2013年考研英语二真题及答案.pdf
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1、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!2013 全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语二试题 MBA,MPA,MPAcc 专业硕士统一考试 Section I Use of English Directions: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)(本题答案在题号后)Given the advantage of electronic money,
2、you might think that we should move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically._1 However,a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.Indeed,predictions have been 2around_ for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.For example,Business Week pre
3、dicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment“would soon revolutionize the very 3.concept of money itself,”only to 4.reverse itself several years later.Why has the movement to a cashless society been so 5.slow in coming?Although e-money might be more convenient and may be more efficient than a pay
4、ments system based on paper,several factors work 6.against the disappearance of the paper system.First,it is very 7.expensive to set up the computer,card reader,and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the 8.dominant form of payment.Second,electronic means of payment 14.rai
5、se security and privacy concerns.We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information 15.stored there.Because this is not an 16.uncommon occurrence,unscrupulous persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payment
6、s systems and 17.steal funds by moving them from someone elses accounts into their own.The 18.prevention of this type of fraud is no easy task,and a whole new field of computer science has developed to 19.cope with security issues.A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leav
7、es an electronic 20.trail that contains a large amount of personal data on buying habits.1.A However B Moreover C Therefore D Otherwise 2.A off B back C over D around 3.A power B concept C history D role 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!4.A reward B resist C resume D reverse 5.A silent
8、 B sudden C slow D steady 6.A for B against Cwith D on 7.A imaginative B expensive C sensitive D productive 8.A similar B original C temporary D dominant 9.A collect B provide C copy D print 10.A give up B take over C bring back D pass down 11.A before B after C since D when 12.A kept B borrowed C r
9、eleased D withdrawn 13.A Unless B Until C Because D Though 14.A hide B express C raise Dease 15.A analyzed B shared C stored D displayed 16.A unsafe B unnatural C uncommon D unclear 17.A steal B choose C benefit D return 18.A consideration B prevention C manipulation D justification 19.A cope with B
10、 fight against C adapt to D call for 20.A chunk B chip C path D trail Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions:Read the following four texts.Answer the questions after each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)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
11、质的文档!Text 1 In an essay,entitled“Making It in America,”in the latest issue of The Atlantic,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed
12、the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidsons article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in dema
13、nd because of the Great Recession,but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job,could earn a
14、n average lifestyle.But,today,average is officially over.Being average just wont earn you what it used to.It cant when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone
15、needs to find their extra their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Average is over.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.As they say,if horses could have voted,there never would have been cars.But theres been an acce
16、leration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs about 6 million in total disappeared.”And you aint seen nothin yet.Last April,Annie Lowrey of
17、 Slate wrote about a start-up called“E la Carte”that is out to shrink the need for waiters and waitresses:The company“has produced a kind of souped-up iPad that lets you order and pay right at your table.The brainchild of a bunch of M.I.T.engineers,the nifty invention,known as the Presto,might be fo
18、und at a restaurant near you soon.You select what you want to eat and add items to a cart.Depending on the restaurants preferences,the console could show you nutritional information,ingredients lists and photographs.You can make special requests,like dressing on the side or quintuple bacon.When your
19、e done,the order zings over to the kitchen,and the Presto tells you how long it will take for your items to come out.Bored with your companions?Play games on the machine.When youre through with your meal,you pay on the console,splitting the bill item by item if you wish and paying however you want.A
20、nd you can have your receipt e-mailed to you.Each 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!console goes for$100 per month.If a restaurant serves meals eight hours a day,seven days a week,it works out to 42 cents per hour per table making the Presto cheaper than even the very cheapest waiter.”W
21、hat the iPad wont do in an above average way a Chinese worker will.Consider this paragraph from Sundays terrific article in The Times by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher about why Apple does so much of its manufacturing in China:“Apple had redesigned the iPhones screen at the last minute,forcing an
22、 assembly-line overhaul.New screens began arriving at the Chinese plant near midnight.A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the companys dormitories,according to the executive.Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea,guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-
23、hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames.Within 96 hours,the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,the executive said.Theres no American plant that can match that.”And automation is not just coming to manufacturing,explains Curtis Carlson
24、,the chief executive of SRI International,a Silicon Valley idea lab that invented the Apple iPhone program known as Siri,the digital personal assistant.“Siri is the beginning of a huge transformation in how we interact with banks,insurance companies,retail stores,health care providers,information re
25、trieval services and product services.”There will always be change new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above ave
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