1、考研英语（一）模拟试卷 205 及答案解析(总分：144.00，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）_How men first learned to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of l
2、anguage is a mystery. All we really know is that men,【B1】_animals, somehow invented certain【B2】_to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things,【B3】_they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed 【B4】_ certain signs, called letters, which could be 【B5】_ to represent those so
3、unds, and which could be 【B6】_ down. Those sounds, whether spoken, 【B7】_ written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their【B8】_the things they bring up before our minds. Words become 【B9】_ with meaning for us by experience;【B10】_the longer we live, the more certain words【B11
4、】_the happy and sad events of our past to us; and the more we read and【B12】_, the more the number of words that mean something to us【B13】_. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal【B14】_to our minds and emotions. This【B15】_and tel
5、ling use of words is what we call【B16】_style. Above all, the real poet is a master of【B17】_. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which【B18】_their position and association can【B19】_men to tears. We should, therefore, learn to choose our words carefully and use them accuratel
6、y, or they will【B20】_our speech or writing silly and vulgar.（分数：40.00）(1).【B1】（分数：2.00）A.aboveB.unlikeC.excludingD.besides(2).【B2】（分数：2.00）A.soundsB.gesturesC.signsD.movements(3).【B3】（分数：2.00）A.such thatB.as thatC.so thatD.in that(4).【B4】（分数：2.00）A.toB.withC.inD.upon(5).【B5】（分数：2.00）A.speltB.combine
7、dC.pronouncedD.copied(6).【B6】（分数：2.00）A.writtenB.handedC.rememberedD.observed(7).【B7】（分数：2.00）A.andB.yetC.alsoD.or(8).【B8】（分数：2.00）A.functionB.associationC.rolesD.links(9).【B9】（分数：2.00）A.filledB.fulfilledC.liveD.active(10).【B10】（分数：2.00）A.butB.orC.yetD.and(11).【B11】（分数：2.00）A.reappearB.recallC.remem
8、berD.recollect(12).【B12】（分数：2.00）A.thinkB.collectC.learnD.recite(13).【B13】（分数：2.00）A.raisesB.increasesC.improvesD.emerges(14).【B14】（分数：2.00）A.intensivelyB.extensivelyC.broadlyD.powerfully(15).【B15】（分数：2.00）A.charmingB.academicC.conventionalD.common(16).【B16】（分数：2.00）A.writtenB.spokenC.literaryD.dram
9、atic(17).【B17】（分数：2.00）A.signsB.wordsC.styleD.sound(18).【B18】（分数：2.00）A.inB.onC.overD.by(19).【B19】（分数：2.00）A.moveB.engageC.bringD.force(20).【B20】（分数：2.00）A.transformB.changeC.makeD.convert二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：10，分数：60.00)2.Section II Reading Comprehension_3.Part ADirections: Read the following
10、 four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D._This week, a gaggle of girls in hot pants and miniskirts will go on a long and highly publicized strike against their employer. They will win their case, and in so doing, win a huge battle for working women everywhereusherin
11、g in a new push for equal pay for women and striking a victorious blow for women s rights the world over. But in real life, the news isn t nearly that inspiring. On Wednesday, the U.S. senate failed to end debate on the paycheck fairness act. The so-called “commonsense law“ would have strengthened a
12、nti-discriminatory law put in place by the Equal Pay Act, protected employees from being fired for asking about their colleagues compensation, and created negotiation skills training programs for girls and women. The American Association of University Women recently compared men and women with the s
13、ame education, same grades, same kinds of jobs, and made the same life choices and found that women earn 5% less in the first year out of school. Ten years later, even if the women gave up having children, they earn 12% less. In another study, Catalyst found that female first-year MBA students earn
14、$4,600 less than their male peers in their first job. In fact, in the 47 years since the Equal Pay Act was first adopted, the pay gap has decreased from more than 40 cents to just under 25 cents. We are literally halfway there. The republican senators voting against the act, said the act would have
15、been bad for business. And they have been right, but not for the stated reasons. This recession is frequently called the “mancession“ and that it has led to 36% increase in the number of families depending on womens earning in the last year alone, sure, those businesses may be saving money by paying
16、 women less, but is it really in the interest of the American public to allow them to save at the expense of families? At 77 cents on the dollar, women will lose an average of $431,000 in pay over 40 years. Those losses could have been spent wisely. When you consider that women reinvest 90% of their
