1、MBA 联考英语-综合练习(一)及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B完形填空/B(总题数：10，分数：100.00)Passage 1 The horse and carriage is a thing of the past, but love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, particularly first marriages U(1) /U young couples, are the result of mutual
2、 attraction and affection U(2) /U than practical considerations. In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin U(3) /U in high school and usually find mates through their own academic and social contacts. Though young people feel free to choose their frie
3、nds from U(4) /U groups, most choose a mate of similar background. This is due in part to parental guidance. Parents cannot select spouses for their children, but they can usually U(5) /U choices by voicing disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable. U(6) /U, marriages between members of differ
4、ent groups (interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater U(7) /U of todays youth and the fact that they are restricted by fewer prejudices than their parents. Many young people leave their home towns to attend colleges, U(9) /U in the armed force
5、s, or pursue a career in the bigger cities. Once away from home and family, they are more U(9) /U to date and marry outside their own social group. In mobile American society, interclass marriages are neither rare nor shocking. Interfaith marriages are on the rise particularly between Protestants an
6、d Catholics. On the other hand, interracial marriage is still very uncommon. It can be difficult for interracial couples to find a place to live, maintain friendships, and U(10) /U a family. Marriages between people of different national origin (but the same race and religion) have been commonplace
7、here since colonial times. （分数：10.00）A.involvingB.linkingC.connectingD.correlatingA.moreB.lessC.otherD.ratherA.datingB.appointmentC.engagementD.matchingA.similarB.identicalC.diverseD.differentialA.giveB.influenceC.makeD.offerA.HoweverB.MoreoverC.ThereforeD.FurthermoreA.mobilityB.motiveC.moralD.missi
8、onA.workB.serveC.stayD.remainA.probableB.likelyC.reluctantD.readilyA.raiseB.obtainC.growD.unitePassage 2 Whats your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember learning to walk? Or talk? The first time you heard thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom U(1) /U events much earlier than
9、the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four rarely retain any specific, personal experiences. A variety of explanations have been U(2) /U by psychologists for this “childhood amnesia“ (儿童失忆症). One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is re
10、sponsible for forming memories, does not mature U(3) /U about the age of two. But the most popular theory maintains that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot U(4) /U childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or narratives-one event follows a
11、nother as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental U(5) /U for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they cant find any that fits the pattern. Its like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary. Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York Sta
12、te University offers a new U(6) /U for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply arent any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone elses spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly U(7
13、) /U impressions of them into long-term memories. In other U(8) /U, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about them-Mother talking about the afternoon U(9) /U for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean park. Without this verbal reinforcement,
14、 says Dr. Simms, children cannot form U(10) /U memories of their personal experiences. （分数：10.00）A.involveB.interpretC.recallD.resolveA.canceledB.figuredC.proposedD.witnessedA.untilB.onceC.afterD.sinceA.reflectB.attainC.accessD.referA.outputsB.dreamsC.flashesD.filesA.emphasisB.arrangementC.explanati
15、onD.factorA.forgottenB.rememberedC.forgettingD.rememberingA.sensesB.casesC.wordsD.meansA.usedB.chosenC.takenD.spentA.permanentB.consciousC.subordinateD.spiritualPassage 3 Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an U(1) /U should be made ev
16、en before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, however, most people make several job choices during their working lives,U (2) /U because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their position. The “one perfect job“ does not exist. Young people should U(3) /U enter in
17、to a broad flexible training program that will fit them for a field of work rather than for a single U(4) /U. Unfortunately, etent vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing U(5) /U about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss basis. Som
18、e drift from job to job. Others U(6) /U to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for its real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students-or their parents for them-choose the professional field, U(7) /U both the relativ
19、ely small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal U(8) /U. The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a “White-collar“ job is no good reason for choosing it as lifes work. Moreover, these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large propo
20、rtion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the U(9) /U of young people should give serious consideration to these fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants U(10) /U and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social
21、prestige, others desire intellectual satisfaction. Some want security; others are willing to take risks for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its rewards. （分数：10.00）A.identificationB.entertainmentC.accommodationD.occupationA.entirelyB.mainlyC.partlyD.largelyA.sinceB
22、.thereforeC.furthermoreD.foreverA.jobB.wayC.meansD.companyA.littleB.fewC.muchD.a lotA.applyB.appealC.stickD.turnA.concerningB.followingC.consideringD.disregardingA.preferencesB.requirementsC.tendenciesD.ambitionsA.majorityB.massC.minorityD.multitudeA.towardsB.againstC.out ofD.withoutPassage 4 There
23、is virtually no limit to how one can serve community interests, from spending a few hours a week with some charitable organizations to practically fulltime work for asocial agency. Just as there are opportunities for voluntary service U(1) /U (VSO) for young people before they take up fulltime emplo
24、yment, so there are opportunities for overseas service for U(2) /U technicians in developing countries. Some people, particularly those who retire early, offer their technical and business skills in countries U(3) /U there is a special need. So in considering voluntary or paid community service ther
25、e are more opportunities than there ever were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small fulltime U(4) /U, and depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be
