2007考研英语强化班授课讲义(十一)

will be movement of genes between species that could not be crossed by conventional breeding methods, and there may be problems with some crops. There were mistakes during the Green Revolution, like DDT. No doubt there will be some mistakes with GM crops too. But then, mankind has always made mistakes. It shouldn’t put us off progress.

[G] Genetically-modified foodstuffs are here to stay. That’s not to say that food produced by conventional agriculture will disappear, but simply that food-buying patterns will polarize: there will be a niche market for conventional foodstuffs just as there is for organic food. It may even be that GM food will become the food of preference because consumers come to appreciate the health benefits of reduced pesticide use.

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Directions:The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 1-5, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A-E to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

[A] “The years passed and the young eagle became fully grown. One day he looked up and saw a magnificent bird high above in the cloudless sky. The huge bird seemed to hang in the air, borne by the wind currents, soaring with scarcely a beat of its huge, powerful wings.

[B] “‘What a beautiful bird,’ he exclaimed. ‘What is it?’ ‘That’s an eagle—the chief of birds,’ one of the chickens said. ‘But don’t give it a second thought, you can never be like him.’

[C] “All his life, the young eagle thought he was a prairie chicken. He learned to do what prairie chickens do: scratch in the dirt for seeds and insects, cluck and cackle and fly just a few feet off the ground with wings thrashing in the wind. After all, that’s how prairie chickens fly. They don’t know any other way..

[D] “‘Strange,’ he said to himself. ‘I, too, have giant wings, and my feet have huge claws that could be used for more than scratching the dirt.’

[E] “The eagle might have died after living the life of a chicken, but fortunately he did give it a second thought. On another day, as he scratched in the dirt for seeds and insects, he looked up and again saw that same majestic bird as it soared high above with its huge wings outstretched against the sky.

[F] “So the eagle got a running start and leaped into the air, working his huge wings rhythmically and steadily as he had seen the huge bird do and like he had never done before. Instead of rising only a few feet as usual, he soared into the sky and found his true potential and destiny.”

[G] “An Indian brave went out hunting and found an eagle’s egg that had fallen from its nest but miraculously remained unbroken. The Indian took the egg and put it in the nest of a prairie chicken. The eagle’s egg hatched along with the other eggs in the prairie chicken’s nest, and the little eaglet grew up with the other baby birds..

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III. English-Chinese Translation:

    Historians of women’s labor in the United States at first largely disregarded the story of female service workers – women earning wages in occupations such as salesclerk, domestic servant, and office secretary.  1) These historians focused instead on factory work, primarily because it seemed so different from traditional, unpaid “women’s work” in the home, and because the underlying economic forces of industrialism were presumed to be gender-blind and hence emancipatory in effect. Unfortunately, emancipation has been less profound than expected, for not even industrial wage labor has escaped continued sex segregation in the workplace.

    2) To explain this unfinished revolution in the status of women, historians have recently begun to emphasize the way a prevailing definition of femininity often determines the kinds of work allocated to women, even when such allocation is inappropriate to new conditions.  3) For instance, early textile-mill entrepreneurs, in justifying women’s employment in wage labor, made much of the assumption that women were by nature skillful at detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repetitive chores. The mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order obsolete conventions associated with the homemaking activities they assumed to have been the traditional sphere of women. 4) Because women accepted the more unattractive new industrial tasks more readily than did men, such jobs came to be regarded as female jobs. And employers, who assumed that women’s real desires were for marriage and family life, declined to pay women wages equal to those of men. Thus many lower-skilled, lower-paid, less secure jobs came to be perceived as “female”.

    More remarkable than the origin has been the persistence of such sex segregation in twentieth-century industry. 5) Once