[考研类试卷]考研英语模拟试卷132及答案与解析.doc
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1、考研英语模拟试卷 132及答案与解析 一、 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. (10 points) 1 Culture is the sum total of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this (1)_,
2、every group has a culture, however un-developed or uncivilized it may seem to us. To the professional anthropologist, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture (2)_ another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic (3)_ among the different languages. People once (4)_ the lan
3、guages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped (5)_ of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. (6)_ it is possible that language (7)_ began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of “backward“ languages (8)_ no spoken tongue answers that description today.
4、 Most languages of (9)_ groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely (10)_, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They (11)_ behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language n
5、eeds, (12)_ only in their vocabularies, which reflect their speakers social (13)_. Even in this department, (14)_, two things are to be noted: 1) All languages seem to (15)_ the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence (16)_ by borrowing them from oth
6、er languages and adapting them to their own system. 2) The objects and activities requiring names and (17)_ in “backward“ languages, while different from ours, are often (18)_ numerous and complicated. A Western languages distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness (“this“ and “that“); so
7、me languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker or to the person (19)_ and what is removed from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future. This study of language, in turn, (20)_ a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures ar
8、e to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank. ( A) perspective ( B) sense ( C) dimension ( D) manner ( A) to ( B) upon ( C) over ( D) off ( A) entitlement ( B) contradiction ( C) discrepancy ( D) hierarchy ( A) envisaged ( B) viewed ( C) assessed ( D) integrated ( A) forms ( B) patterns (
9、 C) shapes ( D) symbols ( A) Since ( B) While ( C) Although ( D) Unless ( A) on average ( B) at length ( C) by contrast ( D) in general ( A) what ( B) when ( C) which ( D) that ( A) illiterate ( B) uncultured ( C) misguided ( D) disadvantaged ( A) complex ( B) lofty ( C) redundant ( D) rigorous ( A)
10、 rip ( B) surge ( C) lag ( D) leap ( A) rather than ( B) but ( C) less than ( D) and ( A) orders ( B) rituals ( C) sectors ( D) staples ( A) therefore ( B) however ( C) indeed ( D) hence ( A) operate ( B) possess ( C) strive ( D) invade ( A) but ( B) but rather ( C) or ( D) or else ( A) discriminati
11、ons ( B) distinctions ( C) distortions ( D) dispositions ( A) surprisingly ( B) illogically ( C) improbably ( D) invariably ( A) remarked ( B) said ( C) addressed ( D) talked ( A) presents ( B) offers ( C) gives ( D) sheds Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below
12、each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 21 Penny-pinching consumers and fierce price wars are bad news for the travel industry. Bad, that is, for everyone except the booming on line travel giants. Consider the sharp rebound of such on-line players as Travelocity and Expedia. While they suffe
13、red in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, with bookings off as much as 70% in the weeks that followed, business has snapped back. “The speed with which those businesses bounced back surprised even the people most bullish about the sector,“ says Mitchell J. Rubin, a money manager at Ne
14、w York-based Baron Capital, an investor in on-line travel stocks. The travel industrys pain is often the on-line industrys gain, as suppliers push more discounted airline seats and hotel rooms to win back customers. And many of those deals are available only on dine. At the same time, on-line agenci
15、es rely primarily on leisure travelers, where traffic has rebounded more quickly than on the business side. The two biggest players, Travelocity Com. Inc. and Expedia Inc., are locked in combat for the top spot. Both sold some $3 billion worth of travel last year, though Expedia topped Travelocity i
16、n the fourth quarter in gross bookings. And thanks in part to a greater emphasis on wholesale deals with suppliers, Expedia is more profitable. For the quarter ended in December, Expedia posted its first net profit, $5.2 million, even with noncash and nonrecurring charges, compared with Travelocitys
17、 $25 million loss. The airlines latest cost cutting moves may only spur the on-line stampede. Major carriers are eliminating travel agent commissions in the U.S. That could lead to growing service charges for consumers at traditional agencies, driving still more travelers to the Web. Jupiter Media M
18、etrix is predicting that on line travel sales in the U.S. will jump 29%0, to $31 billion this year, and to $50 billion by 2005. About half of that is from airlines and other suppliers own Web sites, but that still leaves plenty of room for the online agents. This growing market is drawing plenty of
19、competition and new players. Hotel and car rental franchiser Cendant Corp. snapped up Cheap Tickets last October. Barry Dillers U.S.A Networks Inc. bought a controlling stake in Expedia. And a group of hotels, including Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Corp., are launching their own business this summer to m
20、arket hotel rooms on the Net. Is the field too crowded? Analysts and on-line agencies arent worried, figuring that theres plenty of new business to go around. But, for now, the clear winners are consumers, who can count on finding better services and better deals on line. 21 We can learn from the be
21、ginning that the competition in the travel industry revolves chiefly around ( A) suppliers markets. ( B) price battles. ( C) travel stocks. ( D) on line services. 22 Who benefited the most from the competition among travel agencies? ( A) Consumers. ( B) On-line agencies. ( C) Airliners. ( D) Traditi
22、onal agencies. 23 It can inferred from Paragraph 4 that airlines cost-cutting moves ( A) will be of great benefit to agent commissions. ( B) are intended to cater to the needs of consumers. ( C) will help plenty of new business to go around. ( D) might have affected the gain of on-line agencies. 24
23、The word “bullish“ (Paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to ( A) skeptical. ( B) doubtful. ( C) optimistic. ( D) shocked. 25 Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? ( A) On-line travel agents are indispensable to travelers. ( B) On line travel services are likely to take wing. ( C) The a
24、dvent of on-line players will hurt consumers. ( D) Consumers are denied the right to cancel bookings. 26 Imagine the U.S. economic gains of the 1990s, and what comes to mind? Perhaps it was how the stock market ruled: All those initial public offerings that raked in unprecedented billions for ventur
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