1999 考研英语(一)真题

1、 1999 英语(一)Section I Use of EnglishDirections:For each numbered blank in thepassage, there arechoices marked A, B, C, andD. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening thecorresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)Industrialdoes not just happen. Companies1low accident rates plan theirprograms, work hard to organize them, and continue working to keep them_2_and active. When thework is well done, akept at a minimum.3of accidentoperations is establis

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4、II Reading ComprehensionPartADirections:Each of the passages below isby some questions. For each question there areanswersmarked A, B, C and D. Read the passagesand choose the best answer to each of thequestions. Then mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letterin the brackets. (40 points)第 113页 1999 英语(一)Its a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat.Light up the stove and you could bum down the house. Luckily, if th

5、e doormat or stoveof coming disaster, a lawsuit might compensate you your troubles. Or so the thinkinghas gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more liable their customerstoFeeling threatened,responded by writing ever longer wammg labels, trying toanticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long thatamong other things, that you might-that the toy does not enable user to y.The label on a childs Batman cape cautionsWhileexample-and many are re

6、quired by state orthe and sellerslose when injured customers take them to court.areappropriate and necessary-the dangers ofinteractions,regulations, it isnt clear that they actually protectliability ifa customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companiesNow the tide appears to bebeginning to side withAs personal injury claims continue assome courts areespecially in cases where a label probablyhaveachanged anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois,lawsuit involvin

7、g aplayer who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet.Were really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets arent desi ed to prevent those kinds ofinjuries, says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reasonthe athletes injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute-a group of judges, lawyers, andacademics whose recommendations carry substantial weight-issued new guidelinesstating that need not customers of obvious dangers or bombard th

8、em with a lengthylist of possible ones. Importanttort lawcan get buried in a sea of trivialities, says a lawthe new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legalatLaw School who helpedcommunity has its way, theon products might actually be providedthe benet ofcustomers and not as protection against legal liability.第 213页 1999 英语(一)1 1. What were things like in 1980s when accidents happened?AJ Customers might be relieved of their disasters through lawsuits.BJ Injured customers could expect protect

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