重庆大学2005年英语专业考研基础英语试题 重庆大学2005年英语专业考研基础英语试题 科目代码：322 科目名称：综合英语（含英语写作、英汉互译） 请考生注意： 答题一律（包括填空题和选择题）答在答题纸或答题册上，答在试题上按零分计。Section One: Reading Comprehension (50%) A. Cloze Test (20%) Directions: Read the following passage quickly to get an idea of what it is about. Then fill each of the numbered blank with an appropriate word or an appropriate phrase of your own. Write your answers on the answer sheet. Of course, the reason for Europes comparative clarity concerning the different functions of men in society is that European society has always been divided into classes _1_ that American society never has been. A European writer considers _2_ to be part of an old and honorable tradition of intellectual activity, of letters and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to _3_ it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America. _4_, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably _5_ we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope it does, that myth of America to which we cling so desperately). An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder _6_ pure bull-headedness and an indescribable series of odd jobs. He probably has been a regular fellow for much of his adult life, and it is not _7_ for him to step out of that lukewarm bath. We must, _8_, consider a rather serious paradox: _9_ American society is more mobile than Europes, it is easier to cut across social and occupational lines there than it is here. This _10_, I think, with the problem of status in American life. _11_ everyone has status, it is also perfectly possible, after all, that no one has. It 重庆大学2005年英语专业考研基础英语试题 科目代码：322 科目名称：综合英语（含英语写作、英汉互译） 请考生注意： 答题一律（包括填空题和选择题）答在答题纸或答题册上，答在试题上按零分计。Section One: Reading Comprehension (50%) A. Cloze Test (20%) Directions: Read the following passage quickly to get an idea of what it is about. Then fill each of the numbered blank with an appropriate word or an appropriate phrase of your own. Write your answers on the answer sheet. Of course, the reason for Europes comparative clarity concerning the different functions of men in society is that European society has always been divided into classes _1_ that American society never has been. A European writer considers _2_ to be part of an old and honorable tradition of intellectual activity, of letters and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to _3_ it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America. _4_, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably _5_ we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope it does, that myth of America to which we cling so desperately). An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder _6_ pure bull-headedness and an indescribable series of odd jobs. He probably has been a regular fellow for much of his adult life, and it is not _7_ for him to step out of that lukewarm bath. We must, _8_, consider a rather serious paradox: _9_ American society is more mobile than Europes, it is easier to cut across social and occupational lines there than it is here. This _10_, I think, with the problem of status in American life. _11_ everyone has status, it is also perfectly possible, after all, that no one has. It