1、考研英语模拟试卷 207及答案与解析 一、 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. (10 points) 1 Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expense o
2、f a lawsuit (1)_ the satisfaction; the chances of getting any money are (2)_. Yet Noga, a company owned by Nessim Gaon, a 78-year-old businessman (3)_ in Geneva, has been suing the Russian government since 1993, attempting to (4)_ Russian assets abroad. At Mr. Gaons request, bailiffs last week very
3、nearly (5)_ two of Russias most advanced warplanes at the Paris air (6)_. The organisers (7)_ off the Russian authorities, and the planes flew home, just (8)_ time. (9)_ near-misses include a sail-training ship, the Sedov, nuclear-waste shipments, and the presidents plane. Mr. Gaon, whose previous b
4、usiness partners include regimes in Nigeria and Sudan, put an (10)_ clause in his original export deals: Russia must abandon its sovereign immunity. An arbitration court in Stockholm has found in his (11)_, so far, to the (12)_ of $110 million, out of a total (13)_ of $420 million. Other courts (14)
5、_ the world have let him have a (15)_ at any Russian assets (16)_ reach. The odd thing is (17)_ Russia. now awash with cash, does not simply pay up. Mr. Gaon says he was told at one point that a 10% (18)_ on the debt to someone high up in the finance ministry would solve things. (19)_ off Mr. Gaon c
6、osts much in legal fees. Not accepting international judgments sits ill with the current Kremlin line (20)_ the rule of law. Mr. Gaon says his next move will be to seize Russias embassy in Paris. （ A） outdoes （ B） outperform （ C） outshine （ D） outweighs （ A） thin （ B） slim （ C） lean （ D） wiry （ A） b
7、ased （ B） found （ C） established （ D） set （ A） grasp （ B） hold （ C） seize （ D） snatch （ A） caught （ B） got （ C） grabbed （ D） arrested （ A） show （ B） exhibition （ C） display （ D） demonstration （ A） stilted （ B） tipped （ C） dumped （ D） slanted （ A） in （ B） on （ C） at （ D） upon （ A） Others （ B） Another
8、 （ C） The other （ D） Other （ A） usual （ B） unusual （ C） common （ D） uncommon （ A） support （ B） good （ C） favor （ D） preference （ A） rune （ B） figure （ C） account （ D） count （ A） demanded （ B） requested （ C） required （ D） claimed （ A） in （ B） at （ C） around （ D） over （ A） crack （ B） break （ C） split
9、（ D） snap （ A） in （ B） within （ C） out of （ D） beyond （ A） how （ B） when （ C） why （ D） where （ A） kickback （ B） payment （ C） cut （ D） reward （ A） Avoiding （ B） Fending （ C） Escaping （ D） Shielding （ A） in （ B） on （ C） at （ D） to Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions
10、below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 21 Clouds may have silver linings, but even the sunniest of us seldom glimpse them on foot. The marvelous Blur Building that hovers above the lake of Yverdon les Bains in Switzerland provides such an opportunity. It gives anyone who has ever want
11、ed to step into the clouds they watch from the airplane window a chance to realize their dream. Visitors wear waterproof ponchos before setting off along a walkway above the lake that takes them into the foggy atmosphere of the cloud. The experience of physical forms blurring before your eyes as you
12、 enter the cloud is both disorientating and liberating. However firmly your feet are planted on the floor, it is hard to escape the sensation of floating. On the upper deck of this spaceship-shaped structure, the Angel Bar, a translucent counter lit in tones of aqueous blue, beckons with a dozen dif
13、ferent kinds of mineral water. To enter this sublime building situated in the landscape of the Swiss Alps feels like walking into a poem it is part of nature but removed from reality, Its architects, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of New York, designed it as a pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002
14、 in the Three Lakes region of Switzerland, an hours train ride from Geneva, which features a series of exhibits on the lakes. The Blur Building is easily the most successful. Indeed, you can skip the rest of the Expo a Swiss kitsch version of Britains Millennium Dome and head straight for the cloud,
15、 which is there until the end of October. The architects asked themselves what was the ideal material for building on a lake and decided on water itself. the element of the lake, the snow. the rivers and the mist above it. They wanted to play on and lay bare the notion of a worlds fair pavilion by c
16、reating an ethereal ghost of one in which there is nothing to see. The result is a refuge from the surveillance cameras and high-definition images of our everyday world a particular tease in Switzerland, where clarity and precision are so prized. (Anti- architecture or not, the Blur Building cost a
17、cool $7.5 million.) Out-of-the-box thinking is a trademark of Diller Scofidio. a husband-and-wife team of architecture professors who became the first architects to win a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1999. Although they have built very little, they are interested in the social exper
18、ience of architecture, in challenging peoples ideas about buildings. They treat architecture as an analytical art form that combines other disciplines, such as visual art and photography, dance and theatre. To realize its Utopian poetry, the Blur Building has to be technologically state-of-the-art.
