清华大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Qualities of Top Research of Workers
It is no doubt that learning and creativity should be possessed by remarkable top research workers. However, qualities mentioned above are not sufficient to lead to great achievements, some special ones are also needed by top research workers. Of all qualities, in my opinion, cooperation, morality and responsibility are three important qualities top research workers should possess.
A top researcher is quite aware that any scientific achievement cannot be made by mere one person, therefore good cooperation ad mutual trust occupy a critical position for scientific achievements. So a respectable top researcher should be on good terms with other researchers. Morality is anther excellent quality to research workers should possess. A true top researcher loves his country and the people more than his personal interests, which can impel him to contribute scientific production to human being selflessly. The most important is that a true top researcher won’t utilize the technology to engage in evil matters, such as nuclear weapons. The third eminent quality is responsibility. A top researcher is seriously responsible to his scientific business. He is rather clear o the importance of a decision made by him.
In a word, as a top research worker, it is necessary for him to 1
know how to cooperate with others firstly. Besides, he knows he shoulders the glorious duties to make the people live in more happier life, so morality is something he can not forget. At last, the sense f responsibility makes him conduct his experiments prudently. With these qualities, he is really a top research worker.
清华大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
My Aim for Doctoral Study
Now people in growing numbers are beginning to realize the importance of doctoral degree. As for me, since I acquired my master’s degree, I have been working for a large-sized state-owned enterprise. During that period, I have been doing well. But as time passed by, my knowledge and skills are increasingly becoming inadequate for the development in my domain. In order to better my performance in the domain I am exploring, I choose to pursue my doctoral degree.
If I gain the enrollment luckily, I would try my best to make full use of those precious resources. Apart from accomplishing the assignments, I would seek for any chance to promote my capacity. Besides, the experts’ invaluable experiences and profound knowledge could enlarge my horizon and sparkle my inspiration. Aided with my efforts, I have confidence to achieve my goal as a qualified doctoral researcher and my later job would be done better. 2
A Chinese saying I remember forever is that one is never too old to learn.
清华大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 Effect of Research Event on My Later Life and Work When it comes to the event which is the most memorable in my life, I can’t help recalling a course named aspects of translation. I had this course in the second semester when I was a senior undergraduate student.
The experience was engraved into my memory. For me, it completely altered my former way of looking at and studying translation. It was the first time that I studied translation from the perspective of linguistics. During the period of studying translation, I have attended the course of Introduction to Linguistics, which acted as a critical part. My idea about translation was as simple as most of people’s before taking that course. Previously, I never associated translation with linguistics and only regarded translation as the mechanic practice of turning texts written in one language into those in another. No doubt, as he link between the two disciplines, it was authentically worthy of studying and the course prove to be very brain-consuming. After acquiring the essence of this project, however, my field of vision expanded and many unexpected scenes appeared in front of me.
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From the experience I learn that later in my life I should always trey to connect what I have learned in different courses with different aspects of life, make the utmost of my knowledge to perfect the world.
清华大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 Effect of China’ Entry into WTO on Ph. D Program in China It is no doubt that positive and negative effects on various fields will be more and more notable after China joining WTO. One of these fields that would soon feel the influence following China’s long-dreamed entering of WTO is China’s higher education. The reason is that with the deepening of globalization, higher education as a special type of service surely would more and more be considered terms of international trade.
In my opinion, the influence on Ph. D program in China will be as follows:
The positive effects can be discussed in three aspects. The first one is when something new is brought into our programs, it will make our programs closer to the frontiers in various research projects. Second, Chinese universities and research institutions providing Ph. D programs can learn a lot from their counterparts, which will be beneficial to Ph. D candidates because they will be easily exposed to what is happening in foreign countries. Third, if 4
Chinese Ph. D program providers can take a student-centered approach, China’s own Ph. D program would be as competitive as their rivals in the face of severe competition from abroad.
Besides the positive effects, there is also one negative effect that is worthy to pay attention to. ―Brain-drain‖ will appear if some foreign programs enter China powerfully. The living and working conditions offered by foreign universities and research institutions are so attractive that the flow of talents will increase dramatically.
Altogether, I’m convinced that China’s entry into WTO will be helpful to Ph. D education.