17、 income into their own community and family (just 30% to 40% that men invest), the impact could have been powerful. How is that for the common sense?（分数：10.00）(1).From the first paragraph, we can infer_.（分数：2.00）A.the strike may be just a kind of showB.these girls are very fashionableC.the strike wi
18、ll be successfulD.the government will support the strike(2).Before the “commonsense law“, female employees were treated unfairly, for example,_.（分数：2.00）A.earning less money than they deservedB.being fired for asking about others compensationC.being assigned too much workD.being denied training prog
19、ram for girls and women(3).In Paragraph 3, the sentence “we are literally halfway there“ means_.（分数：2.00）A.we are preparing to do somethingB.we will win the battle for working women everywhereC.we really have made some progress in decreasing pay gapD.we are on the way to the scene of the strike(4).T
20、he attitude of the author to the reason that republican senators offered to the vote against the act is_.（分数：2.00）A.agreeableB.ignorantC.disapprovingD.consenting(5).Mancession has led to the fact that_.（分数：2.00）A.employers violated Equal Pay LawB.many families depend on women s earningsC.many busine
21、sses saved money by hiring womanD.women reinvest 90% of their income to their communityThe economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, to America. The clothes belong to his friend and colleague Joseph Stieglitz, Akerlof w
22、as eager to send the box off. But he delayed dealing with it, week after week. This went on for more than eight months and it was only shortly before Akerlof himself returned to America that he managed to mail this box: another friend happened to be sending some things back to the U.S., and Akerlof
23、was able to add the box to the shipment. Given the vagaries of intercontinental mail, it is possible that Akerlof made it back to the United States before Stieglitz s shirt. Even Nobel-winning economists procrastinate ! Akerlof saw this familiar experience as mysterious. He actually intended to send
24、 the box to his friend, yet, as he wrote in a paper called “procrastination and obedience“, “each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stieglitz box.“, but act never arrived. He realized that procrastination might be more than just a
25、bad habit, and it might be something important about the limits of human rational thinking and that it could teach useful lessons about phenomena as substance abuse and savings habits. Since his essay about procrastination was published, it became a buzz word among the academia, like philosophers, p
26、sychologists and economists: academies and college students may be especially prone to putting things off. But the study of this subject isnt just a case of eggheads rationalizing their slacking. From another angle, this issue illustrates the fluidity of human identity and the complicated relationsh
27、ip human beings have to time. A central figure in this subject argues that dragging our heels is as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called basic human impulse, but the anxiety about dragging seems to have emerged in early modern era, as early as eighteenth century. Procrastination
28、 is also a surprisingly costly one. Each year, Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they dont file their taxes on time. 70% of patients suffering from glaucoma risk of blindness because they dont use their eye-drops regularly. Procrastination also inflicts major costs on businesse
29、s and governments. The recent crisis of the euro was aggravated by the German governments hesitation. And the decline of the American auto industry, exemplified by the bankruptcy of G.M., was due in part to executives inclination for delaying tough decisions.（分数：10.00）(1).From the first paragraph, w
30、e can learn_.（分数：2.00）A.Akerlof had difficulty in mailing his friends clothes from India to the United StatesB.Indian shipment service made simple things much more complicatedC.Akerlof arrived in the U.S. before his friend clothes didD.Akerlof postpones mailing his friends clothes until eight months
31、 later(2).What is the meaning of the word “procrastinate“?（分数：2.00）A.anticipateB.delayC.identifyD.rationalize(3).In Paragraph 2 and 3, we can learn the things demonstrated through procrastination EXCEPT（分数：2.00）A.the limits of rational thinkingB.the fluidity of human identityC.the relationship betwe
32、en human beings and timeD.people s tendency to lacking(4).According to the passage, which of the following statement is TRUE?（分数：2.00）A.Procrastination is no more than a bad habit.B.Many academics write papers to rationalize people s laziness.C.Postponing in daily life increases the cost of peoples
33、life.D.Early modern people care less about the impact of slacking.(5).Procrastination as a social problem is extremely costly in the fields of_.（分数：2.00）A.educationB.science and technologyC.health careD.psychologyCigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States. It
