1、MEDIA_+FACT+OR+FABLE2 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、lilist-style-type:n(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、BGrammar and Voc(总题数：25，分数：50.00)1.The doctor advised him to stay in bed, saying he was much _. A. ill enough B. too ill C. so ill D. very ill（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.2.The effect was previously thought to be _, but resea
2、rchers now say the shift will be large enough that it should be taken into account when interpreting how the Earth wobbles. A. neglectful B. negligible C. neglected D. negligent（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.3.Benefits given, rather than _ for, at the wrong time, to the wrong people on the wrong skill-sets will p
3、rolong rather than _ poverty environments. A. asking, alleviate B. being asked, alleviating C. asked, alleviating D. asked, alleviate（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.4._ that the formation of the sun, the planets, and other stars began with the condensation of an interstellar gas cloud. A. It is believed B. Believi
4、ng C. Being believed D. To believe（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.5.Apart from the budget office and other disinterested parties that study the law, each side in the debate uses research sponsored by interest groups, often _, to support its case. A. sloped B. slopy C. tipped D. slanted（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.6.Beginning
5、in the Elizabethan Era, _ poor was a label placed on able bodied people that appeared to choose not to work. A. worthless B. invaluable C. unworthy D. priceless（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.7.Reciprocal visits by members of the host communities may or may not be possible, _ the ever-tightening constraints of bor
6、der controls. A. since B. given C. for D. subject to（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.8.The application for _ also serves as the application for Trumans generous merit-based scholarship program. A. acceptance B. enrolment C. reception D. admission（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.9.All too _ it was time to go back to school after th
7、e Spring Festival. A. quick B. soon C. fast D. speedy（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.10.It provides the work teams with the opportunity to define their own work goals in _ with the organizations overall strategy. A. combination B. mixture C. alignment D. association（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.11.I cant run as far as that now
8、; I have a bone in my _. A. foot B. leg C. back D. head（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.12.All the flights _ because of the snowstorm, we had to take the train instead. A. were canceled B. had been canceled C. having canceled D. having been canceled（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.13.Once _, this power station will supply all the
9、neighboring towns and villages with electricity. A. it being completed B. it completed C. completed D. it completes（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.14.He might have been killed _ the timely arrival of the ambulance. A. but for B. except for C. besides D. except（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.15.If you have never planted anything,
10、 you wont be able to know the pleasure of watching the thing you have planted _. A. grow B. to grow C. growing D. to be growing（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.16.Companies once viewed by those in politics as independent powerhouses are now minor players in a marketing-communications _. A. conglomeration B. assortm
11、ent C. conglutination D. conglomerate（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.17.Given the complexity of the immune system, there isnt one specific food that will magically make you _ cold germs and flu viruses. A. repel B. rebel C. revolt D. repulse（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.18.The system, furthermore, helps the company in accessin
12、g up-to-date publishing information and sales analysis, which have become _ of the retail business. A. part and partake B. odds and ends C. part and parcel D. facts and figures（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.19.She made her presence felt and soon everything in this house was in _ order. A. pineapple B. banana C. a
13、pple-pie D. peach（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.20.I went into the stadium early and watched people slowly _ in. A. teeming B. trickling C. drizzling D. flooding（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.21.In 18th century, sending kidnapped African people to certain death was not considered a crime because they were “goods“, to do with a
14、s the owner _. A. felt free B. saw fit C. took pick D. set forth（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.22.Apples and oranges refers to two incommensurable items, _ a comparison of things that cannot be compared. A. i.e B. e.g C. viz D. ibid（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.23.No one left here yesterday, _? A. didnt they B. did he C. did
15、they D. isnt he（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.24.Western Nebraska generally receives less snow than _ Eastern Nebraska. A. in B. it receives in C. does D. it does in（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.25.She has used just about every Web-based tool _ is to run her own various startups. A. which B. that C. as D. there（分数：2.00）A.B.C.
