2022年考博英语-厦门大学考试题库及模拟押密卷（含答案解析）1. 单选题Scientists are searching for the oldest tree_because it can leach them a great deal about many issues related with climate change.问题1选项A.livelyB.aliveC.livingD.live【答案】B【解析】lively活泼的, 生动的; alive活着的, 现存的, 可作后置定语; living活的, 活跃的, 只作前置定语; live活的, 生动的; 实况转播的。句意：科学家们正在寻找现存的最古老的树, 因为它可以让他们了解许多与气候变化有关的问题。选项B符合句意。2. 单选题A World Without Books Or MusicIf books had never been discovered, man would have found some other way of recording his communication. But then, for our consideration, we should include as books everything that is a written record. This would include tablets, papyrus and anything else 一 including computer diskettes. In the case of music, it would be impossible to think that man can live without it. Looking at primitive cultures, it appears that music is actually a part of the human psyche. When two things are knocked together, music is produced. So for the sake of our discussion, it is intended to restrict the meaning of music to the popularly accepted concept. Music is the pleasing combination of sounds that we like to listen to.Though it is difficult to, we can pretend that these things never existed. In this case we would not miss them today. To compare with recent inventions, let us look at radio and television. Though we cannot think of life without them today, this is so only from comparatively recent times. There are many of us living today who had seen a time when there was no television. They will tell us that life was not that much different. The same is probably true of radio. But books are a different thing because they, or something akin to them, began thousands of years ago. In the case of music, it goes back even further perhaps to millions of years. We may be able to imagine a world which never saw books, because books are a human invention. However, in the case of music this does not seem possible. Pleasing sounds are all around us; like the singing of the birds and the whistling of the wind. Music just seems to be inborn in us and in the world around us.If books did not exist, the world will be a poorer place indeed. Great philosophies like Platos would become unknown and all the pleasures and lessons we could get from them will be lost forever. Then there is literature like the works of the great masters like Shakespeare, Dickens and Jane Austen. What a sombre, miserable world it will be without the pleasures of reading. Since there are so many other things which depend on reading - like plays, songs and movies we can expect them to disappear also. It would be a dark and unsatisfying world where knowledge is not propagated; where there are no books to derive pleasure from.In the case of music: Without it the world will be bleak and cold indeed. It would be a terrible world with no cheery tunes, no songs to sing and no great music to lose ourselves in. A world which does not listen to the music of the great masters like Chopin and Beethoven would be a very sorry world. There will not be so many smiles on faces anymore. When we lose music, an expression of a deep part of ourselves - from the soul - is lost. With music, connected activities like dancing will be lost too. A world without music and dancing will bring us back to the Stone Age.Unlike radio, television, telephones and computers, reading and music are not mere conveniences that we can live without. Reading is crucial for self-expression and for passing on records and knowledge to future generations. Music is part of our very soul. A world without these will not be the world as we know it. In fact, many of us would not want to live in such a world. 1.Music is part of the human psyche because ( ).2.According to the passage, life without television and radio would be ( ).3.It is impossible to imagine a world without music because ( ).4.A world without books would be ( ).5.Why is music something that we cannot live without?问题1选项A.it is part of primitive cultureB.it is something we like to listen toC.it always strikes a chord with usD.it has been produced since ancient times问题2选项A.essentially the sameB.very differentC.quite boringD.spiritually more satisfying问题3选项A.music like books is a human inventionB.it is crucial for self-expressionC.enjoyable sounds exist in our environmentD.plays, songs and movies depend on it问题4选项A.bleak and coldB.a very sorry worldC.dreadfully unsatisfyingD.dark and dull问题5选项A.Because it is a convenience like the Internet.B.Because we will lose a deep part of ourselves.C.Because we wont have smiles on our faces anymore.D.Because philosophies like Platos would not exist.【答案】第1题:B第2题:A第3题:C第4题:C第5题:B【解析】第1题:1.根据第一段的最后一句“Music is the pleasing combination of sounds that we like to listen to.”音乐是我们喜欢听的令人愉悦的所有声音。选项B符合原文。2.根据第二段的五六七句“There