新文道考研
2016-09-28 11:21:58
Directions:Readthe following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank andmark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Though not biologically related, friends are as "related" as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. That is 1 a study published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has 2 .
The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted 3 1932 unique subjects which 4 pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were used in both 5 .
While 1% may seem 6 , it is not so to a geneticist. As co-author of the study James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego says, "Most people do not even 7 their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who 8 our kin."
The team also developed a "friendship score" which can predict who will be your friend based on their genes.
The study 9 found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity. Why this similarity in olfactory genes is difficult to explain, for now. 10 , as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more 11 it. There could be many mechanisms working in tandem that 12 us in choosing genetically similar friends 13 than "functional kinship" of being friends with 14 !
One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving 15 than other genes. Studying this could help 16 why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major 17 factor.
The findings do not simply corroborate people’s 18 to befriend those of similar 19 backgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to 20 that all subjects, friends and strangers were taken from the same population. The team also controlled the data to check ancestry of subjects.
1 A what B why C how D when
2 A defended B concluded C withdrawn D advised
3 A for B with C by D on
4 A separated B sought C compared D connected
5 A tests B objects C samples D examples
6 A insignificant B unexpected C unreliable D incredible
7 A visit B miss C know D seek
8 A surpass B influence C favor D resemble
9 A again B also C instead D thus
10 A Meanwhile B Furthermore C Likewise D Perhaps
11 A about B to C from D like
12 A limit B observe C confuse D drive
13 A according to B rather than C regardless of D along with
14 A chances B responses C benefits D missions
15 A faster B slower C later D earlier
16 A forecast B remember C express D understand
17 A unpredicted B contributory C controllable D disruptive
18 A tendency B decision C arrangement D endeavor
19 A political B religious C ethnic D economic
20 A see B show C prove D tell
答案解析
1、A what 本句的句意是：這就是加利福尼亞大學和耶魯大學在美國國家科學院報告上聯合發表的研究成果。第一個空考察表語從句的引導詞。
2、B concluded 本句的句意是：這就是加利福尼亞大學和耶魯大學在美國國家科學院報告上聯合發表的研究成果。第二個空為針對從句謂語進行的詞義考察。
3、D on 本句前半句的句意是：這項研究是一個基于1932個獨特個體的基因組廣譜分析。考察Conduct on詞組，進行。從句意為：它對成對兒的非親緣朋友和陌生人進行比較。
4、C compared 比較，根據上下文及后一句的same知道，比較為最佳。
5、C samples 詞義題，樣本，C為最佳選項。
6、A insignificant 詞義題，1%，以及后面的not so轉折，判斷，A insignificant不顯著，為最佳選項。
7、C know 句意為：一些人雖然并不認識他們第四代的表親，但他們選擇的朋友卻和這些親戚頗有相似之處。
8、D resemble 詞義題，和上一個空形成轉折。
9、B also 上下文邏輯題，發現了，還發現了。Also為最佳選項。
10、D Perhaps 結合上下文：這一現象很難解釋，后面接原因，原因“可能”是……最符合文章大意。
11、B to 介詞題，意為：就像這個科研團隊所發現的，這個因素不僅把我們帶到詳細的環境中來，更有一些深層次的影響。
12、D drive 詞義題，根據上下文，對我們產生影響，驅使我們……drive為最佳選項。
13、B rather than 邏輯題，基因上相似的，功能上相似的，二者對立不能同時存在，rather than不是…而是最符合。
14、C benefits 跟“功能”搭配，選個褒義詞，帶來好處的，最佳。
15、A faster 詞義題，根據后半句解釋，這就是為什么“picked pace”加速，這里只能選faster，一些比另外一些進化得更快，符合文意。
16、D understand 詞義題，這個研究可以幫助我們理解一個事實。
17、B contributory 本句意為：社會環境是最主要的一個因素。Contributory貢獻，最佳。
18、A tendency 結合文章主旨，選擇基因相似的人做朋友是普遍現象，tendency趨勢傾向最符合。
19、C ethnic 同義替換，基因背景相似，種族的，民族的，最符合。
20、A see 本句意為：盡管所有的研究對象都取自歐洲血統，研究者也花心思確保了所有(用于比對的)朋友和陌生人也源自該血統中的同一支系。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions：Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Text 1
King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted kings don’t abdicate, they die in their sleep. But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, dies the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the uniting is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles?
