[2010考研英语命题组回应]2006年考研英语命题预测题一(含答案)

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2006考研英语命题预测题一

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)

    the current french bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectique. in  1  , there is everything      2  blockbuster thrillers to catherine millet"s "la vie sexuelle de catherine m.", a novel which has been   3  praised as high art and   4    as upmarket porn. then there are novels   5   the sticky questions of good and   6  ("le demon et mademoiselle prym") and faith versus science in the modern world ("l"apparition"). philosophical   7  continue in the non-fiction list,  8  this week by michel onfray"s "antimanuel de philosophie", a witty take  9  some of philosophy"s perennial debates. those who like their big issues in small chunks are also enjoying frederic beigbeder"s "dernier inventaire avant liquidation", a survey of france"s  10   20th-century books,  11  with mr beigbeder"s 12   humour from the title on ("the 50 books of the century chosen by you and critiqued by me").

    in britain, meanwhile, there is olive oil all over  the non- fiction list. it"s a staple 13   for nigella lawson, a domestic divinity and celebrity  14 , whose latest  15  of recipes tops the list. annie hawes, in second  16  , took herself  17  to the sun- drenched hills of italy to grow her own olives and write a book about them-as did carol drinkwater, just  18  the border in france. fiction-wise, it"s business as  19  , with the requisite holiday mix of thrillers, romance, fantasy-and harry potter, with "the goblet of fire" still burning  20  at  number three.

1. a. literature  b. narrative c. story d. fiction
2. a. on  b. from c. about  d. of 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
3. a. both  b. equally c. rather d. together
4. a. approved  b. admired c. derided d. scolded
5. a .attempting b, dealing c. tackling d. talking
6. a. .evil     b. sin    c. wickedness   d. bad
7. a. topics  b. ideas c. arguments  d. themes　
8.a. topped  b. covered  c. overdone  d. surpassed
9. a. of  b. by  c. at d. on
10. a good b. favourite  c. favorable  d. satisfying
11. a. dealt  b. handled c. touched d. managed
12.a. brand b. trademark  c. marked  d. obvious
13. a. ingredient  b. constitution  c. part d. factor
14.a. writer  b. novelist c. chef d. journalist
15.a. set  b. anthology  c. collection 　 d. album
16. a. rank b. place  c. point  d. status
17.a. up  b. on  c. off  d. in
18. a. above  b. around  c. about  d. across
19. a. usual b. usually  c. common  d. commonly
20. a. bright b. intense c. dazzling d. brilliantsection ⅱ reading comprehension

part a
directions:
    read the following four texts. answer the questions below each text by choosing a, b, c or d. mark your answers on answer sheet 1. (40 points)

text 1

    "making money is a dirty game," says the institute of economic affairs, summing up the attitude of british novelists towards business. the iea, a free market think-tank, has just published a collection of essays ("the representation of business in english literature") by five academics chronicling the hostility of the country"s men and women of letters to the sordid business of making money. the implication is that britain"s economic performance is retarded by an anti-industrial culture.

    rather than blaming recalcitrant workers and incompetent managers for britain"s economic worries, then, we can put george orwell and martin amis in the dock instead. from dickens"s scrooge to amis’s john self in his 1980s novel "money", novelists have conjured up a rogue"s gallery of mean, greedy, amoral money-men that has alienated their impressionable readers from the noble pursuit of capitalism.

    the argument has been well made before, most famously in 1981 by martin wiener, an american academic, in his "english culture and the decline of the industrial spirit". lady thatcher was a devotee of mr. wiener"s, and she led a crusade to revive the "entrepreneurial culture" which the liberal elite had allegedly trampled underfoot. the present chancellor of the exchequer, gordon brown, sounds as though he agrees with her. at a recent speech to the confederation of british industry, he declared that it should be the duty of every teacher in the country to "communicate the virtues of business and enterprise".

    certainly, most novelists are hostile to capitalism, but this refrain risks scapegoating writers for failings for which they are not to blame. britain"s culture is no more anti-business than that of other countries. the romantic movement, which started as a reaction against the industrial revolution of the century, was born and flourished in germany, but has not stopped the germans from being europe"s most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists.

    even the americans are guilty of blackening business"s name. smersh and spectre went out with the cold war. james bond now takes on international media magnates rather than rosa kleb. his films such as "erin brockovich" have pitched downtrodden, moral heroes against the evil of faceless corporatism. yet none of this seems to have dented america"s lust for free enterprise.

    the irony is that the novel flourished as an art form only after, and as a result of, the creation of the new commercial classes of victorian england, just as the modern hollywood film can exist only in an era of mass consumerism. perhaps the moral is that capitalist societies consume literature and film to let off steam rather than to change the world.

