1、考研英语（一）-试卷 5 及答案解析(总分：146.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Use of English(总题数：2，分数：80.00)1.Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D.（分数：40.00）_American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest natural and historic museum
2、s in the world and one of the main natural history research and education centres in the United States, set up in 1869 and located in the west of the Central Park, Manhattan District, New York. It【1】7 hectares in its total area,【2】classical types of buildings. The【3】of ancient creatures and humanity
3、 is【4】the first place of all the museums in the world,【5】the representative samples from South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia were collected, besides those from the【6】country, the United States. In the museum, there are five kinds of exhibits, including astronomy, mineralogy, human hist
4、ory, and animals in the【7】times and those in modern times. There are thirty-eight exhibition halls with different【8】from 500 to 1,500 square metres. Besides these, there is a Roosevelt Memorial Hall in【9】of President Roosevelt who supported the【10】of the museum, which is also used to have a special
5、exhibition, showing the new important【11】on natural sciences and【12】affairs and social problems, and special topics connected closely with the life of the citizens. Besides this, it is also used for avocation【13】to have all kinds of scientific activities in the laboratories, centres of natural scien
6、ce and centres for citizens. There are more than 10【14】research departments mainly 【15】 for collection of samples, research and work of publication. In the museum, there are【16】 and sub-libraries of Aulspond ancient amniote, with about 300 thousand books and magazines【17】natural history, many of 【18
7、】 are very valuable monographs for the first edition. It has published many expert books and magazines, and a large number of propaganda materials,【19】which are the two magazines, Natural History and Members of Museum that have the biggest【20】of their magazines.（分数：40.00）A.exploresB.demonstratesC.ex
8、pandsD.coversA.withB.ofC.inD.onA.displayB.fossilC.analysisD.collectionA.inB.ofC.byD.atA.whereB.thatC.whichD.whoseA.wholesomeB.feasibleC.nativeD.weirdA.originalB.contemporaryC.oppositeD.ancientA.regionsB.areasC.sitesD.venuesA.propositionB.memoryC.profileD.quotationA.causeB.fateC.propertyD.fortuneA.ob
9、staclesB.discoveriesC.obligationsD.inventionsA.presentB.crucialC.currentD.prevalentA.fansB.loversC.addictsD.actorsA.subjectB.declarationC.courseD.rehearsalA.evidentB.reliableC.responsibleD.excessiveA.librariesB.clinicC.congressD.lobbyA.ofB.forC.fromD.onA.whomB.whatC.whichD.thatA.inB.byC.forD.amongA.
10、publicationB.symposiumC.circulationD.tactic二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：10，分数：60.00)2.Section II Reading Comprehension_3.Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D._Menorca or Majorca? It is that time of the year again. The brochures
11、are piling up in travel agents while newspapers and magazines bulge with advice about where to go. But the traditional packaged holiday, a British innovation that provided many timid natives with their first experience of warm sand, is not what it was. Indeed, the industry is anxiously awaiting a Hi
12、gh Court ruling to find out exactly what it now is. Two things have changed the way Britons research and book their holidays: low-cost airlines and the Internet. Instead of buying a ready-made package consisting of a flight, hotel, car hire and assorted entertainment from a tour operator“s brochure,
13、 it is now easy to put together a trip using an online travel agent like Expedia or Travelocity, which last July bought Lastminute. com for 577 million ($1 billion), or from the proliferating websites of airlines, hotels and car-rental firms. This has led some to sound the death knell for high-stree
14、t travel agents and tour operators. There have been upheavals and closures, but the traditional firms are starting to fight back, in part by moving more of their business online. First Choice Holidays, for instance, saw its pre-tax profit rise by 16% to 114 million ($195 million) in the year to the
15、end of October. Although the overall number of holidays booked has fallen, the company is concentrating on more valuable long-haul and adventure trips. First Choice now sells more than half its trips directly, either via the Internet, over the telephone or from its own travel shops. It wants that to
16、 reach 75% within a few years. Other tour operators are showing similar hustle. MyTravel managed to cut its loss by almost half in 2005. Thomas Cook and Thomson Holidays, now both German owned, are also bullish about the coming holiday season. Highstreet travel agents are having a tougher time, thou
17、gh, not least because many leading tour operations have cut the commissions they pay. Some high-street travel agents are also learning to live with the Internet, helping people book complicated trips that they have researched online, providing advice and tacking on other services. This is seen as a
18、growth area. But if an agent puts together separate flights and hotel accommodation, is that a package, too? The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it is and the agent should hold an Air Travel Organisers Licence, which provides financial guarantees to repatriate people and provide refunds. The sch
19、eme dates from the early 1970s, when some large British travel firms went bust, stranding customers on the Costas. Although such failures are less common these days, the CAA had to help out some 30,000 people last year. The Association of British Travel Agents went to the High Court in November to a
20、rgue such bookings are not traditional packages and so do not require agents to acquire the costly licences. While the court decides, millions of Britons will happily click away buying online holidays, unaware of the difference.（分数：10.00）(1).Based on the first paragraph, the best title of the text c
21、ould be_.（分数：2.00）A.An annual holidayB.A High Court rulingC.A new packageD.A British innovation(2).According to the text, the shift in the method of holiday booking in UK is associated with_.（分数：2.00）A.the popularity of electronicsB.the costly licencesC.car rental firmsD.the traditional ideology(3).
