2020年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题B卷.doc

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1、2020年广西民族大学基础英语考研真题B卷1.Some infectious diseases, such as AIDS, take a heavy_on human immunity.A. impactB. lossC. tollD. casualty2.Because of poor grammar, some sentences in research papers by Chinese students seem_to the reviewers.A. incomprehensibleB. inedibleC. inestimableD. irreplaceable3.Almost

2、each college student is equipped with a cell phone, laptop and other electronic_.A. galaxiesB. ornamentsC. utensilsD. gadgets4.Running for president is _ demanding , emotionally draining, and physically taxing.A. incoherentlyB. intellectuallyC. intimatelyD. invalidly5. Over a very large number of tr

3、ials, the probability of an eventisequaltotheprobability that it will not occur.A. occurringB. occurredC. occursD. occur6.State leaders of each generation have to think about how to _complicated economic issues.A. adoreB. assembleC. addressD. alienate7.In 2008, Sarkozy threatened to boycott the Olym

4、pic Games in Beijing, _kowtow shortly afterwards by promising never to interfere with Chinas affairs.A. only toB. so as toC. as toD. prior to8.New methods of irrigation can reduce water consumption by roughly 30%_conventional systems.A. but forB. compared withC. related toD. other than9.As long as y

5、ou are pursuing your dream, your efforts will eventually _.A. wear offB. pay offC. ward offD. turn off10. The younger you begin _, the easier it is to remain physically active throughout your life.A. setting outB .figuring outC. running outD. working out11. The Maori people are natives of_.A. Austra

6、liaB. CanadaC. IrelandD. New Zealand12.The British monarch is the Head of_.A. ParliamentB. StateC. GovernmentD. Cabinet13.Americans celebrate Independence Day on_.A. July 4thB. October 11thC. May 31stD. September 6th14.Canada is bounded on the north by_.A. the Pacific OceanB. the Atlantic OceanC. th

7、e Arctic OceanD. the Great Lakes15.Who is the author of The Waste Lana?A. George Bernard Shaw.B. W.B. Yeats.C. Dylan Thomas.D. T.S. Eliot.16.Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?A. William Faulkner.B. Ernest Hemingway.C. Scott Fitzgerald.D. John Steinbeck.17.The lettuce was

8、lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company is an exampleof_.A. exaggerationB. understatementC. personificationD. synecdoche18.In English if a word begins with a l or a r, then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a (n)_.A. assimilation ruleB. sequential ruleC. deletion ruleD. grammar rule1

9、9. Which of the following is an example of clipping?A.APEC.B.Motel.C.Xerox.D.Disco.20.The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of situation is called_.A. registerB. dialectC. slangD. varietyII. ClozeDirections: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. 15 Choice

10、s marked from A to O are provided .You should choose 10 suitable answers for these 10 blanks.（共 10 小题，每小题 2 分，共 20 分）Americas most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yetto set out

11、 plans for a pay wall around its digital offering,21the accepted practice that internet users will not pay for news. Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered”model at the beginning of 2011. Readers w

12、ill be required to pay when they have22aset number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper onthe charging side of an23wide chasm ( 鸿沟） in the media industry. But others,including the Guardian, have said they will not24internet readers. The New YorkTimes publish

13、er, Arthur Sulzberger,25that the move is a gamble. Boasting a print2.of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays. The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, the New York Times is amo

14、ng the few that can claim3.scopeas well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But like many in the publishing industry,the paper is in the grip of a28financial crisis. Its parent company, the New YorkTimes Company, has 15

15、 papers, but29a loss of $70 million in the nine months toSeptember and recently accepted a $250 million30from a Mexican billionaire, CarlosSlim, to strengthen its balance sheet.A.nationalB.interactivelyC.circulationD.loanE.crudeF.exceededG.chargeH.ascendI.abandoningJ.sufferedK.seriousL.deductingM.in