The Spanish case previous arguments both for and against monarchy when public opinion is particularly. Polarized, as it was following the end of the France regime, monarchs can rise above “mere” politics and “embody” a spirit of national unity.
It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs continuing popularity as heads of states. And so, the Middle East expected, Europe is the most monarch-infested region is the world, with 10 kingdoms not counting Vatican city and Andorra. But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respect public figure.
Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside, symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today-embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomes Piketty and other ecumenists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states. The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Prince and princess have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.
While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to strive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.
It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-healed) granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service—as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to know that as English history shows, it is kings of republicans, who are the monarchy’s worst enemies.
21、according to the first two paragraphs, king Juan Carl of span
[A] used to enjoy high public support
[B] was unpopular among European royals
[C] ended his reign in embarrassment
[D] eased his relationship with his rivals
22、monarchs are kept as head of state in Europe mostly
[A] owing to their undoubted and respectable status
[B] to achieve a balance between tradition and reality
[C] to give voters more public figures to look up to
[D] due to their everlasting political embodiment
23. Which of the following is shown to be odd, according to Paragraph 4?
[A] Aristocrats’ excessive reliance on inherited wealth.
[B] The simple lifestyle of the aristocratic families.
[C] The role of the nobility in modern democracies.
[D] The nobility’s adherence to their privileges.
24. The British royals “have most to fear” because Charles
[A] takes a tough line on political issues.
[B] fails to change his lifestyle as advised.
[C] takes republicans as his potential allies.
[D] fails to adapt himself to his future role.
25. Which of the following is the best title of the text?
[A] Carlos, Glory and Disgrace Combined
[B] Carlos, a Lesson for All European Monarchs
[C] Charles, Slow to React to the Coming Threats
[D] Charles, Anxious to Succeed to the Throne
答案解析：
21 D ended his reign in embarrassment
此題屬于細節題。
根據關鍵詞King Juan Carlos of Spain 定位到第一段第一和第二句。But embarrassing scandals…have forced him to eat his words and stand down. 此處stand down譯為放棄席位。因此D ended his reign in embarrassment是原文內容的同義替換。
22 A owing to their undoubted and respectable status
此題屬于細節題。
根據關鍵詞定位到第三段第一句it is this apparent …that explains …as heads of state.和第三句But unlike their absolutist…most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for ...respected public figure. 絕大多數皇室家族使得選民避免了尋找受人尊敬的公眾人物的麻煩。因此A owing to their undoubted and respectable status是原文內容的同義替換。
23 B the role of the nobility in modern democracies
此題屬于細節題。
根據關鍵詞定位到第四段最后一句話…it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states 奇怪的是有錢的貴族家庭仍然處于現代民主國家的核心地位。因此B the role of the nobility in modern democracies是原文內容的同義替換。
24 B fails to change his lifestyle as advised
此題屬于細節題。
根據關鍵詞”have most of fear”定位到第六段，Charles定位到最后一段的地二句Charles 后面who引導定語從句who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and …world因此B fails to change his lifestyle as advised是原文內容的同義替換。
25 C Carlos，a Lesson for All European Monarchs
此題屬于全文主旨題。
著眼全文，通篇都在圍繞monarchs展開。第一段由Carlos引出當今君主制面臨的危機。因此Carlos，a Lesson for All European Monarchs是全文內容的精確概括。
Text 2
Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.
California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumptions that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest. It is hard, the state argues, for judges to assess the implications of new and rapidly changing technologies.
