为您找到与2016考研真题英语相关的共200个结果:
考研即将进入冲刺阶段,考生的时间比较紧迫,所以,有的放矢,最大限度的把握考点,把握命题趋势,是当务之急。其中,考研翻译以其综合性和主观题的特点高居四种题型难度的首位。为了帮助考生攻克这一题型,读文网小编就为考生提供一些有针对性的备考建议,希望对考生有所帮助。
例句:
Heasserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train ofthought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never couldhave succeeded with mathematics. (2008年47题)
这句话很有难度,大家可以先自己动手写一些汉字,看自己会怎么翻译。大家在翻译期间可以感受一下你首先做什么,其次做什么,最后做什么,方法对不对。
拿到一个长难句,首先应该做的是看结构,译主干。拿到句子不要先看单词认不认识,而是先要看连接词,引导词,看句子的大结构。怎么去看呢?
先把主句从句分析出来。英语语法非常严谨,逻辑非常明确。That引导的是一个宾语从句,你可以用红色标注起来,这是一个大结构,后面for which大的定语从句,后面that又是一个宾语从句。就应该这样做,首先看出大主干,好,看完结构了,下一步就是译主干。我们把刚刚看到的主句和从句里面的核心主干找出来,“他也断言”第一个主干出来了,that引导的宾语从句,就是his power,was,limited,我们就可以翻译他的能力是有限的,后面,for which reason因为这个原因,他感觉确信,再看后面的that从句,他从来,决定没有成功过。所以这就是句子的主干。如果你能做到这一步,就说明你理解了这个句子。最艰难的部分,follow这个词的翻译,主干出来了就是加修饰。To follow不定式做定语修饰能力,his powerto follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited。Follow的核心宾语是thought,这样翻译是:他跟随思维的能力非常有限。但是汉语中很少说跟随思维,can you follow me?是你能理解我吗?那么这里follow就是理解的意思,所以翻译成,他理解思维的能力非常有限,然后再加long是修饰思维的,所以我们再加,就是:他理解冗长的思维的能力非常有限。再接着加,就是abstract,他理解冗长而抽象的思维的能力非常有限。而purely 是修饰抽象的,所以就是:他理解冗长而纯粹抽象的思维的能力非常有限。但是我们不说纯粹抽象,说非常,极度抽象。所以改为:他理解冗长而极度抽象的思维的能力非常有限。再看train这个词,火车是一节节,所以我们把它看成是数量关系,一系列的思维,然后翻译为:他理解一系列冗长而极度抽象的思维的能力非常有限。修饰加到这个样子就可以了。
总之,翻译备考过程中,一定要多动手自己翻,翻译的时候,切记先看句子的结构,找到句子主干,然后再处理各从句及其修饰关系,最后添上修饰成分
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近年来,英译汉的试题难度在加大,主要体现在比较复杂的文章和句子结构比重加大。五个划线句子中,一般会有1—2个简单句,3—4个复合句;其中复合句存在多个从句嵌套的现象,对考生造成一定理解和表达难度,简单句也因修饰成分繁多、含有抽象意义的词,存在省略和指代等而加大难度。因此,这五个句子要么语法结构复杂,要么逻辑关系繁复,并且这一现象历年来有增无减,今年也不会例外。所以建议2012的考生在备考的时候应该把更多的精力真正的放在扎扎实实提高自身英语语言能力、提高对于文章长难句和段落逻辑结构的把握上。在打下坚实的语言能力基础上,再加上一定的应试技巧和策略,才能真正在考研英语中取得好成绩。
但是,我们更起码接近了一点,得出了一种观点,即:承认鸟类应该继续享有其作为一种生物物种的权利,不管它们是否对我们具有经济价值。
48)Time was when biologists somewhat over worded the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on “worthless species.
1.Time was when...,就这三个词,可能就有点让考生担心。其实关系部大:可以直接翻译为:当时,有一段时间是...。如果稍微看看上下文会更清楚time was when的内涵。上文说:A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds.“有一种相似的情况存在......”。所以,这里的time was when...是想指出“在那段时间,相似的情形是...”。当然,我们一般认为time was when是一种非正式用语,它等于there was time when...,比如:Time was when my wife loved me passionately. Now she doesn't even cook for me.(曾几何时,我媳妇儿也曾深深地爱着我,现在,他连饭都不给我做。)所以,time was when翻译为:曾几何时,曾经有那么一段时间,等等,都是很不错的。
2.biologists somewhat overworked the evidence,核心动词是overwork,比较难翻译。如果直接翻译的话是“工作过多,浪费时间过多”。但是考虑到下文是“证据”,所以,肯定不能说:对证据工作得太多;但是基本上可以说:浪费在证据上的时间太多。结合46题,我们就知道,跟证据最搭配的动词是“使用证据”,所以overwork当然轻松的就解决了,意思是“使用证据太多”,翻译为:滥用证据。故整个小句子翻译为:生物学家有点滥用证据。
结合下文that...,很显然下文是对证据的进一步叙述,指出是什么证据,在语法上是两个that引导的同位语从句。所以上文“曾几何时,生物学家有点滥用证据”,最好翻译到整个句子后面,为了清除的叙述是什么证据。
3.That these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak是that引导的第一个并列同位语从句补充说明前面的evidence。核心动词是preserve,后面接一个by介词短语充当方式状语。所以,基本结构应该翻译为:这些生物通过...来保存...。有一个难点就是preserve这个动词的宾语the health of game的翻译,其一,game这个词肯定不能翻译为“游戏”,而是这些生物的“猎物”;所以preserve the health of game可以直接翻译为“保持猎物的健康(状态)”。其二,这里有点令人费解:为什么要“保持猎物的健康”?通过下文,不难看出:这些生物通过猎杀“the physically weak(体质上比较弱的猎物)”,就保留了那些相对“强的”猎物,以保存其食物链上猎物的健康。所以,这个句子可以翻译为:这些生物通过猎杀弱者来保持猎物的健康状态。
4.or that they prey only on “worthless species是or并列的第二个that同位语从句。其中代词they指的是creatures(这些生物),prey是“捕食”的意思。真个句子翻译为:这些生物捕食的仅仅是“毫无意义的物种”。引号,原文有,直接套用英语的形式,加在汉语上即可。
参考译文:
有一种证据认为,这些生物通过猎杀弱者来保存猎物的健康状态,或者说,这些生物捕杀的只不过是“毫无意义的物种”;曾几何时,生物学家有点滥用这种证据。
49)In europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the non-comercial tree species are recognized as members of native forest community, to be preserved as such ,within reason.
1.该句话是本年度最简单的一道题。
In europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced是一个where引导的定语从句,修饰前面的地点欧洲。可以直接翻译为:在欧洲,其林业在生态上更加发达。
2.the non-comercial tree species are recognized as members of native forest community是整个复合句的主句部分,核心动词是...are recognized as...非常简单的被动态。主语non-commercial tree species可以直接翻译为:非经济类林木,其实就是“公益林”。native forest community是“原始森林群落”的意思,其中commnunity一般翻译为“社区”,这里指生物学上的“群落”。所以,这个句子可以直译为:非经济类林木被认为是原始森林群落的成员。但是考虑到主语是“林木”,所以说“成员”比较不符合习惯,调整为“原始森林群落的一部分”。
3.To be preserved as such, within reason是状语。其中as such是“同样”的意思。整个状语部分很简单,原文直接在后面叙述,汉语译文也可以一样出来:同样应该受到保护,在合理的范围内。也可以翻译为:同样应该受到合理的保护。
参考译文:
在欧洲,其林业在生态上更加发达,公益林木被认为是原始森林群落的一部分,同样应该得到合理保护。
50)It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.
