杭 州 师 范 大 学 硕 士 研 究 生 招 生 考 试 命 题 纸杭 州 师 范 大 学2020 年招收攻读硕士研究生考试题 考试科目代码： 718 考试科目名称： 综合英语 说明：考生答题时一律写在答题纸上，否则漏批责任自负。I. Cloze（每小题1分，共50分）Fill in each of the blanks with a function word, otherwise the first letter is given as a clue.Passage One: Instinct or cleverness? We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. We continually wage war (1) _ them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or devour our crops. They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding without dispelling our fears. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us (2) _ being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch. No matter how much we like honey, or how much we have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being (3) s_. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are impossible to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangely fascinating. We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives. We enjoy staring (4) _ them, entranced as they go about their business, unaware (we hope) (5) _ our presence. Who has not stood in awe (6) _ the sight of a spider pouncing (7) _ a fly, or a column of ants triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle? Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree. The tree has grown against a warm wall on a sheltered side of the house. I am especially proud (8) _ it, not only because it has survived several severe winters, but because it occasionally produces luscious peaches. During the summer, I noticed that the leaves of the tree were beginning to wither. Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the underside of the leaves. They were visited by a large colony of ants which obtained a sort of honey (9) _ them. I immediately embarked on an experiment which, even though it failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated (10) _ twenty-four hours. I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making (11) _ impossible for the ants to reach the aphides. The tape was so sticky (12) _ they did not dare to cross it. For a long time, I watched them scurrying around the base of the tree (13) _ bewilderment. I even went out at midnight with a torch and noted (14) _ satisfaction (and surprise) that the ants were still swarming around the sticky tape (15) _ being able to do anything about it. I got up early next morning hoping to find (16) _ the ants had given up in despair. Instead, I saw that they had discovered a new (17) r_. They were climbing (18) _ the wall of the house and then on to the leaves of the tree. I realized sadly that I had been completely (19) d_ by their ingenuity. The ants had been quick to find an (20) a_ to my thoroughly unscientific methods! Passage Two: Cosmic DustWe know the universe doesnt revolve around us. But parts of it do,like household dust. This continuously reproducing filth iscomprised (1) _ skin cells, hair, clothing fibres, dirt from outside, dust mites, bacteria and chemicals that can stick (2) _ any of these items. As a child, one of my weekly chores was dusting the house. If you had told 12-year-old me that, at 37, I would find dusting one of the most comforting things I do at home, I would have been very concerned about exactly how awful adulthood is. But perhaps I might have worried less if I had also been told (3) _ with adulthood would come knowledge of cosmic dust, which is all over the universe and absolutely does not revolve around us. Space dust is part of a fascinating life cycle of structure formation in the universe: the emergence of stars and planets, aswell as their deaths. In the very early universe, gravity caused hydrogen and helium gas to collapse into objects that often became densely packed enough ignite nuclear hydrogen burning which leads (4) _ star formation. The nuclear chain reactions that occur in stars produce elements heavier (5) _ hydrogen and helium, like carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. Evenheavier elements, like neon and titanium, are made in the supernova explosions that can occur at the end (6) _ a stars life.These explosions blow stardust made of these elements most commonly silicon and carbon outinto the universe. Some of it leads to solar system formation, producing the extrasolar planets we are increasingly capable of observing. In the case (7) _ our localstar, the sun, that solar system sprouted life on the third-innermost planet, Earth.Some ofthe dust helps form the next-generation stars that burn alittle differently than their forebears because some of the elements they contain are heavier. One thing cosmic dust does have in common (8) _ household dust is that it can be annoying. Anongoing issue in astronomy observations isfiguring out how to learn about objects from planets to stars that are obscured (9) _ cosmic dust in what we call ourline of sight, the path of light travelling from that object (10) _ our telescope. Light passing through cosmic dust interacts with its particles. The dust will sometimes absorb and scatter the light, dimming the objects brightness, although this can also offer valuable insight (11) _ the size ofthedust particles.Like household dust, cosmic dust can lead (12) _ misinterpretations of what we are viewing. Your blacktelevision stand can end (13) _ looking grey if you dont clean it. Similarly, cosmic dust can get mistaken for something else. Justfive years ago, researchers on the BICEP2 experiment revealed they had detected gravitational waves, ripples in space-time, fromthe universes first second ofexistence. It turned (14) _ that instead they had seen (15) d_. Themistaken announcement occurred because they hadnt properly subtracted dust out (16) _ their data. In other (17) w_, dust canreally get in the way of taking agood, clean picture.At the same (18) t_, studying cosmic dust is a critical part of understanding how objects form in the cosmos. While most of the matter in the universe is probably in the form of dark matter, most ofthe visible matter is in the form of interstellar dust, not in compact objects like stars and planets. Thus, insight (19) _ large-scale structures like galaxies requires an understanding of dust dynamics. One