21. in the first paragraph, the author introduces his topic by

a. posing a contract
b. justifying an assumption
c. making a comparison
d. explaining a phenomenon

22. the word “sordid”(line 6, para 1)implies

a. holy
b. dirty
c. sainty
d. pure

23. george orwell and martin amis are defendants because

a. no accusation of the inefficient management
b. the decline of the country’s economy
c. the novelists are in favor of them
d. novelists depict them as merciful people

24. american academic martin wiener’s argument

a. sides with the liberal elite
b. is neutral about the virtue of business and enterprise
c. inclines towards the revival of the entrepreneurial culture
d. is hostile to the industrial spirit

25. what can we infer from the last paragraph?

a. the novel existed after the creation of the new commercial classes
b. capital doesn’t pollute  social morality
c. capitalist societies change the world
d. the modern holy world has nothing to do with consumers

text 2

    joseph rykwert entered his field when post-war modernist architecture was coming under fire for its alienating embodiment of outmoded social ideals. think of the un building in new york, the city of brasilia, the unesco building in paris, the blocks of housing "projects" throughout the world. these tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas. they look inward to their own functions, presenting no "face" to the inhabitants of the city, no "place" for social interaction. for mr. rykwert, who rejects the functionalist spirit of the athens charter of 1933, a manifesto for much post-war building, such facelessness destroys the human meaning of the city. architectural form should not rigidly follow function, but ought to reflect the needs of the social body it represents.

    like other forms of representation, architecture is the embodiment of the decisions that go into its making, not the result of impersonal forces, market or historical. therefore, says mr. rykwert, adapting joseph de maistre"s dictum that a nation has the government it deserves, our cities have the faces they deserve,

    in this book, mr. rykwert, a noted urban historian of anthropological bent, offers a flaneur"s approach to the city"s exterior surface rather than an urban history from the conceptual inside out. he does not drive, so his interaction with the city affords him a warts-and-all view with a sensual grasp of what it is to be a "place".

    his story of urbanization begins, not surprisingly, with the industrial revolution when populations shifted and increased, exacerbating problems of housing and crime. in the 19th century many planning programs and utopias (ebenezer howard"s garden city and charles fourier"s “phalansteries" among them) were proposed as remedies. these have left their mark on 20th-century cities, as did baron hausmann"s boulevards in paris, eugene viollet-le-duc"s and owen jones"s arguments for historical style, and adolf loos"s fateful turn-of-the-century call to abolish ornament which, in turn, inspired le corbusier"s austere modem functionalism. the reader will recognize all these ideas in the surfaces of the cities that hosted them: new york, paris, london, and vienna.

    cities changed again after the second world war as populations grew, technology raced and prosperity spread. like it or not, today"s cities are the muddled product, among other things, of speed, greed, outmoded social agendas and ill-suited postmodern aesthetics. some bemoan the old city"s death; others welcome its replacement by the electronically driven "global village". mr. rykwert has his worries, to be sure, but he does not see ruin or anomie everywhere. he defends the city as a human and social necessity. in chandigarh, canberra and new york he sees overall success; in new delhi, paris and shanghai, large areas of failing. for mr. rykwert, a man on foot in the age of speeding virtual, good architecture may still show us a face where flaneurs can read the story of their urban setting in familiar metaphors.

26. an argument made by supporters of functionism is that

a. post-war modernist architecture was coming under fire
b. un building in new york blocks the housing projects
c. windswept plazas present “face” to the inhabitants of the city
d. functionism reflects the needs of the social body

27. according to mr rykwert, “dictum” can serve as

a. book
b. market
c. form
d. words

28.the word “exacerbating”(line 3, para 4) means

a.deteriorating
b.inspiring
c. encouraging
d. surprising

29.according to mr rykwert, he

a. sees damage here and there
b. is absolutely a functionist
c. is completely disappointed with the city’s death
d. is objectively commenting the city ?

