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全国2006年10月高等教育自学考试英语阅读(二)试题课程代码：00596Ⅰ.Reading Comprehension.(50 points,2points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages. After each passage, there are five questions followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and then write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.Passage OnePlants and animals that have been studied carefully seem to have built-in clocks．These biological clocks，as they are called，usually are not quite exact in measuring time．However，they work pretty well because they are“ reset ”each day，when the sun comes up．Do pigeons use their biological clocks to help them find directions from the sun? We can keep pigeons in a room lit only by lamps．And we can program the lighting to produce artificial “days”，different from the day outside．After a while we have shifted their clocks．Now we take them far away from home and let them go on a sunny day．Most of them start out as if they know just which way to go，but choose a wrong direction．They have picked a direction that would be correct for the position of the sun and the time of day according to their shifted clocks．It is known and experimented that homing pigeons can tell directions by the sun．But what happens when the sky is darkly overcast by clouds and no one can see where the sun is? Then the pigeons still find their way home．The same experiment has been repeated many times on sunny days and the result was always the same．But on very overcast days clock-shifted pigeons are just as good as normal pigeons in starting out in the right directions．So it seems that pigeons also have some extra sense of direction to use when they cannot see the sun．Naturally，people have wondered whether pigeons might have a built-in compass－something that would tell them about the directions of the earth’s magnetic field．One way to test that idea would be to see if a pigeon’s sense of direction can be fooled by a magnet attached to its back．With a strong magnet close by，a compass can no longer tell direction．To test the idea，a group of ten pigeons had strong little magnet bars attached to their backs．Another group carried brass bars instead which were not magnetic．In a number of experiments，both groups were taken away from home and let go．On sunny days none of the magnet-pigeons was fooled．They were just as good as the brass-pigeons in starting out in the right direction toward home．On cloudy，overcast days，however，with no sun the brass-pigeons chose the right direction，but the magnet-pigeons were in trouble．They later started out in different directions and acted completely lost．Questions 1-5 are based on Passage One．11．Which of the following can best describe the organization of the passage?A．Questions are raised first and then experiments to answer them are cited．B．opinions are given first and then evidences against them ore quoted．C．Statements come first and examples supporting them follow．D．People’s long held belief s are cited first and exceptions come after．2．What can be inferred from the passage about biological clocks?A．They are used by all plants and animals to tell time．B．Pigeons’biological clocks are regulated every day with the sunrise．C．The built-in biological clocks cannot be changed．D．They gradually developed as pigeons grow mature．3．How can people shift pigeons’ biological clocks?A．By training them when they are young．B．By minor and harmless operations．C．By taking them really far away from home．D．By keeping them in artificial days．4．Whic h is true about pigeons’ finding directions?A．With a brass on back they can find directions sooner．B．They can find directions better than other birds．C．They use the earth’s magnetic field and the sun to find directions．D．They can find directions only to their home．5．What does the author want to say by citing the last experiment?A．On heavily cloudy days，pigeons that are not well trained do not fly.B．Pigeons use different sources to find directions on different weather.C．Magnetic field is an important source in helping pigeons to find directions.D．The little magnet bars make it easier for pigeons to find directions．Passage TwoIn some ways,yes—but the differences matter more．Just as human history has been shaped by the rise and fall of successive empires，the computer industry has, in the few decades of its existence，been dominated by one large company after another．During the mainframe era，IBM wore the crown．But it fumbled the transition to smaller machines in the personal-computer era，and the throne was usurped by Microsoft．Now，at the dawn of the new era of Internet services，Google is widely seen as the heir to the kingdom．As the upstart has matured into a powerful industry giant，the suggestion2that “Google is the new Microsoft”has become commonplace in computing circles．Is it true?The comparison is both a compliment and a reproach．It is a compliment because it implies that Google has now become the company that defines the environment in which other technology firms operate，just as IBM and Microsoft once did．As with Microsoft in its heyday，Google is the technology firm where the smartest geeks aspire to work；it embodies the technological zeitgeist；and it is a highly regarded company that has become a household name．But the comparison is also a reproach，because it highlights growing concern that Google is now too powerful for its own good，or that of the industry，or indeed that of the world at large．For many people，Google provides the front door to the Internet．For many online businesses,their position in its search ranking—the workings of which are a closely guarded secret—is a matter of life or death．Too much power is thus concentrated in Goo gle’s hands，say critics，including Microsoft’s Bi ll Gates．Microsoft and other big Internet firms，including eBay，Amazon and Yahoo，are now said to be negotiating various alliances in order to provide a counterweight to the new behemoth．Smaller firms feel even more vulnerable．As soon as Google says it is moving into a particular market，small fry in that market now dart for cover，unless they are lucky enough to be acquired by Google．Yet there are some crucial ways in which Google differs from Microsoft．For a start，it is a far more innovative company，and its use of small，flexible teams has so far allowed it to remain innovative even as it has grown．Microsoft，in contrast，has stagnated as a result of its size and dominance．It is least innovative in the markets in which it faces the least competition—operating systems，office software and web browsers—though it is，curiously，still capable of innovating in markets in which it has strong rivals(notably video gaming)．Try to avoid using Microsoft software for a day，particularly if you work in an office，and you will have difficulty；but surviving a day without Google is relatively easy．It has strong competitors in all the markets in which it operates：search，online advertising，mapping，software services，and so on．Large firms such as Yahoo，which previously farmed searches out to Google，have switched to other technologies．Goo gle’s market share in search has fallen from a high of around 80％to around 50％today．Perhaps the clearest evidence that Googl e’s continued dominance is not inevitable is the fate of Alta Vista，the former top dog in Internet search．Who remembers it today?Questions 6-10 are based on Passage Two．6．The comparison made among IBM，Microsoft and Google suggests that_____.A．IBM is no longer an important firm in the computer industryB．Microsoft has always been dominant in the computer industryC．Google is gaining a dominant position in computing technologyD．it is not valid to make a comparison between the three firms7．Which of the following is NOT true about Google?3A．Google is widely known only in computing circles．B．Google is being criticized for being too powerful．C．Google is of vital importance to online businesses．D．Google is likely to eplace Microsoft in computer industry．8．Compared with Microsoft, ogle is said to be more_____.A．stagnate in technology B．inflexible in structureC．ambitious in development D．innovative in market9．Microsoft is facing challenges in_____.A．operating system B．office softwareC．web browsers D．video gaming10．Which is used as an example to predict the likely future of Goo gle’s Internet earch?A．Alta Vista．B．Yahoo．C．eBay．D．Amazon．Passage ThreeIt is such an odd relationship between people and pandas．We are so fond of them that when the Chinese government lent a pair to the San Diego Zoo for six months，the number of visitors increased sharply，and the zoo sold over half a million panda T-shirts．When a Panda was born in Tokyo Zoo in 1986，thousands of people phoned daily to hear a recording of the baby’s c ry．Although the reason we love pandas is not easy to explain，animal scientists offer some plausible theories．They suggest that parenting instincts are aroused by the common characteristics of babies：round faces and small jaws．Pandas，even in adulthood，display all of these interesting features．Until recently，however，it seemed nearly certain that this much-loved creature was destined to die out．Even now the giant panda numbers fewer than 1000 in a shrinking wilderness in one small area in China，an untimely end for the wo rld’s most beloved wild species may still be avoidable．“It’s easy to save the panda，”says George Schaller，the New York Zoological So ciety’s panda expert and a world renowned zoologist．“All it needs is bamboo and peace．”Wild life experts have recommended some basic steps to help．A detailed plan for the protection of panda has been drawn up by the Wildlife Fund，in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Forestry．The plan calls for a 70％increase in the panda preserve at a cost of $20，000，000 over five years．The plan was submitted to the Chinese government in August，1989．After more than a year of debating and delay，the National People’s Congress voted in favor of the bill to fund the plan．4Almost 100 pandas are kept in Chinese Zoos and at institutions in other countries，but during the past three decades fewer than 100 baby pandas have been born in China．And the majority of these have died young．Despite such unfavorable circumstance，the giant pandas prospects are better now than in the recent past．New insights into behavior，diet and physiology offer hope to protect and raise these animals more effectively．The most promising hope for panda’s future seems to be the increased efforts by Chinese government．They have established 13 panda reserves and announced plans for 14 more．A farm has been relocated away from a panda habitat, and some 60 families living in one reserve have been relocated，costing the government nearly $ 370，00．Public concern for the welfare of pandas has been heightened by stiff penalties for poaching—although it remains a serious problem．A few farmers have captured isolated pandas and released them back to larger habitats．Questions 11-15 are based on Passage Three．11．The passage mainly discusses_______．A．the mysterious life of pandasB．attentions towards panda protectionC．public liking for pandasD．the strange behaviors of pandas12．Pandas are much loved by people for all of the following reasons EXCEPT_______．A．their baby-like featuresB．their round faces and small jawsC．their attractive criesD．their inactivity13．Which of the following factors plays a NEGATIVE rol e to panda’s surviving?A．Public concern for panda’s welfa re has been heightened．B．Chinese government invested more money in panda protection．C．Proper protection measures were not taken in time．D．More reserves will be established in China．14．Which of the following plays a key role in panda protection?A．Animal behaviorists．B．Chinese government．C．American zoologists．D．The zoos which raise pandas．15．Pandas can be better protected today owing to______．A．a better understanding of the animalB．the increase in foreign funds5C．their increasing popularityD．the efforts of American scientistsPassage FourThat experiences influence subsequent behavior is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering．Learning could not occur without the function popularly named memory．Constant practice has such an effect on memory as to 1ead to skilful performance on the piano，to recitation of a poem，and even to reading and understanding these words．So-called intelligent behavior demands memory，remembering being a primary requirement for reasoning．The ability to solve any problem or even to recognize that a problem exists depends on memory．Typically，the decision to cross a street is based on remembering many earlier experiences．Practice (or review) tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material．Over a period of no practice what has been learned tends to be forgotten；and the adaptive consequences may not seem obvious．Yet，dramatic instances of sudden forgetting can be seen to be adaptive．In this sense，the ability to forget can be interpreted to have survived through a process of natural selection in animals．Indeed，when one’s memory of an emotionally painful experien ce leads to serious anxiety，forgetting may produce relief．Nevertheless，an evolutionary interpretation might make it difficult to understand how the commonly gradual process of forgetting survived natural selection．In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible．aspects，it is helpful to consider what would happen if memories failed to fade．Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time，since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out，providing clues for inferring duration．Without forgetting，adaptive ability would suffer，for example，learned behavior that might have been correct a decade ago may no longer be．Cases are recorded of people who (by ordinary standards) forgot so little that their everyday activities were full of confusion．This forgetting seems to serve that survival of the individual and the species．Another line of thought assumes a memory storage system of limited capacity that provides adaptive flexibility specifically through forgetting．