2010年湖北联考博士入学英语试题.docx

2010年湖北省博士研究生入学考试英语联考试题Part I Reading Comprehension (40 % ) Directions: There are 5 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A， B，C， and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage: For most of us，work is the central，dominating factor of life. We spend more than half our conscious hours at work， preparing for work， traveling to and from work. What we do there largely determines our standard of living and to a considerable extent the status we are accorded by our fellow citizens as well.It is sometime said that because leisure has become more important，the indignities and injustices of work can be pushed into a corner; that because more work is pretty intolerable， the pople who do it should compensate for its boredom，frustrations and humiliations by concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives. I reject that as a counsel of despair. For the foreseeable future the material and psychological rewards which work can provide, and the conditions in which work is done，will continue to playa vital part in determining the satisfaction that life can offer.. Yet only a small minority can control the pace at which they work or the conditions in which their work is done; only for a small minority does work offer scope for creativity， imagination，or mltlatlve. Inequality at work andiI1、wOlk is still one of the cruelest and most glaring forms of inequality in our society. We can not hope to solve the more obvious problems of industrial life， many of which arisse directlyor indirectly from the inequality at work. Still less can we hope to create a decent and humane society. The most glaring inequality is that between managers and the rest. For mostmanagers，work is an opportunity and a challenge. Their jobs engage their in