MBA英语真题及答案解析.docx

1、MBA英语真题及答案解析2012 年MBA英语真题及答案解析Section I Use of EnglishDirections：Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adven

2、turism, but thats not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World War II and the people they liberated, the G.I. was the 2 man grown into hero, the pool farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of food an

3、d shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy, up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name is not much.GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 Government

4、 Issue, and it was on all of the article 8 to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrac a working class name. The United States has 10 had a president or vicepresident or secretary of state Joe. G.I. joe had a 11 career fighting German ,Japanese, and

5、Korean troops. He appers as a character, or a 12 of american personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of G.I. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayde themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the warl, writing ab

6、out the dirt-snow -and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated, His reports 16 the “willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other a

7、nd the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person intheir lives.1.A performed Bserved Crebelled Dbetrayed2.A actual Bcommon Cspecial Dnormal3.Abore Bcased Cremoved Dloaded4.Anecess

8、ities Bfacilitice Ccommodities Dpropertoes5.Aand Bnor Cbut Dhence6.Afor Binto C form Dagainst7.Ameaning Bimplying Csymbolizing Dclaiming8.Ahanded out Bturn over Cbrought back Dpassed down9.Apushed Bgot Cmade Dmanaged10.Aever Bnever Ceither Dneither11.Adisguised Bdisturbed Cdisputed Ddistinguished12.

9、Acompany Bcollection Ccommunity Dcolony13.Aemployed Bappointed Cinterviewed Dquestioned14.Aethical Bmilitary Cpolitical Dhuman15.Aruined Bcommuted Cpatrolled Dgained16.Aparalleled Bcounteracted Cduplicated Dcontradicte17.Aneglected Bavoided Cemphasized Dadmired18.Astages Billusions Cfragments Dadvan

10、cea19.AWith BTo CAmong DBeyond20.Aon the contrary B by this means Cfrom the outset Dat that point完形填空参考答案15 BBAAC 610 DCACB 1115 DBCDD 1620 ACCBDSection II Reading ComprehensionPart A Directions:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your a

11、nswers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40points)Text 1s academic grade.This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students canno

12、t do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.District administrators say that homework

13、will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10%of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests wi

14、thout completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule.At the

15、same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely,if homework matters,it s

16、hould account for asignificant portion of the grade.Meanwhile,this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful oraooropriate to theirage and the subject.or that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.The homework rules should be

17、 put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_. A is receiving more criticism Bis no longer

18、an educational ritual Cis not required for advanced courses Dis gaining more preferences Atend to have moderate expectations for their education Bhave asked for a different educational standard Cmay have problems finishing their homework Dhave voiced their complaints about homework23. According to P

19、aragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may_. Adiscourage students from doing homework Bresult in students indifference to their report cards Cundermine the authority of state tests Drestrict teachers power in education24. As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homewo

20、rk is whether_. A it should be eliminated Bit counts much in schooling Cit places extra burdens on teachers Dit is important for grades25.A suitable title for this text could be_. AWrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy BA Welcomed Policy for Poor Students CThorny Questions about Homework DA

21、Faulty Approach to Homework参考答案2125 ACABDText 2 Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls lives. It is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in o

22、ne way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls lives and interests. Girl

23、s attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a pra

24、ctical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. Whats more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associate

25、d with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant childrens marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherent

26、ly attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years. I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed

27、 that phase was something experts developed after years of research into childrens behaviour: wrong. Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s. Trade publications counselled department sto

28、res that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping, stone” between infant wear and older kids clothes. It was only after “toddler” became a common shoppers term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories

29、 has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences - or invent them where they did not previously exist.26.By saying it is.the rainbow(Line 3, Para.1),the author means pink_.Ashould not be the sole representation of girlhood

30、Bshould not be associated with girls innocenceCcannot explain girls lack of imaginationDcannot influence girls lives and interests27.According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours？AColours are encoded in girls DNA.BBlue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.CPink used to b

31、e a neutral colour in symbolising genders.DWhite is prefered by babies.28.The author suggests that our perception of childrens psychological development was much influenced by_.Athe marketing of products for childrenBthe observation of childrens natureCresearches into childrens behaviorDstudies of childhood consumption29.We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to_.Afocus on infant wear and older kids clothesB