中國人民大學2008年博士研究生入學考試英語樣題

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Physicists all over the world, back in 1895, were pretty much agreed that the great work of physics had all been done. Some of them mourned publicly that no discoveries of truly major importance were likely to be made in the future. But then they did not know that a Professor Roentgen, working alone in a modest laboratory in Germany, had begun a series of experiments with a crude induction coil, a pear-shaped bulb from which the air had been removed, and a sheet of paper painted with certain metallic salts. And Professor Roentgen did not know that his work was destined to reveal a force of nature—never before suspected—that would almost overnight revolutionize medicine and technology, and become a instrument for deeper probing of the structure of matter. 7+[L6q/K  
在 1895 年，全世界的物理學家普遍認為所有關于物理的偉大研究都已經完成了。 他們中 的有些人甚至公開宣稱將來不可能再出現真正有意義的重大發現了。但 是，那時他們還不知道，在德國一間小小的實驗室里，一位名叫倫琴的教授已經 開始了對粗糙 的電磁感應線圈、一個被抽走空氣的梨形鱗莖狀物和一張涂抹了 某種金屬鹽的紙張進行一系列實驗。倫琴教授不知道他的工作注定會揭示自然的 某種力量，而這種力 量是人們從未料想到的。它幾乎在一夜之間引起了醫學和 技術領域的革命，成為一種深入探測物質內部結構的工具。