and written on the topic. Unfortunately, I have noticed a tendency to talk about the dangers of burnout at work in terms that provoke fear and panic in the stresd individual rather than lead hi
m or her to slow down. Our methods of discussing the dangers of stress and burnout are too defensive and too reactive. We tend to think that the busyness of work is somehow dangerous, and that we need to balance out the busyness with the emptiness of non-work. Our emphasis on practices such as meditation, yoga, mindfulness—or simply just periods of nothingness—as means of balancing out the stress of work illustrates this point. All of the things can be good and helpful in their own right, but they all stand for a ll名词“letting go” of things. They are defined by inactivity. This logic leads to a kind of life where the “active” is considered to be dangerous and something that should always be balanced out by the “inactive”. We oscillate between the two extremes—fearful of staying too long in any of the camps. This oscillation is stressful in itlf. It would be much better if we had a way of living that could embrace, enjoy, and handle the tough, everyday work life rather than constantly looking for ways to escape it.
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5． The author of the passage ems to reject the statement that
A．we are negatively affected by things happening at work
B．balancing one’s personal life and work life is a challenge to all of us
C．burnout provokes fear and panic in the stresd individual
D．the emptiness of non-work is the best way to balance out the busyness
正确答案：C
解析：短文作者似乎拒绝接受职业倦怠症在充满压力的人身上引起畏惧和恐慌。A(we are negatively affected by things happening at work)在第一段最后一句提及；B(balancing one’s personal life is a challenge to all of us)在第三段第一句提及；D(theemptiness of non—work is the best way to balance out the busyness)在第四段最后一句提及；没有提到C。
6． According to the passage, which statement is NOT true?
A．In modern life some degree of inner peace at work can be difficult to obtain.
B．Meditation is the best way to achieve inner peace in individuals.
C．Practices such as meditation, yoga, mindfulness are defined as inactivity.
