1、MBA 联考英语-39 及答案解析(总分：150.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Use of Engl(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Some historians say that the most important contribution of Dwight Eisenhowers presidency (总统任期 ) in the 1950s was the U.S. interstate highway system. It was a (1) project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human
2、(2) as the Panama Canal. Eisenhowers interstate highways (3) the nation together in new ways and (4) major economic growth by making commerce less (5) . Today, an information superhighway has been builtan electronic network that (6) libraries, corporations, government agencies and (7) . This electro
3、nic superhighway is called the Internet, (8) it is the backbone (主干) of the World Wide Web.The Internet had its (9) in a 1969 U.S. Defense Department computer network called ARPAnet, which (10) Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for military contractors and uni
4、versities doing military research to (11) information. In 1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF) , (12) mission is to promote science, took over.This new NSF network (13) more and more institutional users, many of (14) had their own internal networks. For example, most universities that (15) the
5、 NSF network had intra-campus computer networks. The NSF network (16) became a connector for thousands of other networks. (17) a backbone system that interconnects networks, Internet was a name that fit.So we can see that the Internet is the wired infrastructure (基础设施) on which web (18) move. It beg
6、an as a military communication system, which expanded into a government-funded (19) 19 research network.Today, the Internet is a user-financed system tying institutions of many sorts together (20) an “information superhighway“.（分数：10.00）(1).A. concise B. radical C. massive D. trivial（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D
7、.(2).A. behaviors B. endeavors C. inventions D. elements（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(3).A. packed B. stuck C. suppressed D. bound（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(4).A. facilitated B. modified C. mobilized D. terminated（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(5).A. competitive B. comparative C. exclusive D. expensive（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(6).A. merges B
8、. connects C. relays D. unifies（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(7).A. figures B. personalities C. individuals D. humans（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(8).A. and B. yet C. or D. while（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(9).A. samples B. sources C. origins D. precedents（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(10).A. stood by B. stood for C. stood againstD. stood over（分数：
9、0.50）A.B.C.D.(11).A. exchange B. bypass C. switch D. interact（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(12).A. their B. that C. when D. whose（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(13).A. expanded B. contracted C. attracted D. extended（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(14).A. what B. which C. these D. them（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(15).A. joined B. attached C. participat
10、ed D. involved（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(16).A. moreover B. however C. likewise D. then（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(17).A. With B. By C. In D. As（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(18).A. contexts B. signs C. messages D. leaflets（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(19).A. citizen B. civilian C. amateur D. resident（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(20).A. into B. amid C. o
11、ver D. toward（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.二、Section Reading Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)The January fashion show, called FutureFashion, exemplified how far green design has come. Organized by the New York-based nonprofit Earth Pledge, the show inspired many top designers to
12、work with sustainable fabrics for the first time. Several have since made pledges to include organic fabrics in their lines.The designers who undertake green fashion still face many challenges. Scott Hahn, cofounder with Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, which uses all-organic cotton, says high-qualit
13、y sustainable materials can still be tough to find. “ Most designers with existing labels are finding there arent comparable fabrics that can just replace what youre doing and what your customers are used to,“ he says. For example, organic cotton and non-organic cotton are virtually indistinguishabl
14、e once woven into a dress. But some popular synthetics, like stretch nylon, still have few eco-friendly equivalents.Those who do make the switch are finding they have more support. Last year the influential trade show Designers & Agents stopped charging its participation fee for young green entrepre
15、neurs who attend its two springtime shows in Los Angeles and New York and gave special recognition to designers whose collections are at least 25% sustainable. It now counts more than 50 green designers, up from fewer than a dozen two years ago. This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiati
16、ve aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional (过渡型的) cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material. “ Mainstream is about to occur,“ says Hahn.Some analysts are less sure. Among consumers, only 18% are even aware that ecofashion ex
17、ists, up from 6% four years ago. Natalie Hormilla, a fashion writer, is an example of the unconverted consumer. When asked if she owned any sustainable clothes, she replied: “Not that Im aware of. “ Like most consumers, she finds little time to shop, and when she does, shes on the hunt for “cute stu
18、ff that isnt too expensive. “ By her own admission, green just isnt yet on her mind. Butthanks to the combined efforts of designers, retailers and suppliersone day it will be.（分数：10.00）(1).What is said about FutureFashion?A. It inspired many leading designers to start going green.B. It showed that d
19、esigners using organic fabrics would go far.C. It served as an example of how fashion shows should be organized.D. It convinced the public that fashionable clothes should be made durable.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).According to Scott Hahn, one big challenge to designers who will go organic is that_.A. much
20、 more time is needed to finish a dress using sustainable materialsB. they have to create new brands for clothes made of organic materialsC. customers have difficulty telling organic from non-organic materialsD. quality organic replacements for synthetics are not readily available（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3)
21、.We learn from Paragraph 3 that designers who undertake green fashion_.A. can attend various trade shows freeB. are readily recognized by the fashion worldC. can buy organic cotton at favorable pricesD. are gaining more and more support（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).What is Natalie Hormillas attitude toward e
22、cofashion?A. She doesnt seem to care about it.B. She doesnt think it is sustainable.C. She is doubtful of its practical value.D. She is very much opposed to the idea.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).What does the author think of green fashion?A. Green products will soon go mainstream.B. It has a very promising
