08考研英语北京太奇培训学校参考答案

　　Section I Use of English

　　1. [B] 2.[D] 3.[A] 4.[C] 5.[C] 6.[A] 7.[B] 8.[D] 9.[B] 10.[C]

　　11.[B] 12.[D] 13.[A] 14.[C] 15.[D] 16.[D] 17.[C] 18.[A] 19.[B] 20.[A]

　　Section II Reading Comprehension

　　Part A

　　21.[A] 22.[D] 23.[C] 24.[B] 25.[D] 26.[D] 27.[C] 28.[A] 29.[A] 30.[B]

　　31.[A] 32.[C] 33.[B] 34.[D] 35.[C] 36.[D] 37.[B] 38.[C] 39.[A] 40.[B]

　　Part B

　　41. [D] 42. [G] 43. [A] 44. [C] 45. [E]

　　Part C

　　达尔文在他的自传中非常谦虚地谈到他的智力。他指出，他总是感到很难清晰地、简明扼要地表达自己的思想，但是 46) 他认为，正是这种困难或许反而有利于迫使他长期专心致志地去思考每一个句子，因而使他在思考和观察中能够发现错误。他声称他没有像杰出的赫胥黎所拥有的敏捷悟性或机智幽默。47) 他还坚持说，他进行一系列纯抽象思维的能力是极其有限的，因而他确信，他从来不可能在数学方面有所成就。他还认为他的记忆力很广泛，但模糊朦胧。从某种意义上讲他的记忆力很差，以至于他无法记住一个日期或一行诗歌几天不忘。48) 另一方面，有些批评家指责说，他虽然是个优秀的观察家，但没有思考能力；对此他并不认为是有充分根据的。他觉得这种说法不对，因为“物种起源”自始至终是一篇很长的论证，这篇论证说服了许多有才干的人。他认为，不拥有某种思考能力的人本来是不可能写出这部著作来的。他愿意断言，“我有相当的创造才能，有相当的常识和判断的能力，这是每一位比较成功的律师或医生必定具有的，但是在程度上，我认为，并不比别人更高。”49) 他谦卑地补充说，或许他与普通人比较起来更善于去留心容易被忽略的事情，并且加以仔细的观察。

　　在他一生的最后一年的写作中，他表达了这样的看法：在以前的二、三十年中在二、三个方面，他的想法改变了。到30岁或30开外时，各种诗歌使他欣喜若狂。犹如以前一样，绘画和音乐使他心旷神怡。可是，1881年他说，“现在多年来我连读一行诗都忍无可忍。我也几乎失去了对绘画和音乐的兴趣。”50) 达尔文深信，这些爱好的丧失不仅使他失去了幸福，而且可能伤害了他的智能，甚至更有可能伤害了他的道德素养。

　　Section III Writing

　　Part A

　　Dear Bob,

　　I am writing to express my sincere apology to you. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to you for your help during my stay in Canada. Do you remember I borrowed a CD of yours from you one day. It’s a CD of popular music, and I enjoyed it very much. Unfortunately, I forgot to return it to you when I was leaving for my country. On arrival I found it in my personal luggage.

　　Much to my delight, I am told that a good friend of mine is going to your place in Canada next month. So I’ll ask him to pass on the CD to you. Once again, please accept my sincere apology for any inconvenience I have caused due to my carelessness.

　　Best regards to you and your family.

　　Yours truly,

　　Li Ming (138 words)

　　Part B

　　As is depicted in the cartoon, there are two handicapped men supporting each other: one is lame in the left leg, while the other in the right. They have overcome their difficulty of lameness by cooperating with each other and are successfully going on with their journey. The caption below the picture says, “You have only one leg, and so do I. Helping each other, we can travel wherever we want.”

　　The picture really sets me thinking. It manifests the importance of cooperation and the necessity of keeping in step with each other. It also teaches us that success, to a great extent, results from cooperation. When faced with difficulties, we will certainly cope with them only if we cooperate with each other. There are a lot of examples to illustrate the issue. Of them, the most obvious one is the case with the war on SARS in 2003. At that time the whole country was plagued by SARS. But led by our government, people from all walks of life in the society were mobilized and united as one. We soon won a great victory over the disease.

　　In my opinion, the dependence of people on one another has now increased, without which the society we live in cannot keep going smoothly. In short, cooperation has become a driving force for the development of our country. (228 words)