北京大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Celebrities could take part in National politics
Recently, an article entitled ―We Should No Longer Force Gong Li and Zhang Yimou to Take Part in National Politics‖ in a newspaper cause arguments. Some people hold the idea that celebrities are unwilling or unqualified to represent the people in the People’s Congress or the People’s Political Consultative Conference, and they should not be forced to do so. But other people don’t stand by this point of view. As for me, I support the celebrities’ entering the political field.
In the first place, the policy in China determines celebrities’ entering the political field is eligible. Namely, people who are 5
eminent in their profession and make great contribution to the development of the country have opportunity to become people’s representatives. The contribution coming from celebrities who are outstanding in their own career is well-known. Secondly, some people may consider the stateliness of politics will be spoiled if celebrities enter the political field. Their reason is that there is a strong impression in people’s mind left by celebrities as actors or artists. As a matter of fact, various roles played successfully by them are only fictive characters in the movies or TV programs, which just proves that their adaptability is so strong that they will soon adapt themselves to the new career. The third concern is that celebrities lack of political knowledge and sense. But I think it is only a problem that can be solved easily. As long as they study and take part in politics, as their artistic career, they will also acquire new accomplishment.
On all accounts, it is eligible and beneficial for celebrities to participate in national politics.
北京大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 Is English language teaching overemphasized in Chinese education? After joining WTO, international communication and cooperation are becoming increasingly close. It is obvious to all that China has made great achievements in almost every aspect. However, one issue 6
appeared in many fields, especially in foreign trades, that is language obstacle. At the very beginning, it is language barriers that block the development of foreign trades and even sometimes cause great losses. Therefore, there are more and more schools that attach importance to education of foreign languages, especially in English teaching.
We must admit a face that there is a large population in China and people’s education degree is various. The number of people who can understand or speak English is quite small. It is no doubt that English language teaching is far from enough and we should pay much attention to it. Here is an example. For most of college students who are not majored in English, until their graduation from college, it is tough to make a very simple sentence, let alone speaking fluent English. When they come across a foreigner, they can only say ―hello‖. One main reason that led to this result is the problem of our educational system. When teachers give an English class, they’re accustomed to apply more Chinese rather than English. As for students, they seldom have English environment to practice it and the chances of speaking English is too rare. So it is still a long way to polish up this situation that cause the English level of students is very low. Along with many graduates who studied abroad now returned to became college English teachers, such situation is 7
gradually improving. Under their efforts, great progresses can be seen in English language teaching. Yet if we’d like to cultivate sufficient students who ca utilize English fluently, there are still many difficulties needing us to overcome.
From statements above, we can draw a conclusion that English language teaching in Chinese education is not overemphasized. Contrary to that, we should strengthen it more than ever.
北京大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Epidemic Diseases and Public Health Crises
After SARS epidemic that influenced the entire globe was controlled in China, there are many important questions unanswered despite of the fact that our society has fortunately survived these shocks. From this event, people are coming to realize the concept of public health crises, which in reality have already affected our life in various ways. People are familiar with health itself, but the term ―public health crises‖ has been strange for most people in China. It includes not only outbreaks of diseases, but also water erosion, deforestation, desertification and many other problems.
There are lots of irresponsible behaviors of mankind existing in our daily life. Ever since the industrial revolution and great economic expansion, people’s life has been challenged in one way or another. Besides, had there been effective health care laws specially 8
aimed at epidemic disease as violent as SARS or a similar nature, the public health crises would never have happened. Above all, when SARS began to attack Guangdong province, if the local governmental officials had had some specific and unmistakable legal procedures to follow, they would have saved a lot of valuable time for the early detergence of the horrible disease through various measures. On the other hand, before epidemic diseases break out, there is a very severe outlook and thus common people are posed direct dangers. They affect people’s daily activities and even their lives, and that is why they can successfully amuse people’s daily activities and even their lives, and that is why they can successfully amuse people’s concerns about their own health. The outbreak of some epidemics, like SARS and bird flu, to some extent, was due to our dining habits and carelessness in protecting the environment. Altogether, in order to prevent a public health crises in the face of epidemic disease, governments and people should equip ourselves first with the weapon of law. It is necessary for all of us to take actions to fend off any potential danger to public health.
北京大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
The Development of the Internet
With its rapid development, the Internet has widely entered our life. It now becomes a powerful tool for people and has already created a 9
lot of miracles and brought us much convenience. However, just like a double-edged sword, the Internet would bring both advantages and disadvantages.
