1、考研英语-709 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)Karl Von Linne (or Linnaeus, as he is widely known) was a Swedish biologist who devised the system of Latinised scientific names for living things that biologists use to this day. When he came to (1) people into his system, he p
2、ut them into a group called Homo- and Linne s hairless fellow humans are still known biologically as Homo sapiens. (2) the group originally had a second member, Homo troglodytes. It lived in Africa, and the pictures show it to be covered (3) hair.Modern (4) are not as generous as Linne in welcoming
3、other species into Mans lofty (5) ,and the chimpanzee is now referred to (6) Pan troglodytes. But Pan or Homo, there is no (7) that chimps are humans nearest living relatives, and that if the secrets of what makes humanity special are ever to be (8) , understanding why chimps are not people, nor peo
4、ple chimps, is a crucial part of the process. That, in turn, means looking at the DNA of the two species, (9) it is here that the (10) must originate.One half of the puzzle has been (11) for several years: the human genome was published in 2001. The second has now been added, with the announcement i
5、n this weeks Nature (12) the chimpanzee genome has been sequenced as well. For those expecting (13) answers to age-old questions (14) , the publication of the chimp genome may be something of an (15) . There are no immediately obvious genes-present in one, but not the other-that account for such cha
6、racteristic human (16) as intelligence or even hairlessness. And (17) there is a gene connected with language, known as FOXP2, it had already been discovered. But although the preliminary comparison of the two genomes (18) by the members of the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analyssis Consortium, the mul
7、tinational team that generated the sequence, did not (19) any obvious nuggets of genetic gold, it does at least show where to look for (20) .（分数：10.00）A.slotB.pledgeC.plotD.scrutinizeA.AndB.OrC.TherebyD.ButA.byB.throughoutC.withD.beyondA.demographersB.taxonomistsC.chronologistsD.psychologistsA.subje
8、ctB.dominionC.idealD.speciesA.asB.inC.amongD.withoutA.suspensionB.suspicionC.rotationD.doubtA.disintegratedB.distractedC.deletedD.disentangledA.because ofB.thoughC.forD.whereasA.disputesB.differencesC.hunchesD.humanitiesA.ruthlessB.mediocreC.opaqueD.availableA.thatB.whereC.whichD.in thatA.instantB.i
9、nstinctiveC.constantD.intuitiveA.tooB.eitherC.thoughD.alsoA.panaceaB.anticlimaxC.zenithD.momentumA.defectsB.meritsC.flawsD.attributesA.whileB.onceC.whenD.as ifA.duplicatedB.dwarfedC.madeD.overlappedA.show upB.turn upC.resort toD.turn toA.himB.itC.themD.her二、Section Reading Co(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Part A(
10、总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、Text 1(总题数：1，分数：10.00)John Battelle is Silicon Valleys Bob Woodward. One of the founders of Wired magazine, he has hung around Google for so long that he has come to be as close as any outsider can to actually being an insider. Certainly, Google s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page
11、, and its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, believe that it is safer to talk to Mr. Battelle than not to do so.The result is a highly readable account of Googles astonishing rise-the steepest in corporate history-from its origins in Stanford University to its controversial stockmarket debut and its cur
12、rent struggle to become a grown-up company while staying true to its youthfully brash motto, “Dont be evil.“ Mr. Battelle makes the reader warm to Googles ruling triumvirate-their cleverness and their good intentions-and fear for their future as they take on the world.Google is one of the most inter
13、esting companies around at the moment. It has a decent shot at displacing Microsoft as the next great near-monopoly of the information age. Its ambition-to organise all the worlds information, not just the information on the world wide web-is epic, and its commercial power is frightening, Beyond thi
14、s, Google is interesting for the same reason that secretive dictatorships and Hollywood celebrities are interesting-for being opaque, colourful and, simply, itself.The book disappoints only when Mr. Battelle begins trying to explain the wider relevance of internet search and its possible future deve