30. the author associates the issue of functionism with post-war modernist architecture because

a. they are both mr rykwert’s arguments
b. it is a comparison to show the importance of post-war modernist architecture
c. functionism and post-war modernism architecture are totally contradictory
d. mr rykwert supports functionism

text 3

    joy williams"s quirky fourth novel "the quick and the dead" follows a trio of 16-yearold misfits in a warped "charlie"s angels" set in the american south-west. driven hazily to defend animal rights, the girls accomplish little beyond diatribe: they rescue a putrefied ram and hurl stones at stuffed elephants. in what is structurally a road novel that ends up where it began, the desultory threesome stumbles upon both cruelty to animals and unlikely romance. a mournful dog is strangled by an irate neighbor, a taxidermist falls in love with an 8-year-old direct-action firebrand determined that he atone for his sins. a careen across the barely tamed arizona prairie, this peculiar book aims less for a traditional storyline than a sequence of jangled (often hilarious) conversations, ludicrous circumstances, and absurdist tableaux. the consequent long-walk-to-nowhere is both the book"s limitation and its charm.

    all three girls are motherless. fiercely political alice discovers that her erstwhile parents are her grandparents, who thereupon shrivel: "deceit had kept them young whereas the truth had accelerated them practically into decrepitude." both parents of the doleful corvus drowned while driving on a flooded interstate off-ramp. the mother of the more conventional annabel ("one of those people who would say, `we"ll get in touch soonest" when they never wanted to see you again") slammed her car drunkenly into a fish restaurant. later, annabel"s father observes to his wife"s ghost, "you didn"t want to order what i ordered, darling." the sharp-tongued wraith snaps back: "that"s because you always ordered badly and wanted me to experience your miserable mistake."

    against a roundly apocalyptic world view, the great pleasures of this book are line-by-line. ms williams can lacerate setting and character alike in a few slashes: "it was one of those rugged american places, a remote, sad-ass, but plucky downwind town whose citizens were flawed and brave." alice"s acerbity spits little wisdoms: putting lost teeth under a pillow for money is "a classic capitalistic consumer ploy, designed to wean you away at an early age from healthy horror and sensible dismay to greedy, deluded, sunny expectancy."

    whether or not the novel, like alice, expressly advocates animal rights, an animal motif crops up in every scene, as flesh-and blood "critters" (usually dead) or insipid decoration on crockery. if ms williams does not intend to induce human horror at a pending bestial armageddon, she at least invokes a future of earthly loneliness, where animals appear only as ceramic-hen butter dishes and endangered-species elastoplasts. one caution: when flimsy narrative superstructure begins to sag, anarchic wackiness can grow wearing. while "the quick and the dead" is edgy from its first page, the trouble with starting at the edge is there is nowhere to go. nevertheless, ms williams is original, energetic and viscously funny: carl hiaasen with a conscience.

31. the girls in the novel

a.did nothing about reflecting the society facts.?
b.protected animals successfully.
c.were cruel to the animals.
d.murdered their neighbor’s dog.

32. this novel is attentive to each of the following except

a.backgrounds
b.conversations
c.traditional storyline
d.scenes

33. the main idea of the novel is

a.care about the children
b.how to make crockery
c.fight with the animal-killers
d.animal protection

34. the second paragraph tells us

a.the miserable life of the girls.
b.the girls’ parents are growing old.
c.society contradiction and circumstances the girls live in.
d.the backgrounds of the story and the heroines.

35. for alice, putting lost teeth under a pillow for money is not

a.just a beautiful dream.
b.a way to be away the cheating.?
c.a way to be away the lust .?
d.a way to prevent one from illness.

text 4

    few people, except conspiracy theorists, would have expected so public a spat as the one this week between the two ringmasters of formula one (f1) motor racing. bernie ecclestone, a fabulously wealthy british motor sport entrepreneur, is at odds, it would seem, with his longstanding associate, max mosley, president of f1"s governing body, the federation international de l"automobile (fia).

