1、考研英语（二）模拟试卷 38 及答案与解析一、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. (10 points) 0 Excitement, fatigue, and anxiety can all be detected from someones blinks, according to psychologist John Stern【C1】_Washington Univ
2、ersity in St. Louis. Stern specialized in the study on these tiny twitches, using them as sensitive【C2】_of how the brain works. “I use blinks as a psychological measure to make【C3】_about thinking because I have very little【C4】_in what you tell me about what you are thinking,“ he says. “If I ask you
3、the question, what does the phrase a rolling stone gathers no moss mean? you cant tell me【C5】_youve started looking for the answer. But I can, by watching your eyes.“Blinks also tell Stern when you have understood his question often long before hes finished asking it and when youve found an answer o
4、r part of【C6】_. “We blink at times【C7 】_are psychologically important,“ he says. “You have listened to a question, you understand it,【C8】_you can take time out for a blink. Blinks are【 C9】_marks. Their timing is tied to what is going on in your【 C10】_.“ Stern has found that【C11】_suppress blinks when
5、 they are absorbing or anticipating【 C12】_but not when theyre reciting it. People blink later, for example, 【C13】_they have to memorize six numbers instead of two. “You dont blink,“ he says, “until you have【C14】_the information to some short-term memory store.“ And if subjects are cued【C15】_the set
6、of numbers is coming, say, five seconds, theyll curb their blinks until the task is【C16】_. Similarly, the more important the information that people are taking in, the more likely they are to put their blinks on hold for【C17】_. Pilots blink less when theyre【C18】_for flying a plane than when they【C19
7、 】_their eyes from the road to the rearview mirror. But if they see the flashing lights of a state trooper behind them, their【 C20】_will move fast to the speed-meter and back to the mirror.1 【C1 】（A）to（B） of（C） with（D）in2 【C2 】（A）probes（B） researches（C） microscopes（D）pursuits3 【C3 】（A）pictures（B） st
8、udies（C） conclusions（D）inferences4 【C4 】（A）doubt（B） question（C） inclination（D）faith5 【C5 】（A）when（B） why（C） where（D）whom6 【C6 】（A）one（B） it（C） that（D）this7 【C7 】（A）that（B） what（C） where（D）why8 【C8 】（A）but（B） how（C） since（D）now9 【C9 】（A）evaluation（B） communication（C） punctuation（D）consideration10 【C1
9、0 】（A）eye（B） heart（C） head（D）question11 【C11 】（A）scientists（B） they（C） psychologists（D）subjects12 【C12 】（A）mind（B） memory（C） information（D）direction13 【C13 】（A）if（B） until（C） unless（D）except14 【C14 】（A）retrieved（B） memorized（C） absorbed（D）committed15 【C15 】（A）how（B） that（C） if（D）when16 【C16 】（A）over
10、（B） up（C） off（D）in17 【C17 】（A）it（B） them（C） us（D）themselves18 【C18 】（A）relaxed（B） tired（C） responsible（D）capable19 【C19 】（A）shift（B） shut（C） play（D）focus20 【C20 】（A）eyes（B） cars（C） lights（D）blinksPart ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B,
11、C or D. (40 points)20 Wow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject including maths and engineering. Speaking as an ardent feminist, I expect that this will have many wonderful results: a culture that is more feng shui and emotionally literate and
12、 altogether pieor and an economy that benefits from unleashing the phenomenal energy and critish women who are if GCSEs, A-levels and university entrance results mean anything currently giving the male sex a good old intellectual whipping.Obviously a corner of my heart worries about some aspects of
13、the coming feminisation. Will we all become even more safety-conscious, regulation-prone and generally incapable of beating the Australians at anything than we already are? And even if the feminist revolution is good and unstoppable, we should perhaps consider some of the downsides and the most inte
14、resting is that greater equality between the sexes is actually leading to greater division between the classes. Heres how.Since the emergence of our species, it has been a brutally sexist feature of romance that women on the whole and I stress on the whole will want to mate with men who are either o
15、n a par with themselves, or their superior, in socio-economic and intellectual attainment. A recent study shows that if a mans IQ rises by 16 points, his chances of marrying increase by 35 per cent; if a womans IQ rises by 16 points, her chances of getting hooked decline by the same amount.As a resu
16、lt of the same instinct female desire to procreate with their intellectual equals the huge increase in female university enrolments is leading to a rise in what the sociologists call assortative mating. The more middle-class graduates we create, the more they seem to settle down with other middle-cl
17、ass graduates, very largely because of the feminine romantic imperative already described. The result is that the expansion of university education has actually been accompanied by a decline in social mobility, and that is because these massive enrolments have been overwhelmingly middle-class.It is
