1、考研英语-试卷 113及答案解析(总分：142.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Use of English(总题数：2，分数：80.00)1.Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D.（分数：40.00）_Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad de
2、bts in Russia rarely mean much. The expense of a lawsuit (1)_ the satisfaction; the chances of getting any money are (2)_. Yet Noga, a company owned by Nessim Gaon, a 78-year-old businessman (3)_ in Geneva, has been suing the Russian government since 1993, attempting to (4)_ Russian assets abroad. A
3、t Mr. Gaon“s request, bailiffs last week very nearly (5)_ two of Russia“s most advanced warplanes at the Paris air (6)_. The organisers (7)_ off the Russian authorities, and the planes flew home, just (8)_ time. (9)_ near-misses include a sail-training ship, the Sedov, nuclear-waste shipments, and t
4、he president“s plane. Mr. Gaon, whose previous business partners include regimes in Nigeria and Sudan, put an (10)_ clause in his original export deals: Russia must abandon its sovereign immunity. An arbitration court in Stockholm has found in his (11)_, so far, to the (12)_ of $110 million, out of
5、a total (13)_ of $420 million. Other courts (14)_ the world have let him have a (15)_ at any Russian assets (16)_ reach. The odd thing is (17)_ Russia. now awash with cash, does not simply pay up. Mr. Gaon says he was told at one point that a 10% (18)_ on the debt to someone high up in the finance m
6、inistry would solve things. (19)_ off Mr. Gaon costs much in legal fees. Not accepting international judgments sits ill with the current Kremlin line (20)_ the rule of law. Mr. Gaon says his next move will be to seize Russia“s embassy in Paris.（分数：40.00）A.outdoesB.outperformC.outshineD.outweighsA.th
7、inB.slimC.leanD.wiryA.basedB.foundC.establishedD.setA.graspB.holdC.seizeD.snatchA.caughtB.gotC.grabbedD.arrestedA.showB.exhibitionC.displayD.demonstrationA.stiltedB.tippedC.dumpedD.slantedA.inB.onC.atD.uponA.OthersB.AnotherC.The otherD.OtherA.usualB.unusualC.commonD.uncommonA.supportB.goodC.favorD.p
8、referenceA.runeB.figureC.accountD.countA.demandedB.requestedC.requiredD.claimedA.inB.atC.aroundD.overA.crackB.breakC.splitD.snapA.inB.withinC.out ofD.beyondA.howB.whenC.whyD.whereA.kickbackB.paymentC.cutD.rewardA.AvoidingB.FendingC.EscapingD.ShieldingA.inB.onC.atD.to二、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：10，分数：
9、58.00)2.Section II Reading Comprehension_3.Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D._Clouds may have silver linings, but even the sunniest of us seldom glimpse them on foot. The marvelous Blur Building that hovers above the lake o
10、f Yverdon les Bains in Switzerland provides such an opportunity. It gives anyone who has ever wanted to step into the clouds they watch from the airplane window a chance to realize their dream. Visitors wear waterproof ponchos before setting off along a walkway above the lake that takes them into th
11、e foggy atmosphere of the cloud. The experience of physical forms blurring before your eyes as you enter the cloud is both disorientating and liberating. However firmly your feet are planted on the floor, it is hard to escape the sensation of floating. On the upper deck of this spaceship-shaped stru
12、cture, the Angel Bar, a translucent counter lit in tones of aqueous blue, beckons with a dozen different kinds of mineral water. To enter this sublime building situated in the landscape of the Swiss Alps feels like walking into a poemit is part of nature but removed from reality, Its architects, Eli
13、zabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of New York, designed it as a pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002 in the Three Lakes region of Switzerland, an hour“s train ride from Geneva, which features a series of exhibits on the lakes. The Blur Building is easily the most successful. Indeed, you can skip the re
14、st of the Expoa Swiss kitsch version of Britain“s Millennium Domeand head straight for the cloud, which is there until the end of October. The architects asked themselves what was the ideal material for building on a lake and decided on water itself.“ the element of the lake, the snow. the rivers an
15、d the mist above it. They wanted to play on and lay bare the notion of a world“s fair pavilion by creating an ethereal ghost of one in which there is nothing to see. The result is a refuge from the surveillance cameras and high-definition images of our everyday worlda particular tease in Switzerland
16、, where clarity and precision are so prized. (Anti- architecture or not, the Blur Building cost a cool $7.5 million.) Out-of-the-box thinking is a trademark of Diller Scofidio. a husband-and-wife team of architecture professors who became the first architects to win a genius grant from the MacArthur
