❶Was Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) a great composer? ❷On its face, the question seems absurd. ❸One of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, he produced his first masterpiece at sixteen. ❹From then on, he was recognized as an artist of preternatural abilities, not only as a composer but also as a pianist and conductor. ❺But Mendelssohn’s enduring popularity has often been at odds — sometimes quite sharply — with his critical standing. ❻Despite general acknowledgment of his genius, there has been a noticeable reluctance to rank him with, say, Schumann or Brahms. ❼As Haggin put it, Mendelssohn, as a composer, was a ―minor master . . . working on a small scale of emotion and texture.‖
1. Select a sentence in the passage whose function is to indicate the range of Mendelssohn’s musical talents.
2. The passage suggests that anyone attempting to evaluate Mendelssohn’s career must confront which of the
following dichotomies?
A. The tension between Mendelssohn’s career as a composer and his career as a pianist and conductor B. The contrast between Mendelssohn’s popularity and that of Schumann and Brahms C. The discrepancy between Mendelssohn’s popularity and his standing among critics
D. The inconsistency between Mendelssohn’s reputation during his lifetime and his reputation since his
death
E. The gap between Mendelssohn’s prodigious musical beginnings and his decline in later years.
3. The author mentions Schumann and Brahms primarily in order to
A. provide examples of composers who are often compared with Mendelssohn B. identify certain composers who are more popular than Mendelssohn C. identify composers whom Mendelssohn influenced D. establish the milieu in which Mendelssohn worked
E. establish a standard of comparison for Mendelssohn as a composer
Passage 2
❶The age at which young children begin to make moral discriminations about harmful actions committed against themselves or others has been the focus of recent research into the moral development of children. ❷Until recently, child psychologists supported pioneer developmentalist Jean. Piaget in his hypothesis that because of their immaturity, children under age seven do not take into account the intentions of a person committing accidental or deliberate harm, but rather simply assign punishment for transgressions on the basis of the magnitude of the negative consequences caused. ❸According to Piaget, children under age seven occupy the first stage of moral development, which is characterized by moral absolutism (rules made by authorities must be obeyed) and imminent justice (if rules are broken, punishment will be meted out). ❹Until young children mature, their moral judgments are based entirely on the effect rather than the cause of a transgression. ❺However, in recent research, Keasey found that six-year-old children not only distinguish between accidental and intentional harm, but also judge intentional harm as naughtier, regardless of the amount of damage produced. ❻Both of these findings seem to indicate that children, at an earlier age than Piaget claimed, advance into the second stage of moral development, moral autonomy, in which they accept social rules but view them as more arbitrary than do children in the first stage.
❶Keasey’s research raises two key questions for developmental psychologists about children under age seven: do they recognize justifications for harmful actions, and do they make distinctions between harmful acts that are preventable and those acts that have unforeseen harmful consequences? ❷Studies indicate that justifications excusing harmful actions might include public duty, self-defense, and provocation. ❸For example, Nesdale and Rule concluded that children were capable of considering whether or not an aggressor’s action was justified by public duty: five year olds reacted very differently to ―Bonnie wrecks Ann’s pretend house‖ depending on whether Bonnie did it ―so somebody won’t fall over it‖ or because Bonnie wanted ―to make Ann feel bad.‖ ❹Thus, a child of five begins to understand that certain harmful actions, though intentional, can be justified; the constraints of moral absolutism no longer solely guide their judgments.
❶Psychologists have determined that during kindergarten children learn to make subtle distinctions involving harm. ❷Darley observed that among acts involving unintentional harm, six-year-old children just entering kindergarten could not differentiate between foreseeable, and thus preventable, harm and unforeseeable harm for which the perpetrator cannot be blamed. ❸Seven months later, however, Darley found that these same children could make both distinctions, thus demonstrating that they had become morally autonomous.
21. Which of the following best describes the passage as a whole?
(A) An outline for future research
(B) An expanded definition of commonly misunderstood terms (C) An analysis of a dispute between two theorists (D) A discussion of research findings in an ongoing inquiry (E) A confirmation of an established authority’s theory
22. According to the passage, Darley found that after seven months of kindergarten six year olds acquired which
of the following abilities?
(A) Differentiating between foreseeable and unforeseeable harm (B) Identifying with the perpetrator of a harmful action (C) Justifying harmful actions that result from provocation
(D) Evaluating the magnitude of negative consequences resulting from the breaking of rules (E) Recognizing the difference between moral absolutism and moral autonomy
23. According to the passage, Piaget and Keasey would not have agreed on which of the following points?
(A) The kinds of excuses children give for harmful acts they commit
(B) The age at which children begin to discriminate between intentional and unintentional harm (C) The intentions children have in perpetrating harm
(D) The circumstances under which children punish harmful acts
(E) The justifications children recognize for mitigating punishment for harmful acts
24. It can be inferred that the term ―public duty‖ in the context of the passage means which of the following?
(A) The necessity to apprehend perpetrators. (B) The responsibility to punish transgressors (C) An obligation to prevent harm to another (D) The assignment of punishment for harmful action (E) A justification for punishing transgressions
25. According to the passage, Keasey’s findings support which of the following conclusions about six-year-old
children?
