1、MBA 联考英语真题 2010 年及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank. The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,2009It is the first worldwide epidem
2、icU (1) /Uby the World Health Organization in 41 years. The heightened alertU (2) /Uan emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and risingU (3) /Uin Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere. But the epidemic is “U (4) /U“ in severity, according
3、 to Margaret Chan, the organizations director general,U (5) /Uthe overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in theU (6) /Uof any medical treatment. The outbreak came to globalU (7) /Uin late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually la
4、rge number of hospitalizations and deathsU (8) /Uhealthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began toU (9) /Uin New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world. In the United States, new cases seemed to fadeU (10) /Uwarmer weather arrived. But
5、in late September 2009, officials reported there wasU (11) /Uflu activity in almost every state and that virtually all theU (12) /Utested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U. S. , it hasU (13) /Umore than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and m
6、ore than 6,000 hospitalizations. Federal health officialsU (14) /UTamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began U(15) /Uorders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, isU (16) /Uahead of expectations. More than thre
7、e million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of thoseU (17) /Udose were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is notU (18) /Ufor pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several otherU (19) /U. But it was still possible to
8、 vaccinate people in other high-risk groups: health care workers, peopleU (20) /Uinfants and healthy young people. （分数：20.00）A.criticizedB.appointedC.commentedD.designatedA.proceededB.activatedC.followedD.promptedA.digitsB.numbersC.amountsD.sumsA.moderateB.normalC.unusualD.extremeA.withB.inC.fromD.b
9、yA.progressB.absenceC.presenceD.favorA.realityB.phenomenonC.conceptD.noticeA.overB.forC.amongD.toA.stay upB.crop upC.fill upD.cover upA.asB.ifC.unlessD.untilA.excessiveB.enormousC.significantD.magnificentA.categoriesB.examplesC.patternsD.samplesA.impartedB.immersedC.injectedD.infectedA.releasedB.rel
10、ayedC.relievedD.remainedA.placingB.deliveringC.takingD.givingA.feasibleB.availableC.reliableD.applicableA.prevalentB.principalC.innovativeD.initialA.presentedB.restrictedC.recommendedD.introducedA.problemsB.issuesC.agoniesD.sufferingsA.involved inB.caring forC.concerned withD.warding off二、BSection R
11、eadi(总题数：5，分数：50.00)BPart A/BDirections: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D BText 1/BThe longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head For
12、ever, at Sothebys in London on September 15th, 2008All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brother, filed for bankruptcy. The world ar
13、t market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $ 65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of art Economics, a research firm-double the figure five year earlier. Since then it may have come down to $ 50 billion. But
14、the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries. In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world
15、that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008Within weeks the worlds two biggest auction houses, Sothebys and Christies, had to pay out nearly
16、$ 200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them. The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionist at the end of 1989This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far m
17、ore fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christies chief executive, says: “Im pretty confident were at the bottom. “ What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest proble
18、m at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds-death, debt and divorce-still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return. （分数：10.00）(1).In the first paragraph, Damien Hirsts sale was
19、 referred to as “a last victory“ because_.（分数：2.00）A.the art marker had witnessed a succession of victoriesB.the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bidsC.Beautiful inside My Head Forever won over all masterpiecesD.it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis(2).B
20、y saying “spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable“ (Lines 1-2, Para. 3), the author suggests that_.（分数：2.00）A.collectors were no longer actively involved in art-market auctionsB.people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleriesC.art collection as a fashion had lost its ap
21、peal to a great extentD.works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying(3).Which of the following statements is NOT true?（分数：2.00）A.Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007 to 2008B.The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum.C.The art market
22、 generally went downward in various ways.D.Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come.(4).The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are_.（分数：2.00）A.auction houses favoritesB.contemporary trendsC.factors promoting artwork circulationD.styXes representing Impressionists(5).The most appro
23、priate title for this text could be_.（分数：2.00）A.Fluctuation of Art pricesB.Up-to-date Art AuctionsC.Art Market in DeclineD.Shifted Interest in ArtsBText 2/BI was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room-a womens group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening,
24、one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands dont talk to them. This man quickly nodded in agreement. He gestured to
25、ward his wife and said, “Shes the talker in our family. “ The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. “Its true,“ he explained. “ When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didnt keep the conversation going, wed spend the whole evening in silence. “ This episode crys
26、tallizes the irony that although American men tend to taXk more than women in public situations, they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage. The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 1970s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman repo
27、rts in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she interviewed-but only a few of the men-gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year-a virtual epidemic of
28、failed conversation. In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and so
29、cial arrangements. Instead, they focused on communication: “He doesnt listen to me. “ “He doesnt talk to me. “ I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives. In
30、short, the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face, while a woman glares at the back of it, wanting to talk. （分数：10.00）(1).What is most wives main expectation of their husba
31、nds?（分数：2.00）A.Talking to them.B.Trusting them.C.Supporting their careers.D.Sharing housework.(2).Judging from the context the phrase “wreaking havoc“ (Line 3, Para. 2) most probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.generating motivationB.exerting influenceC.causing damageD.creating pressure(3).All of the followin
32、g are true EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.men tend to talk more in public than womenB.nearly 50 percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversationC.women attach much importance to communication between couplesD.a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse(4).Which of the following can b
33、est summarize the main idea of this text?（分数：2.00）A.The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists.B.Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities.C.Husband and wife have different expectations from their marriage.D.Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.(5).In the fol
34、lowing part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on_.（分数：2.00）A.a vivid account of the new book Divorce TalkB.a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoonC.other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the USD.a brief introduction to the political scientist And
35、rew HackerBText 3/BOver the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors-habits-among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully desig
36、ned set of daily cues. “There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we cant figure out how to change peoples habit,“ said Dr. Curtis, the director the Hygiene Center at the London School of Hygiene that jurors should be sel
37、ected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin ; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the co
38、mmunity and not just the letter of the law. The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy. In a direct democracy, citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them. But as recently as in 1968, jur
39、y selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character. Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury
40、selection as early as the 1880 case of Strauder v. West Virginia, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other antidiscrimination laws. The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century. Although
41、women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898, it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty. Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list. This practice w
42、as justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s. In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury. This law abolished special educati
43、onal requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level.
44、The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in july selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors. （分数：10.00）(1).From the principles of the US jury system,we learn that_.（分数：2.00）A.both literate and illiterate people can
45、sever on juriesB.defendants are immune from trial by their peersC.no age limit should be imposed for jury serviceD.judgment should consider the opinion of the public(2).The practice of selecting so-called elite jurors prior to 1968 showed_.（分数：2.00）A.the inadequacy of antidiscrimination lawsB.the pr
46、evalent discrimination against certain racesC.the conflicting ideals in jury selection proceduresD.the arrogance common among the supreme Court judges(3).Even in the 1960s, women were seldom on the jury list in some states because_.（分数：2.00）A.they were automatically banned by state lawsB.they fell f
47、ar short of the required qualificationsC.they were supposed to perform domestic dutiesD.they tended to evade public engagement(4).After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed_.（分数：2.00）A.sex discrimination in jury selection was unconstitutional and had to be abolishedB.educational requirement
48、s became less rigid in the selection of federal jurorsC.jurors at the state level ought to be representative of the entire communityD.states ought to conform to the federal court in reforming the jury system(5).In discussing the U.S. jury system, the text centers on_.（分数：2.00）A.its nature and problemsB.its characteristics and traditionC.its problems and their solutionsD.its tradition and developmentBPart B/BDirections: Read the following text and decide whether each of the statement is true or false. Choose A if the statement is true or B if the statement is not true. Copying Birds May Save
