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2015年武汉大学242二外英语考研真题及详解
2014年武汉大学242二外英语考研真题及详解
2011年武汉大学242二外英语考研真题及详解
2010年武汉大学242二外英语考研真题及详解
2009年武汉大学213二外英语考研真题及详解
2008年武汉大学213二外英语考研真题及详解
2007年武汉大学213二外英语考研真题及详解
2006年武汉大学213二外英语考研真题及详解
2005年武汉大学213二外英语考研真题
2004年武汉大学213二外英语考研真题
2003年武汉大学206二外英语考研真题
2002年武汉大学206二外英语考研真题
2001年武汉大学106二外英语考研真题
2000年武汉大学106二外英语考研真题
1999年武汉大学903二外英语考研真题

说明：武汉大学“二外英语”的科目代码经常发生变化，如2010～2011年的科目代码为242，2004～2009年的科目代码为213；虽然考试科目代号发生改变，但考题风格、难度等变动不大。本书用242作为科目代码。

2015年武汉大学242二外英语考研真题及详解

Part I  Reading Comprehension (2×20=40%)

Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like “Palaeolithic Man”, “Neolithic Man”, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label “Legless Man”. Histories of the time will go something like this: “In the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of their extraordinary way of life. In those days, people thought nothing of travelling hundreds of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn’t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks.”

“The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world—or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: “I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.” The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says “I’ve been there.” You mention the remotest, most evocative place—names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say “I’ve been there”—meaning, “I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.”

When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.

1.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. How to use your legs in travel. 

B. The best way to travel.

C. The reward of true travel. 

D. Possible ways to travel.

2. Anthropologists label man nowadays “Legless” (line 3-4, para 1. because _____.

A. lifts prevent people from walking

B. people forget how to use their legs

C. people prefer cars, buses and trains

D. modern vehicles have replaced walking

3.While traveling at high speeds, _____.

A. people can get more pleasure from it

B. people always focus on next destination

C. people can enjoy the view of the destination

D. people care much about the arrangement of the journey

4. The author says “we are deprived of the use of our eyes” because _____.

A. people can’t get a clear picture of the view along

B. eyes become useless in traveling at high speeds

C. people want to sleep during traveling

D. people won’t use their eyes

5.What does the author want to tell us?

A. Legs become weaker.

B. There is no need to use legs or eyes.

C. Modern means of transportation make the world a small place.

D. We should experience the present heart and soul while traveling.

【答案与解析】

1.B  归纳题。文章第一段和第二段分别讲述了旅行不用脚、不用眼等情况，第三段先批评现代人只知一味向前，现实不再是现实，然后说明用脚旅行才是最佳方式。故文章的标题应为“最佳旅行方式”，所以正确答案应该是B选项。

2.D  归纳题。答题信息在第一段，这里提到人们外出就坐车、公共汽车、火车；大楼里有电梯、自动扶梯；即使度假期间，他们筑有缆车道、滑雪索道和路直通山顶的路，所有的风景旅游区都有大型的停车场。现代交通工具代替了人们走路，所以人类学家将之标为“无腿的时代”，故D选项正确。

3.B  细节题。由第三段第一句话“When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place.”可知，当快节奏的旅行时，现在的时光没有任何意义，你主要生活在未来，因为你大部分时间都在盼望到达其他地方。所以B选项“人们总是关注下个目的地”为正确答案。

4.A  推理题。答题信息在第二段，这里提到由一地转向另一地，路上你什么也看不到，乘飞机时只能俯瞰世界；乘汽车火车时，只见朦胧景象略过窗子；海上旅行，只看到海。因此A选项“人们不能清楚地看到途中风景”为正确答案。

5.D  推理题。通过文章最后一段，可知作者认为真正的旅行应该是全身心地体验旅行。该段倒数第四句话提到“He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body.”，因此D选项正确，A、C两项在文中没有体现，而B选项错误。

Passage Two

If you find yourself waiting in a long queue at an airport or bus terminus this holiday, will you try to analyse what it is about queuing that makes you angry? Or will you just get angry with the nearest official?

Professor Richard Larson, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hates queuing but rather than tear his hair out, he decided to study the subject. His first finding, which backs up earlier work at the US National Science Foundation, was that the degree of annoyance was not directly related to the time. He cites an experiment at Houston airport where passengers had to walk for one minute from the plane to the baggage reclaim and then wait a further seven minutes to collect their luggage. Complaints were frequent, especially from those who had spent seven minutes watching passengers with just hand baggage get out immediately.

The airport authorities decided to lengthen the walk from the aircraft, so that instead of a one-minute fast walk, the passengers spent six minutes walking. When they finally arrived at the baggage reclaim, the delay was then only two minutes. The extra walk extended the delay by five minutes for those carrying only hand baggage, but passenger complaints dropped almost to zero.

The reason? Larson suggests that it all has to do with what he calls “social justice”. If people see others taking a short cut, they will find the wait unbearable. So in the case of the airport, it was preferable to delay everyone.

Another aspect Larson studied was the observation that people get more fed up if they are not told what is going on. Passengers told that there will be a half-hour delay are less unhappy than those left waiting even twenty minutes without an explanation.

But even knowing how long we have to wait isn’t the whole answer. We must also believe that everything is being done to minimize our delay. Larson cites the example of two neighbouring American banks. One was highly computerised and served a customer, on average, every 30 seconds. The other bank was less automated and took twice as long. But because the tellers at the second bank looked extremely busy, customers believed the service was faster and many transferred their accounts to the slower bank. Ultimately, the first bank had to introduce time-wasting ways of appearing more dynamic.

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