As an International Database of information, the Internet can offer you whatever is possible to be imagined. Besides, a great deal of helpful information can be downloaded by private individual, including many programs, games and so on. A huge success of the Internet is shopping online that is considered a great advantage of the Internet. It is possible for us to pay whatever we have to pay online with E-cash sometime in the future with further development of the Internet; there will be a time when all information given on the Net is what we want, useful and fine. Most importantly, there may be a time when surfing on the Net, we needn’t worry about privacy being disturbed or worry about our children being poisoned. The Internet will be kinder, gentler, safer and more reliable along with more and more cyber law becoming effective.
However, we can say that although the Internet brings us more conveniences, it is unwise to let it control our life. Conversely, it should be controlled by us. As long as we know how to utilize it correctly and how to schedule our time on the Internet, the Internet will become really meaningful to our life.
中国人民大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 10
My Understanding of Globalization
In recent years there is widespread awareness of the hot term ―globalization‖. Different people hold different opinions on it. Some believe that it makes inequality increase within and between nations, influences employment and living standards and baffles social progress. Others view it as a process that is beneficial and also inescapable and irreversible.
As far as I am concerned, globalization is much like fire. It is improper to say that fire is completely good or bad. If we use it properly, it can help us cook food, disinfect equipment, form iron, and warm our homes. If not, fire can ruin lives, towns and forests in an instant. People welcoming globalization think that it will bring them great profits. They claim that trade obstacles will be broken with the globalization, which will fetch them more benefits and conveniences, such as buying foreign products with less money , traveling all over the world more freely than ever. People who object it think that the disappearance of national borders and the establishment of a world interconnected by markets will deal a death blow to regional and national cultures. National identity or soul will lose for the invasion of cultural products from North America is so powerful that most of countries are incapable of resisting.
After the advantages and disadvantages of globalization were 11
carefully compared, the conclusion was obvious. Neither cheerleaders who are blind to the destruction globalization can cause nor shrill opponents who are blind to the way globalization gives some people their first opportunity to fulfill basic aspirations are good. We should see globalization as something to construct, shape and manage for the betterment of everyone.
中国人民大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Social Sciences and the Humanities
Should Play a More Important Role in the 21st Century Nowadays, there are many people who believe that it is a tendency that the studies of natural disciplines weigh more than social and humanities disciplines. As far as they are concerned, social sciences and humanities are so out-of-date that they should be thrown away like waste. However, I hold that we should pay more attention to social sciences and the humanities that shoulder important roles I the 21st century. Instead of being weakened, they should be strengthened.
Taking the field of economics as an example. If we imagine that economy is the legs of our society, without which the society will not advance; then social science can be imagined the eyes, without which we will be lost and step on a wrong way. There is no conflict but harmony between them. Economics was founded in the 18th 12
century. In the early years, modern economics did its best to focus on those objective areas of human life in an effort to make economics a discipline with a status similar to that of natural science. In spite of how well it did, the contemporary economics has concentrated more on the social — the human side of the discipline. This undoubtedly indicated that ―the man‖ is more important than ―the thing‖ as we to deeper into science. No matter how important or intriguing, the thing that is studied will eventually lose its force and impetus in the process of scientific research without its relevance to man.
To sum up, it is no doubt that we must pay enough emphasis on the development of social sciences and the humanities, because we shoulder the duties of developing our society. Anyone who believes that social sciences and humanities will phase out comparing with natural sciences is simply too shortsighted.
中国人民大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 Opportunities and Challenges with the Coming of Globalization Nowadays, a hot term ―globalization‖ often appears in people’s talk. Like everything having opposite two sides, we will have great opportunities and challenges with the coming of globalization.
In the first place, in modern society, only those who grasp science and technology will become the master of the world. After 13
globalization, we will have more access to the advanced science and technology which makes us to get informed with the latest development in every field concerning the growing of the power of a country.
Secondly, going with Chinese reform and opening up, we would have more opportunities to get contacted with different culture and civilizations, which would to some extent enhance our country’s soft power. Except for hard power which includes the economic, scientific and military power, we also need soft power to influence or change others ideas without coercing them but made them accept us willingly. Mutual understanding is very important because it will increase soft power.
When globalization brings us opportunities, more challenges are also along with it. We have to admit that China is still a developing country, to be situated in the same arena with some superior players will give us much pressure. In spite of fierce competition, we may be influenced by other culture in a negative way. While enjoying the richness of other civilizations, it is quite possible that we neglect or even lose some of quintessence of our own culture.
