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1、2022年考博英语-中国财政科学研究院考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Among the first plans to grow the land regions of Earth _, which in prehistoric times grew to immense size.问题1选项A.segregationB.specificationC.spectrumD.subscription【答案】B【解析】考查名词辨析。句意：在最初的计划中，地球规模中的陆地区域在史前时期规模增长到巨大。A选项segregation“分离；隔离”；B选项specification“规格；说明书
2、”；C选项spectrum“光谱；频谱；范围”；D选项subscription“捐献；订阅；订金；签署”。根据immense size可知B选项specification“规格”符合题意。因此B选项正确。2. 单选题In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21th century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten. To pluck just one,
3、 Gary Steyngharts novel Super Sad True Love Story describes a world where everybody is obsessed with their electronic apparatusan even more omnivorous iPhone with a flickering stream of shopping and reality shows and pornand have somehow come to believe that the few remaining unread paper books let
4、off a rank smell. The book on the book, it suggests, is closing.The bookthe physical paper bookis being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 percent this year alone. Its being chewed by the e-book. Its being gored by the death of the bookshop and the library. And most importantly, the men
5、tal space it occupied is being eroded by the thousand Weapons of Mass Destruction that surround us all. Its hard to admit, but we all sense it: it is becoming almost physically harder to read books.In his gorgeous little book The Lost Art of ReadingWhy Books Matter in a Distracted Time, the critic D
6、avid Ulin admits to a strange feeling. All his life, he had taken reading as for granted as eatingbut then, a few years ago, he “become aware, in an apartment full of books, that I could no longer find within myself the quiet necessary to read”. He would sit down to do it at night, as he always had,
7、 and read a few paragraphs, then find his mind was wandering, imploring him to check his email, or Twitter, or Facebook. “What Im struggling with,” he writes, “is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that theres something out there that merits my attention.”I think most of us have this sense toda
8、y, if we are honest. If you read a book with your laptop thrumming on the other side of the room, it can be like trying to read in the middle of a party, where everybody is shouting to each other. To read, you need to slow down. You need mental silence except for the words. Thats getting harder to f
9、ind.No, dont misunderstand me. I adore the web, and they will have to wrench my Twitter feed from my cold dead hands. This isnt going to turn into an antediluvian rant against the glories of our wired world. But theres a reason why that word“wired”means both “connected to the internet” and “high, fr
10、antic, unable to concentrate”.In the age of the internet, physical paper books are a technology we need more, not less. In the 1950s, the novelist Herman Hesse wrote: “The more the need for entertainment and mainstream education can be met by new inventions, the more the book will recover its dignit
11、y and authority. We have not yet quite reached the point where young competitors, such as radio, cinema, etc, have taken over the functions from the book it cant afford to lose.”31. By mentioning the work of Gary Steynghart, the author intends to _.32. The most significant reason for the falling sal
12、es of paper books is that _.33. According to paragraph 3, we can infer that _.34. The explanation of the word “wired” probably indicates that _.35. Which of the following will the author most probably agree on?问题1选项A.advocate the idea that reading physical paper books is out of fashionB.introduce a
13、brand new electronic product even more omnivorous than iPhoneC.prove that books will be outweighed by reality shows and porn in the futureD.indicate that books are left out in fictions describing the future world问题2选项A.electronic books are taking over more and more market share of paper booksB.peopl
14、e minds dont have the space for reading due to all kinds of temptationC.bookstores are out of business as people prefer to borrowing books from the libraryD.people think things on the Internet are more worthy of their attention问题3选项A.people are inclined to take reading for grantedB.people minds are
15、encroached by the InternetC.its hard to concentrate on reading nowadaysD.David Ulins book gives readers a strange feeling问题4选项A.people always misunderstand the functions of internetB.Internet is partly responsible for the vanishing of paper booksC.people call the internet “wired world” for a reasonD.Internet will take over the functions of paper books问题5选项A.True readers can maintain reading in all kinds of environment, including noisy one.B.The Internet should be strictly condemned for endangering physical paper books.C.Physical paper books are facing