The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice. Enough of the implications are discernable, even obvious, so that the justice can and should provide updated guidelines to police, lawyers and defendants.
They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone-- a vast storehouse of digital information is similar to say, going through a suspect’s purse .The court has ruled that police don't violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or pocketbook, of an arrestee without a warrant. But exploring one’s smartphone is more like entering his or her home. A smartphone may contain an arrestee’s reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence. The development of “cloud computing,” meanwhile, has made that exploration so much the easier.
But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole. New, disruptive technology sometimes demands novel applications of the Constitution’s protections. Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a digital necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.
26. The Supreme Court, will work out whether, during an arrest, it is legitimate to
[A] search for suspects’ mobile phones without a warrant.
[B] check suspects’ phone contents without being authorized.
[C] prevent suspects from deleting their phone contents.
[D] prohibit suspects from using their mobile phones.
27. The author’s attitude toward California’s argument is one of
[A] tolerance.
[B] indifference.
[C] disapproval.
[D] cautiousness.
28. The author believes that exploring one’s phone content is comparable to
[A] getting into one’s residence.
[B] handing one’s historical records.
[C] scanning one’s correspondences.
[D] going through one’s wallet.
29. In Paragraph 5 and 6, the author shows his concern that
[A] principles are hard to be clearly expressed.
[B] the court is giving police less room for action.
[C] phones are used to store sensitive information.
[D] citizens’ privacy is not effective protected.
30.Orin Kerr’s comparison is quoted to indicate that
(A)the Constitution should be implemented flexibly.
(B)New technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution.
(C)California’s argument violates principles of the Constitution.
(D)Principles of the Constitution should never be altered.
T2答案解析：
26 答案B check suspects’ phone contents without being authorized
解析：細節題。根據自然段定位原則，定位到首段。根據題干關鍵詞supreme court，whether精確定位到第一段最后一句whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone….，與選項進行對應，即為B在不授權的情況下檢查嫌疑人的電話信息。注意A選項應是search contents。
27 答案 C disapproval
解析：態度題。根據題干California’s argument定位到第二段最后一句及第三段首句，這些句子中提到hard… recklessly modest…等負向詞，表達的是負面態度。看選項屬于負面的就是disapproval。A 容忍，B冷漠是典型錯誤，D粗心。
28 答案A getting into one’s residence
解析：細節題。題干問：作者認為搜索電話薄就相當于什么?根據段落界定原則定位到第四段轉折處，提到But exploring one’s smart phone is more like entering his or her home.與選項對應，A中的residence對應home，是原文的同意替換。注意D選項不是作者的觀點，不能將文中人物觀點當作作者觀點。
29 答案D citizens’ privacy is not effective protected
解析：細節題。根據題干定位到5段和6段，題干問作者最關注的是什么，即是相應段落的段落中心。因此，該題表面是細節題，實質為段落核心。5段首句為中心句提到，應采取措施保護數據隱私;6段又繼續陳述原則的不恰當之處。根據這些內容，對應答案D 市民隱私未能得到有效保護。
30 答案 B New technology requires reinterpretation of the Constitution
解析：例證題。題干問的是引用Orin Kerr的目的是什么，即Orin Kerr是論據，其目的是論點。論點往往在論據的前面，所以要找例子前面的一句話，即New, disruptive technology sometimes demands novel applications of the Constitution’s protections.與選項對應，就是B new technology是原詞復現，require等同于demands，reinterpretation of the Constitution同義替換applications of the Constitution’s protections。
Text 3
The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.
“Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,” writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors (SBoRE). Manu will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manuscripts.
Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.”
Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group, says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role.” He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.”
31. It can be learned from Paragraph I that
[A] Science intends to simplify its peer-review process.
[B]journals are strengthening their statistical checks.
[C]few journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis.
[D]lack of data analysis is common in research projects.