17、 Foundation in 1999. Although they have built very little, they are interested in the social experience of architecture, in challenging people“s ideas about buildings. They treat architecture as an analytical art form that combines other disciplines, such as visual art and photography, dance and the
18、atre. To realize its Utopian poetry, the Blur Building has to be technologically state-of-the-art. Water from the lake is pumped through 32,000 fog nozzles positioned throughout the skeleton-like stainless steel structure; so the building does not just look like a cloud on the outside, it feels like
19、 a cloud on the inside. And while the 300-foot-wide platform can accommodate up to 400 people, visitors vanish from each other in the mist at about five paces, so you really can wander lonely as a cloud. Wordsworth must be smiling.（分数：10.00）(1).The spectacle on the deck of this structure is NOT_.（分数
20、：2.00）A.dazingB.freeC.spine-chillingD.dazzling(2).One should directly come to the Blur Building in the Expo 2002 and skip the rest because_.（分数：2.00）A.it will be there temporarilyB.it“s the most important expo workC.it“s not real and will vanish in the thin airD.it“s near Geneva(3).The expression “o
21、ut-of-the-box“(Line 1. Para. 4) most probably means_.（分数：2.00）A.traditionalB.logicalC.invariableD.inspirational(4).The last sentence “Wordsworth must be smiling“ means_.（分数：2.00）A.Wordsworth has asked the architects to build it in this wayB.the architecture is just like a beautiful poemC.Wordsworth
22、will be happy to see the scene in his poem come trueD.Wordsworth is satisfied with this architecture(5).Which one is NOT true about the building?（分数：2.00）A.It is a piece of art.B.It differs from the traditional concept of buildings.C.There is no difference from the images of our everyday world.D.The
23、 splendid spectacle can“t be photoset.During its formative years, the inner solar system was a rough-and-tumble place. There were a couple of hundred large objects flying around. Moon-size or bigger, and for millions of years they collided with one another. Out of these impacts grew the terrestrial
24、planetsMercury, Venus, Earth with its Moon, and Marsand the asteroids. Scientists have thought of these collisions as mergers: a smaller object (the impactor) hits a larger one (the target) and sticks to it. But new computer modeling by Erik Asphaug and Craig B. Agnor of the University of California
25、, Santa Cruz, shows that things weren“t that simple. “Most of the time, the impactor and the target go off on their merry ways“, Dr. Asphaug said. About half the collisions are these hit-and-nm affairs. Now the two researchers and a colleague, Quentin Williams. have done simulations to study the eff
26、ects of these collisions on the impactors. They are not pretty. “The impactors suffer all kinds of fates“, Dr. Asphaug said. They undergo tremendous shearing and gravitational forces that can cause them to fracture into smaller pieces or melt, causing chemical changes in the material and loss of wat
27、er or other volatile compounds. Or the crust and cover can be stripped off, leaving just an embryonic iron core. The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, discovered that two objects did not even have to collide to create an effect on the smaller one from the gravitational forces of a
28、 near-collision during the simulations. Dr. Asphaug said, “We“d look and say, “Gosh, we just got rid of the whole atmosphere of that planetoid: it didn“t even hit and it sucked the whole atmosphere off.“ The researchers suggest that the remains of these beaten-up, fractured and melted objects can be
29、 found in the asteroid belt. Dr. Asphaug said that could explain the prevalence of “iron relics“ in the belt. Some of these planetoid remnants also eventually hit Earth: that would help explain why certain meteorites lack water and other volatile elements. The hit-and-run collision model also provid
30、es an explanation for Vesta. a large asteroid with an intact crust and cover. How did Vesta keep its cover while so many other objects were losing theirs? Dr. Asphang said it could be that Vesta was always the target, never the impactor, and was thus less affected. “It just had to avoid being the hi
31、tter“, he said, “until bigger objects left the system“.（分数：10.00）(1).The planets were formed as a result of_.（分数：2.00）A.collisions of objects in inner solar systemB.the merging of a smaller object and a larger oneC.the impactor sticking to the targetD.chemical changes(2).In the last sentence of the
32、second paragraph, “they“ refers to_.（分数：2.00）A.the researchersB.the collisionsC.the simulationsD.the impactors(3).Certain meteorites lack water and other volatile elements probably because_.（分数：2.00）A.these elements are not suitable to exist in these meteoritesB.these elements are lost during the me
33、dical changes during collisionC.their crest and cover have been stripped offD.they are planetoid remnants(4).According to the hit-and-nm collision model, Vesta keeps its cover probably because_.（分数：2.00）A.it was always staticB.it always acted as the targetC.there is no collision happening to itD.its
