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1、2012年考研会计硕士英语二真题及答案解析参考(五)Part BDirections:Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information from the left column that corresponds to each of the marked details given in the right column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEERT 1.(10
2、points) “考会计硕士，选凯程”！凯程会计硕士2014年考入北京地区会计硕士共25人,其中本科是三本的5人,本科二本的11人,本科一本的学生9人,考入的学校有人大 中财 贸大 财科所 北工商 北交大 北国会等学校, （其中曾sh同学获初试第三，复试第一） 经过1年远程+面授集训, 从0基础跨专业开始辅导,扎实辅导,严格管理督导,家长汇报制度,确保学生在凯程学习进展顺利.“Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Gre
3、at Men who have worked here,” wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. Well, not any more it is not。Suddenly, Britain looks to have fallen out with its favourite historical form. This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the
4、past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain. Today, we want empathy, not inspiration。From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant recounting the exemplary lives of great men. In 1337, Petrarch began work on his rambling wri
5、ting De Viris Illustribus On Famous Men, highlighting the virtus (or virtue) of classical heroes. Petrarch celebrated their greatness in conquering fortune and rising to the top. This was the biographical tradition which Niccolo Machiavelli turned on its head. In The Prince, the championed cunning,
6、ruthlessness, and boldness, rather than virtue, mercy and justice, as the skills of successful leaders。Over time, the attributes of greatness shifted. The Romantics commemorated the leading painters and authors of their day, stressing the uniqueness of the artists personal experience rather than pub
7、lic glory. By contrast, the Victorian author Samual Smiles wrote Self-Help as a catalogue of the worthy lives of engineers , industrialists and explores . The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, if patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the
8、formulation of truly noble and many character, exhibit,wrote Smiles.what it is in the power of each to accomplish for himselfHis biographies of James Walt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life。This was all a bit bourgeois f
9、or Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte. These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals。Communist Manifesto. For them, history d
10、id nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles:“It is man, real, living man who does all that。” And history should be the story of the masses and their record of struggle. As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epo
11、ch stood. For:“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past。”This was the tradition which revolutionized our appreciation of the past.
12、 In place of Thomas Carlyle, Britain nurtured Christopher Hill, EP Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm. History from below stood alongside biographies of great men. Whole new realms of understanding from gender to race to cultural studies were opened up as scholars unpicked the multiplicity of lost societies
13、. And it transformed public history too: downstairs became just as fascinating as upstairs。A emphasized the virtue of classical heroes。41. PetrarchB highlighted the public glory of the leading artists。42. Niccolo MachiavellliC focused on epochal figures whose lives were hard to imitate。43. Samuel Sm
14、ilesD opened up new realms of understanding the great men in history。44. Thomas CarlyleE held that history should be the story of the masses and their record of struggle。45. Marx and EngelsF dismissed virtue as unnecessary for successful leaders。G depicted the worthy lives of engineer industrialists and explorers
