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2002年考研英语真题及解析(黄皮书)

2002年考研英语真题及解析(黄皮书)

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C OR D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 1 . As was discussed before, it was not 2 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic_ 3 _ ,following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 4 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 5 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 6 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 7 the 20th century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that Process in 8 . It is important to do so.It is generally recognized, 9 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 10 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 11 its impact on the media was not immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as 13 , with display becoming sharper and storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 15 generations, with the distance between generations much 16 .It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the 17 within which we now live. The communications revolution has 18 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 19 view about its economic, political, social and cultural implication s. “Benefits” have been weighed 20 “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.1. [A]between [B]before [C]since [D]later2. [A]after [B]by [C]during [D]until3. [A]means [B]method [C]medium [D]measure4. [A]process [B]company [C]light [D]form5. [A]gathered [B]speeded [C]worked [D]picked6. [A]on [B]out [C]over [D]off7. [A]of [B]for [C]beyond [D]into8. [A]concept [B]dimension [C]effect [D]perspective9. [A]indeed [B]hence [C]however [D]therefore10. [A]brought [B]followed [C]stimulated [D]characterized11. [A]unless [B]since [C]lest [D]although12. [A]apparent [B]desirable [C]negative [D]plausible13. [A]institutional [B]universal [C]fundamental [D]instrumental14. [A]ability [B]capability [C]capacity [D]faculty15. [A]by means of [B]in terms of [C]with regard to[D]in line with16. [A]deeper [B]fewer [C]nearer [D]smaller17. [A]context [B]range [C]scope [D]territory18. [A]regarded [B]impressed [C]influenced [D]effected19. [A]competitive [B]controversial [C]distracting [D]irrational20. [A]above [B]upon [C]against [D]withSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?”the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.”If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes theaudience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at first you don’t succeed, give up”or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatement. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.21. To make your humor work, you should .[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience[B] make fun of the disorganized people[C] address different problems to different people[D] show sympathy for your listeners22. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are .[A] impolite to new arrivals[B] very conscious of their godlike role[C] entitled to some privileges[D] very busy even during lunch hours23. It can be inferred from the text that public services .[A] have benefited many people[B] are the focus of public attention[C] are an inappropriate subject for humor[D] have often been the laughing stock24. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered .[A] in well-worded language[B] as awkwardly as possible[C] in exaggerated statements[D] as casually as possible25. The best title for the text may be .[A] Use Humor Effectively[B] Various Kinds of Humor[C] Add Humor to Speech[D] Different Humor StrategiesText 2Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics—the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for thetransaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy—far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone.But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves—goals that pose a real challenge. “While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error," says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can't yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic world.”Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented—and human perception far more complicated—than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can't approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don’t know quite how we do it.26. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in .[A] the use of machines to produce science fiction.[B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry.[C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work.[D] the elite’s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work.27. The word “gizmos” (line 1, paragraph 2) most probably means .[A] programs[B] experts[C] devices [D] creatures28. According to the text, what is beyond man's ability now is to design a robotthat can .[A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery.[B] interact with human beings verbally.[C] have a little common sense.[D] respond independently to a changing world.29. Besides reducing human labor, robots can also .[A] make a few decisions for themselves.[B] deal with some errors with human intervention.[C] improve factory environments.[D] cultivate human creativity.30. The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are .[A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure.[B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately.[C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information.