试卷详情
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MBA联考-英语-12
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[简答题]With the nation’s financial system teetering (蹒跚) on a cliff, the compensation arrangements for executives of the big banks and other financial firms are coming under close examination again.
Bankers’ excessive risk-taking is a significant cause of this financial crisis and has contributed to others in the past. In this case, it was fueled by low interest rates and kept going by a false sense of security created by a debt-fueled bubble in the economy.
Mortgage lenders gladly lent enormous sums to those who could not afford to pay them back, dividing the loans and selling them off to the next financial institution along the chain, which took advantage of the same high-tech securitization (证券化) to load on more risky mortgage-based assets.
Financial regulation will have to catch up with the most irresponsible practices that led banks down this road, in hopes of averting the next crisis, which is likely to involve different financial techniques and different sorts of assets.
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[单项选择]She refused to tell us the ()of the news although we insisted that she should.
A. source
B. beginning
C. birth
D. origin
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[单项选择]The newspaper did not mention the()of the damage caused by the fire.
A. range
B. level
C. extent
D. quantity
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[单项选择]They have wide connections with an annual ()of about 5 million dollars.
A. levy
B. exemption
C. sale
D. turnover
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[单项选择]Male chauvinism--the attitude that women are the passive and inferior servants of society and of men--sets women apart from the rest of the working class. Even when they do the same work as men, women are not considered workers in the same sense, with the need and right to work to provide for their families or to support themselves independently. They are expected to accept work at lower wages and without job security. Thus they can be used as a marginal or reserve labor force when profits depend on extra low costs or when men are needed for war.
Women are not supposed to be independent, so they are not supposed to have any "right to work". This means, in effect, that although they do work, they are denied the right to organize and fight for better wages and conditions. Thus the role of women in the labor force undermines the struggles of male workers as well. The boss can break a union drive by threatening to hire lower paid women or blacks. In many cases, where women are organiz
A. men face the threat of being replaced by low wage women
B. men have to deal with women’s complaints all the time
C. women’s low income often irritate their husbands
D. women’s inferior working condition worries their husbands
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[简答题]体育运动展示了运动员的技能,展现了其精神面貌。对于观众而言,哪一方面更有吸引力呢?谈谈你的看法。
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[单项选择]The boy burned with ()to know what was in the letter addressed to his sister.
A. interest
B. curiosity
C. desire
D. wish
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[单项选择]One of the reasons for his popularity in our village is that he () almost everyone every time when he comes back from the big city.
A. looks after
B. cares for
C. asks after
D. runs for
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[单项选择]The population will be increasing very fast unless they() with new methods to deal with it.
A. come to
B. come away
C. come over
D. come up
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Because agriculture is so important to a nation’s well-being, governments have always been concerned with it. For example, the United States and Canada have long produced surpluses that complicate their economies. Surpluses tend to lower prices to farmers and seriously endanger the agriculture industry. Governments have instituted systems of price supports to maintain a fair price when surpluses cause prices to drop. The system in the United States is a good example. A government program supports the prices paid to farmers for grains, and other agricultural products.
Support prices are based on parity, which is the ratio between the prices farmers receive for their crops and the prices they must pay for things they need. The government selected the period from 1910 to 1914 as a time when farm prices were in a fair ratio with farming costs. This is the base period now used to determine parity prices.
The idea is to assure farmers that what they get for a bush
A. they throw the country into great disorder
B. they entail more expenditure on the part of the government
C. they usually involve direct governmental support price
D. the government has to set up special pricing systems -
[单项选择]It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out, and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new, they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter. You either have science or you don’t, and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and promptly useful bits.
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the hu
A. defies prediction
B. should study the unknown
C. should discover scientific truth
D. should offer choices rather than prescribe
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[单项选择]That couple has endured so many emotional and financial (). It is amazing that their marriage has lasted.
A. issues
B. crises
C. subjects
D. questions
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[单项选择]At first everything went well with the project but recently we have had a number of()with the machinery.
A. disturbances
B. setbacks
C. outputs
D. distortions
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[单项选择]If the profits in one year are not sufficient to pay the dividend, the ()will be paid from the profits of later year.
A. arrears
B. debt
C. difference
D. margin
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[单项选择]The newcomer was ()admittance to the classroom for not being properly dressed.
A. rejected
B. denied
C. opposed
D. refused
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[单项选择]None of us expected the chairman to () at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.
A. turn in
B. turn up
C. turn over
D. turn down
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[单项选择]In some underdeveloped areas of the world, sick people go to a witch or priest instead of doctors for()
A. treatment
B. cure
C. heal
D. care
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[单项选择]The shilpping company will give you a() of freight if the goods are lost.
A. renewal
B. reminder
C. receipt
D. refund
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[单项选择]Picasso was an artist who fundamentally changed the ______ of art for later generations.
A. philosophy
B. concept
C. viewpoint
D. theme
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[单项选择]Successful learning is not a(n) () activity but consists of four distinct stages in a specific order.
A. only
B. sole
C. mere
D. single
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Advancing age means losing your hair, your waistline and your memory, right Dana Denis is just 40 years old, but (21) she’s worried about what she calls "my rolling mental blackouts." "I try to remember something and I just blank out," she says.
You may (22) about these lapses, calling them "senior moments" or blaming "early Alzheimer’s(老年痴呆症)." Is it an inescapable fact that the older you get, the (23) you remember Well, sort of. But as time goes by, we tend to blame age (24) problems that are not necessarily age-related.
"When a teenager can’t find her keys, she thinks it’s because she’s distracted or disorganized," says Paul Gold "A 70-year-old blames her (25) ." In fact, the 70-year-old may have been (26) things for decades.
In healthy people, memory doesn’t worsen as (27) as many of us think. &quo
A. almost
B. seldom
C. already
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[单项选择]The destruction of the twin towers ______ shock and anger throughout the world.
A. summoned
B. tempted
C. provoked
D. stumbled
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[单项选择]Letting it out may be bad for your emotional health. Many people assume that sharing feelings openly and often is a positive ideal that promotes mental health. But some social critics and psychologists now conclude that repressing one’s feelings may do more good than venting emotions.
"A small number of researchers are taking an empirical look at the general assumption that speaking out and declaring one’s feelings is better than holding them in," writes Christina Sommers, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
At Suffilk University, psychologist Jane Bybee classified high-school students on the basis of their self-awareness: "sensitizers" were extremely aware of their internal states, "repressors" focused little on themselves, and "intermediates" occupied the middle range. Bybee then collected student evaluations of themselves and each other, along with teacher evaluations of the students. On the whole, the repressors were more socially and academically succ
A. researchers do not agree on how to deal with bad emotions
B. expressing one’s private feelings is better than repressing them
C. the tendency to repress one’s feelings may arise from social values
D. the author does not agree with the researchers
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[单项选择]About 20 of the passengers who were injured in a plane crash are said to be in ()condition.
A. decisive
B. urgent
C. vital
D. critical
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[单项选择]Do you think the president will be able to () his promise not to raise taxes
A. catch
B. capture
C. find
D. keep
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[单项选择]The firm's promise to increase our pay was a reluctant ()to union demands, because the union would otherwise not go back to work.
A. response
B. reply
C. reaction
D. concession
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[单项选择]We aim to ensure that all candidates are treated fairly and that they have equal ()to employment opportunities.
A. entrance
B. entry
C. access
D. admission