1、MBA 联考英语-16 及答案解析(总分：105.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Vocabulary(总题数：1，分数：10.00)The task of being accepted and enrolled in a university begins early for some students. Long (1) they graduate from high school. These students take special (2) to prepare for advanced study. They may also take one of more ex
2、aminations that test how (3) prepared they are for the university. In the final year of high school, they (4) applications and send them, with their student records, to the universities which they hope to (5) . Some high school students may be (6) to have an interview with representatives of the uni
3、versity. Neatly, (7) and usually very frightened, they are (8) to show that they have a good attitude and the (9) to succeed.When the new students are finally (10) , there may be one more step they have to (11) before registering for classes and (12) to work. Many colleges and universities (13) an o
4、rientation program for new students. (14) these programs, the young people get to know the (15) for registration and student advising, university rules, the (16) of the library and all the other (17) services of the college or university.Beginning a new life in a new place can be very (18) . The mor
5、e knowledge students have (19) the school, the easier it will be for them to (20) to the new environment. However, it takes time to get used to college life.（分数：10.00）A.asB.afterC.sinceD.beforeA.coursesB.disciplinesC.majorsD.subjectsA.deeplyB.widelyC.wellD.muchA.fulfillB.finishC.completeD.accomplish
6、A.attendB.participateC.studyD.belongA.acquiredB.consideredC.orderedD.requiredA.decoratedB.dressedC.coatedD.wornA.decidedB.intendedC.settledD.determinedA.powerB.abilityC.possibilityD.qualityA.adoptedB.acceptedC.receivedD.permittedA.makeB.undergoC.takeD.passA.gettingB.puttingC.fallingD.sittingA.offerB
7、.affordC.grantD.supplyA.ForB.AmongC.InD.OnA.processesB.proceduresC.projectsD.provisionsA.applicationB.usageC.useD.utilityA.majorB.prominentC.keyD.greatA.amusingB.misleadingC.alarmingD.confusingA.beforeB.aboutC.onD.aA.fitB.suitC.yieldD.adapt二、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(总题数：4，分数：40.00)T
8、ext 1New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. Its now a “global village“ where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, our ability to benefit from this high-tech communications equipment is greatly enhanced by foreign language
9、skills.Deeply involved with this new technology is a breed of modern business people who have a growing respect for the economic value of doing business abroad. In modem markets, success overseas often helps support domestic business efforts.Overseas assignments are becoming increasingly important t
10、o advancement within executive ranks. The executive stationed in another country no longer need fear being “out of sight and out of mind“. He or she can be sure that the overseas effort is central to the companys plan for success, and that promotions often follow or accompany an assignment abroad. I
11、f an employee can succeed in a difficult assignment overseas, superiors will have greater confidence in his or her ability to cope back in the United States where cross-cultural considerations and foreign language issues are becoming more and more prevalent.Thanks to a variety of relatively inexpens
12、ive communications devices with business applications, even small businesses in the United States are able to get into international markets.English is still the international language of business. But there is all ever-growing need for people who can speak another language. A second language isnt g
13、enerally required to get a job in business, but having language skills gives a candidate the edge when other qualifications appear to be equal.The employee posted abroad who speaks the countrys principal language has an opportunity to fast-forward certain negotiations, and can have the cultural insi
14、ght to know when it is better to move more slowly. The employee at the home office who can communicate well with foreign clients over the telephone or by fax machine is an obvious asset to the firm.（分数：10.00）(1).What is the authors attitude toward high-tech communications equipment?（分数：2.00）A.Critic
15、alB.PrejudicedC.IndifferentD.Positive(2).With the increased use of high-tech communications equipment, business people_.（分数：2.00）A.have to get familiar with modern technologyB.are gaining more economic benefits from domestic operationsC.are attaching more importance to their overseas businessD.are e
16、ager to work overseas(3).In this passage, “out of sight and out of mind“ (Lines 2-3, Para. 3)probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.being unable to think properly for lack of insightB.being totally out of touch with business at homeC.missing opportunities for promotion when abroadD.leaving all care and worry be
17、hind(4).According to the passage, what is an important consideration of international corporations in employing people today?（分数：2.00）A.Connections with businesses overseas.B.Ability to speak the clients language.C.Technical know-how.D.Business experience.(5).The advantage of employees having foreig
