2019年杭州师范大学二外英语考研真题243.DOC0页

2019年杭州师范大学二外英语考研真题243.DOC杭 州 师 范 大 学 硕 士 研 究 生 招 生 考 试 命 题 纸 2019 年 考 试科目 代码 243 考 试科目名 称 二 外英语 （本考试 科目共 8 页，第 1 页） 杭 州 师 范 大 学 2019 年 招收 攻读 硕 士研 究 生考 试 题 考 试科目代码： 243 考 试科目名称： 二 外英语 说明： 考生 答题 时一 律写 在答题 纸上 ，否 则漏 批责 任自负 。 Part I Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning ）(2 ×10=20 points) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet. For questions 1 - 7, mark Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 8 - 10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Highs and Lows in Self-Esteem No one in the Gould family of Westlake Village, California, was surprised by a study suggesting a person ’s age and stage of life may have a bigger impact on self-esteem than we ever realized. A study of about 350 000 people likens a person ’s self-esteem across the human lifespan to a roller coaster ride, starting with an inflated sense of self-approval in late childhood that plunges in adolescence. Self-esteem rises steadily through adulthood, only to drop to its lowest point ever in old age. “I ’ve gone through pretty much all of those cycles, ” Fred Gould said. At 60, he ’s edging toward retirement. Fred ’s wife Eileen, 46, is a businesswoman in the throes of mid-adulthood and, according to the study, predisposed to a healthy self-regard. At 21, the Goulds ’ son, Jeff, has just launched that heady climb into adulthood and a buoyant self-regard after an adolescence fraught with the usual perils of self-doubt and hormonal warfare. His sister, Aly, 17, disagrees with a lot of the study, believing instead that each individual has an intrinsic sense of self-esteem that remains relatively constant. But she does agree that adolescence can give even the most solid sense of self-esteem a sound battering. “As a teenager, I can definitely speak for all of us when I say we bag on ourselves. ” Aly said. The Study The drop in self-esteem in adolescence was no surprise to Richard Robins, a psychology professor at the University of California at Davis, who spearheaded the study, but “the drop in old age is a little bit more novel, ” he said. Specifically, Robins was intrigued by the similarities in self-esteem levels between those entering adolescence and old age. “There is an accumulation of losses occurring all at once both in old age and adolescence, ” he suggested. “There is a critical mass of transition going on. ” Those answering the survey ranged in age from 9 to 90. They participated in the survey by logging onto a