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1、2022年考博英语-南昌大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题The presidents speech was so that many people were persuaded to accept the need for change.问题1选项A.expressiveB.inherentC.eloquentD.frequent【答案】C【解析】考查形容词词义辨析。expressive “表现的”；inherent “固有的，内在的”；eloquent “雄辩的，有口才的”；frequent “频繁的”。句意：总统的演讲非常有说服力，以至于许多人都被说服接受了变革的必要性。
2、选项C符合题意。2. 单选题When your parents advise you to “get an education” in order to raise your income, they tell you only half the truth. What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society, but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.Get a high sc
3、hool diploma, at least. Without that, you will be occupationally dead, unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully drop out in grade school.Get a college degree, if possible. With a B.A., you are on the launching pad （发射台）. But now you have to s
4、tart to put on the brakes. If you go for a masters degree, make sure it is an and only from a first-rate university. Beyond this, the famous law of diminishing returns（报酬递减率）begins to take effect.Do you know, for instance, that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors? Yes, th
5、e average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24, 000, while the full professors managed to average just $23, 030.A Ph. D. D.is the highest degree you can get, but except in a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry, where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purp
6、oses, you are facing a dim future. There are more Ph.D.s unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world by far.If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages orworst of allin philosophy, you run the risk of b
7、ecoming overeducated for our national demands. Not for our needs, mind you, but for our demands.Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes, driving cars, waiting on tables and filling out fruitless applications month after month. And then maybe taking a job in some high school or backwater college pays m
8、uch less than the janitor （看门人）earns.You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far. Far enough, that is, to make you useful to the gross national product, but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.1. According to the writer, what the society expects of
9、education is to turn out people who_.2. If you are as gifted as Bernard Shaw or Edison, _.3. Ph.D.s are most likely to .4. Which of the following is NOT true?5. The writer is critical of .问题1选项A.will not be a shame to the societyB.will become skilled workersC.can take care of themselvesD.can meet th
10、e demands as a source of manpower问题2选项A.you can get a high school diploma without difficultyB.you will be successful in a grade schoolC.you can be professionally successful without a diplomaD.the least you should do is to get a diploma问题3选项A.have difficulties getting properly employedB.be employed i
11、n the fields of commerce or industryC.have to fill out application forms month after month for othersD.work in schools or colleges with low pay问题4选项A.Bernard Shaw didnt finish high schools, nor did EdisonB.There are far more Ph D s than the society demandsC.The higher your education level, the more
12、money you will earnD.If you are too well-educated, youll make things difficult for the society问题5选项A.the employeesB.the Ph D sC.the employersD.the society【答案】第1题:D第2题:C第3题:A第4题:C第5题:D【解析】1.细节事实题。文章第一段第二句提到他们真正的期望是获得足够的教育来为社会提供人力（What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpow
13、er for your society），因此选项D符合题意。2.判断推理题。文章第二段提到高中文凭是必要的，如果没有的话，除非你是萧伯纳或者爱迪生，如果你是他们，你小学辍学都行（unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison, and you can successfully drop out in grade school），因为他们就算没有文凭，也在各自领域中脱颖而出，因此选项C符合题意。3.细节事实题。文章第五段倒数第一句话提到美国失业或未充分就业的博士人数比世界上其他国家要多（There
14、 are more Ph.D.s unemployed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world by far），由此可知选项A符合题意。4.判断推理题。根据文章第五段可知很多博士就业问题并不是很理想，由此可知选项C表述是错误的，符合题意。5.判断推理题。无论是雇主、雇员还有博士生本人都是属于社会中的一员，一系列状况都是社会发展导致的，因此作者批判的是这个社会，因此选项D符合题意。3. 单选题Design of all the new tools and implements is based on ca
15、reful experiments with electronic instruments. First, a human “guinea pig” is tested using a regular tool. Measurements are taken of the amount of work done, and the buildup of heat in the body. Twisted joints and stretched muscles cannot perform as well, it has been found, as joints and muscles in their normal positions. The same person is then tested again, using a tool designed according to the suggestions made by Dr. Tichauer. All these tests have shown the great improvement of the new designs over the old.One of the el
