2004年MBA考前冲刺-英语模拟试题及答案(3-5)
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Questions 55-58 are based on the following passage.
Whatever the heritage that Americans of our time will
leave, we will undoubtedly be marked by one of the
strangest facts of our history: that matters once
understood to make the most difference for human
contentment are taken lightly, and matters once understood
as trivial have the greatest claim on our attention. We can
see this very clearly in our approach to the family.
Divorce has become so prevalent in our society that a whole
knowledge has risen up around it: that divorce is a
temporary crisis; that so many children have experienced
their parents’ divorce that children nowadays do not worry
much about it; that in fact it makes things easier, and it
is itself a mere ritual of passage; that if the parents
feel better, so will the children.
Judith Wallerstein, who has spent her life studying and
counseling families undergoing divorce, points out that
such dinner-party notions amount to a set of
rationalizations for the increasingly common decisions to
end marriages, even those involving children. In her
prolific research and writing on the subject, Wallerstein
has nearly single-handedly exploded the myths deemed to be
the truth about divorce. Her latest book is a powerful and
moving examination of the subject, and it should be read by
anyone interested in what makes some marriages and some
families work so much better than others——indeed, by
anyone trying to decide whether to marry in the first place.
Every American can recite the statistic: about one out of
every two marriages will end in divorce. But not everyone
can appreciate the extent of the human suffering behind the
numbers. An honest appraisal is hard to come by. The
prevalence of divorce means that we are all invested in it.
Nearly everyone has not experienced it knows someone who
has. To criticize divorce seems a mean-spirited attack on
those who have already endured enough, often corroding
either a bad marriage or a bad divorce and, if they are
lucky, going on to find console and even happiness
elsewhere. Moreover, our inherited moral imagination and
our common sense about the family, funneled(通过)as it now
is through pop psychology(心理学)and impoverished
portrayals on television, prompt us to reduce the criticism
of divorce to a reactionary attempt to roll back precious
freedoms from the strictures(责难) of the past.
55. It can be inferred from Para 1 that most people’s
attitude towards divorce probably is _____
A. Serious
B. Indifferent
C. Appreciative
D. Critical
56. as for Judith Wallerstein, all of the following are
true EXCEPT_____
A. She is a prestigious expert on the divorce problem
B. She has put forward a series of new theories on
divorce, which are contradictory to traditional ideas./
C. She provides lots of tips for those who want to
succeed in divorce.
D. She provides lots of tips for those who are
interested in the divorce problem
57. which of the following is NOT the author’s viewpoint
on divorce?
A. Almost half of Americans experience divorce once
or more during their whole life.
B. People are still not quite sure of the
consequences caused by divorce.
C. It’s immoral to criticize other people’s choice
of divorce.
D. It’s the responsibility of government and society
to deal with the problem of the high divorce rate.
58. which of the following can serve as the best title for
this passage?
A. Divorce: A Serious Problem in America
B. Dinner-party Notions.
C. Be Rational ON Divorce.
D. Changing Our Attitude towards Divorce.
参考答案:
55. B 56. C 57.D 58. C
摘自《英语--临考点拨与模拟考场》
策划:太奇MBA培训中心
主编:周建武
出版社:中国经济出版社
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