XX年考研英语试题及答案Word文件下载.docx

1、 that the number of the homeless is_8_, one of the federal governments studies _9_ that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade. finding ways to _10_ this growing homeless population has bee increasingly difficult._11_when homeless individuals manage to find

2、 a _12_ that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day_13_ the street, part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. and a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. many

3、others,_14_not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday _15_ skills need to turn their lives _16_.boston globe reporter chris reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are_17_programs that address the many needs of the homeless. _18_ edward blotkowsk, director of munity s

4、ervice at bentley college in massachusetts,_19_it. “there has to be _20_of programs. what we need is a package deal.” 1.aindeed blikewise ctherefore dfurthermore 2.astand bcope capprove dretain 3.ain bfor cwith dtoward 4.araise badd ctake dkeep 5.agenerally balmost chardly dnot 6.acover bchange cran

5、ge ddiffer 7.anow that balthough cprovided dexcept that 8.ainflating bexpanding cincreasing dextending 9.apredicts bdisplays cproves ddiscovers 10.aassist btrack csustain ddismiss 11.ahence bbut ceven donly 12.alodging bshelter cdwelling dhouse 13.asearching bstrolling ccrowding dwandering 14.awhen

6、bonce cwhile dwhereas 15.alife bexistence csurvival dmaintenance 16.aaround bover con dup 17.aplex bprehensive cplementary dpensating 18.aso bsince cas dthus 19.aputs binterprets cassumes dmakes 20.asupervision bmanipulation cregulation dcoordination read the following four texts. answer the questio

7、ns below each text by choosing a, b,c, or d. mark your answers on answer sheet 1.（40 points） in spite of “endless talk of difference,” american society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. this is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of consu

8、mption “launched by the 19th century department stores that offered vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite.” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. this turned shopping into a public and democratic

9、 act.” the mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization. immigrants are quickly fitting into this mon culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. writing for the national immigration forum, gregory rodriguez reports that todays immigration is nei

10、ther at unprecedented level nor resistant to assimilation. in 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. in the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. now, consider three indices of ass

11、imilation-language, home ownership and intermarriage. the 1990 census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most mon countries of origin spoke english “well” or “very well” after ten years of residence.” the children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in eng

12、lish. “by the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.” hence the description of america as a graveyard” for language. by 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrive before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate

13、 among native-born americans. foreign-born asians and hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do u.s-born whites and blacks.” by the third generation, one third of hispanic women are married to non-hispanics, and 41 percent of asian-american women are married to non-asians. rodriguez not

14、that children in remote villages around world are fans of superstars like amold schwarzenegger and garth brooks, yet “some americans fear that immigrant living within the united states remain somehow immune to the nations assimilative power.” are there divisive issues and pockets of seething in amer

15、ica? indeed. it is big enough to have a bit of everything. but particularly when viewed against americas turbulent past, todays social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment. 21. the word “homogenizing” （line 2, paragraph 1） most probably means a. identifying b. associating c. a

16、ssimilating d. monopolizing 22. aording to the author, the department stores of the 19th century a.played a role in the spread of popular culture. b.became intimate shops for mon consumers. c.satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite. d.owed its emergence to the culture of consumption. 23. the te

17、xt suggests that immigrants now in the u.s. a.are resistant to homogenization. b.exert a great influence on american culture. c.are hardly a threat to the mon culture. d.constitute the majority of the population. 24. why are amold schwarzenegger and garth brooks mentioned in paragraph 5? a. to prove

18、 their popularity around the world. b. to reveal the publics fear of immigrants. c. to give examples of suessful immigrants. d. to show the powerful influence of american culture. 25. in the authors opinion, the absorption of immigrants into american society is a. rewardingb. suessfulc. fruitlessd.

19、harmful stratford-on-avon, as we all know, has only one industrywilliam shakespearebut there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. there is the royal shakespeare pany （asc）, which presents superb productions of the plays at the shakespeare memorial theatre on the avon. and t

20、here are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who e, not to see the plays, but to look at anne hathaways cottage, shakespeares birthplace and the other sights. the worthy residents of stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. they frankly dislike the rscs actors, the

21、m with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. its all deliciously ironic when you consider that shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor （with a beard） and did his share of noise-making. the tourist streams are not entirely separate. the sightseers who e by bus- and o

22、ften take in warwick castle and blenheim palace on the sidedont usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in stratford. however, the playgoers do manage a little sight-seeing along with their playgoing. it is the playgoers, the esc contends, who bring in much of th

23、e towns revenue because they spend the night （some of them four or five nights） pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. the sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall. the townsfolk dont see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of th

24、e royal shakespeare pany. stratford cries poor traditionally. nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktail lounge. hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with hamlet hamburger bars, the lear lounge, the banquo banqueting room, an

25、d so forth, and will be very expensive. anyway, the townsfolk cant understand why the royal shakespeare pany needs a subsidy. （the theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. last year its 1,431 seats were 94 percent oupied all year long and this year theyll do better.） the reaso

26、n, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low. it would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are stratfords most attractive clientele. they e entirely for the plays, not the sights. they all seem to look alike （though they

27、 e from all over）-lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standingroom tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m. when preh

28、istoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. they suddenly became extinct. smaller species survived. the large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. now something similar could be happening in the oceans. that

29、the seas are being overfished has been known for years. what researchers such as ransom myers and boris worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. they have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass （the amount of living biological matter） of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. aording to their latest paper published in nature, the bio