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1、2022年考博英语-浙江大学考试题库及全真模拟冲刺卷（附答案带详解）1. 单选题In 2005, President Bush put his political capital where his mouth was, and lost. He went all-out to ( ) Congress and the American people that privatizing Social Security would be good and necessary.问题1选项A.argueB.concedeC.convinceD.confess【答案】C【解析】句意：2005年，布什总统
2、把他的政治资本一直挂在嘴边，结果失败了。他竭尽全力让国会和美国人民相信，将社会保障私有化是好的也是必要的。argue争论、证明； concede 允许，承认；convince 说服，使确信；confess 供认，忏悔。选项C符合句意。2. 单选题The brave fireman had fought for days before they managed to（ ）the forest fire.问题1选项A.put onB.put up withC.put offD.put out【答案】D【解析】动词词组辨析。put on穿上，上演；put up with忍受，容忍；put off推迟
3、，扔掉，阻 止；put out熄灭，伸出。句意：勇敢的消防队员们奋战了好几天才把森林大火扑灭。选项D符合句意。3. 单选题As is the case in many cultures, the degree to which a minority group was seen as different from the characteristics of the dominant majority determined the extent of that groups acceptance. Immigrants who were like the earlier settlers we
4、re accepted. The large numbers of immigrants with significantly different characteristics tended to be viewed as a threat to basic American values and the American way of life.This was particularly true of the immigrants who arrived by the millions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth cent
5、uries. Most of them came from poverty-stricken nations of southern and eastern Europe. They spoke languages other than English, and large numbers of them were Catholics or Jews.Americans at the time were very fearful of this new flood of immigrants. They were afraid that these people were so accusto
6、med to lives of poverty and dependence that they would not understand such basic American values as freedom, self-reliance and competition. There were so many new immigrants that they might even change the basic values of the nation in undesirable ways.Americans tried to meet what they saw as a thre
7、at to their values by offering English instruction for the new immigrants and citizenship classes to teach them basic American beliefs. The immigrants, however, often felt that their American teachers disapproved of the traditions of their homeland. Moreover, learning about American values gave them
8、 little help in meeting their most important needs such as employment, food, and a place to live.Far more helpful to the new immigrants were the political bosses of the larger cities of the northeastern United States, where most of the immigrants first arrived. Those bosses saw too many of the pract
9、ical needs of the immigrants and were more accepting of the different homeland traditions. In exchange for their help, the political bosses expected the immigrants to keep them in power by voting for them in elections.In spite of this, many scholars believe that the political bosses performed an imp
10、ortant function in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They helped to assimilate large numbers of disadvantaged white immigrants into the larger American culture. The fact that the United States had a rapidly expanding economy at the beginning of the century made it possible for these
11、 new immigrants, often with the help of the bosses, to better their standard of living in the United States. As a result of these new opportunities and new rewards, immigrants came to accept most of the values of the larger American culture and were accepted by the great majority of Americans. For w
12、hite ethnic groups, therefore, it is generally true that their feeling of being a part of the larger culture, that is, American is much stronger than their feeling of belonging to a separate ethnic group Irish, Italian, Polish, etc.1.A minority groups acceptance to the country was determined by（）.2.
13、The immigrants flushing in was considered a threat to American value mainly because（） .3.Citizenship classes (Para. 4) were offered because Americans（）.4.The political bosses helped the new immigrants for the main purpose of（）.5.The living standards of the new immigrants were improved in the late ni
14、neteenth and early twentieth centuries mainly because（） .问题1选项A.the difference they showed from the majorityB.the time when they arrived at the new landC.the background conditions they came fromD.the religions group to which they belonged问题2选项A.the immigrants came from poverty-stricken nations of so
15、uthern and eastern EuropeB.the immigrants had been accustomed to poverty and dependenceC.the immigrants had different homeland traditions and other particular characteristicsD.the immigrants did not speak English问题3选项A.wanted to help the immigrants to solve their practical needsB.would not accept any groups with different traditionsC.wanted the immigrants to deal with the threat to the American valuesD.wanted the immigrants to learn about and to keep the American values问题4选项A.showing off their political powers and advantagesB.getting support in electionsC.assimilating the m
