2022年考博英语-北京科技大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）第183期

1、2022年考博英语-北京科技大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 翻译题Apart from flights, telephones and television, one of the most significant ways in which life in the twentieth century differs from antiquity is the pervasive presence of clocks. Our lives are scheduled around specific times and intervals in a fashion that would have been impossible in ancient Rome.When and how did this profound change come about? Did monasteries acquire the first clocks and then, in league with an emerging merchant class, enforce their own

2、 rigid time standards on the surrounding populace? This viewthe accepted interpretation for at least 50 yearis carefully dissected and challenged in Dohrn-van Rossums revisionist account.【答案】除了飞机、电话和电视之外，二十世纪的生活与古代最重要的不同之处之一就是时钟的普遍使用。我们习惯于将生活细分到具体的时间点和事件单，这在古罗马是不可能出现的。这种深刻的变化是何时以及如何发生的？是修道院在获得了第一个时钟之后，联合新兴的商人阶级把他们严格的时间观念强加给普通大众的吗？在至少50年的时间里，这种观点被大众所认可并受到了Dohrn-van Rossum的修正主义的仔细分析和挑战。2. 单选题It was（ ）that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.问题1选项A.addictedB.allegedC.assaultedD.asc

3、ribed【答案】B【解析】考查动词辨析。A项addict“使沉迷，使上瘾”，B项allege“宣称，断言”，C项assault“攻击，袭击”，D项ascribe“归因于，归咎于”。根据后面的句子the restaurant discriminated against black customers（这家餐馆歧视黑人顾客），结合前面的it bethat句型，空格部分应该表示“据说，据宣称”。句意：据说那家餐馆歧视黑人顾客。故该题选择B项正确。3. 单选题Did your mum and dad go to university, or did they leave school and go straight to the Job Centre? The educational experience of parents is still important when it comes to how todays students choose an area of study and what to do after graduation, according to The Futu

4、re-track research in the UK.The research was done by the Higher Education Careers Service Unit. It plans to follow university applicants for six years from 2006 through their early careers.The first years findings come from a study of 130,000 university applicants. They show significant differences in prospective students approach to higher education, depending on whether their parents got degrees (second-generation applicants) or didnt (first-generation applicants).First-generation applicants w

5、ere more likely to say that their career and employment prospects were uppermost in their minds in deciding to go to university. About one-fifth of this group gave “to enable me to get a good job” as their main reason for choosing HE. And 37 percent said that a degree was “part of my career plan”.A young person coming from a non-professional household where finances are stretched may find the idea of learning for its own sake to be a luxury. This explains the explosion in vocational courses.At P

6、ortsmouth University, first-year student Kim Burnett, 19, says that she specifically chose her degree in health research management and psychology to get a secure, well-paid job. Harriet Edge, 20, studying medicine at Manchester University, also wanted job security. Her parents lacked college degrees, though the fact that her uncle is a doctor appears to have influenced her choice.“Medicine is one of those fields where its pretty likely youll get a job at the end. Thats a big plus, as the debt l

7、evels after five years of study are going to be frightening,” she says. Many experts believe that this situation affects those with no family tradition of higher education far more keenly. The fact that 26 percent of respondents said that they needed more advice implies that some students may end up feeling that their higher education investment was not worthwhile.For those with graduate parents, this lack of guidance may, the researchers suggest, be less of a problem. “But, for those without th

8、e advantages, lack of access to career guidance before applying for higher education leaves them exposed to making poorer choices,” the survey concludes.1. The main idea of the passage is that（ ）.2. “HE” in the 4th paragraph probably refers to（ ）.3. A young person coming from a non-professional household（ ）.4. In which of the following aspects do Kim Burnett and Harriet Edge have in common?5. It is implied that（ ）.问题1选项A.parents experiences are more important for their childrens educationB.paren

9、ts careers are vitally important for their childrens degreesC.students approach to higher education correlates with their parents educational experienceD.students career and employment prospects are decided by their parents问题2选项A.health educationB.higher employmentC.Harriet EdgeD.higher education问题3选项A.is less likely to get financial aid to go to universityB.is more likely to choose vocational educationC.may think learning for pleasure is a good ideaD.may choose to study for a professional degree问题4选项A.They both chose their majors because of their family influence.B.They are both the first-year students in university.C.Both of their parents lack college degrees.D.Both of them chose degrees for job security.问题5选项A.the cost of a degree in medicine is very highB.high

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