本句话也比较简单。
It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate是整个句子的主干部分。核心动词是tend to...,同时and连接了两个不定式to ignore和to eliminate。首先,代词it在整个句子的主语部分,最好指代明确。看上文To sum up:a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided.(总之,一个仅仅建立在利己基础上的保护系统是非常平衡的)就知道,it应该指的是上文的这种观点。所以,It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate...,可以翻译为“这种观点有可能会忽视,并且因此最终会消除...”。
many elements in the land community是上述主干中ignore和eliminate这两个动词的宾语。比较简单,可以直接翻译为:土地群落中的很多因素。
that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning是but并列的两个that引导的定语从句,修饰上文的many elements。由于这个定语从句后面还带了一个并列句,所以可以后置翻译,采用重复先行词的方式。所以,that lack commercial value可以直接翻译为:这些因素缺乏商业价值。but that are essential to its healthy functioning是第二个that定语从句。其中to its healthy functioning是指“对于土地的健康运作而言”。“健康运作”这个翻译是完全可以的,我习惯翻译为“健康机制”。所以,后面第二个定语从句可以直接翻译为:但是对土地的健康机制而言,他们却至关重要。
参考译文:
这种观点很可能会忽视,因而最终会消除土地群落里的很多重要因素,虽然这些要素缺乏商业价值,但对土地的健康机制而言,他们却至关重要。
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考纲上关于翻译部分的规定是:“能将一般难度的英语短文译成汉语,理解基本正确,译文达意。”也就是说,翻译是一项对考生综合能力要求比较高的题型,它不仅要求考生对词汇、语法、语篇以及文化知识等有较好的掌握,还要求考生有很强的语言组织能力。
自1994,1995两年以来,再没有出现过主语从句的翻译题型考察。综合十几年的真题当中各个考点的出现频率,2011年极有可能再次出现主语从句的考察!所以这里希望广大考生再度重视真题。
1994年的考研英语翻译文章,题材为科学的发展,其中第75题考察了主语从句,如下:
1994. 75) Whether the government should increase the financing of pure science at the expense of technology or vice versa often depends on the issue of which is seen as the driving force。
评析:在考研英语的所有题型当中,有三个词可以引导主语从句,分别是how, what, 和whether。主语从句的持续长度,以动词的第三人称单数s为终止标志。即,从引导词开始,主从当中的所有具有动性的词及词组,都不是整句的谓语部分。
以此题为例,从whether开始,其余部分不需要考虑,只寻找动词的单三形式,我们发现了depends。那么,主语就是whether…technology。为什么不包括“or vice versa”?因为or 的出现,表明二选一的另外一种情况,此题中先不予考虑。主从当中,具有动性的词及词组分别是:should, increase, 但均非此题谓语部分,请大家务必注意。以depends on为谓语部分,后面的宾语及宾补很容易理解,以of 结构为核心,采取将修饰成分放在中心词之前。注意,此题当中的which,根据上下文,理解为“哪一个”的意思,因为具有实意,所以并非定语从句的引导词,这一点希望大家仔细判断。
我们得到的结构如下:“主语”依赖于哪一个被看作是驱动力的问题。以代入的方法处理,调整语序,在汉语中先原因、条件、状态、方式、对象、假设,后结果、影响,我们将主语从句当中的词序调整为:政府(核心词)是否应该以技术为代价(方式)来增加(动作)对纯科学(对象)的投资还是相反,经常取决于哪一个被看作是驱动力的问题。
此题当中,因为以or为标志,表明另一种情况,结合具体的语境,我们得知不但有“做不做”的问题,还有“转变条件,互为逆命题”的问题,在这里为了不赘述,所以原文用了拉丁语vice versa—“相反”。
又如1995. 72) How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used, and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted。
首先确定主语,从how开始,终止于depends。
句中以逗号和and连用为切分标志,表明分值的分布为前后各1分,无论写哪部分,都可以得分,请大家不要放弃任何机会,切记!在考研英语的各个题型当中,以and为标志,表明上下两个分局之间呈并列关系且同等重要,若上一分句中有相同的谓语部分或动词延续到and所在分句,那么在第二次出现时,英语中将其省略,汉语视情况决定是否补充。很明显,此题以how引导的主从为主语,谓语部分为depends upon (upon约等于on, 前者是后者的强调形式),带起的第一个宾语为“the amount,…of the information used”,可将其简化为 A, B, and C of D,第二个宾语为skill and wisdom,第二个宾语中的定语从句可以之后分析,但务必先明确整个句子的结构。
下面依次分析各个成分,并调整语序,最后组合:
主语中,按照英汉语序的不同,调整为“预测在多大程度上会由后来的表现所证明是有效的”;谓语部分“取决于”;宾语1:所使用信息的数量,可靠性和适当性,宾语2:使其得以解决的技巧和智慧,或者解决它所用到的技巧和智慧。
因此,该句的译文为:主语+依赖于+宾语1,+还依赖于+宾语2。
在介绍完以上两道题的思路之后,请大家以下题为例,自己练习:
1995. 73) Whether to use tests, other kinds of information, or both in a particular situation, depends, therefore, upon the evidences from experience concerning comparative validity, and on such factors as cost and availability。
思路:首先,以and为标志,(有无省略请判断)前后划分为各1分。其次,按照动词的单三标志,判断主语;谓语及宾语(是否带起双宾语?)第三,将各个成分中的单词按照语境翻译,并调整语序,最后组合成句。
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考研翻译是四种题型中综合性最强的一种,不但要求考生具备基本的词汇量,有长难句分析能力和一定的语法基础;更要求考生的综合语言组织能力,使翻译出来的文章具有一定的可读性。也就是说,考研翻译不仅考的是英语技能,还包括一定的中文水平。加上本身又是主观题,拿分的难度自然很高。然而,考研翻译本身有着很强的规律性,不论是单词、语法还是语言的组织,都是在特定的范围内考察,并且可以通过一定的技巧解决。即使在考前最后一个月,仍然可以最大限度地达到突击效果。
所谓的介词堆砌型,就是一个长难句,仔细去看,基本上没有从句或者说只有一个从句的连接词,但是整个句子中介词短语的出现率极高,一个句子中有连续或者间断的五到六个介词短语。这样,分析结构是一难,组织语言又是一难。
这种题型在06年以前考察较少,而06年以后则开始露头,基本上每年至少一道。特别是2006年的考研翻译中,第46和第47题都是典型的介词堆砌型。介词堆砌型,绝对不是仅仅的将一堆介词短语放到一个长难句中,让我们一个一个去分析、整合。在06年到10年的考研翻译中,这种题的考察难点主要表现在以下两方面:介词叠加和介词错位。
介词叠加,就是在长难句中,会发现两个介词连续出现,第一个介词后面没有直接出现应跟的名词,而是出现了第二个介词。这时,考生本能的第一反应是,试卷是不是印刷有错误。比如2006年的第47题, His function is analogous to that of a judge, who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a manner as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision。句子中间出现了in和as的叠加,让考生感到困惑不解。
介词错位,就是应该跟前面动词搭配的介词短语被放到了后面,而后面的成分提到了前面,换而言之,就是后面的介词短语和前面的介词短语换了个位置。比如2006年的第46题,I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic(苏格拉底) way about moral problems。这句话elect后面没有直接出现应有的宾语,而是把宾补as引导的短语提到了前面。这样,考生在分析过程中,找不到其宾语,因此句子便读不通了。
对于这种新出现的题型,考生会发现,虽然已经掌握了长难句的分析法——拆分与组合,但是仍然无法解决这里的微观问题。因此在拆分组合的前提下,要使用新的方法,即介词定位法。
所谓介词定位法,是找出句子当中的一系列介词短语,用括号分别圈起来,然后翻译括号以外的部分,即大致的主干,接着将括号中的短语一个一个分别添加到中文的合适位置中去。而介词短语的定位很简单,就是定在它后面出现的名词上。
分析下2006年的第46题
I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic(苏格拉底) way about moral problems。
这句话断意群,是在who前断开。who前面的意群意思是“我应当将他定义为一种人/个体”。这个意群问题不大。然而第二个意群,里面出现了大量的介词。把它们分别用括号圈起来。第一个介词as,定到其后的名词上,第一个是duty,但是后面出现了and,也就是和duty并列的一个名词,所以第一个画括号的介词短语是as his primary duty and pleasure。第二个是in life。随后有of thinking(动名词),in Socratic way和about moral problems。这些我们都不管它们和哪些动词搭配,只按介词短语画起来。
这样这个句子就画成了如下形式:
I shall define him as an individual || who has elected (as his primary duty and pleasure)(in life)the activity (of thinking)(in Socratic(苏格拉底) way)(about moral problems)。
先翻第一个意群,“我应当将他定义为一种人/个体”
第二个意群,who翻成“他”或“这种人”,elect翻成“将…视为”。翻括号以外的,即主干,“他将活动视为”,然后逐一把介词短语翻译添加到中文里,第一个as his primary duty and pleasure,“他的主要职责和乐趣”,直接跟到刚才的主干后面,即“他将活动视为他的主要职责和乐趣”;第二个in life,“生活中”,加进去之后是“他将活动视为他生活中的主要职责和乐趣”;第三个,of thinking,“思考”,在这里是补充the activity,补到“活动”前,是“他将思考活动视为他的主要职责和乐趣”;第四个,in Socratic(苏格拉底) way,以苏格拉底的方式,方式状语,放到动词前面,这里是修饰“思考”,加到“思考”前,就成了“他将以苏格拉底的方式思考的活动视为他的主要职责和乐趣”;最后一个about moral problems,这个介词短语是think的宾语,所以放到“思考”后面,整个意群就是“他将以苏格拉底的方式思考道德问题的活动视为他的主要职责和乐趣”
最后全句的翻译就是“我应当将他定义为一种人,这种人将以苏格拉底的方式思考道德问题的活动视为他的主要职责和乐趣”
对于2006年的第47题,采取同样的方法。先断意群。
His function is analogous to that of a judge, || who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a manner as possible the course of reasoning|| which led him to his decision。
第一个和第三个意群翻译没有太复杂的结构,关键是第二个意群,里面有介词的叠加,in as,这里我们不用管它是怎么回事,只要牢牢坚持一点——介词后面要跟名词,断也要断到名词上。所以适当地做个语序调整,。
in后面出现的第一个名词是manner,所以是in a manner,“以一种方式”的意思;除去这个短语,就剩下as obvious as possible,“尽可能明显”。如果还想更稳妥的处理,也可以把剩下的介词短语划下来,但是要注意doing后面可能跟宾语。
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近年来,英译汉的试题难度在加大,主要体现在比较复杂的文章和句子结构比重加大。五个划线句子中,一般会有1—2个简单句,3—4个复合句;其中复合句存在多个从句嵌套的现象,对考生造成一定理解和表达难度,简单句也因修饰成分繁多、含有抽象意义的词,存在省略和指代等而加大难度。因此,这五个句子要么语法结构复杂,要么逻辑关系繁复,并且这一现象历年来有增无减,今年也不会例外。所以建议2012的考生在备考的时候应该把更多的精力真正的放在扎扎实实提高自身英语语言能力、提高对于文章长难句和段落逻辑结构的把握上。在打下坚实的语言能力基础上,再加上一定的应试技巧和策略,才能真正在考研英语中取得好成绩。
基于考研英语翻译的特点,结合翻译实践中具体的方法,我们在这部分的备考中应该注意:
1)第一,词汇量。考研的词汇考的是词汇的深度,而不是词汇的广度,也就是考查同学们能不能真正的掌握和运用这个词汇,真正在上下文中理解这个词汇。所以建议同学们不是单纯的、简单的、机械的记住词的意思,而要真正的理解词汇在上下文中的具体用法。所以,词汇的复习对于考研翻译,同时对阅读有着决定性的意义,建议大家准备的时候第一关首先要突破词汇关。
2)大家需要对文章中的长难句进行一个重点的突破。在这个过程中,具体来讲,大家应该更多的从语法分析的角度入手,分清句子的主干和修饰成分以及它们成分之间的逻辑关系,更好的理解句子。
3)考生平时要多注意英语文章的体裁的结构特点,以及各类文章的题材的表达法和术语的积累,以免在考研英语中的文章碰到自己不熟悉的文章内容的时候无从下手。
4)翻译部分需要多多练习。英汉是两种不同的语言,要用汉语地道的表达出英语真正的意思,还是需要一定的功底的。
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考研是一项脑力活儿,每天坐在自习室里应对各门学科的复习备战,不知要杀死多少脑细胞。对于有些学科来说,发散型思维很重要,比如政治和专业课, 各部分知识之间融会贯通,需要联系记忆。但对于英语来说,发散型思维却很危险,因为它考察的知识点和考察方式都很“精准”,尤其是在占得分比重最高的阅读 理解部分。要提醒2016考研的小伙伴们,做阅读理解切忌“脑洞大开”哦!
