1、MBA 联考英语-37 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Use of Eng(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. (1) the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are (2) Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as muc
2、h threat to the environment when it is discarded. (3) 45 out of every 100 tonnes of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards this is a good (4) . since the world-wide average is 33 pe
3、rcent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and (5) schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have (6) even greater utilization of used fibre. (7) , industrys use of recycled fibres is expected to increase a
4、t twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years.Already, waste paper (8) 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology (9) to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled (10) in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must
5、 also (11) . We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; (12) stationery may be less white and (13) a rougher texture. There also needs to be (14) from the community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper (15) to collectors but it also needs to be
6、 separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous (16) .There are technical (17) to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot be collected for reuse. These include paper (18) books and permanent rec
7、ords, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. The four most common (19) of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather large amounts of packaging material (20) goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output, paper c
8、onverters and printers and lastly households which discard newspapers and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also incur the collection cost.（分数：10.00）(1).A. Despite B. Unlike C. With D. Even（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(2).A. replaceable B. removable C. respectable D.
9、responsible（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(3).A. While B. When C. If D. Because（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(4).A. function B. quality C. consequence D. performance（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(5).A. tidying B. classifying C. placing D. selecting（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(6).A. given rise to B. thrown light onC. paved the way for D. made use of（
10、分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(7).A. As a result B. In the end C. Allin all D. In conclusion（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(8).A. consumes B. consults C. constructs D. constitutes（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(9).A. inquired B. required C. resorted D. indicated（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(10).A. contest B. contact C. content D. contend（分数：0.50）A.B.C.
11、D.(11).A. contribute B. pay C. award D. reward（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(12).A. such as B. just as C. other than D. for example（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(13).A. by B. in C. of D. for（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(14).A. encouraged B. supported C. defended D. bred（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(15).A. available B. compatible C. durable D. negli
12、gible（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(16).A. compounds B. compositions C. mixtures D. items（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(17).A. requests B. needs C. limitations D. problems（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(18).A. in the form of B. in the light of C. in the case of D. in the name of（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(19).A. materials B. resources C. substances
13、 D. sources（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.(20).A. to which B. in which C. by which D. through which（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.二、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(总题数：4，分数：40.00)Passage OneWow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject including maths and engineeri
14、ng. Speaking as an ardent feminist, I expect that this will have many wonderful results: a culture that is more feng shui and emotionally literate and altogether nicer, and an economy that benefits from unleashing the phenomenal energy and talents of British women who are if GCSEs, A-levels and univ
15、ersity entrance results mean anything - currently giving the male sex a good old intellectual whipping.Obviously a corner of my heart worries about some aspects of the coming feminisation. Will we all become even more safety-conscious, regulation-prone and generally incapable of beating the Australi
16、ans at anything than we already are? And even if the feminist revolution is good and unstoppable, we should perhaps consider some of the downsides and the most interesting is that greater equality between the sexes is actually leading to greater division between the classes. Heres how.Since the emer
17、gence of our species, it has been a brutally sexist feature of romance that women on the whole and I stress on the whole will want to mate with men who are either on a par with themselves, or their superior, in socio-econ0mic and intellectual attainment. A recent study shows that if a mans IQ rises
18、by 16 points, his chances of marrying increase by 35 per cent; if a womans IQ rises by 16 points, her chances of getting hooked decline by the same amount.As a result of the same instinct female desire to procreate with their intellectual equals the huge increase in female university enrolments is l
19、eading to a rise in what the sociologists call assortative mating. The more middle-class graduates we create, the more they seem to settle down with other middle-class graduates, very largely because of the feminine romantic imperative already described. The result is that the expansion of universit
20、y education has actually been accompanied by a decline in social mobility, and that is because these massive enrolments have been overwhelmingly middle-class.It is one of the sad failures of this Government that relatively few bright children from poor backgrounds have been encouraged to go to unive
21、rsity, partly because of weaknesses in primary and secondary education, partly because of the withdrawal of the ladder of opportunity provided by academic selection. Once they have failed to go to university, the boom in the number of middle-class female students only intensifies their disadvantages
22、.The result is that we have widening social divisions, and two particularly miserable groups: the female graduates who think men are all useless because they cant find a graduate husband, and the male non-graduates who feel increasingly domineered by the feminist revolution, and resentful of all the
23、se proud female graduates who wont give them the time of day. (474 words)（分数：10.00）(1).One result from womens majority in college recruitments is _. A. male sex is outnumbered in most campusesB. women will be an economically boosting factorC. a-levels have begun to take on more weightD. enthusiastic
24、 feminists are less emotionally loaded（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).The data about IQ are mentioned by the author in order to _. A. demonstrate sexual differences in marriage ageB. prove the greater equality between the two sexesC. show the popular mating pattern on the female sideD. discuss the unstoppable
25、pro-feminist movement（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).The so-called “assortative mating“ comes into being mainly because _. A. more college graduates have middle class backgroundB. social mobility tends to be greatly enhanced by educationC. middle class students are unwilling to cooperate with othersD. female g