    ostensibly, the dispute has broken out over what looked like a done deal. last june, the fia voted unanimously to extend mr. ecclestone"s exclusive rights to stage and broadcast f1 racing, which expire in 2010, by 100 years. for these lucrative rights, mr. ecclestone was to pay the fia a mere $360m in total, and only $60m immediately. the fia claims that mr. ecclestone has not made the payment of $60m, a claim denied by mr. ecclestone, who insists the money has been placed in an escrow account. mr. mosley has asked mr. ecclestone to pay up or risk losing the deal for the f1 rights after 2010, perhaps to a consortium of car makers that own f1 teams. for his part, mr. ecclestone has, rather theatrically, accused mr. mosley of "trying to do some extortion".

    what is going on? only three things can be stated with confidence. first, the idea that mr. ecclestone cannot find the $60m is ludicrous: his family trust is not exactly short of cash, having raised around $2 billion in the past two years. second, it would not be in mr. ecclestone"s long-term financial interest to forgo a deal which could only enhance the value of his family"s remaining 50% stake in slec, the holding company for the group of companies that runs the commercial side of f1. third, the timing of the dispute is very interesting.

    why? because the other 50% stake in slec, owned by em. tv, a debt- ridden german media company, is up for sale. em. tv badly needs to sell this stake in the near future to keep its bankers at bay. the uncertainty created by the dispute between mr. ecclestone and mr. mosley might depress the value of em. tv"s holding. could that work to mr. ecclestone"s advantage? quite possibly. the lower the value of em. tv"s stake, the higher the relative value of an option mr. ecclestone holds to sell a further 25% of slec to em. tv for around $1 billion--and the better the deal mr. ecclestone might be able to extract for surrendering the option. whoever buys em. tv"s stake in slec will have to negotiate with mr. ecclestone over this instrument. the economist understands that mr. ecclestone has the right to veto a plan proposed last december by kirch, a privately owned german media group, to buy half of em. tv"s holding for $550m.

    in the coming weeks, mr. ecclestone will doubtless be deploying his formidable negotiating skills to best advantage. it would be rash to bet against his securing a good deal out of em. tv"s difficulties. his dispute with the fia may then be easily resolved. as usual, he holds all the cards.

36. fia would give its partner the right to stage the racing till
a.mr. ecclestone gave all the money.
b.the contract time is reached.
c.the 100th year after 2010.
d.mr. ecclestone gave it 60m$.

37. the word “extortion”(last line, para 2 ) means

a.abjection
b.negotiation
c.cheating
d.racketeering

38. which statement is probably true?

a.mr. ecclestone just wanted to get more benefits through the em.tv sale.
b.mr. ecclestone wanted to give up the benefits from the contract.
c.the timing of the dispute is very improper.
d.mr. ecclestone cannot afford the money.

39. the last sentence of the passage implies

a.mr. ecclestone can win at cards.
b.mr. ecclestone will achieve great success in the negotiation.
c.mr. ecclestone cheated all his partners.
d.mr. eccestone will  lose the whole contract with fia.

40. according to the last paragraph, “he holds all the cards” as

a. he deploys to best advantage
b. he wins all the cards
c. he never fails himself
d. he takes the cards in hand

part b

directions:
    in the following text, some sentences have removed. for questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list a-g to fit into of the numbered blank there are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. mark your answers on answer sheet1. (10 points)

    after its misadventures in 1993, when american marines were driven out of somalia by skinny gunmen, america has used a long spoon in supping with somalia"s warlords. this, like so much else, changed on september 11th.(41)_____.

    clandestine, up to a point: within hours of the arrival in baidoa of nine closely cropped americans sporting matching satellite phones and shades, their activities were broadcast. after meeting various warlords, the group inspected a compound that had apparently been offered to them as their future base. they also saw an old military depot. neither can have been encouraging: the compound has been taken over by war-displaced families, and the depot by thorn-scrub.

    america was already convinced of al-qaeda"s presence in somalia. it had listed a somali islamic group, al-itihaad al-islamiya (islamic unity), as a terrorist organisation. (42)_____.

    it fears that lawless somalia could become a haven for escapes from afghanistan. the american navy is currently patrolling the country"s long coastline, while spy planes are said to be criss-crossing the heavens.