18、n language skills is that they can_.（分数：2.00）A.better control the whole negotiation processB.easily find new approaches to meet market needsC.fast-forward their proposals to headquartersD.easily make friends with businesspeople abroadText 2People who begin to go deaf in adult life have different pro
19、blems from those who are born deaf. They have to learn different ways of behaving and different ways of communicatingperhaps at a time when learning is not at all that easy. A hearing aid is not a complete solution to the problem. The sound perceived by the deaf person through a hearing aid is disto
20、rted and appears to have more background noise than is heard by someone with normal hearing. Deafened people have to lipread as well.Lipreading is difficult, demands intense concentration, and an uninterrupted direct view of the speakers face. No other activities can take place at the same time: the
21、 lipreader has to stop eating, stop reading, stop washing up, stop mending, stop everything in order to concentrate on hearing. It is not a question of stupidity or bad temperas it sometimes appears to bebut a question of being very easy to misunderstand when the sound is distorted. Remember what it
22、s like trying to communicate on a very bad telephone line. Frustrating, isnt it? The deaf have to face that all the time.A useful way of looking at the problem is to see the deaf person as a foreignerto treat them as if you were in a foreign country. You would speak more clearly, slowly and raise yo
23、ur voice slightly. And youd use gestures to make your meaning clear, as well as have no hesitation in using pencil and paper to be absolutely certain. You can do all those things with the deafas well as making sure you dont obscure your mouth with your hand, a pipe or a cigarette.Another point quite
24、 often overlooked is that a hearing aid may be quite efficient and useful in a quite carpeted roombut try it in the high street in the rush hour, in a noisy car, in a railway station ticket office, a cinema or a concert hall and youve got a really difficult problem to distinguish speech. So dont sug
25、gest to or encourage deaf people to go to functions which are going to make their disability appear worseand increase their sense of failure.On the other hand careful selection of cinemas with good sound systems is important and you should experiment to find out where the best seats are for hearing,
26、 fitting adaptors for radio and television, observing which friends are easier to understand, and making sure that people talking are well-lit and all useful and positive activities.（分数：10.00）(1).The purpose of this passage is to tell readers_.（分数：2.00）A.people who lose their hearing have to learn n
27、ew ways of communicatingB.how to help people who are hard of hearingC.you can help deaf people by being sensitive about their surroundingsD.a deaf person has to lipread even when using a hearing aid(2).A person who loses hearing_.（分数：2.00）A.can hear well with the help of a hearing aidB.can communica
28、te easily with others by lipreadingC.can communicate with others by lipreading with the help of a hearing aidD.can only communicate with others with the help of pencil and paper(3).It can be implied that_.（分数：2.00）A.it sometimes looks stupid when lipreaders have to stop whatever they are doing in or
29、der to understand what others sayB.a lipreader can do two things at the same timeC.you will be misunderstood if the sound is distorted by the hearing aidD.deaf people can get frustrated in places where their hearing aids dont work so well(4).“Another point quite often overlooked“ in Paragraph 4 is t
30、hat_.（分数：2.00）A.you have to speak clearly, slowly and loudlyB.you have to depend on a hearing aidC.you have to be sensitive about the surroundingsD.you can obscure your mouth with your hand when you speak to the deaf(5).What places might not increase deaf peoples sense of failure?（分数：2.00）A.a quite
31、carpeted roomB.a noisy carC.a cinemaD.a railway stationText 3For the generation that grew up during the feminist revolution and the rapid social change of the 1960s and 1970s, it at first seemed achievement enough just to “make it“ in a mans world. But coupled with their ambition, todays women have
32、developed a fierce determination to find new options for being both parent and professional without sacrificing too much to either role or burning themselves out beyond redemption.Women have done all of the accommodating in terms of time, energy, and personal sacrifice that is humanly possible, and
33、still they have not reached true integration in the workplace. For a complicated set of reasonsmany beyond their controlthey feel conflict between their careers and their children. All but a rare few quickly dispel the myth that superwoman ever existed.For many women, profession and family are pitte
