2006年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题

36.By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that 
A. Poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music. 
B. Art grow out of both positive and negative feeling. 
C. Poets today are less skeptical of happiness. 
D. Artist have changed their focus of interest. 
37. The word “bummer” (Line 5. paragraph 5) most probably means something 
A. religious B. unpleasant C. entertaining D. commercial 
38.In the author’s opinion, advertising 
A. emerges in the wake of the anti-happy part. 
B. is a cause of disappointment for the general peer 
C. replace the church as a major source of information 
D. creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself. 
39.We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes 
A .Happiness more often than not ends in sadness. 
B. The anti-happy art is distasteful by refreshing. 
C. Misery should be enjoyed rather than denied. 
D .The anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms 
40.Which of the following is true of the text? 
A Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery. 
B Art provides a balance between expectation and reality. 
C People feel disappointed at the realities of morality. 
D mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths. 
Part B
　　Directions:
　　In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A- G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
On the north bank of the Ohio river sits Evansville,Ind, home of David Willianis ,52,and of a riverboat casinola place where gambling games are played .During several years of gambling in that casino ,Williams a state auditor earning $35,000 a year ,last approximately $175,000 . He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling. 
He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left .On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a “Fun Card”, which when used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user’s gambling activities. For Williams, these activities become what he calls “electronic heroin”. 
(41) ,In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In march 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat locked at 5 a.m , then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m .Now he is suing the casino ,charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem. 
In march 1998,a friend of Williams’s got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams’s gamblers. The casinno included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a” cease admissions” letter noting the “medical /psychological” nature of problem gambling behaviors, the letter said that before being readmitted to the patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being. 
(42) 
The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning,“enjoy the fun and always bet with your head ,not over it .”Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health .Nevertheless Williams’s suit charged that the casino ,knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling”intentionally worked to “love” him to “engage in conduct against his will” well. 
(43) 
The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders says “pathological gambling ”involves president, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit loss of money than of the thrill of taking risks in quest of a windfall.