16、creasinglyN.evaluationO.acknowledgedIII. Reading ComprehensionDirections: There are 4 passages in this part. After each passage, there are 5 questions. For each question there are four choices marked A，B，C and D . Please choose the most suitable answer for each question. （共 20 小题，每小题4分，共80分）Passage

17、OneA year ago, my boss announced that our large New York ad agency would be moving to an open office. After nine years as a senior writer, I was forced to trade in my private office for a seat at a long, shared table. It felt like my boss had ripped off my clothes and left me standing in my underwea

18、r.However, about 70 percent of U.S. offices now have no or low partitions. Silicon Valley has been the leader in bringing down the dividers. Google, Yahoo and American Express are all adherents. Facebook designed the largest open floor plan in the world, housing nearly 3,000 engineers.These new floo

19、r plans are ideal for maximizing a companys space while minimizing costs. Bosses love the ability to keep a closer eye on their employees, ensuring movie-watching, constant social media-browsing and unlimited personal cellphone use isnt occupying billing hours.While employees feel like theyre part o

20、f a relaxed, innovative enterprise, the environment ultimately damages workers attention spans, creativity and satisfaction. Furthermore, a sense of privacy boosts job performance, while the opposite can cause feeling of helplessness. In addition to the distractions, my colleagues and I have been mo

21、re vulnerable to illness. Last flu season took down a succession of my co-workers like dominoes.As the new space intended, Ive formed interesting, unexpected bonds with my colleagues. But my personal performance at work has hit an all-time low. Each day, my associates and I are seated at a table sta

22、ring at each other, having an ongoing 12-person conversation from 9 am to 5 pm those who have worked in private offices for decades have proven to be the most noisy and tough. They havent had to consider how their loud habits affect others, so I can only work effectively during times when no one els

23、e is around, or if I isolate myself in one of the small, constantly sought-after, glass-windowed meeting rooms.To make the open-office model work, employers have to take measures to improve work efficiency. For one, they should create more private areas-ones without open windows. Also,they should im

24、plement rules on when interaction should be limited. And please, lets eliminate the music that blankets our workspaces. Companies could simply join another trend-allowing employees to work from home. That model boosts productivity, withemployees working more hours and taking fewer breaks. There are

25、fewer interruptions when employees work remotely. At home, my greatest distraction is the refrigerator.1.Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs?A.The author enjoyed working in an open office.B.This open-office model has gained popularity.C.Companies are compelled to shi

26、ft to an open office.D.Google and Yahoo refuse to go along with the trend.2.Large open floor plans can help bosses to _.A.reduce investment in researchB.show movies to workers in the officeC.supervise co-workers conversationsD.restrict the use of personal cell phones3.According to Paragraph 4, an op

27、en office _.A.can benefit workers mental healthB.brings no relaxation to workers at allC.adversely affects productivity and healthD.contribute to better productivity4.It can be concluded from Paragraph 5 that in an open office _.A.fellow workers are likely to spend a long time talkingB.ones personal

28、 performance can be improved easilyC.work efficiency can be ensured amid frequent interactionD.most of the workers can easily become close friends5.The last sentence of this passage suggests that the author_.A.can hardly concentrate on his work at homeB. often suffers from the noise of the refrigera

29、torC. works more efficiently at home than in the open officeD. has nobody to talk to while working at homePassage TwoThe mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has spread to 22 countries in the Americas, is terrifying to pregnant women and their partners. The virus may cause birth defects in babies whose

30、mothers were infected during pregnancy. In Brazil more than 4,000 have been born with abnormally small heads since last October, compared with fewer than 200 in a typical year. The response of several governments has triggered a debate about abortion and birth control which may outlast the outbreak

31、itself.It started after some governments advised women to delay getting pregnant. Colombia, which has the second-highest number of infections after Brazil, advised women to wait six to eight months. Jamaica issued a similar recommendation, even though no cases of Zika have yet been reported there. E

