2015年南京大学考博英语真题试卷.doc

A.increasing the joy of the paid occupations.

B.making skill and special strength unnecessary in work. C.causing jobs to be dull labour. D.decreasing working hours

(3).What can be inferred from the passage about special strength and skill?（分数：2.00） A.Special strength and skill must be abandoned if people want to enjoy their work. B.Special strength and skill are necessary for people to find their work enjoyable. C.Special strength or skill causes work to be boring

D.Special strength or skill reduces the number of necessary labouring hours. (4).According to the passage aristocracy dealt with boredom by（分数：2.00） A.enjoying more leisure. B.working with labourers.

C.demanding difficult work for the masses. D.ritualizing their time.

(5).Which of the following is one of the amusements of the masses?（分数：2.00） A.Hunting B.Gambling

C.Foolish acts of violence D.Doing scientific research

四、English-Chinese Tran(总题数：1，分数：2.00)

21.There is no happiness except as we take on life-engaging difficulties. Short of the impossible, as Yeats put it, the satisfactions we get from a lifetime depend on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost was thinking in something like the same terms when he spoke of \pleasure of taking pains\The mortal flaw in the advertised version of happiness is in the fact that it purports to be effortless. Happiness is never more than partial. There are no pure states of mankind. Whatever else happiness may be, it is neither in having not in being, but in becoming. What the Founding Fathers declared for us as an inherent right, we should do well to remember, was not happiness but the pursuit of happiness. What they might have underlined, could they have foreseen the happiness-market, is the cardinal fact that happiness is in the pursuit itself, in the meaningful pursuit of what is life-engaging and life-revealing, which is to say, in the idea of becoming.（分数：2.00）

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五、Chinese-English Tran(总题数：1，分数：2.00)

22.据心理学家称，乐观和自信是健康的心理状态所应具备的要素。焦虑是一种心理问题，他源自对生活中的不确定因素的内在恐惧，或者说是一种不安全感。繁荣的市场经济中躁动的消费需求是某些人焦虑情绪产生的原因。名车、豪宅和优越的生活被人们视为高档的标志。但是，由于多数人难以达到这样的生活标准，有些人就会产生失落感。 然而，这种出于对金钱崇拜而产生的焦虑感并不具有代表性。对于多数人来说，引起焦虑的重要原因是高昂的房价、教育支出和医疗费用。人们生活在巨大的压力之下，但是低廉并且增长缓慢的工资使他们看不到脱离困境的希望。有时似乎是机会多多，人们也会因此而产生焦虑。（分数：2.00）

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