小编建议大家一定要遵从基础阶段阅读复习的三步走战略:第一、分析文章;第二、规范做题思路;第三分析命题特点。
第一、分析阅读文章
我们在独立复习的过程中,首先要按照考试时间要求做完一篇文章,以培养正确的阅读
习惯。然后就要对文章内容进行仔细的分析学习,标记生词,深入分析理解长难句,可以借助译文,对全篇文章内容有一个清楚的把握。总之要做到,文章中无生词无难句。
第二、规范做题思路
文章解析之后,还要规范做题思路,(即:依据题干定位,然后回原文做出判断。)把自己的做题思路“代入”到文章中去,深入的思考,比如:出题人 为什么会在这个地方出题目而不在其他地方出题目?一般出题的位置都是文章中较重要的位置,像是与主旨有关的地方,与观点有关的句子,及转折处等,都是经常 出题的点。
第三、分析命题特点
在明确做题思路之后,还需要分析正确选项的特点及错误选项的特点。一般而言,正确选项无非是原文的同义转述,或总结概括,或正话反说。来看一道2000年真题:
If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition—wealth, distinction, control over one’s destiny—must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambition’s behalf。
27.It is generally believed that ambition may be well regarded if________。
[A] its returns well compensate for the sacrifices
[B] it is rewarded with money, fame and power
[C] its goals are spiritual rather than material
[D] it is shared by the rich and the famous
题干问“在什么条件下,野心才能被正确看待?”,而原文给的是“野心要想被正确看待,就必须怎样”,从而确定答案的出处就在后边这句话中the rewards of ambition must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices. 而[A]选项即为原句的同意转述。选出正确选项之后,还要对错误选项进行分析,你会很惊奇的发现:原来每个错误选项的设置都是这么的相似!无外乎偷换概 念,范围不当,比较错误,抑或无中生有。待以后再见到类似错误选项的时候你就能看出它的错误“本性”了。
严格按照三步走的复习方法,切实提高阅读理解的能力,才能最终取得不错的成绩。
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下面是读文网小编整理的2014考研英语二真题,希望对大家有帮助。
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)
Text 1
What would you do with 590m? This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history. If she hopes her new-found for tune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dumn and Michael Norton.
These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive. Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes. Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly what was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in. It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms Dumn and Mr Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema. These purchases often become more valuable with time-as stories or memories-particularly if they involve feeling more connected to others.
This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most "happiness bang for your buck." It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it).Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly. This is apparently the reason MacDonald's restricts the availability of its popular McRib - a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.
Readers of “HappyMoney” are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger.Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones. Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people. Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives for American homebuyers. But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.
21. According to Dumn and Norton,which of the following is the most rewarding purchase?
[A]A big house
[B]A special tour
[C]A stylish car
[D]A rich meal
22. The author’s attitude toward Americans’ watching TV is
[A]critical
[B]supportive
[C]sympathetic
[D]ambiguous
23. Macrib is mentioned in paragraph 3 to show that
[A]consumers are sometimes irrational
[B]popularity usually comes after quality
[C]marketing tricks are after effective
[D]rarity generally increases pleasure
24. According to the last paragraph,Happy Money
[A]has left much room for readers’criticism
[B]may prove to be a worthwhile purchase
[C]has predicted a wider income gap in the us
[D]may give its readers a sense of achievement
25. This text mainly discusses how to
[A]balance feeling good and spending money
[B]spend large sums of money won in lotteries
[C]obtain lasting satisfaction from money spent
[D]become more reasonable in spending on luxuries
Text 2
An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you’re more beautiful than you are. We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to research into what the call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others—all obviously statistical impossibilities.
We rose tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem, we stalk around thinking we’re hot stuff.
Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key studying into self-enhancement and attractiveness. Rather that have people simply rate their beauty compress with others, he asked them to identify an original photogragh of themselves’ from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is “an automatic psychological process occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation”. If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image- which must did- they genuinely believed it was really how they looked. Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that, those who self-enhance the must (that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored picture were real) were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other makers for having higher self-esteem. “I don’t think the findings that we having have are any evidence of personal delusion”, says Epley. “It’s a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves’. If you are depressed, you won’t be self-enhancing. Knowing the results of Epley ‘s study,it makes sense that why people heat photographs of themselves Viscerally-on one level, they don’t even recognise the person in the picture as themselves, Facebook therefore ,is a self-enhancer’s paradise,where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit ,style ,beauty, intellect and lifestyle it’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest,says catalina toma of Wiscon—Madison university ,”but they portray an idealized version of themselves.
26. According to the first paragraph, social psychologist have found that ______.
[A] our self-ratings are unrealistically high
[B] illusory superiority is baseless effect
[C] our need for leadership is unnatural
[D] self-enhancing strategies are ineffective
27. Visual recognition is believed to be people’s______
[A] rapid watching
[B] conscious choice
[C] intuitive response
[D] automatic self-defence
28. Epley found that people with higher self-esteem tended to______
[A] underestimate their insecurities
[B] believe in their attractiveness
[C] cover up their depressions
[D] oversimplify their illusions
29.The word “Viscerally”(Line 2,para.5) is closest in meaning to_____.
[A]instinctively
[B]occasionally
[C]particularly
[D]aggressively
30. It can be inferred that Facebook is self-enhancer’s paradise because people can _____.
[A]present their dishonest profiles
[B]define their traditional life styles
[C]share their intellectual pursuits
[D]withhold their unflattering sides#p#副标题#e#
Text 3
Crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society. Tears, be they of sorrow, anger, on joy, typically make Americans feel uncomforuble and embarrassed. The shedder of tears is likely to apologize, even when a devastating (毁灭性的) tragedy was the provocation. The observer of tears is likely to do everything possible to put an end to the emotional outpouring. But judging form recent studies of crying behavior, links between illness and crying and the chemical composition of tears, both those responses to tears are often inappropriate and may even be counterproductive.
Humans are the only animals definitely known to shed emotional tears. Since evolution has given rise to few, if any, purposeless physiological responset, it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that enhance survival.
Although some observers have suggested that crying is a way to clicit assistance form others (as a crying baby might from its mother), the shedding of tears is hardly necessary to get help. Vocal cries would have been quite enough, more likely than tears to gain attention, So, it appears, there must be something special about tears themselves.
Indeed, the new studies suggest that emotional tears may play a direct role in alleviating stress, University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have recently isolated two important chemicals from emotional tears. Both chemicals are found only in tears that are shed in response to emotion. Tears shed because of exposure to =cut onion would contain no such substance.
Researchers at several other institutions are investigating the usefulness of tears as a means of diagnosing human ills and monitoring drugs.
At Tulane University’s Teat Analysis Laboratory Dr.Peter Kastl and his colleagues report that they can use tears to detect drug abuse and exposure to medication(药物), to determine whether a contact lens fits properly of why it may be uncomfortable, to study the causes of “dry eye” syndrome and the effects of eye surgery, and perhaps even to measure exposure to environmental pollutants.
At Columbia University Dt.Liasy Faris and colleagues are studying tears for clues to the diagnosis of diseases away from the eyes. Tears can be obtained painlessly without invading the body and only tiny amounts are needed to perform highly refined analyses.
31. It is known from the first paragraph that ________.
A) shedding tears gives unpleasant feelings to American
B) crying may often imitate people or even result in tragedy
C) crying usually wins sympathy from other people
D) one who sheds tears in public will be blamed
32. What does “both those responses to tears”(Line 6, Para, 1) refer to?
A) Crying out of sorrow and shedding tears for happiness.
B) The embarrassment and unpleasant sensation of the observers.
C) The tear shedder’s apology and the observer’s effort to stop the crying.
D) Linking illness with crying and finding the chemical composition of tears.
33. “Counterproductive” (Lines 6-7, Para,1) very probably means “________”.
A) having no effect at all
B) leading to tension
C) producing disastrous impact
D) harmful to health
34. What does the author say about crying?
A) It is a pointless physiological response to the environment.
B) It must have a role to play in man’s survival.
C) It is meant to get attention and assistance.
D) It usually produces the desired effect.
35. What can be inferred from the new studies of tears?
A) Emotional tears have the function of reducing stress.
B) Exposure to excessive medication may increase emotional tears.
C) Emotional tears can give rise to “dry eye” syndrome in some cases.
D) Environmental pollutants can induce the shedding of emotional tears.
Text 4
When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband and energy. Housing is seldom mentioned.
Why is that? To some extent the housing sector must shoulder the blame. We have not been good at communicating the real value that housing can contribute to economic growth. Then there is the scale of the typical housing project. It is hard to shove for attention among multibillion-pound infrastructure project, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere. But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.
Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate. Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.
The comprehensive spending review offers an opportunity for the government to help rectify this. It needs to put historical prejudices to one side and take some steps to address our urgent housing need.
There are some indications that it is preparing to do just that. The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt. Evidence shows that 60,000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the cap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%.
Ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.
But it is not just down to the government. While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015,is unlikely to be extended beyond then. The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition’s spending plans if returns to power. The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants. We need to adjust to this changing climate.
36. The author believes that the housing sector__
[A] has attracted much attention
[B] involves certain political factors
[C] shoulders too much responsibility
[D] has lost its real value in economy
37. It can be learned that affordable housing has__
[A] increased its home supply
[B] offered spending opportunities
[C] suffered government biases
[D] disappointed the government
38. According to Paragraph 5,George Osborne may_______.
[A] allow greater government debt for housing
[B] stop local authorities from building homes
[C] prepare to reduce housing stock debt
[D] release a lifted GDP growth forecast
39. It can be inferred that a stable rental environment would_______.
[A]lower the costs of registered providers
[B]lessen the impact of government interference
[C]contribute to funding new developments
[D]relieve the ministers of responsibilities
40. The author believes that after 2015,the government may______.
[A]implement more policies to support housing
[B]review the need for large-scale public grants
[C]renew the affordable housing grants programme
[D]stop generous funding to the housing sector#p#副标题#e#
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下面是读文网小编整理的2015考研英语二真题和答案,希望对大家有帮助。
Part A
Text 1
A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys. People art actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured peoples cortntlol. Which is it at stress marker. While they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home, writes one of the researchers. Sarah Damaske, In fact women say they feel better at work. She notes. it is men not women. Who report being bappicr at home than at work, Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with childrcn and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why pcoplc who work outside the home have better health.
What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when they re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.
But its not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what theyre supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.
On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleagues-your family-have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they re teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they re your family. You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.
So its not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
21.According to Pa ragraph 1,most previous su rveys found that home
[A]was an un realistic place for relaxation
[B]generated more stress than the workplace
[C]was an ideal place for stress measurement
[D]offered greater relaxation than the workplace
22.According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?
[A]Working mothers
[B]Childless husbands
[C] Childless wives
[D]Working fathers
23 The blurring of working womens roles refers to the fact thay
[A]they are both bread winners and housewives
[B]their home is also a place for kicking back
[C]there is often much housework left behind
[D]it is difficult for them to leave their office
24.The wordmoola(Line 4, 4)most probably means
[A]energy
[B]skills
[C]earnings
[D]nutrition
25.The home front differs from the workplace in that
[A]home is hardly a cozier working environment
[B]division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut
[C]household tasks are generally more motivating
[D]family labor is often adequately rewarded
答案:
21.D offered greater relaxation than the workplace
22.B childless husbands
23.A they are both bread winners and housewives
24.C earnings
25.B division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut#p#副标题#e#
Text 2
For years, studies have found that first-generation college students-those who do not have a parent with a college degree-lag other students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. This has created a dox in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Sciense.
