MBA英语试卷5A.doc

此文档收集于网络，如有侵权，请联系网站删除启用前绝密2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试管理类专业硕士学位联考英语试卷5A考生须知1. 考生答题前严格遵守各项考场规则，得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。2. 答题前，考生应将答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、“考生编号”等信息填写清楚，并与准考证上的一致。3. 本试题含有综合填空、阅读理解、英译汉、写作五个部分，综合填空、阅读理解的答案必须用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡1上，如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净，用其它笔填涂的或做在试卷上的答案无效。英译汉、写作部分必须用蓝（黑）钢笔或圆珠笔在答题卡2上答题，注意字迹清楚。凡做在试卷上或未做在指定位置的答案无效。4. 答题卡严禁折叠，考试结束后，按监考人员指令交卷。交卷时，请配合监考人员验收，并请监考人员在准考证相应位置签字（作为考生交卷的凭据）。否则，所产生的一切后果由考生自负。5. 本试卷满分100分，考试时间为180分钟。2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试管理类专业硕士学位联考英语试卷5ASection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D an ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, according to a new study on population published recently. The current approach which 1 on younger people and on skills for their employment is not 2 to meet the challenges of change in the population structure, it says. Only 1% of the education budget is currently spent on the 3 third of the population. The 4 include the fact that most people are expected to spend a third of their lives in 5 , that there are now more people over 59 than under 16 and 6 11.3 million people are over state pension age. “ 7 needs to continue throughout life. Our historic concentration of policy attention and resources 8 young people cannot meet the new 9 ,” says the reports author, Professor Stephen McNair. The major 10 of our education budget is spent on people below the age of 25. 11 people are changing their jobs, homes, 12 and lifestyles more often than 13 , they need opportunities to learn at any age. 14 , some people are starting new careers in the 50s and later. People need opportunities to make a “all-around review” to 15 to the later states of employed life and to plan for the 16 to retirement, which may now happen 17 at any point from 50 to over 90, says McNair. 18 , there should be more money 19 to support people in establishing a sense of identity and finding constructive 20 for the “third age”, the 20 or more years they will spend in healthy retired life.1. A. operates B. focusesC. countsD. depends2. A. superiorB. regularC. essentialD. adequate3. A. oldestB. youngestC. smartestD. lowest4. A. regulationsB. obstaclesC. challengesD. guidelines5. A. enjoymentB. retirementC. stabilityD. inability6. A. thatB. whatC. whichD. who7. A. IdentifyingB. InstructingC. LearningD. Practicing8. A. atB. byC. inD. on9. A. desiresB. attemptsC. needsD. intentions10. A. turnoverB. ratioC. quotaD. portion11. A. WhenB. UntilC. WhetherD. Before12. A. rivalsB. partnersC. moodsD. figures13. A. agoB. everC. neverD. former14. A. For exampleB. By contrastC. In particularD. Above all15. A. adhereB. yieldC. adjustD. suit16. A. transformationB. transmissionC. transferringD. transition17. A. unfairlyB. unpredictablyC. instantlyD. indirectly18. A. BesidesB. HoweverD. SurprisinglyD. Consequently19. A. approachableB. availableC. considerableD. feasible20. A. ranksB. assetsC. idealsD. rolesSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections：Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Passage 1When next years crop of high-school graduates arrived at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, theyll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost of Yale, wholl become Oxfords vice-chancellor a position equivalent to university president in America. Hamilton isnt the only educator crossing the Atlantic. Schools in France, Egypt, Singapore, etc. have also recently make top-level hires from abroad because higher education has become a big and competitive business nowadays, and like so many business, its gone global. Yet the talent flow isnt universal and high-level personnel tend to head in only one direction: outward from America. The chief reason is that American schools dont tend to seriously consider looking abroad. For example, when the board of the University of Colorado searched for a new president, it wanted a leader familiar with the state government, a major source of the universitys budget. “We didnt do any global consideration,” says Patricia Hayes, the boards chair. The board ultimately picked Bruce Benson, a 69-year-old Colorado businessman and political activist. He is most likely to do well in the main task on modern university presidents: fund-raising. Fund-raising is a distinctively American thing, since U.S. schools rely heavily on donations. The fund-raising ability is largely a product of experience and necessity. Many European universities, meanwhile, are still mostly depending on government funding, but government support has failed to keep pace with the surging student numbers. The decline in government support has made fund-raising an increasingly necessary ability among administrators and has hiring committees hungry for Americans. In the past few years, prominent schools around the world have joined the trend. In 2003, Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard, another former Yale provost as its vice-chancellor. The university publicly stressed that, in her previous job, she had overseen “a major strengthening of Yales financial position.” Of course, fund-raising isnt the only skill outsiders offer. The globalization of education means more universities will be seeking heads with international experience of some kind to promote international programs and attract a global student body. Foreigners can offer a fresh perspective on established practices.21. The current trend in higher education is that _.A. institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U.S. B. a lot of political activists are being recruited as administrators C. American universities are enrolling more international students D. university presidents are paying more attention to fund-raising22. When hiring top-level administrators, American universities will mainly consider their _. A. political correctness B. ability to raise funds C. fame in academic circles D. administrative experience23. What do we learn about European universities from the passage? A. The tuitions they charge have been rising considerably. B. Their operation is under strict government supervision. C. The government has reduced the amount of funding to them. D. The financial back of most universities are government24. Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard as vice-chancellor because _. A. she was known to be good at raising money B. she could help strengthen its ties with Yale C. she knew how to attract students overseas D. she had boosted Yales academic status25. One of the contributions of top-level administrators from abroad to universities is that _. A. they can enhance the universitys image B. they will attract more international faculty C. they will view things from a different angle D. they can set up new academic disciplinesPassage 2If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, giving out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming. The scientists, F. Jeffrey Martin and William L. Kubic Jr., are proposing a completely original idea, which they have patriotically named Green Freedom for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline. The idea is simple. Air would be blown over a liquid solution which would absorb the carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide would then be extracted and subjected to chemical reactions that would turn it into fuel. Although they have not yet built a fuel factory, or even a small prototype, the scientists say it is all based on existing technology. “Everything in the idea has been built, is operating or has a close cousin that is operating,” Dr. Martin said. The proposal does not violate any laws of physics, and other scientists have independently suggested similar ideas. In the efforts to reduce humanitys emissions of carbon dioxide, three solutions have been offered: hydrogen-powered cars, electric cars and biofuels. Biofuels are gasoline substitutes produced from plants like corn or sugar cane. Plants absorb carbon dioxide as they grow, but growing crops for fuel takes up wide strips of land. Hydrogen-powered cars emit no carbon dioxide, but producing hydrogen requires energy, and if that energy comes from coal-fired power plants, then the problem has not been solved. The problem with electric cars is that they have typically been limited to a range of tens of miles as opposed to the hundreds of miles that can be driven on a tank of gas. Gasoline, it turns out, is an almost ideal fuel (except that it produces carbon dioxide). If it can be made out of carbon dioxide in the air, the Los Alamos concept may mean there is little reason to switch to any other fuels. “Its definitely worth pursuing,” said Martin I. Hoffert, a professor of physics at New York University. “It has a couple of pieces to it that are interesting.” Other scientists also said the proposal looked promising but could not evaluate it fully because the details had not been published. 26. What is most remarkable about the proposal made by the two scientists?A. It is given a patriotic name. B. No law of physics is violated. C. It is based on existing technology. D. Carbon dioxide can be converted into fuel. 27. The biggest problem with hydrogen-powered cars is that _.A. there is no cheap source of hydrogenB. their energy have to come from coal burningC. they may still be a cause of global warming D. they are not suitable for long-distance travel28. If what is proposed by the two scientists becomes true, _.A. air pollution will become a thing of the pastB. there will be no need for gasoline substitutesC. people will be able to use much cheaper energyD. there will be no more biofuel-powered vehicles29. Which of the following can best describe the attitude of Martin I. Hoffert to the proposal?A. Indifferent. B. Positive. C. Suspicious. D. Critical. 30. The passage is mainly written to _. A. introduce a new concept B. compares different energy sourcesC. stress the importance of gasolineD. discuss solutions to global warmingPassage 3Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily. Primary care should be the backbone of any health care system. Countries with appropriate primary care resources score highly when it comes to health outcomes and cost, but he U.S. take the opposite approach by emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care physician. A recent study analyzed the providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries. The startling finding was that the average medicare patients saw even as many as seven doctors two primary care physicians and five specialists in a given year. Much contrary to popular belief, the more physicians taking care of you doesnt guarantee better care. Actually, increasing fragmentation of care results in a corresponding rise in cost and medical errors. How did we let primary care slip so far? The key is how doctors are paid. Most physicians are paid whenever they perform a medical service. The more a physician does, regardless of quality or outcome, the