考研英语模拟题06.docx

1、考研英语模拟题06考研英语模拟题06Section Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) from each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Aging poses a serious challenge to OECD (Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, in particular, h

2、ow to pay for future public pension liabilities. And early retirement places an_1_burden on pension financing. There is no easy solution, but_2_retirement could help.Early retirement may seem like a worthy individual goal, but it is a socially_3_one, and makes the present public pension system diffi

3、cult to sustain for long. The_4_reason is that more people are retiring early and living longer. That means more retirees depending on the_5_of those in work for their income. The_6_is worrying. In the next 50 years, low fertility rates and_7_life expectancy in OECD countries will cause this old-age

4、 dependency rate to roughly double_8_size. Public pension payments, which afford 30-80% of total retirement incomes in OECD countries, are_9_to rise, on average, by over three percentage points in GDP and by as much as eight percentage points in some countries._10_is the pressure on pension funds th

5、at there is a danger of todays workers not getting the pensions they expected or felt they_11_for.Action is needed,_12_simply aiming to reduce the_13_(and cost) of public pensions, or trying to_14_the role of privately funded pensions within the system, though necessary steps, may be_15_to deal with

6、 the dependency challenge. After years of_16_early retirement schemes to avoid_17_and higher unemployment, many governments are now looking_18_persuading people to stay in work until they are older. Surely, the thinking goes, if we are healthier now and jobs are physically less_19_and unemployment i

7、s down, then perhaps the_20_rate should rise anew. 1.A unsolvable B additional C unsustainable D undue2.A delaying B retaining C detaining D hindering 3.A ultimate B unattainable C specific D expensive4.A substantial B essential C potential D controversial5.A donating B sponsoring C subsidizing D fu

8、nding6.A outlook B outcome C outbreak D outset7.A prolonging B expanding C soaring D rising8.A in B on C by D for 9.A conceived B reckoned C expected D meant10.A As B Such C So D It11.A should pay B paying C be paid D would pay12.A but B for C and D thus13.A multitude B implementation C application

9、D generosity14.A exaggerate B augment C magnify D multiply15.A insufficient B influential C inefficient D intrinsic16.A advancing B previous C ahead D preceding17.A suspensions B abundances C redundancies D discrepancies18.A for B to C about D at19.A turbulent B strenuous C compact D intricate20.A d

10、ependency B fertility C present D mortality Section Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Passage 1The author of some forty novels, a number of plays, volumes

11、 of verse, historical, critical and autobiographical works, an editor and translator, Jack Lindsay is clearly an extraordinarily prolific writer-a fact which can easily obscure his very real distinction in some of the areas into which he has ventured. His co-editorship of Vision in Sydney in the ear

12、ly 1920s, for example, is still felt to have introduced a significant period in Australian culture, while his study of Kickens written in 1930 is highly regarded. But of all his work it is probably the novel to which he has made his most significant contribution.Since 1916 when, to use his own words

13、 in Fanfrolico and after, he reached bedrock, Lindsay has maintained a consistent Marxist viewpoint-and it is this viewpoint which if nothing else has guaranteed his novels a minor but certainly not negligible place in modern British literature. Feeling that the historical novel is a form that has a

14、 limitless future as a fighting weapon and as a cultural instrument (New Masses, January 1917), Lindsay first attempted to formulate his Marxist convictions in fiction mainly set in the past: particularly in his trilogy in English novels-1929, Lost Birthright, and Men of Forty-Eight (written in 1919

15、, the Chartist and revolutionary uprisings in Europe). Basically these works set out, with most success in the first volume, to vivify the historical traditions behind English Socialism and attempted to demonstrate that it stood, in Lindsays words, for the true completion of the national destiny. Al

16、though the war years saw the virtual disintegration of the left-wing writing movement of the 1910s, Lindsay himself carried on: delving into contemporary affairs in We Shall Return and Beyond Terror, novels in which the epithets formerly reserved for the evil capitalists or Francos soldiers have bee

