[考研类试卷]考研英语(阅读)模拟试卷212及答案与解析.doc
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1、考研英语(阅读)模拟试卷 212 及答案与解析Part B (10 points) 0 In their idle moments, historians occasionally speculate on how the world would be different if Adolf Hitler had passed the entrance exam to the Art Academy of Vienna, where he applied twice in the early years of the 20th century.【F1 】_.On the contrary, th
2、e world is better off that a certain British statesman with a gift for inspiringrhetoric never allowed his love of painting to interfere with his career in politics.【F2】_One cant helpwishing that Hitler had been a better artistand being grateful that Winston Churchill wasnt.That, anyway, is one less
3、on to be drawn from the PBS documentary series, whose first segment airs this week, “Chasing Churchill,“ a travelogue narrated by the late prime ministers granddaughter Celia Sandys, of the places he visited and loved. Whether he was headed for the gentle flower-draped hills of Provence or the stark
4、 deserts of North Africa, his habit, except during the war, was the same painting. He was especially partial to romantically rugged scenery by sunset; if the light was better at dawn, says Sandys, he would not have been awake to see it.Churchill bonded over painting with the American general, later
5、president, Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhowers tastes ran to plashing streams, run-down barns and birch-studded snowscapes in a style that might be called Greeting Card Pastoral. He was appropriately modest about his works, which he described as “daubs.“ Churchill, a far more accomplished and ambitious a
6、rtist, was well aware of his amateur status.【F3】 _Politics is not a profession that ordinarily rewards creativity, which may be why so few politicians are willing to display it; its probably no coincidence that these three were among the most conspicuously self-assured world leaders of the 20th cent
7、ury. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 interrupted plans to release a novel by Saddam Hussein with the forthright title Get Out of Here, Curse You! He had published three others, all critically acclaimed in the Iraqi press and best sellers, presumably because they were required reading in Iraqi
8、schools.【F4】_Safely out of office in 1995, former president Jimmy Carter published a book of poetry on subjects ranging from childhood reminiscence to geopolitics. The habits of a longtime politician die hard, even when he turns his hand to poetry; the slim volume bears 14 dedications spread over tw
9、o pages.Poetry is, of course, the most self-revelatory of arts.【F5】_.Hitler,too,was theonly oneof thethree who occasionally populated his drawings with human figures, usually drawn badly and tiny compared with the real estate Admittedly people are harder to draw than mountains and clouds, but perhap
10、s the choice of subject by men who ruled vast territories is no coincidence. Alone in his aerie, the great man surveys his unpopulated domain: the artist as commander in chief.A.The 19th-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote 18 novels, some of them fairly racy by the standards of th
11、e time.B.Unfortunately, doubt has been cast on his literary credentials in the form of allegations that the books were actually written by a committee of officials from the Ministry of Information and Culture.C.But paintings, too, can reveal something about the hands that made them: Eisenhowers blan
12、dness; Hitlers bombastic obsession with monumental buildings such as the Vienna and Munich opera houses.D.Presumably, if hed been allowed to pursue his dream, he would have inflicted on the world only a large number of mediocre watercolors, rather than World War II and the Holocaust.E.Otherwise Brit
13、ain might have gained a collection of derivative post-impressionist landscapes to clutter the antiques shops of Portobello Road, and lost the war to Nazi Germany.F.Equipped with canvas, oils and camels-hair brushes, he parked himself behind an easel and in front of the landscape and commenced to smo
14、ke cigars, drink champagne and paint.G. But Hitler for many years regarded himself as an artist by profession. An authorized book of his watercolors referred to him in 1937 as “at once the First Fuehrer and the First Artist of our Reich.“1 【F1】2 【F2】3 【F3】4 【F4】5 【F5】5 American schools arent exactly
15、 frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out
16、of date by the time they are printed.For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the “achievement gap“ between social classes. This is not a story about that conversation.【F1】_.This week the conversation will burst onto the fr
17、ont page, when the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, a high-powered, bipartisan assembly of Education Secretaries, business leaders and a former Governor releases a blueprint for rethinking American education to better prepare students to thrive in the global economy. While tha
18、t report includes some controversial proposals, there is nonetheless a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century. Right now were aiming too low. Competency in reading and math is t
19、he meager minimum.Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient.【F2 】_Heres what they are:Knowing more about the world.【F3】_Mike Eskew,CEO of UPS, talks about needing workers who are “global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different la
20、nguages“not exactly strorig points in the U.S., where fewer than half of high school students are enrolled in a foreign-language class and where the social-studies curriculum tends to fixate on U.S. history.Thinking outside the box. Jobs in the new economythe ones that wont get outsourced or automat
21、ed“put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos,“ says Marc Tucker, a lead author of the skills-commission report. Thats a problem for U.S. schools.【F4 】_.Becoming smarter about new sources of information. In an age of overflowing infor
22、mation and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process whats coming at them and distinguish between whats reliable and what isnt.【F5 】_.Developing good people skills. EQ, or emotional intelligence, is as important as IQ for success in todays workplace. “Most innovations today involve large tea
23、ms of people,“ says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. “We have to emphasize communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from different cultures.“A.Kids are global citizens now, whether they know it or not, and they need to behave that way.B.“Its important that stude
24、nts know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it,“ says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders focused on upgrading American education.C.Todays economy demands not only a hi
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