In this view，continual adjustments are made between learning or memory storage (input) and forgetting (output)．Indeed，there is evidence that the rate at which individuals forget is directly related to how much they have learned．Such data offers gross support of contemporary models of memory that assume an input-output balance．Questions 16-20 are based on Passage Four.16. From the evolutionary point of view,_______.A．sudden forgetting may bring about adaptive consequencesB．forgetting for lack of practice tends to be obviously inadaptiveC．if a person gets very forgetful all of a sudden he must be very adaptiveD．forgetting is an indication of an individual’s adaptability617.According to the passage, if a person never forgot,_______.A．he would survive bestB．he would have a lot of troubleC．the evolution of memory would stopD．his ability to learn would be enhanced18.From the last paragraph we know that _______.A．forgetfulness is a response to learningB．memory is a compensation for forgettingC．the capacity of a memory storage system is limitedD．the memory storage system is balanced19.The tone of the passage can best be described as _______.A．humorous B．theoreticalC．exaggerative D．philosophical20.The author’s main purpose in writing this passage is to _______.A．interpret the function of forgettingB．illustrate the process of adaptingC．explain the performance of memoryD．emphasize the importance of learningPassage FiveMany people believe that beavers are intelligent animals. After all, their dams are fine examples of engineering. The engineering feats of beavers are well known, but it will be useful to recall their main features.A pair of beavers will construct a dam across a river. The water held back by the dam overflows the bank on either side of the river, flooding the adjacent ground and forming a pond. At some point in the pond the beavers then build their home, which is called a lodge. This consists of a conical pile of branches and sticks of two to six feet in length held together with mud and stones, the top of which projects above the waterline. It serves as a shelter from the elements, a refuge from enemies and a base for food supplies to be drawn upon in winter.From an engineering point of view the lodge could hardly be improved．Not only does it contain a central chamber just above water level，but it also has one or more escape tunnels，well-insulated walls and a vertical chimney，which regulates the temperature inside and gives air-conditioning．It is altogether a cunning piece of construction，with all modern conveniences．It is，in fact，better protected against the effects of flooding than many human habitations．Trees are essential to beavers．They eat the bark on the upper branches，and in order to reach these they must fell the7trees．Tree-felling is a skilled job，as anyone who has felled even a sapling knows．But beavers fell more than saplings．A pair is said to be able to fell a tree four inches in diameter in 15 minutes．They do it by gnawing all round the trunk，as high up from the ground as they can reach．They often build platforms of mud and earth to enable them to cut through the tree where the trunk is narrower．The engineering skill of beavers is to a large extent a result of their ability to use their front paws as hands．A female will carry her young held under her chin with her front paws walking on her hind legs．A similar method is used by all beavers when transporting stones or mud，although they also carry such materials on their broad flat tails．The forepaws are also used for burrowing and for dragging heavier logs．It is easy，therefore，to see why people should tal k about the beaver’ s skill，cleverness and intelligence．However，the structur e of the beaver’s brain gives no indication that the animal is any more intelligent than other rodents．Any of its actions，which appear to be the result of a higher order of reasoning，can be shown to be due to instinct and are suspected of being the outcome of an inborn pattern of behavior．Questions 21-25 are based on Passage Five．21．The passage implies that beavers prefer to build their home in_____.A．deep water B．shallow waterC．rivers rather than pond D．1akes rather than rivers22．The word “ elements ” in Paragraph 2 means_____.A．natural habitations for animalsB．environment natural to an individualC．atmospheric forces as rain, wind or snowD．substances as earth, water, air and fire23．The sentence “F rom an engineering point of view the lodge could hardly be improved ”means___．A．the lodge was too poor to improveB．the lodge was left much to improveC．the lodge was nearly perfectD．it is easy to improve the lodge24．Beavers fell trees mainly to___．A．build dams B．build their lodgesC．gain food D．exercise their jaws25．Which of the following statements is best to describe beavers?A．They are clever animals and learn quickly．8B．They are more intelligent than other animals．C．Many of their skills are developed in late life．D．Many of their skills are inborn capabilities．Ⅱ．Vocabulary.(10 points, 1 point for each)Directions：Scan the following passage and find the words which have roughly the same meanings as those given below．The number in the brackets after each word definition refers to the number of paragraph in which the target word is．Write the word you choose on the Answer Sheet．Camps are either temporary，that is changed from day to day，or they are permanent and may be visited year after year，or they may be used for a few weeks at a time. Temporary camps are the ones we are considering，and these can be elaborate or very，very simple．I prefer the latter，and I am sure the boys will agree with me．During the autumn and when the weather is dry and the nights not too cool, the best way to camp is in the open，sleeping on beds of boughs，about a roaring fire，and with one blanket under and another over．Small dog tents，like the ones our soldiers carried in the Civil War, are cheap and very convenient. Each man carried a section，and two made a tent, into which two men crawled when it rained，but in dry weather they preferred to sleep in the open，even when it was freezing．Shelters of boughs，arranged in an A-formed fashion from a ridge pole make good temporary shelters and are first rate as wind breaks at night．A shack built of crossed logs requires some time to build and some skill to make，but it is not beyond the reach of any boy who has seen—and who has not—an old-fashioned log shanty．26.not lasting(Para.1)plicated (Para.1)28.making a loud sound (Para.2)29.bed covering (Para.2)30.moved with the body close to the ground (Para.3)31.held above other things (Para.3)32.terribly cold (Para.3)33.a long rounded piece of wood (Para.4)34.outside the limits (Para.5)35.a roughly-built house like a shack (Para.5)Ⅲ.Summarization.(20 points,2 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraphs is followed by an incomplete phrase9or sentence. Spell out the missing letters of the word on your Answer Sheet.Paragraph OneHigh salaries in the electricity, telecommunications and other monopoly industries have drawn strong criticism in China, where the Gini coefficient, now stands at 0.46, exceeding the internationally recognized alarm level of 0.45. So China is considering cutting wages in monopoly industries to reduce the country’s widening income gap. A draft directive document has been worked out for this purpose.36.The need to n ____the income gap.Paragraph TwoThrough operating remote controls and TV sets, people can log onto the Internet, send and receive E-mails, order dishes, and transfer accounts. They can choose different watching angles and show supports to particular teams while watching televised football games. Of course these services are not free. Experts say pay-TV is a little different with digital TV, but both stand for the developing trend of China’s television industry.37.The e_____ of pay-TV.Paragraph ThreeThis new kind of website is known as a“weblog ”,or “ bolg ”.A weblog is an online journal, typically consisting of a personal diary or social and political commentary ,sometimes with replies from readers. Blogs have common elements:updated frequently(usually daily); informal; grouped by date with links to archives of older posts.38.The passage talks about w_____.Paragraph FourA fashionable word in English these days is YAHOO, a word popularized by the Internet search engine carrying the same name. The original“yahoos”were quite different. They were the nasty, brutish, short and subhuman savages described in the Gulliver’s Travels.Today they are die-hard fans of the home team of any sport or sport enthusiasts who can’t help loving the home team.39.How did the w____ yahoo come?Paragraph FiveOn your interview day, you should arrive at least half an hour earlier. Tell the secretary at the reception desk about your arranged interview as soon as you get there, and wait in the lounge just to relax. But while waiting, watch your posture. When your name is called, let your interviewer see a candidate full of confidence and ready for nothing else but the interview.40.T_____for interviewees.Paragraph Six10A BMW is designed to bring confidence and joy to every moment you spend behind the wheel. Over the vast blanket of hard-packed snow and ice during the winter months, to respond with lightning accuracy in each of these situations may be impossible for a human driver, but not for a BMW equipped with All Season Traction.41.Gua antee of s____ for BMW drivers.Paragraph Seven“There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ,”wrote John Mansfield in his tribute to English universities—and his words are equally true today. He admired the splendid beauty of the university, he said, because it was “a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.”42.The paragraph is about the u____ education.Paragraph EightConsumers of electricity usually accept the fact that power cuts frequently occur during thunderstorms. If outages(电力中断)occur on a sunny day, consumers will blame the power company. However, most outages occur due to circumstances beyond the power company’s control. Animals with the ability to reach the top of power poles can knock out power of many houses.43.There are many c_____ for power failure.Paragraph NineA poll was taken recently surveying twelve hundred adults in the United States to find out what they considered important in their lives. Ninety-six percent said that having a good family life was important. Ninety-five percent said that using their mind and abilities was important, which marks a shift in the type of work from physical labor to mental skills. 44.People’s v_____ towards life.Paragraph TenSome people feel very nervous when they fly in airplanes. No matter how hard they try, they cannot lower their anxiety. Many notice their anxiety but only a few are conscious of the way they express their tension. Some try to hide their nervousness; some become aggressive, attacking people by making them the butt of cruel jokes.45.Different r____ to tension when flying.Ⅳ.Translation.(20 points, 4 points for each)Directions: In the following passage, there are five groups of underlined sentences. Read the passage and translate these sentences into Chinese. Write your translation on the Answer Sheet.Only 100 years ago man lived in harmony with nature. There weren’t so many people then and their wants were fewer. Whatever wastes were produced could be absorbed by nature and were soon covered over.(46) Today this harmonious relationship is threatened by man’s lack of foresight and planning, and by his carelessness and greed. For man is slowly11poisoning his environment.Pollution is a “dirty”word. To pollute means to contaminate—to spoil something by introducing impurities which make it unfit or unclean to use. Pollution comes in many forms. We see it, smell it, taste it, drink it ,and stumble through it.(47) We literally live in pollution, and, not surprisingly, it is beginning to threaten our health, our happiness, and our very civilization.Once we thought of pollution as meaning simply smog—the choking, stinging, dirty air that hovers over cities. But air pollution, while it is still the most dangerous, is only one type of contamination among several which attack the most basic life function.Through the uncontrolled use of insecticides, man has polluted the land, killing the wildlife. By dumping sewage and chemicals into rivers and lakes, we have contaminated our drinking water. We are polluting the ocean, too, killing the fish and thereby depriving ourselves of an invaluable food supply.(48) Part of the problem is our exploding population. More and more people produce more wastes. But this problem is intensified by our “throw-away”technology. Each year Americans dispose of 7 million autos, 20 million tons of waste paper,25 million pounds of toothpaste tubes and 48 million cans. We throw away gum wrappers, newspapers, and paper plates. It is easier and cheaper to buy a new one and discard the old, even though 95% of its parts may still be functioning. Soon we will wear clothing made of paper:“Wear it once and throw it away,”will be the slogan of the fashion-conscious.(49)Where is this all to end? Are we turning the world into a gigantic dump, or is there hope that we can solve the pollution problem? Fortunately, solutions are in sight. A few of them are positively ingenious.Take the problem of discarded cars, for instance. They are too bulky to ship as scrap to a steel mill. They must first be flattened. This is done in a giant compressor which can reduce a Cadillac to the size of a television set in a matter of minutes. Any leftover scrap metal is mixed with concrete and made into exceptionally strong bricks that are used in buildings and bridges.What about water pollution? More and more cities are building sewage-treatment plants.(50) Instead of being dumped into a nearby river or lake, sewage is sent through a system of underground pipes to agiant tank where the water is separated from the solid waste material. The solid material is converted into fertilizer. The sludge can also be made into bricks.12。

