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1、20102018 年考研英语二真题及答案 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 M
2、exico was declared a global epidemic 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, C
3、hile and elsewhere. But the epidemic is _4_ in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations 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 Apr
4、il 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually 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 see
5、med to fade_10_warmer weather arrived. But in late September 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
6、 more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations. Federal 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.
7、More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, 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
8、to vaccinate people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people _20_infants and healthy young people. 1 A criticized B appointed CcommentedD designated 2 A proceededB activated C followedD prompted 3 A digits B numbers C amountsD sums 4 A moderateB normalC unusual D extreme 5 A with B in C
9、 from D by 20102018 年考研英语二真题及答案 2 6 A progressB absence C presence D favor 7 A reality B phenomenon C concept D notice 8. AoverB for C among D to 9 A stay upB crop up C fill up D cover up 10 A asB if C unless D until 11 A excessive B enormous C significant Dmagnificent 12 Acategories B examples C pa
10、tternsD samples 13 A imparted B immerse C injectedD infected 14 A released B relayed C relievedD remained 15 A placing B delivering C takingD giving 16 A feasibleB availableC reliableD applicable 17 A prevalentB principalC innovativeD initial 18 A presented B restricted C recommendedD introduced 19
11、A problems B issues C agoniesD sufferings 20 A involved in B caring forC concerned withD 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”
12、，at Sothebys 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 of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy. The world art m
13、arket 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 firmdouble the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But th
14、e 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 Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable, especially in New Y
15、ork, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise 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 sectorfor Chinese contemporary artthey were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the worlds two biggest auction houses, Sothebys and Christies, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them. 20102018 年考研英语二真题及答案 3 Th