34、 cover is very hard(5).The model developed by Erik Asphaug and Craig B. can explain the following facts EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.there are a lot of remnants in the asteroid beltB.some elements are scarcer in some planetoid remnantsC.the terrestrial planets grew out of the collisionD.the impactors are stil
35、l affected in near-collisionZimbabweans cope with the shortage of the dollars that count in various ways. The government grabs them from other people. On February 9th, it told the country“s banks to start selling all their hard- currency inflows to the central bank and the state petrol-importing mon
36、opoly, at the official rate. It said that Zimbabwean embassies abroad face power cuts because they cannot pay their bills. But if staff in Moscow felt chilly, the grab did not warm them. Exporters told their customers to delay payments. Hard-currency inflows fell by some 90%, forcing the government
37、to relent. Business folk were relieved. The economy is so stormy that many exporters stay afloat only by selling American dollars on the black market. Others try to keep their foreign earnings offshore. This is not easy, since most sell tobacco, gold, roses and other goods that can be observed and r
38、ecorded as they leave the country. But some quietly set up overseas subsidiaries to buy their own products at artificially low prices. The subsidiary then sells the goods m the real buyer, and keeps the proceeds abroad. Since petrol, which must be imported, is scarce, some employers give their staff
39、 bicycles. But the two local bicycle makers have gone bankrupt, so bicycles must be imported too. Where possible, local products are replaced for imports. One firm, for example, has devised a way to make glue using oil from locally-grown castor beans instead of petroleum-based chemicals. But even th
40、e simplest products often have imported components. One manufacturer found it could not make first-aid kits, because it could not obtain zips for the bags. The local zip-maker had no dollars to import small but essential metal studs. An order worth $8,000 was lost for want of perhaps $100 in hard ca
41、sh. Rich individuals are putting their savings into tangible assets, though not houses or land, which they fear the government may seize. Instead, they buy movable goods such as cars or jewellery. Unlike the Zimbabwean dollar, such assets do not lose half their value every year. Jewellery is also an
42、 easy way m move money abroad. Wear it on the plane, sell it in London. and leave the money there. The poor have fewer options. A typical unskilled wage now buys a loaf of bread and a litre of milk a day, plus the bus fare to work. For most poor Zimbabweans, the only measure against inflation is to
43、plant maize in the back yard and hope they can harvest it before their landlord expels them.（分数：10.00）(1).But if staff in Moscow felt chilly, the grab did not warm them means the measure government adopted is_.（分数：2.00）A.funnyB.efficientC.activeD.useless(2).The overseas subsidiaries are set up to_.（
44、分数：2.00）A.puzzle the Zimbabwean governmentB.act as a sellerC.import some productsD.store the products which are produced in Zimbabwean(3).The example of “zips“ reflects_.（分数：2.00）A.if possible, imports will be replaced by the local productsB.some products can“t be produced without imported component
45、sC.the people try to find a way m produce the local materialsD.a small lack leads to a big loss(4).Under current circumstances, people in the country do the following EXCEPT_.（分数：2.00）A.put savings into tangible assetsB.buy cars and jewelersC.plant maize in the back yardD.buy houses and land(5).Whic
46、h one is NOT true about effects resulted from economic problems in Zimbabwea?（分数：2.00）A.People don“t want to hold the Zimbabwean dollars.B.Some people will give you mom Zimbabwean dollars for hard currency.C.The staff use bicycles instead of cars.D.Business folk have nothing to do with the governmen
47、tal policies.Stephen Colbert“s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner nine days ago has already created a debate over politics, the press and humor. Now, a commercial rivalry has broken out over its rebroadcast. On Wednesday, C-Span, the nonprofit network that first showed Mr. Colbert“
48、s speech, wrote letters to the video sites YouT and , demanding that the clips of the speech be taken off their Web sites. The action was a first for C-Span, whose prime-time schedule tends to feature events like Congressional hearings on auto fuel-economy standards. “We have had other hotI hate to use that wordvideos that generated a lot of buzz“, said Rob Kennedy, executive vice president of C-Span, which was founded in 1979. “But this is the first time it