2006年考研英语试题及答案Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,Cor D on ANSWER SHEET1.(10points) The homeless make up a growing percentage of America’s population.__1__ homelessness has reached such proportions that local government can’t possibly _____2____. To help homeless people _____3___ independence, the federal government must support job training programs,_____4_____ the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing._____5____everyone agrees on the numbers of Americans who are homeless. Estimates ____6__ anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million. _____7__ the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless is_____8____, one of the federal government’s studies _____9__ that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade. Finding ways to __10__ this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult.___11__when homeless individuals manage to find a ___12__ that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day__13__ the street, Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others,____14____not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday __15__ skills need to turn their lives _____16__.Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are_17___programs that address the many needs of the homeless. _____18__ Edward Blotkowsk, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts,___19__it. “There has to be _____20___of programs. What we need is a package deal.” 1.[A]Indeed [B]Likewise [C]Therefore [D]Furthermore 2.[A]stand [B]cope [C]approve [D]retain 3.[A]in [B]for [C]with [D]toward 4.[A]raise [B]add [C]take [D]keep 5.[A]generally [B]almost [C]hardly [D]not 6.[A]cover [B]change [C]range [D]differ 7.[A]Now that [B]Although [C]Provided [D]Except that 8.[A]inflating [B]expanding [C]increasing [D]extending 9.[A]predicts [B]displays [C]proves [D]discovers 10.[A]assist [B]track [C]sustain [D]dismiss 11.[A]Hence [B]But [C]Even [D]Only 12.[A]lodging [B]shelter [C]dwelling [D]house 13.[A]searching [B]strolling [C]crowding [D]wandering 14.[A]when [B]once [C]while [D]whereas 15.[A]life [B]existence [C]survival [D]maintenance 16.[A]around [B]over [C]on [D]up 17.[A]complex [B]comprehensive [C]complementary [D]compensating 18.[A]So [B]Since [C]As [D]Thus 19.[A]puts [B]interprets [C]assumes [D]makes 20.[A]supervision [B]manipulation [C]regulation [D]coordinationSection II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: 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 1 In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. This is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of consumption “launched by the 19th –century department stores that offered ‘vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite.” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization. Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today’s immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation------language, home ownership and intermarriage. The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English “well” or “very well” after ten years of residence.” The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. “By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.” Hence the description of America as a graveyard” for language. By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans. Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S-born whites and blacks.” By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians. Rodriguez not that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Amold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrant living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power.” Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America’s turbulent past, today’s social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment. 21. The word “homogenizing” (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably meansA. identifyingB. associatingC. assimilatingD. monopolizing 22. According to the author, the department stores of the 19th century A.played a role in the spread of popular culture. B.became intimate shops for common consumers. C.satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite. D.owed its emergence to the culture of consumption. 23. The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S. A.are resistant to homogenization. B.exert a great influence on American culture. C.are hardly a threat to the common culture. D.constitute the majority of the population. 24. Why are Amold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks mentioned in Paragraph 5? A. To prove their popularity around the world. B. To reveal the public’s fear of immigrants. C. To give examples of successful immigrants. D. To show the powerful influence of American culture. 25. In the author’s opinion, the absorption of immigrants into American society isA. rewardingB. successfulC. fruitlessD. harmful Text 2 Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry—William Shakespeare—but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (ASC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the other sights. The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC’s actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It’s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise-making. The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side—don’t usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. It is the playgoers, the ESC contends, who bring in much of the town’s revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall. The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive. Anyway, the townsfolk can’t understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent occupied all year long and this year they’ll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low. It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford’s most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over)---lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing—room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to themwhen the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.Text 3 When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans. That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then. Dr Worm acknowledges that the figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved. Today's vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines would have been more saturated with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now. Dr Myers and Dr Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the "shifting baseline". The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to do business. 31. The extinction of large prehistoric animals is noted to suggest that A. large animal were vulnerable to the changing environment. B. small species survived as large animals disappeared. C. large sea animals may face the same threat today. D. Slow-growing fish outlive fast-growing ones 32. We can infer from Dr Myers and Dr. Worm’s paper that A. the stock of large predators in some old fisheries has reduced by 90%. B. there are only half as many fisheries as there were 15 years ago. C. the catch sizes in new fisheries are only 20% of the original amount. D. the number of larger predators dropped faster in new fisheries than in the old. 33. By saying these figures are conservative (Line 1, paragraph 3), Dr Worm means that A. fishing technology has improved rapidly B. then catch-sizes are actually smaller then recorded C. the marine biomass has suffered a greater loss D. the data collected so far are out of date. 34. Dr Myers and other researchers hold that A. people should look for a baseline that can’t work for a longer time. B. fisheries should keep the yield below 50% of the biomass C. the ocean biomass should restored its original level. D. people should adjust the fishing baseline to changing situation 35. The author seems to be mainly concerned with most fisheries’ A.management efficiency B.biomass level C.catch-size limits D.technological application. Text 4 Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists' only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. This wasn't always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil. You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it's not as if earlier times didn't know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology. People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too. Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets to make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks. What we forget--what our economy depends on is forgetting--is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air. 36.By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that A. Poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music. B. Art grow out of both positive and negative feeling. C. Poets today are less skeptical of happiness. D. Artist have changed their focus of interest. 37. The word “bummer” (Line 5. paragraph 5) most probably means somethingA. religiousB. unpleasantC. entertainingD. commercial 38.In the author’s opinion, advertising A.emerges in the wake of the anti-happy part. B.is a cause of disappointment for the general peer C.replace the church as a major source of information D.creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself. 39.We can learn from the last paragraph that the author believes A.Happiness more often than not ends in sadness. B.The anti-happy art is distasteful by refreshing. C.Misery should be enjoyed rather than denied. D.The anti-happy art flourishes when economy booms 40.Which of the following is true of the text? A.Religion once functioned as a reminder of misery. B.Art provides a balance between expectation and reality. C.People feel disappointed at the realities of morality. D.mass media are inclined to cover disasters and deaths.Part B Directions: In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A- G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) On the north bank of the Ohio River sits Evansville, Ind., home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino where gambling games are played. During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams, a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, lost approximately $175,000. He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling. He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left. On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a Fun Card, which when used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user's gambling activities. For Williams, these activities become what he calls electronic morphine. (41)______________. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat locked at 5 a.m., then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m. Now he is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem. In March 1998, a friend of Williams's got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams's gamblers. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a” cease admissions” letter notingthe medical/psychological nature of problem gambling behaviors, the letter said that before being readmitted to the patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety have to his safety or well-being. (42) ______________. The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning: “Enjoy the fun ... and always bet with your head, not over it”. Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams's suit charges that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling”, intentionally worked to ”love” him to “engage in conduct against his will” well. (43) ______________. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) says “pathological gambling” involves persistent, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money than of taking risks in quest of a windfall, (44) ______________.Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities. (45) ______________. Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on --you might say --addicted to--revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gamblers' dollars has become intense. The Oct. 28 issue of NEWSWEEK reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual casinos every week. With $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has passed pornography as the Web's most profitable business. (A). Although no such evidence was presented, the casino's marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino and used his Fun Card without being detected. (B). It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative? (C). By the time he had lost $5,000 he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit. One night he won $5,500, but he did not quit. (D). Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy: the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is government. (E). David Williams’s suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it. (F). It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addictions what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will. (G). The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to move against Internet gambling, what would be its grounds for doing so? Part C Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Our translation should be written neatly on ANSWER SHEET2. (10 points) Is it true that the American intellectual is rejected and considered of no account in his society?I am going to suggest that it is not true. Father Bruckbergen told part of the story when he observed that it is the intellectuals who have rejected Americans. But they have done more than that. They have grown dissatisfied with the role of intellectual. It is they, not Americans, who have become anti-intellectual. First, the object of our study pleads for definition. What is an intellectual? (46) I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic(苏格拉底) way about moral problems .He explores such problem consciously, articulately, and frankly, first by asking factual questions, then by asking moral questions, finally by suggesting action which seems appropriate in the light of the factual and moral information which he has obtained. (47) His function is analogous to that of a judge, who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a matter as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision. This definition excludes many individuals usually referred to as intellectuals --- the average scientist for one 48) I have excluded him because, while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems, he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems. Like other human beings, he encounters moral issues even in everyday performance of his routine duties.--- he is not supposed to cook his experiments, manufacture evidence, or doctor his reports. (49) But his primary task is not to think about the moral code, which governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business. During most of his walking life he will take his code for granted, as the businessman takes his ethics. The definition also excludes the majority of factors, despite the fact that teaching has traditionally been the method whereby many intellectuals earn their living (50) They may teach very well and more than earn their salaries, but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment .This description even fits the majority eminent scholars .“Being learned in some branch of human knowledge in one thing, living in public and industrious thoughts,” as Emerson would say ,“is something else.”Section III Writing Part A 51. Directions: You want to contribute to Project Hope by offering financial aid to a child in a remote area. Write a letter to the department concerned, asking them to help find a candidate. You should specify what kind of child you want to help and how you will carry out your plan. Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your name at the end of the letter; use Li Ming instead. You do not need to write the address. (10 points) Part B 52. Directions: Study the following photos carefully and write an essay of 160~200 words in which you should 1.describe the photos briefly, 2.interpret the social phenomenon reflected by them, and 3.give your point of view. 有两幅图片，图1 把崇拜写在脸上图2 花300元做“小贝头” 注：Beckham 是英国足球明星 有两张照片，一张照片上有一位男士脸上写着足球明星的名字，另一张照片上有一个男子在理发，他要求理发师为他设计一个小贝克汉姆的发型。

