[英語考試]2004年5月英語二級筆譯綜合能力試題(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內容簡介】 an enjoy scientific early education. A. provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education B. provide more young parents and their children to enjoy early education and scientific C. provide young parents and their children enjoy more scientific early education D. provide young parents and their children with more early education services Section 2: Reading Comprehension (50 points) In this section you will find after each of the passages a number of questions or unfinished statements about the passage, each with 4 (A, B, C and D) choices to plete the statement. You must choose the one which you think fits best. Then blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machinescoring ANSWER SHEET. The time for this section is 70 minutes. Questions 51－ 60 are based on the following passage. Social control refers to social processes, planned or unplanned, by which people are taught, persuaded, or forced to conform to norms. In every society, some punishments or negative sanctions are established for deviant behavior. Without deviant behavior there would not be need for social control and without social control there would not be a way of recognizing the boundary between the acceptable and the unacceptable. Social control may be either formal or informal. Informal mechanisms include expressions of disapproval by significant others and withholding of positive rewards for disapproved behavior. Most people internalize norms in the course of socialization. This is any group’s most powerful protection against deviance, in that the individual’s own conscience operates as an agent of social control. When informal sanctions fail, formal agents of social control may be called upon. In contemporary society, such formal agents and agencies include psychiatry and other mental health professions。 mental hospitals。 police and courts of law。 prisons。 and social welfare agencies. All these formal agents function to limit, correct, and control violation of norms. Conflict theorists would also point out that social control agents and systems tend, in any society, to serve the interests of powerful groups and to enforce the norms most beneficial to those who make the rules and who, therefore, define unacceptable behavior. Social control, whether formal or informal, has a dual function. First, it punishes the wrongdoer and reaffirms the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Second, and less recognized, it regulates the manner in which deviants are treated. 51. Social control refers to processes by which _____. A. norms are developed B. norms are enforced C. people are educated and trained D. people are rewarded and punished 52. Every society has its own _____. A. planned systems B. controlled norms C. recognized boundary D. established sanctions 53. Informal mechanisms of social control include the following except _____. A. a high level of interest in ensuring conformity B. expression of disapproval by significant others C. withholding of positive rewards for the deviants D. people’s internalization of norms in socialization 54. The most powerful protection against deviance is _____. A. negative sanctions B. severe punishments C. the individual’s conscience D. unrestrained suppression 55. Formal agents of social control include the following except _____. A. police stations B. mental hospitals C. welfare agencies D. vocational schools 56. The purpose of formal agents is _____. A. to make beneficial rules B. to preserve social orders C. to control violation of norms D. to define acceptable behavior 57. Which statement about social control agents is not true? A. They tend to serve the interest of those who enforce the norms. B. They tend to serve the interest of those who receive a benefit. C. They tend to serve the interest of those who make the rules. D. They tend to serve the interest of those who are powerful. 58. According to conflict theorists, social control agents and systems are _____. A. liberal B. partial C. neutral D. overall 59. In the third paragraph, “a dual function” refers to _____. A. formal and inform B. rewards and penalties C. approval and disapproval D. clarification and regulation 60. The perspective from which the author discusses social control is _____. A. biological B. sociological C. psychological D. anthropological Questions 61－ 70 are based on the following passage. Every group has a culture, however uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist, there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages. People once thought of the languages of backward groups as undeveloped. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward” languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely plex. They differ from Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this aspect, two things are to be noted. First, all languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. Second, the objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in “backward” languages, while different from the West, are often surprisingly numerous and plicated. A Western language distin