34、d against one another on a high stakes collision course. Womens values are stacked against the traditions of their professions. In the home, men and women struggle to figure out how dual-career marriages should work. Role conflict for women reaches far beyond the fundamental work/family dilemma to e
35、ncompass a whole constellation of fiercely competing priorities. Women today find themselves in an intense battle with a society that cannot let go of a narrowly defined work ethic that is supported by a family structure that has not existed for decades. The unspoken assumption persists that there i
36、s still a woman at home to raise the children and manage the household. But the economic reality is that most people, whether in two-parent or single-parent families, need to work throughout their adult lives. As a consequence, the majority of todays mothers are in the labor market.The first full-fl
37、edged generation of women in the professions did not talk about their overbooked agenda or the toll it took on them and their families. They knew that their position in the office was shaky at best. With virtually no choice in the matter, they bought into the traditional notion of success in the wor
38、kplaceusually attained at the high cost of giving up an involved family life. If they suffered self-doubt or frustration about how hollow professional success felt without complementary rewards from the home, they blamed themselveseither for expecting too much or for doing too little. And they asked
39、 themselves questions that held no easy answers. Am I expecting too much? Is it me? Am I alone in this dilemma? Do other women truly have it all?Until now, this has been a private dilemma, unshared, as each woman was left to forge her own unique solution to merging her dual loyalties to work and fam
40、ily. Too often she felt that she alone had failed to achieve a comfortable balance between the two.（分数：10.00）(1).Todays women_.（分数：2.00）A.want to achieve a balance between her loyalties to work and familyB.are stronger advocates of gender equality than the older generationC.do not want to sacrifice
41、anything at all for the desired liberationD.are getting no nearer to achieving their ambition(2).What is the myth held by some “superwomen“?（分数：2.00）A.That they can reconcile their careers with parental responsibilities.B.That they can devote themselves to their career without regard for their child
42、ren.C.That they can resist the temptation of their ambition to make great achievements.D.That they can resolve the conflicts between their careers and children without any sacrifice.(3).In what way do women today find themselves in an intense battle with the society?（分数：2.00）A.The society regards wo
43、men as less able to perform social tasks.B.Women do too much about their career and too little about their families.C.The society still holds the traditional image about a family.D.Women no longer regard the family as a basic unit of the society.(4).When women fail to achieve a balance between work
44、and children, they_.（分数：2.00）A.let things go their own coursesB.admit that they are not superwomenC.usually choose to give up their workD.often blame themselves for it(5).The authors attitude towards womens dilemma seems to be one of_.（分数：2.00）A.suspicionB.indifferenceC.ironyD.sympathyText 4The larg
45、er a machine and the more numerous its parts, the greater likelihood of a breakdown and the more expensive to repair. What has been said about market forces and management was necessarily oversimplified. The economies of modern industrial nations are large and very complex. To be sure, there is mana
46、gement, and there are market forces at work, but there are also many other factors that help or hinder economic function.In modern industrial societies governments play a large role. There is a great amount of regulation, most of it meant for the protection of the public. All regulations affect the
47、way businesses operate, often increasing their costs and reducing their profits. Lower profits, in turn, reduce the amount of money which is known as working capital that a company can use for expansion. Auto emission standards, for instance, have had a significant impact on the manufacture and pric
48、ing of automobiles. Other government policies such as taxation, budget deficits, and regulation of the money supply have an effect on how much money is available for people to spend on goods and services.International crises and other conditions also affect the working of an economy. A severe frost
49、in Brazil can ruin a coffee crop and raise the price of that commodity. War can cut off the supply of such resources as petroleum, chromium, or copper. In the United States environmental protests have slowed the development of nuclear energy capacity and the mining of vast tracts of protected land. Weather affects agriculture, a hot, dry summer can damage the wheat crop; floods can destroy thousands of acres of crops suddenly; and insect pests can devastate cropland with a rapid onslaught.Peoples attitudes
