2016 年浙江温州大学英语基础考研真题 Part One Blank-filling （20 分） For each blank in the following passage you are requested to fill in only ONE word. Courts Wrestle with Domestic Violence Divorce cases arising from domestic violence are brought to Chinese courts frequently but difficulties remain in hearing them, judges said on Thursday. The problem of domestic violence（1）serious despite existing laws, said Zhu Chuntao, chief judge of a civil tribunal that specializes（2）domestic disputes at Beijing High People's Court. Some laws need (3), and new ones need to be made, Zhu said. "Divorces requested on grounds (4) domestic violence have become more common in our court (5) the past few years, but it's still a challenge for litigants and judges to collect evidence of violence," he said. Of 620 divorce (6) randomly sampled from 2013, 9 percent of the plaintiffs had appealed to the capital's courts because of domestic violence. "Many couples who sought a divorce due to domestic violence had serious conflicts (7) each other, so we gave divorce judgments to them most of the time instead of (8) first," Zhu said. "But few litigants provided any hard evidence of domestic violence," he said. "As domestic violence happens, it's hard for (9) to collect evidence. Some pictures of injuries from litigants don't prove they were injured for this reason. It's hard for a judge to (10)." He applauded the victim in a case that was (11) at Beijing Tongzhou District People's Court for providing her call records to the police (12) she was physically abused by her husband. She also kept a letter from her husband expressing regret that he had (13) her. "Such evidence is stronger than injury photos," he said. In addition, an abused person with little evidence will also face difficulty in getting compensation (14) their mental suffering, even though it is noted in the current Marriage Law, he said. Protective orders (15) an abusive partner from getting near a victim have been a tool of the courts since 2008, he said, but it's rare to receive such applications. Shi Xiaohong, vice-president of Henan Provincial High People's Court, said protective orders, along with "move-out" orders requiring an abusive partner to (16) the marital home, are still in the exploration stage in the country's courts. "The protection now is not compulsory and (17) is difficult," Shi said. "When we give move-out orders, it's hard to make sure it's effective. There are few supporting (18) now." The judges said they hope the government will soon (19) its first anti-domestic-violence law. The concept is currently under discussion by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top legislature. "Some measures will be easy to shape into clear legal articles," Shi said. Chinese courts have heard nearly 4 million family disputes since 2012, including divorces and property allocations, the Supreme People's Court said, adding that they always take up a large proportion of civil cases. In 2014, courts in Shandong province took (20) 143,756 domestic disputes, accounting for 22.3 percent of the civil cases 

filed. From January to October, the courts heard 124,981 family cases, up 1.6 percent year-on-year. Part Two Reading Comprehension （40 分） Un Unwinnable war Andrew Bacevich Nov 19, 2015 President Francois Hollande’s response to Friday’s vicious terrorist attacks in France, attributed to the Islamic State, was immediate and uncompromising. “We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless,” he vowed. Whether France itself possesses the will or the capacity to undertake such a war is another matter. So too is the question of whether further war can provide a remedy to the problem at hand: widespread disorder roiling (21) much of the Greater Middle East and periodically spilling into the outside world. It’s not as if the outside world hasn’t already given pitiless war a try. The Soviet Union spent all of the 1980s attempting to pacify (22) Afghanistan and succeeded only in killing a million or so Afghans while creating an incubator for Islamic radicalism. Beginning in 2003, the United States attempted something similar in Iraq and ended up producing similarly destabilizing results. By the time US troops withdrew in 2011, something like 200,000 Iraqis had died, most of them are civilians. Today Iraq teeters on the brink (23) of disintegration. Perhaps if the Russians had tried harder or the Americans had stayed longer, they might have achieved a more favorable outcome. Yet that qualifies as a theoretical possibility at best. Years of fighting in Afghanistan exhausted the Soviet Union and contributed directly to its subsequent collapse. Years of fighting in Iraq used up whatever ‘Let’s roll!’ combativeness Americans may have entertained (24) following 9/11. Today, notwithstanding the Obama administration’s continuing appetite for military piddling – airstrikes, commando raids, and advisory missions – few Americans retain any appetite for undertaking further large-scale hostilities (25) in the Islamic world. Fewer still will sign up (26) to follow Hollande in undertaking any new crusade. Their reluctance to do so is understandable and appropriate. The fact is that United States and its European allies face a perplexing (27) strategic conundrum. Collectively they find themselves locked in a protracted conflict with Islamic radicalism, with Isis but one manifestation of a much larger phenomenon. Prospects for negotiating an end to that conflict anytime soon appear to be nil. Alas, so too do prospects of winning it. In this conflict, the West generally appears to enjoy the advantage of clear-cut military superiority. By almost any measure, we are stronger than our adversaries. Our arsenals are bigger, our weapons more sophisticated, our generals better educated in the art of war, our fighters better trained at waging it. Yet most of this has proven to be irrelevant. Time and again the actual employment of that ostensibly superior military might has produced results other than those 

