考研英语模拟试卷69(题后含答案及解析)

考研英语模拟试卷69(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. Use of English 2. Reading Comprehension 3. Writing
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. (10 points)
1．Though some people have suggested that women should return to housework in order to leave more jobs for men, the idea has been (1)_____ by both women and men in public (2)_____ polls. Lately some union officials have suggested that too many women are (3)_____ in types of work which were (4)_____ for men and that women should step aside to make (5)_____ for unemployed young men. They argue that women, especially women in their child—bearing years actually delay economic development and result (6)_____ lower (7)_____, poor quality and inefficiency. To solve the problem, they suggested that working women stay at home (8)_____ their husbands or brothers were given double wages. They argue that under these (9)_____, families would remain their same level of income, and women could run the house and (10)_____ children much better. The suggestion, (11)_____,has been flatly rejected by 9 out of 10 people (12)_____. Some other people have suggested another way (13)_____ “phased employment”theory. The theory suggests that a woman worker take (14)_____ from her job when she is seven months (15)_____ and stay off the job (16)_____ her baby reaches the age of 3. It suggests that women on leave receive 75 percent of their (17)_____ salary and be allowed to return to work after the three—year period. This will (18)_____ children, women, their families and the society and it (19)_____ seems to be more (20)_____ than the suggestion that women return to their homes forever.
A．refused
B．declined
C．rejected
D．inclined
正确答案：C
解析：近义词辨析。

refused；declined；rejected；inclined四个选项都表示”拒绝”，refuse泛指一般的拒绝，decline强调的是委婉地谢绝，reject指的是坚决的反对；而incline意为”倾向”。

本句意为：让妇女把更多的工作机会让给男士的这一建议遭到了强烈的反对。

故reject符合题意。

2．
A．attitude
B．reaction
C．idea
D．opinion
正确答案：D
解析：词汇辨析。

attitude态度；reaction反应；idea想法，观点；opinion观点，舆论本题四个选项中能与polls(调查)搭配的只有opinion，即”舆论调查”。

3．
A．used
B．exploited
C．disused
D．employed
正确答案：D
解析：近义词辨析。

used使用；exploited被开发；disused被停止使用；employed 被雇用根据下文中提示，本篇文章谈的是工作关系，故答案选employed。

4．
A．available
B．suitable
C．reliable
D．practical
正确答案：B
解析：词汇辨析。

available可获得的；suitable合适的；reliable可靠的，可信赖的；practical实用的本题涉及词汇知识，(be)more suitable for”更适合于”，符合题意。

5．
A．course
B．route
C．way
D．path
正确答案：C
解析：词汇辨析。

固定搭配make way for意为”(给…)让(位)，让出职位”，符合题意。

故选C。

6．
A．with
B．in
C．from
D．on
正确答案：B
解析：动词短语。

本题涉及动词短语知识，其中result in导致，造成，result from产生于，根据语义及上下文应选用result in。

7．
A．product
B．productivity
C．production
D．produce
正确答案：B
解析：词义辨析。

product，n．产品；productivity，n．生产力，生产率；production，生产，产品；produce，v．生产。

本题后面出现了and inefficiency，根据英语习惯，and前后意思应保持一致关系，故填进去的词也应该说的是生产力或生产率，productivity符合题意。

8．
A．in that
B．whereas
C．since
D．unless
正确答案：B
解析：上下文逻辑关系。

本文考查对上下文句义理解，空格前提出一种情况，要和空格后形成对照，所以应选whereas，表示对比”而，然而”。

9．
A．environment
B．circumstances
C．condition
D．state
正确答案：B
解析：词语辨析。

environment 环境；circumstances 情况，状况；condition 条件；state状态。

本题考查词语的搭配及词语的辨析，此空前面有一个修饰语these，暗示了填进去的这个词应是复数形式，故under these circumstances意为”在这些情况下”符合句意。

