[考研类试卷]考研英语(阅读)模拟试卷32及答案与解析.doc
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1、考研英语(阅读)模拟试卷 32 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 Means of Managing Staff in American CompanyWhen one of his employees phoned in sick last year, Scott McDonald, CEO of Monument Security in Sacramento
2、, California, decided to investigate. He had already informed his staff of 400 security guards and patrol drivers that he was installing Xora, a software program that tracks workers whereabouts through GPS technology on their company cell phones. A Web-based “geo-fence“ around work territories would
3、 alert the boss if workers strayed or even drove too fast. It also enabled him to route workers more efficiently. So when McDonald logged on, the program told him exactly where his worker wasand it wasnt in bed with the sniffles. “How come youre east-bound on 80 heading to Reno right now if youre si
4、ck?“ asked the boss. There was a long silencethe sound of a job ending followed by, “you got me.“Learn that truth, and learn it well: what you do at work is the bosss business. Xora is just one of the new technologies from a host of companies that have, sprung up in the past two years peddling produ
5、cts and services software, GPS, video and phone surveillance, even investigatorsthat let managers get to know you really well.“ Virtually nothing you do at work on a computer cant be monitored,“ says Jeremy Gruber, legal director of the National Work Rights Institute, which advocates workplace priva
6、cy. Nine out of 10 employers observe your electronic behavior, according to the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College. A study by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute found 76% of employers watch you surf the Web and 36 % track content, keystrokes and time spent at t
7、he keyboard.You cant really blame companies for watching our Web habits, since 45% of us admit that surfing is our favorite time waster, according to a joint survey by Salary corn and AOL. A Northeast technology company found that several employees who frequently complained of overwork spent all day
8、 on MySpace. com.Businesses argue that their snooping is justified. Not only are they trying to guard trade secrets and intellectual property, but they also must ensure that workers comply with government regulations, such as keeping medical records and credit-card numbers private. And companies are
9、 liable for allowing a hostile work environmentsay, one filled with porn-filled computer screensthat may lead to lawsuits. “People write very loosely with their e-mails, but they can unintentionally reach thousands, like posters throughout a work site,“ says Charles Spearman of diversity-management
10、consultants Tucker Spearman Sandra Davis, who commissioned the study, says that the recession of the early 1990s led to a wave of divorces among the Citys wealthy people. A third of current inquiries to lawyers by those deciding to break the knot, she claims, are linked to the credit crunch.One expl
11、anation is that the defecting spouses of high earners are getting out before the crunch reduces the potential for profitable settlements. As the City boom turns to bust, redundancies are becoming commonplace and huge bonuses a distant dream. Since recent earnings are one of the factors taken into ac
12、count in divorce settlements, it makes sense to divorce sooner rather than later. Others argue that money and the distractions it buys allow couples to avoid addressing difficulties in their relationship, which come to the fore in more financially-distressed times.For middle earners, the link betwee
13、n divorce rotes and economic conditions is less clear-cut, not least since the main marital asset is houses rather than spouses. Rising inflation and falling house prices put pressure on marriages and might thus contribute to higher divorce rates. Yet the same factors also make splitting up more com
14、plicated. Failing property prices mean that selling the family home may not provide sufficient funds for two separate homes, especially now that lenders have become much more choosy. “A flagging economy clearly leads to an increase in misery; whether or not it causes a rise in the divorce rote is a
15、debatable point,“ sums up Stephen Jenkins, director of the Institute for Social and Economic ResearchOne consequence is that more couples are living together after divorce, which raises its own problems. Godfrey Freeman, chairman of Resolution, an association of family lawyers, points out that the l
16、ower-earning partners in such couples may find it harder to claim benefits. They are usually refused help, he says, on the grounds that their mortgage paid, even if they have no cash of their own to cover everyday expenses.6 In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by providing_.(A)
17、a well-known definition of divorce in the dictionary(B) a downright fact that divorce is linked to economy(C) an interesting quote of a famous person about divorce(D)a statistic survey that was conducted a long time ago7 According to Sandra Davis, recession of the early 1990s is regarded to have_.(A
18、)affected the whole society in their life style(B) caused some changes in family structures(C) encouraged more lawyers to consider divorce cases(D)resulted from the divorce trends8 By referring to the middle earners, the author intends to show that_.(A)some couples would like to spend life together
19、even if they break up(B) they are forced to consider economic situations after the divorce(C) the link between divorce and money is as evident as in the cases of rich couples(D)they are faced with different problems compared with wealthy classes 9 Which of the following is true according to the text
20、?(A)There should be some correlations between economy and family.(B) Economic depression is sure to have caused the social instability.(C) If the economy grows fast, the lower-earning partners will claim more help.(D)Economic growth depends upon the happy relationship between social members.9 Park a
21、re Popular Again Among Peoples LivesJust east of downtown Irvine, in southern California, a pastoral landscape is under construction. Little by little, a former military airport is being dismantled, to be replaced by grass, trees and a canyon 70 feet (21 meters) deep. When it is finished, Orange Cou
22、ntys Great Park will cover 1, 350 acres (550 hectares), more than one-and-a-half times as much as Central Park in New York. The biggest landscaped municipal park to be built in more than a century, it reveals much about how American attitudes to open space have changed.Urban parks are back in fashio
23、n. In Denver, an 80-acre park opened in September on the site of another disused airport. New York plans to build a huge park on top of the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. Innumerable town squares and pocket parks have been created or beautified, even in places like Detroit. City planners, wh
24、o once viewed parks as financial drains and nests of crime, now see them as magnets for tourists and creative types.The great parks that were built in the second half of the 19th century were intended to counteract the ill effects of city living, and so are the new ones. But the perceived ills have
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