考研2006年英二真题2006年英语二考研真题是考生备考过程中的重要参考资料之一。

通过分析这份真题，我们可以了解到考研英语的难度和命题特点，从而更好地制定备考策略。

本文将对2006年英语二考研真题进行解析和讨论，帮助考生更好地应对考试。

首先，我们来看看2006年英语二考研真题的整体结构。

这份真题包括了阅读理解、完形填空和翻译三个部分，共有120个小题。

这种结构与其他年份的考试相似，但具体的题型和难度可能有所不同。

因此，我们需要仔细研究每个部分的题目，了解其要求和解题技巧。

在阅读理解部分，考生需要阅读几篇文章，并回答相关问题。

这些文章的主题涉及到社会、科技、文化等多个领域，考察考生的阅读理解能力和综合运用能力。

对于这部分题目，考生需要注意文章的结构和主旨，抓住关键信息，理解作者的观点和态度。

同时，还需要注意词汇的理解和句子的语法结构，以便更好地回答问题。

完形填空部分是考察考生对英语语言运用的能力。

在这部分题目中，考生需要根据上下文的意思，选择合适的单词或短语填入空格中，使整个短文通顺、连贯。

对于这类题目，考生需要注意上下文的逻辑关系和词语的搭配，以便正确地填写空白处。

此外，考生还需要注意文章的主题和结构，以便更好地理解整个短文，从而更好地回答问题。

翻译部分是考察考生对英汉互译的能力。

在这部分题目中，考生需要将给定的英文句子翻译成中文，或将给定的中文句子翻译成英文。

这要求考生具备良好的词汇积累和语法掌握能力，能够准确地表达出句子的意思。

对于这类题目，考生需要注意词语的选择和句子的结构，以便更好地进行翻译。

通过对2006年英语二考研真题的分析，我们可以得出以下几点备考建议。

首先，考生需要加强阅读理解能力的训练，提高对文章结构和主旨的把握能力。

其次，考生需要加强词汇积累和语法掌握，以便更好地理解和运用文章中的词汇和句子。

最后，考生需要进行大量的模拟训练，熟悉考试的题型和要求，提高解题速度和准确度。

总之，2006年英语二考研真题是备考过程中的重要参考资料，通过对其分析和讨论，可以帮助考生更好地了解考试的难度和命题特点，从而更好地制定备考策略。

2006年全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Section I Vocabulary （10 points ）Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence Then blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.1. In some countries girls are still_____ of a good education.A. denied.B. declinedC. derivedD. deprived2. As the years passed, the memories of her childhood______ away.A. fadedB. disappearedC. flashedD. fired3. Brierley’s book has the________ of being both informative and readable.A. inspirationB. requirementsC. mythD. merit4. If I have any comments to make, I’ll write them in the ______of the book I’m readingA. edgeB. pageC. marginD. side5. My ________would really trouble me if I wore a fur coat.A. consciousnessB. consequenceC. constitutionD. conscience6. When the post fell _______, Dennis Bass was appointed to fill it.A. emptyB. vacantC. hollowD. bare7. Mother who takes care of everybody is usually the most _________person in each family.A. considerateB. considerableC. consideringD. constant8. For ten years the Greeks _______the city of Troy to separate it from the outside.A. capturedB. occupiedC. destroyedD. surrounded9. Other guests at yesterday's opening, which was broadcast______ by the radio station, included Anne Mclntosh and the Mayor.A. liveB. aliveC. livingD. lively10.A New Zealand man was recently _____ to life imprisonment for the murder of an English tourist, Monica Cantwell.A. punishedB. accusedC. sentencedD. put11.The past 22 years have really been amazing, and every prediction we've made about improvements have all come____A. trulyB. trueC. truthD. truthful12.The teachers tried to ______these students that they could solve the complicated problem, however, they just didn’t see the point.A. convinceB. encourageC. consultD. concern13.I'm _________ to think that most children would like their teachers to be their friends rather than their commanders.A. subjectedB. supposedC. declinedD. inclined14. She is under the impression that he isn’t a ________ person for he wouldn’t tell her where and when he went to university.A. geniusB. generousC. genuineD. genetic15. The first glasses of Coca-Cola were drunk in 1886. The drink was first _____by a US chemist called John PembertonA. formedB. madeC. foundD. done16.These two chemicals ______with each other at a certain temperature to produce a substance which could cause an explosion.A. interactB. attractC. reactD. expel17. ________they can get people in the organization to do what must he done, they will not succeed.A. SinceB. UnlessC. IfD. Whether18. Once you have started a job, you should do it__________.A. in practiceB. in theoryC. in earnestD. in a hurry19. Although the new library service has been very successful, its future is ______certain.A. at any rateB. by no meansC. by all meansD. at any cost20.To my surprise, at yesterday's meeting he again ________the plan that had been disapproved a week before.A. brought aboutB. brought outC. brought upD. brought downSection II Cloze (10 points)Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWET SHEET with a pencil. Wholesale prices in July rose more sharply than expected and at a faster rate than consumer prices, 21 that businesses were still protecting consumers 22 the full brunt (冲击) of higher energy costs.The Producer Price Index, 23 measures what producers receive for goods and services,24 1 percent in July, the Labor Department reported yesterday, double 25 economists had been expecting and a sharp turnaround from flat prices in June. Excluding 26 and energy, the core index of producer prices rose 0.4 percent, 27 than the 0.1 percent that economists had 28 .Much of that increase was a result of an 29 increase in car and truck prices.On Tuesday, the Labor Department said the 30 that consumers paid for goods and services in July were 31 0.5 percent over all, and up 0.1 percent, excluding food and energy.32 the overall rise in both consumer and producer prices 33 caused by energy costs, which increased 4.4 percent in the month. (Wholesale food prices 34 0.3 percent in July. 35 July 2004, wholesale prices were up 4.6 percent, the core rate 36 2.8 percent, its fastest pace since 1995.Typically, increases in the Producer Price Index indicate similar changes in the consumer index 37 businesses recoup (补偿) higher costs from customers. 38 for much of this expansion, which started 39 the end of 2001, that has not been the 40 . In fact, many businesses like automakers have been aggressively discounting their products21. A. indicate B. to indicate C. indicating D. indicated22. A. of B. to C. by D. from23. A. that B. which C. it D. this24. A. rise B. rises C. rose D. raised25.A. that B. what C. which D. this26. A. food B. grain C. crop D. diet27. A. less B. lower C. higher D. more28. A. said B. reported C. calculated D. forecast29. A. expectable B. unexpected C. expectation D. expecting30. A. prices B. costs C. charges D. values31. A. down B. from C. to D. up32. A. Much B. Most C. Most of D. Much of33. A. was B. were C. is D. are34. A. fall B. fell C. falls D. has fallen35. A. Comparing with B. In comparison C. Compared with D. Compare to36. A. dropped B. declined C. lifted D. climbed37. A. as B. so C. while D. when38. A. And B. But C. Yet D. Still39. A. at B. by C. in D. to40. A. condition B. situation C. matter D. caseSection III Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions: There are 4passages in this part. Each passage os followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marded A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:Office jobs are among the positions hardest hit by compumation (计算机自动化). Word processors and typists will lose about 93,000 jobs over the next few years, while 57,000 secretarial jobs will vanish. Blame the PC: Today, many executives type their own memos and carry their：“secretaries”in the palms of their hands. Time is also hard for stock clerks, whose ranks are expected to decrease by 68,000. And employees in manufacturing firms and wholesalers are being replaced with computerized systems.But not everyone who loses a job will end up in the unemployment line. Many will shift to growing positions within their own companies. When new technologies shook up the telecomm business, telephone operator Judy Dougherty pursued retraining. She is now a communications technician, earning about $ 64,000 per year. Of course, if you've been a tollbooth collector for the past 30 years, and you find yourself replaced by an E¬-ZPass machine, it may be of little consolation(安慰) to know that the telecomm field is booming.And that's just it: The service economy is fading; welcome to the expertise(专门知识) economy. To succeed in the new job market, you must be able to handle complex problems. Indeed, all but one of the 50 highest-paying occupations---air-traffic controller---de mand at least a bachelor’s degree. For those with just a high school diploma(毕业证书),It's going to get tougher to find a well-paying job. Since fewer factory and clerical jobs will be available, what's left will be the jobs that compumation can’t kill: Computers can’t clean offices ,or care for Alzheimer's patients(老年痴呆病人). But ,since most people have the skills to fill those positions, the wages stay painfully low ,meaning compumation could drive an even deeper wedge (楔子) between the rich and poor. The best advice now: Never stop learning ,and keep up with new technology.For busy adults, of course, that can be tough. The good news is that the very technology that's reducing so many jobs is also making it easier to go back to school without having to sit in a classroom. So-called Internet distance learning is hot, with more than three million students currently enrolled , and it’s gaining credibility with employers.Are you at risk of losing your job to a computer ? Check the federal Bureau of LaborStatistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is available online at bls. gov.41、From the first paragraph we can infer that all of the following persons are easily thrown into unemployment EXCEPT.A. secretariesB. stock clerksC. managersD. wholesalers42、In the second paragraph the author mentions the tollbooth collector toA. mean he will get benefits from the telecomm fieldB. show he is too old to shift to a new positionC. console him on having been replaced by a machineD. blame the PC for his unemployment43.By saying “┅compumation could drive an even deeper wedge between the rich and poor ”(line 5, Para. 4) the author meansA. people are getting richer and richerB. there will be a small gap between rich and poorC. the gap between rich and poor is getting larger and largerD. it’s time to close up the gap between the rich and poor44、What is the author's attitude towards computers?A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. prejudiced45、Which of the following might serve as the best title of passage?A. Blaming the PCB. The booming telecomm fieldC. Internet distance leaningD. Keeping up with compumationQuestion 46 to 50 are based on the following passage：Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won't look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates .Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate(半文盲)Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational –repair shops—adult–literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There, high-school graduates and high-school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school, They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.I will never forget a teacher who got the attention of one of my children by revealing the trump card of failure. Our youngest, a world-class charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by Until Mrs. Stifter.Our son was high-school senior when he had her for English. “He sits in the back of the room talking to his friends.” she told me, “Why don't you move him to the front row? ” I urged, believing the embarrassment would get him to settle down. Mrs. Stifter said, 'I don't move seniors. I flunk (使┅不及格) them. ' Our son's academic life flashed before my eyes. No teacher had ever threatened him. By the time I got home I was feeling pretty good about this .It was a radical approach for these times, but, well, Why not? “She's going to flunk you.” I told my son.I did not discuss it any further. Suddenly English became a priority (头等重要) in his life. He finished out the semester with an A.I know one example doesn't make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angry for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up. Of average intelligence or better, they eventually quit school, concluding they were too dumb to finish.” I should have been held back,” is a comment I hear f requently. Even sadder are those students who are high-school graduates who say to me after a few weeks of class.” I don’t know how I ever got a high-school diploma.”Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. We excuse this dishonest behavior by saying kids can't learn if they come from terrible environments. No one seems to stop to think that most kids don't put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at risk. They'd rather be sailing.Many students I see at night have decided to make education a priority. They are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one they've got. They have a healthy fear of failure.People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Young people generally don't have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it. But fear of failure can motivate both.46.What is the subject of this essay?A. view point on learningB. a qualified teacherC. the importance of examinationD. the generation gap47.How did Mrs. Sifter get the attention of one of the author’s children?A. flunking himB. moving his seatC. blaming himD. playing card with him48.The author believes that the most effective way for a teacher is toA. purify the teaching environments .B. set up cooperation between teachers and parents.C. hold back student.D. motivate student.49. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that the authors’ attitude toward flunking isA. negativeB. positiveC. biasedD. indifferent50. Judging from the content, this passage is probably written forA. administratorsB. studentsC. teachersD. parentsQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:Names have gained increasing importance in the competitive world of higher education. As colleges strive for market share, they are looking for names that project the image they want or reflect the changes they hope to make. Trenton State College, for example, became the College of New Jersey nine years ago when it began raising admissions standards and appealing to students from throughout the state.“All I hear in higher education is, Brand, brand, brand,” said Tim Westerbeck, who specializes in branding and is managing director of Lipman Hearne, a marketing firm based in Chicago that works with universities and other nonprofit organizations. “There has been a sea change over the last 10 years. Marketing used to be almost a dirty word in higher education.”Not all efforts at name changes are successful, of course . In 1997 , the New School for Social Research became New School University to reflect its growth into a collection of eight colleges, offering a list of majors that includes psychology, music ,urban studies and management. But New Yorkers continued to call it the New School .Now, after spending an undisclosed sum on an online survey and a marke ting consultant’s creation of “naming structures.” “brand architecture” and “ identity systems,” the university has come up with a new name: the New School. Beginning Monday, it will adopt new logos (标识)，banners, business cards and even new names for the individual colleges, all to include the words “the New School.”Changes in names generally reveal significant shifts in how a college wants to be perceived. In altering its name from Cal State. Hayward, to Cal State, East Bay, the university hoped to project its expanding role in two mostly suburban countries east of San Francisco.The University of Southern Colorado, a state institution, became Colorado State University at Pucblo two years ago, hoping to highlight many internal changes, including offering more graduate programs and setting higher admissions standards.Beaver College turned itself into Arcadia University in 2001 for several reasons: to break the connection with its past as a women’s college, to promote its growth into a full-fledged(完全成熟的) university and officials acknowledged, to eliminate some joke s about the college’s old name on late-night television and “morning zoo” radio shows.Many college officials said changing a name and image could produce substantial results. At Arcadia, in addition to the rise in applications, the average student's test score has increased by 60 points, Juli Roebeck, an Arcadia spokeswoman, said.51. which of the following is NOT the reason for colleges to change their names?A. They prefer higher education competitionB. They try to gain advantage in market share.C. They want to project their image.D. They hope to make some changes.52. It is implied that one of the most significant changes in higher education in the past decade isA. the brand.B. the college namesC. the concept of marketingD. list of majors.53.The phrase ' come up with'(Line 3, Para. 4) probably meansA. catch up withB. deal withC. put forwardD. come to the realization54 The case of name changing from Cal State, Hayward, to Cal State indicates that the universityA. is perceived by the societyB. hopes to expand its influenceC. prefers to reform its reaching programsD. expects to enlarge its campus55.According to the spokeswoman, the name change of Beaver CollegeA. turns out very successfulB. fails to attain its goalC. has eliminated some jokesD. has transformed its statusQuestion 56 to 60 are based on the following passage:It looked just like another aircraft from the outside .The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964.But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded(填塞) from floor to ceiling ,it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out apart from a few at the back where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency .The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions.For the next two hours, the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lose its reason, shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing towards Earth. The invention was to achieve weightlessness for a few seconds.The aircraft took off smoothly enough, but any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45 degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut our and we became weightless. Everything became confused and left or right, up or down no longer had any meaning. After ten seconds of free-fall descent (下降) the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss, but was still sudden enough to ensure that some students came down with a bump.Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless, a new team conducted its experiment. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that cats always land on their feet. Then the German team who conducted a successful experiment on a traditional building method to see if it could be used for building a future space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites.After two hours of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments, the predominant feeling was one of excitement rather than sickness. Most of the students thought it was an unforgettable experience and one they would be keen to repeat.56、What did the writer say about the plane?.A、It had no seats.B、It was painted white.C、It had no windows.D、The outside was misleading.57、According to the writer ，how did the young scientists feel before the flight？A、sickB、keenC、nervousD、impatient58、what did the pilot do with the plane after it took off？A、He quickly climbed and then stopped the engines.B、He climbed and then made the plane fall slowly.C、He took off normally and then cut the engines for 20 seconds.D、He climbed and then made the plane turn over.59.Acoording to the passage, the purpose of being weightless was toA. see what conditions are like in spaceB. prepare the young scientists for future work in spaceC. show the judges of the competition what they could doD. make the teams try out their ideas60.this passage was written toA. encourage young people to take up scienceB. describe the process of a scientific competitionC. show scientists what young people can doD. report on a new scientific techniqueSection IV Translation (20 point)Directions: in this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five underlined sentences into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEETThe smooth landing of shuttle (航天飞机) Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but one: the dislodging of a big chunk of foam, like the one that doomed the Columbia. This flight was supposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But given the repeat of the very problem that two years of retooling was supposed to resolve, the verdict is necessarily mixed.(61) Once again, the space agency has been forced to put off the flight until it can find a solution to the problem, and no one seems willing to guess how long that may take .The Discovery astronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission, and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respects. (62) Space officials were justifiably happy that so much had gone well, despite daily worries over possible risks. The flight clearly achieved its prime objectives.The astronauts transferred tons of cargo to the international space station, which has been limping along overhead with a reduced crew and limited supplies carried up on smaller Russian spacecraft.(63) They replaced a broken device, repaired another and carted away a load of rubbish that had been left on the station, showing the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space.This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever, with the vehicle undergoing close inspection while still in orbit. (64) New sensing and photographic equipment to look for potentially dangerous damage to the sensitive external skin proved valuable .A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttle's underbelly, and an extra-long robotic arm enabled astronauts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight.(65).The flood of images and the openness in discussing its uncertainties about potential hazards sometimes made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart. In the end the damage was clearly tolerable. A much-touted spacewalk to repair the shuttle's skin-the first of its kind- moved anastronaut close enough to pluck out some protruding material with his hand. Preliminary evidence indicates that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights, perhaps showing that improvements to reduce the shedding of debris from the external fuel tank have had some success.Section V Writing (20 points)Directions: in this section .you are asked to write an essay based on the following diagram. Describe the diagram and analyze the possible causes .You should write at least 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.参考答案：词汇：1——5 D A D C D 6——10 B A D A C11——15 B B D A B16——20 A B C B C 完型填空：21——25 C D B C B26——30 A C D B A31——35 D D A B C36——40 D A C A D阅读理解：41——45 C B C A D 46——50 A A D B C51——55 A C C A C 56——60 A C A D A61）航天部门被迫再次推迟飞行，直到找到问题的解决办法。

I. V ocabulary and Structure1. D2. A3. C4. B5. A6. C7. D8. B9. A 10. BII. Cloze Test11. A 12. D 13. D 14. B 15. C 16. C 17. A 18. B 19. A 20. CIII. Reading Comprehension21. A 22. D 23. B 24.B 25. C 26. C 27. A 28. D 29. B 30. B31. D 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. CIV. Word Spelling36. result 37. share 38. willing 39. warn 40.expression 41. diversity 42. budget43. measurement 44. ensure 45. domestic 46. originate 47. appliance 48. motivate 49. feasible 50. appreciation 51. strategy 52. refine 53. confront 54. coincide 55. ultimateV. Word Form56. be said 57. is accepted 58. would have allowed 59. be ignored 60. came 61. is 62. becoming 63. is treated 64. should rain 65. to be doneVI. Translation from Chinese into English66. He gambled his savings to start a small shop.67. The problem of Jet Lag is one every international traveler comes across.68. Some suggest that the management process is decision making.69. Every person is equal be president or a street cleaner.70. It goes without saying that we are not living in a traditionalist period.VII. Translation from English into Chinese.71. 劳役和玩乐之间是工作。