    (43)_____. with a little bit of help, he told his american visitors, he would be ready "to liberate the country from these evil forces". america had already heard as much through its embassies in nairobi and addis ababa, which maintain contact with the warlords, and from ethiopia.

    the warlords are supported by ethiopia, which has a historical fear of a strong somalia, in a bid to oppose the government. but their differing views on where to strike at the "terrorists" reveal that their individual ambitions are even sharper than their dislike of the government.

    mr ismail says that merca, which is claimed by his rahanwein clan, is the capital of terror. (44)____. the un says there is only an orphanage there now. but the island is close to mr morgan"s home town of kismaayo, which he failed to capture from a pro-government militia in july, and he is determined not to fail again.

    none of this looks good for somalia"s official president, abdiquassim salad hassan, whose government is in control of about half the capital, mogadishu. he has formed his own anti-terrorism unit, and invited america to send investigators, or even troops. america, armed with stories about the presence of al-itihaad members held back, but on december 18th sent an envoy to mogadishu.

    both mr hassan and the un say that al-itihaad is not a terrorist organisation. it emerged as an armed force in 1991, battling for power in the aftermath of siad barre"s fall. it had some early successes, briefly taking kismaayo. but it was always dependent on the blessing of its members" clan elders. when the elders eventually called their fighters back, a hard core of islamists fled to the gedo border region where, in 1997, they were crushed by ethiopian troops(45)_____.

    the baidoa alliance plainly hopes to be supported as proxies in a fight against "terrorism" and the mogadishu regime. but the latest intelligence leaks suggest that the first reports may have overestimated al-qaeda"s presence in somalia. nor would mr bin laden and his henchmen find it easy to lie low in an oral culture that considers rumour-mongering to be a form of manners. even so, the warlords seem to believe that they have won some promise of help. soon after the arrival of the american group, they pulled out of the peace talks they had been holding with their government in nairobi.

[a] al-itihaad subsequently infiltrated somalia"s business class, and now runs islamic schools, courts and clinics with the money it has accumulated.

[b] according to abdullahi sheikh ismail, the acting chairman of the loose alliance of warlords who control most of somalia and are based in baidoa, there are "approximately 20,480 armed extremists" in somalia and "85% of the government is al-itihaad".

[c]  muhammad hersi morgan, known as the "butcher of hargeisa" because he once razed that town to the ground, says an al-itihaad camp on ras kamboni island is still active.

[d]  but since september 11th 2001, western governments, anxious to prevent al-qaeda from using somalia as a base, have pressed the warlords to make peace.

[e]  american intelligence officers are working with two warlords to gather information about suspected al-qaeda people in somalia.

[f] on december 9th america
sent a clandestine mission to talk to a collection of somali warlords, who like to claim that their country, in particular their un-sponsored government, is overrun with terrorists.

[g] it had also forced the closure of barakaat, somalia"s biggest banking and telecoms company, which handles most of the remittances that somalis working abroad send back to their families.

part c
directions:
    read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into chinese. your translation should be written clearly on answer sheet2. (10points)

    "my early life", by winston churchill. eland, pounds 9.99

    winston churchill on peacekeeping among the pathans

    winston churchill, who fought on the afghan border in 1897, warned of the dangers of peacekeeping among the pathans, and of mixing politics and war

    (46)"except at harvest-time, when self-preservation enjoins a temporary truce, the pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war. every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. every large house is a real feudal fortress...with battlements, turrets [and] drawbridges. every village has its defence. every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud.

    "the numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one another. nothing is ever forgotten, and very few debts are left unpaid...(47)the life of the pathan is thus full of interest; and his valleys, nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water, are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse population.

    "into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts: the breech-loading rifle and the british government. the first was an enormous luxury and blessing; the second an unmitigated nuisance. the convenience of the breech-loading, and still more of the magazine rifle, was nowhere more appreciated than in the indian highlands.(48) a weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred yards opened a whole new vista of delights to every family or clan which could acquire it. one could actually remain in one"s own house and fire at one"s neighbour nearly a mile away...

    "the action of the british government on the other hand was entirely unsatisfactory. the great organising, advancing, absorbing power to the southward seemed to be little better than a monstrous spoil-sport.

