考研英语-536

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考研英语-536
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After yuppies and dinkies, a new creature from adland stalks the block. The NYLON. an acronym linking New York and London, is a refinement of those more familiar categories such as jet-setters and cosmocrats (cosmopolitan aristocrats...do keep up). Marketing professionals have noted that (1) the demise of Concorde, a new class of high-earner increasingly (2) his or her time shuttling (3) the twin capitals of globalisation And NYLONS prefer their home comforts (4) tap in both cities. Despite the impressive (5) of air miles, they are not adventurous people.
As (6) from Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe of the 1980s. NYLONS have done more than well (7) the long boom and new economy of the last ten years. They are DJs. chefs, games designers. Internet entrepreneurs, fashionistas, publishers and even a (8) band of journalists and writers. They are self-consciously trendy and some are even able to (9) houses
A. regardless of
B. even though
C. although
D. despite
[简答题]
While much of the attention on fighting AIDS and other diseases in poor countries has focused on access to affordable drugs, concern is now shifting to the question of who exactly, will deliver them. Unfortunately, there is a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and other health-care workers in these countries. According to a report published in this week’s Lancet by the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), an international consortium of academic centres and development agencies, sub-Saharan Africa has only one-tenth the number Of nurses and doctors per head of population that Europe does, though its health-care problems are far mom pressing. (47) The reasons for this are tw07fold, and well known—not enough health-care workers are trained in the fast place, and too many of those who are trained then leave for better-paid jobs in the rich world. What the report does is to put some numbers on these problems.
A mere 5,000 doctors, it finds, graduate in Africa ea
[填空题]
[A] The next logical step is to automate the physical process of cutting the diamond, and Dr Holden seems to have found the ideal partner. He is talking to Calibrated Diamonds. a company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. about combining his optimisation techniques with an advanced laser-cutting system. Traditionally, diamonds are cut and polished using other diamonds. But m recent years, lasers have been introduced to make rough cuts and m carry, out "bruting", the bevelling process used to give diamonds their characteristic sharp-edged shapes. John Bond. the founder of Calibrated Diamonds, says his laser-cutting method can make much more precise cuts and can even polish diamonds, though he is reluctant to explain how it works. He believes that combining his laser-cutting with Dr Holden’s software, and automating the whole process, could both reduce waste dramatically and cut the turnaround time from months to days. "Currently, people are losing up to 70%
[单项选择]NASA launched the first space mission to Pluto yesterday as a powerful rocket hurled the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to the edge of the solar system
As it soared toward a 2007 meeting with Jupiter, whose powerful gravitational field will shoot it on its way to Pluto. mission managers said radio communications confirmed that the 1,054-pound craft was in good health.
The $700 million mission began when a Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket rose from a launching pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 2 p.m., almost an hour later than planned because of low clouds that obscured a clear view of the flight path by tracking cameras.
Less than an hour later, all three stages of the booster rocket worked as planned, and the spacecraft separated from them and sprinted away toward deep space. The robot ship sped away at about 36,000 miles per hour, the fastest flight of any spacecraft sent from Earth. allowing it to pass the Moon
A. describing a situation
B. justifying an assumption
C. making a comparison
D. presenting a phenomenon
[简答题]Directions:
Study the picture above carefully and write an essay entitled "On the Essential Responsibility of the Professor". In the essay, you should (1) describe the pictures; (2) interpret their meaning; (3) give your opinion about the phenomenon.
You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
[单项选择]What an elegant party! The Press Complaints Commission’s glittering bash this week m celebrate its tenth anniversary was the nearest London gets to high society. In a gathering too close m imitate for comfort, the PCC succeeded in bringing together Prince William, the heir to the throne, his father, Prince Charles, the royal mistress. Camilla Parker-Bowles. as well as pop stars, super-models, cabinet ministers, senior civil servants and other admirers.
The one thing this different group had in common was that most of them had sought the protection of the PCC over the past decade. Their principal tormentors, the editors of the nation’s tabloid newspapers, were there in force to greet their victims, so it was not surprising that a certain tremble swirled around the party.
That so many prominent upper circles turned up to devour the PCC’s canape5 and rub shoulders with the royals is. no doubt, a triumph for its chairman. Lord Wakeham. He can fairly claim to have restored confide
A. Price William was there
B. PCC succeeded in bringing together so many personalities
C. PCC was celebrating
D. it was too close to parody
[单项选择]Charles Reznikoff (1894～1976) worked relentlessly, never leaving New York but for a brief stay in Hollywood, of all places. He was admired by Pound and Kenneth Burke. and often published his own works; in the Depression era, he managed a treadle printing press in his basement. He wrote three sorts of poems: exceptionally short imagistic lyrics; longer pieces crafted and cobbled from other sources, often from the Judaic tradition: and book-length poems wrought from the testimony both of Holocaust trials and from the courtrooms of mm-of-the-century America. Two of these full-length volumes were indeed titled Testimony, as was an earlier prose work; it was a word that kept him close company. When asked late in life to define his poetry, it was not the word he chose.
"Objectivist,’ he wrote, naming his longstanding group, and mimicking poetic style with a single prose sentence: "images clear but the meaning not stated but suggested by the objective details and the music of the
A. A．1 ), the author implies______. Charles Reznikoff always wrote works about testimonyB. Charles Reznikoff was always involved in the testimony affairsC. Charles Reenikoff liked to write testimonyD. Charles Reznikoff is a busy lawyer
[单项选择]Caution seems the watchword among the institutional investors surveyed in our latest portfolio poll. The allocation of money between equities, bonds and cash has. on average, remained at the same levels as it did during the third quarter. While Lehman Brothers and Commerz International have increased their overall equity allocations. Daiwa has increased its bond allocation. But given the slowdown in the American economy, it is the reaction of our investors to American equity holdings that is worthy of note.
While three of them. including Lehman Brothers, take a dim view of the prospects for American shares, the other four have either marginally increased their allocations, or have maintained them at the same levels as in the previous quarter. Lehman Brothers seems to have decided that the prospect for German shares is better than it is for American ones. Its allocation for American equities dropped by seven percentage points, to 45% of its equity holdings; while its German share p
A. has increased its equity and bond allocation in America
B. pays less attention to the equity holdings because of the American economy’s slowdown
C. is pessimistic about the American prospect and cautious about its allocation
D. is as bearish as other institutional investors