18、one of the sad failures of this government that relatively few bright children from poor backgrounds have been encouraged to go to university, partly because of weaknesses in primary and secondary education, partly because of the withdrawal of the ladder of opportunity provided by academic selection
19、. Once they have failed to go to university, the boom in the number of middle-class female students only intensifies their disadvantages.The result is that we have widening social divisions, and two particularly miserable groups: the female graduates who think men are all useless because they cant f
20、ind a graduate husband, and the male non-graduates who feel increasingly domineered by the feminist revolution, and resentful of all these proud female graduates who wont give them the time of day.21 One result from womens majority in college recruitments is_.（A）male sex is outnumbered in most campu
21、ses（B） women will be an economically boosting factor（C） a levels have begun to take on more weight（D）enthusiastic feminists are less emotionally loaded22 The data about IQ are mentioned by the author in order to_.（A）demonstrate sexual differences in marriage age（B） prove the greater equality between
22、 the two sexes（C） show the popular mating pattern on the female side（D）discuss the unstoppable pro-feminist movement23 The so-called “assortative mating“ comes into being mainly because_.（A）more college graduates have middle class background（B） social mobility tends to be greatly enhanced by educati
23、on（C） middle class students are unwilling to cooperate with others（D）female graduates favor those with equal intellectual status24 From the context we know that “their disadvantages“(para.5)imply_.（A）it is becoming more difficult for clever but poor children now（B） the government failed to cater to
24、middle class female needs（C） the ladder of opportunity is denied to most of the bright kids（D）male uselessness is greatly exaggerated by some females25 The passage is mainly concerned with_.（A）sexual inequality in education（B） female dilemma in mating（C） social prejudice against women（D）expansion in
25、 college enrolment25 The Africans interest is to guard preferential export rules enshrined in the temporary African Growth and Opportunity Act, passed by Congress in 2000. Tariff-free exports of some 6,000 goods from Africa to the United States are boosting trade and investment in southern Africa. L
26、esothos fast-growing textile industry depends almost entirely on Chinese investment in factories to make clothes for sale in the United States. The region also wants more access to Americas markets for fruit, beef and other agricultural goods.American interest lies mainly in South Africa, by far the
27、 largest economy in the region. Services account for 60% of its GDP, and it increasingly dominates the rest of Africa in banking, information technology, telecom, retail and other areas. Just as British banks, such as Barclays, have moved their African headquarters to South Africa over the past year
28、, American investors see the country as a platform to the rest of the continent.Agreeing investment rules and resolving differences on intellectual property rights are the most urgent issues. American drug firms want to be part of the fast expansion in South Africa of production of anti-retroviral d
29、rugs, used against AIDS. By 2007 South Africa alone expects 1.2 m patients to take the drugs daily. The country might be the worlds biggest exporter of anti-AIDS drugs within a few years. Striking a bilateral deal now should make American investments easier.But Mr. Zoellicks greater concern is for m
30、ultilateral trade talks that stalled in Cancun, Mexico, in September. Alec Erwin, his South African counterpart, helped to organize the G20 group of poor and middle-income countries that opposed joint American-EU proposals there; he is widely tipped to take over as head of the World Trade Organizati
31、on late next year, and would be a useful ally.So Mr. Zoellick is trying to charm his African partner by agreeing to drop support for most of a group of issues(known as “Singapore issues“)that jammed up the talks at Cancun, and were opposed by poor countries; he says he also favors abolishing export
32、subsidies in America though only if Japan and the EU agree to do the same. That would please African exporters who say such subsidies destroy markets for their goods.Mr. Zoellicks efforts to make more friends may be paying off. Even though America has treated Africa very shabbily on trade in the pas
33、t, Mr. Erwin hints it is easier doing business with America than with Europe or Japan. A small sign, but perhaps a telling one.26 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that_.（A）6,000 goods from Africa are tariff-free to American countries（B） preferential export rules are interesting to souther