(A) They have the ability to make autonomous moral judgments. (B) They regard moral absolutism as a threat to their moral autonomy. (C) They do not understand the concept of public duty.
(D) They accept moral judgment made by their peers more easily than do older children. (E) They make arbitrary moral judgments.
26. It can be inferred from the passage that Piaget would be likely to agree with which of the following
statements about the punishment that children under seven assign to wrongdoing?
(A) The severity of the assigned punishment is determined by the perceived magnitude of negative
consequences more than by any other factor.
(B) The punishment is to be administered immediately following the transgression.
(C) The children assign punishment less arbitrarily than they do when they reach the age of moral
autonomy.
(D) The punishment for acts of unintentional harm is less severe than it is for acts involving accidental
harm.
(E) The more developmentally immature a child, the more severe the punishment that the child will assign. 27. According to the passage, the research of Nesdale and Rule suggests which of the following about
five-year-old children?
(A) Their reactions to intentional and accidental harm determine the severity of the punishments they
assign.
(B) They, as perpetrators of harmful acts, disregard the feelings of the children they harm.
(C) They take into account the motivations（intention的改写，也就是justification） of actions when
judging the behavior of other children.
(D) They view public duty as a justification for accidental, but not intentional, harm. (E) They justify any action that protects them from harm.
Passage 3
❶Allen and Wolkowitz’s research challenges the common claim that homework—waged labor performed at home for a company—is primarily a response to women workers’ needs and preferences. ❷By focusing on a limited geographical area in order to gather in-depth information, the authors have avoided the methodological pitfalls that have plagued earlier research on homework. ❸Their findings disprove accepted notions about homeworkers: that they are unqualified for other jobs and that they use homework as a short-term strategy for dealing with child care.
❶The authors conclude that the persistence of homework cannot be explained by appeal to such notions, for, in fact, homeworkers do not differ sharply from other employed women. ❷Most homeworkers would prefer to work outside the home but are constrained from doing so by lack of opportunity. ❸In fact, homework is driven by employers’ desires to minimize fixed costs: homeworkers receive no benefits and are paid less than regular employees.
24. The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) advocating a controversial theory
(B) presenting and challenging the results of a study (C) describing a problem and proposing a solution
(D) discussing research that opposes a widely accepted belief (E) comparing several explanations for the same phenomenon
25. According to the passage, which of the following has been generally believed about homework?
(A) The benefits of homework accrue primarily to employers rather than to homeworkers. (B) Homework is prevalent predominantly in rural areas.
(C) Homework is primarily a response to the preferences of women workers. (D) Few homeworkers rely on homework for the majority of their family income. (E) Most homework is seasonal and part-time rather than full-time and year-round.
26. Allen and Wolkowitz’s research suggests that each of the following is true of most homeworkers EXCEPT:
(A) They do not necessarily resort to homework as a strategy for dealing with child care. (B) Their family situations are not unlike those of other employed women. (C) They are as well qualified as women who work outside the home.
(D) They perform professional-level duties rather than manual tasks or piecework. (E) They do not prefer homework to employment outside the home.
27. The passage suggests which of the following about previous research on homework?
(A) It was conducted primarily with women who did not have extensive household responsibilities or care
for small children at home.
(B) It was conducted with homeworkers and companies over a large geographical area. (C) It indicated that women homeworkers had numerous opportunities to work outside the home. (D) It indicated that homeworkers usually work for companies that are close to their homes. (E) It indicated that homework was financially advantageous to large companies.
Passage 4
❶According to the conventional view, serfdom in nineteenth-century Russia inhibited economic growth. ❷In this view Russian peasants’ status as serfs kept them poor through burdensome taxes in cash, in labor, and in kind; through restrictions on mobility; and through various forms of coercion. ❸Melton, however, argues that serfdom was perfectly compatible with economic growth, because many Russian serfs were able to get around landlords’ rules and regulations. ❹If serfs could pay for passports, they were usually granted permission to leave the estate. ❺If they could pay the fine, they could establish a separate household; and if they had the resources, they could hire laborers to cultivate the communal lands, while they themselves engaged in trade or worked as migrant laborers in cities.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that the ―rules and regulations‖ ( lines 4-5) affecting serfdom in Russia
involved
A. responsibility for the work needed to accomplish certain defined tasks B. restrictions on freedom of movement
C. limitations on the ability to set up an independent household
2. The sentence ―If serfs … estate‖ (lines 5) has which of the following functions in the passage?
A. It provides support for an argument presented in the preceding sentence. B. It provides evidence that helps undermine a view introduced in the first sentence. C. It raises a question that the succeeding sentence will resolve.
Passage 5
(This passage is excerpted from an article that was published in 1981.)
❶The deep sea typically has a sparse fauna dominated by tiny worms and crustaceans, with an even sparser distribution of larger animals. ❷However, near hydrothermal vents, areas of the ocean where warm water emerges from subterranean sources, live remarkable densities of huge clams, blind crabs, and fish.
