新东方考研英语金牌资料第二部分阅读理解全真模拟题101128.docx

1、新东方考研英语金牌资料第二部分阅读理解全真模拟题101128Passage 4 On Thursday American Airlines and US Airways announced an alliance to pool their frequent-flier programs, giving customers added incentives to fly one anothers skies. Then on Friday Delta and United delivered word of a sort-of-but-not-quite coupling. These dea

2、ls thrust the much-scrutinized airline industry even more into the public spotlight. Airline profits are at record highs. Business fares are climbing into the stratosphere, up 16 percent last year alone. Now comes the consolidation sweeping the industry. The question is whether these deals will mean

3、 more choice and more convenience, as the airlines argue, or less competition or even higher prices. Clearly consumers can benefit from these tie-ups. Passengers flying American or US Airways, for instance, can now use either carriers network of 72 worldwide clubs and lounges. They can combine their

4、 frequent-flier awards, allowing them not only to build up redeemable miles more quickly but also cash them in to more destinations. American can plug into US Airways deeper web of connections up and down the Eastern Seaboard; US Airways, with fewer routes to South America, the Caribbeari and Europe

5、, will be able to offer a greater array of international flights. In time, American and US Airways hope to create the more ambitious partnership - a so-called code-sharing agreement that would allow the two carriers to coordinate flight schedules without entering a full-fledged merger. The goal is s

6、eamless service - without having to change airlines. Price is a wild card in these alliances. Consumer groups worry that they will reduce competition, translating in turn into higher fares. They could be right. Given the rapid trend toward consolidation, many analysts foresee a day when most major h

7、ub airports will be dominated by a single airline or consortium. A report last year by the General Accounting Office found that ticket prices, in such cases, ranged from 45 to 65 percent higher than at cities where two or more carriers competed. And just last week the Transportation Department annou

8、nced it was investigating allegations of price-fixing by the major airlines - aimed at keeping smaller discount-carriers from intruding on their turf - and the Justice Department has begun similar probes. The message? Airlines may yearn to merge - but winning approval from skeptical authorities migh

9、t be tougher than they expect.13.Judging from the passage, the frequent-flier program is one by which _. A) people who have built up a certain number of flying miles with an airline will get a free ticket. B) people who fly an airline frequently will get a discount C) people who have built up a cert

10、ain number of flying miles with an airline will get a cash award D) people who fly an airline frequently will get extra service14. according to this passage, the federal governments attitude towards airline mergers is one of _ A) encouragement B) restriction C) prohibition D) approval15. The express

11、ion a wild card in the last paragraph most probably means _. A) a chief concrn B) an important factor C) an unpredictable element D) a necessary consequence16. Which of the following statements is true? A) Airline mergers will give rise to intense competition. B) Consumers benefit from airline merge

12、rs. C) Tie-ups between airlines seem to draw little public attention. D) Ticket prices tend to be higher where there is only one carrier.Passage 5 A decade ago Susic Makinster learned she might have a liver problem. Her doctors told her not to worry. So she didnt - until three years ago, when she wa

13、s astonished to learn she had tested positive for hepatitis (肝炎) C, a blood-borne virus she had never heard of. Makinster, then 45, had been living with an infection that would likely stay with her for life and that could eventually destroy her liver and cause her death. Yet she had no idea how or w

14、hen she had contracted the virus. Hepatitis C wasnt even discovered until 1989. Today an estimated 3.9 million Americans are infected, and most of them still dons know it. Like HIV, hepatitis C is a slowacting virus that can be transmitted by shared needles and blood transfusions. But it is far more

15、 rampant. There is no vaccine to prevent its spread, and no reliable treatment. Some 75 percent of people who contract the virus will carry it for life; 20 percent will develop cirrhosis of the liver. Hepatitis C is now the nations leading reason for liver transplantation, and the second leading cau

16、se of cirrhosis (after alcohol). It will kill roughly 10,000 Americans this year - and that number is expected to triple over the next two decades, as more past infections come to light. Says Surgeon General David Satcher, This is a major public health crisis. Until treatment is less hit-or-miss, li