15、lopment. There is a lot to say on this subject, but Mr. Battelle is hurried and overly chatty, producing laundry lists of geeky concepts without really having thought any of them through properly. This is not a fatal flaw. Read only the middle chapters, and you have a great book.（分数：10.00）(1).The ph
16、rase “warm to“ in the last sentence of the second paragraph most probably means _.（分数：2.00）A.become evaporated throughB.be fed up withC.be heated toD.become more interested in(2).Google is eye-catching due to its _.（分数：2.00）A.distinctivenessB.infinitenessC.selfishnessD.aggressiveness(3).The work by
17、John Battelle would be perfected if appropriate consideration is given to _.（分数：2.00）A.the relationship between internet research and its potential future developmentB.secretive dictatorships and Hollywood celebrities under controlC.the disappointments in Google and its rivals in respects to geeky c
18、onceptsD.companies interests in Google at the moment when the worlds economy is booming(4).According to the text, the authors attitude toward Mr. Battelle s work is _.（分数：2.00）A.strong disapprovalB.total denialC.qualified consentD.enthusiastic support(5).The text seems to be _.（分数：2.00）A.a scientifi
19、c paperB.a book reviewC.a graduation dissertationD.an academic criticism五、Text 2(总题数：1，分数：10.00)“Im a total geek all around,“ says Angela Byron, a 27-year-old computer programmer who has just graduated from Nova Scotia Community College. And yet, like many other students, she “never had the confiden
20、ce“ to approach any of the various open-source software communities on the internet-distributed teams of volunteers who collaborate to build software that is then made freely available. But thanks to Google, the worlds most popular search engine and one of the biggest proponents of open-source softw
21、are, Ms Byron spent the summer contributing code to Drupal, an open-source project that automates the management of websites. “Its awesome,“ she says.Ms Byron is one of 419 students (out of 8,744 who applied) who were accepted for Googles “summer of code“. While it sounds like a hyper-nerdy summer c
22、amp, the students neither went to Googles campus in Mountain View, California, nor to wherever their mentors at the 41 participating open-source projects happened to be located. Instead, Google acted as a matchmaker and sponsor. Each of the participating open-source projects received $500 for every
23、student it took on; and each student received $4,500 ($500 right away, and $4,000 on completion of their work). Oh, and a T-shirt.All of this is the idea of Chris DiBona, Googles open-source boss, who was brainstorming with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Googles founders, last year. They realised that
24、a lot of programming talent goes to waste every summer because students take summer jobs flipping burgers to make money, and let their coding skills degrade. “We want to make it better for students in the summer,“ says Mr. DiBona, adding that it also helps the open- source community and thus, indire
25、ctly, Google, which uses lots of open-source software behind the scenes. Plus, says Mr. DiBona, “it does become an opportunity for recruiting.“Elliot Cohen, a student at Berkeley, spent his summer writing a “Bayesian network toolbox“ for Python, an open-source programming language. “Im a pretty big
26、fan of Google,“ he says. He has an interview scheduled with Microsoft, but “Google is the only big company that I would work at,“ he says. And if that doesnt work out, he now knows people in the open-source community, “and its a lot less intimidating./（分数：10.00）(1).Ms Byrons comment on her own summe
27、r experiment is _.（分数：2.00）A.negativeB.biasedC.puzzlingD.enthusiastic(2).It can be inferred from the second paragraph that the participants of Googles “summer of code“ have _.（分数：2.00）A.been selectedB.been educatedC.been blamedD.been enlightened(3).The work of the participating open-source projects
28、conducted by students, according to the text, is _.（分数：2.00）A.incoherentB.rewardedC.incessantD.gratuitous(4).The idea of Chris DiBona, according to the text, is enriched by _.（分数：2.00）A.T-shirt salesB.open-sourceC.programmers talentD.others wisdom(5).Elliot Cohen is mentioned in the text so as to _.
