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1、2 0 1 2年M B A英 语 真 题 及 答 案 解 析Section I Use of EnglishDirections：Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered black and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)Millions of Americans and foreigners see.Joe as a mindless war toy,the symbol of American military adventurism,but

2、that s not how it used to be.To the men and women who 1 in World War II and the people they liberated,the.was the 2 man grown into hero,the pool farm kid torn away from his home,the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle,who slept in cold foxholes,who went without the 4 of food and shelter,who stuck it

3、 out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder.This was not a volunteer soldier,not someone well paid,5 an average guy,up 6 the best trained,best equipped,fiercest,most brutal enemies seen in centuries.His name is not.is just a military abbreviation 7 Government Issue,and it was on all of the article

4、8 to soldiers.And Joe?A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top.Joe Blow,Joe Magrac a working class name.The United States has 10 had a president or vicepresident or secretary of state Joe.joe had a 11 career fighting German,Japanese,and Korean troops.He appers as a character,or a 12 of amer

5、ican personalities,in the 1945 movie The Story of.Joe,based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle.Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayde themselves in the film.Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the warl,writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers,not how many miles were 15 or w

6、hat towns were captured or liberated,His reports 16 the“willie”cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden.Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war,the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians:coffee,tobacco,whiskey,shelter,sleep.19 Egypt,France,and

7、 a dozen more countries,.Joe was any American soldier,20 the most important person intheir lives.1.A performed Bserved Crebelled Dbetrayed2.A actual Bcommon Cspecial Dnormal3.Abore Bcased Cremoved Dloaded4.Anecessities Bfacilitice Ccommodities Dpropertoes5.Aand Bnor Cbut Dhence6.Afor Binto C form Da

8、gainst7.Ameaning Bimplying Csymbolizing Dclaiming8.Ahanded out Bturn over Cbrought back Dpassed down9.Apushed Bgot Cmade Dmanaged10.Aever Bnever Ceither Dneither11.Adisguised Bdisturbed Cdisputed Ddistinguished12.Acompany Bcollection Ccommunity Dcolony13.Aemployed Bappointed Cinterviewed Dquestioned

9、14.Aethical Bmilitary Cpolitical Dhuman15.Aruined Bcommuted Cpatrolled Dgained16.Aparalleled Bcounteracted Cduplicated Dcontradicte17.Aneglected Bavoided Cemphasized Dadmired18.Astages Billusions Cfragments Dadvancea19.AWith BTo CAmong DBeyond20.Aon the contrary B by this means Cfrom the outset Dat

10、that point完形填空参考答案15 BBAAC 610 DCACB 1115 DBCDD 1620 ACCBDSection 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.(40points)Text 1 s academic grade.This rule is meant to address t

11、he difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework.But the policy is unclear and contradictory.Certainly,no homework should be assigned that students cannot do without expensive equipment.But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students

12、 who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives,it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling:teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want.But

13、with homework counting for no more than 10%of their grades,students can easily skip half their homework and see vey little difference on their 和大学工作这些人才是诸如英国加拿大和澳大利亚等国期望吸引到的类型这些国家通常制定吸引大学毕业生的移民政民者受教育程度在高中以上而相比之下整个印度超过岁的居民中只有大约的人受过高中以上的教育程度这样的人才流以在本国的大学教书在医院工作以及为本国工厂开发新型产品某公司员工工作满意度调查满意度满意不清楚不满意年repo

14、rt cards.Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework,but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework?It is quite possible that the homework helped.Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students,the po

15、licy imposes a flat,across-the-board rule.At the same time,the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework.If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students academic achievement,it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments,not make them count for almost

16、 nothing.Conversely,if homework matters,it should account for asignificant portion of the,this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful oraooropriate to theirage and the that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.The homewor

17、k rules should be put on hold while the school board,which is responsible for setting educational policy,looks into the matter and conducts public hearings.It is not too late for.Unified to do homework right.is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_.A is receiving more criticism Bis no longe

18、r an educational ritual Cis not required for advanced courses Dis gaining more preferences Atend to have moderate expectations for their education Bhave asked for a different educational standard Cmay have problems finishing their homework Dhave voiced their complaints about homework23.According to

