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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2011年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语(二)试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech. But that ver

2、y anonymity is also behind the exploration of cyber-crime that has _1_ across the Web.Can privacy be preserved _2_ bringing safety and security to a world that seems increasingly _3_ ?Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nations cyber-czar, offered the federal government a _4_ to make the web a safer pla

3、ce-a voluntary trusted identity system that would be the high-tech _5_ of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled _6_ one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential _7_ to a specific computer, and would authenticate users at a range of online services.

4、The idea is to _8_ a federation of private online identity systems. Users could _9_ which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems. The approach contrasts with one that would require an Internet drivers license _10_ by the govern

5、ment.Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these single sign-an systems that make it possible for users to _11_ just once but use many different services. _12_ , the approach would create a walled garden in cyberspace, with safe neighborhoods and bright streetlights to establish

6、 a sense of a _13_ community.Mr. Schmidt described it as a voluntary ecosystem in which individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with _14_ , trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure _15_ which the transaction runs. Still, the administration

7、s plan has _16_ privacy rights activists. Some applaud the approach; others are concerned. It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would _17_ be a compulsory Internet drivers license mentality.The plan has also been greeted with _18_ by some computer security experts, who

8、 worry that the voluntary ecosystem envisioned by Mr. Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet _19_ They argue that all Internet users should be _20_ to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads.1. A swept B skipped C walked D ridd

9、en2. A for B within C while D though3. A careless B lawless C pointless D helpless4. A reason B reminder C compromiseD proposal5. A information B interferenceC entertainment D equivalent6. A by B into C from D over7. A linked B directed C chained D compared8. A dismiss B discover C create D improve9

10、. A recall B suggest C select D realize10. A releasedB issued C distributedD delivered11. A carry onB linger on C set in D log in12. A In vain B In effect C In return D In contrast13. A trusted B modernizedC thriving D competing14. A caution B delight C confidenceD patience15. A on B after C beyond

11、D across16. A divided B disappointedC protected D united17. A frequently B incidentallyC occasionally D eventually18. A skepticism B tolerance C indifferenceD enthusiasm19. A manageable B defendableC vulnerableD invisible20. A invited B appointed C allowed D forcedSection II Reading ComprehensionPar

12、t ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs board as an outside director in January 2000; a year later she became president of Brown University. For

13、 the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism. But by the end of 2009 Mrs. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldmans compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February the next year Mrs. Simmo

14、ns had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time, she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firms board. Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief

15、 executives proposals. If the sky, and the share price, is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10,000 firms and more than 64,000 different directors between 198

16、9 and 2004. Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next. The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those surprise disappearances by directors under the age of 70. They found that after a surprise departure, the p

17、robability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%. The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse. The effect tended to be larger for larger firms. Although a correlation between th

18、em leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship. Often they trade up, leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researches believe that outside directors have an easier time

19、of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news break, even if a review of history shows that they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred. Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives. Otherwise outside d

20、irectors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus.21. According to Paragraph 1, Ms. Simmons was criticized for _.A gaining excessive profitsB failing to fulfill her dutyC refusing to make compromisesD leaving the board in tough times22. We learn from Paragraph 2 that

21、 outside directors are supposed to be _.A generous investorsB unbiased executivesC share price forecastersD independent advisers23. According to the researchers from Ohio University, after an outside director s surprisedeparture, the firm is likely to _.A become more stableB report increased earning

22、sC do less well in the stock marketD perform worse in lawsuits24. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors _.A may stay for the attractive offers from the firmB have often had records of wrongdoings in the firmC are accustomed to stress -free work in the firmD will decline i

23、ncentives from the firm25. The author s attitude toward the role of outside directors is _.A permissive B positiveC scornful D criticalText 2Whatever happened to the death of newspapers? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not alrea

24、dy fled to the internet. Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom. Americas Federal Trade Commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers. Should they become charitable corporations? Should the state subsidize them? It will hold another meeting so

25、on. But the discussions now seem out of date.In much of the world there is little sign of crisis. German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession. Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled comer of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

26、Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.It has not been much fun. Many papers stayed afloat by pushing journalists overboard. The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13,500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007. Readers are paying more for slimmer

27、 products. Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs. Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses, with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and adv

28、ertisers. American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads. Fully 87% of their revenues came from advertising in 2008, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). In Japan the proportion is 35%. Not surprisingly, Japanese newspapers are much mor

29、e stable.The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody, but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspapers are least distinctive. Car and film reviewers have gone. So have science and general business reporters. Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off. Newspapers

30、 are less complete as a result. But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.26. By saying Newspapers liketheir own doom(Line 3, Para. 1), the author indicates that newspapers _.A neglected the sign of crisis B failed to get state subsidiesC were not charitable corporations D wer

31、e in a desperate situation27. Some newspapers refused delivery to distant suburbs probably because _.A readers threatened to pay lessB newspapers wanted to reduce costsC journalists reported little about these areasD subscribers complained about slimmer products28. Compared with their American count

32、erparts, Japanese newspapers are much more stable because they _.A have more sources of revenue B have more balanced newsroomsC are less dependent on advertising D are less affected by readership29. What can be inferred from the last paragraph about the current newspaper business?A Distinctiveness i

33、s an essential feature of newspapers.B Completeness is to blame for the failure of newspaper.C Foreign bureaus play a crucial role in the newspaper business.D Readers have lost their interest in car and film reviews.30. The most appropriate title for this text would be _.A American Newspapers: Strug

34、gling for SurvivalB American Newspapers: Gone with the windC American Newspapers: A Thriving BusinessD American Newspapers: A Hopeless StoryText 3We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War 11 as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going

35、 off to college on the G. I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the

36、postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase less is more was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associate

37、d with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so than Mies.Mies signature phrase means that less decora

38、tion, properly organized, has more impact than a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood - materials that we take for granted today but that in the1940s symbolized the future. Miess sophisticated presentatio

39、n masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicagos Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller - two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet - than those in their older neighbors along the

40、citys Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward less was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Llo

41、yd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses - usually around 1,200 square feet - than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The Case Study Houses commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture magazine bet

42、ween 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the less is more trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life - few America

43、n families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers - but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.31. The postwar American housing style largely reflected the Americans _.A prosperity and growth B efficiency and practicalityC restra

44、int and confidence D pride and faithfulness32. Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about the Bauhaus?A It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.B Its designing concept was affected by World War I1.C Most American architects used to be associated with it.D It had a great influen

45、ce upon American architecture.33. Mies held that elegance of architectural design _.A was related to large spaceB was identified with emptinessC was not reliant on abundant decorationD was not associated with efficiency34. What is true about the apartments Mies built on Chicagos Lake Shore Drive?A T

46、hey ignored details and proportions.B They were built with materials popular at that time.C They were more spacious than neighboring buildings.D They shared some characteristics of abstract art.35. What can we learn about the design of the Case Study Houses ?A Mechanical devices were widely used.B Natural scenes were taken into account.C Details were sacrificed for the overall effect.D Eco-friendly materials were employed.Text 4Will the European Union make it? The question would have