1993年考研英语真题及答案

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13、 passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (30 po s)Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the d

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15、city tosurviveisseriously Today no such severe lack exists t ordered by Frederick. some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this tthe mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed learn language ly. If these sensitive periods are neglect

16、ed, the ideal time acquiring skills passes and they might never belearned so easily again. A bird to sing and to fly ly at the right time, but the s is slow and hard once criticalstagehasExperts t speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at constant age, but there are cases where speech has

17、 started late in a child eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At ks a baby and vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and ds; at eighteen months he hasavocabulary of threeto fifty words. three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put languagedifferst ofhisparents instyle

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19、d at four n Recent t an infant isborn with the capacityto speak. is l about mans brain, compared t of the monkey, is the system whichenables achildtoconnectthesightandfeelof, say, atoy-bear withthe sound pattern “toy-bear.” And even more incredible is the young brains ability pick out an order in la

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21、on becausethe child gets discouraged andsendsonly the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the childs non-verbal signals is essential the nddevelopment ofTheeofFrederick IIs experimentwasA totchildrenarebornwiththeabilitytoB todiscoverwh anguageachildwouldspeakwithouthearing anyC tofindoutwhatrolecareful

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23、eaboutachild A heisbornwiththecapacitytot B hehasaorenanhecanproducehisownheoweshisspeech abilityto goodWhichofthefollowingcan NOTbeinferredfromthe A Thefacultyofspeech isB EncouragementisanythingbutessentialtoachildinlanguageThechildsbrainishighlyMostchildren learntheirlanguageindefiniteIf achild s

24、tartstospeak haveahighn others,he willin futureB beC beinsensitivetoverbalD notsarilybeing one of giant ThechildsbrainishighlyMostchildren learntheirlanguageindefiniteIf achild startstospeak haveahighn others,he willin futureB beC beinsensitivetoverbalD notsarilybeing one of giant rises directed by

25、In general, bureaucratic (our society 主义的) management in es a small, well-he machinery. The oiling is ithhigher wages, well-ventilated and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all oiling does not alter the t man et he does not act, the wholeheartedly participate in hi

26、s work and the white-collar workers e economic puppets who dance to the of automatedmachinesand bureaucraticThe worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unableto acquire real satisfaction erest in life. They liv

27、e and die without ever having the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and independent and productive human beings.Those higher up on the l ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no n those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in respects. They are in a highly c

28、ompetitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply job, they are tested elligence as well as for the tight mixture submissiveness and independence. From again - by the psychologists, for whom superiors, who judge their

29、behavior, so constant need to provet moment on they are tested again and testing is a big business, and by their bility, capacity to get along, etc. createsconstantanxiety andstress, thevery causesof unhappinessand Am I t we should return to the preindustrial mode of or to nineteenth-century “free r

30、ise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I transforming our l system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism aximal production and consumption are o a industrialism in an and full development of his potentialities - those of

31、and of reason - are the aimsof all l arrangements. Production and should serveonly asmeansto thisend, andshouldbepreventedfrom ruling By “a well-oiled coghemachinery”theauthor man is endstorendertheA a sary part of the society though each individuals function workingincompleteharmonywiththerestofthe

32、By “a well-oiled coghemachinery”theauthor man is endstorendertheA a sary part of the society though each individuals function workingincompleteharmonywiththerestofthean unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society, though functioning smoothlyD ahumblecomponentofthesociety,llywhenworki

33、ngThereal cause ofthe anxietyoftheworkersand employeesA theyarelikelytolosetheirt B theyhavenogenuinesatisfactionerestintheyarefacedwiththefundamentalrealitiesofhuman theyaredeprivedoftheirindividualityandFrom the passage we can t real happiness of life belongs to A who areat thebottomoftheB whoareh

34、igherheirl C whoprovenD whocouldkeepfar awayfromthiscompetitiveTo solve the present l problems the author t we A resorttotheproductionmodeof ourofferhigherwagestotheworkersandenablemantofullydevelophisD takethefundamentalrealitiesTheauthors attitude towardsindustrialism mightbest be summarized as on

