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浙江师范大学 2008 年硕士研究生入学考试试题
科目代码： 851 科目名称： 英语写作
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I. Summary writing (40%)
Read the following passage and write a summary of it in around 100 words.
Despite all the current fuss and bother about the extraordinary number of ordinary
illiterates who overpopulate our schools, small attention has been given to another kind
of illiterate, an illiterate whose plight is, in many ways, more important, because he is
more influential. This illiterate may, as often as not, be a university president, but he is
typically a Ph.D., a successful professor and textbook author. The person to whom I
refer is the straightA illiterate, and the following is written in an attempt to give him
equal time with his widely publicized counterpart.
The scene is my office, and I am at work, doing what must be done if one is to
assist in the cure of a disease that, over the years, I have come to call straightA
illiteracy. I am interrogating, I am crossexamining, I am prying and probing for the
meaning of a student’s paper. The student is a college senior with a straightA average,
an extremely bright, highly articulate student who has just been awarded a coveted
fellowship to one of the nation’s outstanding graduate schools. He and I have been at
this, have been going over his paper sentence by sentence, word by word, for an hour.
“The choice of exogenous variables in relation to multicolinearity,” I hear myself
reading from his paper, “is contingent upon the derivations of certain multiple
correlation coefficients.” I pause to catch my breath. “Now that statement,” I address
the student whom I shall call, allegorically, Mr. Bright “that statement, Mr.
Bright, what on earth does it mean?” Mr. Bright, his brow furrowed, tries mightily.
Finally, with both of us combining our linguistic and imaginative resources, finally,
after what seems another hour, we decode it. We decide exactly what it is that Mr.
Bright is trying to say, what he really wants to say, which is: “Supply determines
demand.”
Over the past decade or so, I have known many students like him, many college
seniors suffering from Bright’s disease. It attacks the best minds, and gradually
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