2003年全国硕士研究生英语试题及参考答案

　　Yet there are limits to what a society can spend in this pursuit. Ask a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic measures may be ineffective and painful. I also know that people in Japan and Sweden, countries that spend far less on medical care, have achieved longer, healthier lives than we have. As a nation, we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could improve people's lives.

　　56.What is implied in the first sentence?

　　A. Americans are better prepared for death than other people.

　　B. Americans enjoy a higher life quality than ever before.

　　C. Americans are over-confident of their medical technology.

　　D. Americans take a vain pride in their long life expectancy.

　　57.The author uses the example of caner patients to show that

　　A. medical resources are often wasted.

　　B. doctors are helpless against fatal diseases.

　　C. some treatments are too aggressive.

　　D. medical costs are becoming unaffordable.

　　58.The author's attitude to ward Richard Lamm's remark is one of

　　A. strong disapproval.

　　B. reserved consent.

　　C. slight contempt.

　　D. enthusiastic support.

　　59.In contras to the U.S. , Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care

　　A. more flexibly.

　　B. more extravagantly.

　　C .more cautiously.

　　D. more reasonably.

　　60.The text intends to express the idea that

　　A medicine will further prolong people's lives.

　　B. life beyond a certain limit is not worth living.

　　C. death should be accepted as a fact of life.

　　D. excessive demands increase the cost of health care.

　　答案：56—60　DABDC

　　Part B

　　Directions:

　　Read the following text carefully and the translate the underlines segmentssintosChinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.（10 points）

　　Human beings in all times and places think about their world and wonder at their place in it. Humans are thoughtful and creative, possessed of insatiable curiosity.（61）Furthermore, humans have the ability to modify the environment in which they live, thus subjecting all other life forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies. Therefore, it is important to study humans in all their richness and diversity in a calm and systematic manner, with the hope that the knowledge resulting from such studies can lead humans to a more harmonious way of living with themselves and with all other life forms on this planet Earth.

　　“Anthropology”derives from the Greek words“anthropos”:“human”and logos“the study of.”By its very name, anthropology encompasses the study of all humankind.

　　Anthropology is one of the social sciences.（62）Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned, orderly, systematic, and dispassioned（原文如此） manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.