1、考研英语-94 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BSection Use o(总题数：1，分数：10.00)Back in the .16th century, political plays were all about men. Not now. For some time, American female playwrights have followed theU (1) /Uof Wendy Wasserstein, a 50-year-old Brooklyn-born dramatist, whose work has focusedU (2) /Ufa
2、mily drama and personalU (3) /U. Overtly political plays were consideredU (4) /Uand unfashionable. But this is no longer so often theU (5) /U.A new generation of female playwrightsU (6) /Utackling such subjectsU (7) /Uracism, rape and apartheid. The quality of these plays has variedU (8) /U. The bes
3、tU (9) /Utheir subjects with nuance and subtlety, while it is the more controversial pr6ductionsU (10) /Ufall flat. With topical issues now the stuff 0fshallow, made-for-television movies, audiences are looking to the theatre for something moreU (11) /U.Rebecca Gilmans previous play, “Spinning into
4、Butter“, dealt with white racism in academia; her current drama, “Boy Gets Girl“, gives a feminist take on male searching and objeetificati6n of women. Kia Corthron has three plays, including “Force Continuum“,U (12) /Uwith racial issuesU (13) /Uor coming to the New York stage this year. But perhaps
5、 the mostU (14) /Urecent play on political themes toU (15) /Uis “The Syringa Tree“, a one-woman show about segregation in South Africa in the 1960s, written andU (16) /Uby Pamela Glen.U (17) /Uthe play had troubleU (18) /Uan audience when itU (19) /Uin September last year, critical acclaim and persi
6、stent word-of-mouth followed, graduallyU (20) /Uto make “The Syringa Tree“ one of the citys most popular offerings.（分数：10.00）A.modelB.patternC.modeD.fashionA.RomB.atC.inD.onA.relationshipB.relationC.relationshipsD.relationsA.outdateB.outdatedC.dateD.datingA.situationB.caseC.instanceD.conditionA.isB.
7、areC.wasD.wereA.likeB.likingC.likelyD.asA.broadlyB.extensivelyC.differentlyD.widelyA.treatedB.treatsC.treatD.treatingA.whichB.thatC.whatD.whoA.substantialB.extensiveC.importantD.ampleA.dealingB.dealtC.dealD.dealsA.onB.atC.inD.aboveA.notableB.notingC.notoriousD.distinguishedA.todayB.dateC.nowadaysD.n
8、owA.presentedB.actedC.playedD.performedA.ThoughB.ButC.AndD.HoweverA.to findB.foundC.findingD.findsA.was openedB.openedC.openingD.opensA.helpsB.helpedC.helpingD.help二、BSection Readi(总题数：4，分数：40.00)BPart A/BBText 1/BAt current online-ed rates, it is almost impossible for web publishers that create the
9、ir own content to make moneyjust ask any of the two dozen, from Z.com to eCountries that have gone bust in the past month alone. The mason for the bloodbath is simple: advertisers are not willing m pay enough for web ads to support the cost of displaying them.To see why, consider a credit-card firm
10、that wants to find customers online. Say it runs a campaign to display its banner ad to 2 million viewers. Using industry averages, one out of every 200 viewers can be expected to click on the ad: one out of every 100 of those will actually sign up for a credit card. Thus, the campaign would yield 1
11、00 new customers. Offline. the firm pays about $150 for each customer it acquires, through anything from direct mail to television ads. Using the same rate, it would therefore be willing to pay $15.000 for those 2 million online-ad views, or a cost-per-thousand- views (CPM) rate of $7.50.Now conside
12、r the economics of the website that is running those ads. It probably does not have its own ad sales team, so it is getting those credit-card ads from an advertising network such as DoubleClick. The network takes half the revenues, leaving the site with a CPM of $3.75. Imagine that the site is very
13、successful, say among the top few hundred on the web. If so, it may be able to generate 10m page views a month. At $3.75 per thousand views, that means revenue of $37,500 a month. Take out hardware, software and bandwidth costs, and enough might be left to support two employees or so.This grim pictu
14、re can be improved by selling more than one ad per page. but such clutter often comes at the cost of a lower rate of “click-throughs“ and, eventually, even lower CPMs. The site can try to charge higher CPMs by providing more information about viewer demographics, to help advertisers target their ads
15、, or by claiming that it has a sign that may justify a fee for brand-building advertisers. But advertisers are skeptical. The biggest web portals get their content almost for freea mixture of material from other-sites and content created by viewersand attract so much traffic that they can support hu
16、ge organizations on low CPMs. But for most smaller websites, there is no way out. Those that cannot find revenue sources beyond advertising will either go bust or be forced to admit that their site is a non-profit enterprise. If truth-in-advertising rules were enforced, most dotcoms would be dotorgs