26、different. U(5) /U some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not judge them by commercial criteria. The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different U(6) /U, both personal and organizational. One should not join them U(7) /U to arm them with p
27、rofessional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the cause, not business efficiency. Because salaries are small or non-existent. Many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses. But many retired people take part in community service for U(8) /U, simply because they enjoy the work. Many comm
28、unity activities possible U(9) /U retirement were also possible during ones working life but they are to be undertaken no less seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider U(10) /U community service. （分数：10.00）A.overseaB.over se
29、aC.over seasD.overseasA.quantityB.qualifyingC.qualityD.qualifiedA.whichB.whereC.asD.thatA.teamB.numberC.staffD.crowdA.InB.ByC.WithD.ThroughA.subjectiveB.subjectC.objectivesD.objectsA.expectingB.to expectC.being expectedD.expectedA.freeB.freedomC.moneyD.somethingA.beforeB.onC.inD.atA.to be takenB.to
30、takeC.takingD.being takenPassage 5 With 950 million people, India ranks second to China among the most populous countries. But since China U(1) /U a family planning program in 1971, India has been closing the gap. Indians have reduced their birth rate but not nearly U(2) /U the Chinese have. If curr
31、ent growth rates continue, Indias population will pass Chinas around the year 2028 at about 1.7 billion. Should that happen, it wont be the U(3) /U of the enlightened women of Kerala, a state in southern India. U(4) /U India as a whole adds almost 20 million people a year, Keralas population is virt
32、ually stable. The reason is no mystery: nearly two-thirds of Kerala women practice birth control, compared with about 40% in the entire nation. The difference U(5) /U the emphasis put on health programs, including birth control, by the state authorities, U(6) /U in 1957 became Indias first elected C
33、ommunist government. And an educational tradition and matrilineal (母系的) customs in parts of Kerala help girls and boys get equally good schooling. While one in three Indian women is U(7) /U,90% of those in Kerala can read and write. Higher literacy rates U(8) /U family planning. “Unlike our parents,
34、 we know that we can do more for our children if we have fewer of them,“ says Laial Cherian, 33, who lives in the village of Kudamaloor. She has limited herself U(9) /U three children-one below the national U(10) /U of four. That kind of restraint will keep Kerala from putting added pressure on worl
35、d food supplies. （分数：10.00）A.discoveredB.circulatedC.launchedD.transmittedA.as many asB.as well asC.as soon asD.as much asA.forceB.fightC.falseD.faultA.WhileB.SinceC.BecauseD.SupposeA.lies inB.shows offC.results inD.departs fromA.thatB.sinceC.whatD.whichA.culturalB.literateC.nativeD.responsibleA.fos
36、terB.hamperC.reformD.advocateA.inB.atC.asD.toA.statisticsB.averageC.tendencyD.categoryPassage 6 In every cultivated language there are two great classes of words which, taken together, comprise the whole vocabulary. Firstly, there are those words U(1) /U which we become acquainted in daily conversat
37、ion, which we U(2) /U , that is to say, from the members of our own family and from our familiar associates, and U(3) /U we should know and use even if we could not read or write. They concern the common things of life, and are the stock in trade of all who U(4) /U the language. Such words may be ca
38、lled “popular“, since they belong to the people at large and are not the exclusive possession of a limited class. On the other hand, our language U(5) /U a multitude of words which are comparatively seldom used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings are known to every educated person, but there is
39、 little U(6) /U to use them at home or in the marketplace. Our first acquaintance with them comes not from our mothers U(7) /U or from the talk of our schoolmates, but from books that we read, lectures that we U(8) /U , or the more formal conversation of highly educated speakers who are discussing s
40、ome particular U(9) /U in style appropriately elevated above the habitual level of everyday life. Such words are called “learned“, and the U(10) /U between them and “popular“ words is of great importance to a right understanding of linguistic process. （分数：10.00）A.byB.withC.throughD.atA.imitateB.simu
41、lateC.studyD.learnA.thatB.whichC.whyD.whenA.speakB.practiceC.sayD.applyA.excludesB.includesC.comprisesD.evolvesA.wayB.prospectC.necessityD.occasionA.tongueB.wordsC.mouthD.lipsA.hearB.listenC.hear ofD.attend toA.questionB.themeC.topicD.problemA.comparisonB.contrastC.similarityD.distinctionPassage 7 C
42、hanges in residence and jobs place a tremendous amount of stress and pressure on people U(1) /U they try to adjust themselves to new people and places. Yet transient relationships are not U(2) /U only to people and places. Objects move in and out of our lives at an astonishing rate. America, the “co
43、nsumer society“, has also U(3) /U the name “the throw away society“. Every year we throw away incredible quantities of bottles, cans, paper, and on and on. Buildings are torn U(4) /U around us, and new ones take their places; they are cheaper to replace than to repair. With every major change, our p
44、laces feel less familiar. Our lives become filled with a sense of impermanence and uncertainty. The rate at which new and sometimes contradictory information comes at us U(5) /U contributes to our feelings of instability and transience. Its estimated that 90 percent of all scientists who ever lived
45、are alive today. New scientific discoveries are being made every day of the week, U(6) /U unlike in other ages, new ideas are quickly applied in practical ways. The U(7) /U of new technology on our lives is felt almost immediately. As we look back on history, we think in terms of large periods of ti
46、me, from the ten thousand years of the agricultural revolution to the three hundred years of the industrial U(8) /U. Today time feels like its accelerating. We now U(9) /U to think of change in terms of centuries, or rather in terms of decades: the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The day may come when we th
47、ink of great U(10) /U of historical change in terms of years, even months. （分数：10.00）A.so thatB.asC.untilD.sinceA.limitedB.adaptedC.appliedD.referredA.takenB.calledC.earnedD.givenA.downB.offC.upD.awayA.fartherB.evenC.furtherD.everA.butB.soC.orD.forA.affectB.impressionC.forceD.influenceA.ageB.dayC.dateD.timeA.manageB.inclineC.tendD.intendA.timesB.periodsC.portionsD.dealsPassage 8 In the modern world, it is important to be well-informed. Success in many fields U(1) /U on getting the latest information. There are many means of obtaining information which enable us to U(2) /U what is going o
