《厦门大学考博英语试题及答案详解真题三》.pdf

厦门大学2008 年博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part I Reading Comprehension (40 points) Part A (30 points) Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or un- finished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 1- 5 are based on the following passage: Forum for the Future, working with Tesco and Unilever, reckon that by 2022 what we buy, how we buy it and who from will have changed radically. In their report, Retail Futures, they look ahead 15 years to see what lies in store for shoppers and the retail groups. They see not only new or bigger store chains, more sprawling retail parks, and more poultry products and pasta sauces. Their visions range from multi- storey car parks converted into city centre allotments or vertical farms with produce markets where the parking payment booths once were, to a nation of stay-at-home shoppers who let their fingers do the walk- king to order in almost everything they need or let their refrigerators do the talking, with automatic, direct-to-store reordering and home delivery every time yoghurt, salad or beer stocks run Iowa. Forum for the Future, a sustainable development charity founded by veteran environmentalist Sir Jon- atman Parrett and which now advises more than 100 organizations in the public and private sector, says the reality of 2022 is probably somewhere between the two extremes. It will be a mixture, said Tom Berry, the Forums main sustainability adviser. The high street is vital to the economy and the environment; nearly three million people work in retail which