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1、考研外语专家预测过关卷9一、Use of English1 Venture capital has now become a global phenomenon. Here is the (1) status of each major region that has venture capital activity. (2), the definition of venture capital, (3)coined 50 years ago at Harvard Business School, meant (4) capital for new or very young ventures

2、. Over time, (5), and especially outside the US and Canada, it has become a coverall name for any type of equity related financing for privately held companies. To make matters even more (6), some US venture capital firms have begun delving into “transactional finance more (7) to the investment bank

3、ing community. This is, however, a limited phenomenon. Indeed, the influx of (8) fund money into the venture capital market has been both a curse and a blessing. Firms found themselves battling to place their newly (9) funds with a (10)number of specialized hi-tech firms. The result was a series of

4、losses in the early 1990s.Venture capitalists then became immersed in transactional financing as a result of their (11) in businessthe re-regulation of Europes job market?A.Arbitrary.B. Neutral.C. Compromising.D. Critical.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text?A.Demonstrators are not in

5、 favor of Europes economic liberalization.B.Frances EDF is used to illustrate a result of liberal economies.C. The Europes Unions Barcelona summit is not as productive as expected.D.Europes satellite-positioning system is nowhere near a great success.It can be inferred from the text that Europes que

6、st for more liberal economies may beA.popular and sensible.B.dubious but profitable.C. slow and contradictory.D.fragile but promising.5、We learn from the text that Edward Bannerman is probably.A. an enthusiast in space exploration.B. an advocate of Europes unity and liberalization.C.a pioneer in res

7、earch and development.D. an opponent of the Galileo satellite-positioning system.6、 If the opinion polls are to be believed, most Americans are coming to trust their government more than they used to. The habit has not yet spread widely among American Indians, who suspect an organization which has s

8、o often patronized them, lied to them and defrauded them. But the Indians may soon win a victory in a legal battle that epitomizes those abuses. Elouise Cobell, a banker who also happens to be a member of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, is the leading plaintiff in a massive class-action suit against

9、 the government. At issue is up to $10 billion in trust payments owed to some 500, 000 Indians. The suit revolves around Individual Indian Money (11M) accounts that are administered by the Interior Department s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Back in the 1880s, the government divided more than 11m a

10、cres of tribal land into parcels of 80 to 160 acres that were assigned to individual Indians. Because these parcels were rarely occupied by their new owners, thegovernment assumed responsibility for managing them. As theIndians trustee, it leased the land out for grazing, logging, mining and oil dri

11、lling一but it was supposed to distribute the royalties to the Indian owners.In fact, officials admit that royalties have been lost or stolen. Records were destroyed and the government lost track of which Indians owned what land. The plaintiffs say that money is owing to 500,000 Indians, but even the

12、government accepts a figure of about 300,000. For years, Cobell heard Indians complain of not getting payment from the government for the oil-drilling and ranching leases on their land. But nothing much got done. She returned to Washington and, after a brush-off from government lawyers, filed the su

13、it.Gale Norton, George Bushes interior secretary was charged with contempt in November because her department had failed to fix the problem. In December, Judge Lam berth ordered the interior Department to shut down all its computers for ten weeks because trustfund records were vulnerable to hackers.

14、 The system was partly restored last month and payments to some Indians, which had been interrupted, resumed.And that is not the end of it. Ms. Norton has proposed the creation of a new Bureau of Indian Trust Management, separatefrom the BIA. Indians are cross that she suggested this without consult

15、ing them. Some want the trust funds to be placed in receivership, under a neutral supervisor. Others have called for Congress to establish an independent commission, including Indians, to draw up a plan for reforming the whole system. A messy injustice may at last be getting sorted out.Elouise Cobel

16、l criticized the Interior Department5 s BIA forA. its leasing land out for exploitation.B. its distribution of money collected.C. its supposed misconduct of abuses.D. its reaction to a massive action.When mentioning the government accepts a figure of about 300,000， the writer is trying to illustrate