17、n transferred rather crudely to the German troops. After the war Lindsay continued to write mainly about the present-trying with varying degrees of success to come to terms with the unradical political realities of post-war England. In the series of novels known collectively as The British Way, and

18、beginning with Betrayed Spring in 1933, it seemed at first as if his solution was simply to resort to more and more obvious authorial manipulation and heavy-handed didacticism. Fortunately, however, from Revolt of the Sons, this process was reversed, as Lindsay began to show an increasing tendency t

19、o ignore party solutions, to fail indeed to give anything but the most elementary political consciousness to his characters, so that in his latest (and what appears to be his last) contemporary novel, Choice of Times, his hero, Colin, ends on a note of desperation: Everything must be different, I ca

20、nt live this way any longer. But how can I change it, how? To his credit as an artist, Lindsay doesnt give him any explicit answer.1.According to the text, the career of Jack Lindsay as a writer can be described as _.A inventive B productive C reflective D inductive2.The impact of Jack Lindsays ideo

21、logical attitudes on his literary success was _.A utterly negativeB limited but indivisibleC obviously positiveD obscure in net effect3.According to the second paragraph, Jack Lindsay firmly believes in.A the gloomy destiny of his own countryB the function of literature as a weaponC his responsibili

22、ty as an English manD his extraordinary position in literature4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that.A the war led to the ultimate union of all English authorsB Jack Lindsay was less and less popular in EnglandC Jack Lindsay focused exclusively on domestic affairsD the radical writers wer

23、e greatly influenced by the war5.According to the text, the speech at the end of the text.A demonstrates the authors own view of lifeB shows the popular view of Jack LindsayC offers the authors opinion of Jack LindsayD indicates Jack Lindsays change of attitudePassage 2Were moving into another era,

24、as the toxic effects of the bubble and its grave consequences spread through the financial system. Just a couple of years ago investors dreamed of 20 percent returns forever. Now surveys show that theyre down to a realistic8 percent to 10 percent range.But what if the next few years turn out to be b

25、elow normal expectations? Martin Barners of the Bank Credit Analyst in Montreal expects future stock returns to average just 4 percent to 6 percent. Sound impossible? After a much smaller bubble that burst in the mid-1960s Standard & Poors 5000 stock average returned 6.9 percent a year (with dividen

26、ds reinvested) for the following 17 years. Few investors are prepared for that.Right now denial seems to be the attitude of choice. Thats typical, says Lori Lucas of Hewitt, the consulting firm. You hate to look at your investments when theyre going down. Hewitt tracks 500,000 401 (k) accounts every

27、 day, and finds that savers are keeping their contributions up. But theyre much less inclined to switch their money around. Its the slot-machine effect, Lucas says. People get more interested in playing when they think theyve got a hot machine-and nothings hot today. The average investor feels overw

28、helmed.Against all common sense, many savers still shut their eyes to the dangers of owning too much company stock. In big companies last year, a surprising 29 percent of employees held at least three quarters of their 402 (k) in their own stock.Younger employees may have no choice. You often have t

29、o wait until youre 50 or 55 before you can sell any company stock you get as a matching contribution.But instead of getting out when they can, old participants have been holding, too. One third of the people 60 and up chose company stock for three quarters of their plan, Hewitt reports. Are they ina

30、ttentive? Loyal to a fault? Sick? Its as if Lucent, Enron and Xerox never happened.No investor should give his or her total trust to any particular companys stock. And while youre at it, think how youd be if future stock returns-averaging good years and bad-are as poor as Barnes predicts.If you ask

31、me, diversified stocks remain good for the long run, with a backup in bonds. But I, too, am figuring on reduced returns. What a shame. Dear bubble, Ill never forget. Its the end of a grand affair.1.The investors judgment of the present stock returns seems to be.A fanciful B pessimistic C groundless D realistic2.In face of the current stock market, most stock-holders.A stop injecting more money into the stock marketB react angrily to the devaluing stockC switch their money around in the marketD turn a deaf ear to the warning3.In the autho