29、（分数：2.00）A.illustrate the indirect effect of “summer of code“ on Googles recruitmentB.indicate the academic level of Berkeley, USAC.clarify Elliot Cohens summer experience in writing network toolboxD.lay emphasis on the fact that university students are big fans of Google六、Text 3(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Soon
30、 after his appointment as secretary-general of the United Nations in 1997, Kofi Annan lamented that he was being accused of failing to reform the world body in six weeks. “But what are you complaining about?“ asked the Russian ambassador. “Youve had more time than God.“ Ah, Mr. Annan quipped back, “
31、but God had one big advantage. He worked alone without a General Assembly, a Security Council and all the committees.“Recounting that anecdote to journalists in New York this week, Mr. Annan sought to explain why a draft declaration on UN reform and tackling world poverty, due to be endorsed by some
32、 150 heads of state and government at a world summit in the city on September 14th-16th, had turned into such a pale shadow of the proposals that he himself had put forward in March. “With 191 member states“, he sighed, “its not easy to get an agreement.“Most countries put the blame on the United St
33、ates, in the form of its abrasive new ambassador, John Bolton, for insisting at the end of August on hundreds of last-minute amendments and a line-by-line renegotiation of a text most others had thought was almost settled. But a group of middle-income developing nations, including Pakistan, Cuba, Ir
34、an, Egypt, Syria and Venezuela, also came up with plenty of last-minute changes of their own. The risk of having no document at all, and thus nothing for the worlds leaders to come to New York for, was averted only by marathon all-night and all-weekend talks.The 35-page final document is not wholly
35、devoid of substance. It calls for the creation of a Peacebuilding Commission to supervise the reconstruction of countries after wars; the replacement of the discredited UN Commission on Human Rights by a supposedly tougher Human Rights Council; the recognition of a new “responsibility to protect“ pe
36、oples from genocide and other atrocities when national authorities fail to take action, including, if necessary, by force; and an “early“ reform of the Security Council. Although much pared down, all these proposals have at least survived.Others have not. Either they proved so contentious that they
37、were omitted altogether, such as the sections on disarmament and non-proliferation and the International Criminal Court, or they were watered down to little more than empty platitudes. The important section on collective security and the use of force no longer even mentions the vexed issue of pre-em
38、ptive strikes; meanwhile the section on terrorism condemns it “in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes“, but fails to provide the clear definition the Americans wanted.Both Mr. Annan and, more surprisingly, George Bush have nevertheless sought t
39、o put a good face on things, with Mr. Annan describing the summit document as “an important step forward“ and Mr. Bush saying the UN had taken “the first steps“ towards reform. Mr. Annan and Mr. Bolton are determined to go a lot further. It is now up to the General Assembly to flesh out the document
40、s skeleton proposals and propose new ones. But its chances of success appear slim.（分数：10.00）(1).Who have recently listened to the story in the first paragraph of the text?（分数：2.00）A.Ambassadors.B.UN officials.C.The worlds leaders.D.Reporters.(2).It can be inferred from the third paragraph that _.（分数
41、：2.00）A.it took much time to have a UN documentB.it was a piece of cake to reach an agreement with approximately 200 member statesC.few nations were resented at American diplomatic activitiesD.only developing countries came up with last-minute changes(3).The authors attitude toward the UN final docu
42、ment is _.（分数：2.00）A.biasedB.indifferentC.skepticalD.impartial(4).According to the text, empty platitudes might be found in the section on _.（分数：2.00）A.Peacebuilding CommissionB.UN Commission on Human RightsC.terrorismD.the Security Council(5).According to the last paragraph, the General Assembly _.
43、（分数：2.00）A.is deleting the documents skeleton proposalsB.is determined to go further toward disarmamentC.is attempting to put forward new proposalsD.is unlikely to work out relevant details and advance novel proposals七、Text 4(总题数：1，分数：10.00)The term “disruptive technology“ is popular, but is widely
44、misused. It refers not simply to a clever new technology, but to one that undermines an existing technology-and which therefore makes life very difficult for the many businesses which depend on the existing way of doing things. Twenty years ago, the personal computer was a classic example. It swept
45、aside an older mainframe-based style of computing, and eventually brought IBM, one of the worlds mightiest firms at the time, to its knees. This week has been a coming-out party of sorts for another disruptive technology, “voice over internet protocol“ (VOIP), which promises to be even more disrupti
46、ve, and of even greater benefit to consumers, than personal computers.VOIPs leading proponent is Skype, a small firm whose software allows people to make free calls to other Skype users over the internet, and very cheap calls to traditional telephones-all of which spells trouble for incumbent teleco
47、ms operators. On September 12th, eBay, the leading online auction-house, announced that it was buying Skype for $2.6 billion, plus an additional $1.5 billion if Skype hits certain performance targets in coming years.This seems a vast sum to pay for a company that has only $60m in revenues and has ye
48、t to turn a profit. Yet eBay was not the only company interested in buying Skype. Microsoft, Yahoo!, News Corporation and Google were all said to have also considered the idea. Perhaps eBay, rather like some over-excited bidder in one of its own auctions, has paid too much. The company says it plans
49、 to use Skypes technology to make it easier for buyers and sellers to communicate, and to offer new “click to call“ advertisements, but many analysts are sceptical that eBay is the best owner of Skype. Whatever the merits of the deal, however, the fuss over Skype in recent weeks has highlighted the significance of VOIP, and the enormous threat it poses to incumbent telecoms operators.For the rise of Skype and other VOIP services means nothing less than the death of the traditio
