1、会计硕士专业学位联考英语(二)-14 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Section Use Englis(总题数：1，分数：10.00)As I type these lines, my daughter, Harriet, who is 14, is on her iPhone skipping among no fewer than eight social media sites. My son, Penn, who is 15, will be asleep for hours yet. He was 1 all night with a friend pl
2、aying two video games, in a jag fueled by his favorite foodlike 2 . I like that my kids are comfortable and alert in the wired world. But increasingly I am 3 for them. It“s more 4 every day that screens have gradually stolen them from themselves. My wife, Cree, and I have 5 them to drift quite dista
3、ntly into the online world, and we fear our casualness has been a 6 . Each summer Cree and I resolve to 7 things back. This is 8 we draft rules for a new school year, strictures like: no laptops in bedrooms during the week; homework before screen time; no electronics after 10 p.m These rules invaria
4、bly begin to 9 by Day 3. By Day 4, there is pleading, and the discreet slamming of doors. By Day 8, no one is sure what the 10 are anymore. We“re back where we started, and plump with fear. This year it 11 to me we needed help. So I sat down with a new book that 12 assistance, and understanding. It
5、is The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age , whose primary 13 , Catherine Steiner-Adair, is a clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School. Her book is 14 on thousands of interviews, and it can be eloquent about the need to ration our child
6、ren“s computer time. Here the author has pinned me. I like to think I“m a good father, perhaps even casually 15 in my better moments, 16 there is zero doubt that, without my iPhone in my palm, I feel I lose something since I“m fairly 17 . I must change my life a bit. Cree and I are still hammering o
7、ut our kids“ computer rules. We are trying to 18 in mind that we“re not our kids“ best friends; we“re their 19 . And we are 20 if there“s an app for fortitude.（分数：10.00）A.outB.awakenC.awayD.upA.objectsB.substancesC.thingsD.materialsA.disappointedB.satisfiedC.terrifiedD.worriedA.commonB.seriousC.nega
8、tiveD.apparentA.stoppedB.allowedC.suggestedD.admittedA.habitB.failureC.fortuneD.disasterA.reinB.payC.returnD.keepA.whenB.whatC.whereD.becauseA.workB.pauseC.ceaseD.crackA.electronicsB.punishmentsC.rulesD.concernsA.occurredB.tookC.leftD.seemedA.appliesB.relatesC.offersD.featuresA.characterB.authorC.pa
9、rtnerD.editorA.writtenB.identifiedC.basedD.putA.inferiorB.superbC.niceD.playfulA.andB.besidesC.butD.asA.confusedB.regretableC.lonelyD.obsessiveA.putB.rememberC.stayD.keepA.relativesB.parentsC.companionsD.enemiesA.wonderingB.thinkingC.guessingD.hoping二、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(总题数：0，
10、分数：0.00)四、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)“It“s such a simple thing,“ said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Association. “I“m amazed that so many people spend so much time and energy on trying to change it.“ The simple thing to which he refers is the humble gol
11、f tee, a peg made of wood that most of us grab by the handful or buy for a few pennies each, stick in our pockets, and don“t give a second thought to. The road to the tee began with a Boston-area dentist named George F. Grant, who received a patent in 1899 for “an Improvement in Golf-Tees.“ Grant“s
12、tees consisted of a small piece of rubber tubing attached to a tapered wooden peg to be pushed into the ground. The rubber held the ball, and yielded when the club contacted it. He had them produced by a nearby manufacturing concern and gave them out to his friends but never tried to sell or market
13、them. That fell to William Lowellanother tooth doctor, coincidentallywho created the Reddy Tee in 1921. It was a one-piece implement of solid wood, painted red at the top so it could be easily found and cleverly named. He paid Walter Hagen and trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood to endorse and use the de
14、vice, and it was a commercial success, with more than $100,000 in sales by the time it was patented in 1925. The introduction of the oversize metal driver in the 1980s led most golfers to adopt longer tees to go along with the larger and higher sweet spot of those clubs. The USGA has banned tees lon
15、ger than 4 inches, a height that is well past the point of diminishing returns. Even back in the 1960s, Jack Nicklaus understood the value of teeing the ball high, which he explained by saying, “Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.“ Golfers who have fai
16、rly steep swings (like me) break a lot of tees. We can only envy the legendary Canadian pro Moe Norman, who could play for weeks with a single tee. When his playing partners asked him how he managed to stripe his drives without dislodging the peg, he answered, “I“m trying to hit the ball, not the te
17、e.“ So are we all, Moe. So are we all.（分数：10.00）(1).The sentence “most of us.a second thought to“ in the first paragraph explains that the tee is _.（分数：2.00）A.portableB.inexpensiveC.unimpressiveD.easy to catch(2).According to Paragraph 2, a small piece of robber tubing _.（分数：2.00）A.can support the b