2006年Section I Use of English (20 minutes, 10%) Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank from A, B, C or D.With its common interest in lawbreaking but its extremely large range of subject matter and widely varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a reasonable 1 to be regarded as a separate branch of literature. The detective story is probably the most 2 of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of university teachers, 3 economists, scientists or even poets. 4 may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, 5 the world in which they happen, the village, seaside resort, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not 6 our own experience, at 7 in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, 8 normally realized superficially, are as recognizably human and 9 as our less intimate associates. A story set in a more 10 environment, African jungle, or Australian bush, ancient China or gaslit London, 11 to our interest in geography or history, and most detective story writers are 12 in providing reasonably true background. The 13 , carefully-assembled plot, disliked by the modern intellectual 14 and creators of significant novels’, has found 15 in the murder mystery, with a small number of clues and apparent 16 , all with appropriate solutions and explanations at the end. 17 the guilt of escapism from Real Life nagging gently, we secretly take great delight in the 18 of evil by a vaguely superhuman detective, who sees through and disperses the 19 of suspicion which stayed so unjustly over the 20 .01. [A] plea [B] appeal [C] claim [D] assertion02. [A] acceptable [B] respectable [C] debatable [D] vulnerable03. [A] literary [B] curious [C] sensible [D] observant04. [A] Schemes [B] Assassinations [C] Mysteries [D] Misfortunes05. [A] and [B] but [C] as [D] for06. [A] by [B] in [C] from [D] with07. [A] last [B] best [C] most [D] least08. [A] if [B] when [C] most [D] least09. [A] consistent [B] insistent [C] persistent [D] competent10. [A] strange [B] remote [C] primitive [D] mysterious11. [A] attracts [B] accords [C] appeals [D] applies12. [A] conscious [B] ambitious [C] industrious [D] conscientious13. [A] elaborate [B] accurate [C] considerate [D] deliberate14. [A] authors [B] critics [C] novelists [D] spectators15. [A] flaw [B] trouble [C] refuge [D] evidence16. [A] contradictions [B] probabilities [C] implications [D] impossibilities17. [A] With [B] For [C] Despite [D] Without18. [A] unveiling [B] unmasking [C] unwitting [D] unpacking19. [A] fog [B] mist [C] shade [D] cloud20. [A] victim [B] suspect [C] innocent [D] accusedSection II Reading Comprehension (70 minutes, 50%Part AVirtue is not so much a matter of learning specific rules or principles as it is one of developing special skills of exercising one's capacity for right action. Since "virtue" can mean both "moral goodness" and "successful or excellent action," comment regarding the teaching of virtue must apply to both senses or uses of the term, narrow or broad. Both are matters of human action or activity and, as such, are taught performatively.That virtue is taught and learned performatively has something to do with the normative quality of human action or activity. Norms are ways of doing something, getting something done, which are taught by doing and showing how to do. Being normative, however, human actions can go wrong. As Stanley Cavell wrote: "The most characteristic facts about actions is that they can be performed incorrectly. This is not a moral assertion, though it points the moral of intelligent activity. These are actions which we perform, and our successful performance of them depends upon our adopting and following the ways in which the action in question is done and upon what is normative for it." Thus, in talking about virtue, we are talking about normative matters, matters taught and learned in terms of unsuccessful human action. As such, we are speaking about the cultivation of human skills and practices, human ways of acting in this world.Whether virtue is narrowly or broadly understood, the teaching of virtue is the teaching of a skill within a practice of form of life, the training of a capacity, not the memorization of rules or guidelines. Virtue is embodied in action; accordingly, our knowledge of virtue is a kind of performative knowledge ---- both knowledge acquired through action and knowledge expressed or revealed in action. Our knowledge of virtue is not, then, a matter of prepositional knowledge, but rather a matter of performative knowledge. This helps account for our relative inability to define what virtue is with any assurance. Knowing what virtue is, is not the same as knowing what some kind of object is, because virtue is not an object. And since so much of Western thought uses our knowledge of objects as the paradigm of knowledge, any kind of knowledge that does not fit the model is apt to seem not quite or fully knowledge at all. Hence, an inability to articulate the meaning of virtue is not a sign of the lack of knowledge of virtue. Instead, it is a part of the grammar of virtue: it shows what kind of thing virtue is.21. The broad definition of virtue differs from the narrow one in its[A] dealing with cultural norms. [B] ruling out physical activities.[C] comprising the skillful teaching. [D] involving more than moral honesty.22. The author would depict the view that some human actions are morally non-normative as[A] logically persuasive. [B] profoundly mistaken.[C] reasonable and practical. [D] ambiguous and misleading.23. Which of the following statements about norms would the author support?[A] Most of them are the result of persistent teaching.[B] They are derived from specific rules for behavior.[C] They are essential to the acquisition of virtue.[D] Many of them are sound principles of action.24. The author argues that teachers of virtue strive primarily to pass on[A] practical capabilities. [B] cultural conventions.[C] favorable experiences. [D] traditional principles.25. It would serve as an example for the "prepositional knowledge" (Par. 3) to[A] experiment on a trial and error basis.[B] learn diverse philosophical definitions.[C] practice virtue by imitating moral actions.[D] advance arguments without enough evidence.26. The text is chiefly aimed at[A] revealing diverse attitudes toward virtue.[B] insisting on the value of capacity training.[C] arguing for the essence of virtue instruction.[D] providing approaches to the teaching of virtue.Part BYou are going to read an extract about sign language. Six paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from Paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (27-32). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to usSign LanguageSince most deaf children have heating parents and thus do not learn ASL (American Sign Language) at home, they normally learn it from the other deaf children when they get to school. However, the minority of deaf children with deaf parents learn ASL under conditions similar to those of heating children learning spoken language.27As mentioned earlier, deaf children engage in making soft sounds as much as do hearing children. However, it has been claimed that babbling falls off in deaf children after six months, presumably due to the lack of auditory feedback. It has also been claimed that mirrors hung over the cribs of deaf babies prolong and increase their vocalization28The first word (sign) generally appears sooner in ASL than in speaking children. The first sign has been reported as being at 5 or 6 months, ‘compared with 10 months in normal children. Two-sign utterances have been reported in children as young as eight months. Two reasons for such early acquisition have been given. One is the nature of many signs.29The first signs appear to be of the same types that have been reported for acquisition of vocal language ---- for example, signs for things that move or that can be handled by the child.30Children sometimes will make the sign in the wrong orientation. For example, the sign meaning "shoes" is made by bringing the two fists together, making contact at the side of the hands. One child brought the fists together so that the knuckles made contact instead. Or they might bring the hand, palm downward to the bottom of thechin and wiggling the fingers. One child made it by putting the hand in the mouth instead. Or they might use the wrong hand shape.31Just as one can argue that there are phonological-like errors, so there are similarities in how children alter the meaning of words. In one area of the acquisition of meaning, one would suspect that deaf children would find it easier than hearing children. This is the acquisition of the signs corresponding to the personal pronouns me and you. One would expect deaf children learning ASL not to have any problems with these pronouns, because "me" is expressed by pointing to oneself and "you" is expressed by pointing to the person or persons being talked to. Thus ASL uses the obvious natural gestures. Yet deaf parents sign utterances such as Want Mommy help Jane? Instead of Want me help you? Just as hearing parents do in spoken languages.32[A] There are many different sign languages, which in general are no more intelligible to a user of another sign language than a French speaker would be to a monolingual English speaker. However, experienced deaf travelers can establish communication with users of other sign languages much more easily than can speakers of two oral languages. Deaf people accomplish this by using gestures and mime along with their signs.[B] Phonological mistakes generally involve simplification, such as dropping phonemes from the word or making phonemes within a word more like each other. Of the four aspects of signs, it is logically impossible to leave one out. Although not as extensive as in the case of phonology, there is some evidence of this. Specifically, of18 different hand shapes used in making signs to one child, he always used only 9.[C] The manual equivalent of babbling, at 3 to 10 months, has been reported. The manual equivalents of happy sounds begin at a younger age, but one cannot say that there is a difference here, because all infants wave their arms about. Should this be considered making a sound? Perhaps if there were statistical evidence that infants of deaf parents wave their arms more than similarly age infants of hearing parents one could argue that this excess was making soft sound.[D] Just as the first vocal words are pronounced inaccurately, so the first signs are less than perfect imitations of the adult version. There are four major aspects to the making of any ASL sign: the shape of the hand, the location of the hand, the movement of the hand, and the orientation of the hand. Children first learning ASL will generally get some of these aspects right but make mistakes on others.[E] The ASL signs meaning "cry", "drink", "eat" and "sleep" all resemble the actual actions and thus can be figured out and used by children at an earlier age, so the argument goes. The other reason involves the relative rates of maturation of neuromuscular control of the hands and of the vocal apparatus. After all normal children often begin to comprehend words four months before they begin to speak. [F] A number of such children have been studied for the purposes of comparing ASL acquisition with that of spoken language. In most respects acquisition of ASL parallels that of spoken language, but there are some slight differences, as we shall see.[G] The deaf parents do this because they know that deaf children make the samecomprehension errors, mixing up the pronouns, that hearing children do. Deaf children learning sign language apparently acquire it as an arbitrary signal system, just as hearing children acquire speech. It may be true that infants acquire their first signs sooner because the nature of ASL, but once the acquisition process starts, the nature of signs doesn't seem to help as much as one might expect.Part CYou are going to read a passage about the how to give an academic talk. Choose from the list of headings A-G, choose the best one to summarize each paragraph (33-38) of the passage. There is one extra heading that you do not need to use.How to Give an Academic Talk33Written academic language is too complex and too awkward for reading aloud. Just talk ---- it's easier to understand, and it allows you to make genuine contact with your audience. Furthermore, it ultimately helps you to think more clearly, by forcing you to communicate your points in ordinary terms. While you are talking, stand up unless you're literally forced to sit. People can see you better. Standing also puts you in a dominant position. This may sound politically incorrect, but it's not. Remember, you're the focus. The audience wants you to be in charge. Listeners need your help to maintain their attention.34Speak loudly and clearly, facing the audience. Make sure, especially when using visual aids, that you continue to face the audience when you speak. An important element of vocal technique is to focus on the bottom (the deepest pitch) of your vocal range, which is its loudest and most authoritative tone. This can be especially important for women. Speak from the gut, not the throat. Breathe deeply ---- it's necessary for volume, and will also help you keep your mind clear. Here are two effective vocal "special effects." First, when you come to a key phrase that you want people to remember, repeat it. Second, pause for a few seconds at several points in your talk; this breaks the monotony of a continuous flow of speech. It also gives you a chance to sip some water.35In a conference situation, where talks are short and yours is one of many, your audience is not going to remember details. In such a situation, less is more. Give them short, striking "punch lines" that they'll remember. They can always read your written work later, but if you don't get them interested and show them why it's important, they won't want to.36At a minimum, have an outline of your talk. Some people seem to think they're giving everything away by showing people what they're going to say before they're said it. But the effect of a good talk outline is exactly the opposite: it makes your audience want to hear the details. At the same time, it helps them understand the structure of your thinking. Slides should be extremely concise and visually simple. Slides are maps, not territories; they are tracking devices that let both you and your audience follow the flow of the talk. So they must not be overfilled.37In conference settings, exceeding your time limit is also incredibly rude, since it cuts into other speakers' time to speak and/or other people's time to discuss. Don't rely on panel chairs to enforce time limits; do it yourself. You can make real enemies by insisting on continuing after your time is up--but nobody has ever been criticized for finishing two minutes early. Nothing is more embarrassing ---- for both you and your audience ---- than getting only halfway through your talk before hitting the time limit. The only way to be sure you time things right is to rehearse your talk. Timing is a complicated, learned skill that requires a lot of practice--so practice where it's easy, i.e. at home.38Perhaps the best way to become an excellent speaker yourself is to watch really good, experienced speakers and model your talks on theirs. Notice/not just what they say, but what they do: how they move, how they use their voices, how they look at the audience, how they handle timing and questions. If you find an excellent model and work hard to imitate that person, you can't go wrong.A Imitate excellent speakersB Focus on main argumentsC Make the best of your voiceD Respond to the audienceE Talk rather than readF Time your talk wiselyG Use visual aidPart D You are going to read a passage about research on L2 writing. Decide whether the statement in the box agree with the information given in the passage. You should choose from the following:A YES = the statement agrees with the information in the passageB NO = the statement contradicts the information in the passageC NOT GIVEN = there is no information on this in the passage.As a teacher of L2 writing for many years, I had puzzled over how my students were learning to write and correspondingly how I could improve my pedagogy. While teaching writing (and reading) in an intensive preparatory program in a Turkish university, I had taken a current-traditional rhetoric approach, stressing the arrangement of sentences and paragraphs into appropriate patterns within the traditional five-paragraph essay and correcting liberally with red ink to prevent, I had hoped, grammatical errors from taking root. In addition, I had read various composition theories pointing out differences between "good" and "not so good" writing and strategies, and had attempted to "transmit" them to my students. These theories offered only descriptions of what experienced and inexperienced writers did. They did not explain how new writers became good writers, nor did they offer me the critical edge I needed to analyze my teaching practice. After all, most students do improve their writing with sufficient study and practice. Were they improving because of my teaching practice? Because of their own practice? A mix of the two?My quest to answer these questions began with returning to the U. S. to pursue a doctorate degree in foreign language education. Among the courses I took, several dealt with writing, and I studied the research on composition in school and in the workplace. Most of the research focused on process, product, or socializationdescribing differences between "good" writers and "novices," between native-speaker products and those of non-native speakers, and between newcomers and oldtimers in the workplace or a discipline.This research did not, however, address the nature of learning. Even the process research did not consider the processes of learning to write. Rather, it studied differences between experts and beginners. It analyzed what experts do and asked new writers to try to do the same, a sort of Here you are and There you need to be approach that notes the two ends but does not map out the crucial path of processes connecting them and through which good writers acquired their expertise. To link the two ends and evaluate pedagogy critically, I felt it necessary to attend more directly to the nature of learning. In fields other than writing, I came across current theories that did address the nature of learning. Three of these were radical constructivism, sociocultural theory, and complexity theory. The first two are prominent in educational research (even dominant in the fields of science and mathematics educational research ), and the third, although not yet widespread, has its adherents across both social and natural sciences. Nevertheless, they are not well known in L2 research, and much less inI2 composition research. Only a few articles have appeared explicitly addressing radical constructivism in the L2 literature, and although some L2 writing studies have taken approaches fitting together with it, a review of the table of contents of the Journal of Second Language Writing for the past eight years emphasizes most researchers' concern with text, strategies, and skills rather than the process of learning to construct texts and to acquire strategies, skills, and an understanding of writing in a foreign language.39 The author had difficulty in improving his students' writing competence.40 The author corrected the students' writing with red ink because there were too many errors.41 The author did not think the theories he had read met his needs.42 The author took some writing courses when returning to the U. S.43 The process research failed to find out how students could become expert writers.44 There is a need to combine process and product research45 There are theories that could account for the real process ofSection III Translation (20 minutes, 20%)The act of teaching is always a dynamic interaction of individuals (teachers and teachers, teachers and learners, learners and learners), in which decisions constantly are being made by all concerned. We believe that teaching must be deliberate and planned.Not all of the decisions are made as the result of systematic and organized planning. Sometimes the choices are made intuitively. The use of intuition in teaching is quite prevalent. Many choices must be made intuitively because the rapid pace of classroom learning demands instant decision-making. In these instances, teachers depend on experience and quick thinking to provide the most appropriate instructional technique. [46] We may assume that the intuition of the experienced teacher is likely to be superior to that of the beginner, and that it is like an opinion in that its usefulnessis dependent on the experiential background on which it is based. Yet, in many cases, teachers depend on intuition when systematic and organized planning would be more appropriate. For example, a teacher may believe that a new activity ought to be offered in the school setting, so a particular course of action is taken. [47] Sometimes these intuitions prove to be right and the results are beneficial to the students, but sometimes they are not effective or are inappropriate for the needs of the learners.Intuition as a sole guide to instructional behavior represents a very limited view of the teaching process. [48] Like the proposition that "good teachers are born, not made," the use of intuition alone restricts teachers from considering teaching as both science and art, which negates the development of a systematic planning pattern from which rational and consistent decisions can be made. It implies that intuition is the beginning and end of instructional effectiveness, rather than one aspect of the teaching process.[49] Too often the teacher who relies exclusively on intuition determines objectives and selects procedures that are more reflective of instructor needs than student needs. Thus if a teacher feels like lecturing, a lecture is delivered. If a teacher feels like showing a film, a film it is! Few of us would tolerate this mode of operation in arenas outside the realm of education. [50] Consider for a minute how much confidence you would place in a bus driver who repeatedly changed the bus route because of a belief that such changes were inherently good and relieved both the driver and the riders of boredomSection I 01. CBADB 06. CDDAB 11. CDABC 16. DABDCSection II Part A 21 D B D A B C Part B 27 F C E D B G Part C 33 E C B GF A Part D39 C B A B A C A46 我们可以认定有经验教师的直觉可能比新教师的直觉优越 直觉像是一种想法 因为它是否有效取决于它赖以存在的经验背景。

