1、考研英语-536 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)Skyrocketing salaries, foreign workers, and raids on other corporations for talents are all becoming part of 1 as usual for many technology-based corporations today. These 2 are not cold-blooded; they have simply become necessar
2、y for 3 in the current technology explosion, which has caused a 4 shortage of qualified talents. This shortage will only increase as the world continues to move online. Is there a better way to get talented employees without 5 under qualified college graduates and paying for extensive training to ge
3、t them up to par? There is. Your company can 6 in education. It“s easier 7 you think locally, not globally. Find a 8 college or university that offers a major in your company“s field and build a 9 with it. Starting small is a good idea. Call the college, talk to the 10 department head, and offer you
4、r company“s assistance. Offering the school a chance to train students 11 your company“s software or hardware 12 that there will be more people trained in the use of these products. 13 adds to your company“s market share and potential employee 14 , and enhances its public image. 15 may qualify your
5、company for tax deductions, which can help increase its bottom 16 . What“s the next step? 17 those better-educated college students into employable talents by becoming a (an) 18 site for the school. Internships offer companies a chance to 19 the education of students through real-world experience wh
6、ile 20 out prospective employees without incurring huge expenses.（分数：10.00）A.professionB.commerceC.tradeD.businessA.schemesB.tacticsC.plotsD.tricksA.survivalB.existenceC.livingD.standingA.significantB.majorC.importantD.largeA.firingB.meetingC.facingD.hiringA.cooperateB.investC.wadeD.involveA.exceptB
7、.ifC.lestD.thanA.smallB.nativeC.famousD.localA.relationB.associationC.relationshipD.connectionA.appropriateB.respectableC.respectfulD.appreciativeA.withB.onC.forD.inA.representsB.meansC.claimsD.proclaimsA.ThoseB.TheseC.ThisD.SuchA.bankB.storeC.numberD.poolA.DonationsB.DedicationC.AssistanceD.Coopera
8、tionA.rawB.marginC.lineD.borderA.ChangeB.TransferC.TurnD.ShiftA.experimentB.internshipC.exerciseD.trainingA.furtherB.supportC.continueD.financeA.testingB.examiningC.separatingD.selecting二、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Placing a human being behind the
9、 wheel of an automobile often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibres in the brain. The result in either case is more primitive behaviour. Hostile feelings are apt to be expressed in an aggressive way. The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the w
10、heel, risk an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition. Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles an epidemic and should be investigated as such. Dr. Ro
11、ss A. McFarland, Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, said that accidents “now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do.“ Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 3
12、5. About one third of all accidental deaths and one seventh of all accidental injuries are caused by motor vehicles. Based on the present rate of vehicle registration, unless the accident rate is cut in half, one of every 10 persons in the country will be killed or injured in a traffic accident in t
13、he next 15 years. Research to find the underlying causes of accidents and to develop ways to detect drivers who are apt to cause them is being conducted at universities and medical centres. Here are some of their findings so far: A man drives as he lives. If he is often in trouble with collection ag
14、encies, the courts, and police, chances are he will have repeated automobile accidents. Accident repeaters usually are egocentric, exhibitionistic, resentful of authority, impulsive, and lacking in social responsibility. As group, they can be classified as borderline psychopathic personalities, acco
15、rding to Dr. McFarland. The suspicion, however, that accident repeaters could be detected in advance by screening out persons with more hostile impulses is false. A study at the University of Colorado showed that there were just as many overly hostile persons among those who had no accidents as amon
16、g those with repeated accidents. Psychologists currently are studying Denver high school pupils to test the validity of this concept. They are making psychological evaluations of the pupils to see whether subsequent driving records will bear out their thesis.（分数：10.00）(1).The author believes that, b
17、ehind the wheel of an automobile, some people act（分数：2.00）A.as though they were uncivilized.B.as though they should change their attitudes from hostility to amicability.C.as though their brain fibres needed cutting.D.as though they wanted to repress hostile feelings.(2).By saying “The same man.will.