From what has been stated above, we may draw the conclusion that globalization is like a double-edged sword. No matter what kind of opportunities or challenges it presents us, we should have a right 14
attitude and stand to meet it. As long as we prepare enough, all difficulties can be resolved in the end.
电子科技大学20xx年春季博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 ONE MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE PROCESS OF URBANIZATION Nowadays people in significant numbers are getting to be aware of a popular word ―urbanization‖. Along with the development of economy, existing cities growing bigger and bigger and new cities are appearing. Confronting this trend, some people believe that it is beneficial for Chinese economic development, while others are afraid that some problems will occur going with urbanization. As far as I am concerned, water is a major problem in the process of urbanization.
We have to acknowledge that there is a large population in China and the lack of water source has been a serious problem that disturbs us. Especially in urban area, the phenomenon of water scarcity is more severe. After urbanization, there are more and more p0eople flocking into city to earn their living so that water distributing to individuals are fewer and fewer. Besides, industrialization is another phenomenon of urbanization. Most of water is consumed by industries that drain a lot of dirty water into rivers at the same time. Pollution of water makes the lack of water more grievous.
So the major problem of urbanization that needs to be solved is 15
how to utilize water resource effectively and how to protect water from being polluted. First of all, our government should constitute a series of laws that protect water resource. Secondly, come measures must be taken, such as enhancing the strength of flack, heightening the cost of using water so as to make people to economize water consciously.
From all statements above, we may draw a conclusion that the major problem that may result from the process of urbanization is water problem. If we want our economy to develop healthily, it is obligatory for us to use water properly.
电子科技大学20xx年春季博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
The Future Trends of Chinese Culture
With the coming of globalization, both country and individual is deeply influenced by it. The same is true to culture that is like a mirror that reflects the history and development of a country. With five thousand years’ history, Chinese brilliant culture undoubtedly occupies an important position in the world and is involved in the trend of globalization. Along with the cross-cultural communication, some changes are appearing in Chinese culture.
Some people opposed Chinese culture is much influenced because they think that Chinese culture is the essence of world’s culture heritage. However, I uphold that Chinese culture is influenced and 16
changed. How ca we remain unchanged I such a rapidly developing age? It is inevitable that the future trend of Chinese culture is towards the international direction. Both our own life and other countries’ life should be enriched by our culture because Chinese culture is the asset of the whole world. While keeping our own traditional culture style, we can also accept the exotic civilization to serve both Chinese people and people all around.
Modern Chinese culture is embodied in various aspects of modern social life, including the advanced elements of information age which should be absorbed too. As an open culture, the future Chinese culture will welcome human excellent heritages across the world. Just like the communication envoy of China to the outside, Chinese culture is presenting our past excellent civilization heritage and advanced development results to the rest of the world. So we can say that on the basis of keeping our traditional essence, Chinese culture will take up more and more new elements in the modern society. It is acting as a significant role to pass understanding and friendship among countries.
中国科学技术大学20xx年春季博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 The More I Learn, The More Ignorant I Find Myself to Be A motto that is often heard or seem by us is ―The more I learn, the more ignorant I find myself to be‖. Some people think it is 17
self-contradictory. But in my opinion, it is quite correct.
When one has learned in a certain field for a period of time, he will find it is more extensive and profound than what he thinks of it initially. This phenomenon proves that the more you learn in a certain field, the more ignorant you will realize yourself to be about it. During your learning, there are so many new questions rising in your brain that you are eager to acquire more new knowledge. Therefore, you are propelled by these kinds of feelings to grope for more and dig deeper in the field.
The statements above also illuminate why the most modest ones are always the most learned masters while strongly conceited ones are those having half-baked knowledge. Only when people realize from the bottom of their heart that knowledge learning is endless and our human beings are insignificant before the sea of knowledge, they will keep studying all their life. So the proper attitude of learning is very important.
In order to avoid becoming a frog in the well, all of us should bear in mind a proverb that is ―To live, to study‖. We should regard the masters as our examples and pursue knowledge for life.
中国科学院20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
How to reduce traffic accidents?
After reform and opening-up, Chinese economy is developing 18
with extreme speed. People’s material life has changed noticeably as well. Especially the quantity of all kinds of vehicles people own are increasing annually. Although we are proud of these alterations, new issues are appearing ceaselessly in front of us. One of them id traffic accident that is also the problem about which ordinary people are concerned.
