南京农业大学 考博真题 英语 2007.docx

南京农业大学2007年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试英语试卷注意：本试卷共9页，PartⅠ、PartⅡ的答案必须涂在答题卡上,收卡时间为10:15，其佘试题必须答在答题纸上，答在试卷上无效Part I. Reading Comprehension (40%)Directions: There are 4 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 the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:Early in the age of affluence (富裕）that followed World War II, an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of lifethat we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, is consumption. We need things consumedburned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate.Americans have responded to Lebow’s calland much of the world has followed. Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even embedded in social values. Opinion surveys in the world’s two largest economicsJapan and the United Statesshow consumerist definitions of success becoming ever more prevalent.Over-consumption by the worlds fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but perhaps population growth. Their surging exploitation of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forestssoils, water, air and climate.Ironically, high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms, too. The time-honored values of integrity of character, good work, friendship, family and community have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches. Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow-that, misled by a consumerist culture, they have been fruitlessly attempting to satisfy what axe essentially social, psychological and spiritual needs with material things. Of