17、.（分数：10.00）(1).In nowadays, earning money from the web is rather_.（分数：2.00）A.difficultB.unimaginativeC.easyD.impossible(2).Who can really get profits from the ads?（分数：2.00）A.All the websites with ads.B.Some powerful sites.C.Peer advertising websites.D.Ad advertisers.(3).From the passage, we can see
18、that_.（分数：2.00）A.small websites should be annexed by big onesB.most websites will go bustC.dotorgs charged more from advertisingD.most website advertisings are not actually the truth(4).Using industry averages, if 400 viewers can be expected to sign up a credit ,card, how much viewers will actually
19、see the ad?（分数：2.00）A.2 millionB.4 millionC.16 millionD.8 million(5).The authors attitude to the future of websites is_.（分数：2.00）A.distrustfulB.pessimisticC.detestingD.optimisticBText 2/BThe consequences of heavy drinking are well documented: failing health, broken marriages, regrettable late-night
20、phone calls. But according to Gregory Luzaichs calculations, there can be a downside to modest drinking, toothough one that damages the wallet, not the liver.The Pek Wine Steward prevents wine from spoiling by injecting argon, an inert gas, into the bottle before sealing it airtight with silicon. Mr
21、. Luzaich. a mechanical engineer in Windsor, Calif.in the Sonoma County wine countryfirst tallied the costs of his reasonable consumption in October 2001. “Id like to come home in the evening and have a glass of wine with dinner,“ he said. “My wife doesnt drink very much. so the bottle wouldnt get c
22、onsumed. And maybe I would forget about it the next day, and Id check back a day or two later, and the wine would be spoiled.“ That meant he was wasting most of a $15 to $20 bottle of wine. dozens of times a year.A cheek of the wine-preservation gadgets on the market left Mr. Luzaich dissatisfied Hi
23、gh-end wine cabinets cost thousands of dollarsa huge investment for a glass-a-day drinker. Affordable preservers, meanwhile, didnt quite perform to Mr. Luzaichs liking; be thought they allowed too much oxidation, which degrades the taste of a wine.The solution, he decided, was a better gas. Many pre
24、servers pumped nitrogen into an opened bottle to slow a wines decline, even though oenological literature suggested that argon was more effective. So when he began designing the Pek Wine Steward. a metal cone into which a wine bottle is inserted, Mr. Luzaich found that his main challenge was to figu
25、re out how best to introduce the argon.He spent months fine-tuning a gas injection system. “We used computational fluid dynamics to model the gas flow,“ Mr. Luzaich said. referring to a computer-analysis technique that measures how smoothly particles are flowing. The goal was to create an injector t
26、hat could swap a bottles oxygen atoms for argon atoms; argon is an inert gas, and thus unlikely to harm a nice Chianti.Mr. Luzaich, who had previously designed medical and telecommunications products, also worked on creating an airtight seal, to secure the bottle after the argon was injected. He exp
27、erimented with several substances, from neoprene to a visco-elastic polymer (which he dismissed as “too gooey“), before settling on a food-grade silicon.To save wine, a bottle is placed inside the Pek Wine Steward, the top is closed, and a trigger is pulled for 5 to 10 seconds, depending on how much
28、 wine remains. When the trigger is released, the bottle is sealed automatically, preserving the wine for a week or more. the company says. “We wanted to make it very easy for the consumer,“ Mr. Luzaich said. “Its basically mindless.“The device, which resembles a high-tech thermos, first became avail
29、able to consumers in March 2004, and 8,000 to 10.000 have been sold, primarily through catalogs like those of The Wine Enthusiast and Hammacher Schlemmer The base model sells for $99; a deluxe model, which also includes a thermoelectric cooler, is $199（分数：10.00）(1).According to Gregory Luzaich. the
30、disadvantage of modest drinking is_.（分数：2.00）A.damaging the liverB.costing muchC.breaking marriagesD.spoiling the wine(2).The word “tallied“ (Line 3, Para. 2) probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.calculatedB.corresponded toC.listedD.gave(3).According to the text, the “Pek Wine Steward“ is_.（分数：2.00）A.a metal
31、coneB.a thermoelectric coolerC.a gas injectorD.a wine preserver(4).Mr. Luzaich created the seal to prevent the wine from declining with_.（分数：2.00）A.neopreneB.visco-elastic polymerC.siliconD.argon(5).Mr. Luzaichs attitude to the automatic sealing is_.（分数：2.00）A.oppositionB.suspicionC.approvalD.indiff
32、erenceBText 3/BFor many people the New York Times is the greatest newspaper anywhere. But there has long been a small pool of conservative dissenters in its hometown. For them. the Times is left-wing, inaccurate, devoid of humor, and, worst of all. unopposed (they never seem to count the Wall Street
33、 Journal. which, to be fair, doesnt write that much about the Big Apple). Now these criticisms are being made, daily, and often wittily, by a flee web-based publication.The publisher, reporting staff and editor of is Ira Stoll. a 28-year-old former managing editor of Forward, a Jewish weekly. At 6
