[考研类试卷]考研英语（阅读）模拟试卷217
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
0 How stupid does one need to be to get a job reading the television news? Is it actually beneficial for TV newsreaders to have, instead of a brain, a plate of lemon jelly? Last week the debate was raging once again about the controversial and important point as to whether the newsreaders write their own copy, read someone el's or simply make it up as they go along. Angela Rippon reckonedthat she had never heard of a newsreader writing stuff, but her modern counterpart, the beautiful Sophie Raworth, claims that they do the writing and adds that she has a postgraduate degree in journalism.
This is the core of the issue: what on earth is there to learn about journalism at postgraduate level? The point and purpo of our lowly, occasionally uful, trade could be scribbled on the back of a postage stamp and would easily be comprehended by a 14-year-old boy with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Who has decided that it must be dignified with a doctoral thesis?
Nor is reading the news even what one might call "journalism". It is an even simpler business called "reading". All that the BBC demands of its female newsreaders is an ability to read in an impartial way words like "Israel has murdered more Lebane children again today" from the teleprompter without belching or lisping. It helps if they have the eminently prentable manner of a girl guide leader from Esher. They are forbidden to express an opinion. They are not required to go undercover, analyze the news or add witty asides. They are required to be that which they are known as in the trade—"a gob on a stick".A penetrating intelligence is not merely unnecessary, it is counterproductive.
Newsreaders who are too intelligent soon stop being newsreaders, much as John Humphrys did, stifled by the commonplace of their duties. Or they give the game away by doing what that German newsreader did and end the programme, shaking their heads sadly, muttering, "it's all lies, all lies".
Which is not to say BBC newsreaders are bad at their jobs: quite the rever. But we should not confu competence with intelligence. Newsreaders believe that becau they are reading out rious stuff and everybody is listening to them, they must therefore be creatures possd of a high IQ. They are confusing the message with the medium.
1 The author holds in the first two paragraphs that a postgraduate degree in journalism _____.
（A）is quite unnecessary for newsreaders
（B）is vital for a newsreader to write stuff
（C）matters quite a lot for a newsreader
（D）involves no learning about journalism
2 The author cites the example of BBC in Paragraph
3 to show that _____. （A）it is concerned about international affairs and widely reports them （B）reading the news mainly involves required reading capability （C）it has laid down a lot of dos and don'ts for its newsreaders
（D）reading the news is an easy job that most people are qualified for
3 By saying "a gob on a stick" (Para. 3), the author means _____.
（A）a newsreader is like a magician with a magic stick
（B）a newsreader only says what he/she is directed to say
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（C）a newsreader posss penetrating intelligence
（D）a newsreader does not usually express his/her opinion
4 If the newsreaders are too intelligent, they are likely to _____.
（A）be fired by the TV stations and start all over again
（B）keep telling lies until they shut the programs
（C）be cynical about life and discontent with work
（D）suffer from a n of guilt and dissatisfaction
5 It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_____.
（A）sometimes competence and intelligence are unrelated
（B）some newsreaders are at a loss as to how they should perform better
写母爱的名言（C）newsreaders have to posss a high IQ to handle difficult stuff
（D）mass media have impod great pressure on newsreaders
5 Parents of children who happily eat what's put in front of them might assume their kids are well nourished. But two new studies drive home the importance of varying that diet. Deficiencies of vitamin D, omega-3 fats, and other healthful compounds are common; it turns out—and conquential.
Growing evidence links vitamin D deficiency not only to weak bones but al-so to impaired immunity, asthma, and diabetes among other problems. And some of the latest rearch finds that rates of asthma and related respiratory problems climb in kids who are short on other commonly missing esntials, including vitamins C and E and omega-3 fatty acids.
A team at the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the diet and respiratory (relating to the process of breathing) health of some 2,000 North American high school niors and found that teens who lack of fruit, vegetables, and other healthful foods were most likely to have problems such as coughing, panting, episodes of bronchitis, and asthma.