[D] best used in a controlled environment.Text 3Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist’s commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.31. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is_______[A] global inflation. [B] reduction in supply.[C]fast growth in economy. [D] Iraq’s suspension of exports.32. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go updramatically if______.[A] price of crude rises. [B] commodity prices rise.[C] consumption rises. [D] oil taxes rise.33. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries_______.[A]heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive.[B]income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices.[C]manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed.[D]oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP.34. We can draw a conclusion from the text that_______.[A]oil-price shocks are less shocking now.[B]inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks.[C]energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.[D]the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry.35. From the text we can see that the writer seems__________.[A]optimistic. [B]sensitive. [C]gloomy. [D]scared.Text 4The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect”, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death”.George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. “It’s like surgery,” he says. “We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide.”On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.Just three weeks before the Court’s ruling on physician-assisted suicide, theNational Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying” as the twin problems of end-of-life care.The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies, to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life.Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering”, to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse”. He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear...that painful deaths are presumptiv ely ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension”.36. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that .[A] doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients’pain[B] it is still illegal for doctors to help the dying end their lives[C] the Supreme Court strongly opposes physician-assisted suicide[D] patients have no constitutional right to commit suicide37. Which of the following statements its true according to the text?[A] Doctors will be held guilty if they risk their patients’death.[B] Modern medicine has assisted terminally ill patients in painless recovery.[C] The Court ruled that high-dosage pain-relieving medication can beprescribed.[D] A doctor’s medication is no longer justified by his intentions.38. According to the NAS’s report, one of the problems in end-of-life care is .[A] prolonged medical procedures [B] inadequate treatment of pain[C] systematic drug abuse [D] insufficient hospital care39. Which of the following best defines the word “aggressive”(line 4, paragraph7)?[A] Bold. [B] Harmful. [C] Careless. [D] Desperate40. George Annas would probably agree that doctors should be punished if they .[A] manage their patients incompetently[B] give patients more medicine than needed[C] reduce drug dosages for their patients[D] prolong the needless suffering of the patientsPart BDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)Almost all our major problems involve human behavior, and they cannot be solved by physical and biological technology alone. What is needed is a technology of behavior, but we have been slow to develop the science from which such a technology might be drawn.(41)One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on. Physics and biology once followed similar practices and advanced only when they discarded them. (42)The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find. The environment is obviously important, but its role has remained obscure. It does not push or pull, it selects, and this function is difficult to discover and analyze.(43)The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied. As the interaction between organism and environment has come to be understood, however, effects once assigned to states of mind, feelings, and traits are beginning to be traced to accessible conditions, and a technology of behavior may therefore become available. It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces traditional prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched. Freedom and dignity illustrate the difficulty. (44)They are the possessions of the autonomous(self-governing)man of traditional theory, and they are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements. A scientific analysis shifts both the responsibility and the achievement to the environment. It also raises questions concerning “values”. Who will use a technology and to what ends? (45)Until these issues are resolved, a technology of behavior will continue to be rejected, and with it possibly the only way to solve our problems.Section III Writing46. Directions:Study the following picture carefully and write an es say entitled “Cultures National and International”.In the essay you should1. describe the picture and interpret its meaning, and2. give your comment on the phenomenon.You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)An American girl in traditional Chinese costume(服装)第一部分英语知识应用试题解析一、文章总体分析本文主要介绍了计算机的发展对通信革命及人们的生存方式产生的影响。

