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1、2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Part I Cloze TestDirections：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 ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)The governmen
2、t is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 1 the trial of Rosemary West.In a significant 2 of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 3 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 4 and will s
3、trictly control the amount of 5 that can be given to a case 6 a trial begins.In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he 7 with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 8 sufficient control. 9 of the letter c
4、ame two days after Lord Irvine caused a 10 of media protest when he said the 11 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 12 to Parliament.The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 13 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 14 i
5、n Britain, laid down that everybody was 15 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.“Press freedoms will be in safe hands 16 our British judges,” he said.Witness payments became an 17 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19
6、 witnesses were 18 to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 19 witnesses might be encouraged exaggerate their stories in court to 20 guilty verdicts. 1.Aas to Bfor instance Cin particular Dsuch as2.Atightening Bintensifying Cfocusing Dfastening 3.Asketc
7、h Brough Cpreliminary Ddraft4.Aillogical Billegal Cimprobable Dimproper5.Apublicity Bpenalty Cpopularity Dpeculiarity6.Asince Bif Cbefore Das7.Asided Bshared Ccomplied Dagreed8.Apresent Boffer Cmanifest Dindicate 9.ARelease BPublication CPrinting DExposure10.Astorm Brage Cflare Dflash11.Atranslation
8、 Binterpretation Cexhibition Ddemonstration12.Abetter than Bother than Crather than Dsooner than 13.Achanges Bmakes Csets Dturns14.Abinding Bconvincing Crestraining Dsustaining 15.Aauthorized Bcredited Centitled Dqualified16.Awith Bto Cfrom Dby17.Aimpact Bincident Cinference Dissue18.Astated Bremark
9、ed Csaid Dtold 19.Awhat Bwhen Cwhich Dthat20.Aassure Bconfide Censure DguaranteePart II Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each questions there are four answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to
10、each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (40 points)Passage 1Specialisation can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation of scientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter i
11、nto smaller units，one man could continue to handle the information and use it as the basis for further research. But specialisation was only one of a series of related developments in science affecting the process of communication. Another was the growing professionalisation of scientific activity.
12、No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in science: exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word “amateur” does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and, in particular, may not fully share
13、its values. The growth of specialisation in the nineteenth century, with its consequent requirement of a longer, more complex training, implied greater problems for amateur participation in science. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or
14、laboratory training, and can be illustrated in terms of the development of geology in the United Kingdom.A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a half reveals not simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research, but also a changing definition of what constitutes an acceptable research paper. Thus, in the nineteenth c
