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1、模拟题Test 1全国硕士学位研究生入学统一考试英语试题北京宫东风英语考研团队编写Section 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. (10 points)In todays global marketplace, properly measuring the English-language skills of prospective and curre

2、nt employees is critical. For over 25 years, companies have relied on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) to help their companies succeed. Over 8,000 companies worldwide use the TOEIC test to make significant management and 1 decisions, including:Recruiting, promoting and 2 e

3、mployees TOEIC score standards, based on the levels of English necessary to carry out 3 responsibilities, can be 4 in making personnel decisions.Job training TOEIC test scores can be used to determine 5 an individual has sufficient English 6 to participate 7 , and benefit from, the training that wil

4、l be 8 in English.Overseas assignments TOEIC scores can indicate whether an employee will be able to work and 9 successfully if assigned 10 a native English-speaking country.Language training TOEIC scores can be used to 11 employees who require further English language training, to set learning goal

5、s, and to 12 their progress.Highly 13 and accurate, the TOEIC test 14 rapid test scoring and reporting, and provides a 15 standard of performance recognized around the world. For millions of people, those who take it and those who rely upon its scores, the TOEIC test is a critical 16 of English-lang

6、uage skills.The TOEIC test was created by ETS (Educational Testing Service), the worlds largest private educational 17 organization, to advance English-language learning around the world. ETS is 18 to listening to the needs of our customers, learning the best methods of 19 and effectively measuring

7、English proficiency, and leading the way in the field of English-language 20 worldwide.1. A personB personalC personnelD personable2. A employingB deploringC empoweringD deploying3. A particularB partialC peculiarD partisan4. A identifiedB abandonedC assessedD employed5. A whetherB weatherC witherD

8、wherefore6. A profitB proficiencyC effectD efficiency7. A atB beyondC inD beside8. A convertedB deductedC reversedD conducted9. A interactB interceptC interfereD interflow10. A byB toC withD upon11. A identifyB imprisonC igniteD idolize12. A manipulateB manifestC monitorD mould13. A reluctantB relig

9、iousC relevantD reliable14. A creaturesB featuresC feathersD feats15. A quantifiableB quarterlyC quantitativeD queasy16. A hallmarkB benchmarkC hallwayD bench-press17. A emotionB measurementC motionD basement18. A relocatedB conductedC consultedD committed19. A consistentlyB instantlyC persistentlyD

10、 insipidly20. A acquisitionB campaignC assessmentD assignmentSection Reading 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)Text 1When the world was a simpler place, the rich

11、were fat, the poor were thin, and right-thinking people worried about how to feed the hungry. Now, in much of the world, the rich are thin, the poor are fat, and right-thinking people are worrying about obesity.Evolution is mostly to blame. It has designed mankind to cope with deprivation, not plent

12、y. People are perfectly tuned to store energy in good years to see them through lean ones. But when bad times never come, they are stuck with that energy, stored around their expanding bellies.Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe. Modern-day Malthusians

13、, who used to draw graphs proving that the world was shortly going to run out of food, have gone rather quiet lately. According to the UN, the number of people short of food fell from 920m in 1980 to 799m 20 years later, even though the worlds population increased by 1.6 billion over the period. Thi

14、s is mostly a cause for celebration. Mankind has won what was, for most of his time on this planet, his biggest battle: to ensure that he and his offspring had enough to eat. But every silver lining has a cloud, and the consequence of prosperity is a new plague that brings with it a host of interest

15、ing policy dilemmas.As a scourge of the modern world, obesity has an image problem. It is easier to associate with Father Christmas than with the four horses of the apocalypse. But it has a good claim to lumber along beside them, for it is the worlds biggest public-health issue today the main cause

16、of heart disease, which kills more people these days than AIDS, malaria, war; the principal risk factor in diabetes; heavily implicated in cancer and other diseases. Since the World Health Organisation labelled obesity an “epidemic” in 2000, reports on its fearful consequences have come thick and fa

17、st.Will public-health warnings, combined with media pressure, persuade people to get thinner, just as they finally put them off tobacco? Possibly. In the rich world, sales of healthier foods are booming and new figures suggest that over the past year Americans got very slightly thinner for the first

18、 time in recorded history. But even if Americans are losing a few ounces, it will be many years before the country solves the health problems caused by half a centurys dining to excess. And, everywhere else in the world, people are still piling on the pounds. Thats why there is now a consensus among

19、 doctors that governments should do something to stop them.21. According to the text, what right-thinking people were concerned about is _.A the wealthyB obesityC the fatD the starved22. The less occurrence of lean years may be attributed to _.A the improving farming productivityB their expanding be

20、lliesC a host of interesting policy dilemmasD the World Health Organization23. What, based on the information of the text, is heavily involved in cancer and other diseases?A malariaB malnutritionC obesityD otalgia24. The graphs by modern-day Malthusians seem to be _.A more persuasiveB less convincin

21、gC more optimisticD less pessimistic25. What does the author mean by “people are still piling on the pounds”?A The world is too fat. Too bad.B People are saving money. Too good.C The world is too slim. Too good.D People are getting loans. Too bad.Text 2In the three years since accounting shenanigans

22、 at Enron first came to light, followed quickly by accounting scams at World Com, Parmalat and others, the auditing profession has been trying to sort itself out and steer clear of trouble. But accounting scandals continue to surface most recently at Fannie Mae, Americas giant mortgage company. More

23、 trouble may be brewing: in the newest twist in Americas unfolding insurance-company scandal, regulators have recently launched investigations into companies use of certain insurance products to “manage” earnings. Should they unearth dodgy doings, the auditors who signed off on company accounts coul

24、d find themselves in hot water. Indeed, Deloitte & Touche, the worlds biggest audit firm, faces a lawsuit of up to $2 billion for its audit of Fortress Re, a re-insurance firm that allegedly used certain insurance products to inflate profits.The continued inability of auditors to thwart accounting t

25、rickery means that, even after the flood of reforms put in place after Enrons collapse, the industry remains a problem. The concentration of the industry into the “Big Four” accountancy firms Deloitte, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG-that now audit the lions share of the worlds larg

26、e, public firms heightens these concerns. Given the implosion of Arthur Andersen, Enrons auditor and once the fifth-biggest accountancy firm in the world, after a criminal indictment for obstruction of justice, there is a real question about how aggressively regulators can now pursue the surviving f

27、our big auditing firms for any future misconduct. Would the worlds financial system really be safe with just the “Big Three” or “Big Two”, or even a single giant firm auditing most large corporations? That sounds untenable.It is all the more important, then, that the rules governing the audit indust

28、ry itself are sound. Certainly, these are in better shape today than they were five years ago, at least in America. The Sarbanes-Oxley act passed in the wake of the Enron and other scandals made non-executive directors on company boards, rather than company management, responsible for hiring and fir

29、ing auditors, and created an independent oversight body to inspect accountancy firms regularly.Yet more still needs to be done. Accountancy firms remain riddled with conflicts of interest. The most basic is that they are responsible for auditing managements that, ultimately, pay them to do so. Often

30、, auditing relationships span decades, increasing the likelihood that familiarity breeds over-cosy ties. And while, ideally, audit firms would compete on the basis of reputation, so that providing the highest quality audits and maximising profits would go hand in hand, in the real world this applies

31、 at best imperfectly. Each of the Big Four accountancy firms and many of the second-tier ones have been sullied by accounting scandals, yet they continue to attract business because there are no other options, particularly for large, international companies. The professions shift from a pure-audit model to a multi-disciplinary one, in which accountancy firms provide companies with tax, advisory and other services along with audits, only increas