34、n Africans（C） most clothes found in the US are actually made by Chinese（D）Lesotho is willing to export more agricultural goods to the US27 British banks move their headquarters to South Africa because_.（A）South Africa is a safer country compared with others in Africa（B） South Africa is gradually bec
35、oming a financial center in Africa（C） South Africa offers preferential banking terms to foreign banks（D）South Africa is a platform in Africa for the American investors28 American drug makers want to get a share in the anti-AIDS drug production in South Africa in that_.（A）the US domestic anti-AIDS dr
36、ug market is shrinking quickly（B） American drug makers have a lot of extra capital to invest（C） the bilateral deal has made US investments much easier now（D）South Africa has a huge global market potential in these drugs29 Mr. Zoellick is trying to establish a good relationship with Mr. Erwin because
37、_.（A）Mr. Erwin is organizing a group of poor and middle-income countries to oppose America（B） Mr. Erwin is a very talented and tactful diplomat in the world political circle（C） Mr. Erwins possible position in the coming future will be helpful to American interests（D）Mr. Erwins relationship with Japa
38、nese and European leaders is useful to the U.S.30 We can conclude from the passage that_.（A）the multilateral trade talks in Cancun might be productive（B） Mr. Zoellick is very good at making friends with leaders（C） Japan and EU will abolish the export subsidies as the US（D）South Africas exports to Am
39、erica are bound to decrease30 It remains to be seen whether the reserves of raw materials in the year 2000 will be sufficient to supply a world economy which will have grown by five hundred percent. Southeast Asia alone will have an energy consumption five times greater than that of Western Europe i
40、n 1970. Incidentally, if the underdeveloped countries started using up petrol at the same rate as the industrialized areas, then world reserves would be exhausted by 1990.All this only goes to show just how important it is to set up a plan to conserve and divide up fairly natural resources on a worl
41、dwide scale.This is a matter of life and death because world population is expanding at an incredible rate. By the middle of the next century population will expand every year by as much as it did in the first 1 500 years after Christ. In the southern, poor parts of the globe, the figures are enough
42、 to make your hair stand on end. Even supposing that steps are taken to stabilize world population in the next fifty years, the number of inhabitants per square kilometer will increase by from 4 in the United States to 140 in South East Asia. What can we do about it?In the first hypothesis we do not
43、hing. By the year 2000, the southern parts of the world would then have a population greater than the total world population today.Alternately we could start acting right now to bring birth rate under control within fifteen years so that population levels off. Even then the population in the souther
44、n areas would not stop growing for seventy-five years. And the population would level off at something like twice todays figure.Finally, we could wait ten to twenty years before taking action. If we wait ten years the population of the southern area would stabilize at 3000 million. Even today the nu
45、mber of potential workers increases by 350 000 people per week. By the end of the century this figure will reach 750 000; in other words, it will be necessary to find work for 40 million people per year not to speak of food.What this means in practical terms we can scarcely imagine. But clearly if w
46、e do nothing, nature will solve the problem for us. But at what cost!31 Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the author?（A）A worldwide plan to conserve natural resources should be worked out.（B） The energy consumption of the underdeveloped countries will increase greatly.（C） Th
47、e world economy will have greatly grown by the year 2000.（D）There will definitely be not enough raw materials in the year 2000.32 The sentence “the figures are enough to make your hair stand on end“(Paragraph 3)probably means_.（A）the figures are too surprised to believe（B） the figures seem to be so
48、high that we think them to be unacceptable（C） the figures are so big that we may be surprised at them（D）it seems that the figures are high enough33 At the end of the passage the author implies that_.（A）naturally, the population problem would be solved（B） nature will punish us in the end if we do not
49、hing（C） we can wait until nature solves the problem for us（D）we cant imagine how much well have to pay to solve the world population problem34 The phrase “level off“(Paragraph 5)probably refers to_.（A）make cut（B） make growth（C） make balance（D）make the same35 The best title for this passage would be_.（A）Raw Material in the Year 2000（B） Problem of Energy Consumption（C）