But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach(which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost program) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap(measured by such factors as grades)between first-generation and other students.
The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their findins are based on a study involving 147 students(who completed the project)at an unnamed private unive rsity.First generation was defined as not having a parent with a fou r-year college degree Most of the first-generation students(59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants,a federal g rant for undergraduates with financial need,while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students wit at least one parent with a four-year degree
Their thesis-that a relatively modest inte rvention could have a big impact-was based on the view that first-gene ration students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students They cite past resea rch by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be na rrowed to close the achievement gap.
Many first-gene ration studentsstruggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education,learn therules of the game,and take advantage of college resou rces, they write And this becomes more of a problem when collages dont talk about the class advantage and disadvantages of different groups of students Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students educational expe rience,many first-gene ration students lack sight about why they a re struggling and do not unde rstand how students like them can improve
26. Recruiting more first-generation students has
[A]reduced their d ropout rates
[B]narrowed the achievement gao
[C] missed its original pu rpose
[D]depressed college students
27 The author of the research article are optimistic because
[A]the problem is solvable
[B]their approach is costless
[q the recruiting rate has increased
[D]their finding appeal to students
28 The study suggests that most first-gene ration students
[A]study at private universities
[B]are from single-pa rent families
[q are in need of financial support
[D]have failed their collage
29. The author of the paper believe that first-generation students
[A]a re actually indifferent to the achievement gap
[B]can have a potential influence on othe r students
[C] may lack opportunities to apply for resea rch projects
[D]are inexperienced in handling their issues at college
30.We mayinfer from the last graph that
[A]universities often r~ect the culture of the middle-class
[B]students are usually to blame for their lack of resources
[C]social class g reatly helps en rich educational experiences
[D]colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question
答案:
26.C missed its original purpose
27.A the problem is solvable
28.C are in need of financial support
29.D are inexperienced in handling issues at college
30.D colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question
Text3
Even in traditional offices,the lingua franca of corporate America has gottenmuch more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago, said Ha rva rd Business School professor Nancy Koehn She sta rted spinning off examples.If you and I pa rachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990,we would see much less frequent use of terms like Journey, mission,passion. There were goals,there were strategies,there were tives,but we didnt talk about energy;we didnt talk about passion.
Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabula ry is very team-oriented-and not by coincidence.Lets not forget sDorts-in male-dominated corporate America,its still a big deal. Its not explicitly conscious;its the idea that Im a coach,and youre my team,and were in this togethec. There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different companies,but most think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win.
These terms a re also intended to infuse work with meaning-and,as Khu rana points out,increase allegiance to the firm.You have the importation of terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit organizations and religious organizations:Terms like vision,values,passion,and purpose,saidKhurana
This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance The mommy wars of the 1990s a re still going on today, prompting arguments about whywomen still canthave it all and books like Sheryl Sandbergs Lean In,whose title has become abuzzword in its own right. Terms like unplug,offline,life-hack,bandwidth,andcapacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home But ifyour work is your passion, youII be more likely to devote yourself to it,even ifthat means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed
But this seems to be the irony of office speak:Everyone makes fun of it,butmanage rs love it,companies depend on it,and regular people willingly absorb itAs Nunberg said,You can get people to think its nonsense at the same timethat you buy into it. In a workplace thats fundamentally indiffe rent to your lifeand its meaning office speak can help you figu re out how you relate to yourwork-and how your work defines who you are
31. According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become
[A]more e motional
[B]more tive
[C]less energetic
[D]less energetic
[E]less strategic
32.team-oriented corporate vocabulary is closely related to
[A]historical incidents
[B]gender difference
[C]sports culture
[D]athletic executives
33.Khurana believes that the importation of terminology aims to
[A]revive historical terms
[B]promote company image
[C]foster corporate cooperation
[D]strengthen employee loyalty
34.It can be inferred that Lean In
[A]voices for working women
[B]appeals to passionate workaholics
[C]triggers dcbates among mommies
[D]praises motivated employees
35.Which of the following statements is true about office speak?
[A]Managers admire it but avoid it
[B]Linguists believe it to be nonsense
[C]Companies find it to be fundamental
[D]Regular people mock it but accept it
答案:
31.A more emotional
32.C sports culture
33.D strengthen employee loyalty
34.A voices for working women
35.C companies find it to be fundamental#p#副标题#e#
Text 4
Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reporled for Jure, along with the drop in the unemployment take to 6 J percent. at good news. And they were right. For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace. We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment, but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.
However there is another important part of the jobs picture that was targely ovedookcd. There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time. This figure is now 830,000(4,4 percent)above its year ago level.
Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare, it is worth making an important distinction. Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs. They take part-time work because this is all they can get. An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.
There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June, but the general direction has been down. Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession, but it is down by 640,000(7.9 percent)from its year ago level.
We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us. The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week. If the answer is yes.they are classified as working part-time. The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice. They are only elassified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.
The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare becanse one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment. For many people, especially those with serious health conditions or family mrs with serious health conditions, before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.
However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families. With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.
36. Which part of the jobs picture was neglected?
A. The prospect of a thriving job market.
B. The increase of voluntary part-time jobs.
C. The possibility of full employment.
D. The acceleration of job creation.
37. Many people work part-time because they
A. prefer part-time jobs to full-time jobs
B. feel that is enough to make ends meet
C. cannot get their hands on full-time jobs
D. haven t seen the weakness of the market
38. Involuntary part-time employment in the US
A. is harder to acquire than one year ago
B. shows a general tendency of decline
C. satisfies the real need of the jobless
D. is lower than before the recession
39. It can be learned that with Obamacare, .
A. it is no longer easy for part-timers to get insurance
B. employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance
C. it is still challenging to get insurance for family mrs
D. full-time employment is still essential for insurance
40. The text mainly discusses.
A. employment in the US
B. part-timer classification
C. insurance through Medicaid
D. Obamacares trouble
答案:
36.B the increase of voluntary part-time jobs
37.C cannot get their hands on full-time jobs
38.B shows a general tendency of decline
39.B employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance
40.A employment in the US
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完形填空参考答案
1、What
2、Concluded
3、On
4、Compared
5、Samples
6、Insignificant
7、know
8、resemble
9、also
10、Perhaps
11、to
12、drive
13、rather than
14、benefits
15、faster
16、understand
17、contributory
18、tendency
19、Ethnic
20、see
II Reading comprehension
Part A
21.D ended his reign in embarrassment.
22. C to give voters more public figures to look up to
23. A the role of the nobility in modern democracy
24. D fails to adapt himself to his future role.
25. D Carlos, a lesson for all Monarchies
26. C check suspect's phone contents without being authorized.
27.A disapproval
28.A getting into one's residence
29. C citizens' privacy is not effectively protected
30.B new technology requires reinterpretation of the constitution
31.B journals are strengthening their statistical checks
32.B marked
33. D set an example for other journals
34. C has room for further improvement
35.A science joins Push to screen statistics in papers
36. D the consequences of the current sorting mechanism
37. A more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking
38. C was hardly convincing
39. B generally distorted values
40. D moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper
Part B
41.C If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using…
42.E You make further inferences...
43.G Rather ,we ascribe meanings to...
44.B factors such as...
45.A Are we studying that ...
Part C
46)受到各种强大的动机所驱使,这场运动在荒野中开创了一个国家;本质使然,它也塑造了这片未知大陆的性格和命运。
47)有两股主要力量形成了美国:一是欧洲移民带来的各式思想、风俗和民族特征,二是这个新国家本身在融合上述特征之后带来的影响。
48)但是,美国特有的地理条件、不同种族间的相互影响、以及在这片原始的新大陆上维持旧秩序的艰难,带来了巨大的变化。
49)十五世纪和十六世纪的探索发现了北美洲,又过了一百多年,第一艘满载移民的航船跨过大西洋驶向这片土地,即现在的美国。
50)原始的森林,有着种类繁多的林木,从缅因州往南一直绵延到乔治亚州,的确是一座宝库。
写作部分
小作文参考范文
Dear Friends,
As the host of the upcoming reading session, I am writing the email to recommend my favorite book to you, Tao Te Ching, which is written by Lao Tzu.
The primary causes of my recommendation are as follows. To begin with, it is the best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular. In addition, the book encapsulates the main tenets of Taoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. More importantly, the dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modeled on the Milky Way that traverses the heavens.
I hope the above information will help you to know the book. If you need any further information about it, please do not hesitate to contact me. (133 words)
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming
参考译文
亲爱的朋友们:
作为即将来临的读书会的主持人,我写这封邮件是为了推荐我最喜欢的一本书给大家,那就是老子写的《道德经》。
我推荐本书的主要原因如下。首先,这本书是中国经典古籍中最受热爱的,也是最广泛流行的。其次,这本书概述了道家的基本宗旨,并崇尚一种生存之道,同时也是一种哲学和一种宗教。更为重要的是,其主要精神是道,以横贯天际的银河为模型的贯穿整个宇宙的神秘之道。
希望上述信息能够帮助大家了解这本书。如果需要更多信息,请毫不犹豫和我联系。
您真诚的,
李明
大作文参考范文
As is shown in the portrayal, four youngsters are sitting at a table, being ready to have dinner. Unfortunately, instead of drinking and eating in front of a variety of delicious and nutritious dishes, each of them is holding a mobile phone and staring at the screen, with no thought of chatting or eating at all. We are informed: Gathering in an era of mobile phone.
Like the Internet, mobile phones benefit people hugely. With mobile phones, the home will become a library, a school, an office and an entertainment center. All transactions, from banking to shopping, will be performed electronically and all information, from train schedules to discount-price goods, will be as close as the press of a key. On the contrary, despite the increase in efficiency and convenience generated by digital products, the changes it brings could very well lead to potentially adverse consequence. For example, as nearly all activities could be conducted on mobile phones, we could all become hermit-like, never feeling any need to leave the screen. This would be unfortunate because we will become so addicted to virtual world that we might never be exposed to social interaction.
