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1、11997 年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Part Cloze TestDirections：For each numbered blank in the 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 thebrackets. (10 points)Manpower
2、 Inc., with 560 000 workers, is the worlds largest temporary employment agency. Every morning,its people1into the offices and factories ofAmerica, seeking a days work for a days pay.One day at a time. 2industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive 3 reducing thenumber of employee
3、s, Manpower, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.4its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a nation of part- timers and temporaryworkers. This“5”work force is the most important6in American business today, and it is7changingthe relationship between people and their job
4、s. The phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globallycompetitive8avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens9by employment rules, health care costsand pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the security, benefits and sense of10that came frombeing a loyal employee.1.A swarmB
5、strideC separateD slip2.A ForB BecauseC AsD Since3.A fromB inC onD by4.A Even thoughB Now thatC If onlyD Provided that5.A durableB disposable C availableD transferable6.A approachB flowC fashionD trend7.A instantlyB reverselyC fundamentallyD sufficiently8.A butB whileC andD whereas9.A imposedB restr
6、ictedC illustratedD confined10.A excitementB conviction C enthusiasmD importancePart Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked A,B ,CandD . Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each o
7、f the questions. Then markyour answer onANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (40 points)Passage 1It was 3: 45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours ofhot parliamentary debates, Australias Northern Territory be
8、came the first legal authority in the world to allowdoctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess,全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页
9、，共 34 页2executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the groups on-line service, Death NET.Says Hofsess: “We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isnt just something that happened inAustralia. Its world history.”The full import may take a while to sink
10、 in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians andcitizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others,including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and theh
11、aste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australiawhere an aging population, life-extendingtechnology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider makinga similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right
12、-to-die movement is gathering strength,observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request deathprobably by a deadly injection orpillto put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. Afte
13、r a “coolingoff” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met.For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill lawmeans he can get on with living without the haunting fear
14、 of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathingcondition. “Im not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how Id go, becauseIve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks, ” he says.11. From the second paragraph we
15、learn that.A the objection to euthanasia is slow to come in other countriesB physicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasiaC changing technology is chiefly responsible for the hasty passage of the lawD it takes time to realize the significance of the laws passage12. When the author says t
16、hat observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means.A observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasiaB similar bills are likely to be passed in the US, Canada and other countriesC observers are waiting to see the result of the game of dominoesD the effect-taking process of the passed bill may finally come to a stop13. When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will.A face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasiaB experience the suffering of a lung cancer
