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2023年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试
英语（二）
（科目代码204）
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2014中国大学排行榜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 the ANSWER SHEET .( 10 points)
Here’s a common scenario that any number of entrepreneurs face today: you’re the CEO of a small business, and though you’re making a nice __1__, you need to find a way to take it to the next level. What you need to do is__2__growth by establishing a growth tea
m. A growth team is made up of members from different departments within your company, and it harness the power of collaboration to focus __3__on finding ways to grow.
Let’s look at a real-world __4__. Prior to forming a growth team, the software company BitTorrent had 50 employees working in the __5__departments of engineering, marketing and product development. This brought them good results until 2012, when their growth plateaued. The __6__was that too many customers were using the basic, free version of their product. And __7__improvements to the premium, paid version, few people were making the upgrade.
Things changed, __8__, when an innovative project-marketing manager came aboard, __9__ a growth team and sparked the kind of__10__ perspective they needed. By looking at engineering issues from a marketing point of view, it became clear that the __11__of upgrades wasn’t due to a quality issue. Most customers were simply unaware of the premium version and what it offered.
Armed with this __12__, the marketing and engineering teams joined forces to rai awareness by prominently __13__ the premium version to urs of the free version __14__, upgrades skyrocketed, and revenue incread by 92 percent.
But in order for your growth team to succeed, it needs to have a strong leader. It needs someone who can __15__the interdisciplinary team and keep them on cour for improvement. This leader will __16__the target area, t clear goals and establish a time frame for the __17__of the goals.
The growth leader is also __18__for keeping the team focud on moving forward and steering them clear of distractions. __19__attractive new ideas can be distracting, the team leader must recognize when the ideas don’t __20__ the current goal and need to be put on the back burner.
1. A. purcha B. profit C. connection D. bet
2. A. define B. predict C. prioritize D. appreciate
3. A. exclusively B. temporarily C. potentially D. initially
4. A. experiment B. proposal survive用法C. debate D. example
5. n1考试时间A. identical B. marginal C. provisional D. traditional
6. turpanA. rumor B. cret C. myth D. problem
7. A. despite B. unlike C. through D. besides
8. A. moreover B. however C. therefore D. again
9. A. inspected B. created C. expanded D. reformed
10. A. cultural B. hfgobjective C. fresh D. personal
11. A. end B. burden C. lack D.decrea
12. A. policy B. suggestion C. purpo D. insight
13. A. contributing B. allocating C. promoting D. transferring
14. A. As a result B. At any rate C. By the way D. In a n
15. A. unite B. finance C. follow D. choo
16. A. 英语口译share 国庆英语B. identify C. divide D. 忽视英文broaden
17. A. podcastingannouncement B. asssment C. adjustment D. accomplishment
18. A. famous B. responsible C. available D. respectable
19. A. Before B. Once C. While D. Unless
20. A. rve B. limit C. summarize D. alter
Section II Reading Comprehension
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Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choo
sing A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)
Text 1
In the quest for the perfect lawn, homeowners across the country are taking a shortcut - and it is the environment that is paying the price. About eight million square metres of plastic grass is sold each year but opposition has now spread to the highest gardening circles. The Chela Flower Show has banned fake grass from this year’s event, declaring it to be not part of its ethos. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), which runs the annual show in west London, says it has introduced the ban becau of the damage plastic grass does to the environment and biodiversity.
