欧阳与创编 2021.03.08
2010考研英语二真题及答案
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Section I Use of English
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 l. (10 points)
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic_____1_____ by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
The heightened alert _____2_____an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising_____3_____in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
But the epidemic is \in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general, _____5_____ the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the _____6_____ of any medical treatment.
The outbreak came to global_____7_____in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths_____8_____healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to _____9_____in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.
In the United States, new cases seemed to fade_____10_____warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was _____11_____flu activity in almost every state and that
欧阳与创编 2021.03.08
欧阳与创编 2021.03.08
virtually all the_____12_____tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has_____13_____more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.
Federal health officials_____14_____Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began_____15_____orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is ____16_____ ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those _____17_____doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not_____18_____for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other _____19_____. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people _____20_____infants and healthy young people.
1 [A] criticized [B] appointed [C]commented[D] designated
2 [A] proceeded[B] activated [C] followed[D] prompted 3 [A] digits [B] numbers [C] amounts[D] sums
4 [A] moderate[B] normal[C] unusual [D] extreme 5 [A] with [B] in [C] from [D] by 6 [A] progress[B] absence [C] presence [D] favor
7 [A] reality [B] phenomenon [C] concept [D] notice 8. [A]over[B] for [C] among [D] to
9 [A] stay up[B] crop up [C] fill up [D] cover up 10 [A] as[B] if [C] unless [D] until
11 [A] excessive [B] enormous [C] significant [D]magnificent
12 [A]categories [B] examples [C] patterns[D] samples 13 [A] imparted [B] immerse [C] injected[D] infected 14 [A] released [B] relayed [C] relieved[D] remained 15 [A] placing [B] delivering [C] taking[D] giving
欧阳与创编 2021.03.08
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16 [A] feasible[B] available[C] reliable[D] applicable 17 [A] prevalent[B] principal[C] innovative[D] initial
18 [A] presented [B] restricted [C] recommended[D] introduced
19 [A] problems [B] issues [C] agonies[D] sufferings
20 [A] involved in [B] caring for[C] concerned with[D] warding off
Section Ⅱ Reading comprehension
Part A
Text1
The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”，at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ￡70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of many art-buying investors. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-欧阳与创编 2021.03.08
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