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1、 2011 年全国硕士研究生入学统一模拟考试 年全国硕士研究生入学统一模拟考试 英英 语 二 语 二 科目代码 科目代码 204 考生注意事项 考生注意事项 1 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则 2 答题前 考生应按准考证上的有关内容填写答题卡上的 考生姓 名 报考单位 考生编号 等信息 3 答案必须按要求填涂或书写在指定的答题卡上 1 英语知识运用和阅读理解 A 节 B 节的答案填涂在答题卡 1 上 填涂部分应该按照答题卡上的要求用 2B 铅笔完成 如要改动 必须用橡皮擦干净 2 英译汉和写作部分必须用蓝 黑 色字迹钢笔 圆珠笔或 签字笔在答题卡 2 上作答 字迹要清楚 4 考试结束 将试题 答
2、题卡 1 和答题卡 2 一并装入试题袋中交回 2010 12 10 15 34 54 1 Section I Use of English Directions Read the following text Choose the best word s for each numbered blank and mark A B C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1 10 points The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 1
3、1 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 assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia and rising 3 in Britain Japan Chile and elsewhere But the epidemic is 4 in severity
4、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 noted an unusually large number
5、 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 September 2009 official
6、s 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 health officials
7、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 2009 though most o
8、f 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 groups health care workers people 20 infants and healthy you
9、ng people 2010 12 10 15 34 54 2 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 phenom
10、enon C 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 immersed C injected D infected 14 A released B relayed C
11、relieved 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 con
12、cerned with D warding off Section 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 2010 12 10 15 34 54 3 Text 1 The longest bull run in a century of art market history en
13、ded 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 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
14、of the oldest banks on Wall Street Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003 At its peak in 2007 it was worth some 65 billion reckons Clare McAndrew founder of Arts Economics a research firm double the
15、 figure five years earlier Since then it may have come down to 50 billion But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth enormous egos greed passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst
16、s sale spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable 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 they were down by nearly 90 in the year to November 2008 Within weeks the world s two biggest auction houses Sotheby s and Christie s had to pay out nearly 200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them The current downturn in the art market is the worst since t