From the preceding discussion, it is readily apparent that mobile phone, as an increasingly popular form of communication among people, has both its upsides and downsides. To be sure, the mobile phone can be used by young people in productive and useful ways. However, the adolescents must be sure to limit the time they spend on digital products, or their academic work and social life will eventually pay the price. (262 words)
参考译文
如图所示,四个年轻人坐在桌旁准备吃饭。不幸的是,面对很多美味营养的饭菜,他们并未吃喝,而是每人拿着一只手机盯着屏幕,丝毫不想聊天或吃饭。我们得知:“手机时代的聚会”。
和网络一样,手机给人们带来了巨大的好处。有了手机,家里就成了图书馆、学校、办公室,甚至是游乐中心。所有交易,从跑银行到买东西,都可以通过手机来完成;所有信息,从火车时刻表到折价商品目录,只需轻按键盘就能看到。然而,尽管数码产品带来这么高的效率和这么多的方便,它带来的变化也很有可能造成潜在的不良后果。例如,由于几乎所有的活动都可以在手机上进行,我们就可能像隐士那样,感到没有必要离开家。这将是不幸的,因为我们将完全沉溺于手机,以至于可能再也不会进行社会交际。
在上述讨论中显而易见的是:手机作为人们之间愈加流行的交流方式,既有优点也存在不足。诚然,年轻人使用手机能做很多有益的事情,但人们必须要控制使用数码产品的时间,否则他们会耽误学业和社交,最终为此付出代价。
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Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Though not biologically related, friends are as related as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. That is 1 a study published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has 2 .
The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted 3 1932 unique subjects which 4 pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were used in both 5 .While 1% may seem 6 , it is not so to a geneticist. As James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego, says, Most people do not even 7 their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who 8 our kin.
The study 9 found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity. Why this similarity in olfactory genes is difficult to explain, for now. 10 Perhaps, as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more 11 it. There could be many mechanisms working in tandem that 12 us in choosing genetically similar friends 13 than nal kinship of being friends with 14 !One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving 15 than other genes. Studying this could help 16 why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major 17 factor.
The findings do not simply corroborate peoples 18 to befriend those of similar 19 backgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to 20 that all subjects, friends and strangers were taken from the same population. The team also controlled the data to check ancestry of subjects.
Section II Reading Comprehension
1、What
2、Concluded
3、On
4、Compared
5、Samples
6、Insignificant
7、Know
8、Resemble
9、Also
10、Perhaps
11、To
12、Drive
13、Ratherthan
14、Benefits
15、Faster
16、understand
17、Contributory
18、Tendency
19、Ethnic
20、see
Part A
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
原标题:2015年考研英语一真题答案(完整版)
TEXT 1
King Juan Carlos of Spain once insistedkings dont abdicate, they die in their sleep. But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republicans left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles?
The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy. When public opinion is particularly polarized, as it was following the end of the France regime, monarchs can rise above mere polities and embody a spirit of national unity.
It is this apparent transcendence of polities that explains monarchys continuing popularity as heads of state. And so, the Middle East expected, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms (not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.
Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history-and sometimes the way they behave today-embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warming of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.
While Europes monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.
It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchys reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-heeled) granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service-as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are the monarchys worst enemies.
21. According to the first two graphs, King Juan Carlos of Spain
[A]eased his relationship with his rivals.
[B]used to enjoy high public support.
[C]was unpopular among European royals.
[D]ended his reign in embarrassment.
22. Monarchs are kept as head of state in Europe mostly
[A]to give voters more public figures to look up to.
[B]to achieve a balance between tradition and reality.
[C]owing to their undoubted and respectable status.
[D]due to their everlasting political embodiment.
23. Which of the following is shown to be odd, according to graph 4?
[A] The role of the nobility in modern democracies.
[B] Aristocrats excessive reliance on inherited wealth.
[C] The simple lifestyle of the aristocratic families.
[D] The nobilitys adherence to their privileges.
24. The British royals have most to fear because Charles
[A]takes a tough line on political issues.
[B]fails to change his lifestyle as advised.
[C]takes republicans as his potential allies.
[D]fails to adapt himself to his future role.
25. Which of the following is the best title of the text?
[A]Carlos, Glory and Disgrace Combined
[B]Charles, Anxious to Succeed to the Throne
[C]Charles, Slow to React to the Coming Threats
[D]Carlos, a Lesson for All European Monarchs
21.Dended his reign in embarrassment.
22. C owing to the undoubted and respectable status
23. A the role of the nobility in modern democracy
24. B fails to change his lifestyle as advised.
25. D Carlos, a lesson for all Monarchies#p#副标题#e#
TEXT 2
Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.
California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumptions that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest. It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.
The court would be recklessly modest if it followed Californias advice. Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, so that the justice can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.
They should start by discarding Californias lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone- a vast storehouse of digital information is similar to say, going through a suspects purse .The court has ruled that police dont violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or pocketbook, of an arrestee without a warrant. But exploring ones smartphone is more like entering his or her home. A smartphone may contain an arrestees reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence. The development of cloud computing. meanwhile, has made that exploration so much the easier.
But the justices should not swallow Californias argument whole. New, disruptive technology sometimes demands novel applications of the Constitutions protections. Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a digital necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.
26. The Supreme court, will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to
[A] search for suspects mobile phones without a warrant.
[B] check suspects phone contents without being authorized.
[C] prevent suspects from deleting their phone contents.
[D] prohibit suspects from using their mobile phones.
27. The authors attitude toward Californias argument is one of
[A] tolerance.
[B] indifference.
[C] disapproval.
[D] cautiousness.
28. The author believes that exploring ones phone content is comble to
[A] getting into ones residence.
[B] handing ones historical records.
[C] scanning ones correspondences.
[D] going through ones wallet.
29. In graph 5 and 6, the author shows his concern that
[A] principles are hard to be clearly expressed.
[B] the court is giving police less room for action.
[C] phones are used to store sensitive information.
[D] citizens privacy is not effective protected.
30.Orin Kerrs comparison is quoted to indicate that
(A)the Constitution should be implemented flexibly.
(B)New technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution.
(C)Californias argument violates principles of the Constitution.
(D)Principles of the Constitution should never be altered.
26. Bcheck suspects phone contents without being authorized.
27.Cdisapproval
28.A getting into ones residence
29. D citizens privacy is not effectively protected
30.B new technology requires reinterpretation of the constitution
Text 3
The journal Science is adding an extra source at Peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNott announced today. The Follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that Mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the Published research findings.
Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the Journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing Manut will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the Journals editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these
Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said,The creation of thestatistics boardwas motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Sciences overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.
Giovanni Parmigiani,a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a mr of the SBoRE group, says he expects the board to play primarily on advisory role. He agreed to join because he found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.
John Ioannidis, a physician who studies research methodology, says that the policy is a most welcome step forwardand long overdue,Most journals are weak in statistical review,and this damages the quality of what they publish. I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,he says. But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet pay strong attention to statistical review.
Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research,according to David Vaux,a cell biologist. Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in 2012,but journals should also take a tougher line,engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process.Vaux says that Sciences idea to pass some papers to statisticians has some merit,but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identifythe papers that need scrutinyin the first place.
31. It can be learned from graph I that
[A] Science intends to simplify its peer-review process.
[B]journals are strengthening their statistical checks.
[C]few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.
[D]lack of data analysis is common in research projects.
32. The phrase flagged up (.2)is the closest in meaning to
[A]found.
[B]revised.
[C]marked
[D]stored
33. Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may
[A]pose a threat to all its peers
[B]meet with strong opposition
[C]increase Sciences circulation.
[D]set an example for other journals
34. David Vaux holds that what Science is doing now
A. adds to researchers worklosd.
B. diminishes the role of reviewers.
C. has room for further improvement.
D. is to fail in the foreseeable future.
35. Which of the following is the best title of the text?
A. Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers
B. Professional Statisticians Deserve More Respect
C. Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors Desks
D. Statisticians Are Coming Back with Science
31.B journals are strengthening their statistical checks
32.B marked
33. D set an example for other journals
34. C has room for further improvement
35.A science joins Push to screen statistics in papers#p#副标题#e#
Text4
Two years ago. Rupert Murdochs daughter, spoke at the unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the mechanismin society should be profit and the market we the people who create the society we want, not profit.
Driving her point home, she continuedIts increasingly absence of purpose,of a moral language with in government, could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and freedom. This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies, such as International, she thought, making it more likely that it would fore had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.
As the hacking trial concludes-finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding the predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge-the wide dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This long story still unfolds.
In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defence was that she knew nothing.
In todays world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run. Perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.
The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions-nor received traceable, recorded answers.
36. Accordign to the first two graphs, Elisabeth was upset by
(A) the consequences of the current sorting mechanism.
(B) companies financial loss due to immoral practices
(C) governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.
(D) the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.
37. It can be inferred from graph 3 that
(A) Glenn Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime.
(B) more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.
(C) Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.
(D) phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.
38. The author believes that Rebekah Brookss defence
(A) revealed a cunning personality.
(B) centered on trivial issues.
(C) was hardly convincing.
(D) was part of a conspiracy.
39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows
(A) generally distorted values.
(B) unfair wealth distribution.
(C) a marginalized lifestyle.
(D) a rigid moral code.
40 Which of the following is suggested in the last graph?
(A) The quality of writings is of primary importance.
(B) Common humanity is central to news reporting.
(C) Moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper.
(D) Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.
36. A the consequences of the current sorting mechanism
37. Bmore journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking
38. C was hardly convincing
39. A generally distorted values
40. C moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper
Part B
In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A- G to fit into each of numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.(41) You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved.Who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.
The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension. But they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues.(42)
Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or true meaning that can be read off and checked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to theworld.(43)
Such background material inevitably reflects who we are. (44)
This doesnt, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless. Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.
How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it.(45)Such dimensions of reading suggest-as others introduced later in the book will also do-that we bring an implicit(often unacknowledged)agenda to any act of reading. It doesnt then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another. Ideally, different minds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another. Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy, or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.
[A] Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfills the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.
[B] Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender, ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at the same time obscure or even close off others.
[C] If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the context. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.
[D] In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.
[E] You make further inferences, for instance, about how the text may be significant to you, or about its validity-inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.
[F] In plays, novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpieces for the authors own thoughts.
[G] Rather, we ascribe meanings to texts on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material:between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a texts formal structures(so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.
41.C 42.E 43.G 44.B 45.A#p#副标题#e#
Part C
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined sentences into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration-one the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. (46) This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
(47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas,customs and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. (48) But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.
(49) The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th-and-16th-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six-to twelve-week voyage, they survived on barely enough food allotted to them. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes storms blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought unbearably long delay.
To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief. Said one recorder of events, The air at twelve leagues distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden. Thecolonists first glimpse of the new land was a sight of dense woods.(50)The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.
