考研英语（二）2012年考试真题（含参考答案）.doc

1、鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！2012 考研英语二真题完整版：Section 1 Use of EninglishDirections :Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy ,the symbol of American military adventurism, but thats not how it used to be .To the men and women who 1 )in World War II and the people they libera

2、ted ,the GI.was the 2) man grown into hero ,the pool farm kid torn away from his home ,the guy who 3) all the burdens of battle ,who slept in cold foxholes,who went without the 4) of food and shelter ,who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder .this was not a volunteer soldier ,not som

3、eone well paid ,5) an average guy ,up 6 )the best trained ,best equipped ,fiercest ,most brutal enemies seen in centuries.His name is not much.GI. is just a military abbreviation 7) Government Issue ,and it was on all of the article 8) to soldiers .And Joe? A common name for a guy who never 9) it to

4、 the top .Joe Blow ,Joe Magrac a working class name.The United States has 10) had a president or vicepresident or secretary of state Joe.GI .joe had a (11)career fighting German ,Japanese , and Korean troops . He appers as a character ,or a (12 ) of american personalities, in the 1945 movie The Stor

5、y of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle(13)portrayde themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the (14)side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were(15)or what towns were captured or liberate

6、d, His reports(16)the “willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men(17)the dirt and exhaustion of war, the (18)of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. (19)Egypt, France, and a dozen more countr

7、ies, G.I. Joe was any American soldier,(20)the most important person in their lives.1.A performed Bserved Crebelled Dbetrayed2.A actual Bcommon Cspecial Dnormal3.Abore Bcased Cremoved Dloaded4.Anecessities Bfacilitice Ccommodities Dpropertoes5.Aand Bnor Cbut Dhence6.Afor Binto C form Dagainst7.Amean

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9、military Cpolitical Dhuman15.Aruined Bcommuted Cpatrolled Dgained鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！16.Aparalleled Bcounteracted Cduplicated Dcontradicted17.Aneglected Bavoided Cemphasized Dadmired18.Astages Billusions Cfragments Dadvancea19.AWith BTo CAmong DBeyond20.Aon the contrary B by this means Cfrom

10、the outset Dat that pointSection II Resdiong ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. answer the question after each text by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)Text 1Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but

11、 in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced cour

12、ses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a students academic grade.This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assign

13、ed that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.District administrat

14、ors say that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some students might do

15、 well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across

16、-the-board rule.At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely,

17、if homework does nothing to ensure that the homework students are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and

18、conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_.A is receiving more criticismBis no longer an educational ritualCis not required for advanced coursesDis gaining more preferences22.L.A.Unified has made the rule

19、 about homework mainly because poor students_.Atend to have moderate expectations for their education Bhave asked for a different educational standardCmay have problems finishing their homework Dhave voiced their complaints about homework23.According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is tha

20、t it may_.Adiscourage students from doing homework Bresult in students indifference to their report cardsCundermine the authority of state testsDrestrict teachers power in education24. As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether_. A it should be eliminatedBit cou

21、nts much in schoolingCit places extra burdens on teachersDit is important for grades25.A suitable title for this text could be_.AWrong Interpretation of an Educational PolicyBA Welcomed Policy for Poor StudentsCThorny Questions about HomeworkDA Faulty Approach to HomeworkText2Pretty in pink: adult w

22、omen do not rememer being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls lives. Tt is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls identity to appearance

23、. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls lives and interests.Girls attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA,

24、but according to 鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting c

25、lothes clean was to boil them. Whats more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of

26、the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant childrens marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined th

27、em as female, at least for the first few critical years.I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kins, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed afte

28、r years of research into childrens behaviour: wrong. Turns out, acdording to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacrurers in the 1930s.Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should

29、 create a “third stepping stone” between infant wear and older kids clothes. Tt was only after “toddler”became a common shoppers term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults,into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And on

30、e of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences or invent them where they did not previously exist.26.By saying “it is.the rainbow“(Line 3, Para.1),the author means pink_.Ashould not be the sole representation of girlhoodBshould not be associated with girls innocenceCcanno

31、t explain girls lack of imaginationDcannot influence girls lives and interests27.According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours？AColours are encoded in girls DNA.BBlue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.CPink used to be a neutral colour in symbolising genders.DWhite is

32、prefered by babies.28.The author suggests that our perception of childrens psychological development was much influenced by_.Athe marketing of products for childrenBthe observation of childrens natureCresearches into childrens behaviorDstudies of childhood consumption鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！29.We

33、 may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to_.Afocus on infant wear and older kids clothesBattach equal importance to different genders Cclassify consumers into smaller groupsDcreate some common shoppers terms30.It can be concluded that girls attraction to pink seems to be_.A c

34、learly explained by their inborn tendencyBfully understood by clothing manufacturersC mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmenDwell interpreted by psychological expertsText 3In 2010. a federal judge shook Americas biotech industry to its core.Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades

35、 by 2005 some 20% of human genes were parented. But in March 2010 a judge ruled that genes were unpatentable. Executives were violently agitated. The Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO), a trade group, assured members that this was just a “preliminary step” in a longer battle.On July 29th they

36、 were relieved, at least temporarily. A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed holb patents to two genss that help forecast a womans risk of breast cancer. The chief executive of Myriad, a company in Utah,said the ruling was a blessing to firms

37、and patients alike.But as companies continue their attempts at personalised medicine, the courts will remain rather busy. The Myriad case itself is probably not over Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppres

38、s innovation rather than reward it; and patents monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriads. A growing number seem to agree.Last year a federal taskforce urged reform for patents 鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！related to genetic tests. In October the Department of Justice filed a briefin

39、 the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule “is no less a product of nature. than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds. ” Despite the appeals courts decision, big questions remain unanswered. For example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome viol

40、ates the patents of indivi dual genes within it. The case may yet reach the Supreme Court.AS the industry advances ,however,other suits may have an even greater panies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA molecules-most are already patented or in the public domain .firms are now stud

41、ying how genes intcract,looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drugs efficacy,companies are eager to win patents for connecting the dits,expaains hans sauer,alawyer for the BIO.Their success may be determined by a suit related to this issue, broug

42、ht by the Mayo Clinic, which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term. The BIO rtcently held a convention which included seddions to coach lawyers on the shifting landscape for patents. Each meeting was packed.31.it canbe learned from paragraph I that the biotech companies would like-A.their exe

43、cutives to be activeB.judges to rule out gene patentingC.genes to be patcntablc D.the BIO to issue a warning32.those who are against gene patents believe that-A.genetic tests are not reliableB.only man-made products are patentable C.patents on genes depend much on innovatiaon D.courts should restric

44、t access to gene tic tests33.according to hans sauer ,companies are eager to win patents for-A.establishing disease comelationsB.discovering gene interactionsC.drawing pictures of genesD.identifying human DNA34By saying “each meeting was packed”(line4,para6)the author means that -A.the supreme court

45、 was authoritativeB.the BIO was a powerful organizationC.gene patenting was a great concernD.lawyers were keen to attend conventiongs鲤鱼网（http:/）成功在于执着，鲤鱼网祝大家成功！35.generally speaking ,the authors attitude toward gene patenting is-A.criticalB.supportiveC.scornfulD.objectiveText 4The great recession ma

46、y be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. And ultimately, it is likely to reshape our politics,our culture, and the character of our society for years.No one tries harder tha

47、n the jobless to find silver linings in this national economic disaster. Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others. In limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off. At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.But for the most part, these benefits seem thin, uncert