intended or anticipated. Even where armed intervention has achieved a semblance (28) of tactical success – the ousting of some unsavory dictator, for example – it has yielded neither reconciliation nor willing submission nor even sullen compliance (29). Instead, intervention typically serves to aggravate, inciting (30) further resistance. Rather than putting out the fires of radicalism, we end up feeding them. In proposing to pour yet more fuel on that fire, Hollande demonstrates a crippling absence of imagination, one that has characterized recent western statesmanship more generally when it comes to the Islamic world. There, simply trying harder will not suffice as a basis of policy. It’s past time for the West, and above all for the United States as the West’s primary military power, to consider trying something different. Rather than assuming an offensive posture, the West should revert to (31) a defensive one. Instead of attempting to impose its will on the Greater Middle East, it should erect barriers to protect itself from the violence emanating from (32) that quarter. Such barriers will necessarily be imperfect, but they will produce greater security at a more affordable cost than is gained by engaging in futile, open-ended armed conflicts. Rather than vainly attempting to police or control, this revised strategy should seek to contain. Such an approach posits that, confronted with the responsibility to do so, the peoples of the Greater Middle East will prove better equipped to solve their problems than are policy makers back in Washington, London, or Paris. It rejects as presumptuous any claim that the West can untangle problems of vast historical and religious complexity to which Western folly contributed. It rests on this core principle: Do no (further) harm. Hollande views the tragedy that has befallen Paris as a summons to yet more war. The rest of us would do well to see it as a moment to re-examine the assumptions that have enmeshed the West in a war that it cannot win and should not perpetuate. Language Work (I) Explain the underlined parts (number 21--32) above on the Answer Sheet (每题 2 分，共 24 分) (II) Explain the following two statements in relation to the article. (每题 8 分， 共 16 分) 33. What are the follies that the Western countries have contributed to according to the article? 34. What is the author’s view upon the war on terrorists? Part Three Put the following passage into English. 有三种朴实却异常强烈的激情左右着我的人生：渴望爱情、寻求知识和对受苦人的怜悯。这 三种激情尤如飓风肆意地吹着我, 从无边的苦海吹向绝境。 我寻找爱，因为爱使人陶醉。我常常宁愿用我全部的余生来换取几个小时这样的欣喜。我寻 找爱，因为爱使我解除了孤寂，解除了一个颤抖的灵魂从人世间到冷漠无底的深渊所经历的 孤寂。我寻找爱，因为我在爱的缩影中看到了圣人和诗人眼里天堂的景象。这就是以往我寻 Translation work （40 分） 

找的，虽然对于人生来说似乎过于美好，但我终于找到了。 以同样的激情，我寻求知识。我渴望理解人类的心灵。我想知道群星为何闪烁。我试图领悟 毕达哥拉斯的数的魔力，它支配着数的和谐。我已多少达到了此目的。 Essay-writing （50 分） Part Four Topic: Do you like cartoon？ Is it childish？Why or why not？ Word limit: 500-600 (Please write your essay on the Answer Sheet)