18、allB.must fall when the ball is hitC.will be pushed into the groundD.will be broken when being contacted(3).According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is NOT true of the Reddy Tee?（分数：2.00）A.It is painted red at the top to befit its name.B.Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood brought the patent.C.It
19、is invented by a dentist who tried to sell or market it.D.The inventor spent about 4 years in obtaining a patent on it.(4).Jack Nicklaus believes that golfers get longer tees to elevate the ball because _.（分数：2.00）A.the longer tees are matched to the longer gulf clubsB.the ball is easy to get dirty
20、in the soil than in the airC.the height far exceeds the point of diminishing returnsD.the higher sweet spot is helpful for golfers to hit the ball further(5).We may learn from the last sentence that the author _.（分数：2.00）A.has done as Moe does but still failsB.also plays with a single tee for weeksC
21、.believes that Moe doesn“t tell his partners the truthD.thinks Moe fails to understand what his partners ask五、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)“Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists?“ Rick Scott, the Florida governor, once asked. A leader of a prominent Internet company once told me
22、that the firm regards admission to Harvard as a useful proof of talent, but a college education itself as useless. Parents and students themselves are acting on these principles, retreating from the humanities. I“ve been thinking about this after reading Fareed Zakaria“s smart new book, In Defense o
23、f a Liberal Education . Like Mr. Zakaria, I think that the liberal arts teach critical thinking. So, to answer the skeptics, here are my three reasons the humanities enrich our souls and sometimes even our pocketbooks as well. First, liberal arts equip students with communications and interpersonal
24、skills that are valuable and genuinely rewarded in the labour force, especially when accompanied by technical abilities. “A broad liberal arts education is a key pathway to success in the 21st-century economy,“ says Lawrence Katz, a labour economist at Harvard. Professor Katz says that the economic
25、return to pure technical skills has flattened, and the highest return now goes to those who combine soft skillsexcellence at communicating and working with peoplewith technical skills. My second reason: We need people conversant with the humanities to help reach wise public policy decisions, even ab
26、out the sciences. Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions. To weigh these issues, regulators should be informed by first-rate science, but also by first-rate humanism. When the President“s Council on Bioethics issued its report in 2002, “Human Cloning and Human Dignity,“ it depe
27、nds upon the humanities to shape judgments about ethics, limits and values. Third, wherever our careers lie, much of our happiness depends upon our interactions with those around us, and there“s some evidence that literature nurtures a richer emotional intelligence. Science magazine published five s
28、tudies indicating that research subjects who read literary fiction did better at assessing the feelings of a person in a photo than those who read nonfiction or popular fiction. Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. Literatur
29、e also builds bridges of understanding. In short, it makes eminent sense to study coding and statistics today, but also history and literature.（分数：10.00）(1).What is implied in the first paragraph?（分数：2.00）A.Parents may encourage their children to major in anthropology.B.The humanities in Harvard are
30、 not popular among parents and students.C.The leader of an Internet company values Harvard education itself most.D.Rick Scott may think anthropologists aren“t key interests of the state.(2).Lawrence Katz holds that broad liberal arts _.（分数：2.00）A.are enough for you to succeedB.can enrich your wallet
31、s in economyC.achieve balance between communicating value and soft skillsD.maximize your potential when coupled with technical skills(3).Which of the following cannot be used as the example of the second sentence in Paragraph 4?（分数：2.00）A.Should Youtube change its web page?B.Where should Facebook se
32、t its privacy?C.How should Google handle sex and violence articles?D.Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists?(4).According to the Science magazine, compared with people reading literary fiction, those reading nonfiction _.（分数：2.00）A.evaluate the work more difficultyB.decode
33、 the emotional state poorlyC.have richer emotional intelligenceD.recognize the portrait more easily(5).On the whole, the reasons that the humanities enrich our spiritual life include all the following EXCEPT _.（分数：2.00）A.they are useful for improving emotional intelligenceB.they are essential to the
