2009年MBA英语真题及答案

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2009 MBA联考英语试卷

Part I Vocabulary and Structure

Direction: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.

1. The poor lady was too and distressed to talk about the tragedy. A. engaged B. exhausted C. ignorant D. energetic

2. At fist , the famous painting doesn't impress the audience at all. A. glance B. gaze C. stare D. view

3. Delegates agree to the plan in , but there were some details they didn't approve. A. discipline B. theory C. principle D. nature

4. I took the medicine 10minutes ago, but the bitterness is still in my mouth.

A. scattering B. felling C. maintaining D. lingering 5. Since the of human history, human beings have been asking questions like \essence of life.\

A. dusk B. dust C. twinkle D. Dawn 6. The eldest son all the family members to discuss how to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of their parents.

A. Clustered B. resembled C. assembled D. rendered

7. I must leave now, , if you want that book I'll bring it you tomorrow. A. Accidentally B. Incidentally C. Occasionally D. Subsequently 8. My mother is a light sleeper, to any sound even as low as the humming of mosquito.

A. alert B. acute C. keen D. immune 9. The newly built factory is in urgent need of a number of skilled and workers. A. consistent B. conscious C. confidential D. conscientious

10. As an outstanding scholar, he has become to the research team. A. senior B. junior C. indispensible D. independent

11. Sixteen days after the earthquake, 40people, in their village, were rescued. A. trapped B. confined C. enclosed D. captured 12. Working far away from home, Jerry had to from downtown to his office everyday. A. wander B. commute C. ramble D. motion

13. The finance minister has not been so since he raised taxes to an unbearable level. A. famous B. favorable C. popular D. preferable 14. It is unimaginable for someone in such a high in the government to behave so badly in

public. A. situation B. position C. profession D. appointment

15. Information given to employees must be , clear and in easy-to-follow language. A. convenient B. continuous C. constant D. concise 16. John was very upset because he was by the police with breaking the law.

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A. sentenced B. arrested C. accused D. charged

17. David likes country life and has decided farming. A. go in for B. go back on C. go along with D. go through with 18. Jennifer has never really her son's death. It's very hard to accept the face that she'll

never have a child. A. come to terms with B. come up against C. come out with D. come down to 19. A national debate is now about whether we should replace golden weeks with paid

Vacations. A. in the way B. by the way C. under way D. out of the way 20. When a psychologist does a general experiment about the human mind, he selects

people and asks them questions. A. at ease B. at random C. in essence D. in sum

Section II Cloze

Directions: Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) In1999, the price of oil hovered around $16 a barrel. By 2008, it had 21 the $100 a barrel mark. The reasons for the surge 22 from the dramatic growth of the economies of china and India to widespread 23 in oil-producing regions, including Iraq and Nigeria’s delta region. Triple-digit oil prices have 24 the economic and political map of the world, 25 some old notions of power. Oil-rich nations are enjoying historic gains and opportunities, 26 major importers—including china and India, home to a third of the world’s population-- 27 rising economic and social costs.

Managing this new order is fast becoming a central 28 of global politics. Countries that need oil are clawing at each other to 29 scarce supplies, and are willing to deal with any government, 30 how unpleasant, to do it .

In many poor nations with oil, the profits are being , lost to corruption, 31 these countries of their best hope for development. And oil is fueling enormous investment funds run by foreign governments, 32 some in the west see as a new threat.

Countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran are well supplied with rising oil 33 , a change reflected in newly aggressive foreign policies. But some unexpected countries are reaping benefits, 34 costs, from higher prices. Consider Germany. 35 it imports virtually all its oil, it has prospered from extensive trade with a booming Russia and the Middle East. German exports to Russia 36 128 percent from 2001 to 2006.

In the United States, as already high gas prices rose 37 higher in the spring of 2008, the issue cropped up in the presidential campaign, with Senators McCain and Obama 38 for a federal gas tax holiday during the peak summer driving months. And driving habits began to

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sharp increase in riders. 21. A. come 22. A. covered 23. A. intensity 24. A. drawn 25. A. fighting 26. A. and 27. A. confine 28. A. problem 29. A. look for 30. A. no matter 31. A. abolishing 32. A. what 33. A. interests

34. A. as many as 35. A. Although 36. A. advanced 37. A. even 38. A. asking 39. A. change 40. A. for

B. gone B. discovered B. infinity B. redrawn B. struggling B. while B. conflict B. question B. lock up B. what if B. depriving B. that B. taxes B. as good as B. Because B. grew B. still B. requesting B. turn B. from

C. crossed C. arranged C. insecurity C. retained C. challenging C. thus C. conform C. matter C. send out C. only if C. destroying C. which C. incomes C. as far as C. Since C. reduces C. rather C. calling C. shift C. across

39 , as sales of small cars jumped and mass transport systems 40 the country reported a

D. arrived D. ranged D. instability

D. reviewed D. threatening D. though D. confront D. event D. keep off D. in spite of D. eliminating D. whom D. revenues D. as well as D. As D. multiplied D. fairly D. demanding D. transform D. over

Part III Reading Comprehension

Direction: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.

Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage:

Henric Ibsen, author of the play \Doll's House\in which a pretty, helpless housewife abandons her husband and children to seek a more serious life, would surely have approved.. From January 1st, 2008, all public companies in Norway are obliged to ensure that at least 40% of their board directors are women. Most firms have obeyed the law, which was passed in 2003.But about 75 out of the 480 or so companies it affects are still too male for the government's liking. They will shortly receive a letter informing them that they have until the end of February to act , or face the legal consequences---which could include being dissolved.

Before the law was proposed, about 7% of board members in Norway were female, according to the Centre for Corporate Diversity .The number has since jumped to 36%. That is far higher than the average of 9% for big companies across Europe or America's 15% for the Fortune 500.Norway's stock exchange and its main business lobby oppose the law, as do many businessmen.\