1、考研英语二真题和答案完整版The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11,2021. It is the firstworldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Orga ni zati on in 41 years.The heighte ned alert 2 an emerge ncy meet ing with flu experts in Gen eva that convened after
2、a sharp rise incases in Australia, and rising 3 in Brita in, Japa n, Chile and elsewhere.But the epidemic is 4 in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations director general, 5 the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the 6 of a
3、ny medical treatme nt.The outbreak came to global 7 in late April 2021, whe n Mexica n authorities no ticed an unu sually large nu mberof hospitalizati ons and deaths 8 healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut dow n at the height of a pan ic, casesbega n to 9 in New York City, the southwester n U
4、n ited States and around the world.In the United States, new cases seemed to fade 10 warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2021,officials reported there was 11 flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the 12 tested are thenew swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seas onal
5、flu. In the U.S., it has 13 more tha n one milli on people, andcaused more tha n 600 deaths and more tha n 6,000 hospitalizati ons.Federal health officials 14 Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began 15 ordersfrom the states for the new swine flu vacci ne. The new vacc ine, which i
6、s differe nt from the ann ual flu vacci ne, is 16 ahead of expectati ons. More tha n three milli on doses were to be made available in early October 2021, though most of those 17 doses were of the FluMist n asal spray type, which is not 18 for preg nant wome n, people over 50 or those with breath in
7、g difficulties, heart disease or several other 19 . But it was still possible to vacc in ate people inother high-risk group: health care workers, people 20_ i nfants and healthy young people.Section n Reading comprehensionPart ADirectio ns:Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below
8、 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-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, “ Beautiful Inside My Head Forever , at Sotheby s in London on September 15th 2021.
9、All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer 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 whi
10、le after rising bewilderingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare Mc Andrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its siz
11、e because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst s sale, spending of any sort became deuenpfalyshionable, especially inNew York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided w
12、ith the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of many art-buying investors. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector for Chinese contemporary art they were down by nea
13、rly 90% in theyear to November 2021. Within weeks the world s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby s anudt nCeharrislytie $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the
14、end of 1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the Second World War. This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant . But Edward Dolman, Christie s chexecutive, says: “I m pretty confident
15、we tom.re at the botWhat makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still 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. Christie the first half of 2021 were still higher than
16、in the first half of 2006. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds death, debt and divorce still 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 Hirsts sale was refe
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