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1、2023年湖南公共英语考试真题卷（9）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.U. S. health officials are increasing surveillance measures at doctors’ offices and international borders to guard against the spread of swine flu. Washington also has begun dispersing medicine from
2、a federal stockpile.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there have been only mild cases of swine flu in the United States, but experts remain on guard.Acting agency director, Richard Besser, says the epidemic in Mexico prompted U. S. doctors to begin monitoring actively for possible
3、infections.We are asking doctors when they see someone who has flu-like illness who has traveled to an affected region, to do a culture, take a swab in the nose and send it to the lab so we can see: is it influenza, is it this type he said.Speaking Sunday at the White House, Besser said the extra de
4、tection efforts have enabled officials to find more infections than under normal circumstances. He also says he expects the number of infections will rise and the illness will spread to other U. S. regions, as doctors continue to monitor the problem.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say
5、s it does not recommend people travel to Mexico, where the outbreak of swine flu is centered and more than 100 deaths have been reported. But officials have not ordered a travel ban to the country.Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says, instead, airlines have the option of screening passe
6、ngers on flights from Mexico.We are letting air carriers and our employees at the gates on those flights make sure that they are asking people if they are sick; and if they are sick, that they should not board the plane, she said.Denise Korniewicz, an infectious disease expert at the University of M
7、iami, says officials should take bolder steps to screen passengers at international borders, as Japan and other Asian nations are doing.We have a very transient population here. And Japan has taken a lot of precautions. What Japan is doing is they are making everyone take a temperature when they get
8、 off the airplane, she said. As far as I am concerned, I think that is a good idea. U. S. officials say they are holding off on more aggressive actions because the outbreak has been limited in the United States and they do not want to cause a health scare.Korniewicz says around the country health ce
9、nters are putting in place emergency response measures aimed at limiting disease outbreaks.Which statement is not true according to the passage().A. U. S. health officials are increasing surveillance measures at doctors’ offices.B. So far, the cases of swine flu in the United States are not ve
10、ry serious.C. U. S. officials are determined to take more aggressive actions against swine flu.D. Besser says the number of infections will probably rise.2.The most subversive question about higher education has always been whether the college makes the student or the student makes the college. Alon
11、g with skepticism, though, economic downturns also create one big countervailing force that pushes people toward college: many of them have nothing better to do. They have lost their jobs, or they find no jobs waiting for them after high school. In economic terms, the opportunity cost of going to sc
12、hool has been reduced. Over the course of the 1930s, the percentage of 17-year-old who graduated from high school jumped to 50 percent, from less than 30 percent. Boys-many of whom would have been working in better times-made up the bulk of the influx. In our Great Recession, students have surged in
13、to community colleges.So who is right-these students or the skeptics It isn’t too much of an exaggeration to say that the field of labor economics has spent the past 30 years trying to come up with an answer. In one paper after another, economists have tried to identify the portion of a person
14、’s success for which schooling can fairly claim credit. One well-known study, co-researched by Alan Krueger, a Princeton professor now serving as the Treasury Department’s chief economist, offered some sup port for the skeptics. It tracked top high-school students through their 30s and f
15、ound that their alma maters had little impact on their earnings. Students who got into both, say, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State made roughly the same amount of money, regardless of which they chose. Just as you might hope, the fine-grain status distinctions that preoccupy elite high-
16、school seniors (and more to the point, their parents) seem to be overrated.The rest of the evidence, however, has tended to point strongly in the other direction. Several studies have found a large earnings gap between more-and less-educated identical twins. Another study compared young men who happened to live close to a college with young men who did not. The two groups were similar except for how easy it was for them to get to school, and the upshot