32. The phrase ‘flagged up” (Para.2)is the closest in meaning to
[A]found.
[B]revised.
[C]marked
[D]stored
33. Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may
[A]pose a threat to all its peers
[B]meet with strong opposition
[C]increase Science’s circulation.
[D]set an example for other journals
34. David Vaux holds that what Science is doing now
A. adds to researchers’ workload.
B. diminishes the role of reviewers.
C. has room for further improvement.
D. is to fail in the foreseeable future.
35. Which of the following is the best title of the text?
A. Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers
B. Professional Statisticians Deserve More Respect
C. Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors’ Desks
D. Statisticians Are Coming Back with Science
Text 3答案解析：
31. 答案 B journals are strengthening their statistical checks 段落推斷題 考查的是段落中心句，定位在首段首句 The journal Science is adding an extra source at Peer-review process, editor-in- chief Marcia McNott announced today. 《科學》 雜志將要對同行評審過程增加額外的資源。與選項B同意替換。
32. 答案 C marked 詞義句意題 根據所猜短語flagged up 所在句子的句意，手稿將被flagged up以供雜志編輯、現有的編輯評審委員會或外部同行審查。比較四個選項，只有C marked 被標記，符合題意。
33. 答案 D set an example for other journals 觀點細節題 定位在四段末句 This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science. 這不僅對于《科學》 雜志本身的出版有影響，還有希望影響其它的出版社，這些出版社想繼《科學》 雜志之后樹立自己的典型形象。選項D是這句話的概括總結。
34. 答案 D has room for further improvement 觀點細節題 定位在末段末句，Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that ....”Vaux 認為《科學》 雜志的想法有一些好處，但是有個缺點是....這就說明這個想法是有進一步改進的空間的。
35. 答案 A Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers 主旨大意題 本文首段首句就是全文主題句，《科學》 雜志將要對同行評審過程增加額外的資源，而且全文其它各個段落都在圍繞對這一想法不同專家的不同態度在論述，所以選項A是對全文中心的完整表達。
Text 4
Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions”. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market. But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit”.
Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous goals for capitalism and freedom.” This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International, she thought, making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.
As the hacking trial concludes—finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge—the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands. Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people. This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking. Others await trial. This saga still unfolds.
In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place. One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. The core of her successful defense was that she knew nothing.
In today’s world, it has become normal that well-paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run. Perhaps we should not be so surprised. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit. The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation. Words degraded to the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.
The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding, to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity. It was to ruin lives in the quest for circulation and impact. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.
36. According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by
(A) the consequences of the current sorting mechanism.
(B) companies’ financial loss due to immoral practices
(C) governmental ineffectiveness on moral issues.
(D) the wide misuse of integrity among institutions.
37. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that
(A) Glenn Mulcaire may deny phone hacking as a crime.
(B) more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking.
(C) Andy Coulson should be held innocent of the charge.
(D) phone hacking will be accepted on certain occasions.
38. The author believes that Rebekah Brooks’s defense
(A) revealed a cunning personality.
(B) centered on trivial issues.
(C) was hardly convincing.
(D) was part of a conspiracy.
39. The author holds that the current collective doctrine shows
(A) generally distorted values.
(B) unfair wealth distribution.
(C) a marginalized lifestyle.
(D) a rigid moral code.
40 Which of the following is suggested in the last paragraph?
(A) The quality of writings is of primary importance.
(B) Common humanity is central to news reporting.
(C) Moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper.
(D) Journalists need stricter industrial regulations.
