2010年MBA英语(二)真题及答案

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　　Directions:

　　Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C,D on answer sheet1(10points)(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic ___1___ by the Word Health Organization in 41 years.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　The heightened alert ____2___ an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising _____3___ in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.

　　But the epidemic is” ____4____” in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization’s general, ____5___ the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the ____6___ of any medical treatment.

　　The outbreak came to global ____7____ in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths ___8_____ healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to ____9____ in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　In the United States, new cases seemed to fade ____10____ warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009,officials reported there was___11__ flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the ____12____ tested are the new swine flu, also known as(A)H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S, it has____13____more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.

　　Federal health officials ____14___ Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began ___15___ orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is ____16___ ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those ___17__ dose were of the Flu Mist nasal spray type, which is not ____18 ___ for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other ___19__. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk group，health care workers, people ___20____infants and healthy young people.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　1. [A]criticized [B]appointed [C]commented [D]designated

　　2. [A]proceeded [B]activated [C]followed [D]prompted

　　3. [A]digits [B]numbers [C]amounts [D]sums

　　4. [A]moderate [B]normal [C]unusual [D]extreme

　　5. [A]with [B]in [C]from [D]by

　　6. [A]progress [B]absence [C]presence [D]favor

　　7. [A]reality [B]phenomenon [C]concept [D]notice

　　8. [A]over [B]for [C]among [D]to

　　9. [A]stay up [B]crop up [C]fill up [D]cover up

　　10. [A]as [B]if [C]unless [D]until

　　11. [A]excessive [B]enormous [C]significant [D]magnificent

　　12. [A]categories [B]examples [C]patterns [D]samples

　　13. [A]imparted [B]immersed [C]injected [D]infected

　　14. [A]released [B]relayed [C]relieved [D]remained

　　15. [A]placing [B]delivering [C]taking [D]giving

　　16. [A]feasible [B]available [C]reliable [D]applicable

　　17. [A]prevalent [B]principal [C]innovative [D]initial

　　18. [A]presented [B]restricted [C]recommended [D]introduced

　　19. [A]problems [B]issues [C]agonies [D]sufferings

　　20. [A]involved in [B]caring for [C]concerned with [D]warding off

　　Section Ⅱ Reading comprehension

　　Part A

　　Directions:

　　Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)

　　Text1

　　The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008 . All but two pieces sold, fetching more than $70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last hurrah. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising vertiginously since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.

　　In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector—for Chinese contemporary art—they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the second world war. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more volatile. But Edward Dolman, Christie’s chief executive, says: “I’m pretty confident we’re at the bottom.”

　　What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.

　　21.In the first paragraph, Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as “a last victory” because ____-.

　　A.the art market had witnessed a succession of victories

　　B.the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids

　　C.Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces

　　D.it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis

　　22.By saying “spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable”(Line 1-2,Para.3),the author suggests that_____ .

　　A . collectors were no longer actively involved in art-market auctions

　　B .people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries

　　C.art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extent

　　D .works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying

　　23.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A .Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007to 2008.

　　B.The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum.

　　C.The market generally went downward in various ways.

　　D.Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come.

　　24.The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are ____

　　A.auction houses ' favorites

　　B.contemporary trends

　　C.factors promoting artwork circulation

　　D.styles representing impressionists

　　25.The most appropriate title for this text could be ___

　　A.Fluctuation of Art Prices

　　B.Up-to-date Art Auctions

　　C.Art Market in Decline

　　D.Shifted Interest in Arts

　　Text2

　　I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room -- a women's group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening one man had been particularly talkative frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don't talk to them. This man quickly concurred. He gestured toward his wife and said "She's the talker in our family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. "It's true" he explained. "When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didn't keep the conversation going we'd spend the whole evening in silence."

　　This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late '70s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book "Divorce Talk" that most of the women she interviewed -- but only a few of the men -- gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year -- a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

　　In my own research complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning cooking social arrangements and errands. Instead they focused on communication: "He doesn't listen to me" "He doesn't talk to me." I found as Hacker observed years before that most wives want their husbands to be first and foremost conversational partners but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.

　　In short the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face while a woman glares at the back of it wanting to talk.

