考研英语模拟试卷

1、 C or D.（分数：40.00）_While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harmful 【C1】_ is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology. The similarity between disease organisms and personal devices is 【C2】_. Viruses and other parasites control larger organisms, 【C3】_ resources in order to multiply and spread. Smartphon。

2、 C or D.（分数：40.00）_Its 2:30 pm and Im procrastinating. The project is【C1】_by 5 oclock and I cant seem to find the【C2】_to get it done. This is a common problem for everyone. Whether working from home or an office, creating the next big【C3】_or pushing papers for a corporation, we all procrastinate. The biggest reason youre tired is because of physical or mental【C4】_。

3、2.Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.（分数：10.00）_Tourists were surprised to see a woman driving a huge orange tractor down one of Romes main avenues. Italys political leaders and some of its male union chiefs are said to have been even more puzzled to see that the tractor was followed by about 200,000 women i。

4、in the United States that changed and modernized the domain of higher education from the mid-1860s to the niid-1880s, three primary causes interacted. The 1 of a half-dozen leaders in education provided the personal force that was needed. _2 , an outcry (呐喊)for a fresher, more practical, and more advanced kind of instruction _3_ among the alumni and friends of nearly all of the old colleges and grew into a movement that overrode (压倒) all 4 opposition. The aggressive “Young Yale“ movement appeare。

5、 no other species produces elaborate sound for no particular reason. It has been, and remains, part of every known civilization on Earth. Lengths of bone fashioned into flutes were in use 40,000 years ago. And it engages peoples attention more comprehensively than almost anything else: scans show that when people listen to music, virtually every area of their brain becomes more active.Yet it serves no obvious adaptive purpose. Charles Darwin, in “The Descent of Man“, noted that “neither the。

6、ctions: Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following information.（分数：2.00）_3.Overly Protected Child Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the drawing. In your essay, you should 1) describe the drawing briefly, 2) explain its intended meaning, and 3) give your comments. （分数：2.00）_4.The Competition of Diploma 。

7、elopment of civilized man were probably the invention of primitive weapons and the discovery of fire, although nobody knows exactly when people acquired the use of (1)_.The (2)_ of language is also obscure. No doubt it began very gradually. Animals have a few cries that serve (3)_ signals, (4)_ even the highest apes have not been found able to pronounce words (5)_ with the most intensive professional instruction. The superior brain of man is apparently (6)_ for the master。

8、d that women should return to housework in order to leave (1)_ jobs for men, the idea has been rejected by both women and men in public (2)_ polls.Lately some union officials have suggested that too many women are employed in types of work were (3)_ for men and that women should step aside to make (4)_ for unemployed young men. They argue that women, especially women in their child-bearing years. (5)_ delay economic development and result (6)_ lower productivity, poor qua。

9、al economy, many companies state their basic objective of engaging in a worldwide manufacturing business and claim that they are or are becoming a multinational company.Some economists (1)_ between the international firm and the multinational company in the following way: the “international firm“ is a term that (2)_ enterprises with various degrees of world orientation in their business; (3)_, the “multinational company“ is one type of international firm. The international firm engag。

10、t the relationship between photography and art centered on whether photographers fidelity to appearances and dependence on a machine allowed it to be a fine art (1)_ distinctive from merely a practical art. Throughout the nineteenth century, the defense of photography was identical with the (2)_ to establish it as a fine art. (3)_ the charge that photographers was a soulless mechanical duplication of (4)_, photographers (5)_ that it was instead a privileged (6)_ of s。

11、there are laws of nature, rules that summarize conveniently (1)_ qualitatively but quantitativelyhow the world works. We might (2)_ a universe in which there are no such laws, in which the 1,080 elementary particles that (3)_ a universe like our own behave with utter and uncompromising abandon. To understand such a universe we would need a brain (4)_ as massive as the universe. It seems (5)_ that such a universe could have life and intelligence, because being and brains (6)_。

12、 to which they can reflect on themselves and others. Humans are a-ble to 1 , to think in abstract terms, to reflect on the future. A meaningless, 2 world is an insecure world. We do not like extensive insecurity. When it 3 to human behavior we infer meaning and 4 to make the behavior understandable. What all this means is that people develop “quasi theories“ of human behavior, that is, theories that are not developed in an objective, scientific 5 When doing so, people believe they know 6 humans 。

13、lf the teenagers in the United States believe that communication between them and their parents is【1 】and further that one of the prime causes of this gap is【2】listening behavior. As a(an)【3】in point, one parent believed that her daughter had a severe【4】problem. She was so 【5】that she took her to an audiologist to have her ear tested. The audiologist carefully tested both ears and reported back to the parent:“Theres nothing wrong with her hearing. Shes just【6】you out. “ A leading cause。

14、ll town into a city in the first half of the eighteenth century, it became an increasingly important marketing center for a vast agricultural hinterland. Market days【1】the crowded city even more crowded, as farmers from within a【2】of 24 or more kilometers brought their sheep, vegetables, cider and other products for direct sale to the【3】. The High Street Market was continuously【4】throughout the period until 1736,【 5】it【6】from Front Street to Third. By 1745 New Market was opened on Second Street.。

15、ple rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cultures children are expected to care【1】their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who【2】with their parents【3】65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to take care of their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live【4】. What explains these differences in living arrangements 【5】cultures? Modernization theory【6】the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditio。

16、g. For thousands of years there have been individuals who have tried to (1)_ others to buy the food they have produced or the goods they have made or the services they can (2)_.But in the 19th century the mass production of goods (3)_ the Industrial Revolution made person-to-person selling inefficient. The mass distribution of goods that (4)_ the development of the highway made person-to-person selling (5)_ slow and expensive. At the same time, mass communication, first newsp。

17、se of work.【1】who they are or what they do, they spend【2】time at work than at any time since World War. In 1950, the US had fewer working hours than any other【3】country. Today, it【4】every country but Japan, where industrial employees log 2,155 hours a year compared【5】1,951 in the US and 1,603【6 】West employees. Between 1969 and 1989, employed American【7】an average of 138 hours to their yearly work schedules. The work-week【8】at about 40 hours, but people are working more weeks each year.【9】, pai。

18、the risks of monetary union far outweigh any advantages it may bring. Since exchange rates can (1)_ be used to offset the strains of different economic conditions prevailing in various member countries, growth and employment problems are inevitable, they say. The resulting political pressures will (2)_ to demands for large intra-union (3)_ payments. And (4)_ political resistance to such payments is inevitable, skeptics regard the EMU as a (5)_ to further European integration.。

19、ivate sector in education is that it caters only to the elite. (1)_, recent research points in the opposite direction. If we want to help some of most (2)_ groups in society, then encouraging deeper private sector (3)_ is likely to be the best way forward.Several developments are (4)_ in India, all of which involve the private education sector meeting the needs of the poor in distinct ways. But India is not (5)_ in this respectsimilar phenomena are happening all over the dev。

20、ing to England. Still【1】from the dissolution of the empire in the years【2】World War , now the English find they are not even British. As the cherished “United Kingdom“ breaks into its【3】parts, Scots are clearly【4】and the Welsh, Welsh. But who exactly are the English? Whats left of them, with everything but the【5】half of their island taken away? Going back in time to【 6】roots doesnt help. First came the Celts, then the Romans, then Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes. Invasion after invasion,。