全国2006年10月英语（二）试题第一部分选择题I. V ocabulary and Structure1. The fixed star was a planet.A. made ofB. made fromC. made up forD. mistaken for2. Some students from asking questions in class.A. shy awayB. blow awayC. do awayD. carry away3. Mrs. Weinstein bravely and persistently used every skill and power she had to her attacker to simply take her car and not her life.A. trustB. creditC. convinceD. believe4. Let’s personal feelings in making judgment.A. set offB. set asideC. set backD. set up5. A good worker in a key spot could, he kept up production, take all the coffee breaks he wanted, and the bosses would very likely look the other way.A. as long asB. as thoughC. as soon asD. as if6. the bosses cannot do without profit, workers have an edge.A. ThoughB. ForC. SinceD. So7. Decision makers must have some way of determining of several alternatives is best.A. thatB. itC. oneD. which8. In August 1977, a satellite to gather data about the 10 million black holes which are thought to be in the Milky Way.A. launchedB. was launchedC. has been launchedD. is launched9. In studio recordings, new techniques made possible effects that not even an electronic band could produce .A. liveB. aliveC. livelyD. living10. It is essential that everything in advance.A. should decideB. be decidedC. decidedD. will be decided.II. Cloze TestThe money and the time we spend on pets is simply not our own to spend as we like in a time of widespread want and starvation. A 11 organization advertises that for $33 a month they can give hospital care to a child suffering from kwashiorkor-the severe deficiency disease 12 is simply a starving for protein. Doing 13 such a pet, and then sendingthe money saved to a relief organization would mean 14 a life-over the years, several human lives.Children not 15 from such a grave disease could be fed with half that amount-not on a diet like ours, but on plain, basic, life-sustaining food. It is not unreasonable to believe 16 the amount of money we spend on the average pet dog could keep a child 17 in a region of great poverty. 18 what we would spend on a cat might not feed a child, but it 19 probably pay for his medical care or basic education. The point needs no 20 . That is all that need be said.11. A. relied B. fund C. domestic D. medical12. A. why B. when C. where D. which13. A. with B. for C. against D. without14. A. to save B. saving C. save D. saved15. A. recovering B. having C. suffering D. infecting16. A. which B. what C. that D. where17. A. alive B. life C. live D. survive18. A. Giving B. To give C. Given D. Give19. A. would B. should C. must D. need20. A. doing B. operating C. laboring D. functioningIII. Reading ComprehensionPassage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. “Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen?” “When I got that great job, did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend? Or did he envy my luck?” “Why didn’t I realize that Paul was friendly just because I had a car?” When we look back, doubts like these can make up feel bad. But when we look back, it’s too late.Why do we go wrong about our friends or our enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meaning. If we don’t really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone tells you, “You’re a lucky dog.” Is he really on your side? If he says, “You’re a lucky boy” or “You’re a lucky girl”, that’s being friendly. But there’s a bit of envy in “lucky dog.” Maybe he doesn’t see it himself. But bringing in the “dog” bit puts you down a little. What he may be saying is that he doesn’t think you deserve your luck.“Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for” is another noise that says one thing and means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem as part of your life as a whole. But is he? Wrapped up in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn’t important. It’s telling you to think of all the starving people in the world when you haven’t got a date for Saturday night.How c an you tell the real meaning behind someone’s words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Dohis words fit the way he looks? Does what he says square with the tone of voice? His gesture? The look in his eyes? Stop and think.The minute you spend thinking about the real meaning of what people say to you many save another mistake.21. According to the writer, when people look back it is too late, because .A. mistakes have already been madeB. mistakes can made them feel badC. they are unaware of their mistakesD. they are doubtful of their friends22. People make mistakes when they fail toA. deal with others with due friendlinessB. hide their true feelings in what they sayC. realize they deserve what they have gotD. see the real meaning of what others say23. Judging from the phrase “just think of all the things you have to be thankful for”, it is clear that the speaker actually lacks .A. optimismB. sympathyC. motivationD. courage24. To be a successful listener, one is advised toA. ask the speaker as many questions as he canB. observe the speaker as carefully as possibleC. listen to the speaker as attentively as he canD. challenge the speaker as actively as possible25. The passage aims to tell readers how to .A. interpret what people sayB. interpret what money meansC. avoid mistakes about peopleD. avoid mistakes about moneyPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Doctors have long known that eating fish helps protect against heart disease. Wha t they don’t know is why fish are beneficial. For years they figured it was a simple question of substitution: folks who replace red meat with fish are naturally cutting down their intake of saturated (饱和的) fat. But a growing body of evidence collected over the past 30 years suggests fish contain healthful elements called omega-3 fatty acids.Omega-3 fatty acids belong to a group of compounds known as polyunsaturated fats. These fats serve as the raw material for a whole host of essential structures in the body, from brain cells to molecules (分子) that regulate blood pressure.Since our bodies cannot manufacture their own supply of omega-3s, we have to get them from the food we eat, mostly from fish but also from plant sources like soybeans (大豆).The American Heart Association has recommended that everyone eat two 85-g servings of fatty fish a week. But theA.H.A’s expert panel wasn’t ready to declare that taking omega-3 pills will protect your heart. It’s just too easy to get more omega-3 than you need from pills, and the panel was worried that an excess could cause serious side effects, such as internal bleeding.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, allowed manufactures of omega-3 pills and fish oils to advertise the fat’s benefits—as long as the label does not suggest taking more than two grams per day.One thing is clear whether you get your omega-3s from pills, oils or fish: they are not cure-alls. You still have to eat a well-balanced diet that’s lower in total fat than most Americans currently consume. Otherwise, you’re fishing for trouble.26. Doctors have long been puzzled by .A. why red meat is harmfulB. how beneficial fish areC. what makes fish healthfulD. how red meat is replaced27. We can learn from the passage that .A. human beings get omega-3s from their foodB. omega-3s are only found in fish and soybeansC. omega-3s are the raw material for saturated fatsD. polyunsaturated fats constitute human molecules28. The A.H.A. didn’t recommend omega-3 pills, becauseA. it had no knowledge of the safe dose of omega-3B. it had no evidence that they can protect the heartC. the pills contain too little omega-3 to be helpfulD. one is likely to get too much omega-3 from the pills29. The FDA allowed manufacturers of omega-3 pills and fish oils to advertise omega-3’s benefits on condition thatA. their suggested dose is printed on the labelB. their suggested dose is within the safety limitC. the fat’s potential side effects are mentionedD. the products contain side effects are mentioned30. The writer seems to suggest thatA. omega-3s can balance one’s dietB. omega-3s can serve as a supplementC. an unbalanced diet is made worse by omega-3sD. a well-balanced diet contains enough omega-3sPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.It was a terrible tragedy, six times more deadly than the Titanic (泰坦尼克号). When the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine (潜水艇) in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people---mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Germany—were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the dicks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into sea as the ship listed and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to get aboard. Most people froze immediately. “I’ll never forget the screams,” says Christa Nutzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave—and rarely mentioned for more than half a century.The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable—and necessary. By unreservedly con fessing their country’s horrible crimes Germans have managed to win acceptance abroadand make peace with their neighbors. Today’s unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they’ve now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to identify German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.31. The Wilhelm Gustloff went down becauseA. it ran into an ice stormB. it was hit by another shipC. it crashed into a submarineD. it was attacked by torpedoes32. Most passengers on board the Wilhelm Gustloff took the voyage toA. taste the luxury of the shipB. seek protection in another placeC. escape the cold winter back homeD. enjoy their holidays abroad33. As the ship began to sink, some passengersA. set the decks on fire as a signal for helpB. fought fiercely on the decks for lifeboatsC. jumped into sea and swam to a nearby shipD. prevented others from getting on their lifeboats34. The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy remains a near secret for more than half a century because GermansA. preferred to say nothing about itB. were requested to keep silent about itC. spared not effort to cover up the storyD. were denied access to the whole story35. It can be inferred from the passage that Germans no longer think thatA. it is too early to claim responsibility for the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedyB. the German tragedy is a reasonable price to pay for the nation’s pastC. they will be misunderstood if they talk about the German tragedyD. Germany is responsible for the horrors it caused during World War II第二部分非选择题IV. Word Spelling36. 结果，成果n. 37. 分享，股份n.38. 愿意的，乐意的adj. 39. 警告，告诫v.40. 表达，表情n. 41. 多样性n.42. 预算n 43. 衡量，测量n.44. 保证，担保v. 45.家庭的，国内的adj.46. 发源，发起v. 47. 应用，用具n.48. 激发，作为….的动机v. 49. 可行的，可能的adj.50. 欣赏，感激n. 51. 战略，策略n.52. 精制，使精美v. 53. 面对，对抗v.54. 一致，相符v. 55. 最后的，最终的adj.V. Word Form56. Do not let this (say) of you. It shows an unattractive indifference to your employer and to your job.57. The theory of black holes in space (accept) by many serious scientists and astronomers.58. If you had been in better health, we (allow) you to join them in the work.59. Although they agree that life is important and should be respected, they feel that the quality of life should not (ignore).60. I would rather you (come) tomorrow.61. One hundred miles (be) too far to travel on foot.62. Robots, (become) increasingly prevalent in factories and industrial plants throughout the developed world, are programmed and engineered to perform industrial tasks without human intervention.63. Every boy and girl (treat) in the same way.64. He took his umbrella with him lest it (rain).65. Many other new techniques are now available that enable more research (do) in the test tube to see if chemicals produce harmful biological effects.VI. Translation from Chinese into English66. 他孤注一掷用自己的积蓄开了一家小商店。

2006年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试题（二）第一部分: 听力(共两节, 满分30分)第一节(共5小题, 每题1.5分, 满分7.5分)听下面5 段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题。

从题中所给的A,B,C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后,你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the woman mean?A. The man shouldn't expect her to go along.B. She'll go even though the movie is bad.C. The man should count the number of people going.2.On what day of the week will the magazine arrive?A. TuesdayB. WednesdayC. Thursday3. What is the man probably going to do after graduation?A. He will become a teacher.B. He will become a lawyer.C. He has not decided yet.4.How much will it cost the man and one of his friends to join the Club?A. $450B. $225C. $2705. Who is the man?A. A policemanB. A customs officerC. A porter第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白。

每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A,B,C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

2006年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语（二）试卷及答案（课程代码：00015）PART ONE (50 POINTS)I．Vocabulary and Structure (10 points, 1point each)1. It would be better to make a decision now, ______ leave it until next week.A. other thanB. rather thanC. less thanD. more than2. We'll inform you as soon as tickets become ______.A. valuableB. capableC. acceptableD. available3. The foreign company has been______ running this factory for decades.A. enormouslyB. effectivelyC. infinitelyD. extremely4. If you ______ my advice, you wouldn't be in such trouble now.A. tookB. takesC. has takenD. had taken5. The meeting ______, we left the room quickly for dinner.A. overB. was overC. is overD. been over6. All the money ______, Frederick started looking for work.A. having spentB. has been spentC. having been spentD. had been spent7. ______ his talk when Mary ran out of the lecture hall.A. Hardly had be begunB. Hardly he had begunC. Hardly he has begunD. He hardly had begun8. The two sisters are _____ in many ways, not only in appearance but also in temperament.A. likeB. likelyC. alikeD. lively9. The purpose of the program is to provide training for employees so that they can work ______.A. lateB. laterC. latelyD. latest10. I hope my boy friend will be handsome, strong and ______ kind.A. above allB. in allC. at allD. after allII. Cloze Test (10 points, 1 point each)However careful one may be, he cannot possibly listen carefully to everything that he hears. There are 11 of reasons for this. One of them is the overload of messages most of us 12 each day. In addition to the numerous hours we 13 hearing other people speak, we may spend several hours listening to the radio or sitting in front of a television set. 14, it is impossible to focus our attention completely on what is said; our mind might be 15 elsewhere. Preoccupation with our personal concerns is 16 reason we don't always listen carefully. A romance 17 sour or a good grade on a test may take prominence in our mind even as 18 is speaking to us. Furthermore, we are surrounded by all kinds of noises which interfere 19 listening. For example, voices at a party or 20 of traffic may simply make it difficult for us to catch everything that is being said.11. A. the number B. a number C. number D. numbers12. A. accept B. obtain C. receive D. possess13. A. put B. consume C. spend D. spare14. A. Besides B. Whereas C. Otherwise D. Nevertheless15. A. wondering B. swinging C. recycling D. wandering16. A. other B. some C. the other D. another17. A. gone B. going C. goes D. went18. A. anyone B. everyone C. someone D. few19. A. to B. with C. of D. about20. A. sound B. noise C. voice D. screamIII. Reading Comprehension (30 points, 2 points each)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Many of today's most trusted sales techniques were invented over a century ago by a young merchant named Eaton in Toronto. When he was young, Eaton worked briefly with his brothers in small-town stores. In 1869, he sep up his own shop in downtown Toronto. He had many competitors, but he was also ambitious and had a plan for success. He offered a unique style of trade, but as was expected, all the other shopkeepers laughed at him, believing he would eventually fail. However, Eaton was not a man to be easily defeated; he came up with a brand new notion of business - "Goods satisfactory, or money refunded." He sold all his goods at fixed prices and only for cash.With a sharp sense of what the public wanted, he went out of the way to meet their needs. His business grew rapidly. He set up new branches and started mail order service that allowed people to buy from a list of his goods.Eaton's list-advertisements of his day-was the first of its kind. It was distributed and read all over the country. It was the only way to access good-quality goods at reasonable prices for people living far away from big cites. It became part of their life. They even called it The Wishing Book. The secret of the list's success was that Eaton gained the respect of this customers; they trusted him for good prices and quality goods. Probably because he remembered his miserable early days in Ireland, Eaton thought much of the welfare of his employees: better working conditions, shorter weekday hours than his competitors and Saturday afternoons off in the summer. In all this, he was a leader.21. The best description of Eaton is that ______.A. he was the richest merchant in TorontoB. he was a successful technical inventorC. he introduced new sales practicesD. he changed people's ideas about businessmen22. Eaton's success lay primarily in that ____.A. he sold only good quality goodsB. he was the first person to provide good serviceC. he treated his employees better than any of his competitorsD. he won respect from his customers23. From the passage we can infer that ______.A. Eaton invented the idea of the internet shoppingB. Eaton drove other businessmen to failureC. Eaton never sold his goods on creditD. Eaton was defeated by his rivals24. The best title for this passage is _____.A. Good Goods, of Money RefundedB. Eaton, a Sales InventorC. Customers' Respect, a Secret of SuccessD. Eaton's list, a Welcome Event in Sales History25. Eaton's List was important to people on farms because it was a convenient way of getting _____.A. good-quality goods at reasonable pricesB. goods at unreasonable pricesC. good-quality goods at unreasonable pricesD. poor-quality goods at reasonable pricesPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.The threat of a global outbreak (疾病大爆发) of bird flu makes it urgent for the international community to cooperate effectively. Wealthy countries will have to provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the testing and production of medicines necessary for treating patients suffering from bird flu. Developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia, where the bird flu virus (病毒) has spread since 1997, must work out special programs so that farmers will not hide sighs of possible outbreaks. In addition, the way such farm birds as chickens and ducks are traditionally raised and marketed in the developing world should be changed; there should be more distance between the birds and their keepers. Countries should deal with the disease with joint effort. If one country is inadequately prepared, it will be a threat to every other country.The potential effects of a national outbreak of bird flu are enormous. Firstly, an outbreak may kill large numbers of people. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that an outbreak similar to the mild Hong Kong flu of 1968 could kill as many as 7.4 millions people. If it were as dangerous as the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 million, the number would be much higher. Secondly, such an outbreak may cause great financial damage. The latest outbreak of bird flu, which began in December 2003, has cost Southeast Asia more than $10 billion and depressed its GDP by 1.5 percent. If a new outbreak of bird flu were to last for a whole year, $800 billion would be lost. Despite the 124 human cases and 63 deaths from bird flu since December 2003, the virus remains mainly a disease animals. However, the more animals that die of the disease, the more chances it has of spreading to people. Large numbers of dead or dying birds mean that more people will be exposed to the virus and change into a virus with new characteristics. If the international community works together efficiently, man can surely prevent such a virus and possibly save millions of lives.26. Faced with the threat of a global outbreak of bird flu, the international community should ________.A. establish new marketsB. work together effectivelyC. stop birds from flying to other countriesD. raise fewer chickens and ducks27. The second paragraph focuses on ______.A. World Health OrganizationB. flus in Hong Kong and SpainC. the economy of Southeast AsiaD. possible effects of a bird flu outbreak28. The number of people who have died of bird flu since 2003 is _______.A. 63B. 124C. 7.4 millionD. 50 million29. In the third paragraph, the author is mainly interested in _____.A. stimulating financial growthB. reducing economic damagesC. saving human livesD. protecting bird species30. The passage deals with all the following aspects bird flu EXCEPT _______.A. the origin and history of bird fluB. the importance of international cooperationC. the possible dangers of a national outbreakD. the significance of preventing it from spreadingPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.The long summer holidays are finally over and some parents are pleased. "We worry more about their safety in the holidays," explains one mother from North London. If teenagers are not wandering around on public transport in a big and potentially dangerous city, they are chatting to strangers in an internet chat room! Well, that's an extreme picture of the UK today, but many parents are worried about how much freedom they can give their children during the holidays and at weekends.Weekends are not the only time to worry! Newspaper are full of stories about too many school kids going to school by car because their parents do not want them to travel alone on a bus or train. This summer there were more frightening stories of teenagers disappearing with questionable friends that they met on the net. All the Media stories help increase parents fears, but is the UK really so dangerous?Many young people feel that life for their parents was easier. In the 1960s young people played in the streets more and traveled around town without their parents. "At least our parents can keep tabs on us," says 16-year-old Julia. "So many people have mobile phones now and their parents ring to find out where they are. I use my mobile to get Dad to come to the station when I arrive late." Mobiles are not just expensive toys; they help keep young people safe. Most significantly, they help keep young people safe. Most significantly, they make parents feel better. Only one problem is, though, that some young people have been attacked by thieves who want to steal their mobile phones.Young people like going out with friends, but they now need to learn how to get home safely. Five million young people in the UK between the ages of 9 to 16 use chat rooms to make friends, but they, too, need to be careful and never give their personal details to a stranger. Young people today have more opportunities to meet new people and go out at night more than their parents ever did. Now school, television programs and newspapers must help teenagers to enjoy their freedom and to be responsible for their own safety.31. Some parents are upset about the summer holidays mainly because their children ______.A. wander around on bus in the cityB. chat to strangers in Internet chat roomsC. make questionable friends on the netD. are taken little care of by teachers32. For the sake of the safety, many parents send their kids to school ________.A. by carB. by busC. by trainD. by public transport33. Most significantly, mobile phones _______.A. enable parents keep a close watch on their kidsB. help keep teenagers safeC. make parents feel less worriedD. protect teenagers from being attacked34. Teenagers should never give any strangers ______.A. their mobile phone numbersB. their family addressC. their personal informationD. their parents' names35. This passage is mainly about ________.A. freedom for teenagers in summer holidaysB. safety for teenagers in summer holidaysC. activities for teenagers in summer holidaysD. troubles for teenagers in summer holidaysPART TWO (50 POINTS)将下列汉语单词译成英语。