Text4答案解析：
36. 答案A. The consequences of the current sorting mechanism. 因果細節題 題目問到Elisbeth 因什么而感到沮喪。定位在第一段第二句 Intergrity had collapsed, ..., because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market, 由于社會中唯一的分類機制是利潤和市場這一共同的觀念，導致了正直這種道德品質的淪喪。
37. 答案 B more journalists may be found guilty of phone hacking 段落推斷題 定位到第三段第一句 As the hacking trial concludes.... the wider issue of dearth of integrity still stands 正如竊聽案總結的那樣，仍然存在更廣泛的dearth of integrity 的事件，與選項B 對應。
38. 答案 C was hardly convincing 觀點細節題 根據第四段第二句中astonishing，how little...,how little... She never ... 以及第三句中She knew nothing 的語氣判斷作者的態度是認為RB的辯護是沒有說服力的。
39. 答案 A generally distorted values 觀點細節題 題干定位在第五段第三句，答案定位在隨后的第四、第五句。 The current collective doctrine 認為重要的是 efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value...., 而認為justice, fairness....不重要，故扭曲了價值觀。
40. 答案是C moral awareness matters in editing a newspaper. 段落推斷題 定位在最后一段前兩句。世界新聞雜志的目的不是提升讀者的理解能力。。。。而是為了發行量和影響力而毀了人們的生活。從ruined the lives 的表達能看出作者希望雜志所做的是提高其道德意識，與C選項對應。
Part B
Directions:
In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
How does your reading proceed? Clearly, you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar. (41)________________. You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is evolved. Who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where?
The ways of reading indicated here are without doubt kinds of comprehension but they show comprehension to consist not just of passive assimilation but of active engagement in inference and problem-solving. You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues. (42) ________________
Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and checked for accuracy, or some timeless relationship of the text to the world. (43) _____________
Such background material inevitably reflects who we are. (44) _____________. This does not, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless. Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page---including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns--- debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of belief and values.
How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it. (45) _____________. Such dimensions of reading suggest---as others introduced later in the book will also do--that we bring an implicit (often unacknowledged) agenda to any act of reading. It does not then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another. Ideally, different minds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another. Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy, or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.
[A] Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfills the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.
[B] Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at the same time obscure or even close off others.
[C] If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the context. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.
[D]In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.
[E] You make further inferences, for instance, about how the text may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.
[F] In plays, novels and narrative poems, characters speak as constructs created by the author, not necessarily as mouthpieces for the author’s own thoughts.
[G]Rather, we ascribe meanings to texts on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organizations or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures (so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.
41 【C】
解析：41段中空，所以要看上句。空前與空后句中的主語是you,因此正確選項在C、D中存在，此其一也;D中出現了reconstruct(重組)邏輯上是再次發生，與位于句首的邏輯發生了敘述上的矛盾。故排除D選擇C。另外，C中的words or idioms和meanings 在41空前句重現，因為前句中有identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them。
42 【E】
解析：42 段尾空，所以看上一句話。空前一句中的主語是you,因此正確選項在C、D、E中存在，此其一也;其二，該句中主句謂語動詞是infer, 與E中的賓語inferences構成邏輯對應關系。故排除C和D選擇E。另外,42空前兩句提到了閱讀時我們會active engagement in inference and problem-solving, 并針對作者文中的specific evidence and clues 進行信息的推測。E選項中further 一詞表明延續此話題，用for instance 具體舉例說明我們對文章信息作怎么樣的推測。
43【G】
解析：43段尾空，應重點看本段上一句。同時下段開頭出現了代詞such background，而G中最后一句中的background與之形成邏輯對應關系。故選擇G。另外，G中Rather表示轉折，與43空前句開頭的not 構成“not… rather…”的“不是……而是……”結構
44【B】
解析：44段中空，看上下句。此段空前句中有關鍵詞background，空后句中有關鍵詞interpretation; background邏輯上對應G中最后一句中的background，而interpretation 邏輯對應B中最后一句中的interpretations. 故選擇B。另外，B中Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender, ethnicity, age and social class 是44空前who we are的具體闡述。
45【A】
解析：45段中空，看上下句。最后一段首句主語是we, 所有選項中只有A和G的主語是we;但是G中首詞是轉折詞Rather，與首句邏輯矛盾，故排除G選擇A。另外，A中具體描述了許多不同的閱讀目的和方式，此為對45空前句How we read a given text 和our particular interest in reading it 的具體闡述。A中的信息是45空后句such dimensions of reading 的指代對象。
Part C Translation
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
Within the span of a hundred years, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a tide of emigration -one of the great folk wanderings of history-swept from Europe to America. 46) This movement, driven by powerful motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
47) The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits. Of necessity, colonial America was a projection of Europe. Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world. 48) But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes. These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible. But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.