34、 wise decisions of an organizationC.they link the soft skills with technical skills in the labour forceD.they benefit students in communications and interpersonal skills六、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)On her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhoodalone, wi
35、thout even telling my wife or me. Of course we were worried; we had just moved from Berlin, and she was just 8. But when she came home, we realized we had no reason to panic. Beaming with pride, she told us how she had discovered the little park around the corner, and had made friends with a few loc
36、al dog owners. She had taken possession of her new environment, and was keen to teach us things we didn“t know. When this story comes up in conversations with American friends, we are usually met with polite disbelief. Most are horrified by the idea that their children might roam around without adul
37、t supervision. A study by the University of California, Los Angeles, has found that American kids spend 90 percent of their leisure time at home. Even when kids are physically active, they are watched closely by adults. Such narrowing of the child“s world has happened across the developed world. But
38、 Germany is generally much more accepting of letting children take some risks. To this German parent, it seems that America“s middle class has taken overprotective parenting to a new level. “We are depriving them of opportunities to learn how to take control of their own lives,“ writes Peter Gray, a
39、 research professor at Boston College. He argues that this increases “the chance that they will suffer from anxiety, depression, and so on,“ which have gone up dramatically in recent decades. He sees risky, outside play of children among themselves without adult supervision as a way of learning to c
40、ontrol strong emotions like anger and fear. I am no psychologist like Professor Gray, but I know I won“t be around forever to protect my girl from the challenges life holds in store for her, so the earlier she develop the intellectual maturity to navigate the world, the better. And by giving kids mo
41、re control over their lives, they learn to have more confidence in their own capabilities. It is hard for parents to balance the desire to protect their children against the desire to make them more self-reliant. And every one of us has to decide for himself what level of risk he is ready to accept.
42、 But parents who prefer to keep their children always in sight and under their thumbs should consider what sort of trade-offs are involved in that choice.（分数：10.00）(1).Which of the following is NOT true about the author“s daughter?（分数：2.00）A.She went out without adult supervision.B.She knew where th
43、e little park was located.C.She visited her new neighbors and made some friends.D.She had more ideas about the surroundings than the author.(2).Different from American kids, German kids _.（分数：2.00）A.are allowed to be faced with some risksB.spend about 10% of their free time at homeC.will be overprot
44、ected when moved in AmericaD.are more self-reliant than kids in any other developed countries(3).According to Peter Gray, overprotection may lead to _.（分数：2.00）A.underlying risksB.mental disordersC.adolescent rebellionD.emotional problems(4).The author“s attitude towards loosening the control over k
45、ids is _.（分数：2.00）A.confidentB.objectiveC.criticalD.supportive(5).The most appropriate title for this text would be _.（分数：2.00）A.The Case for Free-range ParentingB.The Drawback of Adult SupervisionC.Protection or Hands-off ManagementD.American Parenting vs. German Parenting七、Text 4(总题数：1，分数：10.00)At
46、 a party for Ms. magazine“s 40th birthday, the Canadian writer Ann Dowsett Johnston waited for an audience with Gloria Steinem, hoping to cull wisdom for her research on women and alcohol. “Alcohol?“ Steinem said to Johnston, looking “dismissive.“ “Alcohol is not a women“s issue.“ Steinem may have b
47、een hasty. We know that many women report drinking more often in recent decades, that they are drinking more when they do, and that the physiological impact and social meaning of it all is different for women than for men. Women are the engine of growth for the American wine market and are being arr
48、ested for drunken driving more often than before. How much alarm should be invested in those observations is up for debate in both Johnston“s book, Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol , and Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drinkand How They Can Regain Control , by the American
49、journalist Gabrielle Glaser, the second of which makes the more pointed case. Johnston turns in part to gauzy memory to make the case that female alcohol consumption is the negative byproduct of modem complexities and the pressure for women to be “perfect.“ “I don“t remember my grandmothers suffering from this syndrome,“ she asserts. “Women who raised families during the Depression, who baked and gardened and read well; who were fundamentally happy, and felt no pressure to look like stick figures.“ Well. Depression-era women“s li
