2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语(二)真题

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2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题 (2)

2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题答案 (13)

2011年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题 (15)

2011年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题答案 (26)

2012年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题 (28)

2012年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题答案 (39)

2013年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题 (41)

2013年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题答案 (51)

2014年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题 (53)

2014年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题答案 (64)

2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题 (66)

2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题答案 (77)

2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试考研英语（二）真题

Section Ⅰ Use of English

Directions:

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)

The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Organization in 41 years.

The heightened alert 2 an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising 3 in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.

But the epidemic is " 4 " in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general, 5 the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the 6 of any medical treatment.

The outbreak came to global 7 in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths 8 healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to 9 in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.

In the United States, new cases seemed to fade 10 warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was 11 flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the 12 tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has 13 more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.

Federal health officials 14 Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and

began 15 orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is 16 ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those 17 doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not 18 for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other 19 . But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people 20 infants and healthy young people.

1 [A] criticized [B] appointed [C]commented [D] designated

2 [A] proceeded [B] activated [C] followed [D] prompted

3 [A] digits [B] numbers [C] amounts [D] sums

4 [A] moderate [B] normal [C] unusual [D] extreme

5 [A] with [B] in [C] from [D] by

6 [A] progress [B] absence [C] presence [D] favor

7. [A] reality [B] phenomenon [C] concept [D] notice

8 [A]over [B] for [C] among [D] to

9 [A] stay up [B] crop up [C] fill up [D] cover up

10 [A] as [B] if [C] unless [D] until

11 [A] excessive [B] enormous [C] significant [D]magnificent

12 [A]categories [B] examples [C] patterns [D] samples

13 [A] imparted [B] immersed [C] injected [D] infected

14 [A] released [B] relayed [C] relieved [D] remained

15 [A] placing [B] delivering [C] taking [D] giving

16 [A] feasible [B] available [C] reliable [D] applicable

17 [A] prevalent [B] principal [C] innovative [D] initial

18 [A] presented [B] restricted [C] recommended [D] introduced

19 [A] problems [B] issues [C] agonies [D] sufferings

20 [A] involved in [B] caring for [C] concerned with [D] warding off

Ⅱ

Section Reading comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

The 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 2008. 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 while 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 size 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 deeply unfashionable, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of