34、oclock every morning he picks up a copy of the Times at a Brooklyn news-stand and, within four hours, unleashes an invariably scathing report on something he thinks either ridiculous or wrong.Categories on the website range from the pedantic“New York, lack of basic familiarity with“ (noting unbearab
35、le geographic errors) and “Misspelling of names“ (including that of the Sulzberger family, which controls the Times)to weightier topics such as taxes and immigration. Most of the time. Mr. Stoll is on the look-out for left-wing bias masked as objectivity. He is particularly tough on the citation of
36、allegedly impartial “experts“ m back up predictable Times conclusionsthat the poor are getting poorer, private education is bad. welfare reform has failed, public housing is vital, and Republicans and policemen are insensitive, racist or mentally challenged.Occasionally, Mr. Stolls pieces precede (o
37、r perhaps cause) a correction. He was. for instance. the first to spot that the Times had attacked John Ashcroft, the conservative attorney-general, with a shortened and misleading quotation lifted from another newspaper. More often the sins are of leftish omission. Last weekends ode to the joys of
38、traveling in Cuba, he points out, avoided “any mention of the countrys horrible human-rights record“.Like other zealots, Mr. Stoll sometimes asks too much. Even. erm weekly newspapers occasionally get things wrong; it would be surprising if a daily as big as the Times never did. And Mr. Stolls bias.
39、 though overt, can get a little boring. This week he nicely skewered an absurdly solemn Times piece about a plan in Connecticut to stop high schools starting work before 8.30am, because teenagers do “not physiologically wake up“, fbr not even wondering whether it might be a good tiling for the littl
40、e dears to go to bed earlier. But did Mr. Stoll really need to add a carp about those tired teenagers having sex “with the assistance of taxpayer-provided free contraceptives“?All the same, Mr. Stoll seems to have struck a nerve. In only seven months, with no marketing, he has developed a subscriber
41、 list for a daily e-mail of almost 2.000 people (including, inevitably, Newt Gingrich). And the Times seems to be taking some notice. Three of its journalists have already taken him out for lunch.（分数：10.00）(1).New York Times was not criticized by the conservative because of being_.（分数：2.00）A.extremi
42、stB.humourousC.unfaithfulD.unopposed(2).The content of includes all of the following topics EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.taxes and immigrationB.flagrant geographic errorsC.some leg-wing biasD.Sulzberger family gossip(3).The instance in the 4th paragraph implies Mr. Stolls pieces sometimes_.（分数：2.00）A.are sma
43、rtB.are sharpC.are foolishD.have foresight(4).The fifth paragraph implies_.（分数：2.00）A.Mr. Stoll is going too farB.weekly newspapers often make mistakes.C.the teenagers shouldnt be provided with the contraceptionD.Mr. Stolls action benefits the teenagers(5).Which one is NOT true?（分数：2.00）A.Mr. Stoll
44、has achieved great success in his career.B.Mr. Stoll has a steady “reader group“.C.The Times will take measures to deal with Mr. Stolls behaviour.D.The author does not appreciate Mr. Stoll very much.BText 4/BA writer said yesterday that Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthS0uth,
45、paid her through a public relations firm to produce several favorable articles for an Alabama newspaper that he reviewed before publication during his fraud trial last year.The articles appeared in The Birmingham Times, a black-owned weekly in Birmingham, Ale. Mr. Scrushy was acquitted in June in a
46、six-month trial there on all 36 counts against him, despite testimony from former HealthSouth executives who said he presided over a huge accounting fraud. “I sat in that courtroom for six months, and I did everything possible to advocate for his cause,“ Audrey Lewis, the author of the articles, sai
47、d in a telephone interview. She said she received $10.000 from Mr. Scrushy through the Lewis Group, a public relations firm, and another $1,000 to help buy a computer. “Scrushy promised me a lot more than what I got.“ she said.Charles A. Russell, a spokesman for Mr. Scrushy, said he was not aware of
48、 an explicit agreement for the Lewis Group to pay Ms. Lewis. The payments to Ms. Lewis were first reported by The Associated Press yesterday. “Theres nothing there I think Richard would have any part of,“ Mr. Russell said.Mr. Russell said that Mr. Scrushy reviewed the articles before they were published. “Richard thought she was doing a little, F.Y.L, heres what Im writing,“ Mr. Russell said. Ms. Lewis said that Mr. Russell, a prominent Denver-based crisis communications consultant, was also involved in providing her with financial compensation. She