    "no one would have minded these expeditions if they had simply come, had a fight and then gone away again...but towards the end of the nineteenth century these intruders began to make roads through many of the valleys...all along the road people were expected to keep quiet, not to shoot one another, and, above all, not to shoot at travellers along the road. (49)it was too much to ask, and a whole series of quarrels took their origin from this source...

    "the political officers who accompanied the force...were very unpopular with the army officers...(50)they were accused of the grievous crime of "shilly-shallying", which being interpreted means doing everything you possibly can before you shoot. we had with us a very brilliant political officer...who was much disliked because he always stopped military operations. just when we were looking forward to having a splendid fight and all the guns were loaded and everyone keyed up, [he] would come along and put a stop to it."

section ⅲ writing

part a

51. directions:

    you are just back from a tour and have some complaints to make about the tourist company. write a letter to the manager of the company which includes the following points: (1) the purposes of writing the letter;(2)the services you were not satisfactory with;(3)the hope that they can give you some compensation.

    write your letter using no less than 100 words. write it neatly on answer sheet2. do not sign your own name at the end of the letter, use “li ming” instead. you do not need to write the address. (10 points)

part b
52. study the picture above carefully and write an essay entitled “cars: should we love them or hate them?” in the essay, you should (1)describe the picture (2)interpret its meaning (3)give your opinion about the phenomenon.

    you should write about 200 words neatly on answer sheet2. (20 points)

2006考研英语模拟题一参考答案

section i use of english

1.答案d. fiction

    句意: 小说类的作品中

    解析: 本题测试点为词义辨析。a意为“文学作品”； b意为记叙文”；c意为“故事”、“小说”；d意为“小说”；。在本题中，根据句意需要选用的是表达“小说”这个意思，c和d都符合，但是这段中间有non-fiction，表示畅销书的另一类，因此应选d。

2.答案b. from

    句意：从恐怖小说到凯瑟琳·米勒的《凯瑟琳·m的性生活》全都榜上有名

    解析：本题测试点为句意理解和固定词组搭配。a. c d都是“关于”的意思。根据句意以及后面介词“to”可知，应该是“from…to… ”这个固定搭配的介词短语，因此选b。

3.答案a. both

    句意:这部小说既被赞美为”高雅艺术”,又被讽刺为高级色情文学。

    解析：本题测试点为句意理解和并列连词的用法。b. equally意为“同等地”，但是“高雅艺术”和“高级色情文学”并不能被称作“同等”。 d意为“一起”。根据句意以及后面的连词and可推断应选a，是固定搭配，表示既……又……。

4.答案c. derided　

    句意：见3　

    解析：本题测试点为上下文理解和词义辨析。a意为“被认可为”； b意为“被夸赞为”；c意为“被讽刺为”； d意为“被斥责为”。又后面的“色情文学”一词可知应该选表负面意义的动词，所以应在c、d里选，但由upmarket可以推断这是讽刺说法，应该选c。

5. 答案c

    句意：还有一些小说是关于现代生活中一些另人费解的问题：善与恶，信仰与科学。

    解析：本题测试点为词义辨析及固定搭配。a意为“尝试”；b意为“处理”； d. 意为“谈论”；c意为“处理”。b、c、d都有相关意思，但b后应加介词with,d后应加介词about。因此正确答案为c。

6. 答案a

    句意：见5　

    解析：本题测试点为西方文化中常用的一些对比词语。a、 b、、c、 d都有“恶”的意思，但一般来说，good相对应的是evil，应选a。

7.答案d　

    句意：在非小说类中哲学主题还在继续着　

    解析：本题测试点为词义辨析。a意为“主题、话题”； b　意为“主意”； c意为“论点”； d意为“主题”。a和c在这里都可以，但一般作品的主题都用theme，所以结合语境应该选d。

8.答案a　

    句意：本周由michel onfray的《哲学反手工》荣登榜首。

    解析：本题测试点为词义辨析。a. topped 意为“由……占据最前头”，例如： she topped the list.她排名第一；b. covered意为“由……覆盖”； c. overdone意为“被……超过”； d. surpassed意为“被……超过”。根据句意，应选a。

