[考研类试卷]考研英语模拟试卷179及答案与解析.doc
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1、考研英语模拟试卷 179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 With the Met Office predicting a summer heatwave, Macmillan Cancer Relief this week (1)_ its customary warning about the suns ultra
2、violet rays: (2)_, it says, for the huge rise in skin cancers affecting 70,000 people a year. (3)_ a hat and long-sleeved shirt, it advises, keep in the (4)_ in the middle of the day, and slap (5)_ suncream with a protection factor of 15 or above. We all know it (6)_ its the message thats been drumm
3、ed into us for the past 20 years. Too much sun (7)_ But now theres a fly in the suntan lotion, complicating the messages clarity. It comes (8)_ a thin, quietly-spoken and officially retired Nasa scientist, Professor William Grant, who says that sun doesnt kill; in fact, it does us the world of (9)_.
4、 Whats killing us, he says, is our (10)_ with protecting ourselves from skin cancer. Grant is trying to turn the scientific world (11)_ down. Talking to me on a trip to Britain this week, he (12)_ his startling and at first appearance off-the-wall new calculation that (13)_ excessive exposure to the
5、 sun is costing 1,600 deaths a year in the UK from melanoma skin cancers, (14)_ exposure to the sun is the cause of 25,000 deaths a year from cancer generally. In other words, one sixth of all cancer deaths could be prevented (15)_ we sunned ourselves a little more; in comparison, the melanoma (16)_
6、 is insignificant. The reason is vitamin D. Grant, the director of the Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Centre (SUNARC) he (17)_ in California a year ago, says that he and other scientists have (18)_ vitamin D deficiency as a key cause (19)_ 17 different types of cancer including melanoma, os
7、teoporosis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other neurological (20)_. ( A) issued ( B) claimed ( C) declared ( D) announced ( A) qualified ( B) relating ( C) responsible ( D) resulting ( A) Put on ( B) Take to ( C) Turn to ( D) Put off ( A) darkness ( B) ray ( C) shade ( D) sunlight ( A) with ( B)
8、on ( C) in ( D) onto ( A) stands water ( B) reasonable ( C) sound ( D) makes sentse ( A) devastates ( B) kills ( C) hurts ( D) injures ( A) on the basis of ( B) in the light of ( C) by means of ( D) in the form of ( A) good ( B) goodness ( C) benefits ( D) profits ( A) obesity ( B) obsession ( C) ob
9、scurity ( D) obscenity ( A) downside ( B) inside ( C) upside ( D) outside ( A) undermined ( B) uncovered ( C) disclosed ( D) revealed ( A) because ( B) as ( C) while ( D) when ( A) efficient ( B) proficient ( C) ample ( D) insufficient ( A) if ( B) unless ( C) lest ( D) since ( A) haphazard ( B) ris
10、k ( C) hazard ( D) danger ( A) invented ( B) founded ( C) renovated ( D) produced ( A) established ( B) convinced ( C) convicted ( D) witnessed ( A) for ( B) from ( C) by ( D) behind ( A) sickness ( B) symptoms ( C) disorders ( D) syndrome Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the
11、 questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points) 21 When young people who want to be journalists ask me what subject they should study after leaving school, I tell them: “Anything except journalism or media studies. Most veterans of my trade would say the same. It is practical advice
12、. For obvious reasons, newspaper editors like to employ people who can bring something other than a knowledge of the media to the party that we call our work. On The Daily Telegraph, for example, the editor of London Spy is a theologian by academic training. The obituaries editor is a philosopher. T
13、he editor of our student magazine, Juice, studied physics. As for myself, I read history, ancient and modern, at the taxpayers expense. I am not sure what Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, would make of all this. If I understand him correctly, he would think that the public money spent on tea
14、ching this huge range of disciplines to the staff of The Daily Telegraph was pretty much wasted. The only academic course of which he would wholeheartedly approve in the list above would be physics but then again, he would probably think it a terrible waste that Simon Hogg chose to edit Juice instea
15、d of designing aeroplanes or building nuclear reactors. By that, he seems to mean that everything taught at the public expense should have a direct, practical application that will benefit society and the economy. It is extremely alarming that the man in charge of Britains education system should th
16、ink in this narrow-minded, half-witted way. The truth, of course, is that all academic disciplines benefit society and the economy, whether in a direct and obvious way or not. They teach students to think to process information and to distinguish between what is important and unimportant, true and u
17、ntrue. Above all, a country in which academic research and intelligent ideas are allowed to flourish is clearly a much more interesting, stimulating and enjoyable place than one without “ornaments“, in which money and usefulness are all that count. Mr. Clarke certainly has a point when he says that
18、much of what is taught in Britains universities is useless. But it is useless for a far more serious reason than that it lacks any obvious economic utility. As the extraordinarily high drop-out rate testifies, it is useless because it fails the first test of university teaching that it should stimul
19、ate the interest of those being taught. When students themselves think that their courses are a waste of time and money, then a waste they are. The answer is not to cut off state funding for the humanities. It is to offer short, no- nonsense vocational courses to those who want to learn a trade, and
20、 reserve university places for those who want to pursue an academic discipline. By this means, a great deal of wasted money could be saved and all students the academic and the not-so-academic would benefit. What Mr. Clarke seems to be proposing instead is an act of cultural vandalism that would rob
21、 Britain of all claim to be called a civilised country. 21 The second paragraph is meant to demonstrate that_. ( A) students of other disciplines than journalism are preferred employees of newspapers ( B) young people should learn other subjects than journalism after leaving school ( C) veterans of
22、the authors trade would give the same advice to puzzled youngsters ( D) young people should diversify their learning subjects to be better employed 22 Charles Clarke as described in the passage would probably agree that_. ( A) philosophy as an academic discipline in college should be canceled ( B) p
23、hysics should be the topmost choice of disciplines for prospective journalists ( C) the Daily Telegraph is poorly staffed and needs rearrangement ( D) there is no reason for the state to pay for subjects of higher education 23 Which of the following is true according to the author? ( A) The role of
24、state-funded universities is to train students for a job. ( B) Every academic subject will do good to society and the economy somehow. ( C) Academic research and intelligent ideas are more important than “ornaments“. ( D) Money and usefulness are the criteria to judge the worth of a discipline. 24 T
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