在职MBA联考英语模拟试题强化0719090524261.docx

1、在职MBA联考英语模拟试题强化07190905242612012年在职MBA联考英语模拟试题强化练习及答案二考生注意事项 1. 考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。2. 答题前，考生应将答题卡上的考生姓名、报考单位、考生编号等信息填写清楚，并与准考证上的一致。3. 答案必须按要求填涂或写在指定的答题卡上。（1） 综合填空、阅读理解的答案填涂在答题卡（一）上，英译汉的答案和作文的写在答题卡（二）上。（2） 填涂部分应该按照答题卡上的要求用2B铅笔完成。如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。书写部分（英译汉的答案和作文）必须用蓝（黑）色字迹钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔在答题卡上作答。4. 答题卡严禁折叠。考试结束后，将答

2、题卡（一）和答题卡（二）一起放入原试卷袋中，试卷交给监考人员。否则，所产生的一切后果由考生本人负责。Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on Answer Sheet 1 (10 points)History has served up important lessons that show what happens when a company or individua

3、l tries to avoid _1_ the existence of a crisis. Look _2_ to the Exxon Valdez oil tanker fiasco when Exxon chief Lawrence Bawl stonewalled journalists. _3_ that official silence did was fuel the distrust of the public and cause a backlash where customers cut their Exxon credit cards _4_ disgust. The

4、_5_ side of the coin is the classic Johnson & Johnson (J & J) Tylenol tampering case. In that instance, where some kook poisoned bottles of Tylenol, J&Js CEO James Burke acknowledged the crisis _6_ its first night and ordered all Tylenol _7_ the supermarket shelves until the situation was _8_.Now wh

5、ich corporate executive do you think came out on top? By acknowledging the _9_, James Burke was able to get everyone moving together toward a solution. With Exxons _10_ to acknowledge the Valdez oil spill, everyone was _11_ in pointing the blame versus working together toward a solution. Acknowledge

6、ment up front not only appeases your customers, but also _12_ the opportunity for your competitors to _13_ or capitalize on false rumors. You remove the competitors trump card. By the time Exxon came around to acknowledging _14_ happened with that oil spill in Alaska, it had to _15_ with the public-

7、relations nightmare of dispelling all of the untruths that developed lives of their own before the company could _16_ deal with the real problem situation._17_ yourself a favor and acknowledge a disastrous incident up front. Then get to work making things work better. Remember, by acknowledging a di

8、saster, we arent suggesting that you _18_ and accept blame. Acknowledging the situation is merely an act of admitting that it _19_ exist and creates an atmosphere _20_ to moving toward a solution.1. A. abandoning B. acknowledging C. accounting D. advancing2. A. about B. back C. around D. with3. A. A

9、ll the B. The all C. All of D. All4. A. in B. on C. at D. by5. A. passive B. persuasive C. opposite D. occasional6. A. on B. at C. in D. by7. A. off B. of C. aside D. except8. A. dissolved B. resolved C. revolved D. involved9. A. critic B. criticize C. crisis D. critical10. A. diffuse B. diffusion C

10、. refuse D. refusal11. A. dissolved B. resolved C. revolved D. involved12. A. estimate B. eliminate C. emigrate D. educate13. A. shrink B. strain C. spread D. stain14. A. this B. which C. that D. what15. A. deal B. dispose C. work D. handle16. A. effectively B. efficiently C. feasibly D. formally17.

11、 A. Work B. Do C. Take D. Make18. A. apologize B. appease C. applaud D. appeal19. A. do B. does C. did D. done20. A. conduce B. conductible C. conducive D. conductiveSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosin

12、g A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet 1 (40 points)Text 1When an invention is made, the inventor has three possible courses of action open to him: he can give the invention to the world by publishing it, keep the idea secret, or patent it.A granted patent is the result of a bargain struc

13、k between an inventor and the state, by which the inventor gets a limited period of monopoly (垄断) and publishes full details of his invention to the public after that period terminates.Only in the most exceptional circumstances is the life-span of a patent extended to alter this normal process of ev

14、ents.The longest extension ever granted was to Georges Valensi; his 1939 patent for color TV receiver circuitry was extended until 1971 because for most of the patents normal life there was no color TV to receive and thus no hope of reward for the invention.Because a patent remains permanently publi

15、c after it has terminated, the shelves of the library attached to the patent office contain details of literally millions of ideas that are free for anyone to use and, if older than half a century, sometimes even re-patent. Indeed, patent experts often advise anyone wishing to avoid the high cost of

16、 conducting a search through live patents that the one sure way of avoiding violation of any other inventors right is to plagiarize a dead patent. Likewise, because publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patents on the idea, it is traditionally safe to take ideas fr

17、om other areas of print. Much modern technological advance is based on these presumptions of legal security.Anyone closely involved in patents and inventions soon learns that most new ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills. It is their reduction to commercial practice, either through necessity or d

18、edication, or through the availability of new technology that makes news and money. The basic patent for the theory of magnetic recording dates back to 1886. Many of the original ideas behind television originate from the late 19th and early 20th century. Even the Volkswagen rear engine car was anti

19、cipated by a 1904 patent for a cart with the horse at the rear.21. The passage is mainly about _.A. an approach to patentsB. the application for patentC. the use of patentsD. the access to patents22. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. When a patent becomes out of effect, it c

20、an be re-patented if necessaryB. It is necessary for an inventor to apply for a patent before he makes his invention publicC. A patent holder must publicize the details of his invention when its legal period is overD. One can get all the details of a patented invention from a library attached to the

21、 patent office23. Georges Valensis patent lasted until 1971 because _.A. nobody would offer any reward for his patent prior to that timeB. his patent could not be put to use for an unusually long timeC. there were not enough TV stations to provide color programmesD. the color TV receiver was not ava

22、ilable until that time24. The word plagiarize (Line 5, Para. 5) most probably means _A. steal and use C. make publicB. give reward to D. taken and change25. From the passage we learn that _.A. an invention will not benefit the inventor unless it is reduced to commercial practiceB. products are actua

23、lly inventions which were made a long time agoC. it is much cheaper to buy an old patent than a new oneD. patent experts often recommend patents to others by conducting a search though dead patentsText TwoAmitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks (骗子). As

24、 a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989, he ended his work there disgusted with his students overwhelming lust for money. Theyre taught that profit is all that matters, he says. Many schools dont even offer ethics (伦理学) courses at all.Etzioni expressed his frustration about the

25、interests of his graduate students. By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest. He wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these business-leaders-to-be. I really feel li

26、ke I failed them, he says. If I was a better teacher, maybe I could have reached them.Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished.

27、 What he found wasnt encouraging. Those would be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom-and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard

28、 as an eye-opening one and says theres much about business schools that hed like to change. A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves, Etzioni says. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community

29、interests, Etzioni has seen a lot thats left him shaking his head. And because of what hes seen taught in business schools, hes not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools, I suspect, says Etzioni.Etzioni is still teaching the

30、sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership. People with poor motives will always exist. He says. Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity. Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled tho

31、se individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble. His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his long-standing messages about business ethics.26. What impressed Amitai Etzioni most about Harvard MBA students?A. Their keen interest in business courses.B. Their intense desire for money.C. Their tactics for making profits.D. Their potential to become business leaders.27. Why did Amitai Etzioni say I really feel like I failed them (Line 4, Para. 2)?A. He was unable to alert his students to corporate malpr