2010全国硕士研究生考试英语二真题及答案
Section I Use of English
Directions:
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 Mexico was declared a global pandemic on June 11, 2009, in the
first designation by the World Health Organization of a worldwide pandemic in 41 years.
The heightened alert came after an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in
cases in Australia, and risingnumbers in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
But the pandemic is "moderate" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general, with the
overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the absence of any
medical treatment.
The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of
hospitalizations and deathsamong healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began
to crop up in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.
In the United States, new cases seemed to fade as warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials
reported there was significant flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the samples tested are the new swine flu,
also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. @Zov&0
1 In the U.S., it has infected more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000
hospitalizations.
Federal health officials released Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began taking orders from the
states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is availableahead of
expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of
those initial doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or
those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other problems. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in
other high-risk group: health care workers, people caring for infants and healthy young people.
Section Ⅱ Reading comprehension
Part A
Directions:
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)
Text1
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 Sotheby‟s in London on September 15th 2008 (see picture). All but two
pieces sold, fetching more than ā70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last hurrah. 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 vertiginously since 2003. At its peak
in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double 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 matched by few other
industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst‟s 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 world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary
art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector—for Chinese contemporary art—they were down by nearly 90% in
the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world‟s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby‟s and Christie‟s, 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 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 volatile. But Edward Dolman,
Christie‟s chief executive, says: “I‟m pretty confident we‟re at the bottom.”
What makes this slump different from the last, he says, 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. Christie‟s revenues
in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of 2006. 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
Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away,
waiting for confidence to return.
the first paragraph,Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as “a last victory”because ____.
art market hadwitnessed a succession of victoryies
auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
ful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces
was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
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 auctions
B .people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries
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
of the following statements is NOT ture?
A .Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007to 2008.
art market surpassed many other industries in momentum.
market generally went downward in various ways.
art dealers were awaiting better chances to come.
three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are ____
n houses ' favorites
porary trends
s promoting artwork circulation
representing impressionists
most appropriate title for this text could be ___
ation of Art Prices
-to-date Art Auctions
Market in Decline
d Interest in Arts
Text2
I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room -- a women's 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 couch. Toward the end of the evening I commented that women frequently complain that
their husbands don't talk to them. This man quickly concurred. He gestured toward his wife and said "She's the talker in our
family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. "It's true" he explained. "When I come home from
work I have nothing to say. If she didn't keep the conversation going we'd 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 pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.
The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late '70s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman
reports in her new book "Divorce Talk" that most of the women she interviewed -- but only a few of the men -- gave 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 virtual 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 cooking social arrangements and errands. Instead they focused on communication: "He
doesn't listen to me" "He doesn't 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 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 newspaper held up in front of his face while a woman glares at the back of it wanting to talk.
is most wives' main expectation of their husbands?
g to them.
ng them.
ting their careers.
D. Shsring housework.
g from the context ,the phrase “wreaking havoc”(Line 3,Para.2)most probably means ___ .
A generating motivation.
ng influence
g damage
Dcreating pressure
of the following are true EXCEPT_______
tend to talk more in public tan women
50percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
attach much importance to communication between couples
Da female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse
of the following can best summarize the mian idea of this text ?
moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists .
ge break_up stems from sex inequalities.
d and wofe have different expectations from their marriage.
sational patterns between man and wife are different.
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 cartoon
possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S.
D a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker
Txet3
over 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 carefully designed set of daily cues.
“There are fundamental public health problems, like hand washing with soap, that remain killers only because we
can‟t figure out how to change people‟s habits,” Dr. Curtis said. “We wanted to learn from private industry how to create
new behaviors that happen automatically.”
The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to — Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever — had invested
hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers‟ lives that corporations could use to introduce new
routines.
If you look hard enough, you‟ll find that many of the products we use every day — chewing gums, skin moisturizers,
disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners,
vitamins — are results of manufactured habits. A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.
Today, because of canny advertising and public health campaigns, many Americans habitually give their pearly whites a
cavity-preventing scrub twice a day, often with Colgate, Crest or one of the other brands.
A few decades ago, many people didn‟t drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the
production of far-off springs,and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long. Chewing gum, once
bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a
meal. Skin moisturizers are advertised as part of morning beauty rituals,slipped in between hair brushing and putting on
makeup.
“Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,” said Carol Berning, a consumer
psychologist who recently retired from Procter & Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of Tide, Crest and other
products last year. “Creating positive habits is a huge part of improving our consumers‟ lives, and it‟s essential to making
new products commercially viable.”
Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying
certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising. As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies
have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
ing to ,habits like hand washing with soap________.