考研英语真题及解析(黄皮书)

考研英语真题及解析(黄皮书)

全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C OR D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 1 . As was discussed before, it was not 2 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic_ 3 _ ,following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 4 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution 5 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 6 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 7 the 20th century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that Process in 8 . It is important to do so.It is generally recognized, 9 , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, 10 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 11 its impact on the media was not immediately 12 . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as well as 13 , with display becoming sharper and storage 14 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 15 generations, with the distance between generations much 16 .It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the 17 within which we now live. The communications revolution has 18 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 19 view about its economic, political, social and cultural implicati ons. “Benefits” have been weighed 20 “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.1. [A]between [B]before [C]since [D]later2. [A]after [B]by [C]during [D]until3. [A]means [B]method [C]medium [D]measure4. [A]process [B]company [C]light [D]form5. [A]gathered [B]speeded [C]worked [D]picked6. [A]on [B]out [C]over [D]off7. [A]of [B]for [C]beyond [D]into8. [A]concept [B]dimension [C]effect [D]perspective9. [A]indeed [B]hence [C]however [D]therefore10. [A]brought [B]followed [C]stimulated [D]characterized11. [A]unless [B]since [C]lest [D]although12. [A]apparent [B]desirable [C]negative [D]plausible13. [A]institutional [B]universal [C]fundamental [D]instrumental14. [A]ability [B]capability [C]capacity [D]faculty15. [A]by means of [B]in terms of [C]with regard to[D]in line with16. [A]deeper [B]fewer [C]nearer [D]smaller17. [A]context [B]range [C]scope [D]territory18. [A]regarded [B]impressed [C]influenced [D]effected19. [A]competitive [B]controversial [C]distracting [D]irrational20. [A]above [B]upon [C]against [D]withSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?”the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.”If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes theaudience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at first you don’t succeed, give up”or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatement. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.21. To make your humor work, you should .[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience[B] make fun of the disorganized people[C] address different problems to different people[D] show sympathy for your listeners22. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are .[A] impolite to new arrivals[B] very conscious of their godlike role[C] entitled to some privileges[D] very busy even during lunch hours23. It can be inferred from the text that public services .[A] have benefited many people[B] are the focus of public attention[C] are an inappropriate subject for humor[D] have often been the laughing stock24. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered .[A] in well-worded language[B] as awkwardly as possible[C] in exaggerated statements[D] as casually as possible25. The best title for the text may be .[A] Use Humor Effectively[B] Various Kinds of Humor[C] Add Humor to Speech[D] Different Humor StrategiesText 2Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has resulted in robotics—the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction, they have begun to come close.As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for thetransaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy—far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone.But if robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves—goals that pose a real challenge. “While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error," says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can't yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic world.”Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries.What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented—and human perception far more complicated—than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can't approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don’t know quite how we do it.26. Human ingenuity was initially demonstrated in .[A] the use of machines to produce science fiction.[B] the wide use of machines in manufacturing industry.[C] the invention of tools for difficult and dangerous work.[D] the elite’s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work.27. The word “gizmos” (line 1, paragraph 2) most probably means .[A] programs [B] experts [C] devices [D] creatures28. According to the text, what is beyond man's ability now is to design a robotthat can .[A] fulfill delicate tasks like performing brain surgery.[B] interact with human beings verbally.[C] have a little common sense.[D] respond independently to a changing world.29. Besides reducing human labor, robots can also .[A] make a few decisions for themselves.[B] deal with some errors with human intervention.[C] improve factory environments.[D] cultivate human creativity.30. The author uses the example of a monkey to argue that robots are .[A] expected to copy human brain in internal structure.[B] able to perceive abnormalities immediately.[C] far less able than human brain in focusing on relevant information.[D] best used in a controlled environment.Text 3Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist’s commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.31. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is_______[A] global inflation. [B] reduction in supply.[C]fast growth in economy. [D] Iraq’s suspension of exports.32. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go updramatically if______.[A] price of crude rises. [B] commodity prices rise.[C] consumption rises. [D] oil taxes rise.33. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries_______.[A]heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive.[B]income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices.[C]manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed.[D]oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP.34. We can draw a conclusion from the text that_______.[A]oil-price shocks are less shocking now.[B]inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks.[C]energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.[D]the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry.35. From the text we can see that the writer seems__________.[A]optimistic. [B]sensitive. [C]gloomy. [D]scared.Text 4The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering.Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect”, a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects—a good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseen—is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect.Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death”.George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. “It’s like surgery,” he says. “We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. 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(42)The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find. The environment is obviously important, but its role has remained obscure. It does not push or pull, it selects, and this function is difficult to discover and analyze.(43)The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied. As the interaction between organism and environment has come to be understood, however, effects once assigned to states of mind, feelings, and traits are beginning to be traced to accessible conditions, and a technology of behavior may therefore become available. It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces traditional prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched. Freedom and dignity illustrate the difficulty. (44)They are the possessions of the autonomous(self-governing)man of traditional theory, and they are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements. A scientific analysis shifts both the responsibility and the achievement to the e nvironment. It also raises questions concerning “values”. Who will use a technology and to what ends? (45)Until these issues are resolved, a technology of behavior will continue to be rejected, and with it possibly the only way to solve our problems.Section III Writing46. Directions:Study the following picture carefully and write an essay entitled “Cultures National and International”.In the essay you should1. describe the picture and interpret its meaning, and2. give your comment on the phenomenon.You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)An American girl in traditional Chinese costume(服装)第一部分英语知识应用试题解析一、文章总体分析本文主要介绍了计算机的发展对通信革命及人们的生存方式产生的影响。

