1、考研英语-9 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)After yuppies and dinkies, a new creature from adland stalks the block. The NYLON. an acronym linking New York and London, is a refinement of those more familiar categories such as jet-setters and cosmocrats (cosmopolitan aristocrats.
2、do keep up). Marketing professionals have noted thatU (1) /Uthe demise of Concorde, a new class of high-earner increasinglyU (2) /Uhis or her time shuttlingU (3) /Uthe twin capitals of globalisation And NYLONS prefer their home comfortsU (4) /Utap in both cities. Despite the impressiveU (5) /Uof air
3、 miles, they are not adventurous people.AsU (6) /Ufrom Tom Wolfes Masters of the Universe of the 1980s. NYLONS have done more than wellU (7) /Uthe long boom and new economy of the last ten years. They are DJs. chefs, games designers. Internet entrepreneurs, fashionistas, publishers and even aU (8) /
4、Uband of journalists and writers. They are self-consciously trendy and some are even able toU (9) /Uhouses in both cities. Others will put up.U (10) /Ua house in one. and a viewU (11) /Ua room m theU (12) /U. Of course, their horizons doU (13) /Ubeyond just New York and London. For many. Los Angeles
5、 is an important shopping mall.More significantly for adland, NYLONS provide some useful marketing savings. Campaigns no longer have to differ very much in the two Cities,U (14) /UNYLONS bring them ever closer together. The restaurants are the same, with Nobu now in London and Conran in New York. Ma
6、ny playsU (15) /Uin both cities at the same time. and DJs shuttle between the two.U (16) /Uthe same garage to the same people inU (17) /Uclubs. Time Out and Wallpaper are the magazines ofU (18) /U. All this is fine for NYLONS. But not so muchU (19) /Ufor everybody else watching Notting Hill turnU (2
7、0) /Ua pale imitation of Greenwich Village.（分数：10.00）A.regardless ofB.even thoughC.althoughD.despiteA.usesB.spendsC.expendsD.costsA.betweenB.amongC.amidD.amongstA.atB.inC.onD.aboveA.figureB.quantityC.numberD.amountA.distinctB.distinctiveC.discreteD.diverseA.withinB.outsideC.beyondD.out ofA.selectB.c
8、hoiceC.excellentD.exquisiteA.offerB.provideC.buyD.affordA.forB.withC.onD.toA.inB.ofC.withD.uponA.otherB.anotherC.restD.elseA.enlargeB.extendC.expandD.widenA.butB.thoughC.asD.whileA.presentB.displayC.rumD.showA.performingB.playingC.presentingD.actingA.sameB.likelyC.similarD.likeA.choiceB.pickC.select
9、ionD.preferenceA.funB.funnyC.amusingD.interesting20A.upB.intoC.inD.out二、BSection Readi(总题数：4，分数：40.00)BText 1/BNASA launched the first space mission to Pluto yesterday as a powerful rocket hurled the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to the edge of the solar systemAs
10、 it soared toward a 2007 meeting with Jupiter, whose powerful gravitational field will shoot it on its way to Pluto. mission managers said radio communications confirmed that the 1,054-pound craft was in good health.The $700 million mission began when a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket rose from a lau
11、nching pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 2 p.m., almost an hour later than planned because of low clouds that obscured a clear view of the flight path by tracking cameras.Less than an hour later, all three stages of the booster rocket worked as planned, and the spacecraft sep
12、arated from them and sprinted away toward deep space. The robot ship sped away at about 36,000 miles per hour, the fastest flight of any spacecraft sent from Earth. allowing it to pass the Moon in about nine hours.“This is a historic day,“ said Alan Stem of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulde
13、r, Colo, the missions principal scientist and team leader. Speaking at a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Dr. Stern said the timing assured that the New Horizons would arrive for its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015the 50th anniversary of the first flyby of Mars by t
14、he Mariner 4. the mission that began the exploration of the planets.The New Horizons is powered by a small plutonium-fired electric generator. Its instruments include three cameras, for visible-light, infrared and ultraviolet images, and three spectrometers to study the composition and temperatures
15、of Plutos thin atmosphere and surface features. It also carries a University of Colorado dust counter, the first experiment to fly on a planetary mission that is entirely designed and operated by students. This is the only experiment that will not hibernate during the mission.Yesterdays liftoff also
16、 paid regard to Plutos discoverer, the astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. who in 1930 became the only American to find a planet in the solar system.(He died at 90. in 1997.) His widow, Patricia Tombaugh. 93. and other family members were present at the cape, and some of his remains were among the commemo