22、According to the text, which of the following is true?（分数：2.00）A.To put together a trip using a traditional travel agent is not hard at present.B.To sound the death knell for tour operator is unacceptable and inhumane.C.Some high-street travel agents defy the model of surviving with the internet.D.T
23、raditional tour firms grapple with the internet.(4).The word “ hustle“ in the topic sentence of the fourth paragraph most probably denotes_.（分数：2.00）A.demandB.hostilityC.saleD.prejudice(5).According to the first and last paragraphs, which of the following is still in suspense?（分数：2.00）A.A legal defi
24、nition.B.A congestion charge.C.Financial guarantee.D.An adventure trip.They may not be the richest, but Africans remain the world“s staunchest optimists. An annual survey by Gallup International, a research outfit, shows that, when asked whether this year will be better than last, Africa once again
25、comes out on top. Out of 52,000 people interviewed all over the world, under half believe that things are looking up. But in Africa the proportion is close to 60%almost twice as much as in Europe. Africans have some reasons to be cheerful. The continent“s economy has been doing fairly well with Sout
26、h Africa, the economic powerhouse, growing steadily over the past few years. Some of Africa“s long-running conflicts, such as the war between the north and south in Sudan and the civil war in Congo, have ended. Africa even has its first elected female head of state, in Liberia. Yet there is no short
27、age of downers too. Most of Africa remains dirt poor. Crises in places like Cote d“Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe are far from solved. And the democratic credentials of Ethiopia and Uganda, once the darlings of western donors, have taken a bad knock. AIDS killed over 2 million Africans in 2005, a
28、nd will kill more this year. So is it all just a case of irrational exuberance ? Meril James of Gallup argues that there is, in fact, usually very little relation between the survey“s optimism rankings and reality. Africans, this year led by Nigerians, are consistently the most upbeat, whether their
29、 lot gets better or not. On the other hand, Greece hardly the worst place on earthtops the gloom-and-doom chart, followed closely by Portugal and France. Ms James speculates that religion may have a lot to do with it. Nine out of ten Africans are religious, the highest proportion in the world. But c
30、ynics argue that most Africans believe that 2006 will be golden because things have been so bad that it is hard to imagine how they could possibly get worse. This may help explain why places that have suffered recent misfortunes, such as Kosovo and Afghanistan, rank among the top five optimists. Mou
31、ssaka for thought for those depressed Greeks.（分数：10.00）(1).The statistics are employed in the first paragraph so as to indicate sort of_.（分数：2.00）A.disparityB.numbnessC.conformityD.stagnation(2).It can be inferred from the fourth paragraph of the text that African optimism is_.（分数：2.00）A.detrimental
32、B.fragileC.transientD.constant(3).The conclusion made by Ms James, according to the text, is_.（分数：2.00）A.tentativeB.immutableC.impeccableD.moderate(4).The tone of the author in discussing African status can be defined as being_.（分数：2.00）A.radicalB.impartialC.hesitantD.self-centered(5).France is ment
33、ioned in the text with the aim to_.（分数：2.00）A.contrast Nigerians and FrenchB.defend Meril James“ remarksC.attach importance to the gloom-and-doom chartD.refute Ms James concept of religion“This is a really exciting timea new era is starting,“ says Peter Bazalgette, the chief creative officer of Ende
34、mol, the television company behind “Big Brother“ and other popular shows. He is referring to the upsurge of interest in mobile television, a nascent industry at the intersection of telecoms and media which offers new opportunities to device-makers, content producers and mobile- network operators. An
35、d he is far from alone in his enthusiasm. Already, many mobile operators offer a selection of television channels or individual shows, which are “ streamed“ across their third-generation (3G) networks. In South Korea, television is also sent to mobile phones via satellite and terrestrial broadcast n
