[考研类试卷]考研英语(阅读)模拟试卷31及答案与解析.doc
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1、考研英语(阅读)模拟试卷 31 及答案与解析Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)0 The Online Autocar Leasing BusinessWhen eBay, now the worlds biggest auction website, went online in 1995. many expected it to fail. Why would anyone buy
2、 used items from perfect strangers? Two new services WhipCar, which was launched in London on April 21st, and RelayRides, which will start up in Boston, Massachusetts, early this summer will face similar skepticism. Both aim to get car-owners to rent their vehicles to strangers when not using them t
3、hemselves.At heart, both offerings are online exchanges. Car-owners and drivers register, contact one another through the site and agree to a rental contract. To ensure that both parties are trustworthy, WhipCar asks, among other things, for details of both the rented cars registration and the rente
4、rs license, and checks them against official data. It also provides insurance for the duration of the rental and a replacement car if there is an accident. In addition to these measures, RelayRides only accepts cars that have gone through a safety check and installs a device that allows them to be u
5、nlocked with a special card. This way, owners and renters do not have to meet, as they do with WhipCar.Both firms allow owners to set the price, taking a 15% cut. Even with the insurance premium and other fees added in, the firms expect the rental price to be lower than using a conventional car-rent
6、al firm or an urban car-sharing club. WhipCar provides suggestions for the prices different cars might fetch in various neighborhoods. Shortly after the site went live an Audi A4 in central London cost 10 ($ 15) an hour or 41 a day.Will the idea take off? The main hurdle will he car-owners reluctanc
7、e to share so personal a possession and the requirement to keep it clean. The firms must also overcome a problem all exchanges face: attracting enough members to make the service useful. Yet cars are expensive, underused assets. On average, a British car is driven for less than an hour a day but cos
8、ts about 5,500 a year to own a sum many would love to reduce in these straitened times. Drivers, for their part, are ever more willing to share a car. By 2016 some 4. 4 million Americans will he members of a car-sharing club, nearly ten times as many as today, projects Frost they are brimming with s
9、elf-confidence; and they have been encouraged to challenge received wisdom, to find their own solutions to problems and to treat work as a route to personal fulfillment rather than merely a way of putting food on the table. Not all of this makes them easy to manage. Bosses complain that after a chil
10、dhood of being spoiled and praised, Net Geners demand far more frequent feedback and an over-precise set of objectives on the path to promotion. In a new report from Pricewater house Coopers, a consultancy, 61 % of chief executives say they have trouble recruiting and integrating younger employees.F
11、or those hard-to-please older managers, the current recession is the joyful equivalent of hiding an alarm clock in a sleeping teenagers bedroom. Once again, the touchy-feely management fads that always spring up in years of plenty are being ditched in favor of more brutal command-and-control methods
12、. Having grown up in good times, Net Geners have labored under the illusion that the world owed them a living. But hopping between jobs to find one that meets your inner spiritual needs is not so easy when there are no jobs to hop to. And as for that vacation; heres a permanent one, sunshine.In fact
13、, compromise will be necessary on both sides. Net Geners will certainly have to lower some of their expectations and take the world as it is, not as they would like it to be. But their older bosses should also be prepared to make concessions. The economy will eventually recover, and demographic tren
14、ds in most rich countries will make clever young workers even more valuable. Besides, many of the things that keep Net Geners happy are worth doing anyway. But for the moment at least, the Facebookers are under heavy criticism.10 In the eyes of the critics of the Net Generation, the Net Geners are c
15、haracterized as_.(A)accomplished and competent(B) smart and flexible(C) self-centered and indulged(D)selfish and uncooperative11 According to Para. 2, Net Geners are not easy to manage in that_.(A)theyve attached too much importance to the personal fulfillment(B) theyve been courageous enough to cha
16、llenge the authorities(C) theyve had excessive confidence in themselves(D)theyve required excessive responses and goals12 The word “touchy-feely“ (Line 5, Para. 3) most probably means_.(A)sensitive and caring(B) cold and bloody(C) lazy and reckless(D)funny and interesting13 We can learn from the las
17、t paragraph that the author believes_.(A)Net Geners should give up their expectations(B) older bosses should give the Net Geners whatever they want(C) both Net Geners and bosses should face the reality(D)both Net Geners and bosses should learn to concede14 What is the authors attitude towards Net Ge
18、ners?(A)Supportive.(B) Objective.(C) Biased.(D)Pessimistic.14 Can Human Kidney Be Traded ?If they were just another product, the market would work its usual magic: supply would respond to high prices and rise to meet surging demand. But human kidneys are no ordinary commodity. Trading them is banned
19、 in most countries. So supply depends largely on the charity of individuals. Unsurprisingly, with altruism the only incentive, not enough people offer.Kidneys are the subject of a quietly growing global drama. As people in the rich world live longer and grow fatter, queues for kidneys are lengthenin
20、g fast: at a rate of 7% a year in America, for example, where last year 4,039 people died waiting. Doctors are allowing older and more sluggish kidneys to be transplanted. Ailing, rich patients are buying kidneys from the poor and desperate in burgeoning black markets.In the face of all this, most c
21、ountries are sticking with the worst of all policy options. Governments place the burden on their citizens to volunteer organs. A few European countries, including Spain, manage to push up supply a bit by presuming citizens consent to having their organs transplanted when they die unless they specif
22、y otherwise. Whether or not such presumed consent is morally right, it does not solve the supply problem, in Spain or elsewhere. On the other hand, if just 0. 06% of healthy Americans aged between 19 and 65 parted with one kidney, the country would have no waiting list.The way to encourage this is t
23、o legalize the sale of kidneys. Thats what Iran has done. An officially approved patients organization oversees the transactions. Donors get $2,000 4,000. The waiting list has been eliminated. Many people will find the very idea of individuals selling their organs repulsive. Yet an organ market, in
24、body parts of deceased people, already exists. Companies make millions out of it. It seems perverse, then, to exclude individuals.With proper regulation, a kidney market would be a big improvement on the current, sorry state of affairs. Sellers could be checked for disease and drug use, and cared fo
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