9.答案d 　

    句意：这是关于哲学永无休止的争论的作品。

    解析：本题测试点为介词用法。根据句意，此处介词应表达“关于”的意思，四个介词中只有on有这个意思，因此选d。

10.答案b

    句意：法国最受欢迎的２０世纪小说调查　

    解析：本题测试点为词义辨析。根据后面括号里的句子可以推断出是所添词语是“最受欢迎”的意思，a意为“好的”；c意为“招人喜爱的”；  d意为“另人满意的”，根据句意，应选b。

11.答案b　

    句意：从题目开始就穿插着beigbeder先生的招牌式幽默了　

    解析：本题测试点为动词词组的固定搭配，因为handl with这个固定搭配，而其他动词相应的搭配没有这个意思，应该选b。

12.答案b　

    句意：见11　

    解析：本题测试点为词义辨析，在中国有一个词叫“招牌式的……”，这句话就是表达这个意思。cd是形容词，意思是“明显的”；a是名字意思为“品牌”；b意思为“商标”，还有一个意思是“人的特征”，这个词用在这里最为恰当，意思是特有的幽默。

13.答案a

   句意：主要的成分

   解析：本题测试点为名词词义辨析，a意为“成分”；b意为“构造”；c意为“部分”；d意为“因素”，根据句意，选项a最为恰当。

14.答案c 

    句意：一位国内著名的厨师　

    解析：本题测试点为句意理解和逻辑推断。根据后recipes)一词，可以推断应该是“厨师”，所以应选c，其他几个都不合适。

15.答案c

    句意：他最新的菜谱集名列榜首　

    解析：本题测试点为词义辨析，这四个词都是指“集子”的意思，但所指不同，a意为“一套”，通常用来形容设备； b. 意为“文选”，指正式作品集子； d. 意为“歌曲集”、“唱片”； c意为“合集”。因此，应该选c。

16.答案b

    句意：位居第二　

    解析：本题测试点为句意理解和固定搭配。in second place意为“第二名”；a侧重表示职位、级别； c意为“点”，d意为“地位”。 因此，应该选b。

17.答案：c

    句意：她到意大利遍布阳光的山脉区种植自己的橄榄

    解析：本题测试点为动词短语固定搭配，take oneself off 意为“去、到”，因此应该选c。

18.答案d

    句意：就在法国边境处。

    解析：本题测试点为介词用法。a意为“在……上面”； b意为“在……周围”；c.意为“在……周围”；d意为“横过……”。根据句意，应该选d。

19.答案a

    句意：正如其一般功用　

    解析：本题测试点为副词短语的固定搭配。as usual表示“照例”，因此选a。

20.答案a　

    句意：《火焰杯》依旧闪耀位居第三　

    解析：　本题测试点为形容词词义辨析。a 意为“闪亮的”； b意为“强烈的”； c.意为“眼花缭乱的”； d.　意为“灿烂的”。a与burning搭配比较恰当，应选a。

section ii reading comprehension

part a

text 1
21. d 22．b 23．a 24．c 25．b

text 2
26．c 27．d 28．a 29．d 30．b

text 3
31．a 32．c 33．d 34．d．35．a

text 4
36．b 37．d 38．a  39．b 40. c

part b

[总体分析]

    本篇介绍的是911事件后美国对索马里政策以及索马里内部军阀政策的转变。文章从美国的举措、索马里军阀的反应和举措等方面进行记叙。就本篇文章而言，理请思路，分清美国和索马里军阀不同的举措是非常重要的。

[详细解答]

    41.f  本段主要讲述美国911事件前索马里采取的政策，然后引出911事件后政策的改变。从上文中“this, like so much else, changed on september 11th.”可以推断，接下来讲的应该是事件后的举措。 [d[]e[f]似乎都于事件后举措有关，但[d]讲的是西方国家总体的策略，而[e]讲的是美国情报人员的具体行动，只有[f]讲的是美国举措，而且下面一段讲的就是这个举措的具体情况。因此f与上文内容相吻合。

    42.g 本段上文讲的是美国将伊斯兰极端主义组织定为恐怖组织，下文是说美国担心索马里会成为逃亡人员的避难所，以及美国海军、侦察机的行动。[a]讲的是有关伊斯兰极端主义组织的情况，似乎和上文可以接起来，但由 “al-itihaad subsequently infiltrated somalia"s business class”句中subsequently（随后，后来）可以推断这句话前面应该是说该组织最初的一些情况，和上文it had listed a somali islamic group, al-itihaad al-islamiya (islamic unity), as a terrorist organisation.就不符合了。再仔细分析一下，这部分仍旧讲的是美国的在不同方面实施的一些行动和举措，而且中间几个句子都用it作主语，回头看一下几个选项，[g]讲的也是一些举措，并且主语为it，符合这段的行文和逻辑意思。