　　26.What is most wives' main expectation of their husbands?

　　A.Talking to them.

　　B.Trusting them.

　　C.Supporting their careers.

　　D. Sharing housework.

　　27.Judging from the context ,the phrase “wreaking havoc”(Line 3,Para.2)most probably means ___ .

　　A generating motivation.

　　B.exerting influence

　　C.causing damage

　　D.creating pressure

　　28.All of the following are true EXCEPT_______

　　A.men tend to talk more in public tan women

　　B.nearly 50percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation

　　C.women attach much importance to communication between couples

　　D.a female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse

　　29.Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of this text ?(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　A.The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists .

　　B.Marriage break-up stems from sex inequalities.

　　C.Husband and wife have different expectations from their marriage.

　　D.Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.

　　30.In the following part immediately after this text, the author will most probably focus on ______

　　A.a vivid account of the new book Divorce Talk

　　B.a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoon

　　C.other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S.

　　D a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker

　　Txet3

　　Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks, apply lotions and wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.

　　“There are fundamental public health problems, like hand washing with soap, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits,” Dr. Curtis said. “We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically.”

　　The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to — Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever — had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.

　　If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use every day — chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins — are results of manufactured habits. A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day. Today, because of canny advertising and public health campaigns, many Americans habitually give their pearly whites a cavity-preventing scrub twice a day, often with Colgate, Crest or one of the other brands.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　A few decades ago, many people didn’t drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long. Chewing gum, once bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal. Skin moisturizers are advertised as part of morning beauty rituals, slipped in between hair brushing and putting on makeup.

　　“Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,” said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter & Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of Tide, Crest and other products last year. “Creating positive habits is a huge part of improving our consumers’ lives, and it’s essential to making new products commercially viable.”

　　Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising. As this new science of habit has emerged, controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable beauty creams or unhealthy foods.

　　31.According to Dr.Curtis, habits like hand washing with soap________.

　　[A] should be further cultivated

　　[B] should be changed gradually

　　[C] are deeply rooted in history

　　[D] are basically private concerns

　　32.Bottled water, chewing gun and skin moisturizers are mentioned in Paragraph 5 so as to____

　　[A] reveal their impact on people’s habits

　　[B] show the urgent need of daily necessities

　　[C]indicate their effect on people buying power

　　[D]manifest the significant role of good habits(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　33.which of the following does NOT belong to products that help create people’s habits?

　　[A]Tide

　　[B]Crest

　　[C]Colgate

　　[D]Unilever

　　34.From the text we know that some of consumer’s habits are developed due to _____

　　[A]perfected art of products

　　[B]automatic behavior creation

　　[C]commercial promotions

　　[D]scientific experiments

　　35.the author’s attitude toward the influence of advertisement on people’s habits is____

　　[A]indifferent

　　[B]negative

　　[C]positive

　　[D]biased

　　Text4

　　Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the law. The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy. In a direct democracy, citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing representatives to govern for them.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　But as recently as in 1986, jury selection procedures conflicted with these democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character. Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880 case of strauder v. West Virginia,the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other anti-discrimination laws.

　　The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century. Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898,it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty. Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list. This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.

　　In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury. This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the landmark 1975 decision Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the state level. The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures for selecting male and female jurors.

　　36.From the principles of the US jury system, we learn that ______

　　[A]both literate and illiterate people can serve on juries

　　[B]defendants are immune from trial by their peers

　　[C]no age limit should be imposed for jury service

　　[D]judgment should consider the opinion of the public

　　37.The practice of selecting so—called elite jurors prior to 1968 showed_____

　　[A]the inadequacy of anti-discrimination laws

　　[B]the prevalent discrimination against certain races

　　[C]the conflicting ideals in jury selection procedures

　　[D]the arrogance common among the Supreme Court justices

　　38.Even in the 1960s,women were seldom on the jury list in some states because_____

　　[A]they were automatically banned by state laws

　　[B]they fell far short of the required qualifications

　　[C]they were supposed to perform domestic duties

　　[D]they tended to evade public engagement

　　39.After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed.___

　　[A]sex discrimination in jury selection was unconstitutional and had to be abolished

　　[B]educational requirements became less rigid in the selection of federal jurors

　　[C]jurors at the state level ought to be representative of the entire community

　　[D]states ought to conform to the federal court in reforming the jury system

　　40. In discussing the US jury system, the text centers on_______(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　[A]its nature and problems

　　[B]its characteristics and tradition

　　[C]its problems and their solutions

　　[D]its tradition and development

　　Section Ⅲ Translation

　　46.Directions: In this section there is a text in English .Translate it into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET2

　　.(15points)

　　“Sustainability” has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of un-sustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed though everyday action and choice.