17、A.lies and defraud to which American Indians are exposed.B. the strong confidence American Indians have in their government.C. doubts about government as shown in the opinion polls.D. the arrogance as displayed by government officials as a whole.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?A

18、.Trust funds have been placed in the hands of American Indians.B.American Indians should become increasingly vocal for justice.C.Payments owed to American Indian have been indefinitely delayed.D. BIA reaped great rewards by deliberately destroying trust-fund records.It seems that the writer is very

19、critical of .A. American Indians in a class-action.B. officials who are in charge of the suit.C.government agencies at all levels.D.those who have the land over-developed.From the text, we can see that the writers overall attitude towards the issue seems to beA. sensitive.B. gloomy.C.optimistic.D. s

20、cared.11 After Los Angeles, Atlanta may be Americas most 14car-dependent city. Atlantans sentimentally give their cars names, compare speeding tickets and jealously guard any sidestreet where it is possible to park. The citys roads are so well worn that the first act of the new mayor, Shirley Frankl

21、in, was to start repairing potholes. In 1998, 13 metro counties lost federal highway funds because their air-pollution levels violated the Clean Air Act. The American Highway Users Alliance ranked three Atlanta interchanges among the 18 worst bottlenecks in the country.Other cities in the same fix h

22、ave reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public-transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlantas metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it ha

23、rd to work together. Railways now serve the city center and the airport, but not much else; bus stops are often near-invisible poles, offering no indication of which bus might stop there, or when.Georgia5 s Democratic governor, Roy Barnes, who hopes for re-election in November, has other plans. To w

24、in back the federal highway money lost under the Clean Air Act, he created the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), a15-member board with the power to make the county governments, the city and the ten-county Atlanta Regional Commission co-operate on transport plans, whether they like it

25、 or not. Now GRTA has issued its own preliminary plan, allocating $4. 5 billion over the next three years for a variety of schemes. The plan earmarks money to widen roads； to have an electric shuttle bus shuttle tourists among the elegant villas of Buckhead; and to create a commuter rail link betwee

26、n Atlanta and Macon, two hours to the south. Counties will be encouraged, with generous tentoone matching funds, to start express bus services.Public goodwill, however, may not stretch as far as the next plan, which is to build the Northern Arc highway for 65 miles across three counties north of the

27、 city limits. GRTA has allotted $270m for this. Supporters say it would ease the congestion on local roads; opponents think it would worsen over-development and traffic. The counties affected, and even GRTAs own board, are divided.The governor is in favor, however; and since he can appoint and fire

28、GRTA S members, that is probably the end of the story. Mr. Barnes has a tendency to do as he wants, regardless. His arrogance on traffic matters could also lose him votes. But Mr. Barnes think that Atlantas slowing economy could do him moreharm than the anti-sprawl movement.The authors presentation

29、of Atlantans car-dependence is meantA. to be ironic.B. to poke fun to them.C. to be fair.D. to make it notorious.Which of the following is not part of the anti-sprawl movement as planned by governor Roy Barnes?A.The construction of a commuter rail link.B.His success in reelection in November.C.The i

30、nitiation of shuttle bus transit.D.The allocation of money to widen roads.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text?A. The federal highway funds were lost under the Clean Air Act.B.The county governments should be cooperative on traffic matters.C.Atlantans must abandon buses and trains and

31、 build more highways.D. Atlanta leaves a bad impression on visitors in terms of itstraffic.It can be learnt from the text that Georgias Governor Roy Barnes .A. is in tyrannous control of the GRTA board.B.cuts an impressive nonconformist image.C. is bound to win the reelection coming up.D. channels p

32、art of funds to his personal assets.In eyes of the writer, the best solution to the traffic problem in Atlanta seems to lie inA. the enforcement of traffic regulations.B. the challenge to Governor Barnes s arrogance.C.the increase of commuter and car taxes.D.the improvement of its public-transport s

