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1、 2010 考研英语二真题及答案 Section I Use of English Directions Read the following passage For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A B C and D Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l 10 points The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global ep
2、idemic on June 11 2009 It is the first worldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Organization in 41 years The heightened alert 2 an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia and rising 3 in Britain Japan Chile and elsewhere But the epidemic is
3、 4 in severity according to Margaret Chan the organization s director general 5 the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery often in the 6 of any medical treatment The outbreak came to global 7 in late April 2009 when Mexican authorities noticed an unusu
4、ally large number of hospitalizations and deaths 8 healthy adults As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic cases began to 9 in New York City the southwestern United States and around the world In the United States new cases seemed to fade 10 warmer weather arrived But in late Septem
5、ber 2009 officials reported there was 11 flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the 12 tested are the new swine flu also known as A H1N1 not seasonal flu In the U S it has 13 more than one million people and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6 000 hospitalizations Federal
6、health officials 14 Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began 15 orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine The new vaccine which is different from the annual flu vaccine is 16 ahead of expectations More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2
7、009 though most of those 17 doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type which is not 18 for pregnant women people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties heart disease or several other 19 But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high risk group health care workers people 20 infants
8、 and healthy young people 1 A criticized B appointed C commented D designated 2 A proceeded B activated C followed D prompted 3 A digits B numbers C amounts D sums 4 A moderate B normal C unusual D extreme 5 A with B in C from D by 6 A progress B absence C presence D favor 7 A reality B phenomenon C
9、 concept D notice 8 A over B for C among D to 9 A stay up B crop up C fill up D cover up 10 A as B if C unless D until 11 A excessive B enormous C significant D magnificent 12 A categories B examples C patterns D samples 13 A imparted B immerse C injected D infected 14 A released B relayed C relieve
10、d D remained 15 A placing B delivering C taking D giving 16 A feasible B available C reliable D applicable 17 A prevalent B principal C innovative D initial 18 A presented B restricted C recommended D introduced 19 A problems B issues C agonies D sufferings 20 A involved in B caring for C concerned
11、with D warding off Section Reading comprehension Part A Text1 The longest bull run in a century of art market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst Beautiful Inside My Head Forever at Sotheby s in London on September 15th 2008 All but two pieces sold fetching more
12、than 70m a record for a sale by a single artist It was a last victory As the auctioneer called out bids in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003 At i
13、ts peak in 2007 it was worth some 65 billion reckons Clare McAndrew founder of Arts Economics a research firm double the figure five years earlier Since then it may have come down to 50 billion But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth enormous ego
14、s greed passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst s sale spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable especially in New York where the bail out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise
15、 of many art buying investors In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms Sales of contemporary art fell by two thirds and in the most overheated sector for Chinese contemporary art they were down by nearly 90 in the year to November 2008 Within weeks the world s
16、two biggest auction houses Sotheby s and Christie s had to pay out nearly 200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989 a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the Second World War This time experts reckon that prices are about 40 down on their peak on average though some have been far more fluctuant But Edward Dolman Christi
