2015年湖北省考博《英语》真题及详解.pdfVIP

2015 年湖北省考博《英语》真题 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟) 一、 Reading Comprehension(总题数：5，分数：40.00) I am standing on the seventh-floor balcony of an apartment building overlooking the heart of Moscow. It is a dark city, some might say grim. It looks and feels as if it has been worn down to its bare bones: broken sidewalks, cracked facades, weeds rooted in the very mortar. This city is not easy to look at. So I avert my eyes, and they settle on a little boy sleeping inside the apartment. His name is Alexei. He is 7. With every rise and fall of his chest, Moscow, the used, broken city, is renewed for me a thousand times. A dark place has given me light in the form of my adoptive son. Alexei has been my son for only two days, but I have been waiting three years for him. Thats when I began the adoption process, three years ago, before I even knew of Alexeis existence. Never in my imaginings did I think that I would one day be so far from home, counting my sons breaths, counting the hours until we would board a plane for America, a place that he had no conception of Alexei, I had said through a translator as I knelt before him at the orphanage and helped him with his socks. What do you know about America? His reply was immediate: I will have all the gum I want. Most people adopt infants or very little children so that as much of their history as possible will be given to them by their parents. But Alexei carries a radiance of native culture: his memories of orphanage life in the once-closed city of Tula; the large, gracious, doting Russian women who have cared for him all his life; the aromatic Russian food he loves, and the language, that impossible, expressive, explosive Russian language that sometimes separates me from him like a wall, but also summons us to heroic legends as we attempt to communicate. I have been in Russia for two weeks. But it wasnt until the fourth day that I was br