2010年考研英语（二）真题（解析卷）.pdf

12010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试(英语二英语二)试题试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (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 epidemic1by the World Health Organization in 41 years.The heightened alert2an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp risein cases in Australia, and rising3in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.But the epidemic is 4 in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organizations director general,5the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the6ofany medical treatment.The outbreak came to global7in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually largenumber of hospitalizations and deaths8healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of apanic, cases began to9in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.In the United States, new cases seemed to fade10warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009,officials reported there was11flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the12tested are thenew swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has13more than one million people,and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.Federal health officials14Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began15orders fromthe states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is16ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though mostof those17doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not18for pregnant women, people over 50or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other19. But it was still possible to vaccinatepeople in other high-risk group: health care workers, people20infants and healthy young people.1. A criticizedB appointedCcommentedD designated2 .A proceededB activatedC followedD prompted3. A digitsB numbersC amountsD sums4. A moderateB normalC unusualD extreme5 .A withB inC fromD by6. A progressB absenceC presenceD favor7. A realityB phenomenonC conceptD notice8. AoverB forC amongD to9 .A stay upB crop upC fill upD cover up10 .A asB ifC unlessD until全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页，共 43 页211 .A excessiveB enormousC significantDmagnificent12. AcategoriesB examplesC patternsD samples13 .A impartedB immerseC injectedD infected14 .A releasedB relayedC relievedD remained15. A placingB deliveringC takingD giving16 .A feasibleB availableC reliableD applicable17 .A prevalentB principalC innovativeD initial18 .A presentedB restrictedC recommendedD introduced19. A problemsB issuesC agoniesD sufferings20. A involved inB caring forC concerned withD warding offSection Reading comprehensionPartADirections:Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D.Mark your answers onANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text1The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works byDamien Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”，at Sothebys in London on September 15th 2008. All but twopieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneercalled 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. Atits peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare Mc Andrew, founder of Arts Economics, a researchfirmdouble the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the marketgenerates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion andcontroversy in a way matched by few other industries.In the weeks and months that followed Mr. Hirsts sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable,especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and thefinancial demise of many art-buying investors. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries andsalerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sectorfor Chinesecontemporary artthey were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the worlds twobiggest auction houses, Sothebys and Christies, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who hadplaced works for sale with them.The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at theend of 1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the Second Wor。