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1、2001年考研英语真题及解析 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 markedA, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points
2、)The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy uppeople involved in prominent casesIn a significant of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the LordChancellor, will introduce a bill that will propose making payments to1the trial of Rosemary West.23witnessesto a c
3、ase46and will strictly control the amount ofa trial begins.5that can be givenIn a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media selectcommittee, Lord Irvine said hethat self regulation did not7with a committee report this year which said8sufficient control.9of the letter came two
4、days after Lord Irvine caused a10of mediaprotest when he said the11of privacy controls contained in European12 to Parliament.legislation would be left to judgesThe Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, whichEuropean Convention on Human Rights legally 14 in Britain, laid down th
5、ateverybody was 15 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protectthemselves and their families.Press freedoms will be in safe handsWitness payments became an 17sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were13the“16after West was sentenced to 10 life18 to have received payments for19 wit
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9、art II Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each questionsthere are four answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefullyand choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWERSHEET 1 by blackening the cor
10、responding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (40points)Passage 1Specialisation can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasingaccumulation of scientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter intosmaller units，one man could continue to handle the information and use it as thebas
11、is for further research. But specialisation was only one of a series of relateddevelopments in science affecting the process of communication. Another was thegrowing professionalisation of scientific activity.No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs inscience: excepti
12、ons can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word “amateur”does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into thescientific community and, in particular, may not fully share its values. The growthof specialisation in the nineteenth century, with its consequent require
13、ment of alonger, more complex training, implied greater problems for amateur participationin science. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science basedespecially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated in termsof the development of geology in the United Ki
14、ngdom.A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a halfreveals not simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research, but also achanging definition of what constitutes an acceptable research paper. Thus, in thenineteenth century, local geological studies represented worthwhile research intheir own right; but, in the twentieth century, local studies have increasinglybecome acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate, and reflect on, thewider geological picture. Amateurs, on the other hand, have co