　　Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He’d been though the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.

　　It didn’t go well. “It was a really had move because that’s not my passion,” says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable, I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll turn the corner, give it some time.’”

　　47. Directions:

　　You have just come back from the U.S. as a member of a Sino-American cultural exchange program. Write a letter to your American colleague to

　　1) Express your thanks for his/her warm reception;

　　2) Welcome him/her to visit China in due course.

　　You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.

　　Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Zhang Wei” instead.

　　Do not write your address. (10 points)

　　48. Directions:

　　In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following chart. In your writing, you should(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　1) Interpret the chart and

　　2) Give your comments.

　　You should write at least 150 words.

　　Write your essay on on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)

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　　2010年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语(二)试题参考答案

　　Use of English

　　1-5 DCBAA6-10 BDCBA11-15 CDDAC16-20 BDCAB

　　Part A Reading

　　21-25 DABCC26-30 ACBDB31-35 AADCB36-40 DACBD

　　Part B Reading

　　41-45 无

　　Translation

　　46. “坚持不懈”如今已成一个流行词汇，但对TedNing而言，这个概念一直有个人含义，经历了一段痛苦松懈的个人生活，使他清楚面向以坚持不懈为导向的价值观，必须贯彻到每天的行动和选择中。

　　Ning回忆起20世纪90年代末期卖保险的那段迷茫时光，他通过蓬勃兴起的网络疯狂地找工作，并且与Boulder代理机构签了约。

　　事情进展并不顺利，TedNing说到：“那真是个糟糕的选择，因为我对此没有激情，”可以预料，他把工作中的矛盾能解释为没有业务。Ning说：“我很痛苦渴望午夜起来盯着天花板，我没钱，我需要工作，每个人都说‘等吧，只要有耐心会好转的。’”

　　Part A Writing

　　47. Dear President,

　　I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to you for your kindness to receive me when I participated in an exchange program in USA. (I am writing this letter in purpose of expressing my appreciation for your warmth and hospitality to me during our visit to your country.)(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　Your generous help made it possible that I had a very pleasant stay and a chance to know American cultures better. Besides, I think it is an honor for me to make friends with you and I will cherish the goodwill you showed to me wherever I go. I do hope that you will visit China one day, so that I could have the opportunity to repay your kindness and refresh our friendship.

　　I feel obliged to thank you again.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　Sincerely yours,

　　Zhang Wei

　　Part B Writing

　　48. The chart above clearly shows that there has been the change in the number of mobile phone subscriptions in the past 8 years. As is shown by the chart, in developing countries, there was a sharp rise in the number of mobile phone subscriptions from 2000 to 2008, increasing to 4 billion in 2008, fully 8 times more than in 2000. On the other hand, in developed countries, the number of mobile phone subscriptions has slowly and steadily increased in the last 8 years, only increasing twice from around 0.5 billion to 1 billion.

　　What accounts for the increase? In my opinion at least two factors contribute to the changes. First of all, developing countries have much larger population than developed countries. For example, China and India nearly have half of the total population of the world. China has the most mobile-phone users right now, which increased greatly from 2000 to 2008. It is the same in India and other developing countries. Secondly, developing countries have been enjoying strong economic growth in recent years. As a result, people in most developing countries are richer and richer, especially in China. So they can afford to buy such necessities, including mobile-phone, as the prices continued to drop greatly in the past years.(环球网校MBA考试频道为大家整理2010年MBA英语真题及答案)

　　Taking all these factors into consideration, we may reasonably predict that with the rapid development of economy and technology, the change is bound to continue for a few years in the future. As far as I’m concerned, it is a positive change and should be encouraged, for it is beneficial not only to consumers, but to the development of the national economy.

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