华慧2013年10月中科院考博英语真题阅读理解真题训练Section A(第二篇)

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华慧2013年10月中科院考博英语真题阅读理解真题训练Section A(第二篇)

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阅读理解真题训练

Passage Two

Lately I got a chance to mad People magazine's most recent compilation of "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.' It was fabulous. In addition to offering helpful

glooming tips, the issue involves an attempt to answer one of the moat difficult questions of our time: Which is ultimately more influential, nature or nurture?

Consider first the extreme nurturists, who abstain from the notion that anything is biologically fixed, There's John Watson, famous for the statement: "Give me a child and let me control the total environment in which he is raised, and I will turn him into whatever I wish."

A nurture viewpoint is also advanced by TV star Jenna Elfman, who attributes her beauty to drinking 100 ounces of rater a day, and using a moisturizer that costs $1,000 a pored, floweret, even a beginner in the study of human developmental biology might easily note that no degree of expensive moisturizers would get, say, me on People's beauty list.

Naturally.similarly strong opinions come from the opposing, nature faction--the genetic determinists among the Most Beautiful. Perhaps the cockiest of this school is Josh Brolin, an actor whose statement auld readily serve as a manifesto for those in his profession: "I was given my dad's good genes.” One searches the pages for a middle ground, for the interdisciplinary synthesizer who perceives the

contributions of both nature and nurture. At last, we find

华慧2013年10月中科院考博英语真题阅读理解真题训练Section A(第二篇)

Monica, a singer, who has an absolutely wondrous skill for applying makeup. This, at first, seems like just more nurture propaganda. But where does she get this cosmetic aptitude? Her mother supplies the answer. it's something that's inborn One gasps at the insight: There is a genetic influence on how one interacts with file environment. Too bad a few more people can't think this way when figuring out what genes have to do with intelligent, substance abuse, or violence. In matters of human beauty, hardwired

preferences matter but can be overdo. Novelist George Eliot was strikingly homely, but her magnetic character inspired Henry James to write in a letter: "She is magnificently ugly—deliciously hideous. She has a dull gray eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth, and full of uneven teeth. Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes, steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her."

42. The article suggests that People magazine regularly______.

A.provides a list of the most beautiful people in file world

B.gives advice about how to look like international beauties

C provides guidance on answering complex questions

D.offers help in dealing with marriage or family problems

43. What John Watson said can best be interpreted as______.

A.parent oversight guides a child's growth

B.one's upbringing determines what they become

C.a change of environment affects one's health

D.child-raising is by no means easy

44. According to Paragraph 3, the author believes______.

A.one can get prettier if drinking enough water every day

华慧2013年10月中科院考博英语真题阅读理解真题训练Section A(第二篇)

B.Jenna Elfman's experience is worth publicizing

C.the secrets of beauty are found in human biology

D.beauty must depend on more than one or two factors

45. According to the author, Josh Brolin's statement shows that the actor is______.

A.over-ebbing

C.over-confident B.over-assertiveD.over-sensitive

46. As an example in favor of both mature and nurture, the author feels that Monica's mother is rather______.

A.insightful

C justifiable

because of______.

A. her unique ugliness

C.her masculine beauty B.her attractive characterD.her skillful writing B.absurdD.irrelevant 47. As he wrote, Henry James fell in love with George Eliot

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文章大意及参考答案

【华慧独家解析：文章大意】

这篇文章就—

美丽是由先天因素决定还是后天因素决定展开讨论。作者介绍了三种观点，第一种为先天论，认为基因决定了是否美貌。第二种为后天论认为美丽是环境创造的；第三种认为美丽是受前两者的共同影响。文章最后一段，作者提到其实外貌并没有人格魅力重要。

【华慧独家解析：参考答案】

42.A 43.B 44.D 45.B 46.A 47.B

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