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环球时代学校官网 重庆大学2005 年英语专业考研基础英语试题 科目代码：322 科目名称：综合英语（含英语写作、英汉互译） 请考生注意： 答题一律（包括填空题和选择题）答在答题纸或答题册上，答在试题上按零分计。 Section One: Reading Comprehension (50%) A. Cloze Test (20%) Directions: Read the following passage quickly to get an idea of what it is about. Then fill each of the numbered blank with an appropriate word or an appropriate phrase of your own. Write your answers on the answer sheet. Of course, the reason for Europes comparative clarity concerning the different functions of men in society is that European society has always been divided into classes __1__ that American society never has been. A European writer considers __2__ to be part of an old and honorable tradition — of intellectual activity, of letters — and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to __3__ it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America. __4__, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably __5__ we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope it does, that myt h of America to which we cling so desperately). An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder __6__ pure bull-headedness and an indescribable series of odd jobs. He probably has been a regular fellow for much of his adult life, and it is not __7__ for him to step out of that lukewarm bath. We must, __8__, consider a rather serious paradox: __9__ American society is more mobile than Europes, it is easier to cut across social and occupational lines there than it is here. This __10__, I think, with the problem of status in American life. __11__ everyone has status, it is also perfectly possible, after all, that no one has. It 环球时代学校官网 seems inevitable, in any case, t