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1、2005年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语冲刺试题（一）（上）There is no thi ng illogical or syn thetic about the humility ofgreat bookmenin calling attentionto the limitationsof thebook. No book can 1 us to know everything that is to be known, or feel everythi ng that is to be felt. A book is part of life, not a substitute 2 it. I
2、t is not a fit 3 for worship or en shri neme nt. It loses its charm and much of its value whe n accepted 4. No one would have bee n more 5 tha n Aristotle if he could have known of the excessive and 6 ven erati onthatwould be give n to his ideas in cen turies to 7. Whe n his works became the 8 words
3、 of advanee knowledge,9 knowledgebecame n either adva need nor vital.The particular occasi on for these remarks is that there are10 here and there that some of us in the book world may be 11 ourselves too seriously .In the effort to in crease book readi ng some 12 thi ngs are being said about books.
4、 It is made to 13 that no thi ng is happe ning now that has not happe ned before, and that the only true approach to un dersta nding is 14 books.We do n either service nor justice to books by 15 upon them such omn ipote nee and omni scie nee. Many of the an swers we n eed today are not n ecessarily
5、to be found betwee n 16. There are eleme nts of newn ess in the prese nt 17 of man that will not readily be 18 of by required readi ng or ready refere nee. Books are not slide rules or blueprintsfor 19 automatic answers.What is n eeded is a mighty ble nd of the wisdom of the ages20 fresh, razor edge
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7、errupted6、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】CA dreadful B respectful:Charmful:D1faithful7、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】B:A1go:B1come:C1pass:D1emerge8、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】D:A1big:B1end:C1late:D1last（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】A:A1such:B1much:C1most:D1this10、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】BA1symbols:B1sig ns:C1marks:D1trails#11、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】CA confining
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9、sD words17、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】DA positi onB situationC statusD dilemma18、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】AA disposedB discernedC dischargedD dispersed19、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】CA polishi ngB regulating C fur ni shi ngD forward ing20、（本题分值：0.5分）【正确答案】BA fromBwithCoverD for二、阅读选择题（每题2分，共40分）阅读下列短文，理解其意 后选择答案中您认为正确的一个Text 1B
10、anking is about mon ey; and no other familiar commodity arouses such excesses of passi on and dislike. Nor is there any other about which more nonsense is talked. The type of thi ng that comes to mi nd is not what is normally called economics, which is in exact rather tha n nonsen sical, and only in
11、 the same way as all scie nces are at the point where they try to predict people s behaviour and its con seque nces.In deed most social scie nces and, for example, medic ine could probably bedescribed in the same way.However, it is com mon to hear asserti ons of the kind“ ifyou were left alone on a
12、desert island a few seed potatoes would be more use to you tha n a milli on pounds” as thoughthis proved somethingimportantabout money except theundeni able fact that it would not be much use to anyone in a situatio n where very few of us are at all likely to find ourselves.Money in fact is a toke n
13、, or symbolic object, excha ngeable on dema nd by its holders for goods and services. Its use for these purposes is universalexcept within a smallnumberofprimitive agricultural com mun ities.Money and the price mechanism, i.e., the changes in prices expressed in money terms of differentgoods and ser
14、vices, are the means by which all moder n societies regulate dema nd and supply for these thi ngs. Especially importa nt are the relative changes in price of different goods and services compared with each other. To take ran dom examples: the price of house build ing has over the past five years rise n a good deal faster tha n that of domestic applia nces like refrigerators, but slower tha n that of motor in sura nee or FrenchI
