2022年考研英语命题预测模拟试题(四)(1).docx

2022年考研英语命题预测模拟试题(四)(1)北京新航道学校考研阅读主讲 印建坤 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) ALAN “ACE“ GREENBERG chose his nickname to improve his chances with girls at the University of Missouri. But it is an apt 1 of his trading skills on Wall Street. This week, as the 73-year-old 2 down 3 chairman of Bear Stearns, the investment bank where he has worked since 1949 is in a high. It 4 an increase in post-tax profits in the second quarter of 43% on a year earlier, 5 a time when many of its Wall Street rivals have 6 . On June 26th Merrill Lynch 7 a warning that its profits in the second quarter would fall by half, far 8 of expectations. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have also reported lower profits. Strange that this surprised. 9 Alan Greenspan\”s frenetic cuts 10 interest rates, times are good for underwriters and traders of bonds, core activities for Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, 11 also recorded a sharp increase in profits. It has been a lousy 12 for equity underwriters and for advisers on the meagre amounts of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) this year. Merrill, Goldman and Morgan Stanley are three of the investment banks that gained 13 during the boom in equity and M&A business, and they are now 14 the most. Of the three, Merrill is weakest in bonds. It cut 15 its fixed- income activities after the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998. As it happens, both Bear Stearns and Lehman have long been criticised for their weakness in equities. Mr Greenberg is famous for worrying about even the price of a paper-clip at Bear Stearns. This used to seem terribly 16 , but these days other Wall Street firms are 17 about costs. Lay- offs are 18 though not yet alarmingly-not least, because banks saw how Merrill Lynch lost 19 when the markets rebounded quickly after the LTCM crisis. Still, if few 20 of improvement show soon, expect real blood-letting on Wall Street. 1. A. cover B. encapsulation C.jacket D.shell 2. A. goes B comes C strides D. steps 3.A.be B. being C. as D. to be 4. A. recorded B. logged C.chronicled D. noted 5,A.during B.at C. on D. in 6.A. stumbled B. slip C.blundered D. crept 7.A. delivered Bdistributed C. conveyed D. issued 8.A. out B. lacking C. lack D. short 9.A. because of B. on account of C.thanks to D.due to 10.A. at B. in C.on D. upon 11.A who Bwhat C.whom D.which 12A. time B.period C.epoch D.era 13.A. most B.much C. a lot D. a great deal 14.A. lost B. losing C. suffering D. suffered 15.A. down B. back C. off D. out 16.A. unnecessary B. unreasonable C. unpopular D. unfashionable 17.A obsessed B worried C.concerned D. bothered 18.A. decreased B.increased C. increasing D.decreasing 19.A. field B. ground C. future D. hope 20.A. signals B.symbol C. signs D.symptom 　　Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A TEXT 1 “The news hit the British High Commission in Nairobi at nine-thirty on a Monday morning. Sandy Woodrow took it like a bullet, jaw rigid, chest out, smack through his divided English heart.“ Crikey. So that\”s how you take a bullet. Poor old Sandy. His English heart must be really divided now. This deliriously hardboiled opening sets the tone for what\”s to come. White mischief? Pshaw! White plague, more like it. Sandy Woodrow is head of chancery at the British High Commission in Nairobi. The news that neatly subdivides his heart as the novel opens is the death of a young, beautiful and idealistic lawyer turned aid worker named Tessa Quayle. Tessa has been murdered for learning too much about the unscrupulous practices of a large pharmaceutical company operating in Africa. Her body is found at Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya near the border with Sudan. Tessa\”s husband, Justin, is also a British diplomat stationed in Nairobi. Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant, content to toe the official line-in short, a plodder. But all that changes in the after math of his wife\”s murder. Full of righteous indignation, he resolves to get to the bottom of it, come what may. “The Constant Gardener“ has got plenty of tense moments and sudden twists and comes complete with shadowy figures lurking in the shrubbery. There is a familiar tone of gentlemanly world-weariness to it all, which should keep Mr. le Carre\”s fans happy. But the novel is also an impassioned attack on the corruption which allows Africa to be used as a sort of laboratory for the testing of new medicines. Elsewhere, Mr. le Carre has denounced the “corporate cant, hypocrisy, corruption and greed“ of the pharmaceutical industry. This position is excitingly dramatized in his book, even if the abuses he rails against are not exactly breakin。