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浙江师范大学2008年硕士研究生入学考试试题 科目代码： 851 科目名称： 英语写作 提示： 本科目适用专业： 050201英语语言文学、050211外国语言学及应用语言学 ； 请将所有答案写于答题纸上，写在试题上的不给分； 请填写准考证号后6位：____________。 I. Summary writing (40%) Read the following passage and write a summary of it in around 100 words. Despite all the current fuss and bother about the extraordinary number of ordinary illiterates who overpopulate our schools, small attention has been given to another kind of illiterate, an illiterate whose plight is, in many ways, more important, because he is more influential. This illiterate may, as often as not, be a university president, but he is typically a Ph.D., a successful professor and textbook author. The person to whom I refer is the straight-A illiterate, and the following is written in an attempt to give him equal time with his widely publicized counterpart. The scene is my office, and I am at work, doing what must be done if one is to assist in the cure of a disease that, over the years, I have come to call straight-A illiteracy. I am interrogating, I am cross-examining, I am prying and probing for the meaning of a student’s paper. The student is a college senior with a straight-A average, an extremely bright, highly articulate student who has just been awarded a coveted fellowship to one of the nation’s outstanding graduate schools. He and I have been at this, have been going over his paper sentence by sentence, word by word, for an hour. “The choice of exogenous variables in relation to multi-colinearity,” I hear myself reading from his paper, “is contingent upon the derivations of certain multiple correlation coefficients.” I pause to catch my breath. “Now that statement,” I address the student --- whom I shall call, allegorically, Mr. Bright --- “that statement, Mr. Bright, what on earth does it mean?” Mr. Bright, his brow furrowed, tries mightily. Finally, with both of us combining our linguistic and imaginative resources, finally, after what seems another hour, we decode it. We decide