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1、2022年考博英语-华南师范大学考试题库及模拟押密卷（含答案解析）1. 单选题Telecommunication developments enable the sending of messages（ ）television, radio and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with many messages.问题1选项A.viaB.amidC.pastD.across【答案】A【解析】考查介词。句意：电信的发展使人们能够通过电视、无线电发送信息，很快，电子邮件就可以用许多信息轰炸人们。根据语境，此处表示信息发送的途径，因
2、此A为正确答案。2. 单选题The first mention of slavery in the statutes of the English colonies of North America does not occur until after 1660some forty years after the importation of the first Black people. Lest we think that slavery existed in fact before it did in law, Oscar and Mary Handlin assure us, that
3、 the status of Black people down to the 1660s was that of servants. A critique of the Hanlins interpretation of why legal slavery did not appear until the 1660s suggests that assumptions about the relation between slavery and racial prejudice should be reexamined, and that explanation for the differ
4、ent treatment of Black slaves in North and South America should be expanded.The Handlins explain the appearance of legal slavery by arguing that, during the 1660s, the position of While servants was improving relative to that of Black servants. Thus, the Handlins contend, Black and White servants, h
5、ere to fore treated alike, each attained a different status. There are, however, important objections to this argument. First, the Handlins cannot adequately demonstrate that the White servants position was improving, during and after the 1660s; several acts of the Maryland and Virginia legislatures
6、 indicate otherwise. Another flaw in the Handlin interpretation is their assumption that prior to the establishment of legal slavery there was no discrimination against Black people. It is true that before the 1660s Black people were rarely called slaves. But this should not overshadow evidence from
7、 the 1630s on chat points to racial discrimination without using the term slavery. Such discrimination sometimes, stopped short of lifetime servitude or inherited status-the two attributes of true slavery-yet in other cases it included both. The Handlins argument excludes the real possibility that B
8、lack people in the English colonies were never treated as the equals of White people.The possibility has important ramifications. If from the outset Black people were discriminated against, then legal slavery should be viewed as a reflection and an extension of racial prejudice rather than, as many
9、historians including the Handlins have argued, the cause of prejudice. In addition, the existence of discrimination before the advent of legal slavery offers a further explanation for the harsher treatment of Black slaves in North than in South AmericA.Freyre and Tannenbaum have rightly argued that
10、the lack of certain traditions in North America- such as a Roman conception of slavery and a Roman Catholic emphasis on equalityexplains why the treatment of Black slaves was more severe there than in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of South AmericA.But this cannot be the whole explanation since
11、 it is merely based only on a lack of something. A more compelling explanation is that the early and sometimes extreme racial discrimination in the English colonies helped determine the particular nature of the slavery that followed.1.Which of the following is the most logical inference to be drawn
12、from the passage about the effects of “several acts of the Maryland and Virginia legislatures” (lines 11) passed during and after the 1660s?2.With which of the following statements regarding the status of Black people in the English colonies of North America before the 1660s would the author be LEAS
13、T likely to agree?3.According to the passage, the Handlins have argued which of the following about the relationship between racial prejudice and the institution of legal slavery in the English colonies of North America?4.The passage suggests that the existence of a Roman conception of slavery in Sp
14、anish and Portuguese colonies had the effect of（ ）.5.The author considers the Freyre and Tannenbaum for the treatment accorded Black slaves in the English colonies of North America to be（ ）.问题1选项A.The acts negatively affected the pre-1660s position of Black as well as of white servantsB.The acts had
15、 the effect of imparting rather than improving the position of White servants relative to what it had been before the 1660sC.The acts had a different effect on the position of White servants than did many of the acts passed during this time by the legislatures of other coloniesD.The acts, at the ver
16、y least caused the position of White servants to remain no better than it had been before the 1660s问题2选项A.Although Black people were not legally considered to be slaves, they were often called slavesB.Although subject to some discrimination; Black people had a height legal status than they did after the 1660s.C.Although sometimes subject to lifetime servitude, Black people wer