19、Water from the lake is pumped through 32,000 fog nozzles positioned throughout the skeleton-like stainless steel structure; so the building does not just look like a cloud on the outside, it feels like a cloud on the inside. And while the 300-foot-wide platform can accommodate up to 400 people, visi
20、tors vanish from each other in the mist at about five paces, so you really can wander lonely as a cloud. Wordsworth must be smiling. 21 The spectacle on the deck of this structure is NOT_. （ A） dazing （ B） free （ C） spine-chilling （ D） dazzling 22 One should directly come to the Blur Building in the
21、 Expo 2002 and skip the rest because_. （ A） it will be there temporarily （ B） its the most important expo work （ C） its not real and will vanish in the thin air （ D） its near Geneva 23 The expression “out-of-the-box“(Line 1. Para. 4) most probably means_. （ A） traditional （ B） logical （ C） invariabl
22、e （ D） inspirational 24 The last sentence “Wordsworth must be smiling“ means_. （ A） Wordsworth has asked the architects to build it in this way （ B） the architecture is just like a beautiful poem （ C） Wordsworth will be happy to see the scene in his poem come true （ D） Wordsworth is satisfied with t
23、his architecture 25 Which one is NOT true about the building? （ A） It is a piece of art. （ B） It differs from the traditional concept of buildings. （ C） There is no difference from the images of our everyday world. （ D） The splendid spectacle cant be photoset. 26 During its formative years, the inne
24、r solar system was a rough-and-tumble place. There were a couple of hundred large objects flying around. Moon-size or bigger, and for millions of years they collided with one another. Out of these impacts grew the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth with its Moon, and Mars and the asteroids. S
25、cientists have thought of these collisions as mergers: a smaller object (the impactor) hits a larger one (the target) and sticks to it. But new computer modeling by Erik Asphaug and Craig B. Agnor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that things werent that simple. “Most of the time, t
26、he impactor and the target go off on their merry ways“, Dr. Asphaug said. About half the collisions are these hit-and-nm affairs. Now the two researchers and a colleague, Quentin Williams. have done simulations to study the effects of these collisions on the impactors. They are not pretty. “The impa
27、ctors suffer all kinds of fates“, Dr. Asphaug said. They undergo tremendous shearing and gravitational forces that can cause them to fracture into smaller pieces or melt, causing chemical changes in the material and loss of water or other volatile compounds. Or the crust and cover can be stripped of
28、f, leaving just an embryonic iron core. The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, discovered that two objects did not even have to collide to create an effect on the smaller one from the gravitational forces of a near-collision during the simulations. Dr. Asphaug said, “Wed look and s
29、ay, Gosh, we just got rid of the whole atmosphere of that planetoid: it didnt even hit and it sucked the whole atmosphere off.“ The researchers suggest that the remains of these beaten-up, fractured and melted objects can be found in the asteroid belt. Dr. Asphaug said that could explain the prevale
30、nce of “iron relics“ in the belt. Some of these planetoid remnants also eventually hit Earth: that would help explain why certain meteorites lack water and other volatile elements. The hit-and-run collision model also provides an explanation for Vesta. a large asteroid with an intact crust and cover
31、. How did Vesta keep its cover while so many other objects were losing theirs? Dr. Asphang said it could be that Vesta was always the target, never the impactor, and was thus less affected. “It just had to avoid being the hitter“, he said, “until bigger objects left the system“. 26 The planets were
32、formed as a result of_. （ A） collisions of objects in inner solar system （ B） the merging of a smaller object and a larger one （ C） the impactor sticking to the target （ D） chemical changes 27 In the last sentence of the second paragraph, “they“ refers to_. （ A） the researchers （ B） the collisions （
33、 C） the simulations （ D） the impactors 28 Certain meteorites lack water and other volatile elements probably because_. （ A） these elements are not suitable to exist in these meteorites （ B） these elements are lost during the medical changes during collision （ C） their crest and cover have been strip
34、ped off （ D） they are planetoid remnants 29 According to the hit-and-nm collision model, Vesta keeps its cover probably because_. （ A） it was always static （ B） it always acted as the target （ C） there is no collision happening to it （ D） its cover is very hard 30 The model developed by Erik Asphaug