Why are traffic accidents so serious? In the first place, I’ll discuss the current traffic status. On the street, we often see that people who ride bicycles run to the center of street, taxi drives on the bus’ route. Both vehicles and individuals want to lead up so that nobody can move. It is obvious to all that hidden troubles of safety exist in it. In the second place, the traffic laws aren’t enforced sufficiently so that people ignore the traffic laws that are also the direct reasons of traffic accidents. For instance, when red light is bright, as long as there are no vehicles passing by, people go across the streets directly without pause. When a driver who is driving vehicle in the street is annoyed by another one, they will have a stop and argue with each other, regardless of traffic jam.
Then, how can we ameliorate this awful traffic status. As far as I am concerned, above all, our government should enhance the strength of enforcing traffic laws, increase people’s traffic safe consciousness and make them to abide by traffic rules. Secondly, 19
some methods that are able to reduce traffic accidents ought to be adopted, such as widening roads, limiting some vehicles in certain roads or certain time.
In conclusion, it is high time that we attach great importance to traffic accident. In order to reduce it, it is necessary for all of us to make efforts to improve it. If so, I’m convinced that before long people would live in happiness and safety.
中国科学院20xx年3月博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Material wealth is not a sign of success
Along with the rapid development of Chinese economy, people’s lives have changed greatly. Parts of them become so rich that they move into villa, buy luxurious cars and so on. This great possession of material wealth that the rich men own is believed to be a sign of success by some people. However, others do not think that success ca only be measured by material wealth. As far as I am concerned, a person’s success is not equal to his material wealth.
We can see many successful businessmen who are quite wealthy in our daily life, but there are also many other successful people who are not rich. Many scientists who devote all their life to homeland are not wealthy, but we are proud of their achievements. In our heart, they are successful. Bus conductress Li Suli is typical example. She has been honored as a national model worker because she is always 20
eager to help the ordinary people, providing them best service. It is rather evident that she could never compare with those wealthy people in material wealth as a bus conductress. Our space hero Yang Liwei is also a good example. His salary is slender but he works hard and has won great glory for our country. It is not good for our spiritual side of life if we measure success by wealth alone. When one spends his life only to strive for bigger houses, expensive clothing and entertainment, in our eyes, he is the biggest losers of all. So one’s goal in life shouldn’t only earn money, in reverse, one should serve others or make worthwhile achievements to the society. Taking into account all these factors, I may draw the conclusion that making money doesn’t mean to be the only way to success. Only when one works hard and makes contributions t our society, he would be regarded as a successful man.
中国科学院20xx年10月博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
My Idea of Professional Ethics for a Scientist
It is no doubt that a distinguished scientist should be learned and creative. Beside this point, having good professional ethics are also important to both society and the scientist himself.
As far as I am concerned, good professional ethics for a scientist involve the following aspects. Above all, an outstanding scientist is never willing to utilize his knowledge to make his personal gains. 21
Conversely, he’ll do his utmost to bring benefits to the general public. In order to raise the living standards of people and make our world a better place to live in, he would devote himself to the advancement of technology.
Secondly, a respectable scientist should instruct young people selflessly, offer help to those who have troubles in works, and keep good relation with other scientists. During scientific research, mutual good communication and cooperation is rather significant. On the basis of trust, great scientific achievements will be gained. Furthermore, a good scientist should be loyal to his scientific work and respect the work of others. Never should he allow himself to have some behaviors, such as making up research findings, copying from others.
Finally, a scientist shoulders great duties so he must be responsible to the society and himself. When making decisions, he should insure that these decisions are the result of countless tests but no in haste.
Taking into account all these factors, I may safely reach the conclusion that if an excellent scientist wants to win the respect of the people and contribute more to people’s benefits, he must have good professional ethics.
中国科学院20xx年3月博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 22
Good management can help the organization achieve its desired results Nowadays, people are increasingly realizing the importance of good management in various fields. Good management is essential to an organization that wants t achieve its desired results. It is a really tough job to manage human resources for any organization, especially when the organization consists of scientists and research workers, the job will become more challenging.
As far as I am concerned, when dealing with this issue, there are several aspects needing to be considered. First of all, the manager should avoid simple and rather straightforward approaches when communicating with research staff, because research staff are all learned and highly bigoted individuals who have independent thinking. For the manager himself, both high education and coordination competence is necessary. If the manager wants to solve the problems, he must know what the researchers are dong, thinking and talking about. At the same time, the manager needs to coordinate these independent people’s relationship in fulfilling a collective assignment.
