2020年考研英语(一)真题及答案解析.pdf

欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！2020 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语（一）试题 Section I Use of English Directions:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and markA,B,C,orDon the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)Even if families dont sit down to eat together as frequently as before,millions of Britons will nonetheless have got a share this weekend of one of that nation s great traditions:the Sunday roast.1_a cold winters day,few culinary pleasures can 2_it.Yet as we report now.The food police are determined our health.That this 3_should be rendered yet another quality pleasure 4_to damage our health.The Food Standards Authority(FSA)has 5 a public worming about the risks of a compound called acrylamide that forms in some foods cooked 6_high temperatures.This means that people should 7_ crisping their roast potatoes,reject thin-crust pizzas and only_ 8_toast their bread.But where is the evidence to support such alarmist advice?9 studies have shown that acrylamide can cause neurological damage in mice,there is no 10_ evidence that it causes cancer in humans.Scientists say the compound is 11_to cause cancer but have no hard scientific proof 12_the precautionary principle it could be argued that it is 13_to follow the FSA advice.14_,it was rumoured that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a 15_.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！Doubtless a piece of boiled beef can always be 16 up on Sunday alongside some steamed vegetables,without the Yorkshire pudding and no wine.But would life be worth living?17_,the FSA says it is not telling people to cut out roast foods 18_,but reduce their lifetime intake.However its 19_risks coming a cross as being pushy and overprotective.Constant health scares just 20_ with one listening.1.AIn BTowards COn DTill 2.A match Bexpress Csatisfy Dinfluence:3.Apatience Benjoyment Csurprise Dconcern 4.Aintensified Bprivileged Ccompelled Dguaranteed 5.Aisued Breceived Ccompelled D guaranteed 6.Aunder Bat Cfor Dby 7.Aforget Bregret Cfinish Davoid 8.Apartially Bregular Ceasily Dintally 9.AUnless BSince CIf D While 10.Asecondary Bexternal Cconclusive Dnegative 11.Ainsufficient Bbound Clikely D slow 12.AOn the basis of BAt the cost of CIn addition to DIn contrast to 13.Ainteresting Badvisable Curgent Dfortunate 14.AAs usual BIn particular CBy definition DAfter all 15.Aresemblance Bcombination Cconnection Dpatterm 16.Amade Bserved Csaved Dused 17.ATo be fair BFor instance CTo be brief DIn general 18.Areluctantly Bentirely Cgradually Dcarefully 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！19.Apromise Bexperience Ccampaign Dcompetition 20.Afollow up Bpick up Copen up Dend up.Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions:Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below cach text by choosingA,B,C,orD.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points)Text 1 A group of labour MPs,among them Yvette Cooper,are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK“town of cultureaward.The proposal is that it should sit alongside the existing city of culture title,which was held by Hull in 2017 and has been awarded to Coventry for zoz1.Cooper and her colleagues argue that the success of the crown for Hull,where it brought in 220m of investment and an avalanche of arts,out not to be confined to cities.Britain town,it is true are not prevented from applying,but they generally lack the resources to put together a bit to beat their bigger competitions.A town of culture award could,it is argued,become an annual event,attracting funding and creating jobs.Some 1might see the proposal as a boo by prize for the fact that Britain is no longer be able to apply for the much more prestigious title of Furopean capital of culture,a sough after award bagged by Glasgow in 1990 and Liverpool in 2008.A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world:after 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！town of culture,who knows that will follow-village of culture?Suburb of culture?Hamlet of culture?It is also wise lo recall that such titles are not a cure-al1.A badly run“year of culturewashes in and out ofa place like the tide,bringing prominence for a spell but leaving no lasting benefits to the community.The really successful holders of such titles are those that do a great deal more than fill hotel bedrooms and bring in high profile arts events and good press for a year.They transform the aspirations of the people who live there;they nudge the self-image of the city into a bolder and more optimistic light.It is hard to get right,and requires a remarkable degree of vision,as well as cooperation between city authorities,the private sector,community.groups and cultural organisations.But it can be done:Glasgows year as European capital of culture can certainly be seen as one of complex series of factors that have turned the city into the power of art,music and theatre that it remains today.A“town of culture could be not just about the arts but about honouring a towns peculiarities-helping sustain its high street,supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people and turn it into action.21.Cooper and her colleagues argue that a“town of culture award could_ A consolidate the town-city ties in Britain.B promote cooperation among Britains towns.C increase the economic strength of Britains towns.D focus Britains limited resources on cultural events.22.According to Paragraph 2,the proposal might be regarded by some as_ Aa sensible compromise.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！Ba self-deceiving attempt.Can eye catching bonus Dan inaccessible target.23.The author suggests that a title holder is successful onlyif it_ Aendeavours to maintain its image.Bmeets the aspirations of its people.Cbrings its local arts to prominence.Dcommits to its long-term growth.24.Glasgow is mentioned in Paragraph 3 to present_ Aa contrasting case.(Ba supporting example.Ca background story.Da related topic.25.What is the author s attitude towards the proposal?ASkeptical.BObjective.CFavourable.DCritical.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！Text 2 Scientific publishing has long been a licence to print money.Scientists need joumals in which to publish their research,so they will supply the articles without monetary reward.Other scientists perform the specialised work of peer review also for free,because it is a central element in the acquisition of status and the production of scientific knowledge.With the content of papers secured for free,the publisher needs only find a market for its journal.Until this century,university libraries were not very price sensitive.Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40%on their operations,at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.The Dutch giant Elsevier,which claims to publish 25%of the scientific papers produced in the world,made profits of more than f900m last year,while UK universities alone spent more than f210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research;both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.The most drastic,and thoroughly illegal,reaction has been the emergence of Sci-Hub,a kind of global photocopier for scientific papers,set up in 2012,which now claims to offer access to every paywalled article published since 2015.The success of Sci-Hub,which relies on researchers passing on copies they have themselves legally accessed,shows the legal ecosystem has lost legitimacy among is users and must be transformed so that it works for all participants.In Britain the move towards open access publishing has been driven by funding bodies.In some ways it has been very successful.More than half of all Brtish scientific 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！ARelieved.BPuzzled.CConcermed.DEncouraged.29.It can be learmned from Paragraphs 5 and 6 that open access terms_ Aallow publishers some room to make money.Brender publishing much easier for scientists.Creduce the cost of publication subtantially Dfree universities from financial burdens.30.Which of the following characteristics the scientific publishing model?_ ATrial subscription is offered.BLabour triumphs over status.CCosts are well controlled.DThe few feed on the many.Text 3 Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field.But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad,to ensure“gender parityon boards and 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！commissions,provide a case in commissions will be required to set aside 50 percent of board seats for women by 2022.The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California,which last year became the irst state to require gender quotas for private companies.In signing the measure,California Govermor Jery Brown admitted that the law,which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex,is probably unconstitutional.The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an“importantpolicy interest,Because the California law applies to all boards,ever where there is no history of prior discrimination,courts are likely to rule that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of“equal protection”.But are such government mandates even necessary?Female participation on corporate boards may not currently mirror the percentage of women.in the general population,but so what?The number of women on corporate boards has been steadily increasing without govenment interference.According to a study by Catalyst,between 2010 and 2015 the share of women on the boards of global corporations increased by 54 percent.Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to less experienced private sector boards.That is exactly what happened when Norway adopted a nationwide corporate gender quota.Writing in The New Republic,Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a“golden skirtphenomenon.where the same elite women scoop up multiple seats on a variety of boards.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity,remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.31.The author believes hat the bills sponsored by Lewis and Haddad will_ A help lttle to reduce gender bias.B pose a threat to the state government.C raise womens position in politics.D greatly broaden career options.32.Which of the following is true of the Califomnia measure?_ A It has irritated private business owners.B It is welcomed by the Supreme Court.CIt may go against the Constitution.D It will setle the prior controversies.33.The author mentions the study by Catalyst to illustrate_ A the harm from arbitrary board decision.B the importance of constitutional guarantees.C the pressure on women in global corporations.D the needlessness of government interventions.34.Norways adoption of a nationwide corporate gender quota has led to_ A the underestimation of elite womens role.B the objection to female participation on bards.C the entry of unqualified candidates into the board.D the growing tension between Labor and management.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！35.Which of the following can be inferred from the text?_ IAI Womens need in employment should be considered B Feasibility should be a prime concern in policymaking.C Everyone should try hard to promote social justice.D Major social issues should be the focus of legislation.Text 4 Last Thursday,the French Senate passed a digital services tax,which would impose an entirely new tax on large multinationals that provide digital services to consumers or users in France.Digital services include everything from providing a platform for selling goods and services online to targeting advertising based on user data and the tax applies to gross revenue from such services.Many French politicians and media outlets have referred to this as a“GAFA tax,meaning that it is designed to apply primarily to companies such as Google,Apple,Facebook and Amazon-in other words,mutinational tech companies based in the United States.The digital services tax now awaits the signature of President Emmanuel Macron,who has expressed support for the measure,and it could go into effect within the next few weeks.But it has already sparked significant controversy,with the Unite States trade representative opening a investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies,which in tum could lead to trade sanctions against France.The French tax is not just a unilateral move by one country in need of revenue.Instead,the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend,with countries 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.These have included Britains DPT(diverted profits tax),Australias MAAL(multinational antiavoidance law),and Indias SEP(significant economic presence)test,to.name but a few.At the same time,the European Union,Spain,Britain and several other countries have all seriously contemplated digital services taxes.These unilateral developments differ in their specifics,but they are all designed to tax multinationals on income and revenue that countries believe they should have a right to tax,even if intermnational tax rules do not grant them that right.In other words,they all share a view that the international tax system has failed to keep up with the current economy.In response to these many unilateral measures,the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD)is currently working with 131 countries to reach a consensus by the end of 2020 on an international solution.Both France and the United States are involved in the organizations work,but Frances digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the interational tax system.Frances planned tax is a clear waning:Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system.other nations are likely to follow suit,and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that will prove burdensome and costly.36.The French Senate has passed a bill to_ A regulate digital services platforms.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源