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1、2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语（二) 试题 课程适用 MBA、MPAcc、MEM、MTA、MPA、MLIS、Maud 的考生 咨询：400-600-0270 国内第一家针对于管理类联考的在线实用学习平台，为考生提供行业内顶级讲师录制的 在线学习课程及个性化的移动互联网学习体验。 微信公众号 试卷详细解析请访问 1 2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语（二）英语（二） Section IUse of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)f
2、or each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points) The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic1by the World Health Organization in 41 years. The heightened alert2an emergency m
3、eeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising3in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere. But the epidemic is 4 in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations director general,5the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mil
4、d symptoms and a full recovery, often in the6of any medical treatment. The outbreak came to global7in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths8healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to9in
5、NewYork City, the southwestern United States and around the world. In the United States, new cases seemed to fade10warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was11flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the12tested are the new swine flu, also known
6、 as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U. S., it has13more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations. Federal health officials14Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began15orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The ne
7、w vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is16ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those17doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not18for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breath
8、ing difficulties, heart disease or several other19. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups: health care workers, people20infants and healthy young people. 1. A criticizedB appointedC commentedD designated 2. A proceededB activatedC followedD prompted 3. A digitsB num
9、bersC amountsD sums 4. A moderateB normalC unusualD extreme 5. A withB inC fromD by 6. A progressB absenceC presenceD favor 7. A realityB phenomenonC conceptD notice 8. A overB forC amongD to 9. A stay upB crop upC fill upD cover up 10. A asB ifC unlessD until 11. A excessiveB enormousC significantD
10、 magnificent 12. A categoriesB examplesC patternsD samples 13. A impartedB immersedC injectedD infected 14. A releasedB relayedC relievedD remained 15. A placingB deliveringC takingD giving 16. A feasibleB availableC reliableD applicable 17. A prevalentB principalC innovativeD initial 18. A presente
11、dB restrictedC recommendedD introduced 19. A problemsB issuesC agoniesD sufferings 20. A involved inB caring forC concerned withD warding off 试卷详细解析请访问 2 Section IIReading Comprehension PartA Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.Mar
12、k your answers on theANSWER SHEET.(40 points) Text 1 The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sothebys in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 7
13、0m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy. The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. At
14、 its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firmdouble the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, eno
15、rmous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries. In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell
16、 by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the worlds two biggest auction houses, Sothebys and Christies, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them. The current downturn
17、 in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christies chief executive, says: Im pretty confident wer
18、e at the bottom. What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Dsdeath, d
19、ebt and divorcestill deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return. 21. In the first paragraph, Damien Hirsts sale was referred to as a last victory because _. A the art market had witnessed a succession of victories B the
20、auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids C Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces D it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis 22. By saying spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable(Para.3), the author suggests that_. A collectors wer
21、e no longer actively involved in art-market auctions B people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries C art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extent D works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying 23. Which of the following s
22、tatements is NOT true? A Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007 to 2008. B The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum. C The art market generally went downward in various ways. D Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come. 24. The three Ds mentioned in the l
23、ast paragraph are _. A auction houses favorites B contemporary trends C factors promoting artwork circulation D styles representing Impressionists 25. The most appropriate title for this text could be_. A Fluctuation of Art Prices B Up-to-date Art Auctions C Art Market in Decline D Shifted Interest
24、in Arts 试卷详细解析请访问 3 Text 2 I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living rooma womens group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the co
25、uch. Toward the end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands dont talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreement. He gestured toward his wife and said, Shes the talker in our family. The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. Its true, he
26、 explained. When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didnt keep the conversation going, wed spend the whole evening in silence. This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pat
27、tern is wreaking havoc with marriage. The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewedbut only a few of the mengave lack of communication as the reason fo
28、r their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year a virtual epidemic of failed conversation. In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as hav
29、ing given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking social arrangements and errands. Instead, they focused on communication: He doesnt listen to me. He doesnt talk to me. I found, as Hacker observed
30、years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives. In short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a
31、newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk. 26. What is most wives main expectation of their husbands? A Talking to them. B Trusting them. C Supporting their careers. D Sharing housework. 27. Judging from the context, the phrase wreaking havoc(Par
32、a.2)most probably means _ . A generating motivation B exerting influence C causing damage D creating pressure 28.All of the following are true EXCEPT_. A men tend to talk more in public than women B nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation C women attach much importance
33、 to communication between couples D a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse 29. Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text? A The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists. B Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities. C Husband and wife h
34、ave different expectations from their marriage. D Conversational patterns between man and wife are different. 30. In the following part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on _. A a vivid account of the new book Divorce Talk B a detailed description of the stereotypical
35、cartoon C other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S. D a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker Text 3 Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviorshabitsamong consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billion
36、s of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues. There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hand instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we cant figure out how to change peopl
37、es habits, said Dr. Curtis, the director of the Hygiene Center at the 试卷详细解析请访问 4 London School of Hygiene that jurors should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or
38、 national origin; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the law. The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy. In a direct democracy,
39、 citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them. 试卷详细解析请访问 5 But as recently as in 1968, jury selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intellig
40、ence, education, and moral character. Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880 case of Strauder v. West Virginia, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way a
41、round this and other anti-discrimination laws. The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century. Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898, it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty. Even then severa
42、l states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list. This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s. In 1968, the Congress of the Unite
43、d States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury. This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the landmark 1975 decision
44、Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level. The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting ma
45、le and female jurors. 36. From the principles of the U.S. jury system, we learn that _. A both literate and illiterate people can serve on juries B defendants are immune from trial by their peers C no age limit should be imposed for jury service D judgment should consider the opinion of the public 3
46、7. The practice of selecting so-called elite jurors prior to 1968 showed_. A the inadequacy of anti-discrimination laws B the prevalent discrimination against certain races C the conflicting ideals in jury selection procedures D the arrogance common among the Supreme Court judges 38. Even in the 196
47、0s, women were seldom on the jury list in some states because_. A they were automatically banned by state laws B they fell far short of the required qualifications C they were supposed to perform domestic duties D they tended to evade public engagement 39.After the Jury Selection and Service Act was
48、 passed, _. A sex discrimination in jury selection was unconstitutional and had to be abolished B educational requirements became less rigid in the selection of federal jurors C jurors at the state level ought to be representative of the entire community D states ought to conform to the federal cour
49、t in reforming the jury system 40. In discussing the U.S. jury system, the text centers on_. A its nature and problems B its characteristics and tradition C its problems and their solutions D its tradition and development Part B Directions: Read the following text and decide whether each of the statements is true or false. Choose T if the statement is true or F if the statement is not true. Mark your answers on theANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Copying Birds May SaveAircraft Fuel Both Boeing and Airbus have trumpeted the efficiency of their newest aircraft