2011 年年 MBA 学位联考学位联考英语试卷（热身赛英语试卷（热身赛 1））考试时间为三个小时考试时间为三个小时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 an ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Scientists around the world are racing to learn how to rapidly diagnose, treat and stop the spread of a new, deadly disease. SARS -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome --- was (1) ____ for the first time in February 2003 in Hanoi, (2) _____ since then has infected more than 1,600 people in 15 countries, killing 63. At this (3) _____, there are more questions than answers surrounding the disease.Symptoms start (4) _____ a fever over 100.4 degrees F, chills, headache or body (5)____. Within a week, the patient has a dry cough, which might (6) _____ to shortness of breath. In 10% to 20% of cases, patients require (7) _____ ventilation to breathe. About 3.5% die from the disease. Symptoms (8)____ begin in two to seven days, but some reports suggest it (9) ____ take as long as 10 days. Scientists are close to (10) ____ a lab test to diagnose SARS. In the meantime, it is diagnosed by its symptoms. There is no evidence (11)____ antibiotics or anti-viral medicines help, (12) _____ doctors can offer only supportive care. Patients with SARS are kept in isolation to reduce the risk of (13) ____ .Scientists aren’t sure yet, but some researchers think it’s a (14) ____ discovered coronavirus, the family of viruses that cause some common colds.Most cases appear to have been passed (15) ____ droplets expelled when infected patients cough or sneeze. Family members of infected people and medical workers who care (16) ____ them have been most likely to (17) ____ the illness. But recent developments in Hong Kong suggest that the (18) ____ might spread through air, or that the virus might (19) ____ for two to three hours on doorknobs or other (20) ____. Health experts say it is unlikely, though, that sharing an elevator briefly with an infected person would be enough to pass the virus.1.A.detectedB.caughtC.disclosedD.revealed2.A.butB.andC.orD.yet3.A.timeB.pointC.aspectD.instance4.A.fromB.overC.uponD.with5.A.hurtB.soreC.achesD.feelings6.A.processB.advanceC.progressD.convert7.A.automaticB.artificialC.mechanicalD.controlled8.A.regularlyB.ordinarilyC.traditionallyD.generally9.A.willB.mightC.shouldD.must10.A.cultivatingB.fosteringC.developingD.designing11.A.whichB.thatC.whetherD.what12.A.soB.butC.stillD.yet13.A.communicationB.transportationC.transformationD.transmission14.A.latelyB.newbornC.newlyD.renewed15.A.underB.throughC.beneathD.from16.A.forB.overC.afterD.about17.A.acquireB.receiveC.obtainD.contract18.A.ailmentB.ill-healthC.diseaseD.infection19.A.continueB.lingerC.delayD.persist20.A.exteriorsB.outsideC.surfacesD.coveringsSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections：：Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Passage 1 Women’s minds work differently from men’s. At least, that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke. Now the biologists have moved into this minefield, and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women. But being different, they point out hurriedly, is not the same as being better or worse.There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female brain. The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes-the link between the two halves of the brain.The two halves are linked by a trunkline of between 200 and 300 million nerves, the corpus callosum. Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men. This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance. The question is “What?”, and, if this difference exists, are there others? Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution? We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences. But could we be wrong?Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions, and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people, the left half is used for wordhanding, analytical and logical activities; the right half works on pictures, patterns and forms. We need both halves working together. And the better the connections, the more harmoniously the two halves work. And, according to research findings, women have the better connections. But it isn’t all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis. In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at “language subjects。