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1、2007年考研英语（一）试题Section IUse of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations. The roughly 20 million _1_ of these nations
2、looked _2_ to the future. Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian Colonialism, many of the leaders of independence _3_ the ideals of representative government, careers _4_ to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the _5_ to private property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of s
3、ociety. _6_ there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent states, large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a _7_ set of laws.On the issue of _8_ of religion and the position of the church, _9_, there was less agreement _10_ the leadership. Roman Catholic
4、ism had been the state religion and the only one _11_ by the Spanish crown. _12_ most leaders sought to maintain Catholicism _13_ the official religion of the new states, some sought to end the _14_ of other faiths. The defense of the Church became a rallying _15_ for the conservative forces.The ide
5、als of the early leaders of independence were often egalitarian, valuing equality of everything. Bolivar had received aid from Haiti and had _16_ in return to abolish slavery in the areas he liberated. By 1854 slavery had been abolished everywhere except Spains _17_ colonies. Early promises to end I
6、ndian tribute and taxes on people of mixed origin came much _18_ because the new nations still needed the revenue such policies _19_. Egalitarian sentiments were often tempered by fears that the mass of the population was _20_ self-rule and democracy.1.A nativesB inhabitantsC peoples（B）D individuals
7、2.A confusedlyB cheerfullyC worriedly（D）D hopefully3.A sharedB forgotC attained（A）D rejected4.A relatedB closeC open（C）D devoted5.A accessB successionC right（C）D return6.A PresumablyB IncidentallyC Obviously（D）D Generally7.A uniqueB commonC particular（B）D typical8.A freedomB originC impact（A）D refor
8、m9.A thereforeB howeverC indeed（B）D moreover10.A withB aboutC among（C）D by11.A allowedB preachedC granted（A）D funded12.A SinceB IfC Unless（D）D While13.A asB forC under（A）D against14.A spreadB interferenceC exclusion（C）D influence15.A supportB cryC plea（B）D wish16.A urgedB intendedC expected（D）D prom
9、ised17.A controllingB formerC remaining（C）D original18.A slowerB fasterC easier（A）D tougher19.A createdB producedC contributed（B）D preferred20.A puzzled by，B hostile toC pessimistic about，（D） D unprepared forSection IIReading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the qu
10、estions below each text by choosing A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have bee
11、n born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few g
12、uesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d) none of the above.Anders Er
13、icsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above.” Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first e
14、xperiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. “With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had
15、 risen to over 80 numbers.”This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. And the best way to le