17、ving with hepatitis C will be a matter of accommodation. Though most people who contracted the virus become chronically infected, many never develop advanced liver disease. Thats partly luck, but not entirely. Giving up alcohol brightens the prognosis, and many sufferers tout the benefits of reducin

18、g stress and getting more rest. Getting vaccinated against hepatitis a and B is also a good idea, since a dual infection can aggravate the disease. And preventing further spread requires some precautions. Experts are divided on the need to practise safe sex, since the virus is normally only in the b

19、lood. But they stress the importance of covering open wounds and not sharing razors and toothbrushes.17. According to the passage, the leading cause for liver cirrhosis is _. A) too much drinking B) hepatitis C C) hepatitis A D) hepatitis B18. According to the passage, which of the following stateme

20、nts is true? A) No one who contracts hepatitis C can hope to live long. B) More people have contracted hepatitis C than HIV. C) Alcohol is the chief cause for hepatitis C. D) Hepatitis C is sexually transmitted.19. The number of people who will die of hepatitis C in twenty years will be _. A) 20,000

21、 B) 10,000 C) 30,000 D) 40,00020. The word accommodation in the last paragraph most probably means _. A) care B) treatment C) rest D) adjustmentUnit 14Passage 1 New and bizarre crimes have come into being with the advent of computer technology. Organized crime too has been directly involved; the new

22、 technology offers it unlimited opportunities, such as data crimes, theft of sevices, property-related crimes, industrial sabotage, politically related sabotage, vandalism, crimes against the individual and financially related crimes. . . Theft of data, or data crime, has attracted the interest of o

23、rganized criminal syndicates. This is usually the theft or copying of valuable computer program. An international market already exists for computerized data, and specialized fences are said to be playing a key role in this rapidly expanding criminal market. buyers for stolen programs may range from

24、 a firms competitors to foreign nations. A competitor sabotages a companys computer system to destroy or cripple the firms operational ability, thus neutralizing its competitive capability either in the private or the government sector. This computer sabotage may also be tied to an attempt by afflue

25、nt investors to acquire the victim firm. With the growing reliance by firms on computers for their recordkeeping and daily operations, sabotage of their computers can result in internal havoc, after which the group interested in acquiring the firm can easily buy it at a substantially lower price. Cr

26、iminal groups could also resort to sabotage if the company is a competitor of a business owned or controlled by organized crime. Politically motivated sabotage is on the increase; political extremist groups have sprouted on every continent. Sophisticated computer technology arms these groups with aw

27、esome powers and opens technologically advanced nations to their attack. Several attempts have already been made to destroy computer facility at an air force base. A university computer facility involved in national defence work suffered more than $ 2 million in damages as a result of a bombing. Com

28、puter vulnerability has been amply documented. One congressional study concluded that neither government nor private computer systems are adequately protected against sabotage. Organized criminal syndicates have shown their willingness to work with politically motivated groups. Investigators have un

29、covered evidence of cooperation between criminal groups and foreign governments in narcotics. Criminal groups have taken attempts in assassinating political leaders. . . . Computers are used in hospital life-support system, in laboratories, and in major surgery. Criminals could easily turn these com

30、puters into tools of devastation. By sabotaging the computer of a life-support system, criminals could kill an individual as easily as they had used a gun. By manipulating a computer, they could guide awesome tools of terror against large urban centres. cities and nations could become hostages. Homi

31、cide could take a new form. The computer may become the hit man of the twentieth century. The computer opens vast areas of crime to organized criminal groups, both national and international. It calls on them to pool their resources and increase their cooperative efforts, because many of these crime

32、s are to complex for one group to handle, especially those requiring a vase network of fences. Although criminals have adapted to computer technology, law enforcement has not. Many still think in terms of traditional criminology.1. How many kinds of crimes are mentioned in the passage? A) 7. B) 8. C) 9. D) 10.2. What is the purpose of a competitor to sabotage a companys computer? A) His purpose is to destroy or weaken the firms operational ability. B) His purpose is to weaken firms competitive capability and get it. C) Hi