❶Most deep-sea faunas rely for food on particulate matter (particulate matter: 颗粒物质), ultimately derived from photosynthesis, falling from above. ❷The food supplies necessary to sustain the large vent communities, however, must be many times the ordinary fallout. ❸The first reports describing vent faunas proposed two possible sources of nutrition: bacterial chemosynthesis, production of food by bacteria using energy derived from chemical changes, and advection, the drifting of food materials from surrounding regions. ❹Later, evidence in support of the idea of intense local chemosynthesis was accumulated: hydrogen sulfide was found in vent water; many vent-site bacteria were found to be capable of chemosynthesis; and extremely large concentrations of bacteria were found in samples of vent water thought to be pure. ❺This final observation seemed decisive. ❻If such astonishing concentrations of bacteria were typical of vent outflow, then food within the vent would dwarf any contribution from advection. ❼Hence, the widely quoted conclusion was reached that bacterial chemosynthesis provides the foundation for hydrothermal-vent food chains—an exciting prospect because no other communities on Earth are independent of photosynthesis.
❶There are, however, certain difficulties with this interpretation. ❷For example, some of the large sedentary organisms associated with vents are also found at ordinary deep-sea temperatures many meters from the nearest hydrothermal sources. ❸This suggests that bacterial chemosynthesis is not a sufficient source of nutrition for these creatures. ❹Another difficulty is that similarly dense populations of large deep-sea animals have been found in the proximity of ―smokers‖—vents where water emerges at temperatures up to 350℃. ❺No bacteria can survive such heat, and no bacteria were found there. ❻Unless smokers are consistently located near more hospitable warm-water vents, chemosynthesis can account for only a fraction of the vent faunas. ❼It is conceivable, however, that these large, sedentary organisms do in fact feed on bacteria that grow in warm-water vents, rise in the vent water, and then rain in peripheral areas to nourish animals living some distance from the warm-water vents.
❶Nonetheless advection is a more likely alternative food source. ❷Research has demonstrated that advective flow, which originates near the surface of the ocean where suspended particulate matter accumulates, transports some of that matter and water to the vents. ❸Estimates suggest that for every cubic meter of vent discharge, 350 milligrams of particulate organic material would be advected into the vent area. ❹Thus, for an average-sized vent, advection could provide more than 30 kilograms of potential food per day. ❺In addition, it is likely that small live animals in the advected water might be killed or stunned by thermal and/or chemical shock, thereby contributing to the food supply of vents.
16. The passage provides information for answering which of the following questions?
(A) What causes warm-water vents to form?
(B) Do vent faunas consume more than do deep-sea faunas of similar size? (C) Do bacteria live in the vent water of smokers?
(D) What role does hydrogen sulfide play in chemosynthesis? (E) What accounts for the locations of deep-sea smokers?
17. The information in the passage suggests that the majority of deep-sea faunas that live in nonvent habitats
have which of the following characteristics?
(A) They do not normally feed on particles of food in the water. (B) They are smaller than many vent faunas. (C) They are predators.
(D) They derive nutrition from a chemosynthetic food source. (E) They congregate around a single main food source. 18. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) describe a previously unknown natural phenomenon (B) reconstruct the evolution of a natural phenomenon (C) establish unequivocally the accuracy of a hypothesis
(D) survey explanations for a natural phenomenon and determine which is best supported by evidence (E) entertain criticism of the author’s research and provide an effective response
19. Which of the following does the author cite as a weakness in the argument that bacterial chemosynthesis
provides the foundation for the food chains at deep-sea vents?
(A) Vents are colonized by some of the same animals found in other areas of the ocean floor. (B) Vent water does not contain sufficient quantities of hydrogen sulfide. (C) Bacteria cannot produce large quantities of food quickly enough. (D) Large concentrations of minerals are found in vent water. (E) Some bacteria found in the vents are incapable of chemosynthesis.
20. Which of the following is information supplied in the passage that would support the statement that the food
supplies necessary to sustain vent communities must be many times that of ordinary fallout? I.
Large vent faunas move from vent to vent in search of food.
II. Vent faunas are not able to consume food produced by photosynthesis. III. Vents are more densely populated than are other deep-sea areas. (A) I only (B) III only (C) I and II only (D) II and III only (E) I, II, and III
21. The author refers to ―smokers‖ most probably in order to
(A) show how thermal shock can provide food for some vent faunas by stunning small animals (B) prove that the habitat of most deep-sea animals is limited to warm-water vents (C) explain how bacteria carry out chemosynthesis
(D) demonstrate how advection compensates for the lack of food sources on the seafloor
(E) present evidence that bacterial chemosynthesis may be an inadequate source of food for some vent
faunas
22. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the particulate matter that is carried down
from the surface of the ocean?
(A) It is the basis of bacterial chemosynthesis in the vents. (B) It may provide an important source of nutrition for vent faunas. (C) It may cause the internal temperature of the vents to change significantly. (D) It is transported as large aggregates of particles. (E) It contains hydrogen sulfide.
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