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1、w w w . h o n g b a o s h u . c o m红宝书红宝书网址： 【红宝书】考研英语考前预测最后冲刺 3 套题 （红宝书红宝书 网上附赠）网上附赠） 2012 年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语模拟试题（第三套）年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语模拟试题（第三套） Section I Use of English Directions: 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
2、) Gap, J.C. Penney, and other U.S. retailers have long benefited from low costs in China to hold 1 prices in their American stores. A cotton 2 may help change that equation. Chinas farms produce about 26 percent of the worlds cotton, yet thats not 3 to satisfy the needs of the Chinese companies that
3、 make shirts, pants, dresses, and more for U.S. store chains. Cotton futures in China have surged more than 70 percent this year 4 the global economy 5 from recession and consumers worldwide started spending more on clothes. Production in China, the worlds biggest user of cotton, is forecast to lag
4、behind demand for 6 12th year, cutting the countrys 7 to the smallest level since 1995, according to the U.S. Agriculture Dept. The 8 gives local makers of cotton fabrics a lot of leverage in negotiating prices with 9 manufacturers. “Its a little 10 to deal with cotton suppliers now,” says Vicky Wu,
5、 a sales manager at Suzhou Unitedtex Enterprise, a closely held clothes maker 11 in Jiangsu province that counts Gap and Penneys 12 its clients. Chinese suppliers to the big U.S. retailers have to figure out 13 they can pass on their increased costs. Unitedtex, which sells $24 million worth of shirt
6、s and jackets annually to Gap, plans to 14 prices by 5 percent to 30 percent for products available in April, Wu says. Shandong Zaozhuang Tianlong Knitting, which makes Polo Ralph Lauren T-shirts and track suits for Le Coq Sportif Holding, has raised prices as 15 as 70 percent from a year earlier. “
7、If cotton keeps rising like this, we will need to 16 prices by 30 percent by Chinese New Year or we lose money,” says sales manager Fred Hu. “American consumers better get used to rising prices on the shelves of Wal-Mart and other retailers,” says Jessica Lo, Shanghai-based managing director at Chin
8、a Market Research Group. “Chinas manufacturers are getting 17 not only by rising cotton costs but also soaring real estate and labor costs.” John Ermatinger, Gaps Asia president, 18 to say whether Gap will raise prices. “We are going to be 19 of our competition, he says. Thats how well ultimately 20
9、 our prices.” 1w w w . h o n g b a o s h u . c o m红宝书红宝书网址： 【红宝书】考研英语考前预测最后冲刺 3 套题 1. A up B down C on D off 2. A management Bshortage C requirement D technology 3. A large Bempty C enough D expensive 4. A if Buntil C as D but 5. A happened B emerged C bent D enriched 6. A the B a C one D this 7. A
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11、se C add D deduce 15.A much B more C little D few 16.A lift B decrease C ignore D quit 17.A lived B earned C made D squeezed 18.A denies B enjoys C prefers D declines 19.A afraid B ashamed C fond Dmindful 20.A draw B establish C drive D abolish 2w w w . h o n g b a o s h u . c o m红宝书红宝书网址： 【红宝书】考研英语
12、考前预测最后冲刺 3 套题 Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Text 1 Over the next few decades global electricity consumption is expected to double. At t
13、he same time, many power plants in rich countries, built back in the 1960s and 1970s, are nearing the end of their projected lifespans. Meanwhile, concern is swelling both about global warming, and about the Western worlds increasing dependence on a shrinking number of hostile or unstable countries
14、for imports of oil and gas. The solution to this conundrum, in the eyes of many governments, is nuclear power. Around the world, 31 reactors are under construction and many more are in the planning stages. There are good reasons for this enthusiasm. Nuclear reactors emit almost none of the greenhouse ga