    43.[b]  本题空白处是一段的开头，下文讲的是某个人的看法，而前一段讲的是美国采取的行动，并未提到什么人，所以可以推断空白处应该是第一次讲述有关这个人的情况，[b][c]都提到了人物，再具体看他们所说的话。[b]说的是there are "approximately 20,480 armed extremists" in somalia and "85% of the government is al-itihaad"，[c]说的是an al-itihaad camp on ras kamboni island is still active，而根据下文说的he would be ready "to liberate the country from these evil forces"可知上文提到的应该是许多势力，而[c]中只是一个“基地”阵营而已，所以[b]与下文内容符合。

    44.[c]  本题的上文讲的是关于梅尔卡市目前的情况，而下文是联合国对于该城市的某个情况的了解，后面又提到了这个岛屿和kismaayo较近，可以推断空白处应该也是关于这个城市的内容，选项中只有[c]提到了ras kamboni island，和下文吻合。而且an al-itihaad camp on ras kamboni island is still active 这句话正是对上文的一个解释，所以[c]是正确答案。

    45.[a]  本题上文讲的是有关al-itihaad组织的情况，因此空白处应该也是这方面内容，所有选项中只有[a]提及了这个组织，讲的是这个组织后来和目前的情况，而上文讲的正好是该组织过去的状况，正好吻合。所以[a]是正确答案。

part c

    46帕坦部族通常不是内部进行私斗，就是陷入公共战争，只有收割的季节才能停息，那时自我保护意识暂时告一段落。

    47因此，帕坦人的生活中充满了利害关系。另一方面，由于有着取之不竭的阳光，充沛的水源，那里的山谷肥沃富饶，再加上人口稀少，不需要什么劳作就可以满足起码的物质需求。

    48一支可在1500码远的地方精确射杀的武器开辟了全新的局面，每个能够得到的家族、部落都欢欣鼓舞。

    49这些要求有点过了头，一系列的争端也由此而起。

    50他们被指控犯下了滔天罪行——“拖延”，就是说把能做的事情都做完了才开火。

section ⅲ writing

part a

51.
dear sir,

    i am writing to you to express my dissatisfaction with one of your tours that i took over the national day holiday. i participated in the 7-day tour of yunnan (tour code yn10).

    there were two things that i was particularly disappointed with. first, the hotel accommodation did not in any way resemble the pictures we were shown prior to the tour. the rooms were unclean and dark. second, the guide did not accompany us throughout the whole tour, as advertised. frequently, we had to fend for ourselves.

    given the above, i feel entitled to a partial refund of the tour fee, to compensate for the lower quality accommodation and partial absence of a tour guide.

    yours faithfully,

    li ming

part b

52.
cars: should we love them or hate them?

    in the picture, there are some statistics showing the cars number in china from 1980 to 2002. from the statistics, we can see that the number of cars has increased drastically since the turn of the millennium.

    the statistics indicate that there is a higher and higher demand for cars nowadays. ten years ago, the car was a real luxury for most of the people in china. owning a car seemed to be a dream too far away to realize. however, this luxury is now becoming somewhat of a necessity to many people. from this phenomenon, a conclusion can be reached that the living standards of the people have improved by a big margin. cars make our life more convenient. however, good dreams may sometimes turn to be nightmares. many problems accompany the increasing numbers of cars. there are more and more accidents which can bring disaster to many families. the city traffic is in chaos and traffic jams have become a part of our daily life. air pollution and noise pollution caused by cars do harm to our health. people who loved cars so much before have begun to hate these annoying machines.

    in fact, all things have dual characters. what we should do is to reduce the influence of the negative one to the minimum. it is true that cars have brought a lot of problems to our life. however, many measures can be taken to tackle them. more roads and overpasses can be built. some improvements can be made to reduce the volume of the exhaust air. i believe that everybody will love cars one day in the future.

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