19、Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may_.Adiscourage students from doing homework Bresult in students indifference to their report cards Cundermine the authority of state tests Drestrict teachers power in education24.As mentioned in Paragraph 4,a key question unanswered about homework

20、 is whether_.A it should be eliminated Bit counts much in schooling Cit places extra burdens on teachers和大学工作这些人才是诸如英国加拿大和澳大利亚等国期望吸引到的类型这些国家通常制定吸引大学毕业生的移民政民者受教育程度在高中以上而相比之下整个印度超过岁的居民中只有大约的人受过高中以上的教育程度这样的人才流以在本国的大学教书在医院工作以及为本国工厂开发新型产品某公司员工工作满意度调查满意度满意不清楚不满意年 Dit is important for grades suitable title

21、 for this text could be_.AWrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy BA Welcomed Policy for Poor Students CThorny Questions about Homework DA Faulty Approach to Homework参考答案2125 ACABD Text 2 Pretty in pink:adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour,yet it is pervasive in our yo

22、ung girls lives.It is not that pink is intrinsically bad,but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and,though it may celebrate girlhood in one way,it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls identity to appearance.Then it presents that connection,even among two-year-olds,between girls as not only inn

23、ocent but as evidence of innocence.Looking around,I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls lives and interests.Girls attraction to pink may seem unavoidable,somehow encoded in their DNA,but according to Jo Paoletti,an associate professor of American Studies,it is not.Children were

24、 not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century:in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter,since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.Whats more,both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.When nursery c

25、olours were introduced,pink was actually considered the more masculine colour,a pastel version of red,which was associated with strength.Blue,with its intimations of the Virgin Mary,constancy and faithfulness,symbolised femininity.It was not until the mid-1980s,when amplifying age and sex difference

26、s became a dominant children s marketing strategy,that pink fully came into its own,when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls,part of what defined them as female,at least for the first few critical years.I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is

27、 natural to kids,including our core beliefs about their psychological development.Take the toddler.I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children s behaviour:wrong.Turns out,according to Daniel Cook,a historian of childhood consumerism,it was popularised a

28、s a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.Trade publications counselled department stores that,in order to increase sales,they should create a“third stepping,stone”between infant wear and older kids clothes.It was only after“toddler”became a common shoppers term that it evolved into

29、 a broadly accepted developmental 和大学工作这些人才是诸如英国加拿大和澳大利亚等国期望吸引到的类型这些国家通常制定吸引大学毕业生的移民政民者受教育程度在高中以上而相比之下整个印度超过岁的居民中只有大约的人受过高中以上的教育程度这样的人才流以在本国的大学教书在医院工作以及为本国工厂开发新型产品某公司员工工作满意度调查满意度满意不清楚不满意年stage.Splitting kids,or adults,into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits.And one of

30、 the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences-or invent them where they did not previously exist.saying it is.the rainbow(Line 3,the author means pink_.Ashould not be the sole representation of girlhoodBshould not be associated with girls innocenceCcannot explain girls lack

31、of imaginationDcannot influence girls lives and interests to Paragraph 2,which of the following is true of colours？AColours are encoded in girls DNA.BBlue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.CPink used to be a neutral colour in symbolising genders.DWhite is prefered by babies.author suggests

32、 that our perception of childrens psychological development was much influenced by_.Athe marketing of products for childrenBthe observation of childrens natureCresearches into childrens behaviorDstudies of childhood consumption may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to_.Afocu

33、s on infant wear and older kids clothesBattach equal importance to different gendersCclassify consumers into smaller groupsDcreate some common shoppers terms can be concluded that girls attraction to pink seems to be_.A clearly explained by their inborn tendencyBfully understood by clothing manufact

34、urersC mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmenDwell interpreted by psychological experts参考答案和大学工作这些人才是诸如英国加拿大和澳大利亚等国期望吸引到的类型这些国家通常制定吸引大学毕业生的移民政民者受教育程度在高中以上而相比之下整个印度超过岁的居民中只有大约的人受过高中以上的教育程度这样的人才流以在本国的大学教书在医院工作以及为本国工厂开发新型产品某公司员工工作满意度调查满意度满意不清楚不满意年2630 ABACC Text 3In 2010,a federal judge shook Amer

