2013年硕士研究生入学考试 英语二真题及参考答案
Section I U of English
Directions：
Read the following text. Choo the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Given the advantages of electronic money, you might think that we would move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically. __1__ ，a true cashless society is probably not around the corner. Indeed, predictions have been ___2__ for two decades but have not yet come to fruition. For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very __3__ of money itlf," only to __4___ itlf veral years later. Why has the movement to a cashless society been so___5___ in coming?
Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system ba
d on paper, veral factors work __6___ the disappearance of the paper system. First, it is very ___7__ to t up the computer, card reader, and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the___8__ form of payment. Second, paper checks have the advantage that they ___9___ receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to __10__ . Third, the u of paper checks gives consumers veral days of "float" - it takes veral days __11___ a check is cashed and funds are __12___ from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meantime. ___13__ electronic payments are immediate; they eliminate the float for the consumer.
Fourth, electronic means of payment may __14___ curity and privacy concerns. We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer databa and to alter information ___15___ there. The fact that this is not an __16___ occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and __17___ from someone el's accounts. The __18__ of this type of fraud is no easy task, and a new field of computer science is d
eveloping to ___19___ curity issues. A further concern is that the u of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic __20___ that contains a large amount of personal data. There are concerns that government, employers, and marketers might be able to access the data, thereby violating our privacy.
1 | [A] | However | [B] | Moreover | [C] | Therefore | [D] | Otherwi |
2 | [A] | off | [B] | back | [C]arrival | over | [D] | off |
3 | [A] | power | hope to e you soon[B] | concept | [C] | history | [D] | role |
4 | [A] | reward | [B] | resist | [C] | resume | [D] | rever |
5 | [A] | silent | [B] | sudden | [C] | slow | [D] | steady |
6 | [A] | for | [B] | against | [C] | with | [D] | on |
7 浴室柜 英文 | [A] | expensive | [B] | imaginative | [C] | nsitive | [D] | productive |
8 | [A] | dominant | [B] | original | [C] | temporary | [D] | similar |
9 | [A] | collect | [B] | provide | [C] | copy | [D] | print |
10 | [A] | bleeding love中文歌词give up | [B] | take over | [C] | bring back | [D] | pass down |
11 | [A] | before | [B] | after | [C] | since | [D] | before |
12 | [A] | kept | [B] | borrowed | [C] | withdrawn | [D] | relead |
13 | [A] | Unless | increa[B] | Becau 口罩英文 | [C] | Until | [D] | Though |
14 | [A] | hide | [B] | express | [C] | rai | [D] | ea |
fmo15 | [A] | analyzed | 英文经典[B] | shared | [C] | displayed | [D] | stored |
16 | [A] | unsafe | [B] | unnatural | [C] | unclear what are words什么意思 | [D] | uncommon |
17 | [A] | choo | [B] | steal | [C] | benefit | [D] | return |
18 | [A] | consideration | [B] | manipulation | [C] | prevention | [D] | justification |
19 | hello attle[A] | call for | [B] | fight against | [C] | adapt to | [D] | cope with |
20 | [A] | chunk | [B] | chip | [C] | trail | [D] | path |
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完形填空参考答案
1．However 2．Around 3．History 4．Rever 5．Slow
6．Against 7．Experience 8．Similar 9．Provide 10．Give up
11．Before 12．Withdrawn 13．Though 14．Rai 15．Stored
16．Uncommon 17．Steal 18．Prevention 19．Cope with 20．Chip
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40points)
Text 1
In an essay entitled “Making It in America”, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill only two employees today,” a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”
Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely becau of the big drop in demand becau of the Great Recession, but it is also becau of the advantages in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.
In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it ud to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra - their unique
value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.
Yes, new technology has been eating jobs forever, and always will. But there’s been an acceleration. As Davidson notes, “In the 10 years ending in 2009, [U.S.] factories shed workers so fast that they erad almost all the gains of the previous 70 years; roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs - about 6 million in total -disappeared.”
