分享
分享赚钱 收藏 举报 版权申诉 / 13

类型2010年考研英语二真题及答案.doc

  • 上传人:weiwoduzun
  • 文档编号:2671698
  • 上传时间:2018-09-24
  • 格式:DOC
  • 页数:13
  • 大小:1.02MB
  • 配套讲稿:

    如PPT文件的首页显示word图标,表示该PPT已包含配套word讲稿。双击word图标可打开word文档。

    特殊限制:

    部分文档作品中含有的国旗、国徽等图片,仅作为作品整体效果示例展示,禁止商用。设计者仅对作品中独创性部分享有著作权。

    关 键  词:
    2010年考研英语二真题及答案.doc
    资源描述:

    1、 Born to win2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试(英语二)试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 points)The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexi

    2、co was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic_1_ by the World Health Organization in 41 years. The heightened alert _2_an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising_3_in Britain, Japan, Chil

    3、e and elsewhere.But the epidemic is “_4_“ in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations director general, _5_ the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the _6_ of any medical treatment. The outbreak came to global_7_in late April

    4、 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths_8_healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to _9_in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world. In the United States, new cases seeme

    5、d to fade_10_warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was _11_flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the_12_tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has_13_more than one million people, and caused m

    6、ore than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations. Federal health officials_14_Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began_15_orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is _16_ ahead of expectations. Mo

    7、re than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those _17_doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not_18_for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other _19_. But it was still possible to

    8、 vaccinate people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people _20_infants and healthy young people.1 A criticized B appointed Ccommented D designated2 A proceeded B activated C followed D prompted 3 A digits B numbers C amounts D sums4 A moderate B normal C unusual D extreme5 A with B in C

    9、 from D byBorn to win6 A progress B absence C presence D favor7 A reality B phenomenon C concept D notice8 Aover B for C among D to 9 A stay up B crop up C fill up D cover up10 A as B if C unless D until11 A excessive B enormous C significant Dmagnificent 12 Acategories B examples C patterns D sampl

    10、es13 A imparted B immerse C injected D infected14 A released B relayed C relieved D remained15 A placing B delivering C taking D giving16 A feasible B available C reliable D applicable17 A prevalent B principal C innovative D initial18 A presented B restricted C recommended D introduced19 A problems

    11、 B issues C agonies D sufferings20 A involved in B caring for C concerned with D warding off Section Reading comprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text1The lon

    12、gest 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 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last

    13、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 its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons C

    14、lare Mc Andrew, 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, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way match

    15、ed by few other industries. In the weeks and months that followed Mr. Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of many art-buying investors. In the art

    16、world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-Born to winthirds, and in the most overheated sectorfor Chinese contemporary artthey were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the worlds two biggest auction houses, S

    17、othebys and Christies, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them. The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market

    18、 since the Second World War. 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 were at the bottom.”What makes this slump different from the last, he says

    19、, is that there are still buyers in the market, whereas in the early 1990s, when interest rates were high, there was no demand even though many collectors wanted to sell. Christies revenues in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of 2006. Almost everyone who was interviewe

    20、d 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, debt 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 th

    21、e first paragraph, Damien Hirsts sale was referred to as “a last victory” because _.A. the art market had witnessed a succession of victoriesB. the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bidsC. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpiecesD. it was successfully made just b

    22、efore the world financial crisis22.By saying “spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable”(Line 1-2,Para.3),the author suggests that_. A. collectors were no longer actively involved in art-market auctionsB .people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleriesC. art collection as

    23、 a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extentD .works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying23. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A .Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007 to 2008.B. The art market surpassed many other industries in mome

    24、ntum.C. The market generally went downward in various ways.D. Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come.24. The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are _A. auction houses favorites B. contemporary trends C. factors promoting artwork circulation D. styles representing impressionists2

    25、5. The most appropriate title for this text could be _A. Fluctuation of Art Prices B. Up-to-date Art Auctions Born to winC. Art Market in Decline D. Shifted Interest in ArtsTEXT2I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living rooma womens group that had invited men to join them. Thr

    26、oughout the evening one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands dont talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreem

    27、ent. 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 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.“T

    28、his 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 pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage. The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s. Sociologist Catherine Kohl

    29、er 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 for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent,that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year a virtu

    30、al epidemic of failed conversation.In my own research complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having 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, co

    31、oking, social arrangements and errands. Instead they focused on communication: “He doesnt listen to me.“ “He doesnt talk to me.“ I found as Hacker observed years before that most wives want their husbands to be first and foremost conversational partners but few husbands share this expectation of the

    32、ir 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 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 hus

    33、bands?A. Talking to them. B. Trusting them. C. Supporting their careers. D. Sharing housework.27. Judging from the context, the phrase “wreaking havoc”(Line 3,Para.2)most probably means _ .A. generating motivation. B. exerting influence C. causing damage D. creating pressure28. All of the following

    34、are true EXCEPT_A. men tend to talk more in public than women Born to winB. nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversationC. women attach much importance to communication between couples D. a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse29. Which of the following

    35、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 have different expectations from their marriage. D. Conversational patterns between man and wife are different. 30. In the

    36、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 cartoonC. other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S. D. a brief introduction to the political scientist A

    37、ndrew HackerText 3Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors habits among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks, apply lotions and wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a

    38、carefully designed set of daily cues.“There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we cant figure out how to change peoples habits,” Dr. Curtis said. “We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that

    39、 happen automatically.”The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to Procter 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 national origin; that defendants ar

    40、e 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, citizens take turns governing thems

    41、elves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them.But as recently as in 1986, jury selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character. Although th

    42、e 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 around this and other antidiscrimination laws.The

    43、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 several states automatically exempted women from jury dut

    44、y 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 United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act,

    45、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 Taylor vs. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the

    46、 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 male and female jurors.36. From the principles of the

    47、 US jury system, we learn that _A. both liberate and illiterate people can serve on juriesB. defendants are immune from trial by their peersC. no age limit should be imposed for jury service D. judgment should consider the opinion of the public37. The practice of selecting so-called elite jurors pri

    48、or to 1968 showed_A. the inadequacy of antidiscrimination laws B. the prevalent discrimination against certain racesC. the conflicting ideals in jury selection procedures D. the arrogance common among the Supreme Court justices 38. Even in the 1960s, women were seldom on the jury list in some states because_A. they were automatically banned by state lawsBorn to winB. they fell far short of the required qualificationsC. they were supposed to perform domestic duties D. they tended to evade public engagement39. After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed._A. sex discrimina

    展开阅读全文
    提示  道客多多所有资源均是用户自行上传分享,仅供网友学习交流,未经上传用户书面授权,请勿作他用。
    关于本文
    本文标题:2010年考研英语二真题及答案.doc
    链接地址:https://www.docduoduo.com/p-2671698.html
    关于我们 - 网站声明 - 网站地图 - 资源地图 - 友情链接 - 网站客服 - 联系我们

    道客多多用户QQ群:832276834  微博官方号:道客多多官方   知乎号:道客多多

    Copyright© 2025 道客多多 docduoduo.com 网站版权所有世界地图

    经营许可证编号:粤ICP备2021046453号    营业执照商标

    1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png 6.png 7.png 8.png 9.png 10.png



    收起
    展开