Secondly, the manager must show his sincerity whenever discussing something with scientific staff, because these scientific staff are decent people and sensitive to the way of treatment.
Finally, as we all know, scientists are national assets and backbones or pioneers in certain fields of research. If working 23
environment or living conditions provided for them can not reach their requirements, they may quit their jobs and find jobs in other organization. This will cause great losses to the organization.
All statements above indicate that a good manager should do his utmost to create a harmonious environment for research and offer best living conditions to scientific staff.
武汉大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
My View on Terrorist Activities in Some Countries Nowadays, there have been more and more violent terrorist activities occurring in almost every part of the world. The terrorists kill innocent people, rape women, blow up buildings and cars, hijack airplanes and so on. Especially Sept. 11th Incident that took place in New York, the United States made the whole world feel panic.
Why are there so many terrorist activities? In my opinion, there may be some possible reasons for it. First, it is social realities that lead to these radical responses. All the terrorist activities that arose in the United States indicate that terrorists have dissatisfaction with the United States. Second, domestic causes involve typically the economic contradictions, religious contradictions, political contradictions and social contradictions, etc.
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combat it. This is undoubtedly good for Chinese people’s safety and happiness. I’m completely in favor of our government’s position on fighting terrorism.
武汉大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 Looking Forward to the New Reform of College English China When entering the 21st century, new technologies that include computers are adopted constantly. In such cases, all kinds of advanced English courseware emerged continuously.
Some people uphold the usage of courseware because they believe that students can teach themselves English by producing and introducing various kinds of English courseware. As a result, English teacher can be replaced by electronic courseware. I don’t stand by this concept. It is true that teachers are confronting the challenge of English courseware by which students can teach themselves English, but students still need their teachers’ advice. For instance, some students have no ideas what kinds of courseware are appropriate for their levels and what are not. This problem will be resolved after their teachers give them some advice. Furthermore, it is essential to English learner to have a surrounding of language communication. Students who don’t go to the classroom will lose their opportunity to communicate with their teachers and with classmates in class.
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My opinion is that we shouldn’t stress too much the role of courseware in English teaching and learning and even abandon our traditional teaching methods. Contrary to it, we should combine courseware with traditional English teaching methods to promote the English teaching reform in China.
南开大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
It Pays to be Honest
I have been upholding an opinion that honesty is the most important of all values that hold civilization together Yet some people believe that those honest people are fools whose ways of dealing with the outside world are out of date. Conversely, those who make no efforts to get what they want can exist and succeed in our society. This concept has occurred in many areas. But in my opinion, without honesty there can be no respect, no trust, no law – and finally, no society.
Here is an example. In university, the direction of supervisors will arrange some scientific researches that graduate students must finish. However, it is impossible for supervisors to advise their students all along for their time is quite limited. In this case, students need to do most of the research by themselves and it is up to the students to take it either seriously with honesty or carelessly and just let it go like that. If students spend a god deal of time and patience to do the 26
research honestly, that will not only bring them improvement in studies, but also will lead to mutual trust and respect between students and supervisors. Furthermore, in order to restore honesty to our life, certain things must be done in our society. For instance, the legal system should enforce fair, swift, sure punishment to any dishonest criminal; teachers should encourage their students to be honesty in all situations; parents should give top priority to honesty in moldering their children’s character.
All the above statements support an unshakable view that honesty is the best policy for all of us. It not only can win trust and respect form others for us, but also bring us more opportunities in the future. It is the value we cannot live without.
上海交通大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案 China in the 21st Century and Her Returning Scholars With the 21st century’s arrivaling, global competition is increasingly severe. Win talent is the most important thing of all factors. However, in the past almost every intellectual is willing to go abroad to study, work or live. Nowadays the situation has changed greatly. After achieving their degrees, a lot of overseas academicians quit the foreign opportunities and return to China to realign their ambitions.
What cause these scholars’ returning? In the first place, Chinese 27
economy is developing so fast that chances exist in each field. When these scholars return, better working and living circumstances are being provided to them. So it is a wise choice for them to return to China. In the second place, the thought of loving motherland propels these scholars to come back in order to construct China more prosperous and contribute all their intelligence, energy and youth to China. There is a fact we should bear in mind forever that no matter where we are, we would never forget our homeland where we have been brought up.