16、D.三、BReading Compreh(总题数：4，分数：50.00)COMMON CAUSE, a left-leaning advocacy non-profit, has filed a lawsuit against the Senate on the grounds that the filibuster (用冗长的发言妨碍会议的议员或行为) defies the constitution. Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, a leading anti-filibuster opinion-maker, lays out the Common
17、Cause case as it has been articulated by Emmett Bondurant:Between 1840 and 1900, there were 16 filibusters. Between 2009 and 2010, there were more than 130. But thats changed. Today, Majority Leader Harry Reid says that “60 votes are required for just about everything.“At the core of Bondurants argu
18、ment is a very simple claim: This isnt what the Founders intended. The historical record is clear on that fact. The framers debated requiring a supermajority in Congress to pass anything. But they rejected that idea.The constitution sets out six cases in which a supermajority is required in the sena
19、te, and passing ordinary legislation isnt one of them. Mr Bondurants basic claim is that the upshot of this omission is that the majority vote is the mandatory default for decision-making about legislation. That is to say, the use of anything other than majority voting is prohibited, except for thos
20、e cases in which another voting rule is explicitly prescribed. If the constitution doesnt outright say this, thats only because the framers thought it was too obvious to mention.Mr Klein thinks Mr Bondurant “makes a strong case“. Gregory Koger, a political scientist at the University of Miami seems
21、not to agree. “I am very excited that Common Cause has filed a lawsuit against the Senate filibuster“, Mr Koger confesses at the Monkey Cage biog. “Excited in a John Stuart Mill, isnt-it-great-when-bad-arguments-get-aired-and-demolished kind of way.“ In a 2009 post, Mr Koger systematically reviewed
22、the arguments against the proposition that the filibuster is unconstitutional. In his more recent post he responds specifically to the Common Cause/Bondurant brief:The central argument of the brief is that the use of supermajority procedures in the US Congress is inherently unconstitutional. It stat
23、es, “The principle of majority was so basic to the concept of a democratically elected legislative body that it did not need to be expressly stated in the Constitution.“ Of course, too-important-to-be-written looks exactly like not-important-enough-to-include, so affirming this claim would invite a
24、series of lawsuits claiming other “obvious but unwritten“ principles.Mr Koger goes on to observe that the principle that “every supermajority procedure used by Congress is prohibited“ if not explicitly required would take down a number of longstanding and uncontested practices in both houses.Constit
25、utional questions aside, Mr Koger is sceptical that ditching the filibuster would make the Senate significantly more functional. Heres the real problem, as he sees it:The Republicans generally dont want anything to pass, and when legislation does come to the floor the Republican often demands roll c
26、all votes on “message“ amendments that provide fodder for the current news cycle and the next campaign. The Democrats, whose majority is based on winning seats in red states, dont want to vote on these amendments. And so there is a stalemate in which must-pass legislation is put off until the final
27、moment while they wait for each other to blink and nothing else gets doneChanging the voting threshold would have the small benefit of removing an excuse for this dysfunction, but it would not solve the more fundamental problem that many legislators find it in their electoral interests to disagree.（
28、分数：12.50）(1).Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. Common Cause believes that filibuster is illegal. B. The founders of the US thought it was too obvious to write it in the constitution. C. Gregory Koger did not see eye to eye with the Common Cause. D. The partisan polarization makes it
29、impossible to pass any bill.（分数：2.50）A.B.C.D.(2).Whats the main idea of this article? A. Filibuster is the product of partisan polarization. B. Common Causes suit sparks debate about the legality of filibuster. C. Founding fathers real intention in framing constitution. D. Filibuster chokes the evol
30、ution of democracy.（分数：2.50）A.B.C.D.(3).Ezra Klein seems to agree with Emmett Bondurant that _. A. senators can take flexibility in reaching an agreement B. majority voting is the basis of democracy which needs not to be mentioned C. filibuster is inevitable in the senate debating D. there is no nee
31、d to debate on the topic of supermajority（分数：2.50）A.B.C.D.(4).Mr Koge thinks the real problem in the congress lies in _. A. the supermajority B. filibuster C. partisan polarization D. senators electoral parochialism（分数：2.50）A.B.C.D.(5).What is the authors attitude towards filibuster? A. Objective. B
32、. Supportive. C. Negative. D. Not mentioned.（分数：2.50）A.B.C.D.They barely dare say it, but the doctors are strangely confident: after a long illness, the euro may be recovering. This weeks all-night surgery by finance ministers to excise a festering lump of Greek debt went better than expected. “We h