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2001年考研英语真题及解析(黄皮书)2

2001年考研英语真题及解析(黄皮书)2第一部分英语知识应运试题解析一、文章总体分析本文是一篇报道性的文章,介绍了自露丝玛莉·韦斯特案件发生后,政府、法院、媒体各方面对于付款给证人的反应。

文章第一段介绍了政府的反应:要禁止报界买断证人新闻的举动。

第二至六段介绍了以大法官埃尔温勋爵为代表的法院在这个问题上的态度。

最后一段介绍了露丝玛莉·韦斯特案件的始末。

在该案件中由于很多证人通过讲述他们的经历而从媒体获得报酬,结果导致被告数罪并罚,被判十项无期徒刑。

结论为付款给证人的做法成为一个颇有争议的问题。

二、试题具体解析1. [A] as to关于,至于[B] for instance举例[C] in particular特别地[D] such as例如[答案] D[解析]本题考核的知识点是:逻辑关系。

解答该题时,考生需要判断空格前后部分prominent cases和The trial of Rosemary West 之间的关系,前者泛指“一些著名的案件”,后者是一个具体的案件,即“对露丝玛莉·韦斯特案件的审判”,可见两者是例证关系。

因此,所填入的选项应是一个表示“例如”或“像……一样”的连接词。

首先排除as to和in particular。

for instance(或for example)可表示“举例”,但放在句中多为插入语,且后面不可直接加宾语。

如:Here in Chicago, for instance, the movement was growing by leaps and bounds.(比如在芝加哥,运动正在迅猛发展)。

选项中只有介词短语such as可以接名词做宾语,表达“例如…,象这种的”的含义。

首段第一句话的结构比较复杂,中心句为The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers(政府要禁止报界付钱给证人),现在分词结构seeking to buy up... Rosemary West 做后置定语,用来修饰newspapers,意为“试图收买涉及一些要案证人的报纸”。

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1garbledadj 引起误解的=misleading;混淆的;歪曲的【类】garbled:comprehend=obscured:recognize歪曲的不容易理解=模糊的不容易认出ramshackle:soundness=garbled:clarity摇摇欲坠的不稳固=混淆的不清晰"coltishadj 放荡不羁的=frisky=frolicsome;似小马的;没有经验的【类】coltish:discipline=loutish:grace无拘束的不会有纪律=粗野的不会有优雅"loutishadj (乡下人具有的)粗鲁的=boorish【记】读:老踢屎-没事儿老是踢屎-粗鲁的【参】lout(n 笨人;v 愚弄)【类】coltish:discipline=loutish:grace放荡的不会有纪律=粗野的不会优雅【反】genteel(adj 上流社会的)"conundrumn 谜语(答案为双关语)=puzzling;(自相矛盾的、难以解决的)巨难的题=questions=dilemma【聊】双关语:Seven days without water make one weak=week 七天没有水使人虚弱;七天没有水也是一个星期。