[A] should be further cultivated
[B] should be changed gradually
[C] are deepiy rooted in history
[D] are basically private concerns
d water,chewing gun and skin moisturizers are mentioned in Paragraph 5 so as to____
[A] reveal their impact on people‟habits
[B] show the urgent need of daily necessities
[C]indicate their effect on people‟buying power
[D]manifest the significant role of good habits
of the following does NOT belong to products that help create people‟s habits?
[A]Tide
[B]Crest
[C]Colgate
[D]Unilver
the text wekonw that some of consumer‟s habits are developed due to _____
[A]perfected art of products
[B]automatic behavior creation
[C]commercial promotions
[D]scientific experiments
author‟sattitude toward the influence of advertisement on people‟s habits is____
[A]indifferent
[B]negative
[C]positive
[D]biased
Text4
Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles
that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; 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 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, citizens take turns
governing themselves, 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 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
around this and other antidiscrimination 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 several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personlly 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, ushering in a new era of
democratic reforms for the 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 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 male and female jurors.
the principles of theUS jury system,welearn that ______
[A]both litcrate 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
practice of selecting so—called elite jurors prior to 1968 showed_____
[A]the inadcquavy of antidiscrimination laws
[B]the prevalent discrimination against certain races
[C]the conflicting ideals in jury selection procedures
in the 1960s,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
the Jury Selection and Service Act was 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 court in reforming the jury system
discussing the US 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
Section Ⅲ Translation
ions:
In this section there is a text in English .Translate it into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER
SHEET2.(15points)
“Suatainability” has become apopular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal
meaning. Having endured apainful period of unsustainability in his own life made itclear to him that sustainability-oriented
values must be expressed though everyday action and choice.
Ning recalls spending aconfusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He‟d been though the dot-com boom and
burst and,desperate for ajob,signed on with a Boulder agency.
It didin‟t go well. “It was a really had move because that‟s not my passion,” says Ning, whose dilemma about the job
translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable, I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of
the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, „Just wait, you‟ll trun the corner, give
it some time.‟”
翻译参考
“坚持不懈”如今已成一个流行词汇,但对TedNing而言,这个概念一直有个人含义,经历了一段痛苦松懈的个人生活,使他清楚面向以坚持不懈为导向的价值观,必须贯彻到每天的行动和选择中。
Ning回忆起20世纪90年代末期卖保险的那段迷茫时光,他通过蓬勃兴起的网络疯狂地工作,并且与Boulder代理机构签了约。
事情进展并不顺利,TedNing说到:“那真是个糟糕的选择,因为我对此没有激情,”可以预料,他把工作中的矛盾能解释为没有业务。Ning说:“我很痛苦渴望午夜起来盯着天花板,我没钱,我需要工作,每个人都说„等吧,只要有耐心会好转的。‟”
47. Directions:
You have just come back from the U.S. as a member of a Sino-American cultural exchange program. Write a letter to
your American colleague to
1) Express your thanks for his/her warm reception;
2) Welcome him/her to visit China in due course.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Zhang Wei” instead.
Do not write your address. (10 points)
Dear xxx,
I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to you for your kindness to receive me when I participated in an exchange
program in USA.
Your generous help made it possible that I had a very pleasant stay and a chance to know American cultures better.
Besides, I think it is an honor for me to make friends with you and I will cherish the goodwill you showed to me wherever I
go. I do hope that you will visit China one day, so that I could have the opportunity to repay your kindness and refresh our
friendship.
I feel obliged to thank you again.
Sincerely yours,
Zhang Wei
48. Directions:
In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following chart. In your writing, you should
1) Interpret the chart and
2) Give your comments.
You should write at least 150 words.
Write your essay on on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)
In this chart, we can see the mobile phone subscriptions in developed countries have a steady and slight increase from
1990 to 2007 and then remain constant in 2008. Meanwhile the mobile phone subscriptions in developing countries have
witnessed a slow increase from 1990 to 2004 and then a great surge from 2004 to 20007: the biggest surge happens from
2005 to 2006.
This chart reflects different developing modes of mobile phone industry in developed and developing countries. The
developed countries have a limited number of populations, most of whom are well-educated. Therefore, the spreading of the
mobile phone service is efficient and soon the market is saturated. Also at the beginning the developed countries have more
people who can afford this service. The developing countries have a large population who keeps a large demand for mobile
service. As the mobile phone service becomes cheaper and cheaper, the increasing customers subscribe to benefit from this
service.
As discussed above, it is not surprising to see this change. In my opinion, this trend that the number of mobile-phone
subscriptions is increasingly increasing will continue for a while in the future.
2010年 英语二真题答案: 31 A 32 A 33 D34 C 35 B
21 D 22 A 23 B 24 C 25 C
26 A 27 C 28 D 29 D 30 B
36 A 37 C 38 C 39 C 40 D
新题型 F T T T F
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