考研英语(一)-63
初代吸血鬼第二季15(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
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.
Millennials were 1 to be the next golden ticket for retailers. A 70 million consumers 2 between the ages of 18 and 34, this was the first generation of Americans to grow up with cell phones and the Web. Marketers could 3 them in numerous ways—tweets, Facebook pages—that were 4 when their boomer parents started out. " Marketers thought, "**e the Millennials, we"re going to have an awesome time lling to them, "" says Max Lenderman, a director at ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky. "They were waiting for a 5 . **es the financial crisis, and all of a sudden the door has almost 6 in their face. "
No group was hit harder by the Great Recession than the Millennials. Their careers are 7 . They hold record levels of education debt. And an estimated 24 percent have had to move back home with parents at least once.
That"s bad news for the movie studios, clothing retailers, and home improvement chains that had hoped for better. Williams-Sonoma and Home Depot thrive on houhold formation— economist 8 for marrying, having kids, and buying a home—but many cash-strapped Gen Yers have put tho modern rites of passage 9 hold. Twenty percent of 18-to 34-year-old respondents in a recent Pew survey said they had 10 marriage for financial reasons, while 22 percent put 11 having a baby for similar reasons.
12 this generation was always going to be a challenge. 13 into the Web"s endless information and choices, Millennials are pickier and 14 brand loyal than their parents. 15 before the recession they craved authentic products—for example, buying shoes from Toms Shoes, which donates a pair to poor children for every one it lls. The Millennial 16 is "buy less and do more, " says David Maddocks. "Boomers were about 17 , where
as this generation is about having enough. " The 18 of the recession could make Gen Y even less acquisitive.
Gen Y"s 19 could eventually hurt the luxury market, too, says Pam Danziger, president of rearch firm Unity Marketing. She says a 25-year-old who shops at Gap typically trades up to Nordstrom (JWN), Saks (SKS), and perhaps Tiffany (TIF) decades later. But today, Danziger says, "We have a group of people who are eking only to live within their 20 "
1.
A. desired B. suppod
C. appealed D. demanded
2.
terracycleA. vaguely B. crudely
C. roughly D. coarly
3.
A. reach B. touch
C. connect D. link
4. contactperson
含有近反义词的成语A. unavailable B. inaccessible
C. unacceptable D. unaccountable
5.
A. prosperity B. boom
C. bustle D. gloom
6.
A. slashed B. snapped
C. slapped D. slammed
7.
2013考研国家分数线A. stabilized B. stalled
C. sustained D. staged
8.
A. tongue B. dialect
C. jargon D. slang
9.
A. in B. off
C. on D. with
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10.
A. rushed B. pasd
C. neglected D. postponed
11.
A. off B. on
C. down D. forward
12.
A. Appealing B. Hooking
curity什么意思C. Fitting D. Flattering
13.
A. Indulged B. Penetrated
C. Plugged D. Lost
14.
A. not so much B. much
C. less D. moreexamine
15.
A. Since B. Ever
C. Although D. Even
16.
A. proverb B. saying
C. motto D. logo
17.
A. abundance B. comfort
C. frugality D. luxury
18.
A. impact B. impetus
C. implication D. impul
19.
A. reluctance B. thrift
C. banality D. cowardice
20.
A. methods B. approaches
C. ways D. means
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text 1
Early this week a bit of cheery news was reported by the Manhattan Institute, a conrvative think tank: black gregation has hit its lowest point in more than a century — declining in all 85 of the nation"s largest metropolitan areas. Nevertheless, the report is largely celebratory in tone, and it has been received in that fashion by much of the news media. Before we break out the champagne, however, it may be wi to pau and reflect for a moment on who was excluded from the analysis.
Our nation"s prison population has more than quintupled (soaring from 300, 000 in the mid-1970s to more than 2 million today), due to a "get tough" movement and a war on drugs that has been waged almost exclusively in **munities of color.Studies have consistently shown that people of color are no more likely to u or ll illegal drugs than whites, but a fierce drug war has been waged nonetheless, and harshmandatoryminimum ntences pasd, leading to a prison-building boom unprecedented in world history. Despite this a change, prisoners continue to be treated as nonentities in much sociological and economic analysis.
In the Manhattan Institute study, prisoners are not even mentioned, despite the fact that millions of poor people — overwhelmingly people of color — are removed from **munities and held in prisons, often hundreds of miles from home.Most new prison construction has occurred in predominately white, **munities, and thusa new form of gregationhas emerged in recent years. Bars and walls keep hundreds of thousands away from mainstream society — a form ofapartheidunlike the world has even en. If all of them suddenly returned, they would not be evenly throughout the nation"s population. Instead t外教口语费用
hey would return to a relatively small number of communities defined by race and class, greatly intensifying the levels of gregation we e today.
