试卷详情
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考研英语-642
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Directions: Write a composition on the topic:The Right to Die on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
医学的技术进步可以使人们能比过去活得长。然而,一些人们,包括一些医生,不支持那些延长生命的做法,认为人有权利选择死亡。这种争论仍将继续。
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Enter the information age. Information is the raw material for many of the business activities shaping this new era, (1) iron and steel were the basic commodities in the dawning of the industrial age.
The world’ s knowledge is said to be doubling (2) eight years. This knowledge explosion is (3) economic progress. The need to collect, analyze, and communicate (4) quantities of information is Spawning new products and services, creating jobs, and widening career opportunities.
The information age is (5) considered to be a phenomenon of the service sector of the economy, (6) a product of heavy industry. Certainly, burgeoning information technologies are creating new capabilities (7) knowledge-based service spheres. But changes just as dramatic are (8) industry, giving people the opportunity to do challenging work in exciting new ways.
Manufacturing is a full participant in the information age. From
A. events
B. ways
C. things
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One morning, a few years ago, Harvard President Nell Rudenstine overslept. 41) ____.
Only after a three - month sabbatical--during which he read essayist Lewis Thomas, listened to Ravel and walked with his wife on a Caribbean beach--was he able to return to his post. That week, his picture was on the cover of Newsweek magazine beside the banner head line "Exhausted !"
In the relentless busyness of modem life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest. I speak with people in business and education, doctors and day - care workers, shopkeepers and social workers, parents and teachers, nurses and lawyers, students and therapists, community activist and cooks. Remarkably, there is a universal refrain," I am so busy". The more our life speeds up, the more we feel weary, overwhelmed and lost.
42) _____.Instead, the whole experience of being alive begins to melt into one enormous obligation. It becomes the standard greeting everywhere, &q -
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Directions: The Students ’ Union of your department is planning an English Speech Contest. Write an announcement which covers the following information:
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use "Department of English" at the end of the announcement. ( 10 points)
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What do National Semiconductor, Maxwell House Coffee, Deloitte Touche, and Hearst Magazines have in common All these organizations are headed by women. (46)Moreover, according to a recent study by Catalyst(卡特利思特), a national nonprofit organization assisting women in business, more than 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies have at least one woman on their boards of directors, up from 69 percent two years earlier. Despite all this, there is evidence that women are not commonly found at the executive level. No fortune 500 companies has a female CEO; women executives are extremely underrepresented in some industries, such as manufacturing, engineering, and financial services; and responses to the Catalyst survey show that six in ten women believe women suffer discrimination in obtaining executive business positions.
(47) Although the climb up the corporate ladder seems to be going slowly for women, corporate America would benefit from having more women in senior mana -
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The U.S. government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earth quake "belts" where government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help discover the answer to these two questions;
1. Can we predict earthquakes
2. Can we control earthquakes
To answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault(断层) systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a. break between two sections of the earth’ s surface. These breaks .between sections are the places where earthquakes occur. Scientists look at the faults for changes, which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes
A. They have no practical value in earthquake prevention.
B. They may have practical value in earthquake prevention.
C. They are certain to have practical value in earthquake prevention.
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Text 4
Changes in the economy, Europe’ s reunification and technological evolution challenge our educational system. Vocational education will be particularly touched. It will be then necessary to intervene in the field of higher vocational education. Their level of education has to be qualitatively redefined and adapted to current demands. Professionals will have new chances of promotion through these reforms. At this point, vocational education has to define itself as being equal to high school-university courses, while keeping its particularities.
As far as employment opportunities are concerned, it is assumed that graduates from colleges of higher education have more or less the same chances to find a job as university graduates. In some areas, the former will probably even find employment easier, as their practical work experience is by far larger than university students. These may possess a much larger theoretical background as they start worki
A. are sure to find employment easier than university graduates
B. need more time to get the practical fide of their job than university graduates
C. have larger practical work experiences than university graduates
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Text 1
Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executives were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to account for their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattrative ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise o
A. misfortune
B. instability
C. disadvantage
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Text 3
Recently, a possible alternative way of producing paper has been suggested by agriculturalists and environmentalists: a plant called hemp.
Hemp has been cultivated by many cultures for thousands of years. It produces fiber, which can be made into paper, fuel, oils, textiles, food, and rope. For centuries, it was essential to the economies of many countries because it was used to make the ropes and cables used on sailing ships; colonial expansion and the establishment of a world wide trading network would not have been feasible without hemp. Nowadays, ships’ cables are usually made from wire or synthetic fibers, but scientists are now suggesting that the cultivation of hemp should be revived for the production of paper and pulp. According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees, and many environmentalists believe that the large-scale cultivation of hemp could reduce the pressure on world
A. It is related to the marijuana plant.
B. It can be used to produce marijuana.
C. It was not longer a useful crop.
D. It was destructive to the land.