2021考研英语(一)真题及答案解析

欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！2021 考研英语（一）真题及答案解析 2021 考研英语（一）真题及答案解析 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)The homeless make up a growing percentage of Americas population.1,homelessness has reached such proportions that local government cant possibly 2.To help homeless people 3 independence,the federal government must support job training programs,4 the minimum wage,and fund more low-cost housing.5 everyone agrees on the numbers of Americans who are homeless.Estimates 6 anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million._7_ the figure may vary,analysts do agree on another matter:that the number of the homeless is_8_.One of the federal governments studies _9_ that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.Finding ways to _10_ this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult._11_when homeless individuals manage to find a _12_ that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night,a good number still spend the bulk of each day_13_ the street.Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs.And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders.Many others,_14_not addicted or mentally ill,simply lack the everyday _15_ skills needed to turn their lives _16_.Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are _17_ programs that address the many needs of the homeless._18_ Edward Zlotkowski,director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts,_19_it,“There has to be _20 _of programs.What we need is a package deal.”1.AIndeed BLikewise CTherefore DFurthermore 2.Astand Bcope Capprove Dretain 3.Ain Bfor Cwith Dtoward 4.Araise Badd Ctake Dkeep 5.Agenerally Balmost Chardly Dnot 6.Acover Bchange Crange Ddiffer 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！7.ANow that BAlthough CProvided DExcept that 8.Ainflating Bexpanding Cincreasing Dextending 9.Apredicts Bdisplays Cproves Ddiscovers 10.Aassist Btrack Csustain Ddismiss 11.AHence BBut CEven DOnly 12.Alodging Bshelter Cdwelling Dhouse 13.Asearching Bstrolling Ccrowding Dwandering 14.Awhen Bonce Cwhile Dwhereas 15.Alife Bexistence Csurvival Dmaintenance 16.Aaround Bover Con Dup 17.Acomplex Bcomprehensive Ccomplementary Dcompensating 18.ASo BSince CAs DThus 19.Aputs Binterprets Cassumes Dmakes 20.Asupervision Bmanipulation Cregulation Dcoordination 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 In spite of“endless talk of difference,”American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.This is“the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse,and the casualness and absence of deference”characteristic of popular culture.People are absorbed into“a culture of consumption”launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite.”these were stores“anyone could enter,regardless of class or background.This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.”The mass media,advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture,which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous.Writing for the National Immigration Forum,Gregory Rodriguez reports that todays immigration is neither at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation.In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population;in 1900,13.6 percent.In the 10 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！years prior to 1990,3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents;in the 10 years prior to 1890,9.2 for every 1,000.Now,consider three indices of assimilation-language,home ownership and intermarriage.The 1990 Census revealed that“a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English“well”or“very well”after ten years of residence.”The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English.“By the third generation,the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.”Hence the description of America as a graveyard”for language.By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent,higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics“have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S-born whites and blacks.”By the third generation,one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics,and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like Amold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks,yet“some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nations assimilative power.”Are there divisi