17、rative items aboard the spacecraft. “Some of Clydes ashes are on their way to Pluto today,“ Dr. Stem said.The New Horizons is to reach Jupiters gravitational field in 13 months. The trip to Pluto will take eight more years, most of which the craft will spend in electronic “hibernation“ to save power
18、 and wear on the equipment needed for its seven experiments.In addition to the two-hour delay, the launching was postponed twice in two dayson Tuesday by strong winds at the cape and on Wednesday by a storm that caused a power; failure at the spacecrafts control center at the Johns Hopkins Universit
19、y Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel. Md. Mission planners had until Feb. 14 to launch the mission this year, but only until the end of this month to use the gravity boost from Jupiter, which will shorten the trip to Pluto by five years.（分数：10.00）(1).In the opening paragraph, the author introduces
20、 his topic by_.（分数：2.00）A.describing a situationB.justifying an assumptionC.making a comparisonD.presenting a phenomenon(2).The New Horizons will first approach Jupiter on its way to Pluto because_.（分数：2.00）A.Jupiter is a must station on the way to PlutoB.Jupiter can help it get into its track to Pl
21、utoC.Jupiter has the gravitational fieldD.it is the fastest way(3).Which one of the following statements is TRUE about the spacecraft?（分数：2.00）A.It began the exploration of the planets.B.Ms. Clyde was aboard the spacecraft to memorize Mr. Clyede.C.It will reach Pluto in eight years.D.It broke the ra
22、te record of spacecrafts.(4).The word “hibernation(Line 2. Para. 8) probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.inactivityB.passionC.innovationD.liberation(5).According to the text, the dust counter is_.（分数：2.00）A.the first experiment on the way to the space run independently by studentsB.the first planetary experim
23、entC.the first one of the seven experimentsD.the first experiment that will not hibernateBText 2/BCaution seems the watchword among the institutional investors surveyed in our latest portfolio poll. The allocation of money between equities, bonds and cash has. on average, remained at the same levels
24、 as it did during the third quarter. While Lehman Brothers and Commerz International have increased their overall equity allocations. Daiwa has increased its bond allocation. But given the slowdown in the American economy, it is the reaction of our investors to American equity holdings that is worth
25、y of note.While three of them. including Lehman Brothers, take a dim view of the prospects for American shares, the other four have either marginally increased their allocations, or have maintained them at the same levels as in the previous quarter. Lehman Brothers seems to have decided that the pro
26、spect for German shares is better than it is for American ones. Its allocation for American equities dropped by seven percentage points, to 45% of its equity holdings; while its German share portfolio increased by six percentage points, to 11%. Lehmans share allocation to America has dropped, even a
27、s its overall equity holdings have increased.Daiwa and Standard Life are the other two that have cut back on American equities. But Credit Suisse continues to be a cheerleader for American shares. Following its ten percentage-point increase in the third quarter, the Swiss firm increased its exposure
28、 to American equities once again in the fourth quarter. Commerz International appears to share Credit Suisses bullish outlook: its American equity holdings have increased by four percentage points, to 490. Julius Baer is extremely bullish on American equities, with 60% of its equity funds parked the
29、re. But the average American equity holdings, among our institutional investors dropped by a percentage point in the fourth quarter.British equities seem to have become attractiveall our investors have increased their allocations. Credit Suisse, which in the third quarter cut its investment in Briti
30、sh shares, appears to have changed its mind. It has increased its allocation by four percentage points, taking the total to 9%. On the other hand. Japanese shares have been given the thumbs-down: all our investors save Julius Baer (unchanged) and Credit Suisse (slightly up) have moved funds out of J
31、apanese equities.It is a relatively similar story for Japanese bonds, where everybody apart from Commerz International has either dropped their yen-denominated bond holdings, or kept them unchanged. Robeco Group seems decidedly bearish, for it has sharply, cut its allocation, from 24% to 15%. Lehman
32、 Brothers. appears to have got the timing right, by raising its allocation of dollar-denominated bonds in the fourth quarter. Its increase was followed by the Fed interest-rate cut on January 3rd. Will Lehmans bearish timing prove right for American shares, too?（分数：10.00）(1).Lehman Brothers_.（分数：2.0
33、0）A.has increased its equity and bond allocation in AmericaB.pays less attention to the equity holdings because of the American economys slowdownC.is pessimistic about the American prospect and cautious about its allocationD.is as bearish as other institutional investors(2).According to the passage,
