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2010 年硕士研究生招生入学考试试题
科目代码及名称: 617 英语基础 A 适用专业：英语语言文学
（请考生在答题纸上答题，在此试题纸上答题无效）
A 卷
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Directions: There are 3 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You
should decide on the best one and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage 1
In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted
as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the
white man imposes his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by
setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in
other respect appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor of violence – as if it
were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you with
despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at
all.
We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically
unchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of
violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a
problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed, the suffering means nothing.
No solution ever comes to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking
ruins and wonder what hit us.
Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races, we must
appreciate each other's problems. And to do this, we must learn about them: it is a simple
exercise in communication, in exchanging information. "Talk, talk, talk," the advocates of
violence say, "all you ever do is talk, and we are none the wiser." It's rather like the story of the
famous barrister who painstakingly explained his case to the judge. After listening to a lengthy
argument the judge complained that after all this talk, he was none the wiser. "Possible, my
lord," the barrister replied, "none the wiser, but surely far better informed." Knowledge is the
necessary prerequisite to wisdom: the knowledge that violence creates the evils it pretends to
solve.
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