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1998年6月大学英语四级考试试题(二) - 比电子小 - 2004-2-1
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
The way people hold to the belief that a fun?filled, painfree life equals happi-
ness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness, If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true hap piness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children,professional achievement, religious commitment (承担的义务), self improvement. Ask a bachelor(单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life i s filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couple who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now underst and that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
31. According to the author, a bachilor resists marriage chiefly because _______ .
A) he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
B) he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C) he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D) he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
32. Raising children, in the author's opinion, is _______.
A) a moral duty B) a thankless job
C) a rewarding task D) a source of inevitable pain
33. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from _______.
A) hatred B) misunderstanding
C) prejudice D) ignorance
34. To understand what true happiness is one must _______.
A) have as much run as possible during one's lifetime
B) make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C) put up with pain under all circumstances
D) be able to distinguish happiness from fun
35. What is the author trying to tell us?
A) Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
B) One must know how to attain happiness.
C) It is important to make commitments.
D) It is pain that leads to happiness.
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following paseage.
It's very interesting to note where the debate about diversity(多样化) is taking place. It is taking place primarily in political circles. Here at the College Fund, we have a lot of contact with top corporate(公司的) leaders；none of th em is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their companies are to compete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expand the pool of potent ial employees. And in looking at where birth rates are growing and at where the population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool me ans promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women a nd more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn't occur in our soc iety, they will not have the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, or the busi ness managers they will need.
Likewise, I don't hear people in the academy saying.“Let's go backward. Let's go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格选人才)”(which was never true?we never had a meritocracy, although we've come closer to it in the last 30 years). I recently visited a great little college in New York w here the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I tal ked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better b ecause of the diversity. So where we hear this debate is primarily in political circles and in the media?not in corporate board rooms or on college campuses.
36. The word“imperative”( Line 5, Para. 1) most probably refers to something _______.
A) superficial B) remarkable C) debatable D) essential
37. Which of the following groups of people still differ in their views on dive rsity?
A) Minorities. B) Politicians. C) Professors. D) Managers.
38. High corporate leaders seem to be in favor of promoting diversity so as to _______.
A) lower the rate of unemployment
B) win equal political rights for mi norities
C) be competitive in the world market
D) satisfy the demands of a growing population
39. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A) meritocracy can never be realized without diversity
B) American political circles will not accept diversity
C) it is unlikely that diversity will occur in the U. S. media
D) minorities can only enter the fields where no debate is heard about diversity. 40. According to the passage diversity can be achieved in American society by _______.
A) expanding the pool of potential employees.
B) promoting policies that provide skills to employees
C) training more engineers, scientists lawyers and business managers
D) providing education for all regardless of race or sex