34、 “equity“ can serve as_.（分数：2.00）A.fairnessB.balanceC.profitD.property(3).According to the passage,_.（分数：2.00）A.American economy causes its investors great change in the allocation among equities, bonds and cashB.the success of the investors and firms, is due to the right timingC.the 4th quarter is
35、not of great difference from the 3rd one for investorsD.the investors are pessimistic about the Japanese market(4).Which of the following is connected to the word “bearish“ in the last paragraph?（分数：2.00）A.droppingB.intellectualC.boomingD.increasing(5).The firms like Lehman Brothers believe that the
36、 prospects of American shares are_.（分数：2.00）A.inspiringB.unclearC.disappointingD.encouragingBText 3/BCharles Reznikoff (18941976) worked relentlessly, never leaving New York but for a brief stay in Hollywood, of all places. He was admired by Pound and Kenneth Burke. and often published his own works
37、; in the Depression era, he managed a treadle printing press in his basement. He wrote three sorts of poems: exceptionally short imagistic lyrics; longer pieces crafted and cobbled from other sources, often from the Judaic tradition: and book-length poems wrought from the testimony both of Holocaust
38、 trials and from the courtrooms of mm-of-the-century America. Two of these full-length volumes were indeed titled Testimony, as was an earlier prose work; Uit was a word that kept him close company./U When asked late in life to define his poetry, it was not the word he chose.“Objectivist, he wrote,
39、naming his longstanding group, and mimicking poetic style with a single prose sentence: “images clear but the meaning not stated but suggested by the objective details and the music of the verse: words pithy and plain: without the artifice of regular meters: themes, chiefly Jewish. American. urban.“
40、 If the sentence sounds hard-won, this is perhaps because it was. Four decades earlier, he wrote in a letter to friends, “There is a learned article about my verse in Poetry this month, from which I learn that I am an objectivist.“ The learned fellow was Louis Zukofsky, brilliant eminence of the Obj
41、ectivists. “with whom I disagree as to both form and content of verse, but to whom I am obliged for placing some of my things here and there.“ So read Reznikoffs conclusion in 1931. with its fillip of polite resentment.Movements and schools are arbitrary and immaterial things by which poetic history
42、 is told. This must have Urankled/U Reznikoff. who spent his writing life tracing the material and the necessary.Born a child of immigrants in Brooklyn in 1294. he was in journalism school at 16, took a law degree at 21. Though he was little interested in legal practice, the ideas would be near the
43、heart of his writing. Ideal poetic language, he wrote, “is restricted almost to the testimony of a witness in a court of law.“ If this suggests a congenital optimism about the law. it made for astonishingly care-filled poetry. Reznikoff is unsurpassed in conveying the sense that the world is worth g
44、etting right. Not the glorious or the damaged world, but the world that is everything that is the case. Reznikoffs faith in the facts of the case takes on an intensity no less social than spiritual, no greater when surveying the Old Testament than New York This collection gathers all his poems (but
45、for those already book-length) by the technique of compressing onto single pages as many as five or six at a time. This can lessen the force; each is a sort of American haiku, though no more impressionistic than a hand-operated printing press. One such. numbered 69 in the volume Jerusalem the Golden
46、, runs in its length: “Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies f a girder, still itself among the rubbish.“ This exemplary couplet is sometimes taken to represent Reznikoffs poetry itself, immutable and certain amid the transitory.（分数：10.00）(1).By saying “it was a word that kepi him close company“
47、( Line 7. Para. 1 ), the author implies_.（分数：2.00）A.Charles Reznikoff always wrote works about testimonyB.Charles Reznikoff was always involved in the testimony affairsC.Charles Reenikoff liked to write testimonyD.Charles Reznikoff is a busy lawyer(2).Reznikoffs attitude to the fact that he was grou
48、ped as objectivist is_.（分数：2.00）A.approvalB.indifferenceC.oppositionD.suspicion(3).The word “rankled“ (Line 2. Para. 3) probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.interestedB.angeredC.pleasedD.consoled(4).We can learn from the fourth paragraph that_.（分数：2.00）A.Reznikoff liked to learn lawB.Reznikoff was more intere
49、sted in spiritual world than in social worldC.it is astonishing that Reznikoff wrote care-filled poetryD.Reznikoff was greatly influenced by his legal experience in his poetry writing(5).35 By citing the poem in the last paragraph, the author intends to_.（分数：2.00）A.show that the force is lessoned in t