46)在多种强大的动机驱动下,这次运动在一片荒野上建起了一个国家,其本身塑造了一个未知大陆的性格和命运。
47)美国是两种主要力量的产物即思想习俗、民族特色各异的欧洲移民和修改这些特征的新国家的影响的产物。
48)但由于美国特有的地理条件,不同民族的相互作用,以及维护原始老式方式的纯粹困难,新大陆引起了重大变化。
49)在15-16世纪北美探索的一百多年之后,运往该领土-即当今的美国-的第一船移民横渡了大西洋。
50)拥有丰富多样树种的原始森林是一个真正的宝库,它从缅因州一直延伸到乔治亚州。
SectionⅢ Writing
Part A
51.
You are going to host a club reading session.Write an email of about 100 words recommending a book to the club mrs.
You should state reasons for your recommendations.
You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the text. Use Li Ming instead.
Do not write the address.(10 points)
Dear club mrs,
As the next reading session is scheduled to be launched in two days, its a great honor for me to take the opportunity to present you a book worth reading-The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
Through reflection over economics at the beginning of Industrial Revolution, the writer has elaborated on the fundamental principles of capitalism at work with insightful conceptions and eloquent speeches. Besides, the book has stood the test of time by repeated quotations and critical reviews from following researchers, exerting profound influences on anyone engaged in the field of capitalist market.
I believe reading such a classical book from an authoritative writer will produce a life-enriching and thought-provoking effect for all club mrs.
52.
Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following picture. In your essay, you should
1) describe the picture briefly.
2) interpret its intended meaning, and
3) give your comments.
You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.(20 points)
As is depicted above, a number of young people are having a gathering of friends, but instead of talking with each other, each of them is addicted to his or her mobile phone. The lower part of the picture, we can see some Chinese characters which read the meeting in mobile-phone era.
Undoubtedly, the author of the picture aims at reminding us of the double edge of the cell phone. It is well known that thanks to the development of human civilization, many formerly unimaginable things come into reality. A case in point is the mobile phones. We must admit that the smart phone indeed dramatically changes our life. However, if used improperly, the mobile phones also can bring unhealthy side-effects, and imperil face to face communication between people. It is not too much to say that being over-addicted to mobile phones will cost our health, wisdom, creativity, friendship and even our ability to live.
Weighing the pros and cons of both sides, perhaps the best policy is to regulate it in such a way as to maximize its advantages. At the same time, we must avoid its harmful part. Furthermore, young people should be advised that spending too much time in using smart phones is bad for them.
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46)本句重点词语:driven by 在…的驱动下,by its nature 从本质上,它的性质,
shape做动词当"塑造"讲。本句是一个由and连接的并列句,其中driven by powerful and diverse motivations,和by its nature为插入语结构。
47)本句重点词语:principle做形容词,意为"主要的", national characteristics 意为"民族特色,特点",modify意为"修改,改变"。多次考察了of和with引导的后置定语的翻译,前三小句为并列结构表原因,第四小句为句子主干。
48)本句重点词语:peculiar to,意为"特殊的,特有的", national groups意为"民族",固定搭配in a raw 意为"原始的",sheer意为"完全的,纯粹的"。
49)本句重点词语:immigrant"移民", explorations"探索",bound for "驶往,开往"。其中,which is now the United States为定语从句修饰限定前文的the territory。
50)本句重点词语:treasure-house"宝库",all the way down to "一直",extend from…to…"从…延伸到…。其中with引导的介词短语做后置定语,which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia为定语从句修饰前面的treasure-house。
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Please choose the best sentence from the list after the passage to fill in each of the gaps in the text. There are more sentences than gaps.
Truths to live by
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. (18)____________________. The rabbis of old put it this way: "A man comes into this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open."
(19)_______________. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love to love when it was tendered.
(20)_______________. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place.
One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard.
As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. That's all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. (21) ______________.
I looked to see whether anyone else relished the sun's golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with their eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.
The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life's gifts are precious but we are too heedless of them.
Here then is the first pole of life's paradoxical demands on us: Never be too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. (22) ____________. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.
(23) _____________. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.
This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, may, will, be ours. (24)____________.
[A]Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God's own earth.
[B]But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.
[C]For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
[D]When life is treated with the proper attitude, regret will surely not be left behind.
[E]A recent experience re-taught me this truth.
[F]Hold fast to life ... but not so fast that you cannot let go.
[G] Be reverent before each dawning day.
[H]And yet how beautiful it was --- how warming, how sparkling, how brilliant!
II.Please read the following passage and translate the underlined parts into Chinese (40 points, 8 points each).
Developing self-confidence
(25)Confidence is a feeling — an inner fire and an outer radiance, a basic satisfaction with what one is plus a reaching out to become more. Confidence is not something a few people are born with and others are not, for it is an acquired characteristic.
Confidence is the personal possession of no one; the person who has it learns it—and goes on learning. The most gifted individual on earth has to construct confidence in his gifts from the basis of faith and experience, like anybody else. The tools will differ from one person to the next, but the essential task is the same. Confidence and pose are available to us all according to our abilities and needs—not somebody else's—provided we utilize our gifts and expand them.
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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 on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
In Cambodia, the choice of a spouse is a complex one for the young male. It may involve not only his parents and his friends, 1 those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker. A young man can 2 a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to 3 the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection. 4 , a girl may veto the spouse her parents have chosen.5 a spouse has been selected, each family investigates the other to make sure its child is marrying 6 a good family.
The traditional wedding is a long and colorful affair. Formerly it lasted three days, 7 by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half. Buddhist priests offer a short sermon and 8 prayers of blessing. Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, 9 cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride’s and groom’s wrists, and 10 a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the 11 .Newlyweds traditionally move in with the wife’s parents and may 12 with them up to a year, 13 they can build a new house nearby.
Divorce is legal and easy to 14 , but not common. Divorced persons are 15 with some disapproval. Each spouse retains 16 property he or she 17 into the marriage, and jointly-acquired property is 18 equally. Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice 19 up: The divorced male doesn’t have a waiting period before he can remarry 20 the woman must wait ten months.
1.[A]by way of [B]on behalf of [C]as well as [D]with regard to
2. [A]adapt to [B]provide for [C]compete with [D]decide on
3. [A]close [B]renew [C]arrange [D]postpone
4. [A]Above all [B]In theory [C]In time [D]For example
5. [A]Although [B]Lest [C]After [D]Unless
6. [A]into [B]within [C]from [D]through
7. [A]since [B]but [C]or [D]so
8. [A]copy [B]test [C]recite [D]create
9. [A]folding [B]piling [C]wrapping [D]tying
10. [A]passing [B]lighting [C]hiding [D]serving
11. [A]meeting [B]collection [C]association [D]union
12. [A]grow [B]part [C]deal [D]live
13. [A]whereas [B]until [C]if [D]for
14. [A]obtain [B]follow [C]challenge [D]avoid
15. [A]isolated [B]persuaded [C]viewed [D]exposed
16. [A]whatever [B]however [C]whenever [D]wherever
17. [A]changed [B]brought [C]shaped [D]pushed
18. [A]withdrawn [B]invested [C]donated [D]divided
19. [A]breaks [B]warms [C]shows [D]clears
20. [A]so that [B]while [C]once [D]in that
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points)
Text 1
France,which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its fashion industry has lost an absolute right to define physical beauty for women. Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.
The parliament also agreed to ban websites that “incite excessive thinness” by promoting extreme dieting.
Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives. They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health. That’s a start. And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death—as some have done. It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth.
The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women (and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty. And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.
The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep—and bone-showing. Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.
The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types. In Denmark, the United States, and a few other countries, it is trying to set voluntary standards for models and fashion images that rely more on peer pressure for enforcement.
In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding the age, health, and other characteristics of models. The newly revised Danish Fashion Ethical Charter clearly states: “We are aware of and take responsibility for the impact the fashion industry has on body ideals, especially on young people.” The charter’s main tool of enforcement is to deny access for designers and modeling agencies to Copenhagen Fashion Week, which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute. But in general it relies on a name-and-shame method of compliance.
Relying on ethical persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step. Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.
21.According to the first paragraph, what would happen in France?
[A] Physical beauty would be redefined.
[B] New runways would be constructed.
[C] Websites about dieting would thrive.
[D] The fashion industry would decline.
22.The phrase “impinging on” (Line 2,Para 2) is closest in meaning to
[A] heightening the value of.
[B] indicating the state of.
[C] losing faith in.
[D] doing harm to.
23.Which of the following is true of the fashion industry?
[A] The French measures have already failed.
[B] New standards are being set in Denmark.
[C] Model are no longer under peer pressure.
[D] Its inherent problems are getting worse.
24. A designer is most likely to be rejected by CFW for
[A] setting a high age threshold for models.
[B] caring too much about models’ character.
[C] showing little concern for health factors.
[D] pursuing perfect physical conditions.
25.Which of the following may be the best title of the text?
[A] The Great Threats to the Fashion Industry.
[B] Just Another Round of Struggle for Beauty.
[C] A Dilemma for the Starving Models in France.
[D] A Challenge to the Fashion Industry’s Body Ideals.#p#副标题#e#
Text 2
For the first time in history more people live in towns than in the country. In Britain this has had a curious result. While polls show Britons rate “the countryside” alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service (NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.
A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save “the beauty of natural places for everyone forever.” It was specifically to provide city dwellers with spaces for leisure where they could experience “a refreshing air.” Hill’s pressure later led to the creation of national parks and green belts. They don’t make countryside any more, and every year concrete consumes more of it. It needs constant guardianship.
At the next election none of the big parties seem likely to endorse this sentiment. The Conservatives’ planning reform explicitly gives rural development priority over conservation, even authorizing “off-plan” building where local people might object. The concept of sustainable development has been defined as profitable. Labour likewise wants to discontinue local planning where councils oppose development. The Liberal Democrats are silent. Only Ukip, sensing its chance, has sided with those pleading for a more considered approach to using green land. Its Campaign to Protect Rural England struck terror into many local Consecutive parties.
The sensible place to build new houses, factories and offices is where people are, in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place. The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London are alone, with no intrusion on green bet. What is true of London is even truer of the provinces.
The idea that “housing crisis” equals “concreted meadows” is pure lobby talk. The issue is not the need for more houses but, as always, where to put them. Under lobby pressure, George Osborne favours rural new-build against urban renovation and renewal. He favours out-of-town shopping sites against high streets. This is not a free market but a biased one. Rural towns and villages have grown and will always grow. They do so best where building sticks to their edges and respects their character. We do not ruin urban conservation areas. Why ruin rural ones?
Development should be planned, not let rip. After the Netherlands, Britain is Europe’s most crowded country. Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living. There is no doubt of the alternative—the corrupted landscapes of southern Portugal, Spain or Ireland. Avoiding this rather than promoting it should unite the left and right of the political spectrum.
26.Britain’s public sentiment about the countryside
[A] didn’t start till the Shakespearean age.