35、e When an invention is made, the inventor has sible courses of open to him: he can give the invention to the world by publishing it, keep the secret,or patentA granted patent is the result of a bargain struck n an inventor and e, by which the ets a limited period of monopoly ) and full details ofhis

36、 inventionto thepublicsecret,or patentA granted patent is the result of a bargain struck n an inventor and e, by which the ets a limited period of monopoly ) and full details ofhis inventionto thepublic tperiod is the lifespan of a patent he most exceptional to alter thisnormal The longest sof ever

37、granted was to es Valensi; his 1939 patent color TV receiver circuitry was extended until 1971 because for most of the patents normal life there was no colour TV to receive and thus no hope of reward for the Becausea patent remains permanentlypublic after s terminated, the of the library attached to

38、 the patent office containdetails of literallymillions of t are free for anyone to use and, if n half a century, sometimes even ishing to avoid the high , patent experts often advise of conducting a search through live patents t the one sure way of avoiding violation of any other inventors right is

39、to plagiarize a dead patent. Likewise, because publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates patents t idea, it is traditionally safe to take ideas from other areas of .Much modern technological advance is based on these presumptions of legal Anyone closely involved in patents and

40、 inventions soon t most ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills. It is their reduction to l either through sity or dedication, or through the availability of new t makes news and money. The basic patent for the theory of magnetic dates back to 1886. Many of the original ideas originate from 19th and

41、 early 20th century. Even the Volkswagen rear engine car was ipated by a 1904 patent for a cart with the horse at the rear.The passage is mainly about anapproachtotheapplicationfortheuseofD thestoWhichofthefollowingisTRUEaccordingto theA Whenapatent esout ofeffect, itcan bere-patented or extended B

42、It is sary for an inventor to apply for a patent before he makes invention C Apatent holder must publicizethe details of his invention when its legal period is over.D Onecangetallthedetailsofapatentedinventionfromalibraryattachedto the patent office.eValensispatentlasteduntil1971becauseA nobodywould

43、offer anyrewardforhispatentpriorthispatent couldnot beD Onecangetallthedetailsofapatentedinventionfromalibraryattachedto the patent office.eValensispatentlasteduntil1971becauseA nobodywouldoffer anyrewardforhispatentpriorthispatent couldnot beputto useforanunusuallylongtherewerenot enoughTVionstopro

44、videcolourD thecolourTVreceiverwasnot availabletTheword“plagiarize”(Line8,Para.5)mostprobablymeansstealandgiverewardmaketakeandFrom thepassagewe t aninventionwillnotbenefittheinventorunlessitisreducedtocommer productsareactuallyinventionswhichweremadealongtimelC itismuchr tobuyanoldna newD patentexp

45、ertsmendpatentsto othersby conducting a through I ClozeFor each numbered in the following passage, there are four A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the SHEETbyblackeningthecorrespondinghe brackets. (15erior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, o a lized f

46、ield is really quite erior designers e important partly because of the many single large t might be in aThe importance erior es when we realize howmuch time we surroundedbyfour walls.Whenever weneedtobeindoors,we want our surroundings to be attractive and comfortable asWe also expect place to be app

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48、business officeappearanceof as It is thees t erior designers most important function of the particular . For exle, a theater poor sight lines, poor sound-qualities, and few entries and exitswill not work for pure, no matter how beautifully it might . Nevertheless, for any kind of space, the designer

49、 has to make many of thesame kind of . He or she must coordinate the shs, lighting decoration of everything from ceiling to floor. addition,thedesignermustusuallyselect furniture ordesign built-in furniture, accordingto thefunctions need to be served.tC DA oA oatA A sC sDSectionError-detection and E

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51、rackets. Then, without altering the meaning of the sentence, write down your correction on the on the ANSWERSHEET.(10Anumberof foreign visitors they saw manynewDwere Bto the industrial exhibition CAnswer C is wrong because the hould read, “A number of visitors were taken to the industrial exhibition

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