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1、The outbreak came to global _7_ in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths _8_ healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to _9_ in New York City, the southwestern United States and around th

2、e world.In the United States, new cases seemed to fade _10_ warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009,officials reported there was_11_ flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the _12_ tested are the new swine flu, also known as（A）H1N1,not seasonal flu. In the U.S, it has_1

3、3_more than one million people,and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.Federal health officials _14_ Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began _15_ orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual

4、flu vaccine, is _16_ ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those _17_ dose were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not _18 _ for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or

5、 several other _19_. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk group，health care workers, people _20_infants and healthy young people.1. Acriticized Bappointed Ccommented Ddesignated2. Aproceeded Bactivated Cfollowed Dprompted3. Adigits Bnumbers Camounts Dsums4. Amoderate Bnor

6、mal Cunusual Dextreme5. Awith Bin Cfrom Dby6. Aprogress Babsence Cpresence Dfavor7. Areality Bphenomenon Cconcept Dnotice8. Aover Bfor Camong Dto9. Astay up Bcrop up Cfill up Dcover up10. Aas Bif Cunless Duntil11. Aexcessive Benormous Csignificant Dmagnificent12. Acategories Bexamples Cpatterns Dsam

7、ples13. Aimparted Bimmersed Cinjected Dinfected14. Areleased Brelayed Crelieved Dremained15. Aplacing Bdelivering Ctaking Dgiving16. Afeasible Bavailable Creliable Dapplicable17. Aprevalent Bprincipal Cinnovative Dinitial18. Apresented Brestricted Crecommended Dintroduced19. Aproblems Bissues Cagoni

8、es Dsufferings20. Ainvolved in Bcaring for Cconcerned with Dwarding offSection Reading comprehensionPart ARead the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.（40 points）Text1The longest bull run in a century of art-

9、market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, at Sothebys in London on September 15th 2008 （see picture）. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last hurrah. As the aucti

10、oneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising vertiginously since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder

11、 of Arts Economics, a research firmdouble the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industr

12、ies. MBA加油站In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of many art-buying investors. In the art world that meant c

13、ollectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sectorfor Chinese contemporary artthey were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the worlds two biggest auction houses, Sothebys and Christies, had to

14、 pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.MBA加油站编辑The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the second worl

15、d war. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more volatile. But Edward Dolman, Christies chief executive, says: “Im pretty confident were at the bottom.”What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are sti

16、ll buyers in the market, whereas in the early 1990s, when interest rates were high, there was no demand even though many collectors wanted to sell. Christies revenues in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of 2006. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special repo

17、rt said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Dsdeath, debt and divorcestill deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.21.In the first paragraph,Damien

18、 Hirsts sale was referred to as “a last victory”because _-.A.the art market hadwitnessed a succession of victoryiesB.the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bidsC.Beautiful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpiecesD.it was successfully made just before the world financial cri

19、sis22.By saying “spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable”（Line 1-2,Para.3）,the author suggests that_ .A . collectors were no longer actively involved in art-market auctionsB .people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleriesC.art collection as a fashion had lost its appea

20、l to a great extentD .works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying23.Which of the following statements is NOT ture?A .Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007to 2008.B.The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum.C.The market generally went

21、 downward in various ways.D.Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come.24.The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are _A.auction houses favoritesB.contemporary trendsC.factors promoting artwork circulationD.styles representing impressionists25.The most appropriate title for this text

22、 could be _A.Fluctuation of Art PricesB.Up-to-date Art AuctionsC.Art Market in DeclineD.Shifted Interest in ArtsText2MBA加油站编辑I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room - a womens group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening one man had been particularly

23、talkative frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands dont talk to them. This man quickly concurred. He gestured toward his wife and said Shes the talker in o

24、ur family. The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and hurt. Its true he explained. When I come home from work I have nothing to say. If she didnt keep the conversation going wed spend the whole evening in silence.This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to ta

25、lk more than women in public situations they often talk less at home. And this pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late 70s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book Divorce Talk that most of the women she

26、interviewed - but only a few of the men - gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year - a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.In my own research complaints from

27、women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning cooking social arrangements and errands. Instead they focused on communic

28、ation: He doesnt listen to met talk to me. I found as Hacker observed years before that most wives want their husbands to be first and foremost conversational partners but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.In short the image that best represents the current crisis is the stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a newspaper held up in front of his face while a woman glares