考研英语(二)分类真题20
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Text 1
Massive changes in all of the world"s deeply cherished sporting habits are underway. Whether it"s one of London"s parks full of people playing softball, and Russians taking up rugby, or the Superbowl rivaling the British Football Cup Final as a televid spectator event in Britain, the patterns of players and spectators are changing beyond recognition. We are witnessing a globalization of our sporting culture.
That annual bicycle race, the Tour de France, much loved by the French is a good ca in point. Just a few years back it was a strictly continental affair with France, Belgium and Holl
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草芍药and, Spain and Italy taking part. But in recent years it has been dominated by Colombian mountain climbers, and American and Irish riders. The people who really matter welcome the shift toward globalization. Peugeot, Michelin and Panasonic are multi-national corporations that want worldwide returns for the millions they invest in teams. So it does them literally a world of good to e this unofficial world championship become just that.
This is undoubtedly an economic-bad revolution we are witnessing here, one made possible by communications technology, but made to happen becau of marketing considerations. Sell the game and you can ll Coca Cola or Budweir as well.
The skilful way in which American football has been sold to Europe is a good example of how all sports will develop. The aim of cour is not really to spread the sport for its own sake, but to increa the number of people interested in the major money-making events. The economics of the Superbowl are already astronomical. With ats at US $125, gate receipts alone were a staggering $10,000,000. The most important statistic of the day, however, was the $100,000,000 in TV advertising fees. Imagine how much that becomes when the eyes of the world are watching.
So it came as a terrible shock, but not really as a surpri, to learn that some people are now suggesting that soccer change from being a game of two 45-minute halves, to one of four 25-minute quarters. The idea is unashamedly to capture more advertising revenue, without giving any thought for the integrity of a sport which relies for its esnce on the flowing nature of the action.
Moreover, as sports expand into world markets, and as our choice of sports as consumers also grows, so we will demand to e them played at a higher and higher level. In boxing we have already en numerous, dubious world title categories becau people will not pay to e anything less than a "World Title" fight, and this means that the. title fights have to be held in different countries around the world!
1. Globalization of sporting culture means that ______
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A. more people are taking up sports
B. traditional sports are getting popular谭维维
C. many local sports are becoming international
D. foreigners are more interested in local sports
2. Which of the following is NOT related to the massive changes?
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B. Revival of traditional games.
C. Communications technology.
D. Marketing strategies.
3. As is ud in the passage, "globalization" comes clost in meaning to ______
A. commercialization B. popularization
C. speculation D. standardization
4. What is the author"s attitude towards the suggestion to change soccer into one of four 25-minute quarters?
1一一9九宫格数独口诀>七夕短信A. Favorable. B. Unclear.
C. Rerved. D. Critical.
5. People want to e higher-level **petitions mainly becau ______
A. they become more professional than ever
B. they regard sports as consumer goods
C. there exist few world-class championships
D. sports events are exciting and stimulating
Text 2
Introspection is kind of a drag. It requires unpleasant acts like "thinking" and "talking abou
t emotions," and it can rarely be done while watching TV. But like it or not, more and more workers are taking time to reflect on what they do for a living, eking jobs that aren"t just a means to a paycheck but the fulfilment of some form of calling. Can this suppodly enlightening feeling that your career is "a calling" be a bad thing?
Teresa Cardador, an assistant professor in the school of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois recently co-authored a paper in the Journal of Career Asssment that reviewed rearch on people who find meaning and a n of purpo in their work. "There has become this idealized notion of work," Cardador said. "A lot of books and stories in the popular press capture this idea of an idealized orientation toward work. But there"s increasing evidence that suggests that despite the perceived desirability, it"s not always beneficial." In a nutshell, what Cardador found is that people who view their work as a calling can get too wrapped up in the job, to the point where it becomes counterproductive.
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