2000年考研英語(yǔ)試題及答案

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20、s but,ifproperlyhandled,itmayscanbeadreadfulhandicap, eadrivingforce.WhentheSesenteredjustsuchaperiodoftheWorld War, i itsindustries worldsbest, dTextAhistoryoflongandeffortles but,ifproperlyhandled,itmayscanbeadreadfulhandicap, eadrivingforce.WhentheSesenteredjustsuchaperiodoftheWorld War, i itsind

21、ustries worldsbest, damarketeighttimesnanycompetitor,unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the thedreamsoftheEuropeansandAsianswhoseeconomiesthe war had Itwastthisprimacyshouldhavenarrowedascountriesgrewricher.Justasinevitably,theretreatfrompredominance provedpainful.Bythemid-1980sAme

22、ricanshadfoundthemselvesataloss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one SouthKoreasLGElectronicsinJuly.)Foreign-madecarsandwereothedomesticmarket.Americasmachine-toolwas on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making s

23、emiconductors,whichAmericahadinventedandwhichof the new computer age, was going to be the next theprosperity franted.Theybegantobe business was failing, andt theirttheirwayes would therefore ofallaswell.Themid-1980sbroughtoneinquiryafteranother o the causes of Americas industrial decline. Their some

24、times sensational findings were filled with warnings about the competition from Howthingshavechanged!In1995theUnitedescanlookbackfiveyearsofsolidgrowthwhileJapanhasbeenstruggling.FewAmericans turning ofthebusinesscycle.Self-syieldedtoblind“Americanindustryhaschangeditsstructure,hasgoneonadiet,has le

25、arntto be more quick-witted,” according to Richard Cavanagh,executivedeanofHarvardsKennedySchoolernment.“ItmeproudtobeanAmericanjusttoseehowourbusinessesaretheir productivity,” says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, inWashington,DC.AndWilliamSahlmanoftheHarvardBusiness tpeoplewilllookbackonthispe

26、riodas“aage of business he United id made painstaking efforts towards this domestic market was eight times nthewarhaddestroyedtheeconomiesofmostpotentialtheunparalleledsizeofitsworkforcehadgivenanimpetusto its economyThelossofU.S.id made painstaking efforts towards this domestic market was eight tim

27、es nthewarhaddestroyedtheeconomiesofmostpotentialtheunparalleledsizeofitsworkforcehadgivenanimpetusto its economyThelossofU.S.heworldhe1980she t the American TVindustry had withdrawn to its domestic semiconductor industry had been taken over by machine-toolindustryhadcollapsedaftersuicidalauto indus

28、try had lost part of its domestic What can be inferred from the AItishumannaturetoshiftnself-doubtandblindensecompetition may contribute to economic CTherevivaloftheeconomydependsernationalD A long history of s may pave the way for The author seems to be 1990scanbeattributedvetherevivaloftheU.S.econ

29、omy to the turningofthebusinessrestructuring of industry improvedbusinessmanagements in TextBeingamanhasalwaysbeendangerous.Thereareabout105males every100females,butthisratiodropstonearbalanceatofmaturity,andamong70-year-oldstherearetwiceasmanywomenButthegreatuniversalofmalemortalityisbeing rvivealm

30、ostaswellasgirlsdo.Thismeanschanged.Now,boy t, for thelyearswhentime,therewillbeansofhosearesearching for a mate. More important, another chance for selectionhasbeenremoved.Fiftyyearsago,theofababy(particularlyaboybaby)survivingdependedonitsweight. Akilogramtoolightortooheavymeantalmostcertaindeath.

31、Todayit makesalmostnodifference.Sincemuchofthevariationselectionhasbeenremoved.Fiftyyearsago,theofababy(particularlyaboybaby)survivingdependedonitsweight. Akilogramtoolightortooheavymeantalmostcertaindeath.Todayit makesalmostnodifference.Sincemuchofthevariationisduetogenes, one more agent of evoluti

32、on has gone.Thereisanotherwaytocommitevolutionarysuicide:stayalive,havefewerchildren.Fewpeopleareasfertilehepast.Except children.Nowadays e average. Mostinsomereligiouscommunities, the number of births, like of us have roughly the saof death, hasmber of Again, differen selection to taken people and

33、the opportunity for advantage of ve shows what is happening. The hegreatcitiesandpovertyforthe mediocrityoftoday-everyonecountryofferswealthforathe same tribalpeoples.Thein survival and number of offspring - tnatural haslost80%erinupper-middle-to the Forus,thismeans arrived. Strangely, tevolutioniso

