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考研英语-723
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[填空题]
2004 is a presidential election year in the United States. Job outsourcing (the loss of U. S. jobs to countries with low cost labour structure in Asia) by U. S. corporations is a hot topic this summer. Many Americans are worried that if this trend continues for a few more years, the only jobs left in the U.S. would be McJobs.
41. ______
In the popular mind, McJobs are for teenage burger flippers, who are trying to earn some pocket money. Certainly to those who are dreaming the American dream, a McJob is NOT a career builder by any stretch of the imagination.
This kind of negative use of the word makes one person in the U. S. very mad, Jim Cantalupo, chairman and CEO of McDonald’s. In his letter to the lexicographers, which was published in Nation’s Restaurant News, he called the definition of the word in the dictionary "inaccurate and insulting to restaurant workers everywhere".
42. ______
If McDonald’s couldn&rs -
[简答题]
The 1960s saw the great civil rights movement whose goals were to end segregation (种族隔离) laws completely and fight for the equal rights for the colored people. Many American blacks began to have a new mood. They declared that "black is beautiful", and the black community showed signs of unprecedented self-confidence. (46) Equally important, many black leaders began to disclaim full integration into the American mainstream as the goal of the black minority. (47) Instead, they argued, blacks ought to coexist with other groups in a plural society containing different and distinctive communities living in mutual respect.
The elimination of legal barriers to advancement has been a major gain for the blacks, but institutionalized discrimination is still rife. Housing, in particular, remains highly segregated: the great majority of blacks continue to live in neighborhoods that are overwhelmingly black, and most whites live in neighborhoods that are overwh -
[单项选择]Text 3
The marvelous telephone and television network that has now enmeshed the whole world, making all men neighbors, cannot be extended into space. It will never be possible to converse with anyone on another planet. Even with today’s radio equipment, the messages will take minutes—sometimes hours—on their journey, because radio and light waves travel at the same limited speed of 186,000 miles a second.
Twenty years from now you will be able to listen to a friend on Mars, but the words you hear will have left his mouth at least three minutes earlier, and your reply will take a corresponding time to reach him. In such circumstances, an exchange of verbal messages is possible—but not a conversation.
To a culture which has come to take instantaneous communication for granted, as part of the very structure of civilized life, this "time barrier" may have a profound psychological impact. It will be a perpetual reminder of universal
A. a year
B. nearly a day
C. two months
D. thirty minutes
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[单项选择]
Digital photography is still new enough that most of us have yet to form an opinion about it, (1) develop a point of view. But this hasn’t stopped many film and computer fans from agreeing (2) the early conventional wisdom about digital cameras—they’re neat (3) for your PC, but they’re not suitable for everyday picture-taking.
The fans are wrong: More than anything else, digital cameras are radically (4) what photography means and what it can be. The venerable medium of photography (5) we know it is beginning to seem out of (6) with the way we live. In our computer and camcorder (7) , saving pictures as digital (8) and watching them on TV is no less practical—and in many ways more (9) than fumbling with rolls of film that must be sent off to be (10) .
Paper is also terribly (11) Pictures that are incorrectly framed, (12) , or lighted are nonetheless
A. rather than
B. let alone
C. much less
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[单项选择]Text 2
The modern cult of beauty is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. "Old ladies" are already becoming rare. In a few years, we may well believe, they will be extinct. White hair and wrinkles, a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be regarded as medievally old-fashioned. The crone of the future will be golden, curly and cherry-lipped, and slender. This desirable consummation will be due in part to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, in part to improved health, due in its turn to a more rational mode of life. Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease, beauty of health. In so far as the campaign for beauty is also a campaign for more health, it is admirable and, up to a point, genuinely successful.
Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of health is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genui
A. wrinkles and hollow cheeks will not be found
B. the desirable consummation will be achieved
C. curly hair will look medievally old-fashioned
D. the elderly women will no longer be able to exist
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[简答题]Directions:
You are planning to have a holiday in Southern China during the summer vacation. Write a letter to the sales department of a travel agency to:
1) introduce yourself and your purpose
2) explain the type of holiday you want
3) ask for necessary travel information
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Li Ming" instead. You do not need to write the address.
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[单项选择]Text 1
Among Bloomberg’s web pages on April 7th appeared a story that looked ordinary enough: PairGain, an American telecom equipment manufacturer, was to be bought by an Israeli company for about twice its market value. The company’s stock price, predictably, rocketed from $8.50 to
$11.13. All fine and normal—except that the story wasn’t true. Somebody had copied Bloomberg’s logo and layout and posted a bogus report on the Bloomberg site. When Pair Gain queried the report, it was taken off, and the share price crashed again. Bloomberg is now suing unnamed parties who posted the page.
As more and more of life moves on to the Internet, so the difficulty of distinguishing fact from fiction on it becomes more and more of a worry. This problem springs from the Internet’s central virtue: low barriers to entry. In the real world, being a publisher costs a great deal of money. You have to have manufacturing facilities and distribution n
A. malicious gossip
B. slovenly report
C. Chinese whisper
D. international fraud
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[单项选择]Text 4
Pursuing free trade through WTO has many attractions. Countries bind themselves and their trading partners to transparent and non-discriminatory trade rules, which the WTO then enforces even-handedly. Since most governments operate on the premise that opening domestic markets is a concession to be traded for access to foreign markets, multilateral liberalisation is often the most effective route to free trade.
A successful WTO round requires two big bargains to be struck: a transatlantic deal between America and the EU and a north-south deal between the rich and the poor. Yet at Seattle this year there is a long way to go before such broad bargains can be considered, let alone struck.
America wants a few priority issues to be settled. Its list includes an extension of the duty-free status of e-commerce, a broader IT pact, reform of the WTO dispute-settlement system, increased WTO transparency and the phase-out of tariffs
A. exchange domestic markets for foreign markets
B. make concessions in foreign trade
C. adopt the most effective route to free trade
D. enforce trade policies even-handedly