36、etworks, which is far more efficient than sending video across mobile networks; similar broadcasts will begin in Japan in April. In Europe, the Italian arm of 3, a mobile operator, recently acquired Canale 7, a television channel, with a view to launching mobile-TV broadcasts in Italy in the second
37、half of 2006. Similar mobile-TV networks will also be built in Finland and America, and are being tested in many other countries. Meanwhile, Apple Computer, which launched a video-capable version of its iPod portable music-player in October, is striking deals with television networks to expand the r
38、ange of shows that can be purchased for viewing on the device , including “Lost“, “Desperate Housewives“ and “Law others are using special measures to crack down. This summer, tickets to the soccer World Cup in Germany will include the name and passport number of the original purchaser and embedded
39、chips that match the buyer to the tickets. Then there are legal worries. In America, more than a dozen states have anti-scalping laws of various kinds. New Mexico forbids the reselling of tickets for college games; Mississippi does so for all events on government-owned property. Such laws are often
40、ignored, but can still bite. In Massachusetts, where reselling a ticket for more than $2 above face value is unlawful, one fan brought a lawsuit last autumn against 16 companies (including StubHub) over his pricey Red Sox tickets.（分数：10.00）(1).UK is mentioned in the text with the intention to_.（分数：2
41、.00）A.define re-selling tickets for profitsB.stress the prosperity of the industryC.shed light on the booming of scalpingD.cast doubt on the profits of online ticket market(2).In both the second and the third paragraphs, the author employs which of the following writing device?（分数：2.00）A.Emphasis.B.
42、Contrast.C.Exaggeration.D.Interrogation.(3).The word “juicy“ in the last sentence of the second paragraph most probably denotes_.（分数：2.00）A.succulentB.interestingC.lucrativeD.liquid(4).Severe measures to discourage re-selling tickets for profits are illustrated with_.（分数：2.00）A.U2 concertB.Super Bow
43、l in early FebruaryC.Rolling Stones concertsD.the soccer World Cup in Germany(5).It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_.（分数：2.00）A.more than a dozen states in US have anti-scalping laws of various kindsB.there are still legal worries about the American re-selling tickets for a profitC.most
44、 states in US have yet to show positive response in crackdown on ticket toutingD.16 companies were taken to court by one fan for reselling a ticket for more than $2 above face value4.Part B_You are going to read a list of headings and a text about laughing. Choose the most suitable heading from the
45、list A-F for each numbered paragraph (41-45). The first paragraph of the text is not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. A What have they found? B Is it true that laughing can make us healthier? C So why do people laugh so much? D W
46、hat makes you laugh? E How did you come to research it? F So what“s it for? Why are you interested in laughter? It“s a universal phenomenon, and one of the most common things we do. We laugh many times a day, for many different reasons, but rarely think about it, and seldom consciously control it. W
47、e know so little about the different kinds and functions of laughter, and my interest really starts there. Why do we do it? What can laughter teach us about our positive emotions and social behaviour? There“s so much we don“t know about how the brain contributes to emotion and I think we can get at
48、understanding this by studying laughter. 41. Only 10 or 20 per cent of laughing is a response to humour. Most of the time it“s a message we send to other peoplecommunicating joyful disposition, a willingness to bond and so on. It occupies a special place in social interaction and is a fascinating feature of our biology, with motor, emotional and cognitive components. Scientists study all kinds of emotions and behaviour, but few focus on this most basic ingred
