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1、1考研英语（二）真题（考研英语（二）真题（2010-2014）2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试(英语二英语二)试题试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET1.(10 points)The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was decla
2、red a global epidemic on june 11,2009. It is the first wotldwide cpidemic_1_by the World Health Organization in 41 years.The heightened alert _2_an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp pise in cases in Australia.and rising _3_in Britain ,Japan,Chile and elsewhere
3、.But the epiemic is “_4_”in severity. According to Margaret Chan. The organizations director general,_5_the overwhelming majorty of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and full recovery. Often in the_6_of any medical treatment.The outbreak came to gobal_7_in late April 2009.when Mexican authori
4、ties noted 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 southwestem United States and around the world.In the United States, new cases seemed to fade_10_warmer weather arriv
5、ed.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 more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 ho
6、spitalizations.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.More than three million doses were to be made
7、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 to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups;heal
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10、ing Ctaking Dgiving16.Afeasible Bavailable Creliable Dapplicable17.Aprevalent Bprincipal Cinnovative Dinitial18.Apresented Brestricted Crecommended Dintroduced19.Aproblems Bissues Cagonies Dsufferings20.Ainvolved in Bcaring for Cconcerned with Dwarding offSection Reading comprehensionPart ADirection
11、s:Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text1The 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 H
12、ead Forever”, 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 hurrah. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.The
13、 world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising vertiginously since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a 3research firm-double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 b
14、illion. But the 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 York, 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 contempora