Vitamins C and E, which are abundant in fruit and dark-green vegetables, may "protect the lung from stress," says Harvard rearch fellow and study leader Jane Burns. Omega-3 reduces inflammation,
a key feature of asthma, in which airways swell and make breathing difficult. Oily fish like salmon, mackerel, and tuna—as well as cod-liver oil—are rich in both omega-3 and vitaminD Vitamin D can also be obtained from multivitamin milk and sunshine—and many kids should be getting more of both.
剑锋鼻In another new study, rearchers found that 55 percent of outwardly healthy children and teenagers they tested didn't have enough vitamin D to grow healthy bones. Dark-skinned children were particularly likely to be short of the bone-building vitamin, according to Babette Zemel, an author of the study and director of the Nutrition and Growth Laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The melanin (a natural dark brown colour in human skin, hair, and eyes) that makes their skin dark also blocks ultraviolet rays, which the body us to make vitaminD In winter, when the sun was weakest, more than 90 percent of blacks in the study were vitamin D deficient.
Rearchers suggest pointing kids outside, and waiting a few minutes before putting on sun block; 10 minutes of midday summer sun provides 10,000 international units of the vitamin—more than enough for a day. Like melanin, sunblock prevents the skin from making vitamin D, so a bit of lotion-free exposure is necessary to grab the benefit.
6 What can we infer from the first paragraph?
（A）Parents will always feed their children well.
（B）Kids who eat more are less likely to suffer from malnutrition.
（C）Kids should have access to diets of healthful nutrients.
（D）Deficiencies of certain compounds are harmful or even deadly.
7 Vitamin D deficiency will probably result in _____.
（A）less bone fractures
（B）dark-colored skins
静女赏析（C）suppresd immunity
（D）inability to breathe
8 The study on the relationship between diet and respiratory health is to verify that teens _____.
（A）will fall ill for the lack of fruits or vegetables intake
赵雅芝几岁（B）will be guarded against lung stress and other similar problems
（C）are most likely to become the victims of respiratory illness
（D）are not easily affected in terms of cough and asthma
9 According to the text, dark-skinned kids are particularly short of vitamin D in that the dark skin_____.
（A）has more melanin that consumes more vitamin D
走近毛泽东观后感（B）absorbs more ultraviolet rays, thus killing the melanin
（C）can only produce units of the vitamin when the sun was strong
以为的拼音（D）has more melanin that blocks ultraviolet rays, reducing vitamin D production
10 Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
（A）Kids Lacking in Nutrients
洛神宓妃（B）Malnourished Families
（C）More Sunblock, Less Vitamin D
（D）Health and Nature
10 The clean-energy business is turning into the next big investment boom, in which risks are lightly ignored. Until recently, recalls Charlie Gay, a 30-year veteran of the solar-power business, venture capitalists were far too busy catering to captains of the information-technology industry to waste time on "hippy-dippy tree-huggers" like himlf. But now the tree-huggers are in the ascendant and theIT barons are busy investing in clean-energy technology.
Investors are falling over themlves to finance start-ups in clean technology, especially in energy. Venture Business Rearch reckons that investment in the field by venture capitalists and private-equity firms has quadrupled in the past two years, from some $500m in 2004 to almost $2 billion so far this year. The share of venture capital going into clean energy is rising rapidly.
Clean-energy fever is being fuelled by three things: high oil prices, fears over energy curity and a growing concern about global warming. The provision of energy, the industry's cheerleaders say, will change radically over the coming decades. Polluting coal- and gas-fired power stations will give way to cleaner alternatives such as solar and wind; fuels derived from plants and waste will replace petrol
and diel; and small, local forms of electricity generation will replace big power stations feeding far-flung grids. Eventually, it is hoped, fuel cells running on hydrogen will take the place of the internal combustion engine which is available everywhere. It is a bold vision, but if it happens