而state和condition要用介词in搭配。

10．
A．cultivate
B．bring
C．raise
D．feed
正确答案：C
解析：词语辨析。

本题考查词汇知识cultivate 培养(兴趣爱好)词意不通，bring 表示”养育”时与up搭配，raise”养育，抚养”及物动词符合题意，feed”喂养”常用
feed…on，意为”靠…喂养”。

11．
A．in addition to
B．moreover
C．nevertheless
D．in addition
正确答案：C
解析：上下文逻辑关系。

in addition to除此以外；moreover此外；nevertheless 然而；in addition此外。

本题考查上下文逻辑衔接，该段下一段提出另外一种建议，即该段这一建议并未被他人采取，因此转折词nevertheless符合句意。

12．
A．polling
B．to poll
C．to be polled
D．polled
正确答案：D
解析：非谓语动词。

该题考查非谓语动词作定语后置，其中polling为现在分词，to poll和to be polled分别为不定式一般式的主动和被动式，均表将来，过去分词，表示已发生，polled被动形式。

句中提出调查的人，人与调查之间的关系应是人被调查，况且事情已发生，故选polled。

13．
A．called
B．calling
C．to call
D．to be called
正确答案：A
解析：非谓语动词。

该题考查非谓语动词作定语后置，called和calling分别为过去分词和现在分词。

to call和to be called为不定式一般式的主动和被动形式，均表将来。

句中”方法应是被称作阶段雇佣理论”，故选called。

14．
A．holiday
B．vocation
C．leave
D．vacation
正确答案：C
解析：同义词辨析及词的搭配。

本题考查同义词辨析，其中take holiday表”
度假”，而take leave from…表示”休假”或”离职”。

句中提出女士暂时离开工作岗位，待孩子长到3岁后再重新返回，可见take leave from符合句意。

而vocation 表示”工作，职业”，vacation表示”假期”。

15．
A．fertile
B．productive
C．fruitful
D．pregnant
正确答案：D
解析：词汇辨析。

fertile肥沃的，富饶的；productive生产的，能产的；fruitful 多产的，富有成效的；pregnant怀孕的，孕育的。

根据上下文的含义指的是在有了7个月的身孕后，可休假离开工作岗位，其余选项均不合题意，故选pregnant。

16．
A．when
B．until
C．unless
D．as
正确答案：B
解析：上下文逻辑关系。

考查考生对上下文句意的理解：直到孩子三岁时，妇女可重新返回工作。

根据题意应选until”直到”。

17．
A．typical
B．usual
C．normal
D．regular
正确答案：C
解析：词汇辨析。

typical 典型的；usual 通常的；normal 正常的；regular 定期的。

根据句意”休假中女士应领取…工资的百分之七十五”，usual强调的是频率，可见只有normal意为”正常(工资)”符合。

18．
A．profit
B．interest
C．benefit from
D．benefit
正确答案：D
解析：词汇辨析。

profit利润；interest兴趣；benefit from从…受益；benefit
受益。

根据句意”这种做法应该会使家庭，孩子等受到好处”。

benefit from往往是人作主语，benefit往往是物做主语，故此题答案选benefit。

19．
A．eventually
B．definitely
C．doubtfully
D．indefinitely
正确答案：B
解析：词汇辨析。

eventually最终，最后；definitely明确地；doubtfully怀疑地；indefinitely不确切地。

本题涉及词汇知识，根据句意应该说”这种做法确实或的确比另一种提议更容易让人接受”，故选definitely。

20．
A．believable
B．acceptable
C．approvable
D．thinkable
正确答案：B
解析：词语辨析。

believable可信的；acceptable可接受的，合意的；approvable 可核准的；thinkable能想到的，可相信的。

本题讲述的是让妇女重返工作远远要比永远呆在家里要容易接受。

故选项acceptable符合题意。

Section II Reading Comprehension
Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
In the end, a degree of sanity prevailed. The militant Hindus who had vowed to breach a police cordon and start the work of building a temple to the god Ram at the disputed site of Ayodhya decided to respect a Supreme Court decision barring them from the are a. So charged have Hindu-Muslim relations in India become in recent weeks, as the declared deadline of March 15th neared, that a clash at Ram’s supposed birthplace might well have provoked bloodshed on an appalling scale across the nation. It has, unfortunately, happened often enough before. But the threat has not vanished. The court’s decision is only an interim one, and the main Hindu groups have not given up on their quest to build their temple. Extreme religious violence, which seemed in recent years to have faded after the Ayodhya-related explosion of 1992-93, is again a feature of the political landscape. Though faults lie on both sides (it was a Muslim attack on Hindus in a train in Gujarat that started the recent slaughter), the great bulk of victims were, as always, Muslims. Once again, educated Hindus are to be heard inveighing against the “appeasing”of Muslims
through such concessions as separate constitutional status for Kashmir or the right to practice Islamic civil law. Once again, the police are being accused of doing little or nothing to help Muslim victims of rampaging Hindu mobs. Once again, India’s 130m Muslims feel unequal and unsafe in their own country. Far too many Hindus would refuse to accept that it is “their own country” at all. The wonder of it, perhaps, is that things are not worse. While the world applauds Pakistan for at last locking up the leaders of its extreme religious groups, in India the zealots still support, sustain and to a degree constitute the government. The BJP, which leads the ruling coalition, was founded as a political front for the Hindu movement. It is simply one, and by no means the dominant, member of what is called the Sangh Pariwar, the “family of organizations”. Other members of the family are much less savoury. There is the VHP, the World Hindu Organization, which led the movement to build the Ram temple. There is the Bajrang Dal, the brutalist “youth wing” of the VHP. There is substantial evidence that members of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal helped to organize the slaughter of hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat after 58 Hindus were killed on a train as they returned from Ayodhya.
21．It can be learnt from the text that the ruling party in India
A．offered little assistance in the massacre of Muslisms.
B．was unanimous with respect to the issue of religion.
C．might have brought religious conflict into politics.
D．was striving to gather evidence against militant Hindus
正确答案：C
解析：题干问：”从印度现在执政的党派我们可以获悉…”。

从第3段第3行可以看出，执政党觉得Hindus运动有一种政治性的前沿，可见”他们把一些宗教性的冲突扩大为政治性的问题”，答案选项表达了此意。

而选项”没怎么谋杀穆斯林”与原文意义相反，其他两项与原文信息无关，或是对原文某些词汇的编造，所以皆不符合题意。

22．What does the writer wants to illustrate with “a Muslim attack on Hindus on a train in Gujarat”?
A．The violation of a Supreme Court decision.
B．Frequent clashes between Hindus and Muslims.
C．The brutality of extreme Indian policemen.
D．Social privileges entitled to Hindus mobs.
正确答案：B
解析：题干问：”作者引用在火车上一个穆斯林人袭击Hindus是为了说明…”。

从第1自然段最后两句的主旨可以看出两个教派之间的冲突是经常发生的，答案选项表达此意思。

而选项”最高法庭的决定”不说明本题的主旨，至于”警察的残忍”，原文指的是党派中年轻义派人士的残暴，其余选项在原文没有提及，是对原文意思的编造，所以皆不符合题意。

23．Towards the issue of Hindu-Muslim relations, the writer’s attitude can be
said to be
A．pessimistic.
B．objective.
C．scared.
D．biased.
正确答案：B
解析：题干问：”关于Hindu与Muslim之间的关系问题，作者的态度是…”。

综观全文，第1自然段作者使用真实的时态阐述文章，第2段第3行”though”指”尽管失误是双方的”，是主观的判断和假设，第3段作者从持中立的态度来看待问题的两个方面，所以作者的态度主要是”客观的”。

而选项”悲观的”，”恐吓的”以及”有偏见的”都是对原文意思的曲解，皆不符合题意。

24．We can learn from the text that both Hindus and Muslims are
A．revengeful to each other.
B．obedient by nature.
C．respectful to the god Ram.
D．politically sensitive.
正确答案：D
解析：题干问：”对于Hindus与Muslims，我们从本文得到的推论是…”。

从全文可以看出，双方都比较看重政治和法律的问题，对政治和法律都相当的敏感，答案选项表达了此意思。

而选项”对对方都有报复心理的”从原文得不到这种推论，”他们都是相当顺从的”与第1段的信息是矛盾的，”双方都尊重神教”原文指的不是双方都尊重，而只是Hindus尊重，所以皆不符合题意。

25．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
A．Hindus seemed to be more sensible of their actions than previously.
B．Dismal consequences will be in store for extreme religious groups.
C．The safety of India’s Muslims depended on the good will of Hindus.
D．The illegal government is responsible for the present situation in India.
正确答案：A
解析：题干问：”根据原文，下面那项是正确的…”。

从原文第1段第1句中的”sanity”可见Hindus对他们的行为更加理智了。

而选项”沮丧的后果将会面临着极度的宗教团体”原文无此信息，”印度穆斯林的安全完全取决于Hindus的善意”这种是宗教性的问题而不是好意与恶意的问题，”非法的政府应该对印度当前的情形负责”与原文意思相反，所以皆不符合题意。

If the opinion polls are to be believed, most Americans are coming to trust their government more than they used to. The habit has not yet spread widely among American Indians, who suspect an organization which has so often patronized them, lied to them and defrauded them. But the Indians may soon win a victory in a legal battle that epitomizes those abuses. Elouise Cobell, a banker who also happens to
be a member of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, is the leading plaintiff in a massive class-action suit against the government. At issue is up to $10 billion in trust payments owed to some 500,000 Indians. The suit revolves around Individual Indian Money (11M) accounts that are administered by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Back in the 1880s, the government divided more than 11m acres of tribal land into parcels of 80 to 160 acres that were assigned to individual Indians. Because these parcels were rarely occupied by their new owners, the government assumed responsibility for managing them. As the Indians’ trustee, it leased the land out for grazing, logging, mining and oil drilling—but it was supposed to distribute the royalties to the Indian owners. In fact, officials admit that royalties have been lost or stolen. Records were destroyed and the government lost track of which Indians owned what land. The plaintiffs say that money is owing to 500,000 Indians, but even the government accepts a figure of about 300,000. For years, Cobell heard Indians complain of not getting payment from the government for the oil-drilling and ranching leases on their land. But nothing much got done. She returned to Washington and, after a brush-off from government lawyers, filed the suit. Gale Norton, George Bushes interior secretary was charged with contempt in November because her department had failed to fix the problem. In December, Judge Lam berth ordered the interior Department to shut down all its computers for ten weeks because trustfund records were vulnerable to hackers. The system was partly restored last month and payments to some Indians, which had been interrupted, resumed. And that is not the end of it. Ms. Norton has proposed the creation of a new Bureau of Indian Trust Management, separate from the BIA. Indians are cross that she suggested this without consulting them. Some want the trust funds to be placed in receivership, under a neutral supervisor. Others have called for Congress to establish an independent commission, including Indians, to draw up a plan for reforming the whole system. A messy injustice may at last be getting sorted out.
26．Elouise Cobell criticized the Interior Department’s BIA for
A．its leasing land out for exploitation.
B．its distribution of money collected.
C．its supposed misconduct of abuses.
D．its reaction to a massive action.
正确答案：C
解析：题干问：”Elouise Cobell 批评内政部的BIA，原因是…”。

根据原文信息，内政部的BIA它滥用职权，对印地安人进行的是一种欺骗的政策，所以选择”它滥用职权”，答案选项表达了此意。

而选项”把土地出租出去用做开发”，”分散了所有的钱”与原文意思相反以及”对大规模运动的反应”在原文没有提及，所以皆不符合题意。

27．When mentioning “the government accepts a figure of about 300,000”, the writer is trying to illustrate
A．lies and defraud to which American Indians are exposed.
B．the strong confidence American Indians have in their government.
C．doubts about government as shown in the opinion polls.
D．the arrogance as displayed by government officials as a whole.
正确答案：A
解析：题干问：”当谈到政府只接受了一个300,000人的数据统计时，作者是为了说明…”。

根据文章的第2自然段中的统计有500,000人，而第3自然段却说只有300,000人，作者是为了说明第1自然段的论点”印第安人接触到了政府的撒谎和欺骗”，答案选项表达了此意。

而选项”印第安人对政府的强有力的自信心”，”不相信像民意测试所说的那样的政府”以及”政府官员所表现出的傲慢”不是该句的中心，皆不符合题意。

28．Which of the following is TRUE according the text?
A．Trust funds have been placed in the hands of American Indians.
B．American Indians should become increasingly vocal for justice.
C．Payments owed to American Indian have been indefinitely delayed.
D．BIA reaped great rewards by deliberately destroying trust-fund records.
正确答案：B
解析：题干问：”根据原文，下列正确的是…”。

根据原文正确的是”美国印第安人对他们自己的正义越来越想要发言”。

而选项”资金已经交给印第安人管理”在原文最后一段有提及，”欠印第安人的资金被推迟了”，原文提到过，但是后来又给他们付钱了，以及”由于故意摧毁资金记录，BIA获得了基金的报应，”与原文意思相反，所以皆不符合题意。

29．It seems that the write is very critical of
A．American Indians in a class-action.
B．officials who are in charge of the suit.
C．government agencies at all levels.
D．those who have the land over-developed.
正确答案：C
解析：题干问：”作者批判的是…”。

根据原文信息，作者批判的是”美国的各级政府”。

而选项”美国印第安人的大规模行动”，”专门负责诉讼的官员”以及”那些让土地过分开发的人”不是作者所批判的，皆不符合题意。

30．From the text, we can see that the writer’s overall attitude towards the issue seems to be
A．sensitive.
B．gloomy.
C．optimistic.
D．scared.
正确答案：C
解析：题干问：”根据原文，作者的态度是…”。

根据文章开头和最后一段可
以看出，作者的态度是”乐观的、欣喜的”，答案选项表达了此意。

而选项”感性的”，”忧郁的”以及”惊吓的”皆不符合题意。

The Tuscan town of Vinci, birthplace of Leonardo and home to a museum of his machines, should fittingly put on a show of the television-robot sculptures of Nam Jun Paik. This Koreanborn American artist and the Renaissance master are kindred spirits: Leonardo saw humanistic potential in his scientific experiments, Mr. Paik endeavors to harness media technology for artistic purposes. A pioneer of video art in the late 1960s, he treats television as a space for art images and as material for robots and interactive sculptures. Mr. Paik was not alone. He and fellow artists picked on the video cameras because they offered an easy way to record their performance art. Now, to mark video art’s coming of age, New York’s Museum of Modern Art is looking back at their efforts in a film series called “The First Decade”. It celebrates the early days of video by screening the archives of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), one of the world’s leading distributors of video and new media art, founded 30 years ago. One of EAI’s most famous alumni is Bill Viola. Part of the second generation of video artists, who emerged in the 1970s, Mr. Viola experimented with video’s expressive potential. His camera explores religious ritual and universal ideas. The Viola show at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin shows us moving-image frescoes that cover the gallery walls and envelop the viewer in all-embracing cycles of life and death. One new star is a Californian, Doug Aitken, who took over London’s Serpentine Gallery last October with an installation called “New Ocean”. Some say Mr. Aitken is to video what Jackson Pollock was to painting. He drips his images from floor to ceiling, creating sequences of rooms in which the space surrounds the viewer in hallucinatory images, of sound and light. At the Serpentine, Mr. Aitken created a collage of moving images, on the theme of water’s flow around the planet as a force of life. “I wanted to create a new topography in this work, a liquid image, to show a world that never stands still,” he says. The boundary between the physical world and the world of images and information, he thinks, is blurring. The interplay of illusion and reality, sound and image, references to art history, politics, film and television in this art form that is barely 30 years old can make video art difficult to define. Many call it film-based or moving-image art to include artists who work with other cinematic media. At its best, the appeal of video art lies in its versatility, its power to capture the passing of time and on its ability to communicate both inside and outside gallery walls.
31．The birthplace of Leonardo is mentioned in the text
A．to introduce the topic of video art technology.
B．to pay tribute to this Renaissance master.
C．to honor his contribution to scientific discoveries.
D．to outline the development of art television.
正确答案：A
解析：题干问：”作者谈到Leonardo的出生地是为了…”。

根据原文第1自然段，作者的目的是为了文章的中心话题，即”引入电视艺术技术的话题”，答案
选项表达了此意。

而选项”表达对文艺复兴大师的敬意”，”纪念Leonardo 对科学发现的贡献”以及”说明电视艺术的发展动态”皆不是作者谈论的目的，皆不符合题意。

32．Toward the novel literary idea, the author’s attitude seems to be that of
A．Disapproval.
B．Neutrality.
C．Appreciation.
D．Suspicion.
正确答案：C
解析：题干问：”对于这种新的艺术思想，作者的态度是…”。

从原文的字里行间可以看出作者的态度是”欣赏的”。

而选项”反对的”；”中立的”以及”怀疑的”皆不符合题意。

33．As pointed out in the text, the video art technology is characterized by its A．human ingenuity
B．complex definition.
C．strong appeal.
D．extreme interactivity.
正确答案：D
解析：题干问：”文章指出的电视艺术技术的特征是…”。

根据原文第1自然段和第6自然段可以看出，电视艺术技术的特征是”强烈的互动性”。

而选项”人类的创造性”，”复杂的定义”以及”强烈的吸引力”皆不是它的特性，皆不符合题意。

34．The videos created by Dough Aitken is used to show a combination of
A．television and robotics.
B．illusion and reality.
C．sculptures and paintings.
D．space and planets.
正确答案：B
解析：题干问：”Dough Aitken 设计的电视用于显示…的结合”。

根据原文第4自然段Dough Aitken设计的电视是”想象和现实”的结合，答案选项表达了此意。

而选项”电视和自动化”，”雕塑和绘画”以及”空间和星球”皆不符合题意。

35．Which of the following would the best title for the text?
A．A New Generation of Artists.
B．Video Art is Going Nowhere.
C．A Cradle of Famous Artists.
D．New Art for the MTV Generation.
解析：题干问；”下列符合本文最好的标题是…”。

综观全文，选择”New An for the MTV Generation 新的MTV连带新的技术”。

而选项”一代新的艺术家”，”电视艺术无路可走”以及”著名艺术家成功的摇篮”皆不符合题意。

Imagine the U.S. economic gains of the 1990s, and what comes to mind? Perhaps it was how the stock market ruled: All those initial public offerings that raked in unprecedented billions for venture capitalists. And wasn’t it a great time to be a top manager, with productivity gains boosting the bottom line and igniting executive pay? While it was going on, venture capitalist L. John Doerr called the boom the “largest single legal creation of wealth in history.”Well, yes and no. With the recession apparently over, it’s now possible to make a more realistic assessment of the entire business cycle of the 1990s: The sluggish recovery that started in March, 1991, the extraordinary boom, the tech bust, and the downturn of 2001. And guess what? A lot of things happened that defy the conventional beliefs about the decade. Over this 10-year period, productivity rose at a 2.2% annual rate, roughly half a percentage point faster than in the 1980s—a significant gain. But the real stunner is this: The biggest winners from the faster productivity growth of the 1990s were workers, not investors. In many ways, the most tangible sign of worker gains in the 1990s was the home-buying boom. This revelation helps us understand why consumer spending stayed so strong in the recession and why businesses may still struggle in the months ahead. By contrast, the return on the stock market in the 1990s business cycle was actually lower than it was in the business cycle of the 80s. Adjusted for inflation and including dividends, average annual returns on the S＆P-500 index from March, 1991, to the end of 2001 were 11.1%, compared with 12.8% in the previous business cycle. Overall, Business Week calculates that U.S. workers received 99% of the gains from faster productivity growth in the 1990s at nonfinancial corporations. Corporate profits did rise sharply, but much of that gain was fueled by lower interest rates rather than increased productivity. Why did workers fare so well in the 1990s? The education level of many Americans made an impressive leap in the ‘90s, putting them in a better position to qualify for the sorts of jobs that the New Economy created. Low unemployment rates drove up wages. And a torrent of foreign money coming into the U.S. created new jobs and financed productivity-enhancing equipment investment. As it turns out, the original perceptions of who benefited most from the productivity gains of the 1990s was flipped on its head. Looking ahead, the economic pie is growing bigger all the time, but it’s still up for grabs who will get the largest piece in the future. And in the end, that’s the real lesson of the 1990s.
36．According to the writer, the original notion on the productivity gains of the 1990s turns out to be
A．somewhat superficial,
B．quite trustworthy.
C．rather misleading.
D．very illuminating.
解析：题干问：”作者认为，人们最初的对生产力的增加在20世纪90年代的观点是…”。

根据原文第1自然段和第3自然段最后一句，这种观点的结果是”相当错误的”。

而选项”肤浅的”，”相当值得信赖的”以及”有启发性的”皆不符合题意。

37．John Doerr called the boom in the 1990s the “largest single legal creation of wealth” because
A．corporate profits were mostly gained by lower interest rates.
B．productivity rose at a 2.20% annual rate over this 10-year period.
C．consumer spending stayed so strong even in the recession.
D．many workers were qualified for the sorts of jobs in production.
正确答案：A
解析：题干问：”John Doerr 把20世纪90年代的繁荣称之为法律带来的财富是因为…”。

根据原文第2自然段关于法律以及第6自然段关于低利率的阐述可以得出，原因是”公司的获利主要是由于低利率所产生的”。

而选项”生产力在过去的十年期间增长了 2.2%”，”在衰退期间，消费者的消费仍很坚挺”以及”对于生产性的工作许多工人是很有资格的”虽在原文都有提及，但不是本题的原因，皆不符合题意。

38．When mentioning “average annual returns”(Paragraph 5), the author is talking about
A．home buying,
B．stock market.
C．venture investment.
D．job market.
正确答案：B
解析：题干问；”当提到average annual returns平均年回报时，作者谈论的是…”。

作者在文章第5自然段开头提到”the return on the stock market”，而且多处提到股票市场，而这种股票投资没有得到很多回报，所以”平均年回报”指的是”股票市场”。

而选项”房地产价格”，”风险投资”以及”就业市场”皆不符合题意。

39．As stated in the text, those who grabbed “the largest piece”in the “economic pie” in the 1990s were
A．venture capitalists who reaped rewards.
B．investor3 engaged in the tech-sector.
C．workers in nonfinancial corporations.
D．shareholders in the stock market.
正确答案：C
解析：题干问：根据原文所述，那些抓住了20世纪90年代的”经济大饼”中的”最大一块”的人是…。

根据原文第4、7自然段，作者分析了工人生活水平
好的原因，所以那些人是”非金融机构中工作的人”。

而选项”获得巨额回报的风险投资者”，”从事于技术领域的投资者”以及”股票市场的股票持有者”皆不符合题意。

40．The purpose of the author in writing this text is
A．to highlight the role the stock market plays in productivity gains.
B．to explain why workers and executives get on so well in 1990s.
C．to compare the economic cycle in the 1990s with that in the 1980s.
D．to examine the New Economy in 1990s from a new perspective.
正确答案：D
解析：题干问：”作者写作本文的目的是…”。

作者在文章最后一句提到”这是美国经济的一个很好的教训”，所以我们应该”从新的角度看待20世纪90年代新经济”。

而选项”强调股票在生产力中起的作用”，”解释为什么工人在20世纪90年代生活得这么好”以及”对比20世纪90年代与20世纪80年代的经济”皆不是作者写作的目的，不符合题意。

Part B (10 points)
41．In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points) In France, as in many European countries, friends generally are of the same sex, and friendship is seen as basically a relationship between men. (41)______. And many French people doubt the possibility of a friendship between a man and a woman. There is also the kind of relationship within a group—men and women who have worked together for a long time, who may be very close, sharing great loyalty and warmth of feeling. They may call one another—copains—a word that in English becomes “friends” but has more the feeling of “pals”or “buddies”. In French eyes this is not friendship, although two members of such a group may well be friends. For the French, friendship is one-to-one relationship that demands a keen awareness of the other person’s intellect, temperament and particular interests. (42)______. Your political philosophy assumes more depth, appreciation of a play becomes sharper, taste in food or wine is enhanced, enjoyment of a sport is intensified. And French friendships are divided into categories. A man may play chess with a friend for thirty years without knowing his political opinion, or he may talk politics with him for a long time without knowing about his personal life. Different friends fill different niches in each person’s life. (43)______. These duties, also serious and required, are primarily for relatives. Men who are friends may meet in a café. Intellectual friends may meet in large groups for evenings of conversation. Working people may meet at the little bistro where they drink and talk, far from the family. (44)______. In the past in France, friendships of this kind seldom were open to any but intellectual women. (45)______. The special relationship of friendship is based on what the French value most on the mind, on
having the same outlook, on vivid a awareness of some chosen area of life.A. These friendships are not made part of family life. A friend is not expected to spend evenings being nice to children or courteous to a deaf grandmother.B. A Frenchman explains, “If I were to say to you in France, ‘This is my good friend’, that person would not be as close to me as someone about whom I said only, ‘This is my friend.’ Anyone about whom I have to say more is really less.”C. Since most women’s lives centered on their homes, their warmest relations with other women often went back to their girlhood.D. Marriage does not affect such friendship; wives don’t have to be taken into account.E. Frenchwomen laugh at the idea that “women can’t be friends”, but they also admit sometimes that for women “it is a different thing”.F. Between French friends, who have chosen each other for the similarity of their point of view, lively disagreement and sharpness of argument are the breath of life.G. A friend is someone who draws out your own best qualities, with whom you sparkle and become more of whatever the friendship draws upon.
正确答案：E
解析：该句很容易选择。

其前后两句都提到法国女士对待友情的态度，该句前面提到友情被视为男士间的基本关系，后句又提到很多法国人对男女间建立友谊的可能性表示怀疑。

可见只有E选项符合上下句意。

42．
正确答案：G
解析：该题前句是讲友情对双方的要求，那么接着就会讲述建立友情的双方对彼此的影响，该题后句讲到与朋友在一起使他对政见的理解变得有深度，对戏剧的鉴赏力更加敏锐等。

可见该题所选内容应使它和后句为并列关系。

因此只有G符合。

43．
正确答案：A
解析：该题前面提到朋友占据不同的位置，后面又提到这些既重大又必要的责任应该主要由亲属来履行，根据后面句中的these，可知选项A最符合句意。

44．
正确答案：D
解析：该题为段末句，其前几句连续讲到男人圈子中的朋友可以在咖啡馆会晤，以及知识分子圈内的朋友和工人圈中的朋友他们分别可以在晚上相聚一起或在小酒馆里喝酒聊天。

可见这一切与他们结婚与否没有关系。

因此D选项”婚姻不会影响朋友关系，所以交友时不必考虑妻子的情况”最合句意。

45．。