33、ave put in place almost all of the elements we need to make the crisis gradually go away,“ says one. “We may be beyond the acute phase, and could be making the transition to normalisation.“ It is the optimism of despair: the patient has not died, so must be improving.Many are sceptical. But consider
34、 the evidence. Greece may now stabilise. It must meet conditions to get its money and will endure pain for years. But the risk of chaotic default and exit from the euro has receded. Private creditors have taken a big loss, yet the markets are muted. Elsewhere the signs are good. Italy is reforming,
35、as is Spain. Most European Union countries have agreed to a new fiscal compact that will strengthen budget discipline. The European Central Bank (ECB) has averted a credit crunch by injecting liquidity into banks. And the defences against contagion may soon be boosted. On March 1 EU leaders will deb
36、ate calls to enlarge their rescue fund by half. This could prompt others to pay more into the IMF, which would also help.The recession this year is now forecast to be short-lived and mild. The euro zones temperature chartthe spread of bond yields over German bundsis gradually narrowing. For the firs
37、t time in six months, a week has passed without the ECB making emergency bond purchases.So is the crisis over? Not so fast, say critics.Start, again, with Greece. Far from curing the patient, the medicine is coming close to killing it. Its slump (a cumulative contraction of 16% of GDP and shrinking)
38、 may enter the record books. The pressure to chase an ever-receding deficit target has created a death spiral. Success will be slow and take a generation; failure will be an ever-present risk. The programme is “accident-prone“, says a leaked assessment by EU and IMF experts. Any number of problemsde
39、eper recession, slower privatisation, fewer structural reformscould bust the forecast that Greek debt should drop to 120% of GDP by 2020. This threshold was chosen for political reasons: it is roughly Italys debt ratio. Yet Italy is hardly healthy; it too struggles to convince investors that its deb
40、t is sustainable.In several countries, fiscal and structural reforms are still at a fragile stage. They could provoke stronger opposition, particularly if they are seen to be imposed by foreigners. Greek newspapers depiction of German leaders in Nazi uniform, and German tabloid calls to throw Greece
41、 out of the euro, show how tempers can fray. Better market sentiment may be down to nothing more than the aspirin from the ECB. Liquidity is more like a painkiller than a cure, and the ECB is itself worried about creating an addiction to cheap money. Creditor countries have criticised, with reason,
42、the Ufecklessness/U of those they have rescued. But they have been slow to admit their own errors, not least delay and excessive austerity as the cure for excessive deficits. They have yet to fix the instability of a currency union built on an incompatible triad: no bail-out, no default and no exit.
43、The second bail-out for Greece implicitly recognises some of the errors in the first one. It softens the deficit target for 2012 and puts more emphasis on overhauling the sclerotic economy through structural reforms. It is striking that, even after this, the “tough“ IMF wants to ease up on budget cu
44、ts whereas the “soft“ EU remains mulish about sticking to austerity. Conversely, it has taken the EU too long to accept standard IMF practice: when a country is bust its debt must be restructured. The euro zone has vacillated between ineffective bail-out and ineffective bail-in. Its first Greek resc
45、ue was too short-term and exacted punitive interest rates. Loose talk of future debt-restructuring (“private sector involvement“) at a Franco-German summit in Deauville in October 2010 served only to alarm markets.The ECBs former president, Jean-Claude Trichet, resisted all attempts to make Greeces
46、creditors take a hit. When he finally yielded a bit last summer, the euro zone negotiated a timid 21% loss in the lifetime of the bonds, for fear of triggering a “credit event“. Tougher negotiation has now made creditors take a more realistic 75% loss. The ECB, now led by Mario Draghi, has even chip
47、ped in some money, indirectly, by surrendering profits it would have made on Greek bonds it bought at a discount. The euro zone has also softened the terms of its loans to Greece.An end to quack remedies is welcome, though it may have come too late for Greece. Had todays policies been adopted from t
48、he outset, the Greek crisis might have been controlled sooner, the adjustment for debtors might have been less onerous, and the cost to creditors might have been lower. That said, mistakes were to be expected, particularly when the euro zone was both badly designed and ill-prepared for a crisis.Fear of catastrophe has forced EU leaders to think more clearly. Debtors know they must reform, and creditors know they must help. The first hints of stabilisation, if that