32、l Salvadors government suggested that women should delay pregnancy until 2018. Panama warned women from vulnerable communities not to conceive.Some women find this advice rather bossy. Others say that governments have done little to help women control their fertility. A lobby group in New York notes

33、 that rates of teenage pregnancy in Latin America are among the worlds highest, as 56% of pregnancies in Latin America and the Caribbean are unintended.Rates of accidental pregnancy are high because sex education is inadequate and birth control is hard to come by. Health workers are reluctant to pre

34、scribe contraceptives to teenagers or to women who have not yet given birth. If women are to avoid pregnancy, governments must inform them better and provide more access to contraception for both men and women.Some argue that the Zika crisis should prompt countries to liberalize policies that severe

35、ly restrict abortion. In El Salvador, which does not allow abortion even if a womans life is at risk, activists are stepping up their campaign for a change in the law. A Brazilian newspaper argued that Brazil should end its ban on most abortions.Rather than calling on women to delay pregnancy, Brazi

36、l is sensibly concentrating its efforts on the mosquito responsible, which also carries dengue and yellow fever. The country had stamped out the threat by 1958 but let down its guard and allowed it to return. The health minister announced that insect repellent will be distributed to 400,000 expectan

37、t mothers. Some 310,000 health workers are teaching people how to keep mosquitoes at bay. Following WHO guidelines, Brazil advises women contemplating pregnancy on how to avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes. Women need facts, not fertility targets.1.The first paragraph is primarily concerned with _.A

38、.the harm done by the Zika virusB.abortion and birth controlC.the response of some countries D. the origin of the Zika virus2.The rate of infections with the Zika virus is the highest in _.A. ColombiaB. BrazilC. JamaicaD. Panama3.Rates of accidental pregnancy are high in Latin America because of the

39、 following except_.A.insufficient sex education or information on pregnancyB.the reluctance to prescribe contraceptives to teenagersC.poor accessibility of birth control for men and womenD.the extremely low rate of marriage in some countries4.Which of the following is true according to this passage?

40、A.Abortion is strictly prohibited in the whole of Latin America.B.Activists in El Salvador are fighting for the right to abortion.C.Brazil has managed to eliminate the mosquito responsible.D.Most women have been convinced of the advice by governments.5.The underlined words in the last paragraph prob

41、ably mean _.A.stay away from mosquitoesB.try to make mosquitoes extinctC.confine mosquitoes to the beachD.culture some new mosquitoesPassage threeAfter a jury convicted ex-Virginia Governor, Bob McDonnell, I wrote an op-ed calling attention to the “real stars” of the McDonnell case. It is easy to ge

42、t distracted by the sensational details of the new case, but it would be better to focus on the big picture. American politicians face a harsh reality. The average Senate campaign costs more than $10 million! Point the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) at any elected official, and I suspect it c

43、an uncover a contributor who received special treatment: a meeting with staff here, a call to an agency there. None of it is necessarily illegal.Americans are not only allowed to give money to politicians. The Supreme Court has said they have a constitutional right to spend money on campaign. Electe

44、d officials, in turn, have the freedom to decide which calls they answer, what meetings they arrange, how to craft legislation and whom it benefits.It could be, then, that what set McDonnell apart from other politicians is not the alleged illegality of his conduct, but that the FBI took such a hard

45、look at him. Thankfully, the FBIs interest doesnt appear to be political. More likely, agents became interested in these cases like they get interested in lots of things; they happened upon public corruption while looking into something else. The FBI reportedly was investigating Jonnie Williams comp

46、any for securities fraud when it stumbled upon his gifts to McDonnell.There are two important lessons here, one for politicians and one for the rest of us. The politicians need to distance themselves from their rich donors. Ethics aside, it is simply too risky to take contributions and gifts from pe

47、ople whose interests you intend to advance. Better to lose an election than to go to federal prison.Everyone else should start thinking about prosecutorial power to act. Its bad enough that our political system seems to be populated with criminals. We should also worry about how prosecutors choose amon