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1、2022年考博英语-中国矿业大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 翻译题没人否认创造力的重要性。的确，今后当几乎所有的标准程序均由计算机来完成时， 创造力会被证明为更重要。然而，创造力与智力不能等同起来。一位专家的聪明才智可 能表现在个或几个领域，但他对革新不一定感兴趣，或在这方面不一定成功。与此相似，尽管革新要求一定程度的心智，但我们没有发现智力测试与创造力测试两者之间的重要联系。的确，创造力好像更依赖于某种气质和个性一一敢于冒险，吃苦耐劳，锲而不舍，但首先要有改变现状，对社会留下深远影响的愿望，而不是提高各种信息处理的效率。【答案】No one denies the importan
2、ce of creativity. Indeed, creativity will prove more important in the future when almost all standard programming is done by computers. However, creativity and intelligence cannot be equated. An experts intelligence may manifest itself in several or more areas, but he may not be interested in innova
3、tion or successful in it. Similarly, although innovation requires a certain level of mind, we have not found a significant link between tests of intelligence and tests of creativity. Indeed, creativity seems to depend more on a certain temperament and personality - the willingness to take risks, to
4、work hard, to persevere, to have a wish to change the current situation and make a far-reaching influence on the society, rather than improve the efficiency of processing all kinds of information.2. 单选题We hope the students would（ ）the information contained in the lecture.问题1选项A.associateB.understand
5、C.assimilateD.assess【答案】C【解析】动词辨析题。associate “使联合，使发生联系”；understand “理解，获悉，推断”；assimilate “吸收，使同化”；assess “评定，估价”。由句中“information contained in the lecture讲稿中包含的信息”可知C选项“吸收”正确。3. 单选题The earliest controversies about the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographs fidelity
6、to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art as distinct from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the struggle to establish it as a fine art. Against the charge that photography was a soulless, mechanical
7、copying of reality, photographers asserted that it was instead a privileged way of seeing, a revolt against commonplace vision, and no less worthy an art than painting.Ironically, now that photography is securely established as a fine art, many photographers find it pretentious or irrelevant to labe
8、l it as such. Serious photographers variously claim to be finding, recording, impartially observing, witnessing events, exploring themselvesanything but making works of art. They are no longer willing to debate whether photography is or is not a fine art. except to proclaim that their own work is no
9、t involved with art. It shows the extent to which they simply take for granted the concept of art imposed by the triumph of Modernism: the better the art, the more subversive it is of the traditional aims of art.Photographers disclaimers of any interest in making art tell us more about the harried s
10、tatus of the contemporary notion of art than about whether photography is or is not art. For example, those photographers who suppose that, by taking pictures, they are getting away from the pretensions of art as exemplified by painting remind us of those Abstract Expressionist painters who imagined
11、 they were getting away from the intellectual austerity of classical Modernist painting by concentrating on the physical act of painting. Much of photographys prestige today derives from the convergence of its aims with those of recent art, particularly with the dismissal of abstract art implicit in
12、 the phenomenon or Pop painting during the 1960s. Appreciating photographs is a relief to sensibilities tired of the mental exertions demanded by abstract art. Classical Modernist paintingthat is, abstract art as developed in different ways by Picasso, Kandinsky, and Matissepresupposes highly develo
13、ped skills of looking and a familiarity with other paintings and the history of art. Photography, like Pop painting, reassures viewers that art is not hard; photography seems to be more about its subjects than about art.Photography, however, has developed all the anxieties and self-consciousness of
14、a classic Modernist art. Many professionals privately have begun to worry that the promotion of photography as an activity subversive of the traditional pretensions of art has gone so far that the public will forget that photography is a distinctive and exalted activityin short, an art.1.In the pass
15、age, the author is primarily concerned with（ ）.2.According to the author, the 19lb century defenders of photography stressed that photography was（ ）.3.According to the passage, some serious contemporary photographers make the claim that their photographs（ ）.4.It can be inferred from the passage that
16、 the author most probably considers serious contemporary photography to be a（ ）.问题1选项A.defining the Modernist attitude toward artB.explaining how photography emerged as a fine artC.explaining the attitude of serious contemporary photographers toward photography as art and placing those attitudes in their historical contextD.defining the various approaches that se
