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1、2000-2008 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题答案112000 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 Section II: Cloze Test Directions: For each numbered blank in 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
2、 a pencil. (10 points) If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap between his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain _41_ consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family _42_ he produces a surplus. He must use
3、 this surplus in three ways: as seed for sowing, as an insurance _43_ the unpredictable effects of bad weather and as a commodity which he must sell in order to _44_ old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to _45_ the soil. He may also need money to construct irrigation _46_ and
4、improve his farm in other ways. If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be _47_. He must either sell some of his property or _48_ extra funds in the form of loans. Naturally he will try to borrow money at a low _49_ of interest, but loans of this kind are not _50_ obtainable. 41. A other than B
5、as well as C instead of D more than 42. A only if B much as C long before D ever since 43. A for B against C supplement D dispose 44. A replace B purchase C supplement D dispose 45. A enhance B mix C feed D raise 46. A vessels B routes C paths D channels 47. A self-confident B self-sufficient C self
6、-satisfied D self-restrained 48. A search B save C offer D seek 49. A proportion B percentage C rate D ratio 50. A genuinely B obviously C presumably D frequently Section III: Reading Comprehension Directions: Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four
7、 answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to 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) Text 1 A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful
8、handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the w
9、orlds best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predomina
10、nce proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker lef
11、t, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Koreas LG Electronics in July.) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. Americas machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented a
12、nd which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty. All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin t
13、o fall as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of Americas industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas. How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years o
14、f solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. “American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-2
15、000-2008 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题答案22witted,” according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government. “It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity,” says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as “a golden age of business management in the United States.” 51. The U.S. achieve