[B] has brought much benefit to the NHS.
[C] is fully backed by the royal family.
[D] is not well reflected in politics.
27.According to Paragraph 2, the achievements of the National Trust are now be
[A] gradually destroyed.
[B] effectively reinforced.
[C] largely overshadowed.
[D] properly protected.
28.Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3?
[A] Labour is under attack for opposing development.
[B] The Conservatives may abandon “off-plan” building.
[C] The Liberal Democrats are losing political influence.
[D] Ukip may gain from its support for rural conservation.
29.The author holds that George Osborne’s preference
[A] highlights his firm stand against lobby pressure.
[B] shows his disregard for the character of rural areas.
[C] stresses the necessity f easing the housing crisis.
[D] reveals a strong prejudice against urban areas.
30.In the last paragraph, the author shows his appreciation of
[A] the size of population in Britain.
[B] the political life in today’s Britain.
[C] the enviable urban lifestyle in Britain.
[D] the town-and-country planning in Britain.
Text 3
“There is one and only one social responsibility of businesses,” Wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is,to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profit”. But even if you accept Firedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies as waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut. New research suggest the CSR may create monetary value for companies-at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.
The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR,according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.This could add value to their businesses in three ways. First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality. Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.And third, through a more diffuse “halo effect,” whereby its good deeds earn it greater consideration from consumers and others.
Previous studies on CSR have had trouble differentiating these effects because consumers can be affected by all three. A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company’s products as part of their investigations, they could be influenced only by the halo effect.
The study found that, among prosecuted firms, those with the most comprehensive CSR programmes tended to get more lenient penalties. Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.
In all, the study concludes that whereas prosecutors should only evaluate a case based on its merits, they do seem to be influenced by a company’s record in CSR. “We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for briding foreign officials,” says one researcher.
Researchers admit that their study does not answer the question of how much businesses ought to spend on CSR. Nor does it reveal how much companies are banking on the halo effect, rather than the other possible benefits, when they decide their do-gooding policies. But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment.
31. The author views Milton Friedman’s statement about CSR with
[A] tolerance
[B] skepticism
[C] uncertainty
[D] approval
32.According to Paragraph 2, CSR helps a company by
[A] winning trust from consumers.
[B] guarding it against malpractices.
[C] protecting it from being defamed.
[D] raising the quality of its products.
33. The expression “more lenient” (Line 2, Para. 4) is closest in meaning to
[A] more effective
[B] less controversial
[C] less severe
[D] more lasting
34.When prosecutors evaluate a case, a company’s CSR record
[A] has an impact on their decision.
[B] comes across as reliable evidence.
[C] increases the chance of being penalized.
[D] constitutes part of the investigation.
35.Which of the following is true of CSR, according to the last paragraph?
[A] Its negative effects on businesses are often overlooked.
[B] The necessary amount of companies’ spending on it is unknown.
[C] Companies’ financial capacity for it has been overestimated.
[D] It has brought much benefit to the banking industry.#p#副标题#e#
Text 4
There will eventually come a day when The New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint. Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate. “Sometime in the future,”the paper’s publisher said back in 2010.
Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside,there’s plenty of incentive to ditch print. The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper-printing presses, delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints. Readers are migrating away from print anyway. And though print ad sales still dwarf their online and mobile counterparts, revenue from print is still declining.
Overhead may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti.
Peretti says the Times should’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way. “Figuring out a way to accelerate that transition would make sense for them,” he said, “but if you discontinue it, you’re going to have your most loyal customers really upset with you.”
Sometimes that’s worth making a change anyway. Peretti gives the example of Netflix discontinuing its DVD-mailing service to focus on streaming. “It was seen as a blunder,” he said. The move turned out to be foresighted. And if Peretti were in charge at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said. “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.”
The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they’d feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in. “So if you’re overpaying for print, you could feel like you were helping,” Peretti said. “Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.” In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it. Which may be what the Times is doing already. Getting the print edition seven days a week costs nearly $500 a year—more than twice as mush as a digital-only subscription.
“It’s a really hard thing to do and it’s a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn’t have a legacy business,” Peretti remarked. “But we’re going to have questions like that where we have things we’re doing that don’t make sense when the market changes and the world changes. In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.”
36.The New York Times is considering ending its print edition partly due
[A] the high cost of operation.
[B] the pressure from its investors.
[C] the complaints from its readers.
[D] the increasing online ad sales.
37. Peretti suggests that, in face of the present situation, the Times should
[A] seek new sources of readership.
[B] end the print edition for good.
[C] aim for efficient management.
[D] make strategic adjustments.
38.It can be inferred from Paragraphs 5 and 6 that a “legacy product”
[A] helps restore the glory of former times.
[B] is meant for the most loyal customers.
[C] will have the cost of printing reduced.
[D] expands the popularity of the paper.
39.Peretti believes that, in a changing world.
[A] legacy businesses are becoming outdated.
[B] cautiousness facilitates problem-solving.
[C] aggressiveness better meets challenges.
[D] traditional luxuries can stay unaffected.
40.Which of the following would be the best title of the text?
[A] Shift to Online Newspapers All at Once
[B] Cherish the Newspaper Still in Your Hand
[C] Make Your Print Newspaper a Luxury Good
[D] Keep Your Newspapers Forever in Fashion#p#副标题#e#
Part B
Directions: Read the following text and answer the questions by choosing the most suitable subheading from the A-G for each of the numbered paragraph (41-45). There are two extra subheadings. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
[A] Create a new image of yourself
[B] Have confidence in yourself
[C] Decide if the time is right
[D] Understood the context
[E] Work with professionals
[F] Make it efficient
[G] Know your goals
No matter how formal or informal the work environment, the way you present yourself has an impact. This is especially true in first impressions. According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and like ability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.
The difference between today’s workplace and the “dress for success” era is that the range of options is so much broader, Norms have evolved and fragmented. In some settings, red sneakers or dress T-shirts can convey status; in others not so much. Plus, whatever image we present is magnified by social-media services like decade or two ago. Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding. It can be confusing.
So how do we navigate this? How do we know when to invest in an upgrade? And what’s the best way to pull off one that enhances our goals? Here are some tips:
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As an executive coach, I’ve seen image upgrades be particularly helpful during transitions-- when looking for a new job, stepping into a new or more public role, or changing work environments. If you’re in a period of change or just feeling stuck and in a rut, now may be a good time. If you’re not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues, and professionals. Look for cues about how others perceive you. Maybe there’s no need for an upgrade and that’s OK.
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Get clear on what impact you’re hoping to have . Are you looking to refresh your image or pivot it?For one person, the goal may be to be taken more seriously and enhance their professional image. For another, it may be to be perceived as more approachable, or more modern and stylish. For someone moving from finance to advertising, maybe they want to look more “SoHo.” (It’s OK to use characterizations like that.)
43 |
Look at your work environment like an anthropologist. What are the norms of your environment? What convey status? Who are your most important audiences? How do the people you respect and look up to present themselves? The better you understand the cultural context, the more control you can have over your impact.
44 |
Enlist the support of professionals and share with them your goals and context. Hire a personal stylist, or use the free styling service of a store like J.Crew. Try a hair stylist instead of a barber. Work with a professional photographer instead of your spouse or friend. It’s not as expensive as you might think.
45 |
The point of a style upgrade isn’t to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear. Instead, use it as an opportunity to reduce decision fatigue . Pick a standard work uniform or a few go-to options. Buy all your clothes at once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.
Part C
Directions:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
Mental health is our birthright. (46)We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.Mental health can’t be learned, only reawakened. It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition of exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us. When we don’t understand the value of mental health and we don’t know how to gain access to it, mental health will remain hidden from us, (47)Our mental health doesn’t really go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.
Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem—confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense. It allows us to have perspective on our lives—the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out. It’s a from of innate or unlearned optimism. (48)Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness of they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are. Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier. It gives us patience for ourselves and toward others as well as patience while driving, catching a fish, working on our car, or raising a child. It allows us to see the beauty that surrounds us each moment in nature, in culture, in the flow of our daily lives.
(49)Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions. It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong, good from bad, friend from foe. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We think of it simply as a healthy and helpful flow of intelligent thought. (50)As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.
Section III Writing
Directions:
Write an essay of 160~200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should
1) describe the drawing briefly,
2) explain its intended meaning, and then
3) give your comments.
