1997年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section II Cloze Test
Directions:
For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C], and [D]. Choo the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)
Manpower Inc., with 560,000 workers, is the world’s largest temporary employment agency. Every morning, its people into the offices and factories of America, eking a day’s work for a day’s pay. One day at a time. industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive reducing the number of employees, Manpower, bad in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.
its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a nation of part-timers and temporary workers. This “” work force is the most important in American business today, and it is changing the relationship between people and their jobs. The phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globally competitive avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens 足够的近义词关于船的诗句 by employment rules, healthcare costs and pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the curity, benefits and n of that came from being a loyal employee.
41. [A] swarm[B] stride[C] parate[D] slip
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地质罗盘仪43. [A] from[B] in[C] on[D] by
44. [A] Even though[B] Now that[C] If only[D] Provided that
45. [A] durable[B] disposable[C] available[D] transferable
46. [A] approach[B] flow[C] fashion[D] trend缓解压力英语
47. [A] instantly[B] reverly[C] fundamentally[D] sufficiently
国庆假期最后一天48. [A] but[B] while[C] and[D] whereas
49. [A] impod[B] restricted[C] illustrated[D] confined
50. [A] excitement[B] conviction[C] enthusiasm[D] importance
Section III Reading Comprehension
Directions:
Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Read the passages carefully and choo the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (40 points)
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Text 1
It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure pasd by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofss, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He nt it on via the group’s on-line rvice, Death NET. Says Hofss: “We posted bulletins all day long, becau of cour this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.”
The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia -- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part -- other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada,
where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, obrvers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.
Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death -- probably by a deadly injection or pill -- to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnod as terminally ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off” period of ven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. “I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, becau I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks,” he says.
51. From the cond paragraph we learn that ________.
[A] the objection to euthanasia is slow to come in other countries
[B] physicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasia
[C] changing technology is chiefly responsible for the hasty passage of the law
[D] it takes time to realize the significance of the law’s passage
52. When the author says that obrvers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means ________.
[A] obrvers are taking a wait-and-e attitude towards the future of euthanasia
[B] similar bills are likely to be pasd in the US, Canada and other countries
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[C] obrvers are waiting to e the result of the game of dominoes
[D] the effect-taking process of the pasd bill may finally come to a stop
53. When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will ________.
[A] face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia
[B] experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient
