考研英语(二)模拟试卷20(题后含答案及解析)

考研英语（二）模拟试卷20(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．Even the Saudis—or rather, the small number of men who actually rule their troubled country—are giving ground in the struggle for women’s rights. For sure, the recommendations (1)_____ this week to Crown Prince Abdullah at the end of an (2)_____ round of “national dialogue” concentrating on the role of women were fairly tame. in the reformers-versus-reactionaries (3)_____ test of whether women should, be allowed to drive cars (at present they cannot do so in the kingdom, nor can they travel unaccompanied, by whatever (4)_____ of motion), the king was merely asked to”(5)_____ a body to study a public-transport system for women to facilitate mobility”. (6)_____ mention, of course, of the right to vote—but then that has been (7)_____ to men too, though local elections, on an apparently universal franchise, are supposed to be held in October. In sum, it is a tortoise’s progress. But the very fact of the debate happening at all is (8)_____ —and hopeful. It is not just in Saudi Arabia that more rights for women are being demanded (9)_____ across the whole of the Arab and Muslim world. The pushy Americans have made women’s rights part of their appeal for greater democracy in (10)_____ they now officially call the “broader Middle East”, to include non-Arab Muslim countries such as Iran, Turkey and even Afghanistan. Many Arabs have cautioned the Americans against seeking to (11)_____ their own values on societies with such different traditions and (12)_____. Many leading Muslims have (13)_____ the culturally imperious Americans of seeking to (14)_____ Islam. The (15)_____ for more democracy in the Muslim world issued by leaders of the eight biggest industrial countries was watered down for fear of giving (16)_____. Yet, despite the Arabs’ prickliness, the Americans have helped pep up a debate that is now bubbling fiercely in the Arab world, even (17)_____ many Arab leaders, none of whom is directly elected by the people, are understandably (18)_____ of reforms that could lead to their own toppling. Never before have women’s rights in the Arab world been so (19)_____ debated. That (20)_____ is cause to rejoice.
A．remoulded
B．inherited
C．accorded
D．handed
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题空白处所入的实际上是一个过去分词和其后的”this week to Crown Prince Abdullah at the end of an ____ round of ‘national dialogue’ concentrating on the role of women”一起构成过去分词短语作定语，用来限定本题空白处前的名词(本句主语)”recommendations”(提议)。

本题空
白处后面的介词”to”暗示：本句中的”recommendations”是”递交”给王储阿卜杜拉的。

由此可以推断出本题的正确答案应该是”handed”。

2．
A．unprecedented
B．unquenchable
C．unorthodox
D．unmatched
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题所在句的前一句话(全文第一句，即中心主旨句)的大意是：甚至沙特人也开始在女权斗争中让步。

该句暗示本题所在句(全文第二句)叙述的一定是”以前未曾发生过的事情”。

由此可以推断本题正确答案应该是”unprecedented”，因为该形容词能够充分体现”在阿拉伯世界有关妇女权力和作用对话”本身的性质和特点。

3．
A．tenor
B．gist
C．glamour
D．litmus
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题需要一个用来修饰限定名词”test”(测试；考验)的词。

本题空白处前面的”reformers-versus-reactionaries”(改革者对极端保守分子)暗示：这是一次关系到思想真实性质的考验。

由此可以推导出本题的正确答案应该是”litmus”(试金石)。

4．
A．metabolism
B．means
C．metaphrase
D．methodology
正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本句紧扣交通问题进行阐述，故应该选择一个与交通方式有关的词语。

由此可以推断出本题的正确答案应该是”means”，因为该词可以用来表达交通运输的手段。

5．
A．assign
B．assuage
C．assume
D．attest
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题所要填入的动词是”the king”(国王)所发出的，故应该选择一个表达”指派”之意的动词。

由此可以推断本题的正确答案应该是”assign”(指派)。

6．
A．Not
B．Never
C．No
D．Scarcely
正确答案：C
解析：本题是一道句子间语意逻辑推导题。

本题所在句的前面一句中的”merely”(仅仅)一词暗示了本题的答案。

上句话的大意是：”仅仅(merely)请求国王指派一个机构研究女性的公共交通问题”。

由此可以推断出：除此事之外没有请求国王做别的事，即没有提起别的事。

可见选项”No”是本题的正确答案。

另外注意不要选”Not”，因为它的固定搭配形式是”Not to mention”。

7．
A．discounted
B．demurred
C．discredited
D．denied
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题空白处后面的副词”too”(也)暗示了本题的答案。

”too”一词显示破折号前后两部分的含义在语意上应该是一致的。

破折号前半部分的大意是：没有提到选举权；破折号后半部分的大意是：男人也无选举权。

由此可以推断出本题的正确答案应该是”denied”(拒绝给予)。

8．
A．melodious
B．remarkable
C．mercurial
D．resistant
正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题所在句是第一段(首段)的结论句，是第一段的总括。

本段讲述阿拉伯世界争论女权问题并且在女性权力方面开始让步。

由此可以推断：阿拉伯世界有关女性权力的争论本身是一次非凡的(remarkable)事件。

故本题的正确答案应该是”remarkable”(非凡的；值得注意的)。

9．
A．otherwise
B．but
C．thereat
D．whereupon
正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道语法结构题，考查常用的”not...but”(不是…而是…)这一固定语法结构。

故本题的正确答案应该是选项”but”。

10．
A．what
B．that
C．whether
D．which
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道语法结构题，考查”what”一词引导的名词性从句作介词的宾语(本句中的介词是本题空白处之前的”in”)。

故本题的正确答案是选项”what”。

考生在解题时一定要牢记常考语法知识结构，因为每次考研均要涉及此类题型。

11．
A．sanction
B．impose
C．inhibit
D．license
正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本句的大意是：许多阿拉伯人告诫美国人不要试图把自己的价值观强加于(impose)其他社会(即国家)。

本题实际上同时在考查考生的词汇，即”impose...on sb./sth.”(把…强加于某人或物)这个固定表达形式。

由此可以推断出本题的正确答案应该是”impose”。

12．
A．strategies
B．ideals
C．beliefs
D．tactics
正确答案：C
解析：本题是一道语法结构题，考查由”and”一词构成的并列平行结构。

”and”构成的这一名词并列平行结构在本句用来限定修饰”societies”(社会)一词。

故与名词”traditions”一词构成并列平行结构的应该是”beliefs”一词，因为社会里包容的是不同的传统和信仰。

可见选项C是本题的正确答案。

13．
A．robbed
B．accused
C．relieved
D．stripped
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道词汇和语意逻辑推导题。

在词汇方面，考查”accuse sb. of doing...”(指控某人做某事)这一固定搭配形式。

在语意方面，本句中的”imperious”(专横的)一词暗示了答案：人们对于”专横者”所采取的回应一般是”指控、指责”。

可见本题的正确答案是”accused”。

14．
A．destroy
B．defy
C．decimate
D．dilute
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道句子之间的语意逻辑推导题。

本题所在句的前一句话指出：美国人试图把自己的价值观强加于包括阿拉伯国家在内的别国。

由此可以推断出：这种行径旨在试图毁灭伊斯兰世界。

故本题的正确答案应该是”destroy”(摧毁)。

15．
A．vicinity
B．collaboration
C．appeal
D．flattery
正确答案：C
解析：本题是一道全文中心主旨扩展题。

全文从头至尾讲权力的问题(包括女权的问题)。

另外，本题空白处后面又是”for more democracy”(更大的民主)之含义。

由此可以推断出本题的正确答案应含有”尽力争取”之意。

可见本题的正确答案应该是”appeal”(呼吁)。

16．
A．offence
B．collapse
C．disaster
D．passivism
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本句的大意是：”世界八大工业国家的
领导人所发表的有关阿拉伯世界更大程度民主的呼吁减弱了，其原因是担心产生冒犯”。

本句已暗示出正确答案：一国对别国的指手画脚通常导致”反感；得罪；冒犯”。

由此可以推导出本题的正确答案应该是”offence”。

17．
A．as
B．so
C．then
D．though
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道词汇题，考查连词”even though”(=even if即使，纵然)这一常见固定形式的使用。

另外，从语意逻辑推理方面，也应选用”even though”这一连词形式，故本题的正确答案是”though”。

考生在解题时要充分考虑到连词类题目的出现。

18．
A．aware
B．supportive
C．wary
D．indicative
正确答案：C
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推理题。

本题空白处前面是主语”未经人民选举的国家领导人”；本题空白处后面是”可能导致这些国家领导人倒台的改革”。

由此可以推断出：”未经人民选举的国家领导人”对”可能导致自己垮台的改革”一定是持恐慌和警惕的态度。

故本题的正确答案应该是”wary”(唯恐的，警惕的)。

19．
A．latently
B．monotonously
C．moderately
D．vigorously
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道词汇题，考查副词和动词之间的正确搭配和使用。

本题空白处后面的动词”debated”(争论)暗示：该动词前面的副词应该表达”激烈地”之含义，因为我们常用的表达方法是：”激烈地争论”。

由此中以推断出本题的正确答案应该是”vigorously”，该词包含”激烈地”之含义。

20．
A．lonely
B．solo
C．alone
D．logo
正确答案：C
解析：本题是一道语意逻辑推导题。

本题所在句的前一句(即尾段倒数第二句)是一个倒装句(由”never”一词引导)，该句的大意是：”阿拉伯世界的女权以前从未如此激烈地争论过”。

本题所在句(即尾段尾句)是对其上一句(尾段倒数第二句)的总论，其大意是：”仅仅这一点就是欣喜的理由”。

由此可以推导出本题的正确答案应该是”alone”(仅仅)。

考生在解题时一定要注意上下句之间的语意连接。

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)
Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. But the desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible. You soon become absorbed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize that you have spent far too much time there. This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting: “Can I help you, sir?”You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say, ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing, something which had only vaguely interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Booksellers must be both long suffering and indulgent. There is a story which well illustrates this. A medical student had to read a textbook which was far too expensive for him to buy. He couldn’t obtain it from the library and the only copy he could find was in his bookshop. Every afternoon, therefore, he would go along to the shop and read a little of the book at a time. One day, however, he was dismayed to find the book missing from its usual place and about to leave when he noticed the owner of the shop beckoning to him. Expecting to be reproached, he went toward him. To his surprise, the owner pointed to the book, which was tucked away in a corner. “I put it there in case anyone was tempted to buy it”, he said, and left the delighted student to continue his reading.Notes: to one’s heart’s content尽情地。

beckon v. 打招呼。

21．You may spend too much time in a bookshop because _____.
A．the dust-jackets are very attractive.
B．you start reading one of the books.
C．it is raining outside.
D．you have to make sure you don’t buy a dull book as a present.
正确答案：B
解析：细节因果题。

本题问：为什么你可能会花太多的时间在书店里?第1段最后一句写道：”You soon become absorbed in some book or other，and it is only much later that you realize that you have spent far too much time there...”
22．According to the text, in a good bookshop _____.
A．nobody takes any notice of you.
B．the assistant greets you in a friendly way.
C．your heart is contented.
D．you feel that you are in a music shop.
正确答案：D
解析：细节理解题。

本题问：根据本文，在好的书店里你会有什么感觉?第2段第3句写道：”A music shop is very much like a book shop”。

23．It can be learned from the text that an assistant should offer you help _____.
A．as soon as you have entered the shop.
B．just before you finish browsing.
C．only when you have finished reading.
D．when he leads you to a particular section.
正确答案：C
解析：细节理解题。

本题问：从本文中知道，书店售货员应在何时向顾客提供帮助?第2段第7句写道：”In a book shop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then，and only then，are his services necessary”。

24．The author implies that it is very easy to enter a bookshop and buy _____.
A．a book on ancient coins.
B．a best-selling novel on brass-rubbing.
C．a book that only vaguely interests you.
D．a book that unexpectedly fascinates you.
正确答案：D
解析：细节归纳题。

本题问：作者暗示，走进书店很容易偶然买一本什么书?第3段第2句、第3句写道：”It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on，say，ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing—something which had only vaguely interested
you up till then.This volume on the subject，however，happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it”.选项D是上述句子的抽象概括。

25．The textbook the medical student was interested in was tucked away in a corner _____.
A．to prevent anyone from buying it.
B．because the medical student might take it away.
C．in case the medical student was tempted to buy it.
D．because it was a rare and expensive book.
正确答案：A
解析：细节理解题。

本题问：为什么书店老板把一个医学院的学生喜欢读的那本课本藏在角落里?参见最后一段最后一句：”I put it there in case anyone was tempted to buy it”. he said，and left the delighted student to continue his reading. 可见，书店老板生怕别人把这本书买走。

Those Europeans who are tempted, in the light of the dismal scenes in New Orleans this fortnight, to downgrade the American challenge should meditate on one world: universities. Five years ago in Lisbon European officials proclaimed their intention to become the world’s premier “knowledge economy” by 2010. The thinking behind this grand declaration made sense of a sort: Europe’s only chance of preserving its living standards lies in working smarter than its competitors rather than harder or cheaper. But Europe’s failing higher-education system poses a lethal threat to this ambition. Europe created the modern university. Scholars were gathering in Paris and Bologna before America was on the map. Oxford and Cambridge invented the residential university: the idea of a community of scholars living together to pursue higher learning. Germany created the research university. A century ago European universities were a magnet for scholars and a model for academic administrators the world over. But, as our survey of higher education explains, since the second world war Europe has progressively surrendered its lead in higher education to the United States. America boasts 17 of the world’s top 20 universities. American universities currently employ 70% of the world’s Nobel prize-winners, 30% of the world’s output of articles on science and engineering, and 44% of the most frequently cited articles. No wonder developing countries now look to America rather than Europe for a model for higher education. Why have European universities declined so precipitously in recent decades? And what can be done to restore them to their former glory.’? The answer to the first question lies in the role of the state. American universities get their funding from a variety of different sources, not just government but also philanthropists, businesses and, of course, the students themselves. European ones are largely state-funded. The constraints on state funding mean that European governments force universities to “process”more and more students without giving them the necessary cash—and respond to the universities’complaints by trying to micromanage them. Inevitably, quality has eroded. Yet, as the
American model shows, people are prepared to pay for good higher education, because they know they will benefit from it: that’s why America spends twice as much of its GDP on higher education as Europe does. The answer to the second question is to set universities free from the state. Free universities to run their internal affairs: how can French universities, for example, compete for talent with their American rivals when professors are civil servants? And free them to charge fees for their services—including, most importantly, student fees.
26．According to the text, the European dream is likely to come true
A．if the current education deterioration can be curbed.
B．when the American challenge no longer causes controversy over campus-culture.
C．if public attitudes bring about changes in education.
D．when laws and requirement concerning higher-education system are stipulated.
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道细节题，其答案信息来源在首段的尾句，该句的大意是：”但是，欧洲日益衰退的高等教育体系对这个梦想(ambition)构成了致命的威胁”。

由此可以反推出本题的正确答案，如果目前的教育衰退得到控制，欧洲的梦想有可能实现。

解题时在首先依据题干中的核心词语确定题目在原文中的位置的同时，更要注意转折词的暗示和逆向推导的运用。

27．The available statistics are employed to illustrate
A．the academic glory achieved by Americans.
B．the loss of European predominance in higher education.
C．the delayed effect of knowledge explosion.
D．the present status of plagiarism.
正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道细节题，其答案信息来源在第三段。

第三段中集中了全文的统计数字(statistics)，这些统计数字均为第三段的首句服务。

第三段首句的含义是：”但是，…自从二战以来，欧洲逐渐地把高等教育方面的领先地位让位于美国”。

从本句可推导出本题的正确答案，在本文中作者利用统计数字(statistics)来说明欧洲在高等教育方面主导地位的丧失。

在解题时对题干中的核心词要有深刻的理解和认识，更要注意核心词在原文中的具体体现形式。

28．Independence from the state is the prerequisite for
A．academic establishments.
B．European rejuvenation.
C．American model.
D．talent emancipation.
正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道细节题，其答案信息来源在尾段的首句和倒数第二段的第
二句。

尾段首句和倒数第二段落第二句之间的关系是：尾段首句是针对倒数第二段第二句的提问做出的回答。

”如何才能恢复欧洲大学昔日的辉煌？答案是使欧洲大学独立于国家控制”。

由此可推断出本题的正确答案，独立于国家控制是欧洲振兴的前提。

在解题时应抓住段落之间的关系。

29．The text is mainly
A．a review of a fading system and the relevant solution.
B．about the globalization of knowledge economy.
C．a survey of news approaches to higher education.
D．about merits of the European higher-education system.
正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道主旨题，其答案信息来源在第一段尾句和第四段的首句。

第一段尾句指出了欧洲的高等教育日益衰退的问题；第四段首句指出了问题的原因并且提出了应对这一问题的方法。

由此，可推导出本题的正确答案，对一个衰退体系的评论以及相应措施。

在解题时一定要注意首段中的转折词所引导的句子，这些句子大多是全文中心主旨句，另外更要注意全文主题句之间的关系。

30．Which of the following is not mentioned in the text?
A．To set university free will benefit the fading European higher education.
B．Research university took shape in Germany.
C．Developing nations used to follow European higher education.
D．The way of fund-raising from diverse channels is not illuminating at all.
正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道细节题，本题的答案信息来源在倒数第二段的第一句和第三、四句。

这三句话从美国大学的多种吸纳资金的方法来说明欧洲近几十年衰退的原因。

由此可以反推出正确答案。

作者对”从多种渠道吸纳资金持肯定态度”，故含有否定”多种渠道吸纳资金”的选项不会在原文中出现，该选项的含义是：从多种渠道集资的方式没有一点启迪性。

在解题时，尤其是遇到本题这种无信息提示的题干时，一定要围绕中心主旨内容回答问题，千万不可以偏离中心思想。

Mary Eberstadt writes in Home-Alone America that growing obesity, the high incidence of sexually transmitted disease among teenagers and an overdependence on drugs such as Ritalin for attention deficit disorder are often the fault of parents who “outsource” their responsibilities. “We tend to think that the problems with juveniles are located at the bottom end of the social spectrum, but latchkey children are more common among the affluent,” said Eberstadt, a mother of four who is a conservative writer and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. According to the most recent figures from the US Census Bureau, 41% of children aged 12 to 14 regularly look after themselves at the end of the school day. The figures rise with prosperity. For children aged 5 to 14, “self-care increases from 11% of children in poverty to 22% of those with family incomes at least double the poverty line.”Eberstadt’s book is dividing sociologists, critics and partisans in
the “mommy wars” between stay-at-home and working parents. A child clings to the ankles of his smartly dressed mother to stop her leaving for work on the front of the book; he does the same to his father on the back. P. J. O’Rourke, the conservative commentator and satirist, supports Eberstadt’s thesis. “If you don’t think (her) arguments have merit, try treating your dog the way America treats its kids,” he said. “Give the puppy her own set of house keys and put her in front of the television instead of taking her for a walk. Let her eat anything she wants and house train herself. Send her to another master for visitation at the weekends. And when she comes into heat, turn her loose in the pound.”James Q. Wilson, author of The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families is one of the intellectual forces behind zero tolerance policing. He praised the book’s “great, unarguable theme that parental care is of decisive importance in shaping the character of our children”. Feminist critics, in contrast, accuse Eberstadt of Taliban-style thinking. The Washington Post attacked her “seductive” but “nasty” opinions and lack of “interest in how real people live or think about their lives”. Eberstadt insists that she is not ordering women back to the home. “The bottom line is a lot more nuanced,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be ‘you’there after school, but there are not enough protective, supporting, loving adults around.”Neighbourhoods, she added, “are so emptied of adult presence that even the richest kids just go home, throw the deadbolt and get no exercise more strenuous than walking from the video game to the refrigerator.”The result of being home alone is not just snacking and obesity but casual sex, leading to an explosion in venereal diseases that can lead to infertility and cervical cancer, Eberstadt said.
31．The word “outsource”(Paragraph 1) may be best replaced by
A．abandon.
B．renounce.
C．transfer.
D．submit.
正确答案：C
解析：语义题。

根据上下文可知，美国的父母把教育子女的责任转移给了学校、电视等社会机制和娱乐活动，所以”转移”符合文意。

”放弃”，”弃绝”，”递交”都不符合题意。

32．James Q. Wilson supports Mary Eberstadt’s new book because
A．he thinks the most important factor in shaping the character of our children is parental care.
B．he agrees that it is our culture that weakens families.
C．the way America treats its kids is somewhat similar to the way one treats his dog.
D．he is the author of The Marriage Problem: How our culture has weakened Families.
正确答案：A
解析：细节题。

文章第七段第二句提到James Q. Wilson支持Mary Eberstadt 的观点是因为他认为影响孩子性格形成的最重要因素是父母的关心，所以答案选项符合文意。

”他认为我们的文化削弱了家庭”是James Q. Wilson自己所著的书的内容；”美国人对待自己孩子的方式在某种程度上与对待狗一样”是P. J. O’Rourke的观点，而不是James Q. Wilson的观点；”他是《婚姻问题：我们的文化如何影响婚姻》的作者”并不是他赞同Mary Eberstadt观点的原因，两者并无因果联系。

因此这三项都与文意不符。

33．Mary Eberstadt would mostly agree
A．the problems with juveniles are located at the bottem end of the social spectrum.
B．women shall not go out to work but stay at home.
C．children in rich families are lack of exercises.
D．leaving children alone will lead to many diseases.
正确答案：D
解析：推理题。

文章最后一段讲到如果让小孩子单独留在家里会引发性病、不育症、子宫癌等许多疾病，所以答案选项是Mary Eberstadt认同的观点。

文章第二段第一句提到”我们一般会认为青少年问题大部分发生于社会底层，而事实上，钥匙儿童更常见于富裕家庭”；文章第八段第一句提到”Mary Eberstadt并不是要让妇女都回到家里”；”有钱人家的孩子缺乏运动”是对文章第九段的狭隘理解。

因此这三项都与文意不符。

34．The phrase “Taliban-style thinking” (Line 1, Paragraph 8) most probably refers to
A．the way that people of Taliban thinks.
B．the guess that Mary Eberstadt may come from Taliban.
C．the conservative way Mary Eberstadt shows in her new book.
D．Mary Eberstadt’s same way of thinking as Taliban people.
正确答案：C
解析：推理题。

该句在文中的意思是”女权主义者谴责Mary Eberstadt的想法过于保守”。

”Taliban-style thinking”原意指的是塔利班当地人的思维方式。

”the way that people of Taliban thinks”是”Taliban-style thinking”的原意，”对Mary Eberstadt可能来自塔利班的猜测”是不能从原文中推出来的，”Mary Eberstadt与塔利班人的思维方式一致”是错误的观点。

因此只有答案选项符合题意。

35．The text is mainly about
A．the introduction of the wonderful contents of Mary Eberstadt’s new book.
B．the publishment of a new book and reactions from the society.
C．the high incidence of many social problems resulting from the fault of parents.
D．the phenomenon that latchkey children are more common among the affluent.
正确答案：B
解析：主旨题。

通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了Mary Eberstadt的新书以及社会各界对其赞同或否定的观点。

因此，”新书的出版及社会各界的反应”是正确选项。

”Mary Eberstadt新书中精彩内容的介绍”太过笼统；”很多由于父母的失职而导致的社会问题的高发生率”和”钥匙儿童常见于富裕家庭的现象”都是Mary Eberstadt新书中的具体内容，不能作为本文的主旨。

Even for overachievers who are used to multitasking, the idea of watching two versions of the same television show at the same time—one on television and one on a computer—is something that is probably foreign to most people over the age of 30. To the eternally young brains that nm MTV, however, it is the next step in reshaping their business. Beginning this summer with the MTV Video Music Awards and continuing in the fall with the cable channel’s live afternoon program, “Total Request Live”, MTV will offer two simultaneous versions of each show, one on television and another, focusing on a behind-the-scenes narrative, on its broadband channel, MTV Overdrive. “We do tons of research on our audience, and it shows that they are instant messaging and listening to music and watching TV all at the same time”, said Christina Norman, president of MTV. “We’ve definitely seen them become more adept at navigating through multiple media. They live comfortably in several worlds at once”. The Overdrive component, located at , will feature a sort of video digression that will continue to stream live while the television show is broadcasting commercials. For example, if a viewer wants to watch an entire music video after a snippet is shown on the “Total Request Live” video countdown, or take a backstage tour with Jamie Foxx after he finishes his onstage appearance on the set of “T.R.L”. (as the show is familiarly known), Overdrive will be the place to turn. “Doing three things at once when you’re 19 years old is not hard”, said Dave Sirulnick, an executive vice president at MTV who oversees multiplatform production, news and music. Last Thursday at MTV’s studios in Times Square, Mr. Sirulnick proved adept at doing at least two things at once, dashing between two control rooms that were steps away from each other just down the hallway from the “T.R.L”set. It was the second test-run of simultaneous production, and in each control room-one for Overdrive, one for “T.R.L”.—separate sets of directors and producers guided cameramen and the show’s hosts, known as V. J.’s, through their paces. “No one that we know has done a live stream of a different signal of an existing show”. Mr. Sirulnick said. “It’s a live parallel experience, one that very quickly turns into an on-demand experiment”with portions of each show archived and kept on the Overdrive site for fans to replay at will.
36．In the first paragraph, the author introduces his topic by______.
A．posing a question
B．justifying an assumption
C．making a comparison
D．explaining a phenomenon
正确答案：C
解析：议论文写作方式题。

文章的第一段讲到，即使对于那些智力超常的人，
同时观看同一电视节目的两个版本对于30岁以上的人还是很陌生，而对于那些年轻人来说，已经是他们改观自己商业的下一步。

这是一个对比，因此正确的是答案选项。

37．MTV will offer two simultaneous versions of each show by two channels in order to
A．make people live in several worlds at once
B．make a profit
C．testify the result of theft research
D．reshape their business
正确答案：D
解析：推理判断题。

题目是MTV之所以要同时在两种渠道里播放同一节目的原因。

答案”让人们可以同时生活在几个世界里”只是现象；”盈利”在文中没有提及；”检验他们研究成果”将因果倒置了，进行研究是为了实施他们的这个计划，而实施计划不是为了证明研究结果；”改变自己的企业模式”。

文章第一段最后一句就提到有些头脑灵活的已经用这个观念来改变自己的商业模式，第三段又提到MTV总裁谈到他们已经做了大量调查，发现人们可以在同一时间观看多个媒体，从而证明了他们可以这样操作。

因此最为恰当。

38．According to the passage, “T.R.L” is ______.
A．a MTV program
B．a place to make MTV program
C．a video digression
D．a commercial
正确答案：A
解析：推理判断题。

”T.R.L.”在文章中多次出现，是相对应网上的Overdrive 节日的，那么应该是一个电视节目，根据”after he finishes his onstage appearance on the set of ‘T.R.L.’ (as the show is familiarly known)”可以看出是个MTV节目。

39．V.J(7th para.) means______.
A．the cameramen
B．the show’s hosts
C．the cameramen and the show’s host
D．none of the above
正确答案：B
解析：事实细节题。

V.J.是the show’s hosts的同位语，再者可以猜测，我们一般熟悉电台主持人叫DJ，那么VJ前面的V很可能代表video，就是电视节目主持人。

40．Sirulnick’s attitude m this kind of experience is______.
A．optimistic。