You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)
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Many experts point out that physical exercise contributes directly to a persons physical fitness
许多专家指出体育锻炼直接有助于身体健康。
Proper measures must be taken to limit the number of foreign tourists and the great efforts should be made to protect local environment and history from the harmful effects of international tourism
应该采取适当的措施限制外国旅游者的数量,努力保护当地环境和历史不受国际旅游业的不利影响。
An increasing number of experts believe that migrants will exert positive effects on construction of city However, this opinion is now being questioned by more and more city residents, who complain that the migrants have brought many serious problems like crime and prostitution
越来越多的专家相信移民对城市的建设起到积极作用。然而,越来越多的城市居民却怀疑这种说法,他们抱怨民工给城市带来了许多严重的问题,像犯罪和卖淫。
Many city residents complain that it is so few buses in their city that they have to spend much more time waiting for a bus, which is usually crowded with a large number of passengers
许多市民抱怨城市的公交车太少,以至于他们要花很长时间等一辆公交车,而车上可能已满载乘客。
There is no denying the fact that air pollution is an extremely serious problem: the city authorities should take strong measures to deal with it
无可否认,空气污染是一个极其严重的问题:城市当局应该采取有力措施来解决它。
An investigation shows that female workers tend to have a favorable attitude toward retirement
一项调查显示妇女欢迎退休。
A proper part-time job does not occupy students too much time In fact, it is unhealthy for them to spend all of time on their study As an old saying goes: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
一份适当的业余工作并不会占用学生太多的时间,事实上,把全部的时间都用到学习上并不健康,正如那句老话:只工作,不玩耍,聪明的孩子会变傻。
Any government, which is blind to this point, may pay a heavy price
任何政府忽视这一点都将付出巨大的代价。
Nowadays, many students always go into raptures at the mere mention of the coming life of high school or college they will begin Unfortunately, for most young people, it is not pleasant experience on their first day on campus
当前,一提到即将开始的学校生活,许多学生都会兴高采烈。然而,对多数年轻人来说,校园刚开始的日子并不是什么愉快的经历。
In view of the seriousness of this problem, effective measures should be taken before things get worse
考虑到问题的严重性,在事态进一步恶化之前,必须采取有效的措施。
The majority of students believe that part-time job will provide them with more opportunities to develop their interpersonal skills, which may put them in a favorable position in the future job markets
大部分学生相信业余工作会使他们有更多机会发展人际交往能力,而这对他们未来找工作是非常有好处的。
It is indisputable that there are millions of people who still have a miserable life and have to face the dangers of starvation and exposure
无可争辩,现在有成千上万的人仍过着挨饿受冻的痛苦生活。
Although this view is wildly held, this is little evidence that education can be obtained at any age and at any place
尽管这一观点被广泛接受,很少有证据表明教育能够在任何地点、任何年龄进行。
No one can deny the fact that a persons education is the most important aspect of his life
没有人能否认:教育是人生最重要的一方面。
People equate success in life with the ability of operating computer
人们把会使用计算机与人生成功相提并论。
In the last decades, advances in medical technology have made it possible for people to live longer than in the past
在过去的几十年,先进的医疗技术已经使得人们比过去活的时间更长成为可能。
In fact, we have to admit the fact that the quality of life is as important as life itself
事实上,我们必须承认生命的质量和生命本身一样重要。
We should spare no effort to beautify our environment
我们应该不遗余力地美化我们的环境。
People believe that computer skills will enhance their job opportunities or promotion opportunities
人们相信拥有计算机技术可以获得更多工作或提升的机会。
The information Ive collected over last few years leads me to believe that this knowledge may be less useful than most people think
从这几年我搜集的信息来看,这些知识并没有人们想象的那么有用。
Now, it is generally accepted that no college or university can educate its students by the time they graduation
现在,人们普遍认为没有一所大学能够在毕业时候教给学生所有的知识。
This is a matter of life and death--a matter no country can afford to ignore
这是一个关系到生死的问题,任何国家都不能忽视。
as a popular saying goes, "everything has two sides" now the public are benefiting more and more from scientific and technological inventions on the other hand, the progress of science and technology is bringing us a lot of trouble people in many countries are suffering from public hazards
常言道:事情总是一分为二的。如今人们从科技发明中得到越来越多的好处。另一方面,科技进步也给我们带来了许多麻烦。现在许多国家 的人民饱受公害之苦。
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39. in the back of在后部; on the back of在后部; be on one's back 卧病不起
40. at one's back 支持,维护; have sb. at one's back有支持,有作后台
41. turn one's back on sb. 不理睬,背弃,抛弃
42. behind one's back背着某人
43. be based on / upon基于
44. on the basis of根据,在基础上
45. beatat在运动项目上打赢
46. access to 能接近,进入,了解
47. by accident 偶然地,意外 Without accident 安全地,
48. of one's own accord 自愿地,主动地
49. in accord with与一致 out of one's accord with同····不一致
50. with one accord 一致地
51. in accordance with 依照,根据
52. on one's own account )为了某人的缘故,为了某人自己的利益)自行负责)依靠自己on account赊账; on account of因为; on no account不论什么原因也不; of account有·····重要性
53. takeinto account 把····考虑进去
54. give sb an account of说明,解释
55. account for 解释,说明
56. on account of 由于,因为
57. on no account 绝不要,无论如何不要
58. accuseof指控,控告
59. be accustomed to 习惯于
60. be acquainted with 了解; 熟悉
61. act on奉行,按照行动; act as扮演; act for代理
62. adapt oneself to 使自己适应于
63. adapt 改编,改写
64. in addition 此外,又,加之
65. in addition to 除外
66. adhere to 粘附;坚持,遵循
67. adjacent 毗邻的,临近的
68. adjust···· 调节;适应;
69. admit of 的可能,留有的余地
70. in advance 预告,事先
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Directions:
Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)
46. Directions:
Translate the following text into Chinese. Your translation should be written on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)
The supermarket is designed to lure customers into spending as much time as possible within its doors. The reason for this is simple:The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you'll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you'll buy. And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff. The average supermarket, according to the Food Marketing Institute, carries some 44,00 different items, and many carry tens of thousands more. The sheer volume of available choice is enough to send shoppers into a state of information overload. According to brain-scan experiments, the demands of so much decision-making quickly become too much for us. After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally - which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.
超市旨在吸引顾客尽可能长时间的停留在店中。其原因很简单:顾客在店里停留的时间越长,看到的商品越多;而看到的商品越多,买的就会越多。超市中出售大量的商品。根据食品推广协会的调查,普通的超市大概有44000种不同的商品;还有很多超市出售的商品高达上万种。如此多的选择足以使顾客面对超负荷的信息。根据脑部扫描实验,需要快速的做这么多决定就会让我们难以承受。大约在购物40分钟之后,大多人就不会再努力做出理性的选择了,取而代之的就是冲动购物——而这时,我们的购物车中已经装了一半根本就没想买的东西了。
Section IV Writing
Part A
Suppose you won a translation contest and your friend Jack wrote an email to congratulate you, and ask advice on translation. Write him a reply to
1)thank him;
2)give your advice.
You should write neatly on the ANWSER SHEET. Do not sign you own name at the end of the letter, use “Li Ming ” instead. Do not write the address .(10 point)
参考译文
Dear Jack,
I’m writing to express my gratitude for your congratulation on my success in the translation contest.
As regard to my experience, I would like to offer you some proposals in this part. First and foremost, I strongly suggest you that you need to practice with painstaking effort in this field. What’s more, you had better have more communication with foreigners, which guarantees that you have a deep understanding of foreign culture. Last but not least, you are supposed to participate in some international events to accumulate a wealth of practical experience.
Thanks again and I do hope you could take my suggestions into consideration. I wish you have good luck and make a great success in your future study.
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming
如大家所见,这是2016年英语二小作文题目。英语(二)考纲的写作部分,其实主要考查学生的应用能力,考查范围包括私人和公务信函、备忘录、报告等,还应能写一般描述性、叙述性和说明或议论性的文章;而要求考生根据所给情景写出一篇约100词(标点符号不计算在内)的应用性短文。
作为写作B部分的小作文总分10分,大家要抓住得分点。小作文在评分时有如下评分要点:1.信息点——覆盖全面;2.内容——组织连贯;3.语言——准确性;4.格式——符合要求;5.语域——恰当。
预料之中,今年英语二的小作文再次考查了书信体,并且考查的信件可以说是杂糅型的。这在2011年英语二中出现了同样的考查方式:
Suppose your cousin LI MING has just been admitted to a university write him/her a letter to:
(1)Congratulate him/her,and
(2)give him/her suggestions on how to get prepared for university life
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. DO not sign your own name at the end of the letter,Use zhangwei.
如大家所见,这是2016年英语二小作文题目。英语(二)考纲的写作部分,其实主要考查学生的应用能力,考查范围包括私人和公务信函、备忘录、报告等,还应能写一般描述性、叙述性和说明或议论性的文章;而要求考生根据所给情景写出一篇约100词(标点符号不计算在内)的应用性短文。
作为写作B部分的小作文总分10分,大家要抓住得分点。小作文在评分时有如下评分要点:1.信息点——覆盖全面;2.内容——组织连贯;3.语言——准确性;4.格式——符合要求;5.语域——恰当。
预料之中,今年英语二的小作文再次考查了书信体,并且考查的信件可以说是杂糅型的。这在2011年英语二中出现了同样的考查方式:
Suppose your cousin LI MING has just been admitted to a university write him/her a letter to:
(3)Congratulate him/her,and
(4)give him/her suggestions on how to get prepared for university life
同样的考查方式,足以说明一件事情——绝对要重视考研真题。老师们总在强调真题的重要性,好多同学不与重视,希望大家以后一定要强化这种认识。
下面我们来详细解读下今年的小作文,首先看一下题目要求:
称呼: Dear Jack注意称呼中,后面的逗号不可丢,也不能写成冒号。
正文
建议大家三步走策略——简洁、直接、明了:写作目的、写作是由、重申目的
第一段:写作内容需涵盖两点:写信目的,表明感谢来自朋友的祝贺;可以采用这样的表达方式:I’m writing to express my gratitude for your congratulation on my success in the translation contest.
第二段: 写作内容应以建议为主体。在这个过程中可以把日常我们如何提高的方式写进正文,比如多加练习、多与外国人交流,多多接触国际事务等。本篇老师主要从这些方面进行论述,表达如下As regard to my experience, I would like to offer you some proposals in this part. First and foremost, I strongly suggest you that you need to practice with painstaking effort in this field. What’s more, you had better have more communication with foreigners, which guarantees that you have a deep understanding of foreign culture. Last but not least, you are supposed to participate in some international events to accumulate a wealth of practical experience.
第三段:再次强调重申写信目的,如Tha Thanks again and I do hope you could take my suggestions into consideration. I wish you have good luck and make a great success in your future study.
落款: Yours sincerely, 特别提醒sincerely后面逗号不能丢;签名: Li Ming特别注意 Ming 后面一定不能出现句点。
Part B
48.Directions:
Write an essay based on the following chart. you should
1) interpret the chart and
2) give your comments.
You should write about 150 words on the ANSWER SHEET.(15 points).
某高校学生旅游目的调查
参考例文:
As is clearly reflected in the above pie chart, the purpose of students travelling abroad demonstrates obvious differences in one college of China. According to the data given, the purpose of enjoying the beautiful landscape takes a comparatively large share, accounting for 37%, while that of relieving pressure also takes away 20% of the whole proportion.
What triggers this phenomenon? It is not difficult to put forward several factors responsible for this phenomenon. To start with, with the rapid economic development of economy, people, including college students, are becoming increasingly wealthy, which enables them to afford the once-deemed- expensive oversea traveling. In order to enjoy the charming landscape all around the world, a large proportion of students choose to travel abroad. What’s more, along with the ever-accelerating improvement of economy and society is also the ever-increasing work and life pressure. Consequently, the purpose of relieving pressure ranks the second among all the purposes for folks to travel around the world.
In view of the arguments above, we can conclude that the current phenomenon is of no surprise. And therefore, it can be predicted that admiring the scenery and alleviating pressure will still be the main purpose for people to arrange a traveling to other countries.
作文解析
今年英语二作文的题目比较好写,因为标题和图示非常清晰明白。图表显示了某高校学生旅游目的调查, 考生分析原因的话也会很简单。下面分三段简要地说一下这三段应该怎么写。
第一段主要是描述图表。图表一目了然,数量词百分比也是大家熟悉的词汇,表述数据时,图中有四五组数据,由于字数的限制以及为了写作的便利可以突出较大比例的“欣赏风景”和“缓解压力”,注意引入百分比的表达方式。
第二段给出你的评论,主要写这种情况的原因。主要要结合图表描述的内容从两个方面写起。一方面为什么为了欣赏风景而旅行的目的占37%, 另一方面为什么缓解压力会占到33%比例。
最后结尾段落可简要得出结论,这种现象并不奇怪,还将继续下去。
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