galaxy we would really like to understand is ours, the Milky (20) W_. But we face challenges in trying to comprehend it because (21) _ the way dust obscures our view, so looking at other examples is (22) i_.It is good to have neighbours. The Milky (23) W_ is part of what is known as the Local Group, a collection of galaxies whose largest members are our own and Andromeda. By looking at the patterns of dust in Andromeda, we can gain exciting insight (24) _ our own corner of the universe. Ant Whitworth at Cardiff University in the UK recently led a team in doing just that, using (25) d_ from the Herschel Space Observatory. Herschel, named (26) _ British astronomers and siblings Caroline and William Herschel, was a European Space Agency telescope that specialised (27) _ looking at the universe in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that straddles infrared and radio waves exactly where space dust is most visible (28) _ our instruments. With their data, Whitworth and his team affirmed a previously noted tension between theoretical models of interstellar dust and observations. Dust continues to give humanity trouble, whether (29) _ home or (30) _ the galaxy next door.II. Translation （每小题15分，共30分）Part A Translate the following into Chinese. I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what colour red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadnt been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I dont mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.Part B Translate the following into English. 在发展科学技术方面，我们要共同努力。实现人类的希望离不开科学，第三世界摆脱贫困离不开科学，维护世界和平也离不开科学。发展高科技，我们还是要花点钱，该花的就要花。III. Paraphrasing (每小题3分，共15分）Rephrase the underlined parts in the following passage. Two European branches of Indo-European language family are particularly important to consider when looking at the history of how English developed: Germanic languages and the Romance languages, such as French, Italian, and Spanish, (1) which have their roots in Latin. English is in the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages. This branch of languages came into existence about three thousand years ago in an area around the Elbe River in what is now Germany. (2) Around the second century BC, what had begun as one Germanic language split off into three disparate groups. (3) One of these groups eventually evolved to become the German language spoken today. Another group was known as West Germanic.In the fifteen and sixth centuries AD, West Germanic invaders called the Angles and the Saxons came to the British Isles. They spoke two dialects of West Germanic that were similar to one another, and (4) these dialects merged into what we today call Old English, which was very similar to West Germanic. (5) These invaders pushed the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants out of what is now England.IV. Writing (共55分）Part A Write an essay with about 120 words, summarizing the points made in the following essay.（20分） Nowadays, as a consequence of the uprising of novel media such as TV and the Internet, people tend to read fewer and fewer books, especially literatures. This phenomenon has aroused new concerns among many because they believe that the culture would be degraded in the long run if people continue losing interest in literature reading. Literature has been constituting a significant part in public reading throughout human history, because it is believed to be intellectually inspiring and also keep on stimulating peoples creativity. Thus, as a result of the diminishing literature reading, the public reading level as a whole must be also undermined subsequently. Some people are afraid that the progressing decrease in literature reading also reflects a corruption in social culture. Since people are more attracted to spending leisure hours on watching TV or surfing on the Internet, the traditional culture is threatened by a losing of its sponsors. New concerns also emerge, suspecting that the next generation of adolescents may eventually lose their taste of the romanticism in our culture because of the absence of literature reading ability. Some people even believe that the decline in literature reading may even result in a further shrinkage in the number of publishes. Failing to catch the attention of enough readers, many excellent literature writers would therefore try to avoid further writing. In addition, not every literature story could luckily become a book on the shelf because many publishers are far from being optimistic toward the literature market.However, other people think that the situation has been greatly exaggerated. In these peoples opinion, the fact that fewer people read literature doesnt necessarily hurt the public reading level as a whole. As we know, some former literature readers have converted to science and history reading, which also constitute a major part in public reading and equally stimulate peoples imagination. Thus, the average public reading level could be enhanced rather than weakened if many people simply pick up books on other fields than literature. They think that the rising of new media such as TV and the Internet functions as a blessing rather than a curse on our social culture, since the innovation of media reflects the advancement of culture itself and provides new forms of literature instead of books. If someone should be blamed because of the decline in literature reading, it must be the authors themselves. Fewer people read than before because literature books are difficult to understand. On contrast, TV programs and movies are much more audience-friendly and thus more readily accepted by many people.Part B Write an essay based on the following topic with at least 400 words. Pay attention to the focus of your theme, development of ideas, origination of structures and choice of dictions.（35分） Some people say that there are so many sources of news and information today and it is difficult to distinguishbetween true and false, so the best way to protect ourselves is not to believe in anything. Do you agree or disagree with these peoples opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 2020 年 考试科目代码 718 考试科目名称 综合英语 （本考试科目共 5页，第5 页）