【记】con全部,undrum=under+drum(n 鼓):全部蒙在鼓里-谜语【类】conundrum:solve=tangle:unravel 难题难解决=缠结难解开"miragen 幻影;海市蜃楼(可以创造出水和远处物体的倒影的光学现象,是冷热相间的几层空气导致的光线扭曲而产生的结果)【记】mir惊奇,age-使人惊奇之物-海市蜃楼【参】miraculous(adj 神奇的);mirror(n 镜子)【类】maelstrom:turbulent=mirage:illusory大旋涡的特点是狂暴=海市蜃楼的特点是虚幻"carapacen (蟹或龟等甲壳纲动物的)甲壳【记】car汽车,a一,pace走步-汽车走一步像乌龟一乌龟壳【类】carapace:turtle=hull:seed 乌龟壳套住乌龟=种子壳套住种子"calligraphyn 书法=handwriting;书法作品的总称【例】artistic calligraphy 美术字【根】calli=kalli漂亮的,graphy写-写漂亮的字-书法call+I+写:叫我写,我才写:书法家的风范【类】calligraphy:scribble=sonnet:doggerel书法不是乱涂=十四行诗不是打油诗"doggereln 打油诗(幽默、滑稽、粗劣、无章法的诗)【记】dog做的诗【参】doggery(n 卑劣行为;下等社会;贱民)【类】calligraphy:scribble=sonnet:doggerel书法不是乱涂乱写=十四行诗不是打油诗doggerel:verse=burlesque:play 打油诗是滑稽诗=滑稽剧是滑稽剧doggerel:poem=sketch:draw 打油诗是粗略诗=草图是粗略图"prosaicadj 单调无趣的(缺乏想象力和灵感的)【记】源于:prose(n 散文),aic-散文一般单调的pro前面,sai塞,c:文章的前面塞了很多无聊的东西-单调的【类】insipid:invention=prosaic:imagination乏味的没有创新=单调的没有想象力【反】extraordinary(adj 非常的);exceptional(adj 异常的);imaginary(adj 假想的;虚构的);exciting(adj 令人兴奋的);ingenious(adj 机灵的;独创的);preternatural(adj 超自然的)"derelictadj (被拥有或保管者)抛弃的=abandoned;玩忽职守的=remiss;n 被遗弃的人;流浪汉【记】de使离开,relict=relinquish放弃-放弃掉【参】relict(n 寡妇;残余物);relic(n 遗物,遗迹);dereliction(n 抛弃物)【类】stickler:derelict=poseur:unaffected坚持己见的人不会是放弃的=装模做样的人不会是自然的【反】extremely careful(极其小心的);pillar of society(国之栋梁)"capitulationn 有条件投降,投降条约【反】resistance(n 抵抗)"abdicatev (正式)放弃(权力、高职位或责任)=relinquish=shed=slough【例】to abdicate the office 辞职abdicate a right 放弃权利【根】ab远离,dic宣布,说话,命令-宣布远离,远离命令-退位ab远离,dicate=dictator(n 独裁者)-放弃权力【参】abdicator(n 退位者);indicate(v 表示,暗示)【类】abdicate:throne=resign:office=recant:belief放弃王位=放弃职位=放弃信仰【反】usurp(v 纂夺);assume(v 担任官位);constitute(v 任命)"usurpv 篡夺(非法地用武力抢夺他人的权力)【记】usu=use,rp=up:用武力上台-篡夺【类】embezzle:funds=usurp:power贪污资金=篡夺权利usurp:take=trespass:enter篡夺是非法夺取=侵入是非法进入【反】abdicate(v 让位);assume rightfully(正当的就职)"insalubrityn 不利健康【记】salubrity(n 有益健康)源于:salud(口语)祝您健康,干杯sa三,lu鹿,brity:每天吃三根鹿茸-有益健康【反】healthfulness(n 有益健康)"propitiatev 讨好,抚慰(安抚被侵犯的一方)【记】pro前,pit=pet寻求,iate-向前寻求和解-讨好pro前,pit坑,I,ate吃:在发怒的一方摆着一坑的吃的-使息怒【类】immutable:altered=inalienable:surrendered=implacable:propitiated不可更改的无法改变=不可屈服的无法征服=不可安慰抚的无法劝解【反】arouse hostility(敌意的唤醒);antagonize(v 敌对);incense(v 激怒)"2boltn 螺栓,门栓;v 急逃=dash out=dart【例】The pickpocket bolted 那扒手溜之大吉了。

