2020年MBA考研英语阅读模拟题6

MBA联考是肯定会考英语的，但是英语真的是让许多考生困扰的问题，英语考试中的阅读题如果做好的话会直接提升分数，因此要做好英语阅读。话不多说，先来随坦途网MBA考试频道小编看一篇阅读模拟题练习吧！ 

Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information from the left column that corresponds to each of the marked details given in the right column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEERT 1.(10 points)

“Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here,” wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. Well, not any more it is not.

Suddenly, Britain looks to have fallen out with its favourite historical form. This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain. Today, we want empathy, not inspiration.

From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant recounting the exemplary lives of great men. In 1337, Petrarch began work on his rambling writing De Viris Illustribus – On Famous Men, highlighting the virtus (or virtue) of classical heroes. Petrarch celebrated their greatness in conquering fortune and rising to the top. This was the biographical tradition which Niccolo Machiavelli turned on its head. In The Prince, the championed cunning, ruthlessness, and boldness, rather than virtue, mercy and justice, as the skills of successful leaders.

Over time, the attributes of greatness shifted. The Romantics commemorated the leading painters and authors of their day, stressing the uniqueness of the artist's personal experience rather than public glory. By contrast, the Victorian author Samual Smiles wrote Self-Help as a catalogue of the worthy lives of engineers , industrialists and explores . "The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, if patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formulation of truly noble and many character, exhibit,"wrote Smiles."what it is in the power of each to accomplish for himself"His biographies of James Walt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life.

This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte. These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals.

Communist Manifesto. For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles:“It is man, real, living man who does all that.” And history should be the story of the masses and their record of struggle. As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood. For:“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by

themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.”

This was the tradition which revolutionized our appreciation of the past. In place of Thomas Carlyle, Britain nurtured Christopher Hill, EP Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm. History from below stood alongside biographies of great men. Whole new realms of understanding — from gender to race to cultural studies — were opened up as scholars unpicked the multiplicity of lost societies. And it transformed public history too: downstairs became just as fascinating as upstairs.

41. Petrarch

42. Niccolo Machiavellli 

43. Samuel Smiles 

44. Thomas Carlyle 

45. Marx and Engels 

[A] emphasized the virtue of classical heroes.

[B] highlighted the public glory of the leading artists.

[C] focused on epochal figures whose lives were hard to imitate.

[D] opened up new realms of understanding the great men in history.

[E] held that history should be the story of the masses and their record of struggle.

[F] dismissed virtue as unnecessary for successful leaders.

[G] depicted the worthy lives of engineer industrialists and explorers.

参考答案：

41-45：AFGCE

今天的分享先到这里，在英语的备考中，不管什么时候，单词词汇都是最基础的，需要积累自己的词汇量；其次再配和模拟题进行练习，才能真正拿到理想分数。另外，小编想要强调的是，历年真题真的很重要，透过历年真题，考生可以掌握大纲考点及命题思路，也希望考生们能够通过小编的分享获得理想的MBA考试初试成绩！