35、 and Craig B. can explain the following facts EXCEPT_. （ A） there are a lot of remnants in the asteroid belt （ B） some elements are scarcer in some planetoid remnants （ C） the terrestrial planets grew out of the collision （ D） the impactors are still affected in near-collision 31 Zimbabweans cope wi
36、th the shortage of the dollars that count in various ways. The government grabs them from other people. On February 9th, it told the countrys banks to start selling all their hard- currency inflows to the central bank and the state petrol-importing monopoly, at the official rate. It said that Zimbab
37、wean embassies abroad face power cuts because they cannot pay their bills. But if staff in Moscow felt chilly, the grab did not warm them. Exporters told their customers to delay payments. Hard-currency inflows fell by some 90%, forcing the government to relent. Business folk were relieved. The econ
38、omy is so stormy that many exporters stay afloat only by selling American dollars on the black market. Others try to keep their foreign earnings offshore. This is not easy, since most sell tobacco, gold, roses and other goods that can be observed and recorded as they leave the country. But some quie
39、tly set up overseas subsidiaries to buy their own products at artificially low prices. The subsidiary then sells the goods m the real buyer, and keeps the proceeds abroad. Since petrol, which must be imported, is scarce, some employers give their staff bicycles. But the two local bicycle makers have
40、 gone bankrupt, so bicycles must be imported too. Where possible, local products are replaced for imports. One firm, for example, has devised a way to make glue using oil from locally-grown castor beans instead of petroleum-based chemicals. But even the simplest products often have imported componen
41、ts. One manufacturer found it could not make first-aid kits, because it could not obtain zips for the bags. The local zip-maker had no dollars to import small but essential metal studs. An order worth $8,000 was lost for want of perhaps $100 in hard cash. Rich individuals are putting their savings i
42、nto tangible assets, though not houses or land, which they fear the government may seize. Instead, they buy movable goods such as cars or jewellery. Unlike the Zimbabwean dollar, such assets do not lose half their value every year. Jewellery is also an easy way m move money abroad. Wear it on the pl
43、ane, sell it in London. and leave the money there. The poor have fewer options. A typical unskilled wage now buys a loaf of bread and a litre of milk a day, plus the bus fare to work. For most poor Zimbabweans, the only measure against inflation is to plant maize in the back yard and hope they can h
44、arvest it before their landlord expels them. 31 But if staff in Moscow felt chilly, the grab did not warm them means the measure government adopted is_. （ A） funny （ B） efficient （ C） active （ D） useless 32 The overseas subsidiaries are set up to_. （ A） puzzle the Zimbabwean government （ B） act as a
45、 seller （ C） import some products （ D） store the products which are produced in Zimbabwean 33 The example of “zips“ reflects_. （ A） if possible, imports will be replaced by the local products （ B） some products cant be produced without imported components （ C） the people try to find a way m produce
46、the local materials （ D） a small lack leads to a big loss 34 Under current circumstances, people in the country do the following EXCEPT_. （ A） put savings into tangible assets （ B） buy cars and jewelers （ C） plant maize in the back yard （ D） buy houses and land 35 Which one is NOT true about effects
47、 resulted from economic problems in Zimbabwea? （ A） People dont want to hold the Zimbabwean dollars. （ B） Some people will give you mom Zimbabwean dollars for hard currency. （ C） The staff use bicycles instead of cars. （ D） Business folk have nothing to do with the governmental policies. 36 Stephen
48、Colberts performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner nine days ago has already created a debate over politics, the press and humor. Now, a commercial rivalry has broken out over its rebroadcast. On Wednesday, C-Span, the nonprofit network that first showed Mr. Colberts speech, wrote letters
49、 to the video sites YouT and , demanding that the clips of the speech be taken off their Web sites. The action was a first for C-Span, whose prime-time schedule tends to feature events like Congressional hearings on auto fuel-economy standards. “We have had other hot I hate to use that word videos that generated a lot of buzz“, said Rob Kennedy, executive vice president of C-Span, which was fou
