2014年1月在职研究生班英语考题和答案.doc

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Part Ⅰ. prehension
Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passages is followed by some reading 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.
(1)
A very important world problem is the increasing number of people who actually inhabit this . The limited amount of land and land resources will soon be unable to support the huge population if it continues to grow at its present rate.
So why is this huge increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and practice of what is ing known as “Death control”. You have no doubt heard of the term “Birth control”. “Death control is something rather difficult. It recognizes the work of the doctors and scientists who now keep alive people who, not very long ago, would have died of a variety of the incurable diseases. Through a wide variety of technological innovations that include farming methods and the control of deadly diseases, we have found ways to reduce the rate at which we die. However, this ess is the very cause of the greatest threat to mankind.
If we examine the amount of land available for this ever-increasing population, we begin to see the problem. If everyone on the had an eq