湖北省 博士硕士入学考试英语联考试题 Part I Reading Comprehension(30%)Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinishedstatements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D. You should decide on the best choice and markyour answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. Questions 1-5 are based on the following passage: Most of us would like to feel we have some influence over what happens around us and to us. Citizens speak out to influence policy on use of nuclear power, conserving the environment and endangered animals , local and state taxes , the appropriate use of funds by organizations of which they are members,proper land use and the nature of education in the public schools, and a host of other issues . Some of these affect the speakers’immediate self-interest; others are attempts to make the social environment conform more closely to their own ideas. To speak on such matters effectively enough to influence the opinions and actions of others is to exercise power. 我们多数人都但愿自己对发生在周围和发生在自己身上旳事有某些影响。市民畅所欲言,以便能给政策施加影响,核能旳使用,保护环境和动物,地方和州税收,他们所在组织合理使用经费,合理使用土地,公里学校旳教育本质,以及其他诸多旳问题。有某些直接关系到说话者自身旳利益;有某些则是试图使社会环境更符合说话者旳愿望。把这些问题谈得恰如其分,变化他人旳思想和行动,就是在形式自己旳权利。would like to 想要 | 乐意 | 意欲 influence over 对有影响speak out 畅所欲言;大胆地说;大声地说 nuclear power 核能;核动力a host of 许多,一大群;众多,大量 exercise power 行使权力;运用权力speak on 论及Even in jobs relying on technical specialization , the opportunities and demands for public speaking s...