2020年黑龙江大学考博英语.docVIP

报考专业： 报名号： 考生姓名： 外国语语种： PAGE 答题纸共_______页，第_______页 黑龙江大学2020年博士研究生入学考试外国语试题签 学科、专业： 考试科目： （1001） 英语一外 注意：请在答卷纸上回答问题，并注明题号。在本题签上答题无效 I. Put the following into Chinese (30%) 1. The climate of Australia varies greatly from region to region, with a tropical climate in the north, an arid or semiarid climate in much of the interior, and a temperate climate in the south. Despite these variations, the moderating influence of the surrounding oceans and the absence of extensive high mountain ranges help prevent marked extremes of weather. However, some areas occasionally experience extreme weather conditions, such as tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and severe drought. Because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, its seasons are the reverse of those in the Northern Hemisphere. Seasonal variations, on the whole, are small. Generally, coastal and highland areas, especially in the southeast, are cooler than interior locations, and the north, particularly the northwestern coast, is the hottest region. The temperate regions of southern Australia have four seasons, with cool winters and warm summers. 2. Which would you choose: an online course delivered by one of the world’s most knowledgeable instructors, supported by award winning documentary filmmakers and a team of graduate teaching assistants, or the same course taught in person by an average instructor? Different students would of course choose differently. But there is ample reason to believe that experience with the first option would eventually lead a substantial proportion of students to prefer it, even if they were charged the same amount for either approach. But because of economies of scale, the remote option would enjoy a substantial cost advantage. As Philip Cook wrote in his 1995 book, “The Winner-Take-All Society,” these are precisely the conditions that give rise to winner-take-all markets