Chinese scholars’ return is not only significant but also potential to both China and the scholars themselves. In the 21st century, to China’s development, it is a critical stage to engage successfully in international affairs. A lot of talents are needed to accelerate the process of modernization. Returning scholars have learned foreign theories and techniques in the highest flight in the world which enable them to apply their knowledge to the economic and social practice in China. These leading theoretic knowledge and notions are badly needed by China. As for returning scholars themselves, it is also a wise choice to come back because China have entered WTO, excellent people are endowed with more and more opportunities to exert their talents. So we can say that working inside China is of great benefits to personal development of these returning scholars. 28
Undoubtedly it is a trend that more and more countrymen will come back home after finishing their study abroad to devote themselves to building China as a flourishing and powerful country in the world.
复旦大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
The Values of Failure
In our lifetime, we can never be plain sailing. Life must be full of difficulties and setbacks. When we are facing with such a disappointing matter, don’t get frustrated. If we draw lessons from failures, in most cases we will achieve success in the future.
Beethoven I a good example when facing failures. His success in creating Symphony Nine was on the basis of several times of failing attempt. It’s failure that reanimated his determination to succeed. The failure that gave him a lesson benefited him greatly, even in his whole life. Contrary to Beethoven, some people think failure is a heavy blow that they are not able to endure because they lose chances to achieve something. When they meet failure, they will be seriously dejected and can never pluck up their courage to try again. Let’s remember an old saying ―failure is the mother of success‖. When we see failure, we should believe that success is not far ahead. If we hold a positive attitude towards failure, we will overcome difficulties and frustrations to win victory.
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上海理工大学20xx年秋季博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Reduce Waste on Campus
Now people in significant numbers are coming to realize that the phenomenon of waste is becoming more and more serious on campus. We can easily see electric appliances are not turned off even when nobody is in the dormitories; a lot of food is left after each meal; brand-new clothes are cast off. All these are a typical waste on campus.
The negative effects of waste can be shown in the following aspects. In the first place, students who get used to wasting don’t know how to respect other people and their work and become arrogant gradually in every aspect of their daily lives on campus. If the case is to be so, it is a failure of modern education. In the second place, China has such a large population to support with such limited store of energy, and there is no denying the fact that our country is still poor. Waste may cause a disaster for the whole country.
In my opinion, we should do something to put an end to this behavior. We should refrain from wasting anything, from food to stationery. Consume when it is necessary, turn off the electric lamps whenever we leave the dormitory, don’t throw our clothes away when they are brand-new. Only through these measures can we hope to reduce waste on campus.
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四川大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
University: Where Will You Go?
Since the year 1999, a lot of problems have been emerging going with Chinese universities increasing their enrollment. For instance, universities are becoming more career-oriented than ever before. More professional education courses have bee added into the curricula and many lectures have been held to enrich the students’ interview skills. It seems that the students will have a brilliant future. However, the fact is that the administrative proficiency in dealing with students’ affairs has declined and the employment of graduates has become more and more difficult.
Apart form the statements above, in my opinion, we’ll confront more problems if all universities become career-training centers. Universities are places in which students learn traditional and modern civilizations of our country. Our country has a civilization of more than five thousand years, which is an envy of people all over the world. And modern civilization has brought about fundamental changes to the world. Students should be familiar with both of the two kinds of civilization. But if universities became career-training centers and neglected their duties of spreading civilization, what would happen? Besides, as we all know , science and technology have become the first productive forces. In order to develop our 31
country, we have to pay much attention to scientific study. There are a lot of important scientific studies that are carried out in universities. However, if universities all became a career-oriented place, students certainly will be in defect of some fundamental knowledge about scientific study. In such situations, how can we continue carrying out the researches and experiments?
From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the conclusion that universities should not pay too much attention to career education, they should also attach importance to other education. Only in this way can universities become more successful and our country become more prosperous.
西南财经大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
My View On Job-Hopping
Going with the development of society, more and more new phenomena is emerging. One of them is job-hopping. Some people uphold it while others do not. In my opinion, there are both positive and negative sides.
First I’ll discuss the positive side. There are many people, especially youngsters, like to change their jobs at times. The reason is that job-hopping will bring them new challenges and they ca deal with more demanding jobs which make them get different work experiences. In addition, people hope for better salaries or better 32
conditions. This is of importance because one has to eat and wear. As for the negative side, I think, frequent jobbing-hopping is not beneficial for self-development. If we work in one field for a long time, we can accumulate a lot of experience in that field which in turn will further improve our work. Besides, when growing up with an industry, we’ll have more understanding about its culture and its human resources. That means there are more opportunities waiting for us, such as promotion, high salaries, etc.
