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1、2xx3考研MPA英语（二）真题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (xx points)矚慫润厲钐瘗睞枥庑赖賃軔朧。Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society i
2、n which all payments are made electronically._1_ a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions have been_2_for two decades but have not yet come to fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in xx75 that electronic means of payment would soon revolutionize the ve
3、ry _3_ of money itself, only to_4_itself several years later. Why has the movement to a cashless society been so_5_in coming? 聞創沟燴鐺險爱氇谴净祸測樅。Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work_6_the disappearance of the paper system.
4、First, it is very_7_to set up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the_8_form of payment Second, paper checks have the advantage that they_9_receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to_xx_. Third, the use of paper checks gives con
5、sumers several days of float - it takes several days_xx_a check is cashed and funds are_xx_from the issuers account, which means that the writer of the check can cam interest on the funds in the meantime. _xx_electronic payments arc immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer.残骛楼諍锩瀨濟溆塹籟婭骒東。
6、Fourth, electronic means of payment may_xx_security and privacy concerns. We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information_xx_there. The fact that this is not an _xx_ occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to
7、access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and_xx_from someone elses accounts. The_xx_of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a new field of computer science is developing to_xx_security issues. A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic_20_that
8、 contains a large amount of personal data. There are concerns that government, employers, and marketers might be able to access these data, thereby violating our privacy.酽锕极額閉镇桧猪訣锥顧荭钯。1. A However B Moreover C Therefore D Otherwise彈贸摄尔霁毙攬砖卤庑诒尔肤。2. A off B back C over D around謀荞抟箧飆鐸怼类蒋薔點鉍杂。3. A power
9、 B concept C history D role厦礴恳蹒骈時盡继價骚卺癩龔。4. A reward B resist C resume D reverse茕桢广鳓鯡选块网羈泪镀齐鈞。5. A silent B sudden C slow D steady鹅娅尽損鹌惨歷茏鴛賴縈诘聾。6. A forB against Cwith D on籟丛妈羥为贍偾蛏练淨槠挞曉。7. A imaginative B expensive C sensitive D productive預頌圣鉉儐歲龈讶骅籴買闥龅。8. A similar B original C temporary D dominant渗
10、釤呛俨匀谔鱉调硯錦鋇絨钞。9. A collect B provide C copy D print铙誅卧泻噦圣骋贶頂廡缝勵罴。xx. A give up B take over C bring backD pass down擁締凤袜备訊顎轮烂蔷報赢无。xx. A before B after C since D when贓熱俣阃歲匱阊邺镓騷鯛汉鼉。xx. A kept B borrowed C released D withdrawn坛摶乡囂忏蒌鍥铃氈淚跻馱釣。xx. A Unless B Until C Because D Though蜡變黲癟報伥铉锚鈰赘籜葦繯。xx. A hide B
11、express C raise Dease買鲷鴯譖昙膚遙闫撷凄届嬌擻。xx. A analyzed B shared C stored D displayed綾镝鯛駕櫬鹕踪韦辚糴飙钪麦。xx. A unsafe B unnatural C uncommon D unclear驅踬髏彦浃绥譎饴憂锦諑琼针。xx. A steal B choose C benefit D return猫虿驢绘燈鮒诛髅貺庑献鵬缩。xx. A consideration B preventionC manipulationD justification锹籁饗迳琐筆襖鸥娅薔嗚訝摈。xx. A cope with B fi
12、ght against C adapt to D call for構氽頑黉碩饨荠龈话骛門戲鷯。20. A chunk B chip C path D trail輒峄陽檉簖疖網儂號泶蛴镧釃。Section IIReading ComprehensionPart ADirections: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)尧侧閆繭絳闕绚勵蜆贅瀝纰縭。Te
13、xt 1In an essay entitled “Making It in America”, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill only two employees today,” a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog is there to keep the man away from the mach
14、ines.”识饒鎂錕缢灩筧嚌俨淒侬减攙。Davidsons article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revo
15、lution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.凍鈹鋨劳臘锴痫婦胫籴铍賄鹗。In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle ,But ,today ,average is officially over. Being average just wont earn you what it used to. It cant whe
16、n so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra-their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field o
17、f employment.恥諤銪灭萦欢煬鞏鹜錦聰櫻郐。Yes, new technology has been eating jobs forever, and always will. But theres been an acceleration. As Davidson notes,” In the xx years ending in 2xx9, U.S. factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years; roughly one out of ev
18、ery three manufacturing jobs-about 6 million in total -disappeared.鯊腎鑰诎褳鉀沩懼統庫摇饬缗。There will always be changed-new jobs, new products, new services. But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T. revolution, the best jobs will require workers to have more a
19、nd better education to make themselves above average.硕癘鄴颃诌攆檸攜驤蔹鸶胶据。In a world where average is officially over, there are many things we need to do to support employment, but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has
20、access to poet-high school education.阌擻輳嬪諫迁择楨秘騖輛埙鵜。21. The joke in Paragraph 1 is used to illustrate_.氬嚕躑竄贸恳彈瀘颔澩纷釓鄧。A the impact of technological advancesB the alleviation of job pressureC the shrinkage of textile millsD the decline of middle-class incomes22. According to Paragraph 3, to be a succes
21、sful employee, one has to_釷鹆資贏車贖孙滅獅赘慶獷緞。A work on cheap softwareB ask for a moderate salaryC adopt an average lifestyleD contribute something unique23. The quotation in Paragraph 4 explains that _怂阐譜鯪迳導嘯畫長凉馴鸨撟。A gains of technology have been erasedB job opportunities are disappearing at a high speed
22、谚辞調担鈧谄动禪泻類谨觋鸾。C factories are making much less money than before嘰觐詿缧铴嗫偽純铪锩癱恳迹。D new jobs and services have been offered24. According to the author, to reduce unemployment, the most important is_熒绐譏钲鏌觶鷹緇機库圆鍰缄。A to accelerate the I.T. revolutionB to ensure more education for peopleC to advance economi
23、c globalizationD to pass more bills in the 21st century25. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the text?鶼渍螻偉阅劍鲰腎邏蘞阕簣择。A New Law Takes EffectB Technology Goes CheapC Average Is OverD Recession Is BadText 2A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settl
24、ers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and 7millin people arrived while about 2 million departed. About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good. They
25、even had an affectionate nickname, “uccelli di passaggio,” birds of passage.纣忧蔣氳頑莶驅藥悯骛覲僨鴛。Today, we are much more rigid about immigrants. We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad. We hail them as Americans in the making, or our broken immigration system and the long pol
26、itical paralysis over how to fix it. We dont need more categories, but we need to change the way we think about categories. We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal. To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas. We might then
27、begin to solve our immigration challenges.颖刍莖蛺饽亿顿裊赔泷涨负這。Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among todays birds of passage. They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work, money and ideas .