2006 年全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Section I Vocabulary （ 10 points）Directions:There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are fourchoices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence Then blacken thecorresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil.1.In some countries girls are still_____ of a good education.A. denied.B. declinedC. derivedD. deprived2.As the years passed, the memories of her childhood______ away.A. fadedB. disappearedC. flashedD. fired3.Brierley’ s book has the________ of being both informative and readable.A. inspirationB. requirementsC. mythD. merit4.If I have any comments to make, I’ ll write them in the ______of the book I’ m readingA. edgeB. pageC. marginD. side5.My ________would really trouble me if I wore a fur coat.A. consciousnessB. consequenceC. constitutionD. conscience6.When the post fell _______, Dennis Bass was appointed to fill it.A. emptyB. vacantC. hollowD. bare7.Mother who takes care of everybody is usually the most _________person in each family.A. considerateB. considerableC. consideringD. constant8.For ten years the Greeks _______the city of Troy to separate it from the outside.A. capturedB. occupiedC. destroyedD. surrounded9.Other guests at yesterday's opening, which was broadcast______ by the radio station,included Anne Mclntosh and the Mayor.A. liveB. aliveC. livingD. lively10.A New Zealand man was recently _____ to life imprisonment for the murder of an Englishtourist, Monica Cantwell.A. punishedB. accusedC. sentencedD. put11.The past 22 years have really been amazing, and every prediction we've made aboutimprovements have all come____A. trulyB. trueC. truthD. truthful12.The teachers tried to ______these students that they could solve the complicated problem,however, they just didn’ t see the point.A. convinceB. encourageC. consultD. concern13.I'm _________ to think that most children would like their teachers to be their friends ratherthan their commanders.A. subjectedB. supposedC. declinedD. inclined14. She is under the impression that he isn’ t a ________ person for he wouldn’ t tell her wher when he went to university.A. geniusB. generousC. genuineD. genetic15.The first glasses of Coca-Cola were drunk in 1886. The drink was first _____by a US chemistcalled John PembertonA. formedB. madeC. foundD. done16.These two chemicals ______with each other at a certain temperature to produce a substance which could cause an explosion.A. interactB. attractC. reactD. expel17.________they can get people in the organization to do what must he done, they will not succeed.A. SinceB. UnlessC. IfD. Whether18. Once you have started a job, you should do it__________.A. in practiceB. in theoryC. in earnestD. in a hurry19. Although the new library service has been very successful, its future is ______certain.A. at any rateB. by no meansC. by all meansD. at any cost20.To my surprise, at yesterday's meeting he again ________the plan that had been disapproved a week before.A. brought aboutB. brought outC. brought upD. brought downSection II Cloze (10 points)Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWET SHEET with a pencil. Wholesale prices in July rose more sharply than expected and at a faster rate than consumer prices,21 that businesses were still protecting consumers22the full brunt ( 冲击 ) of higher energy costs.The Producer Price Index,23 measures what producers receive for goods and services,24 1 percent in July, the Labor Department reported yesterday, double25 economists had been expecting and a sharp turnaround from flat prices in June. Excluding26 and energy, the core index of producer prices rose 0.4 percent,27 than the 0.1percent that economists had 28.Much of that increase was a result of an29 increase in car and truck prices.On Tuesday, the Labor Department said the30 that consumers paid for goods and services in July were310.5 percent over all, and up 0.1 percent, excluding food and energy.32 the overall rise in both consumer and producer prices33caused by energy costs, which increased 4.4 percent in the month. (Wholesale food prices340.3percent in July. 35 July 2004, wholesale prices were up 4.6 percent, the core rate36 2.8 percent, its fastest pace since 1995.Typically,increases in the Producer Price Index indicate similar changes in the consumer index 37 businesses recoup (补偿 ) higher costs from customers.38 for much of this expansion, which started39 the end of 2001, that has not been the40. In fact, many businesses like automakers have been aggressively discounting their products21.A. indicate B. to indicate C. indicating D. indicated22.A. of B. to C. by D. from23.A. that B. which C. it D. this24.A. rise B. rises C. rose D. raised25.A. that B. what C. which D. this26.A. food B. grain C. crop D. diet27.A. less B. lower C. higher D. more28.A. said B. reported C. calculated D. forecast29.A. expectable B. unexpected C. expectation D. expecting30.A. prices B. costs C. charges D. values31.A. down B. from C. to D. up32.A. Much B. Most C. Most of D. Much of33.A. was B. were C. is D. are34.A. fall B. fell C. falls D. has fallen35.A. Comparing with B. In comparison C. Compared with D. Compare to36.A. dropped B. declined C. lifted D. climbed37.A. as B. so C. while D. when38.A. And B. But C. Yet D. Still39.A. at B. by C. in D. to40.A. condition B. situation C. matter D. caseSection III Reading Comprehension (40 points)Directions: There are 4passages in this part. Each passage os followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marded A, B, C, and D. You shoulddecide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil. Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:Office jobs are among the positions hardest hit by compumation (计算机自动化 ). Wordprocessors and typists will lose about 93,000 jobs over the next few years, while 57,000 secretarialjobs will vanish. Blame the PC: Today, many executives type their own memos and carry their ：“ secretaries” in the palms of their hands. Time is also hard for stock clerks, whose ranks areexpected to decrease by 68,000. And employees in manufacturing firms and wholesalers arebeing replaced with computerized systems.But not everyone who loses a job will end up in the unemployment line. Many will shift to growingpositions within their own companies. When new technologies shook up the telecomm business,telephone operator Judy Dougherty pursued retraining. She is now a communications technician,earning about $ 64,000 per year. Of course, if you've been a tollbooth collector for the past 30 years,and you find yourself replaced by an E¬-ZPass machine, it may be of little consolation( 安慰 ) toknow that the telecomm field is booming.And that's just it: The service economy is fading; welcome to the expertise( 专门知识 ) economy. To succeed in the new job market, you must be able to handle complex problems. Indeed, all but oneof the 50 highest-paying occupations---air-traffic controller---de mand at least a bachelor’ s degree. For those with just a high school diploma(毕业证书 ),It's going to get tougher to find a well-payingjob. Since fewer factory and clerical jobs will be available,what's left will be the jobs that compumation can ’t kill: Computers can ’t clean offices ,or care for Alzheimer's patients(老年痴呆病人). But ,since most people have the skills to fill those positions, the wages stay painfullylow ,meaning compumation could drive an even deeper wedge(楔子 ) between the rich and poor.The best advice now: Never stop learning ,and keep up with new technology.For busy adults, of course, that can be tough. The good news is that the very technology that's reducing so many jobs is also making it easier to go back to school without having to sit in a classroom. So-called Internet distance learning is hot, with more than three million students currently enrolled , and it’ s gaining credibility with employers.Are you at risk of losing your job to a computer ? Check the federal Bureau of LaborStatistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is available online at bls. gov.41、 From the first paragraph we can infer that all of the following persons are easily throwninto unemployment EXCEPT.A. secretariesB. stock clerksC. managersD. wholesalers42、 In the second paragraph the author mentions the tollbooth collectorto A. mean he will get benefits from the telecomm fieldB. show he is too old to shift to a new positionC. console him on having been replaced by a machineD. blame the PC for his unemployment43.By saying“ ┅ compumation could drive an even deeper wedge between the rich and poor”(line 5, Para. 4) the author meansA. people are getting richer and richerB. there will be a small gap between rich and poorC. the gap between rich and poor is getting larger and largerD. it’ s time to close up the gap between the rich and poor44、 What is the author's attitude towards computers?D. prejudicedA. positiveB. negativeC. neutral45、 Which of the following might serve as the best title of passage?A. Blaming the PCB. The booming telecomm fieldC. Internet distance leaningD. Keeping up with compumationQuestion 46 to 50 are based on the following passage：Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas won't look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates .Their validitywill be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate(半文盲)Eventually a fortunate few will find their way into educational –repair shops— adult–literacy programs, such as the one where I teach basic grammar and writing. There, high-school graduatesand high-school dropouts pursuing graduate-equivalency certificates will learn the skills they should have learned in school, They will also discover they have been cheated by our educationalsystem.I will never forget a teacher who got the attention of one of my children by revealing the trump cardof failure. Our youngest, a world-class charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents butalways got by Until Mrs. Stifter.Our son was high- school senior when he had her for English. ― Hesits in the back of the roomtalking to his friends.‖ she told me,― Why don't you moverow?him to‖theI urged,front believing the embarrassment would get him to settle down. Mrs. Stifter said, 'I don't move seniors. I flunk ( 使┅不及格 ) them. ' Our son's academic life flashed before my eyes. No teacher had ever threatened him. By the time I got home I was feeling pretty good about this .It was a radical approach for these times, but, well, Why n ot? ― She's going to flunk you. d my son‖.I tolI did not discuss it any further. Suddenly English became a priority( 头等重要 ) in his life.Hefinished out the semester with an A.I know one example doesn't make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angryfor having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up. Of averageintelligence or better,they eventually quit school, concluding they were too dumb to finish. I ‖should have been held back,‖ is a comment I hear frequently. Even sadder arestudentsthose w hoare high-school graduates who say to me after a few weeks of class.‖ I don’ t know how I ever go high- school diploma.‖Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expectgraduates to have basic skills. We excuse this dishonest behavior by saying kids can't learn if theycome from terrible environments. No one seems to stop to think that most kids don't put school firston their list unless they perceive something is at risk. They'd rather be sailing.Many students I see at night have decided to make education a priority. They are motivated bythe desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one they've got. They have a healthy fearof failure.People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Youngpeople generally don't have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students valueit. But fear of failure can motivate both.46.What is the subject of this essay?A. view point on learningB. a qualified teacherC. the importance of examinationD. the generation gap47.How did Mrs. Sifter get the attention of one of the author’ s children?A. flunking himB. moving his seatC. blaming himD. playing card with him48.The author believes that the most effective way for a teacher is toA.purify the teaching environments .B.set up cooperation between teachers and parents.C.hold back student.D.motivate student.49. From the passage we can draw the conclusion that the authors’ attitude toward flunking isA. negativeB. positiveC. biasedD. indifferent50. Judging from the content, this passage is probably written forA. administratorsB. studentsC. teachersD. parentsQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:Names have gained increasing importance in the competitive world of higher education. Ascolleges strive for market share, they are looking for names that project the image they want or reflectthe changes they hope to make. Trenton State College, for example, became the College of NewJersey nine years ago when it began raising admissions standards and appealing to students fromthroughout the state.― All I hear in higher education is, Brand, brand, brand,‖ said Tim Westerbeck, who specialize in branding and is managing director of Lipman Hearne, a marketing firm based in Chicago thatworks with universities and other nonprofit organizations.― There has been a sea change over the last 10 years. Marketing used to be almost a dirty word in higher education.‖Not all efforts at name changes are successful, of course . In 1997 , the New School for SocialResearch became New School University to reflect its growth into a collection of eight colleges,offering a list of majors that includes psychology, music ,urban studies and management. But NewYorkers continued to call it the New School .Now, after spending an undisclosed sum on an online survey and a marketing consultant’ s cr of― naming structures.‖ ― brand architecture‖ and― identity systemhas, come up‖ the universitywith a new name: the New School. Beginning Monday, it will adopt new logos (标识 )， banners,business cards and even new names for the individual colleges, all to include the words“ the NewSchool. ”Changes in names generally reveal significant shifts in how a college wants to be perceived. Inaltering its name from Cal State. Hayward, to Cal State, East Bay, the university hoped to project itsexpanding role in two mostly suburban countries east of San Francisco.The University of Southern Colorado, a state institution,became Colorado State University atPucblo two years ago, hoping to highlight many internal changes, including offering more graduateprograms and setting higher admissions standards.Beaver College turned itself into Arcadia University in 2001 for several reasons: to break theconnection with its past as a women ’ s college, to promote its growth into a full-fledged(完全成熟的 ) university and officials acknowledged, to eliminate some joke s about the college’s old nameon late-night television and― morning zoo ‖ radio shows.Many college officials said changing a name and image could produce substantial results. AtArcadia, in addition to the rise in applications, the average student's test score has increased by 60points, Juli Roebeck, an Arcadia spokeswoman, said.51.which of the following is NOT the reason for colleges to change their names?A. They prefer higher education competitionB. They try to gain advantage in market share.C. They want to project their image.D. They hope to make some changes.52.It is implied that one of the most significant changes in higher education in the past decade isA.the brand.B.the college namesC. the concept of marketingD. list of majors.53.The phrase ' come up with'(Line 3, Para. 4) probably meansA. catch up withB. deal withC. put forwardD. come to the realization54 The case of name changing from Cal State, Hayward, to Cal State indicates that theuniversity A. is perceived by the societyB. hopes to expand its influenceC. prefers to reform its reaching programsD. expects to enlarge its campus55.According to the spokeswoman, the name change of Beaver CollegeA. turns out very successfulB. fails to attain its goalC. has eliminated some jokesD. has transformed its statusQuestion 56 to 60 are based on the following passage:It looked just like another aircraft from the outside .The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964.But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded(填塞 ) from floor to ceiling ,it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out apart from a few at the back where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency .The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions.For the next two hours, the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lose its reason, shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing towards Earth. The invention was to achieve weightlessness for a few seconds.The aircraft took off smoothly enough, but any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45 degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut our and we became weightless. Everything became confused and left or right, up or down no longer had any meaning. After ten seconds of free-fall descent (下降 ) the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss, but was still sudden enough to ensure that some students came down with a bump.Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless, a new team conducted its experiment. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that cats always land on their feet. Then the German team who conducted a successful experiment on a traditional building method to see if it could be used for building a future space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites.After two hours of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments, the predominant feeling was one of excitement rather than sickness. Most of the students thought it was an unforgettable experience and one they would be keen to repeat.56、 What did the writer say about the plane?.A 、 It had no seats.B 、 It was painted white.C、 It had no windows.D、 The outside was misleading.57、According to the writer，how did the young scientists feel before the flight？A 、 sick B、 keen C、 nervous D、 impatient？58、 what did the pilot do with the plane after it took offA 、 He quickly climbed and then stopped the engines.B 、 He climbed and then made the plane fall slowly.C、 He took off normally and then cut the engines for 20 seconds.D、 He climbed and then made the plane turn over.59.Acoording to the passage, the purpose of being weightless was toA. see what conditions are like in spaceB. prepare the young scientists for future work in spaceC. show the judges of the competition what they could doD. make the teams try out their ideas60.this passage was written toA. encourage young people to take up scienceB. describe the process of a scientific competitionC. show scientists what young people can doD. report on a new scientific techniqueSection IV Translation (20 point)Directions: in this section there is a passage in English. Translate the five underlined sentencesinto Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEETThe smooth landing of shuttle (航天飞机 ) Discovery ended a flight that was successful in almost every respect but one: the dislodging of a big chunk of foam, like the one that doomed the Columbia. This flight was supposed to vault the shuttle fleet back into space after a prolonged grounding for repairs. But given the repeat of the very problem that two years of retooling was supposed to resolve, the verdict is necessarily mixed.(61) Once again, the space agency has been forced to put off the flight until it can find a solution to the problem, and no one seems willing to guess how long that may take .The Discovery astronauts performed superbly during their two-week mission, and the shuttle looked better than ever in some respects. (62) Space officials were justifiably happy that so much had gone well, despite daily worries over possible risks. The flight clearly achieved its prime objectives.The astronauts transferred tons of cargo to the international space station, which has been limping along overhead with a reduced crew and limited supplies carried up on smaller Russian spacecraft. (63)They replaced a broken device, repaired another and carted away a load of rubbish thathad been left on the station, showing the shuttle can bring full loads back down from space.This was the most scrutinized shuttle flight ever, with the vehicle undergoing close inspection while still in orbit. (64) New sensing and photographic equipment to look for potentially dangerous damage to the sensitive external skin proved valuable .A new back flip maneuver allowed station astronauts to photograph the shuttle's underbelly, and an extra-long robotic arm enabled astronauts see parts of the shuttle that were previously out of sight.(65).The flood of images and the openness in discussing its uncertainties about potential hazards sometimes made it appear that the shuttle was about to fall apart. In the end the damage was clearly tolerable. A much-touted spacewalk to repair the shuttle's skin-the first of its kind- moved anastronaut close enough to pluck out some protruding material with his hand. Preliminary evidence indicates that Discovery has far fewer nicks and gouges than shuttles on previous flights, perhaps showing that improvements to reduce the shedding of debris from the external fuel tank have had some success.Section V Writing (20 points)Directions: in this section .you are asked to write an essay based on the following diagram. Describe the diagram and analyze the possible causes .You should write at least 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.参考答案：词汇：1——5DADCD6——10BADAC11——15BBDAB16——20ABCBC 完型填空：21——25CDBCB 26——30ACDBA31——35DDABC36——40DACA D阅读理解：41——45CBCAD46——50AADBC51——55ACCAC56——60ACAD A61）航天部门被迫再次推迟飞行，直到找到问题的解决办法。

