2015湖北省博士入学考试英语联考真题及答案

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Part I Reading Comprehension ( 40%)

Questions 1-4 are based on the following passage:

I am standing on the seventh-floor balcony of an apartment building overlooking the heart of Moscow. It is a dark city, some might say grim. It looks and feels as if it has been worn down to its bare bones: broken sidewalks. cracked facades weeds rooted in the very mortar. This city is not easy to look at. So I avert my eyes, and they settle on a little boy sleeping inside the apartment. His name is Alexei. He is 7. With every rise and fall of his chest, Moscow, the used, broken city, is renewed for me a thousand times. A dark place has given me light in the form of my adoptive son.

Alexei has been my son for only two days, but I have been waiting three years for him. Thats when I began the adoption process, three years ago, before I even knew of Alexei's existence Never in my imaginings did I think that I would one day be so far from home, counting my son's breaths, counting the hours until we would board a plane for America, a place that he had no conception of. Alexei, I had said through a translator as I knelt before him at the orphanage and helped him with his socks. What do you know about America? His reply was immediate: T will have all the gum I want.

Most people adopt infants or very little children so that as much of their history as possible will be given to them by their parents. But Alexei carries an radiance of native culture: his memories of orphanage life in the once-closed

city of Tula; the large, gracious, doting Russian women who have cared for him all his life; the aromatic Russian food he loves; and the language, that impossible, expressive, explosive Russian language that sometimes separates me from him like a wall, but also summons us to heroic lengths as we attempt to communicate.

I have been In Russia for two weeks. But it wasn't until the fourth day that I was brought to see Alexei. My Russian contact drove me through 100 miles of a country struggling to get back on its feet after years of internal neglect; pitted roadways, crumbling bridges, warped roofs. It made me recall what someone had once said about Russia, that she is a third-world country with a first-world army. We finally came to an orphanage. Once inside, I stood in a near-empty room, reminding myself that this was the culmination of three years of scrutiny,disappointment, and dead-ends.

There were moments when I had told myself, It's so much easier to have a kid the natural way. Nobody asks any questions. But as a single man, a biological child was not a ready option. I now recognized these as idle thoughts for I realized that Alexei, even sight unseen, would be as much mine as if he were my natural son.

The door opened. A woman came out, her hand on the shoulder of a little boy just awakened from sound sleep.

I gave Alexei a Pez candy dispenser, something as alien tu him as life in America. After a few moments of scrutiny, he filled with candy, a sure sign of
intelligence, for Pez dispensers are notoriously difficult to load.

At the end of our first meeting I knelt before Alexei and told him I would be back to get him in a week.

1. The author watched every rise and fall of Alexei's chest

A. counting his son's breaths and biding his time to board the plane

B. turning his eyes away from the gloomy and dilapidated city

C. feeling a nameless pang of regret about the adoption process

D. visualizing the potential of the city to regain its vigor and power

2. The author apparently appreciates and respects

A. the rich and brilliant culture of the country

B the orphans'history given by their parents

C the great country for nurturing his lovely son

D. the gracious woman for bringing up his lovely son

3. When the author was travelling 100 miles of a country, which of the tollowing is NOT a sign showing it was pretty worn-out?

A Roads scarred with holes

B Walls overgrown with weeds

C. Streets leading to dead-ends

D. Bridges falling into decay

4. The author dismissed the idea of having a kid the natural way because

A. it was an idle thought to have moments of scrutiny

B. it was not easy to do so for an unmarried man

C. he was looking forward to adopting a Russian boy

D. he preferred to adopt a Russian boy sight unseen