考研英语模拟试题及答案
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
The head of a company that says it has produced the first human clone said on Monday that the mother and baby were home following the child's birth last week and genetic proof demanded by scientists and other skeptics should be 1 in a week.
Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of Clonaid, which is linked to a group that 2 mankind was created by extraterrestrials, 3 to say whether the 31-year-old American mother and her child were in the United States or 4 .
Her claim to have cloned a human being last week drew 5 reaction from experts 6 the field and she 7 no proof, 8 said that genetic testing was 9 for Tuesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration strongly opposes human cloning, 10 was showed in many occasions， said on Friday it was \\is 13 in the United States14 FDA approval.
Clonaid was 15 by the creator of the Raelian Movement, a group 16 claims 55,000 17 around the world and 18 that life on Earth was sparked by 19 who arrived 25,000 years ago and 20 humans through cloning. 1. [A] complicated [B] available [C] durable [D]disposable 2. [A] reports [B]intensifies [C] claims [D] believes 3. [A]denied [B] opposed [C] distinguished [D]declined 4. [A]anywhere [B]nowhere [C] otherwhere [D]elsewhere
5. [A] content [B] skeptical [C]critical [D]obvious 6. [A] in [B] on [C] upon [D]from
7. [A]indicated [B]manifested [C] offered [D]provided 8. [A] but [B] but also [C]although [D]despite of 9. [A] required [B]speculated [C] scheduled [D]disposed 10.[A]than [B]as [C] but [D]that
11.[A]look [B] inquire [C] investigate [D]study 12.[A] said [B] showed [C] is said [D]manifested 13.[A]improper [B] illogical [C] impossible [D] illegal 14.[A] from [B] without [C]against [D]under
15.[A] raised [B] founded [C] produced [D]manufactured 16.[A] which [B] that [C] what [D]unless
17.[A] participants [B] opponents [C] followers [D]counterparts 18.[A] asserts [B] estimated [C]announced [D]predicts
19.[A] materials [B] extraterrestrials [C] substances [D]things 20.[A] discovered [B]produced [C] created [D]invented Section II Reading Comprehension Part A Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1 (40 points) TEXT 1
How should one read a book? In the first place, I want to emphasize the question mark at the end of my beginning sentence. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to me and not to you. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusion. If this is agreed
between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to restrict that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question of himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none.
But to enjoy freedom, if this old statement is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not waste our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, spraying water around half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot. This, it may be, is one of the first difficulties that faces us in a library. What is “the very spot”? There may well seem to be nothing but a conglomeration and huddle of confusion. Poems and novels, histories and memoirs, dictionaries and blue-books; books written in all languages by men and women of all tempers, races, and ages jostle each other on the shelf. And outside the donkey brays, the women gossip at the pump, the colts gallop across the fields. Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?
21. Which of the following is true about the question raised at the beginning of the passage?
[A] The author does have a universally correct answer to the question. [B] The author implies that she is not interested in the question.
考研英语模拟试题及答案