考研英二真题答案20062006年的考研英语二真题是考生们备考的重要参考资料之一。

通过分析这份真题的答案，我们可以了解考试的难度和命题方向，为今后的备考提供一些指导。

本文将对2006年考研英语二真题的答案进行分析和解读，帮助考生们更好地理解考试内容和要求。

首先，我们来看看2006年考研英语二真题的阅读理解部分。

这一部分共有三篇文章，分别涉及到文化、科技和社会问题。

通过仔细阅读和分析这些文章的答案，我们可以发现，这些文章的题目和答案之间存在着一定的逻辑关系。

考生们在解答这些题目时，需要综合运用自己的阅读理解能力和逻辑思维能力，对文章的内容进行准确的理解和分析。

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接下来，我们来看看2006年考研英语二真题的翻译部分。

这一部分共有两道翻译题，分别涉及到文学和科技领域。

通过仔细研究这些题目的答案，我们可以发现，这些题目的答案与原文之间存在着一定的对应关系。

考生们在翻译这些题目时，需要准确理解原文的意思，并用准确、通顺的语言表达出来。

同时，还需要注意语法和词汇的正确使用，以便更好地传达原文的含义。

最后，我们来看看2006年考研英语二真题的写作部分。

这一部分要求考生们根据所给的提示，写一篇短文。

通过分析这些题目的答案，我们可以发现，考生们在写作时，需要围绕提示进行合理的组织和展开。

同时，还需要注意语法和词汇的正确使用，以及句子结构的多样性和连贯性。

写作时，考生们可以从自己的经验和观点出发，进行合理的推理和论证，以便更好地表达自己的观点和思考。

综上所述，2006年考研英语二真题的答案对于考生们的备考具有重要的参考价值。

通过分析这些答案，我们可以了解考试的难度和命题方向，为今后的备考提供一些指导。

同时，我们还可以从这些答案中学习到一些解题的技巧和方法，提高自己的解题能力和应试能力。

希望考生们能够认真对待这些答案，充分利用它们来提高自己的备考效果。

2006年10月份全国自考英语(二)真题一、Vocabulary and Structure(10 points,1 point each)从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。

1. He spoke so ______ that even his opponents were impressed by his words.A.franklyB. clearlyC. convincinglyD. loudly答案：C2.The government ______ great importance to intellectual property protection.A.associatesB.attachesC.attributesD.approaches答案：B3.The heart is ______ intelligent than the stomach,for they are both controlledby the brain.A. not soB. not muchC.much moreD.no more答案：D4.The factory has to be shut down ______ funds.A. in spite ofB. for lack ofC.with a view ofD.for the sake of答案：B5.The hotel manager said that they did not have a single ______ room left.A. vacantB. emptyC. bareD. hollow答案：A6.I’ll accept any job ______ I don’t have to get up early.A. as far asB. in caseC. as long asD. as though答案：C7.On hearing the news,he rushed out of the dining hall,leaving his lunch ______.A. finishedB. unfinishedC. finishingD.to finish答案：B8.______ did she complain about the food,she also refused to pay for itA.Not onlyB. OnlyC. NorD.So答案：A9. She offered me a drink before he ______ his coat.A. would take offB. takes offC. had taken offD.has taken off答案：C10. On the top of the hill stands a(n) ______ church.A.charming old SpanishB. old charming SpanishC. Spanish old charmingD.Spanish charming old答案：A二、Cloze Test(10 points,1 point each)下列短文中有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。

2006年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（2）英语本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。

第一卷1至10页。

第二卷11至14页。

考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。

第一卷第一部分英语知识运用（共三节，满分50分）第一部分语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. hearA. nearlyB. searchC. bearD. heart2. changeA. machineB. headacheC. techniqueD. research3. surpriseA. policeB. apologizeC. bridgeD. children4. safelyA. baseB. seasonC. AsiaD. usual5. museumA. subjectB. trueC. hugeD. busy第二节语法和词汇知识（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

6. –Will you be able to finish your report today?- .A. I like itB. I hope soC. I‟ll do soD. I‟d love it7. We forgot to bring our tickets, but please let us enter, ?A. do youB. can weC. will youD. shall we8. Your story is perfect; I‟ve never heard before.A. the better oneB. the best oneC. a better oneD. a good one9. It was not until she got home Jennifer realized she had lost her keys.A. whenB. thatC. whereD. before10. We hope that as many people as-possible join us for the picnic tomorrow.A. needB. mustC. shouldD. can11. It is no arguing with Bill because he will never change his mind.A. useB. helpC. timeD. way12.ohn, a friend of mine, who got married only last week, spent＄3,000 more than he for the wedding.A. will planB. has plannedC. would planD. had planned13. We thought there were 35 students in the dining hall, , in fact, there were 40.A. whileB. whetherC. whatD. which 14．-Did you take enough money with you ?-- No, I needed ______ I thought I would.A. not so much asB. as much asC. much more thanD. much less than15. Mary wanted to travel around the word all by herself, but her parents did not _______ her to do so.A. forbidB. allowC. followD. ask16.-what did your parents think about your decision?-They always let me do _____ I think I should.A. whenB. thatC. howD. what17.We often provide our children with toys, footballs or basketballs_____ that all children like these thingsA. thinkingB. thinkC. to thinkD. thought18. There were a lot of people standing at the door and the small girl couldn’t get______ .A. betweenB. throughC. acrossD. beyond19.I know you don’t like ______ music very much. But what do you think of _____ music in the film we saw yesterday?A.不填；不填B. the ;theC. the ;不填D. 不填；the20. As you can see, the number of cars on our roads _____ rising these days.A. was keepingB. keepC. keepsD. were keeping第三节完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

英语作文常用谚语、俗语1、A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. 说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。

2、A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，自欺欺人。

3、All rivers run into sea. 海纳百川。

4、All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。

5、All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只会用功不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。

6、A bad beginning makes a bad ending. 不善始者不善终。

7、Actions speak louder than words. 事实胜于雄辩。

8、A faithful friend is hard to find. 知音难觅。

9、A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。

10、A friend is easier lost than found. 得朋友难，失朋友易。

11、A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半。

12、A good beginning makes a good ending. 善始者善终。

13、A good book is a good friend. 好书如挚友。

14、A good medicine tastes bitter. 良药苦口。

15、A mother's love never changes. 母爱永恒。

16、An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一天一苹果，不用请医生。

17、A single flower does not make a spring. 一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园。

18、A year's plan starts with spring. 一年之计在于春。