35、icas biotech industry to its core.Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades-by 2005 some 20%of human genes were parented.But in March 2010 a judge ruled that genes were unpatentable.Executives were violently agitated.The Biotechnology Industry Organisation(BIO),a trade group,assured mem

36、bers that this was just a“preliminary step”in a longer battle.On July 29th they were relieved,at least temporarily.A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision,ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a womans risk of breast cancer.The chief exec

37、utive of Myriad,a company in Utah,said the ruling was a blessing to firms and patients alike.But as companies continue their attempts at personalised medicine,the courts will remain rather busy.The Myriad case itself is probably not over Critics make three main arguments against gene patents:a gene

38、is a product of nature,so it may not be patented;gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it;and patents monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriads.A growing number seem to agree.Last year a federal task-force urged reform for patents related to genetic tests.In October t

39、he Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case,arguing that an isolated DNA molecule“is no less a product of nature.than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds.”Despite the appeals courts decision,big questions remain unanswered.For example,it is unclear whether the

40、sequencing of a whole genome violates the patents of individual genes within it.The case may yet reach the Supreme Court.As the industry advances,however,other suits may have an even greater impact.Companies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA molecules-most are already patented or

41、in the public domain.firms are now studying how genes interact,looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug s efficacy,companies are eager to win patents for“connecting the dots,”explains Hans Sauer,a lawyer for the BIO.Their success may be determi

42、ned by a suit related to this issue,brought by the Mayo Clinic,which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term.The BIO recently held a convention which included sessions to coach lawyers on the shifting landscape for patents.Each meeting was packed.31.It can be learned from Paragraph 1 that the b

43、iotech companies would like .A their executives to be activeB judges to rule out gene patentingC genes to be patentable和大学工作这些人才是诸如英国加拿大和澳大利亚等国期望吸引到的类型这些国家通常制定吸引大学毕业生的移民政民者受教育程度在高中以上而相比之下整个印度超过岁的居民中只有大约的人受过高中以上的教育程度这样的人才流以在本国的大学教书在医院工作以及为本国工厂开发新型产品某公司员工工作满意度调查满意度满意不清楚不满意年D the BIO to issue a warning

44、 who are against gene patents believe that .A genetic tests are not reliableB only man-made products are patentableC patents on genes depend much on innovationD courts should restrict access to gene tic tests33.According to Hans Sauer,companies are eager to win patents for .A establishing disease co

45、rrelationsB discovering gene interactionsC drawing pictures of genesD identifying human DNA34.By saying“each meeting was packed”(Line4,the author means that .A the supreme court was authoritativeB the BIO was a powerful organizationC gene patenting was a great concernD lawyers were keen to attend co

46、nventions35.Generally speaking,the author s attitude toward gene patenting is .A criticalB supportiveC scornfulD objective参考答案3135 CBBCDThe great recession may be over,but this era of high joblessness is probably beginning.Before it ends,it will likely change the life course and character of a gener

47、ation of young adults.And ultimately,it is likely to reshape our politics,our culture,and the character of our society for years.No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster.Many said that unemployment,while extremely painful,had improved them in som

48、e ways;they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent;they were more aware of the struggles of others.In limited respects,perhaps the recession will leave society better off.At the very 和大学工作这些人才是诸如英国加拿大和澳大利亚等国期望吸引到的类型这些国家通常制定吸引大学毕业生的移民政民者受教育程度在高中以上而相比之下整个印度超过岁的居民中只有大约的人受过高中以上的教育程度这

49、样的人才流以在本国的大学教书在医院工作以及为本国工厂开发新型产品某公司员工工作满意度调查满意度满意不清楚不满意年last,it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses,and put a necessary end to an ear of reckless personal spending.But for the most part,these benefits seem thin,uncertain,and far off.In The Moral Consequences

50、of Economic Growth,the economic historian Benjamin Friedman argues that both inside and outside the.,lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spirited and less inclusive,and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms.Anti-im