34、was 50 years ago this month that Americas Surgeon General sounded that warning, marking the beginning of the end of cigarette manufacturingand of smoking itselfas a respectable activity. Some 20 million Americans have died from the habit since then. But advertising restrictions and smoking bans have
35、 had their effect: the proportion of American adults who smoke has dropped from 43% to 18%; smoking rates among teenagers are at a record low. In many other countries the trends are similar. The current Surgeon General, Boris Lushniak, marked the half-century with a report on January 17th, declaring
36、 smoking even deadlier than previously thought. He added diabetes, colorectal cancer and other ailments to the list of ills it causes, and promised end-game strategies to extinguish cigarettes altogether. New technologies such as e-cigarettes promise to deliver nicotine less riskily. E-cigarettes gi
37、ve users a hit of vapour infused with nicotine. In America, sales of the manufacturer, who is the fastest e-cigarettes-adopter, have jumped from nearly nothing five years ago to at least 1 billion in 2013. At first, it looked as if e-cigarettes might lure smokers from the big tobacco brands to start
38、ups such as NJOY. But tobacco companies have bigger war chests , more knowledge of smokers habits and better ties to distributors than the newcomers. Some experts reckon Americans will puff more e-cigarettes than normal ones within a decade, but tobacco folk are skeptical. E-cigarettes account for j
39、ust 1% of Americas cigarette market. In Europe 7% of smokers had tried e-cigarettes by 2012 but only 1% kept them up. And no one knows what sort of restrictions regulators will eventually place on reduced risk products, including e-cigarettes. If these companies can manage the transition to less har
40、mful smokes, and convince regulators to be sensible, the tobacco giants could keep up the sort of performance that has made their shares such a fine investment over the years. But some analysts are not so sure. Many tobacco firms are struggling to deliver the consistency of the earnings-per-share mo
41、del weve seen in the past. If that persists, investors may fall out of love with the industry. A half-century after the Surgeon General s alarm, they, and hopeless smokers, are its last remaining friends.（分数：10.00）(1).It can be learned from Paragraph 1 that cigarette manufacturing in the United Stat
42、es_.（分数：2.00）A.was of sufficient importanceB.was put forward by Americas Surgeon GeneralC.began to go downhillD.used to be an honorable activity(2).According to the passage, e-cigarettes_.（分数：2.00）A.supply smokers with nicotine more safelyB.help the fastest e-cigarettes-adopter gain sales 1 billion
43、timesC.are mastered by all tobacco firms as a new technologyD.have lured smokers from the big tobacco brands to startups(3).The phases “war chests“ (Para. 5) most probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.spaceB.fundsC.networksD.competitors(4).The smokers attitude toward the consumption of e-cigarettes is_.（分数：2.0
44、0）A.pessimisticB.uncertainC.optimisticD.doubtful(5).What is the passage mainly about?（分数：2.00）A.The potency of tobacco s advertising bans.B.The hostile regulatory climate of tobacco in the U.S.C.The current situation and challenge of big tobacco firms.D.The introduction and growth of e-cigarettes.Wh
45、at new research reveals about the adolescent brain. We re learning that the teen years are a period of crucial brain development subject to a host of environmental and genetic factors. This emerging research shed light on a discovery that our brains are not finished maturing by adolescence, brains a
46、re only about 80 percent of the way to maturity, it takes until the mid-20s, and possibly later, for a brain to become fully developed. An excess of gray matter (the stuff that does the processing) at the beginning of adolescence makes us particularly brilliant at learning, but also particularly sen
47、sitive to the influences of our environment. Our brains processing centers havent been fully linked yet, particularly the parts responsible for helping to check our impulses and considering the long-term repercussions of our actions. It s partially because of this developmental timeline that a teen
48、can be so quick to think a harsh remark, or a biting insult, and so uninhibited in firing it off at the nearest unfortunate target. Instead, the full developed brain regions of an adult might stop himself from saying something cruel. In a paper published last year, Dr. Jay Giedd, wrote that, gray-matter (the stuff that does the processing) volume peaks around or just before the beginning of puberty, and then continuously declines. In contrast, wh