Altogether, it needs the effort of both corporation and individual to avoid job-hopping phenomena. For individuals, they should improve themselves in the aspect of idea and knowledge so that they can become more and more professional and competitive. And for corporations who want to employ the best employees, they need to refine their economic achievements and the personnel management systems. Anyway, too frequent job-hopping will be not good to us. 西南财经大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
Can Money Buy Happiness?
Whether money can buy happiness is a controversial issue for a long time. Different people hold different ideas.
People who uphold it believe that money is the source of happiness. When one owns money, he can buy anything he likes, do whatever he is willing to do. Therefore they draw the conclusion that 33
money can bring comfort, security, and so on. It is the source of happiness.
Yet a lot of others who disagree with it believe that money is an evil thing. Once people have strong desire for more and more money, they will lose their reason and try to obtain money by all means. Such phenomenon ca be seen in our daily life. For money, people would rather fight, die, or even sell their souls to the Devil.
As far as I am concerned, although money is fundamental to life and perhaps it can bring happiness to you, it is not the sole purpose we live for. Happiness can be gained without money. For instance, love that is the real source of happiness can’t be bought with money; self-esteem that is another crucial factor that produces happiness can’t win with money. So it is unwise to reckon only on money to achieve happiness. What money will bring to you depends on whether you utilize it correctly.
厦门大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
The Pace of Life
Ours is an age of knowledge exploding. Science and technology develop so fast that new things come forth ceaselessly, which force people to make use of all time in order to accommodate themselves to this world. However, it seems that time is always not sufficient because countless thing are waiting for people to do.
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Form the aspect of people being influenced by the fast pace of society, there are both advantages and disadvantages. The positive effects is that people have to go forward continuously under the pressure of the fast pace of life. It is no doubt that the fast pace of life creates a sense of strain that compels people to realize the cruelty of competition. Under this situation, people will not stop moving forwards even they made great achievements in the past. Furthermore, we have to admit time that supplies people to arrange is limited, and the fast pace of life urges people to concentrate on foremost matter and utilize resources as much as possible. As a result, high efficiency can appear in individuals and society.
On the other hand, many negative effects the fast pace of life result in are also as common as the positive ones. For example, it is easier to become ill if people suffer from pressures for a long time surpassing people can bear. In the face of disadvantages, what we should do is to seek out methods to transform them into advantages, such as making use of high technology to improve our working efficiency so that there is more time left for us to do, schedule our time-table and perform it strictly and so on. In this way, fast life pace will facilitate rather than cumber our development.
厦门大学20xx年博士研究生入学考试英语试题答案
My idea of the future world
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What will our future world be like? This is a controversial question with which many people are concerned. Like a coin with two sides, various people hold various replies to it.
In the eyes of the pessimistic, sooner or later our world will come to its doom. The following points are their evidence. First, AIDS is the best example. In terms of statistics, so far there are abut 40 million people infected AIDS all over the world and 2.3 million people died just in 2003. secondly, it seems that terrorists’ attacks never cease. It makes many ordinary people lose their household, becoming innocent victims. Thirdly, going with the widespread outbreak of SARS, countless people died of this fatal disease. Besides these, there are many other problems, such as the ceaseless regional conflicts, the environmental pollution. So the pessimistic believe that this world is full of terror and uncertainty.
Whereas the optimistic point of view is that our world in the future will be a better place to live. As far as they are concerned, there is numerous progress in the past few decades. The popularization of computer technology and Internet renders us to acquire all kinds of information we need and to know what happens at he other and of the world in a few seconds. It is computer that makes the world become a ―world-village‖. The usage of mobile telephone makes us be able to communicate with anyone at any time. 36
The dreams of landing on the moon have been successfully realized by spacecrafts and astronauts.
As for me, I’m convinced that our world’s prospect will be far more brilliant and prosperous than now. Yet in order to realize it, we must take some measures and adopt an active attitude to change and develop our world. Confronting the problems like SARS, AIDS, pollution, conflicts and terrorism, it is too tough for any country alone to deal with. Therefore, it is necessary for all the countries to unite. So long as while continuing to develop the science and technology, all of us take active actions and make great efforts to solve these problems, a beautiful world will come soon. 37