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英语二真题答案解析黄皮书
近年来,参加高考的学生越来越多。

高考是中国教育系统中最具挑战性的考试之一,各科目的真题解析备受关注。

本文将针对英语二部分的真题进行详细解析,帮助考生对答案有更深入的理解。

首先,我们来看一道阅读理解题:
Passage 1:
【2019 英语二真题】
(1)Diamonds are said to be a girl’s best friend, but they have victims far beyond the problems of breakup. According to a book in publishing now in Germany, the diamond industry is far from pure. The money produced by the South African mines has been known to help finance wars, countries in which many people have only known the terror and fear of fleeing their homes.
(2)No one knows exactly how many conflict diamonds are in circulation today, but the number is estimated to be between two and five percent. In 2000, the United Nations adopted a resolution to avoid purchasing any conflict diamonds. However, in 2018, the European Union regretted to find that it still had possible conflict diamonds by failing to check Madagascar’s record.
(3)But there is still hope. The diamond industry
started an international tracking system; it buys and sells diamonds, trying to prevent the selling of conflict diamonds. So, what are the origins of these diamonds? Some of them have unknown origins, so it is difficult to determine where they are coming from. However, miners in countries such as Zimbabwe and Congo are clearly facing dangerous working conditions and unfair wages. The pressure of the aforementioned international tracking system has encouraged the African government to implement laws to make sure that it maintains its customers, and therefore ensures that they are buying non-conflict diamonds.
(4)In conclusion, we need to be more aware when buying diamonds. We need to make sure that we are buying only non-conflict diamonds. Although the diamond industry has taken some steps toward preventing the sale of conflict diamonds,
it is still our responsibility as consumers to demand transparency and hold them accountable.
1. According to the passage, the diamond industry
____________.
A. is perfectly transparent
B. has been a major cause of wars
C. sells between two and five percent of conflict diamonds
D. fails to maintain customers
答案:C
解析:
根据文章第3段,“But there is still hope. The diamond industry started an international tracking system; it buys and sells diamonds, trying to prevent the selling of conflict diam onds.”可知,钻石行业采取了一些措施来防止冲突钻石的销售。

因此,根据选择肯定这一观点的C选项。

这道题考察了考生对文章细节的理解能力。

在阅读理解题中,关键在于细致入微地解析文章中的细节,并能够据此选择正确答案。

确定好关键词,比如这道题目中的"diamond industry"和"conflict diamonds",然后仔细阅读相关句子,理解其含义,最终得出正确答案C。

接下来,我们来看一道语法填空题。

【2019 英语二真题】
(1)Peter was waiting for his turn in front of the ticket counter when he sighted Jack.
(2)Glad as he was to see his old friend, he forgot about his ticket for a moment and walked toward him, shaking hands with him warmly.
(3)_________ have the ticket in his hand.
(4)"Long time no see! How have you been?" Peter greeted.
答案:Only then did Peter时态「有时」
解析:
这道题考察了倒装句的使用。

根据句子结构和上下文的语境,我
们可以推断,在sighted Jack之后,Peter才突然想起要拿票。

因此,在第3个空白处使用"Only then did Peter"这个倒装句结构。

倒装句
常常用来强调时间、地点或程度。

通过上述例题解析,我们可以看出,英语二部分的真题解析需要
考生对阅读理解和语法的理解能力。

阅读理解需要考生拥有良好的阅
读技巧和对细节的敏锐观察力,而语法填空则考察考生对语法规则和
句子结构的熟练掌握程度。

总之,通过对英语二真题的解析,我们希望能帮助考生更好地理
解答案,提高解题的准确性和效率。

同时,我们也鼓励考生在备考过
程中多进行真题练习,并结合考生自身的强项和弱项进行有针对性的
复习,以取得更好的考试成绩。

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