《厦门大学2016博士研究生入学考试英语试》.doc

厦门大学2007博士研究生入学考试英语试题 厦门大学2007博士研究生入学考试英语试题 Part I Reading Comprehension 40 points Part A 30 points Directions: There are 3 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center．Passage OneQuestions 1~5 are based on the following passage：For the longest time, I couldn’t get worked up about privacy: my right to it；how it’s dying；how we’re headed for an even more wired，underregulated，overinstrusive，privacy-deprived planet．I should also point out that as news director for Pathfinder，Time Inc’s mega info mall，and a guy who makes his living on the Web, I know better than most people that we’re hurtling toward an even more intrusive world. We’re all being watched by computers whenever we visit Websites；by the mere act of“browsing” it sounds so passive! we’regoing public in a way that was unimaginable a decade ago．I know this because I’m a watcher too．When people come to my Website，without ever knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders，recording what they look at, timing how long they stay on a particular Part B 10 points Tourists are guilty, so we are frequently told, of a number of crimes: upsetting the ecological balance of Mount Himalayas, parking wads of chewing under the benches of museums and art galleries, wearing unsuitable T shirts in Notre Dame, debauching the local peasantry and generally lowering the tone of everywhere they choose to set their benighted feet. Rarely has a group of people been so widely reviled, and I am one of them. So are you. I’ve been a tourist in Provence for about 15 years now often on the receiving end of criticism or mild abuse from people who accuse me of having ruined the region by writing about it. Curiously, these complaints, which are sometimes offensive and invariably very shri