考研英语-试卷113
(总分142,考试时间90分钟)
1. U of English
Section I U of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choo the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D.
Foreign **plaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expen of a lawsuit (1)_____ the satisfaction; the chances of getting any money are (2)_____. Yet Noga, a company owned by Nessim Gaon, a 78-year-old businessman (3)_____ in Geneva, has been suing the Russian government since 1993, attempting to (4)_____ Russian asts abroad. At Mr. Gaon"s request, bailiffs last week very nearly (5)_____ two of Russia"s most advanced warplanes at the Paris air (6)_____. The organirs (7)_____ off the Russian authorities, and the planes flew home, just (8)_____ time. (9)_____ near-miss include a sail-training ship, the Sedov, nuclear-wa
ste shipments, and the president"s plane. Mr. Gaon, who previous business partners include regimes in Nigeria and Sudan, put an (10)_____ clau in his original export deals: Russia must abandon its sovereign immunity. An arbitration court in Stockholm has found in his (11)_____, so far, to the (12)_____ of $110 million, out of a total (13)_____ of $420 million. Other courts (14)_____ the world have let him have a (15)_____ at any Russian asts (16)_____ reach. The odd thing is (17)_____ Russia. now awash with cash, does not simply pay up. Mr. Gaon says he was told at one point that a 10% (18)_____ on the debt to someone high up in the finance ministry would solve things. (19)_____ off Mr. Gaon costs much in legal fees. Not accepting international judgments sits ill with the current Kremlin line (20)_____ the rule of law. Mr. Gaon says his next move will be to ize Russia"s embassy in Paris.
1.
A. outdoes B. outperform
C. outshine D. outweighs
2.
A. thin B. slim
C. lean D. wiry
3.
A. bad B. found
C. established D. t
4.
A. grasp B. hold
C. ize D. snatch
5.
A. caught B. got
C. grabbed D. arrested
6.
A. show B. exhibition
C. display D. demonstration
7.
A. stilted B. tipped
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C. dumped D. slanted
8.
A. in B. on
C. at D. upon
安全生产会议内容9.
A. Others B. Another传开头的四字成语
C. The other D. Other
10.
A. usual B. unusual
C. common D. uncommon
11.
A. support B. good
C. favor D. preference
12.
A. rune B. figure
C. account D. count
13.
A. demanded B. requested
C. required D. claimed
14.
A. in B. at
C. around D. over
15.
A. crack B. break
C. split D. snap
16.
A. in B. within
C. out of D. beyond
17.
A. how B. when
C. why D. where
18.
A. kickback B. payment
C. cut D. reward
19.
A. Avoiding B. Fending
C. Escaping D. Shielding
20.
A. in B. on
C. at D. to
2. Reading Comprehension
梦里桃花Section II Reading Comprehension
Part ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.
Clouds may have silver linings, but even the sunniest of us ldom glimp them on foot. The marvelous Blur Building that hovers above the lake of Yverdon les Bains in Switzerland provides such an opportunity. It gives anyone who has ever wanted to step into the clouds they watch from the airplane window a chance to realize their dream. Visitors wear waterproof ponchos before tting off along a walkway above the lake that takes them into the foggy atmosphere of the cloud. The experience of physical forms blurring before your eyes as you enter the cloud is both disorientating and liberating. How
ever firmly your feet are planted on the floor, it is hard to escape the nsation of floating. On the upper deck of this spaceship-shaped structure, the Angel Bar, a translucent counter lit in tones of aqueous blue, beckons with a dozen different kinds of mineral water. To enter this sublime building situated in the landscape of the Swiss Alps feels like walking into a poem—it is part of nature but removed from reality, Its architects, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of New York, designed it as a pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002 in the Three Lakes region of Switzerland, an hour"s train ride from Geneva, which features a ries of exhibits on the lakes. The Blur Building is easily the most successful. Indeed, you can skip the rest of the Expo—a Swiss kitsch version of Britain"s Millennium Dome—and head straight for the cloud, which is there until the end of October. The architects asked themlves what was the ideal material for building on a lake and decided on water itlf." the element of the lake, the snow. the rivers and the mist above it. They wanted to play on and lay bare the notion of a world"s fair pavilion by creating an ethereal ghost of one in which there is nothing to e. The result is a refuge from the surveillance cameras and high-definition images of our everyday world—a partic
ular tea in Switzerland, where clarity and precision are so prized. (Anti- architecture or not, the Blur Building cost a cool $7.5 million.) Out-of-the-box thinking is a trademark of Diller Scofidio. a husband-and-wife team of architecture professors who became the first architects to win a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1999. Although they have built very little, they are interested in the social experience of architecture, in challenging people"s ideas about buildings. They treat architecture as an analytical art form **bines other disciplines, such as visual art and photography, dance and theatre. To realize its Utopian poetry, the Blur Building has to be technologically state-of-the-art. Water from the lake is pumped through 32,000 fog nozzles positioned throughout the skeleton-like stainless steel structure; so the building does not just look like a cloud on the outside, it feels like a cloud on the inside. And while the 300-foot-wide platform can accommodate up to 400 people, visitors vanish from each other in the mist at about five paces, so you really can wander lonely as a cloud. Wordsworth must be smiling.