28、They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them , They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.濫驂膽閉驟羥闈詔寢賻減栖綜。With or without permission, they straddle laws, jurisdictions and identities with ease. We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be produ
29、ctive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever. We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.銚銻縵哜鳗鸿锓謎諏涼鏗穎報。Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration b
30、attle .Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes. Including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.挤貼綬电麥结鈺贖哓类芈罷鸨。26 “Birds of p
31、assage” refers to those who_.A immigrate across the AtlanticB leave their home countries for goodC stay in a foreign temporarilyDfind permanent jobs overseas27 It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US _. 赔荊紳谘侖驟辽輩袜錈極嚕辫。A needs new immigrant categoriesB has loosened c
32、ontrol over immigrantsC should be adopted to meet challengesD has been fixed via political means28 According to the author, todays birds of passage want_塤礙籟馐决穩賽釙冊庫麩适绲。A financial incentives.B a global recognition.C opportunities to get regular jobs.Dthe freedom to stay and leave.29 The author sugges
33、ts that the birds of passage today should be treated _裊樣祕廬廂颤谚鍘羋蔺递灿扰。A as faithful partners.B with economic favors.C with regal tolerance.Das mighty rivals.30 which is the best title of the passage?A come and go: big mistakeB living and thriving : great riskC with or without : great riskDlegal or ill
34、egal: big mistakeText 3Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.仓嫗盤紲嘱珑詁鍬齊驁絛鯛鱧。Snap decisions can be important defense
35、 mechanisms; if we are judging whether someone is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hard-wired to react very quickly, within milliseconds. But we need more time to assess other factors. To accurately tell whether someone is sociable, studies show, we need at least a minute, preferably five. It ta
36、kes a while to judge complex aspects of personality, like neuroticism or open-mindedness.绽萬璉轆娛閬蛏鬮绾瀧恒蟬轅。But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli arent exclusive to the interpersonal realm. Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few millisecond
37、s primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating. We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else were doing, Subjects exposed to fast-food flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.骁顾燁鶚
38、巯瀆蕪領鲡赙骠弒綈。Yet we can reverse such influences. If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying. If we know female job screeners are more
39、likely to reject attractive female applicants, we can help screeners understand their biases-or hire outside screeners.瑣钋濺暧惲锟缟馭篩凉貿锕戧。John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly “thin slice” information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in “thick sliced” long-term stud
40、y. When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a muck longer evaluation; two days, not two seconds.鎦诗涇艳损楼紲鯗餳類碍穑鳓。Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: doge can think a
41、bout the future only intermittently or for a few minutes. But historically we have spent about xx percent of our days contemplating the longer term. Although technology might change the way we react, it hasnt changed our nature. We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and rev
42、erse the high-speed trend.栉缏歐锄棗鈕种鵑瑶锬奧伛辊。31. The time needed in making decisions may_.A vary according to the urgency of the situationB prove the complexity of our brain reactionC depend on the importance of the assessmentD predetermine the accuracy of our judgment32. Our reaction to a fast-food logo
43、 shows that snap decisions_.辔烨棟剛殓攬瑤丽阄应頁諳绞。A can be associativeB are not unconsciousC can be dangerousD are not impulsive33. To reverse the negative influences of snap decisions, we should_.峴扬斕滾澗辐滠兴渙藺诈機愦。A trust our first impressionB do as people usually do C think before we actD ask for expert advic
44、e34. John Gottman says that reliable snap reaction are based on_.詩叁撻訥烬忧毀厉鋨骜靈韬鰍。A critical assessmentBthin sliced studyC sensible explanationD adequate information35. The authors attitude toward reversing the high-speed trend is_.则鯤愜韋瘓賈晖园栋泷华缙輅。A tolerantB uncertainC optimisticD doubtfulText 4Europe i
45、s not a gender-equality heaven. In particular, the corporate workplace will never be completely familyfriendly until women are part of senior management decisions, and Europes top corporate-governance positions remain overwhelmingly male. Indeed, women hold only xx percent of positions on Europe corporate boards.胀鏝彈奥秘孫戶孪钇賻锵咏繞。 The Europe Union i
