08考研英語北京太奇培訓學校參考答案

　　Section I Use of English

　　1. [B] 2.[D] 3.[A] 4.[C] 5.[C] 6.[A] 7.[B] 8.[D] 9.[B] 10.[C]

　　11.[B] 12.[D] 13.[A] 14.[C] 15.[D] 16.[D] 17.[C] 18.[A] 19.[B] 20.[A]

　　Section II Reading Comprehension

　　Part A

　　21.[A] 22.[D] 23.[C] 24.[B] 25.[D] 26.[D] 27.[C] 28.[A] 29.[A] 30.[B]

　　31.[A] 32.[C] 33.[B] 34.[D] 35.[C] 36.[D] 37.[B] 38.[C] 39.[A] 40.[B]

　　Part B

　　41. [D] 42. [G] 43. [A] 44. [C] 45. [E]

　　Part C

　　達爾文在他的自傳中非常謙虛地談到他的智力。他指出，他總是感到很難清晰地、簡明扼要地表達自己的思想，但是 46) 他認為，正是這種困難或許反而有利于迫使他長期專心致志地去思考每一個句子，因而使他在思考和觀察中能夠發現錯誤。他聲稱他沒有像杰出的赫胥黎所擁有的敏捷悟性或機智幽默。47) 他還堅持說，他進行一系列純抽象思維的能力是極其有限的，因而他確信，他從來不可能在數學方面有所成就。他還認為他的記憶力很廣泛，但模糊朦朧。從某種意義上講他的記憶力很差，以至于他無法記住一個日期或一行詩歌幾天不忘。48) 另一方面，有些批評家指責說，他雖然是個優秀的觀察家，但沒有思考能力；對此他并不認為是有充分根據的。他覺得這種說法不對，因為“物種起源”自始至終是一篇很長的論證，這篇論證說服了許多有才干的人。他認為，不擁有某種思考能力的人本來是不可能寫出這部著作來的。他愿意斷言，“我有相當的創造才能，有相當的常識和判斷的能力，這是每一位比較成功的律師或醫生必定具有的，但是在程度上，我認為，并不比別人更高?！?9) 他謙卑地補充說，或許他與普通人比較起來更善于去留心容易被忽略的事情，并且加以仔細的觀察。

　　在他一生的最后一年的寫作中，他表達了這樣的看法：在以前的二、三十年中在二、三個方面，他的想法改變了。到30歲或30開外時，各種詩歌使他欣喜若狂。猶如以前一樣，繪畫和音樂使他心曠神怡?？墒牵?881年他說，“現在多年來我連讀一行詩都忍無可忍。我也幾乎失去了對繪畫和音樂的興趣?！?0) 達爾文深信，這些愛好的喪失不僅使他失去了幸福，而且可能傷害了他的智能，甚至更有可能傷害了他的道德素養。

　　Section III Writing

　　Part A

　　Dear Bob,

　　I am writing to express my sincere apology to you. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to you for your help during my stay in Canada. Do you remember I borrowed a CD of yours from you one day. It’s a CD of popular music, and I enjoyed it very much. Unfortunately, I forgot to return it to you when I was leaving for my country. On arrival I found it in my personal luggage.

　　Much to my delight, I am told that a good friend of mine is going to your place in Canada next month. So I’ll ask him to pass on the CD to you. Once again, please accept my sincere apology for any inconvenience I have caused due to my carelessness.

　　Best regards to you and your family.

　　Yours truly,

　　Li Ming (138 words)

　　Part B

　　As is depicted in the cartoon, there are two handicapped men supporting each other: one is lame in the left leg, while the other in the right. They have overcome their difficulty of lameness by cooperating with each other and are successfully going on with their journey. The caption below the picture says, “You have only one leg, and so do I. Helping each other, we can travel wherever we want.”

　　The picture really sets me thinking. It manifests the importance of cooperation and the necessity of keeping in step with each other. It also teaches us that success, to a great extent, results from cooperation. When faced with difficulties, we will certainly cope with them only if we cooperate with each other. There are a lot of examples to illustrate the issue. Of them, the most obvious one is the case with the war on SARS in 2003. At that time the whole country was plagued by SARS. But led by our government, people from all walks of life in the society were mobilized and united as one. We soon won a great victory over the disease.

　　In my opinion, the dependence of people on one another has now increased, without which the society we live in cannot keep going smoothly. In short, cooperation has become a driving force for the development of our country. (228 words)