49)The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America. In the meantime, thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies, and South America. These travelers to North America came in small, unmercifully overcrowded craft. During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on meager rations. Many of the ships were lost in storms, many passengers died of disease, and infants rarely survived the journey. Sometimes tempests blew the vessels far off their course, and often calm brought interminable delay.
To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief. Said one chronicler, "The air at twelve leagues' distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden." The colonists' first glimpse of the new land was a vista of dense woods. 50) The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia. Here was abundant fuel and lumber. Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.
46) This movement, driven by powerful motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
【參考譯文】在多種強大的動機驅動下，這次移民在一片荒野上建起了一個國家，其本身塑造了一個未知大陸的性格和命運。
47) The United States is the product of two principal forces——the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.
【參考譯文】美國產生于兩個主要力量：思想習俗、民族特色各異的歐洲移民，以及修改這些特征的新國家所產生的影響。
48 But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.
【參考譯文】但是，美國擁有獨特的地理條件，不同民族之間產生了相互的作用，因此，在一片原始新大陸上，維護舊大陸方式產生了純粹的困難，這一切引發了重大的變化。
49 The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorations of North America.
【參考譯文】在15-16世紀北美探索的一百多年之后，運往如今的美國這片新領土的第一船移民橫渡了大西洋。
50 The virgin forest with its richness and variety of trees was a real treasure-house which extended from Maine all the way down to Georgia.
【參考譯文】擁有豐富多樣樹種的原始森林是一個真正的寶庫，它從緬因州一直延伸到喬治亞州。
Section III Writing
Part A
Directions:
You are going to hold a club reading session. Write an email of about 100 words recommending a book to the club members.
You should state reasons for your recommendation.
You should write neatly on the ANWSER SHEET. Do not sign you own name at the end of the letter, use “Li Ming ” instead. Do not write the address .(10 points)
Dear friends，
I am writing to tell you about a fantastic book I have just read, as we always share the same taste of books.
The book is called Journey to the West, which tells us a story that four monks conquered multiple handicaps to achieve their final destination. Besides the touching and thrilling plot, the book also features humorous languages, thanks to the talented author.
So I recommend it to all of you as one of the favorite books that I have ever read. I am sure you will love it as much as I do. I am looking forward to discussing more with you after you read it.
Yours sincerely,
• Li Ming
Part B
52. Directions:
Write an essay of 160—200 words based on the following picture.in your essay, you should
1. describe the pictures briefly,
2. interpret its intended meaning, and
3. give your comments.
You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET . (20 points)
A group of friends, boys or girls, are having a dinner party while each one of them is checking messages in their mobile phones without saying a word to one another, leaving the dishes untouched. We are informed that this is a gathering in the era of mobile phone.
The above picture unveils a common social phenomenon and the symbolic meaning of the photo is the effect of the mobile phone on people’s way of life. Undoubtedly, the phone provides us with considerable convenience, making many things possible which are beyond our dreams. As a communication tool, the phone makes us closer than ever before by providing immediate communication. Meanwhile, there are negative effects on our personal life. As is shown in the picture, people are imprisoned in their own world! They choose contacting online rather than communicating face to face.
Accordingly, enjoying the convenience provided by the phones, we should bear in mind that human beings are social beings who need real interpersonal interactions! Joint efforts are needed to ensure people to have face-to-face communication! I believe a harmonious relationship between friends is awaiting us if we set aside our mobile phones and enjoy the untouched meal!
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