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1、考研英语-16 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)BDirections:/BRead the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea,U (1) /Uinto a hobby and lately hasU (
2、2) /Uinto a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidatesU (3) /UElectrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keepU (4) /Uof their personal interest on the Internet. Before long theyU (5) /Uthat their homeb
3、rewed lists were becoming too long andU (6) /U. Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.During 1994, theyU (7) /Uyahoo into a customized database designed toU (8) /Uthe needs of the thousands of usersU (9) /Ubegan to use the service through the closelyU (10) /UInternet community. T
4、hey developed customized software to help themU (11) /Ulocate, identify and edit materialU (12) /Uon the Internet. The name Yahoo isU (13) /Uto stand for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Orale“, but Filo and Yang insist they selected theU (14) /Ubecause they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo it
5、self firstU (15) /Uon Yangs workstation, “akebono“, while the search engine wasU (16) /Uon Filos computer, “Konishiki“.In early 1995 Marc Andersen, co-founder of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their filesU (17) /Uto larger computersU (18) /Uat Nets
6、cape. As a result Stanfords computer network returned toU (19) /U, and both parties benefited. Today, YahooU (20) /Uorganized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.(分数:10.00)A.becameB.grewC.turnD.intendA.madeB.sawC.lookedD.turnedA.inB.onC.aboutD.forA.touchB.contactC.trackD.
7、recordA.foundedB.foundC.arguedD.reportedA.unwieldyB.toughC.tamableD.invaluableA.exchangedB.shankC.soldD.convertedA.explainB.serveC.discoverD.evaluateA.whichB.thatC.actuallyD.eagerlyA.relativeB.interactiveC.boundD.contactedA.fluentlyB.efficientlyC.exactlyD.actuallyA.transmittedB.purchasedC.soldD.stor
8、edA.aboutB.boundC.goingD.supposedA.fableB.modelC.nameD.brandA.supportedB.residedC.livedD.launchedA.connectedB.lodgedC.introducedD.linkedA.overB.awayC.insideD.beneathA.housedB.caughtC.hosedD.hiddenA.averageB.normalC.ordinaryD.equalA.attainsB.detainsC.maintainsD.contains二、BSection Readi(总题数:4,分数:40.00
9、)BPart A/BBDirections:/BRead the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.BText 1/BMore surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. A
10、s Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: Relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, aster a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: s
11、ome 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and t
12、wo or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wifes previous marriage, or the husbands, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one paren
13、t from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses.Thus, one can find the very type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with “full-time“ children from the present marriage and
14、 “part-time“ children from former marriages. There are step-fathers, step-mothers, half-brothers, and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of al
15、l this, there remains one constant: Most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.(分数:10.00)(1).By calling Americans marrying people the author means that_.(分数:2.00)A.Americans are more traditional than EuropeansB.Americans expect more out of marriage than EuropeansC.there are more married
16、couples in U. S. A than in EuropeD.more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age(2).Divorced Americans_.(分数:2.00)A.will most likely remarryB.prefer the way they liveC.have lost faith in marriageD.are the vast majority of people in the society(3).W
17、hich of the following can be presented as the picture of todays American families?(分数:2.00)A.A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.B.Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.C.Americans prefer to have more kids than before.D.There are no nuclear fam
18、ilies any more.(4).“Part-time“ children_.(分数:2.00)A.spend some of their time with their half-brothers and some of their time with their half-sistersB.spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriageC.are shared between the two former spousesD.cannot stay with “full-time“ children(5
19、).Even though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families, _.(分数:2.00)A.the functions of marriage remain unchangedB.most Americans prefer a second marriageC.the vast majority of Americans still have faith in marriageD.all of the aboveBText 2/BLateral thinking, first describe
20、d by Edward de Bono in 1967, is just a few years older than Edwards son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the de Bono name was so famous, Caspars parents worried that any time he would say something bright at school, his teachers might snap, “Where do you ge
21、t that idea from?“We had to be careful and not overdo it,“ Edward admits. Now Caspar is at Oxfordwhich once looked unlikely because he is also slightly dyslexic. In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of his school teachers thought he had a chance. “So then we did several thinking sessions,“
22、his father says, “using my techniques and, when he went up for the exam, he did extremely well.“ Soon after, Edward de Bono decided to write his latest book, “Teach Your Child How to Think“, in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brain-storming businessmen into informal exercise
23、s for parents and children to share.Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence, and everybody knows that children arent very logical. So isnt it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? “You know,“ Edward de Bono says, “if you examine peoples thinking, it
24、is quite unusual to find faults of logic. But the faults of perception are huge! Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.“Teach Your Child How to Think“ offers lessons in perception improvement, of clearly seeing the implications of something you are saying and of exploring t
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