higher hes reimbursements (返还费用). Moreover, the amount a physician receives leans heavily toward medical or surgical procedures. A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patients disease. Combine this fact with annual government threats to indiscriminately cut reimbursements, physicians are faced with no choice but to increase quantity to boost income. Medical students are not blind to this scenario. They see how heavily the reimbursement deck is stacked against primary care. The recent number shows that since 1997, newly graduated U.S. medical students who choose primary care as a career have declined by 50%. This trend results in emergency rooms being overwhelmed with patients without regular doctors. How do we fix this problem? It starts with reforming the physician reimbursement system. Remove the pressure for primary care physicians to squeeze in more patients per hour, and reward them for optimally (最佳地) managing their disease and practicing evidence based medicine. Make primary care more attractive to medical students by forgiving students loan for those who choose primary care as a career and reconciling the marked difference between specialist and primary care physician salaries.31. The authors chief concern about the current U.S. health care system is _. A. the inadequate training of physicians B. the declining number of doctors C. the ever-rising health care costs D. the shrinking primary care resources32. We learn from the passage that many people tend to believe that _. A. seeing more doctors results in more diagnostic errors B. visiting doctors on a regular basis ensures good health C. the more doctors taking care of a patient, the better D. the more costly the medicine, the more effective the cure33. Under the present pay system, primary care physicians are forced to _. A. make various deals with specialists B. improve their expertise and service C. see more patients at the expense of quality D. increase their income by working overtime34. Many new medical graduates are unwilling to engage in primary care because _. A. the current system works against primary careB. they think working in emergency rooms tedious C. they find the need for primary care declining D. they are afraid of being driving out of the area35. The authors suggestion on bettering health care is to _. A. release the physicians pressure of making medical errors B. recruit more medical students by offering them loans C. reduce the tuition of students majoring in primary care D. bridge the salary gap between specialists and physiciansPassage 4Not long after the telephone was invented, I assume, a call was placed. The caller was a parent saying, “Your child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped!” the bullys parent replied, “You must have the wrong number. My child is a little angel.” A trillion phone calls later, the conversation is the same. When children are teased or tyrannized, the parental impulse is to grab the phone and rant. But these days, as studies in the U.S. show bullying on the rise and parental supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms and dads is more futile than ever. Such calls often lead to playground recriminations and dont really teach our kids any lessons about how to navigate the world and resolve conflicts positively. When you call parents, you want them to “extract the cruelty” from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Illinois. “But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They wont believe it.” In a recent police-department survey in Oak Harbor, Washington, 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies and only 9% rectify their childrens misdoings. In a new U.S.PTA survey, 5% of parents support contacting other parents to deal with bullying. But many educators warn that those conversations can be misinterpreted, causing tempers to flare. Instead, they say, parents should get objective outsiders, like principals, to mediate. Meanwhile, if you get a call from a parent who is angry about your childs bullying, listen without getting defensive. Thats what Laura McHugh of Castro Valley, California, did when a caller told her that her then 13-year-old son had spit in another boys food. Her son had confessed, but the victims mom “wanted to make sure my son hadnt given her son a nasty disease,” says McHugh, who apologized and promised to get her son tested for AIDS and other diseases. She knew the chance of contracting any disease this way was remote, but her promise calmed the mother and showed McHughs son that his bad behaviour was being taken seriously. McHugh, founder of Parents Coach Kids, a group that teaches parenting skills, sent the mom the test results. All were negative. Remember: once you make a call, you might not like what you hear. If you have an itchy dialing finger, resist temptation. Put it in your pocket. 36.The word “bullying” probably means _.A. frightening and hurtingB. caring and encouraging C. injuring or killing D. playing and kidding37. Calling to a bullys parent _.A. has long existed but changed its content B. is always done with careful thinkingC. often leads to blaming and misunderstanding D. is used to warn the child not to do it again38. According to the surveys in the U. S., _. A. bullying among adults is also rising B. parents are not supervising their children wellC. parents seldom believe bullies D. most parents resort to calling to deal with bullying39. Laura McHugh promised to get the bullied boy tested for diseases because _.A her son confessed to being wrong B