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1、英语专业考研考前基础英语水平模考测试卷二(6)Passage 5Once the presence of these characteristics has been recognized, most discussions of globalization move directly to comparative cultural -questions. Anthropologists, economists, ecologists, and political scientists all become cultural comparatists, weighing cultural di
2、fferences against what is generally considered to be the inevitable function of globalization: the leveling of cultural difference. This comparative quotient runs inexorably, it seems, through discussions of globalization, and it should interest us as a profession, since our own most basic disciplin
3、ary methods are, of course, designed to recognize and interpret difference. I dunk of my own work in comparative American cultures, for example, as moving along spectrum between assumptions of basic cultural difference on the one hand and literary examples of shared attitudes and expressive structur
4、es on the other. I took for common contexts in order to ground my comparisons, but it is the differences that will matter most to my analysis. So, a mirror image begins to emerge, whereas the literary comparatist may be said to value significant differences and to study literature for what we may le
5、arn from those differences, me processes of globalization would seem to work in ways that are something like the reverse toward a leveling of significant difference in favor of insignificant sameness. But this comparison, too, will need to be complicated, for homogeneity and heterogeneity are not ne
6、cessarily antithetical, and in fact may operate in dialectical relationship. Consider, for example, my third characteristic of globalizationunprecedented levels of immigration a circumstance mat suggests the following paradox: the processes of globalization may homogenize tastes and habits by means
7、of new information technologies and global markets, but at the same time they may also generate configurations of striking difference, as immigrants occupy new cultural and linguistic spaces. Nowhere is this more true than in the U. S., where we are experiencing the greatest migratory influx of our
8、history. Certain regions of the country are more illustrative of this than others, of course, but let me say simply that my classes at the University of Houston are far more diverse culturally, linguistically, and ethnically than they were ten years ago a comparative cultural opportunity that I feel
9、, frankly, I have not yet fully engaged in my own teaching and that our curricular and departmental structures have not yet fully responded to, either.Questions:65. The author implies that the inevitable function of globalization is .A. maintenance of differences B. reduction of differencesC. promot
10、ion of cooperation D. exaltation of competition66. According to the passage, the main objective of comparison is to .A. identify common features B. encourage competitionC. recognize differences D. both A and C67. The profession of the author of this passage is most likely that of a .A. comparatist B
11、. anthropologistC. ecologist D. political scientist68. The word paradox in line probably means .A. contradiction B. identificationC. supplementation D. seemingly contradictory69. Immigration brings_ to the destination country.A. wealth B. diversity C. disorder D. disagreement70. What relates globali
12、zation to cultural comparison is the fact that _.A. globalization generates more discussionsB. globalization arouses more disputes over cultural mattersC. globalization both homogenize and heterogenizeD. the author is equally interested in bothPart IV (30)Division A: In this part, you are required t
13、o complete 20 sentences. Each sentence wants one word only. You must choose the needed word from the provisions below. You do not need to change the form of the chosen word. But the word you choose must fit into the sentence in both meaning and grammar. For each correct completion, you will get one
14、point. (20%)existentialism realms particular structure prophecies primacydiscredit tinged mediation poetry demeaned forms valuediachronic antithesis quantitative methodology that obtaining temporal71. The formalists argued at the beginning for a strict separation of form and content and made repeate
15、d efforts to _ the latter as a proper object of literary study byconcentrating exclusively on the former.72. Its not so much _ they love the possibility of doing or not doing something as it is the possibility of speaking with words, agreed on among themselves, about various topics.73. The so-called
16、 formal method grew out of a struggle for a science of literature that would be both independent and factual; it is not the outgrowth of a particular _ .74. What I am interested in doing now is suggesting how the general liberal consensus that true knowledge is fundamentally non-political obscures the highly if obscurely organized political circumstances _when knowledge is produced.75. My point h
