阅读及英美文学、语言学基础2003,2003答案 厦门大学 2003 年招收攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 招生专业:英语语言文学考试科目及代码:阅读及英美文学、语言学基础 417 研究方向:____________ 注意: 答案必须标明题号, 按序写在专用答题纸上, 写在本试卷上或草稿纸上者一律不给分。 Part One prehension 70 分 Directions: Each passage below is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. And then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage 1 The place of the child in society has varied for thousands of years and has been affected by different cultures and religions. In ancient times unwanted children were occasionally abandoned, put to death, exploited, or offered for religious sacrifices, and in any event a large percentage of them didn’t survive their physically hazardous existence to achieve maturity. In Western civilization within the last few hundred years, there have been many changes in attitude toward the young. In agricultural Europe, and later with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the children of the poor worked long hours for little or no pay, and there was no public concern for their safety or welfare. Punishment could be brutal and severe, and sometimes-religious passions were expressed violently with a view toward saving the child’s soul. By the eighteenth century the harsh, deterministic, doctrinaire methods began to show some change. Society slowly accorded children a role of more importance. Books were written expressly for them and gradually laws were passed for their protection. In the past few decades parents have e more attentive to the needs of their children. Better health care is available and education is no longer reserved for a limited few. With so many now able to go to college, many rearing has swung so far toward permissiveness that many children are growing up alienated from society and with no respect for law or parental authority. The tendency today is for teachers and parents to emphasize individual responsibility and to stress that educational goals for students shoul
