2022年考博英语-西南交通大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题It would be wrong （ ）that factor.问题1选项A.to not considerB.not to considerC.to consider notD.to be considering【答案】B【解析】考查不定式的否定形式。由于不定式的否定形式为not+ to+动原，所以选项A、C、D均错误，B选项正确。句意：不考虑那个因素将是错误的。2. 单选题We do a lot of collective thinking, probably more than any other social species, although it goes on in something like secrecy. We dont acknowledge the gift publicly, and we are not as celebrated as the insects, but we do it. Effortlessly without giving it a moments thought, we are capable of changing our language, music, manners, morals, entertainment, even the way we dress, all around the earth in a years turning. We seem to do this by general agreement, without voting or even polling. We simply think our way along, pass information around, exchange codes disguised as art, change our minds, and transform ourselves.Computers cannot deal with such levels of improbability, and it is just as well. Otherwise, we might be tempted to take over the control of ourselves in order to make long-range plans, and that would surely be the end of us. It would mean that some group or other, marvelously intelligent and superbly informed, undoubtedly guided by a computer, would begin deciding what human society ought to be like, say, over the next five hundred years or so, and the rest of us would be persuaded, one way or another, to go along. The process of social evolution would then grind to a standstill, and wed be stuck in todays rut for a millennium.Much better we work our way out of it on our own without governance. The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.It would be nice to have better ways of monitoring what were up to so that we could recognize change while it is occurring, instead of waking up as we do now to the astonished realization that the whole century just past wasnt what we thought it was at all. Maybe computers can be used to help in this, although I rather doubt it. You can make simulation models of cities, but what you learn is that they seem to be beyond the reach of intelligent analysis; if you try to use common sense to make predictions; things get more botched up than ever. This is interesting, since a city is the most concentrated aggregation of humans, all exerting whatever influence they can bring to bear. The city seems to have a life of its own. If we cannot understand how this works, we are not likely to get very far with human society at large.Still, youd think there would be some way in. Joined together, the great mass of human minds around the earth seems to behave like a coherent, living system. The trouble is that the flow of information is mostly one-way. We are all obsessed by the need to feed information in, as fast as we can, but we lack sensing mechanisms for getting anything much back. I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than 1 have of the mind of an ant. Come to think of it, this might be a good place to start.1.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the first paragraph?2.What does the author mean by saying “computer cannot deal with such levels of improbability, and it is just as well (Paragraph 2)?3.Which one of the following options would the author choose?4.What does the author think of simulated models of cities?5.It can be inferred from the passage that（ ）.问题1选项A.We regard collective thinking a secret that shouldnt be exposed to the public.B.Man is the only species that is endowed with the gift for collective thinking.C.Collective thinking is done in human society sometimes unconsciously.D.We need to reach general agreement to conduct collective thinking.问题2选项A.Computers cant deal with such levels of improbability as well as the human minds can do.B.Computers cant deal with such levels of improbability, which is better than they can.C.Whether computers can or cant deal with such levels of improbability doesnt mean much.D.Computers can just as well deal with such levels of improbability.问题3选项A.The future becomes more predictable.B.Human activities and collective thinking should be under more control.C.Common sense should be applied to make predictions.D.We possess some sensing mechanisms for information feedback.问题4选项A.Simulated models of cities cant be made.B.A real city will exert greater in influence than a simulated model of city.C.Simulated models of cities exert influence on their inhabitants.D.Simulated models of cities are different from the real ones in that the latter have life of their own.问题5选项A.computers would one day take cont