18、risk an accident.“(Line 1-2, Para. 3), the author means that（分数：2.00）A.a gentle man can change into a rude driver.B.it“s difficult for a driver to control himself when behind the wheel of an automobile.C.to drive has been a way for some drivers to express their hostile feelings.D.the emotional facto
19、rs have been the leading cause of automobile accidents.(3).Dr. McFarland emphasizes the great menace of accidents by comparing it to（分数：2.00）A.psychopathic behaviour.B.an epidemic.C.hostile attitudes.D.antisocial behaviour.(4).Which of the following is true about the traffic accidents?（分数：2.00）A.The
20、y have threatened the safety of the population as diseases do.B.They will claim 10 percent lives in the next 15 years.C.One third of victims in them are dead in the end.D.The underlying causes of them are still being detected.(5).According to the text, studies at leading universities have shown that
21、（分数：2.00）A.accident repeaters can be detected in advance.B.accident repeaters are in trouble with collection agencies.C.accident repeaters cannot be discovered on the basis of generally hostile attitudes.D.accident repeaters drive entirely differently from the way they usually live.五、Text 2(总题数：1，分数
22、：10.00)Whether to teach young children a second language is disputed among teachers, researchers and pushy parents. On the one hand, acquiring a new tongue is said to be far easier when young. On the other, teachers complain that children whose parents speak a language at home that is different from
23、 the one used in the classroom sometimes struggle in their lessons and are slower to reach linguistic milestones. Would a 15-month-old child, they wonder, not be better off going to music classes? A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may help resolve this que
24、stion by getting to the point of what is going on in a bilingual child“s brain, how a second language affects the way he thinks, and thus in what circumstances being bilingual may be helpful. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste say that some as
25、pects of the cognitive development of infants raised in a bilingual household must be undergoing acceleration in order to manage which of the two languages they are dealing with. The aspect of cognition in question is part of what is termed the brain“s “executive function“. This allows people to org
26、anise, plan, prioritise activity, shift their attention from one thing to another and suppress habitual responses. Bilingualism is common in Trieste which, though Italian, is almost surrounded by Slovenia. So Dr. Kovacs and Dr. Mehler looked at 40 “preverbal“ seven-month-olds, half raised in monolin
27、gual and half in bilingual households, and compared their performances in a task that needs control of executive function. First, the babies were trained to expect the appearance of a puppet on a screen after they had heard a set of meaningless words invented by the researchers. Then the words, and
28、the location of the puppet, were changed. When this was done, the babies who speak only one language had difficulty overcoming their learnt response, even when the researchers gave them further clues that a switch had taken place. The bilingual babies, however, found it far easier to switch their at
29、tentioncounteracting the previously learnt, but no longer useful response. Monitoring languages and keeping them separate is part of the brain“s executive function, so these findings suggest that even before a child can speak, a bilingual environment may speed up that function“s development. Before
30、rushing your offspring into bilingual kindergartens, though, there are a few cautions. For one thing, these extraordinary cognitive benefits have been demonstrated so far only in “crib“ bilingualsthose living in households where two languages are spoken routinely. The researchers speculate that it m
31、ight be the fact of having to learn two languages in the same setting that requires greater use of executive function. So whether those benefits apply to children who learn one language at home, and one at school, remains unclear.（分数：10.00）(1).Who are probably pushing young children to study a new l
32、anguage?（分数：2.00）A.Parents.B.Teachers.C.Researchers.D.Children themselves.(2).What is going on in a bilingual child“s brain according to the new study?（分数：2.00）A.The executive function is being developed more slowly.B.The executive function is being developed more rapidly.C.The aural nerve centre is
33、 being developed more slowly.D.The aural nerve centre is being developed more rapidly.(3).How does a second language affect the way a young child behaves according to the new study?（分数：2.00）A.It shortens his focus time on anything learnt.B.It always switches his attention to new information.C.It mak
34、es him able to predict the appearance of a person.D.It makes him far easier to overcome his learnt response.(4).The new study concluded that being bilingual is found helpful（分数：2.00）A.only when you use a foreign language to talk with foreigners.B.only when you have to learn two languages in the same
35、 setting.C.only when you speak different languages in school and at home.D.only when you speak foreign languages both in school and at home.(5).According to the author, rushing young children into bilingual kindergartens（分数：2.00）A.may not speed up the executive function.B.is not useful to develop th
36、e brain.C.is useful for the executive function.D.may quicken them to reach linguistic milestones.六、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services
37、 which were available on one“s own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside. Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this woul
38、d really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable. Our local grocer“s shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchang
39、e the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queuing up anonymously at a supermarket: And the proprietor knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value. His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think not
40、hing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old-age pensioner who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more affluent customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour
41、. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it for them. The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a mo
42、dest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions of industry or commerce. Most of the village shopkeepers I know, at any rate, are decidedly individualist in their ways. For example, our shoemaker is a formidable figure: a thick-set, irritable man w
43、hom children treat with marked respect, knowing that an ill-judged word can provoke an angry eruption at any time. He stares with contempt at the pairs of cheap, mass-produced shoes taken to him for repair: has it come to this, he seems to be saying, that he, a craftsman, should have to waste his sk
44、ills upon such trash? But we all know he will in fact do excellent work upon them. And he makes beautiful shoes for those who can afford such luxury.（分数：10.00）(1).The services available in villages nowadays are（分数：2.00）A.fewer but still very active.B.less successful than earlier but managing to surv
45、ive.C.active in providing food and antiques.D.surprisingly energetic considering the little demand for them.(2).The local grocer“s shop is expanding even though（分数：2.00）A.town shops are better at promotion.B.town shops are larger and more convenient.C.town shops enjoy price advantages.D.people get e
46、xtra service in town shops.(3).Another aspect of personal service available in the village shop is that（分数：2.00）A.there is a wide range of goods available.B.goods not in stock can be especially obtained for the old.C.special attention is given to the needs of wealthier customers.D.goods are always r
47、estocked before they run out.(4).The author cited the example of the shoemaker to show that（分数：2.00）A.the village provides a chance for an individual to get along by his own efforts.B.most of the village shopkeepers are bad-tempered.C.village shopkeepers look down upon the poor.D.village shopkeepers
48、 are all good craftsmen.(5).In what way is the village shoemaker a “formidable figure“?（分数：2.00）A.He seems to pay little attention to public opinion.B.He refuses to mend cheap, mass-produced shoes.C.He is bad-tempered as well as an excellent craftsman.D.He has very high standards of workmanship.七、Te
49、xt 4(总题数：1，分数：10.00)The first technological revolution in modem biology started when James Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of DNA half a century ago. That established the fields of molecular and cell biology, the basis of the biotechnology industry. The sequencing of the human genome nearly a decade ago set off a second revolution which has started to illuminate the origins of diseases. Now the industry is convinced that a third revolution is under way: the convergence of biology and engineering. A recent report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that ph
