北京师范大学2006年博士研究芒生入学考试英语真题.docVIP

北京师范大学2006年博士生入学考试英语试题 English Entrance Examination for Non—English Major I．Listening Comprehension (1 5 points) II． Reading Comprehension (30 points) —Directions： There are six passages in this part．Each of the passages is followed by five questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A，B，C and D．Choose the best One and mark your answer 0n the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the centre． Passage 1 Anyone who trains animals recognizes that human and animal perceptual capacities are different. For most humans，seeing is believing，although we do occasionally brood about whether we can believe our eyes．The other senses are largely ancillary；Most of us do not know how we might go about either doubting or Believe our noses. But for dogs，scenting is believing．A dog’s nose is to ours as the wrinkled surface of our complex brain is to the surface of an egg．A dog who did comparatively psychology might easily worry about our consciousness or lack there of. Just as we worry about the consciousness of a squid． We who take sight for granted can draw pictures of scent，but we have no language for doing it the other way about，no way to represent something visually of humans can by means of actual scent．Most humans cannot know, with their limited noses，what they can imagine about being deaf, blind，mute，or paralyzed．The sighted can, for example，speak of a blind person as “in the darkness,” but there is no corollary expression for what it is that. We are in relationship to scent．If we tried to coin words． we might come up with something like“scent-blind.” But what would it mean? It could，have the sort of meaning that “color-blind” and “tone-deaf” do，because most of us have experienced what“tone”and“color”mean in those expressions，but we don’t know what “scent” means in the expression“scent-blind．” Scent for many of us can be only a theoretical，technical expression that we use because our grammar requires that we have a noun to go i