wangzi1. The spectacle on the deck of this structure is NOT______.
A. dazing B. free
C. spine-chilling D. dazzling
2. One should **e to the Blur Building in the Expo 2002 and skip the rest becau______.
A. it will be there temporarily
B. it"s the most important expo work
C. it"s not real and will vanish in the thin air
D. it"s near Geneva
3. The expression "out-of-the-box"(Line 1. Para. 4) most probably means______.
A. traditional B. logical
C. invariable D. inspirational
4. The last ntence "Wordsworth must be smiling" means______.
A. Wordsworth has asked the architects to build it in this way
B. the architecture is just like a beautiful poem
C. Wordsworth will be happy to e the scene in his **e true
荆棘鸟电视剧D. Wordsworth is satisfied with this architecture
5. Which one is NOT true about the building?
A. It is a piece of art.
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B. It differs from the traditional concept of buildings.
C. There is no difference from the images of our everyday world.
D. The splendid spectacle can"t be photot.
During its formative years, the inner solar system was a rough-and-tumble place. There were a couple of hundred large objects flying around. Moon-size or bigger, and for millions of years they collided with one another. Out of the impacts grew the terrestrial
planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth with its Moon, and Mars—and the asteroids. Scientists have thought of the collisions as mergers: a smaller object (the impactor) hits a larger one (the target) and sticks to it. But **puter modeling by Erik Asphaug and Craig B. Agnor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows that things weren"t that simple. "Most of the time, the impactor and the target go off on their merry ways", Dr. Asphaug said. About half the collisions are the hit-and-nm affairs. Now the two rearchers and a colleague, Quentin Williams. have done simulations to study the effects of the collisions on the impactors. They are not pretty. "The impactors suffer all kinds of fates", Dr. Asphaug said. They undergo tremendous shearing and gravitational forces that can cau them to fracture into smaller pieces or melt, causing chemical changes in the material and loss of water or other **pounds. Or the crust and cover can be stripped off, leaving just an embryonic iron core. The rearchers, who findings are published in Nature, discovered that two objects did not even have to collide to create an effect on the smaller one from the gravitational forces of a near-collision during the simulations. Dr. Asphaug said, "We"d look and say, "Gosh, we just got rid of the whole atmosphere of that planetoi
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d: it didn"t even hit and it sucked the whole atmosphere off."" The rearchers suggest that the remains of the beaten-up, fractured and melted objects can be found in the asteroid belt. Dr. Asphaug said that could explain the prevalence of "iron relics" in the belt. Some of the planetoid remnants also eventually hit Earth: that would help explain why certain meteorites lack water and other volatile elements. The hit-and-run collision model also provides an explanation for Vesta. a large asteroid with an intact crust and cover. How did Vesta keep its cover while so many other objects were losing theirs? Dr. Asphang said it could be that Vesta was always the target, never the impactor, and was thus less affected. "It just had to avoid being the hitter", he said, "until bigger objects left the system".
