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1、考研英语命题预测模拟试题(四)(2)26In the 1st paragraph, Benazir Bhutto was reported in the newspaper toA have two years exile.B announce her prosecution.C have been treated unfairly.D have been convicted of corruption.27. The 3rd sentence of the 3rd paragraph, word “another” refers toA Pervez MusharrafB Nawaz Sha
2、rifC Benazir BhuttoD Asif Zardari28. It can be inferred from the text that General MusharrafA wanted the Supreme Court to hear Miss Bhuttos petition earlier.B advised Miss Bhutto to compromise with the judiciary.C took over the right from Nawaz Sharif because of Nawazs having done wrong to Bhutto.D
3、felt threatened by Bhutto.29. The troubles which now make Musharra uneasy do not includeA some opponents requiring him to abolish some unreasonable laws.B hundreds of political prisoners fighting for their freedom.C Musharraf losing support from religious members.D some riots and his opponents comin
4、g strike.30. Extremists are rather hostile toA Moinuddin HaiderB the Taliban regimeC the United StatesD Pakistan religious terroristsTEXT 3THE New Year in Japan is always a time for house cleaning. This year, however, the government is giving itself a special dusting down. Japans civil service is en
5、during its most thorough reform since the Americans occupied the country. Beneath a cloud of paper in Kasumigaseki, Tokyos bureaucratic district, whole ministries are vanishing, merging with each other, or at the very least getting new names. By January 6th, when the removal vans leave, nearly $400m
6、 will have been spent shifting 33,000 bureaucrats and their files about the place. The result, say officials, will be smaller government, stronger political leadership and a bureaucracy ready to serve, not rule. Yet opinion polls suggest just one in five Japanese believes them.The government is unde
7、niably about to get smaller. Mergers will cut the number of ministries and agencies from 22 to , and one in four civil service jobs will go over the next ten years. The politicians, meanwhile, get new jobs inside each ministry that are meant to give them more say in policymaking. Most important of a
8、ll are new powers for the Prime Minister, who gets a strengthened Cabinet Office, lots more staff and, in theory at least, a much bigger say in government spending.In practice, however, not all of these changes are likely to work exactly according to plan. The Cabinet Office was supposed to se cure
9、a measure of independence by recruiting many of its staff from outside the civil service. But Japans rigid hiring practices have made this difficult. So almost all the important posts have been filled by the usual career bureaucrats.Reforms to the bureaucracy, meanwhile, look a mixed bag at best. Ha
10、ving already lost its authority to regulate banks, the once-mighty Finance Ministry has ceded more ground. A new body, under the Cabinet Office, will now draft the outline of the national budget. The Finance Ministry looks a softer target than the big spending ministries, with their well-organized n
11、etworks of friendly politicians. No one has explained how merging the Ministry of Posts and Telecoms, the Management and Co-ordination Agency and the Ministry of Home Affairs will make any of them more efficient.Other changes seem to run counter to the desired direction. Under the politicians origin
12、al plan, drawn up in 97, the power of the public-works bureaucracy was to be weakened by splitting the Construction Ministry in two. Perversely, it has instead got bigger, merging with the Transport Ministry, the National Land Agency and the Hokkaido Development Agency to create a monster that will
13、control nearly 800 (what?) of public works spending. Try reforming that.31The expression “giving itself a special dusting down” in this passage meansA a special innovationB a complete government character-shiftingC thorough cleaningD thorough reorganization32. From the 2nd paragraph, we can see that
14、A in fact, most people dont believe the reforms can benefit them.BC politicians have no jobs in the ministry.D the Prime Minister will benefit more than others.33. The last three paragraphs have the same air ofA disappointmentB denialC objectivityD skepticism34. It can be inferred from the text that
15、 the Cabinet Office willA grab some power from the financial bureaucracyB definitely spend more government money.C recruit many of its staff from outside the civil service.D reduce the powers given to the prime minister.35. The Japanese take a(n) _attitude to the government reform.A unconfidentB ind
16、ifferentC negativeD chillyTEXT 4IN AN essay of this historical sweep, it is always good to have something to shoot at. The Cash Nexus provides Niall Ferguson, a prolific Oxford historian, with not one target but several. With practiced eye, he takes aim at the claim that economics decides the course of history; that democracy brings wealth and peace; that Britain
