武汉大学2011考博英语真题12.pdf

品坞 号L 汉 大 武 2011 年攻读博士学位研究生入学考试试题 〈满分值 100 分〉 (A 卷〉 科目名称z 英语 科目代码 1101 注意:所有的答题内容必须写在答题纸上，凡写在试题或草稿纸上的一律无效。 0 Part 1 Reading Comprehension (2 X 20 = 40 /0) Directions: 1n this part C?f lhe test, there wi/l be 5 passlαrgesfor yOll 10 read. Eαch pαss，αge isfollowed by -1 qllestiol1s or 1I1!疗nished s阳tements， and each questiol1 or Ul扩ìnisheds阳temenl isfollowed byfour choices mαrked A , B, C, and D. You are 10 decide 011 the best choice by blackenù尊 the corre伊onding letter 011 the ANSWER SHEE T. Passage One Walls and wall building have played a very important role in Chinese culture. These people, from the dim mists of prehistory have been wall-conscious ; from the Neolithic period- when ramparts of pounded earth were used一to the Communist Revolution , walls were an essential part of any village . Not only towns and villages, the houses and the temples within them were somehow walled , and the houses also had no windows overlooking the street, thus giving the feeling ofwandering around a huge maze. The name for city in Chinese means wall , and over these walled cities, villages , houses and temples presides the god of walls and mounts、 whose duties were, and still are, to protect and be responsible for the welfare of the inhabitants . Thus a great and extremely laborious task such as constructing a wall , which was supposed to run throughout the country, must not have seemed such an absurdity. However, it is indeed a common mistake to perceive the Great Wall as a single architec