33、ystems.16 “Worse than useless, fumed Darrell Issa, a Republican congressman from California, on March 19th, when the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Terrible, and getting worse, /z added Zoe Lofgren, a Demo critic colleague who has kept a watch

34、ful eye on the INS for ten years.Committee members lined up to take swings at James Ziglar, thehead of the INS. He explained, somewhat pathetically, that “outdated procedures had kept the visa-processing wheels grinding slowly through a backlog of applications. He also had some new rules in mind to

35、tighten up visas. Speeding up the paperwork一and getting more of it on to computers一is vital, but the September 11th attacks have exposed the tension between the agencys two jobs: on the one hand enforcing the security of Americas borders, on the other granting privileges such as work permits to fore

36、igners.But other people want more radical changes. James Sensenbrenner, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin, wants to split the INS into two separate bodies, one dealing with border security and the other with handling benefits to immigrants. The other approach, favored in the White House, is to

37、 treat the two functions as complementary, and to give the INS even more responsibility for security. Under that plan, the INS would merge with the Customs Service, which monitors the 20m shipments of goods brought into America every year, as well as the bags carried in by some 500m visitors. The tw

38、o agencies would form, one large body within the Department of Justice, the current home of the INS. This would cut out some of the duplicated effort at borders, where customs officers and agentsacquisitions. Historically, the venture capitalists had sat at the end of the table representing the comp

39、any being (12). At some point, they began to see opportunities in financing such (13) and in other investment banking type activities.In the long (14), however, venture capitalists will back out of investment banking type activities and focus on what they are best at, risking capital investments in

40、(15)companies. What is required to place their capital and still realize their (16)is a ramp up in staff. In the 1980s, many of the firms were quite small and (17)on specific areas of technology where they had in (18)knowledge. In the 1990s the successful firms have (19) management staff, (20) into

41、more than one area of technology, and outsourced more of their technological analysis to very specialized experts.A. monetaryB.currentC.dominantD. alien2、A. HistoricallyB. SimultaneouslyC. Momentarily from the INS s Border Patrol often rub shoulders but do not work together.Mr. Bush一who has said tha

42、t the news of the visa approvals left him “plenty hot”was expected to give his approval. The senate, however, may not be quite so keen. The Justice Department could have trouble handling such a merger, let alone taking on the considerable economic responsibilities of the Customs Service, which is cu

43、rrently part of the Treasury.The senate prefers yet another set of security recommendations, including links between the databases of different agencies that hold security and immigration information, and scanners at ports of entry to check biometric data recorded on immigration documents. These ide

44、as are embodied in a bill sponsored by members of both parties, but are currently held up by Robert Byrd, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who worries that there has not been enough debate on the subject. Mr. Ziglar, poor chap, may feel there has been more than enough.We can lear

45、n from the first paragraph that INS.A. will be subjected to strong criticisms.B. has become the public laughing stock.C. will take up economic responsibilities.D. has won the support from Mr. Bush.Besides dealing with border security, INS alsoA.keeps a watchful eye on itself.B. grants privileges to

46、immigrants.C. monitors shipments of goods.D. takes advantage of computers.The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee will leave the issue of INS unsettled becauseA. the exclusive responsibility of INS is for border security.B. he figured out some new rules in mind to tight up visas.C. suffi

47、cient debate is anxiously required for a final solution.D. most congressmen hold unfavorable opinions on INS.Suggestions have been raised on the issue of INS exceptA.charges launched against its head.B. its merging with the Customs Service.C.other security recommendations.D. its separation into two

48、bodies.20、Which of the following would be the best title for this passage? A.A Redundant Agency to be Split.B. Upset with the INS?一No.C. Merging INS with Customs?D.Inept INS一under Fire.21 Part B (10 points)You are going to read a text about the approaches to creating championship, followed by a list of examples. Choose the best example.(41) What do you need in order to be a record breaker?Sports experts agree that the single most important factor in creating a champion is genetic make-up, the possession of genes that impart an innate ability to stride leap, burn energy efficien