2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试
管理类专业硕士学位联考（英语二）
模拟试题二
Section I U of English
Directions: Read the following text. Choo the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
America’s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a clo. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to 1 plans for a paywall around its digital offering, 2 the accepted practice that Internet urs will not pay for news.
Struggling 3 an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times 4 to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have chinadaily英语点津 5 a t number of its online articles per month.
建树 The decision puts the 58-year-old newspaper 6 the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm（鸿沟）in the media industry. But others, including the Guarding, have said they will not 7 internet readers, and certain papers, 8 London's Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 9 考研现场确认地点.
The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 10 that the move is a gamble: “This is a 11 , to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going.”
Boasting a print web developer 12 of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sunday, The New York Times is the third bestlling American newspaper, 13 the Wallstreet Journalkeepgoing and USA Today. 14 most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 15 national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and bitch slap16 26 bureaus elwhere in the world.
But 17 many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a 18 星球大战前传3 financial crisis. Its parent company, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 19 a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million 20
from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.
1. A. t in B. t out C. carry over D. carry away
2. A. abusing B. deducing C. abandoning D. developing
3. A. beside B.with C. along D. by
4. A.intends B. engages C. deliberates D. signifies
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5. A. exceeded B. multiplied C. assumed D. revealed
6. A. on B. of C. over D. up
7. A. cost B. charge C. expend D. consume
8. A. as for B. far from C. such as D. by far
9. A. reliable B. free C. applicable D. easy
10. A. resisted B. certified C. appealed D. acknowledged
11. A. net B. kit C. bet D. pitbcb
12. A. evaluation B. expansion C. circulation D. dimension
struggle13. A. behind B. against C. before D. within
14. A. If B. While C. Hence D. Becau
15. A. ascend B. announce C. lengthen D. claim
16. A. contributes B. dispos C. maintains D. encounters
17. A. like B. beyond C. from D. through
18. A. heavy B. crude C. rough D. rious
19. A. targeted B. suspended C. suffered D. tolerated
20. A. ast B. bill C. account D. loan
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C, or D. mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Text 1
The sale of certain books from the financially exhausted John Rylands Library has caud widespread indignation. So too has the Government’s propod legislation permitting national muums and galleries to ll works in their collections. There are millionaires in America-----and, increasingly, in Asia---- who would cheerfully pay fortunes for many of the works, and would exhibit or at least prerve them.
Surely then, the nsible thing would be to ll some of them for the greater good of majority? There are, however, one or two arguments against such sales which are worth considering. In the first place, it is said, this is the slippery slope to a time when the Government will suppo that galleries can support themlves by the means, and will
cut subsidies still further. Desperate galleries will then start lling off their treasures to cover current expens. This would of cour be a disaster. The profit from sales must be spent only on purcha of new works or restoration of old ones. The level of state funding should not change in respon to sales.