23、future.C. Consumers have the final say.D. It will appeal more to young people.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.五、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companieslike the graduates in such fields as business and heal
24、th care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.Thats especially true of booming fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornells School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelors degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging fr
25、om the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of formal education coupled with work experience.But in the long run, too much specialization doesnt pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers t
26、he degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary initially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.As further evidence of the erosion of corporate faith in specialized degrees, Michigan States Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring pra
27、ctices. Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out generalists for middle-and upper-level management. “They want someone who isnt constrained by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture,“ says Scheetz.This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you ap
28、prove of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adapt-ability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems. David Birch cla
29、ims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree. “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,“ says Birch. Liberal-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science
30、, human behaviorplus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize. “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,“ says Scheetz.（分数：10.00）(1).What kinds of people are in high demand on
31、 the job market.9A. Students with a bachelors degree in humanities.B. People with an MBA degree from top universities.C. People with formal schooling plus work experience.D. People with special training in engineering.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).By saying “. but the impact of a degree washes out after five
32、 years“ (Para. 3), the author means_.A. most MBA programs fail to provide students with a solid foundationB. an MBA degree does not help promotion to managerial positionsC. MBA programs will not be as popular in five years time as they are nowD. in five years people will forget about the degree the
33、MBA graduates have got（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).According to Scheetzs statement (Para. 4) , companies prefer_.A. people who have a strategic mindB. people who are talented in fine artsC. people who are ambitious and aggressiveD. people who have received training in mechanics（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).David Bir
34、ch claims that he only hires liberal-arts people because_.A. they are more capable of handling changing situationsB. they can stick to established ways of solving problemsC. they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fieldsD. they have attended special programs in management（分数：2.00）A.B
35、.C.D.(5).Which of the following statements does the author support?A. Specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists.B. Formal schooling is less important than job training.C. On-the-job training is, in the long run, less costly.D. Generalists will outdo specialists in management.（分数：2.00）A
36、.B.C.D.六、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)For hundreds of millions of years, turtles(海龟) have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchl
37、ings (幼龟) down to the waters edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking lot instead. A formidable wall of bureaucracy has been erected to protect their prime nesting sites on the Atlantic coastlines. With all that attention paid to them, youd think these creatu
38、res would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct.But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic sea turtles, notably loggerheads(红海龟) , which can grow to as m
39、uch as 400 pounds. The South Florida nesting population, the largest, has declined by 50% in the last decade, according to Elizabeth Griffin, a marine biologist with the environmental group Oceana. The figures prompted Oceana to petition the government to upgrade the level of protection for the Nort
40、h Atlantic loggerheads from “threatened“ to “endangered“meaning they are in danger of disappearing without additional help.Which raises the obvious question: what else do these turtles want from us, anyway? It turns out, according to Griffin, that while we have done a good job of protecting the turt
41、les for the weeks they spend on land (as egg-laying females, as eggs and as hatchlings) ,we have neglected the years they spend in the ocean. “The threat is from commercial fishing, “ says Griffin. Trawlers ( which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and long-line fishers (w
42、hich can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll(损失) on turtles.Of course, like every other environmental issue today, this is playing out against the background of global warming and human interference with natural ecosystems. The narrow strips of beach on w
43、hich the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm. Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs (恐龙) will meet its end at the hands of humans, leav
44、ing our descendants to wonder how a creature so ugly could have won so much affection.（分数：10.00）(1).We can learn from the first paragraph that_.A. human activities have changed the way turtles surviveB. efforts have been made to protect turtles from dying outC. government bureaucracy has contributed
45、 to turtles extinctionD. marine biologists are looking for the secret of turtles reproduction（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).What does the author mean by “Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness“ ( Line 1, Para. 2)?A. Nature is quite fair regarding the survival of turtles.B. Turtles are by nature in
46、different to human activities.C. The course of nature will not be changed by human interference.D. The turtle population has decreased in spite of human protection.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).What constitutes a major threat to the survival of turtles according to Elizabeth Griffin?A. Their inadequate food
47、supply. B. Unregulated commercial fishing.C. Their lower reproductive ability. D. Contamination of sea water.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).How does global warming affect the survival of turtles?A. It threatens the sandy beaches on which they lay eggs.B. The changing climate makes it difficult for their eggs
48、to hatch.C. The rising sea levels make it harder for their hatchlings to grow.D. It takes them longer to adapt to the high beach temperature.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The last sentence of the passage is meant to_.A. persuade human beings to show more affection for turtlesB. stress that even the most ugly
49、 species should be protectedC. call for effective measures to ensure sea turtles survivalD. warn our descendants about the extinction of species（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.七、Text 4(总题数：2，分数：20.00)While still catching up to men in some fields of modern life, women appear to be far ahead in at least one undesirable aspect. “ Women are particularly liable to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men. “ according to Dr. Yehuda, chief psychiatrist at New Yorks Veterans Administration Hospital.Studies o
