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1、全文可编辑word文档 页眉与背景水印可删除【考研英语】2021年5月河南科技大学研究生招生考试英语练习题100道（附答案解析）第1题阅读理解Bill Clinton likes to boast that Americas economy is in its best shape for 30 years. In many ways he is right: the expansion has hummed along for more than six years, inflation is low, and unemployment has tumbled to 4.8 %, a lev
2、el not seen since the 1960s.（1）Yet there is one glaring difference between todays economy and the glory days of a generation ago：saving, or rather the lack of it. （2）Last year Americans put only 4.3% of their disposable income in the piggy bank, just about half as much as their parents salted away i
3、n 1967. Unless this trend towards profligacy is stemmed, and preferably reversed, Americas “miracle economy”will rest on shaky foundations. Less obvious, however, is how to do it.Personal saving is only one factor in Americas overall rate of thrift. Firms make a contribution through corporate saving
4、 （in fact, many economists reckon the distinction between household and corporate saving is a rather arbitrary one）, and the government, too, plays a big role. The bigger the deficit, the more it drags down overall savings rates. A decade ago, Americas abysmal savings rates could be explained to a l
5、arge extent by government profligacy. But now that the big and deficit has been tamed, and which the prospect of a balanced budget by 2002, it is time to turn attention to Americans themselves.（3）The picture is not pretty. Since the mid-1970s the long-trend in household saving has been downwards. Re
6、cently it appeared that this picture might be changing: personal saving rates in the mid-1990s appeared flat, or even on a slightly upward trend.（4）But the latest big revision to the statistics, published by the Commerce Department at the end of July, told a different story. It showed that personal
7、savings rates are still on a downward trend, and have fallen particularly sharply in the past 18 months. At one level, this revision cheared up a bit of a mystery. （5）Economists had been surprised at the lack of a “wealth effect”：people did not seem to be spending much more, despite huge appreciatio
8、n in the value of their stock marker assets. The new statistics show much higher consumption.【正确答案】然而，当今的经济与30年前的辉煌时代相比有一个明显的区别，这就是储蓄，或者更确切地说是储蓄太少。【答案解析】冒号后面的语句“saving, or rather the lack of it”是对“one glaring difference”起一个解释作用。 【正确答案】去年，美国人只将其可支配收入的4.3%存了起来，差不多只有1967年他们父辈储蓄的一半。【答案解析】句中“just about i
9、n 1967”是“4.3% of their disposable income”的同位语，对其作进一步解释和强调主题。 【正确答案】形势并不令人乐观。从20世纪70年代中期起，家庭储蓄一直下降。最近这种情形似乎正在变化：九十年代中期个人储蓄率表现平稳，甚至还略有上升趋势。【答案解析】句中的“this picture”指的是此句的前一句“since downwards”所表达的内容。冒号后的内容则是为了说明picture是如何charge的。 【正确答案】但是商业部七月底公布的最新修订统计数据表明事实并非如此。【答案解析】“published by at the end of July”用来修
10、饰“the latest big revision”,作定语从句。全句主语为“revision”，谓语是“told”，宾语是“story”. 【正确答案】经济学家们对财富效应的缺乏感到惊讶：尽管债券资产大大升值，但是人们的消费似乎并没有因此有多大的增加。【答案解析】冒号后面的语句“People did not seem their stock market assets.”是对“the lack of a wealth effect”起一个解释的作用。 第2题【单选题】Primary care physicians who refuse to compromise quality are ei
11、ther driven out of business or to cash-only practices, further contributing to the decline of primary care.Medical students arent blind to this scenario. They see how heavily the reimbursement deck is stacked against primary care. The recent numbers show that since 1997, newly graduated US medical s
12、tudents who choose primary care as a career have declined by 50%. This trend results in emergency rooms being overwhelmed with patients without regular doctors.Why do many new medical graduates refuse to choose primary care as their career? A、They find the need for primary care declining. B、The curr
13、ent system works against primary care. C、Primary care physicians command less respect. D、They think working in emergency rooms tedious.【正确答案】B【答案解析】答案选 B。语义理解题。由题干中的new medical graduates及choose primary care as their career 定位于第2段第2、3句。文章第2段开始提到“医学院的学生对此种情形很清楚。他们看到医疗补偿制度对基础医疗行业是多么不利。”随后文章提到这些学生从事基础医疗
14、的数量大幅度减少，由此可以归纳出，造成这一现象的原因是目前的体系不利于基础医疗事业，故选B项。对基础医疗的需求并未减少，只是因为基础医疗的医生资源不够，因此人们不得不前往专家门诊就医，故排除A项；C项和D项，文章均未提及。第3题【单选题】Nothing but disaster would come from such a plan. A、这个计划没有一点用。 B、这个计划只能招致灾祸。 C、这个计划一点害处也没有。 D、这个计划是要战胜一切灾害。【正确答案】B【答案解析】答案选B。nothing but表示“只”的意思。第4题【单选题】My headache _ me. I thought
15、it was going away, but now it is getting even worse. A、is killing B、kills C、killed D、has killed【正确答案】A【答案解析】考查时态的用法。由后半部分：我以为不头疼了，但现在正变得更糟。可知前面应该用现在进行时，表示正头疼厉害。第5题【单选题】Peter has a changeable character. A、role B、disposition C、symbol D、nature【正确答案】B【答案解析】character 性格，品质；disposition 性情。第6题【单选题】The exhibition of poor sportsmanship _ a sense of disgust in all who witnessed it. A、rose B、arose C、aroused D、raised【正确答案】C【答案解析】同源动词辨析首先区分一下词性，A、B两词为不及物动词，C、D两词为及物动词。再区分各词的词义：A)rose “升起，起来；起床，上升，上涨 ”；B)arose“出现，产生，起来”；C)aroused“激起，引起”；D)raised “抬起，举起，提高；筹(钱)；抚养”。 第7题【单选题】They are bright, _ , able a
