【精选】2008年四川大学英语考博试题.pdf

GS 四川大学萧盛考博英语培训-2008 年真题 （配套DVD 光盘含讲解及答案）http :// 四川大学2008 年博士研究生入学考试 基础英语试题 考试注意事项 1、本试题共12 页，考试时间180 分钟。 2 、1-70 题答案请填在机读卡上相应处，否则不给分。 3、翻译和作文写在答题纸上，写在试题上无效。中、英文翻译应做到字迹清晰、 书写工整。 I.Reading Comprehension (30%; one mark each): Passage One The period of adolescence, i.e., the period between childhood and adulthood,may be long or short, depending on social expectations and on society s definition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood. In primitive societies adolescence was frequently a relatively short period of time, while in industrial society with patterns of prolonged education coupled with laws against child labor, the period of adolescence is much longer and may include most of the second decade of one s life. Fuethermore, the length of the adolescent period and the definition of adulthood status may change in a given society as social and economic conditions change. Examples of this type of change are disappearence of the frontier in the latter part of the nineteenth century in the United States, and more universally, the industrialization of an agricultural society. In modern society, ceremonies for adolescence have lost their formal recognition and symbolic significance and there no longer is agreement as to what constitutes initiation ceremonies. Social ones have been replaced by a sequence of steps that lead to increased recognition and social status. For example, grade school graduation, high school graduation and college graduation constitute such a sequence, and while each step implies certain behavioral changes and social recognition, the significance of each depends on the socio-economic status and the educational ambition of the individual. Ceremonies for adolescence have also been replaced by legal difinitions of status, roles, rights, privileges and responsibil