34、ver;theUtopias involved little physical change. No speciesfillssomanyinnature.hepass100,000-eventhepass100years -ourliveshavebeentransformedbutour bodieshavenot.Wedidnotevolve,becausemachinesandsocietydidforus.Darwin “l(fā)ook at an hadaphrasetodescribethoseignorantofevolution:they anicbeingasasavageloo

35、ksataship,asathis .” No doubt we will remember a centurywayofforitsugliness.ButamazedourdescendantsmaybeathowfarfromUtopiawewere,theywill look just like us.Whatusedtobethedangerinbeingamanaccordingtothe Alack of mates. fierce competition. lowersurvivalrate.defective What does the leWealthypeopletend

36、tohavefewernpoorNatural selection hardly works among the rich and the The middle class population is 80% nt of is one of the countries veryhigh birth The author t our bodies have stopped evolving lifehas been improved by technological number of abies has been specieshasreachedthehigheststageofdiffer

37、ence n ndis one of the countries veryhigh birth The author t our bodies have stopped evolving lifehas been improved by technological number of abies has been specieshasreachedthehigheststageofdifference n ndpoverty is Which of the following would be the best title for the SexRatioChangesinHumanEvolu

38、tion Ways of Continuing Mans Evolution The Evolutionary Future of NatureHuman Evolution Going TextWhen a new movement in artainsacertainfashion,itisadvisable tofindoutwhatitsadvocatesareaimingat,for,howeverandunreasonabletheirprinciplesmayseemtoday,ittinyearstocometheymayberegardedasnormal.Withregar

39、dtoFuturist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever poetrymaybe-eventthetheoryonwhichitisbasedbe right - it can hardly be classed as This, in brief, is what the Futurist says; for a century, past inaworldofnoiseandspeed.Consequently,ourthoughts and emotions have undergone a corre

40、sponding change. This speedingupoflife,saystheFuturist,requiresanewformofexpres.Wemustpouroutalargestreamofessentialwords,eredbyorqualifyingadjectives,orfiniteverbs.Insteadofdescribingwemustmakeuptethem;wemustusemanysizesofanddifferentcoloredinksonthesamepage,andshortenorlengthenwords at will.Certai

41、nlytheirdescriptionsofbattlesareconfused.Butitislittleupsettingtoheexplanatorytacertaindescribes a fight bet nTurkishandaBulgarianofficeronaotheriver-andthentotthethe officers: “Pluff! Pluff! dred and eighty-five canhardlybeclassedasLiterature.Allsame,nothinkingthe officers: “Pluff! Pluff! dred and

42、eighty-five canhardlybeclassedasLiterature.Allsame,nothinkingmancan t a great change in .Thewholequestionrefuse to accept emotionallifecallsforachangeofreally this: ssentially Thismainly newapproachestoFuturist a a about merits of the Futurist about laws and requirements of Whenanovelliteraryideaapp

43、ears,peopletrydetermine its itsnewt we must increasetheproductionofuse poetry to vemodern develop avoid modes of adjectivesand author t Futurist poetry is based on reasonable new and acceptable to ordinary indicative of basic change in human nature more of a transient phenomenonnliteratureTextess ha

44、s hardly been typical of twar Japan productivityandlharmonyaretheenvyoftheUnitedesEurope. But increasingly the are seeing a decline of traditional work-moral values. Ten years ago young people were hardworkingandsawtheirjobsastheirprimaryreasonforbeing,nowJapanhaslargelyfulfilleditseconomicneeds,you

45、ng people dont know where they should go Thecomingofageoftwarbabyboomandanentryofthe male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities teenagers who are already questioning involvedinclimbingJapansrigidso jobs.Inarecentsurvey,itwasfoundthe al lladdernowJapanhaslargelyfulfilleditseconomicneeds

46、,young people dont know where they should go Thecomingofageoftwarbabyboomandanentryofthe male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities teenagers who are already questioning involvedinclimbingJapansrigidso jobs.Inarecentsurvey,itwasfoundthe al lladdertogoodschoolsand tonly24.5percentofJapa

47、students were fully satisfied with school life, compared with percentofes.Inaddition,farmoreworkers expressed dissatisfaction with their n did he 10 other Whileoftenpraisedbyforeignersforitsemphasisonthebasics, educationtendstostresstesttakingandmechanicalovercreativity and self-.“Thosetdonotshowhet

48、estscores-ality,ability,courageorhumanity-yignored,”saysToshikiKaifu,chairmanoftherulingDemocratic Partys education committee. “Frustration against this kind of thing leads kids to drop out and run wild.” Last year experienced2,125incidentsof,including929onteachers.Amidthery,manyconservativeleadersa

49、reseekingreturn to the prewar emphasis on moral education. Last year Mitsuo Setoyama,whowastheneducationminister,raisedeyebrowswhenheargued t liberal reformsroduced by the American occupation authoritiesafterWorldWarIIhadweakenedthe“Japa moralityofrespecttmayhavemoretodowithlife-styles.“Insayseducat

50、orYokoMuro,“itsneveraquestionofwhetheryouenjoy yourjobandyourlife,butonlyhowmuchyoucanendure.”Witheconomic growthhascomecentralization;fully76percentofJapans119million citizensliveincitieswherecommunityandtheextendedfamilyhavebeen abandoned in favor of isolated, two-generation households. havelongen

51、duredlengthycommutes(travelstoandfromandcrowdedlivingconditions,butasthegroupandfamilyvalues he past decade, weaken, fort is beginning divorcerate,whilestillwelltoftheUnitedhas increased by moren50percent,andsuicideshaveincreasedby nearly one-quarter.twar Japan was he Westerners eyes, A under aimles

52、s B itive a rival to the on the Accordingtotheauthor,whatmaychieflyberesponsibleformoral decline of Womens participation in lactivities is More workers are dissatisfied their jobs. onthebasics.by Western sive The life-style has been been Which thefollowing l is true according to the ispraisedforthey

53、ounga rival to the on the Accordingtotheauthor,whatmaychieflyberesponsibleformoral decline of Womens participation in lactivities is More workers are dissatisfied their jobs. onthebasics.by Western sive The life-style has been been Which thefollowing l is true according to the ispraisedfortheyoungcl

54、imbischaracterizedbymechanicallearningas stressshouldbeplacedonthecultivationofout to frustration against test The change in life-style he tyoung are tolerant Japan forts rate the n te their present TextIfambitionistobedistinction,controloveronesdestiny-mustbedeemedworthyofthe madeonambitionsbehalf.

55、Ifthetraditionofambitiontohavevitality,itmustbewidelyshared;usthighlyregardedbypeoplewhoarethemselvesadmired,theeducatednot leastamongthem.Inanoddway,however,itistheeducatedwhoclaimedtohavegivenuponambitionasanideal.Whatisoddttheyhave own then perhapsmostbenefitedfromambition-ifnotalwaystheir tofthe

56、irparentsandgrandparents.Thereisheavynoteof his,acaseofclosingthebarndoorafterthehorseshaved -with the educated themselves riding on erestedinsanditsnow nformerly.Summerhomes,Europeantravel,BMWs-thelocations,placenamesandnamebrandsmaychange,butsuchitems donotseemlessindemandtoday nadecadeortwoyearsa

57、go.What hashappenedis t peoplecannotconfessfullytotheirdreams,now nformerly.Summerhomes,Europeantravel,BMWs-thelocations,placenamesandnamebrandsmaychange,butsuchitems donotseemlessindemandtoday nadecadeortwoyearsago.What hashappenedis t peoplecannotconfessfullytotheirdreams,as easily and openly as o

58、nce they could, lest they be thought pushing,ofand vulgar. Instead, we are treated to fine whichnowmore materialismneverseemlesupply:themptonsummerhome;theof radical books who his hree-star restaurants; journalist advocatingparticipatorydemocracy inallphases oflife, many more perhaps not so exceptio

59、nal, the proper formulation is, “Succeed at all costs but avoid appearing ambitious.”Theattacksonambitionaremanyandcomefromvariousangles;its unattractive.Asaresult,thesupportforambitionasahealthyaqualitytobeadmiredandhemindoftheyoung,isnseverheUnitedes.Thisdoesnotambition is at an end, promptings, b

60、ut only professed. Consequentambitionist people no longer feel its stirrings and nolongeropenlyhonored,itislessfollowfromthis,ofcourse,someofwhichare underground,ormadesly.Such,then,isthethingsstand:ontheleftangrycritics,ontherightthemiddle,asusual,themajorityofearnestpeopletrying in life.is general