26、raduates favor those with equal intellectual status（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).From the context we know that “their disadvantages“ (para.5) imply _. A. it is becoming more difficult for clever but poor children nowB. the government failed to cater to middle class female needsC. the ladder of opportunity is
27、 denied to most of the bright kidsD. male uselessness is greatly exaggerated by some females（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).The passage is mainly concerned with _. A. sexual inequality in educationB. female dilemma in matingC. social prejudice against womenD. expansion in college enrolment（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.Pass
28、age TwoThe Africans interest is to guard preferential export rules enshrined in the temporary African Growth and Opportunity Act, passed by Congress in 2000. Tariff-free exports of some 6,000 goods from Africa to the United States are boosting trade and investment in southern Africa. Lesothos fast-g
29、rowing textile industry depends almost entirely on Chinese investment in factories to make clothes for sale in the United States. The region also wants more access to Americas markets for fruit, beef and other agricultural goods.American interest lies mainly in South Africa, by far the largest econo
30、my in the region. Services account for 60% of its GDP, and it increasingly dominates the rest of Africa in banking, information technology, telecom, retail and other areas. Just as British banks, such as Barclays, have moved their African headquarters to South Africa over the past year, American inv
31、estors see the country as a platform to the rest of the continent.Agreeing investment rules and resolving differences on intellectual property rights are the most urgent issues. American drug firms want to be part of the fast expansion in South Africa of production of anti-retroviral drugs, used aga
32、inst AIDS. By 2007 South Africa alone expects 1.2 m patients to take the drugs daily. The country might be the worlds biggest exporter of anti-AIDS drugs within a few years. Striking a bilateral deal now should make American investments easier.But Mr. Zoellicks greater concern is for multilateral tr
33、ade talks that stalled in Cancun, Mexico, in September. Alec Erwin, his South African counterpart, helped to organize the G20 group of poor and middle-income countries that opposed joint American-EU proposals there; he is widely tipped to take over as head of the World Trade Organization late next y
34、ear, and would be a useful ally.So Mr. Zoellick is trying to charm his African partner by agreeing to drop support for most of a group of issues (known as “Singapore issues“) that jammed up the talks at Cancun, and were opposed by poor countries; he says he also favors abolishing export subsidies in
35、 Americathough only if Japan and the EU agree to do the same. That would please African exporters who say such subsidies destroy markets for their goods.Mr. Zoellicks efforts to make more friends may be paying off. Even though America has treated Africa very shabbily on trade in the past, Mr. Erwin
36、hints it is easier doing business with America than with Europe or Japan. A small sign, but perhaps a telling one.（分数：10.00）(1).It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _. A. 6,000 goods from Africa are tariff-free to American countriesB. preferential export rules are interesting to southern
37、 AfricansC. most clothes found in the US are actually made by ChineseD. Lesotho is willing to export more agricultural goods to the US（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(2).British banks move their headquarters to South Africa because _. A. South Africa is a safer country compared with others in AfricaB. South Africa
38、 is gradually becoming a financial center in AfricaC. South Africa offers preferential banking terms to foreign banksD. South Africa is a platform in Africa for the American investors（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(3).American drug makers want to get a share in the anti-AIDS drug production in South Africa in tha
39、t _.A. the US domestic anti-AIDS drug market is shrinking quicklyB. American drug makers have a lot of extra capital to investC. the bilateral deal has made US investments much easier nowD. South Africa has a huge global market potential in these drugs（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(4).Mr. Zoellick is trying to e
40、stablish a good relationship with Mr. Erwin because _. A. Mr. Erwin is organizing a group of poor and middle-income countries to oppose AmericaB. Mr. Erwin is a very talented and tactful diplomat in the world political circleC. Mr. Erwins possible position in the coming future will be helpful to Ame
41、rican interestsD. Mr. Erwins relationship with Japanese and European leaders is useful to the U.S.（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.(5).We can conclude from the passage that _. A. the multilateral trade talks in Cancun might be productiveB. Mr. Zoellick is very good at making friends with leadersC. Japan and EU will
42、 abolish the export subsidies as the USD. South Africas exports to America are bound to decrease（分数：2.00）A.B.C.D.Passage ThreeIt remains to be seen whether the reserves of raw materials in the year 2000 will be sufficient to supply a world economy which will have grown by five hundred percent. South
43、east Asia alone will have an energy consumption five times greater than that of Western Europe in 1970. Incidentally, if the underdeveloped countries started using up petrol at the same rate as the industrialized areas, then world reserves would be exhausted by 1990.All this only goes to show just h
44、ow important it is to set up a plan to conserve and divide up fairly natural resources on a worldwide scale.This is a matter of life and death because world population is expanding at an incredible rate. By the middle of the next century population will expand every year by as much as it did in the
45、first 1,500 years after Christ. In the southern, poor parts of the globe, the figures are enough to make your hair stand on end. Even supposing that steps are taken to stabilize world population in the next fifty years, the number of inhabitants per square kilometer will increase by from 4 in the Un
46、ited States to 140 in South East Asia. What can we do about it?In the first hypothesis we do nothing. By the year 2000, the southern parts of the world would then have a population greater than the total world population today.Alternately we could start acting right now to bring birth rate under con
47、trol within fifteen years so that population levels off. Even then the population in the southern areas would not stop growing for seventy-five years. And the population would level off at something like twice todays figure.Finally, we could wait ten to twenty years before taking action. If we wait
48、ten years the population of the southern area would stabilize at 3,000 million. Even today the number of potential workers increases by 350,000 people per week. By the end of the century this figure will reach 750,000; in other words, it will be necessary to find work for 40 million people per year-
49、not to speak of food.What this means in practical terms we can scarcely imagine. But clearly if we do nothing, nature will solve the problem for us. But at what cost!（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the author?A. A worldwide plan to conserve natural resources should be worked out.B. The energy consumption of the underdeveloped countries will increase greatly.C. The world economy will have greatly grown by the year 2000.D. There will definitely be not enough raw materi
