2009年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语一试题及解析

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2009年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. 大1家 the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer's piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly 大2家 to live shorter lives. This suggests that 大3家 bulbs burn longer, that there is an 大4家 in not being too terrifically bright.

Intelligence, it 大5家 out, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow 大6家 the starting line because it depends on learning — a gradual 大7家 — instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they've apparently learned is when to 大8家.

Is there an adaptive value to 大9家 intelligence? That's the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance 大10家 at all the species we've left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real 大11家 of our own intelligence might be. This is 大12家 the mind of every animal I've ever met.

Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would 大13家 on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, 大14家, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. we believe that 大15家 animals ran the labs, they would test us to 大16家 the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really 大1家7, not merely how much of it there is.

Section I Use of English

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大18家, they would hope to study a 大19家 question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in? 大20家 the results are inconclusive. 1. [A] Suppose 2. [A] tended 3. [A] thinner 4. [A] tendency 5. [A] insists on 6. [A] off 7. [A] incredible 8. [A] fight 9. [A] invisible 10. [A] upward 11. [A] features 12. [A] outside 13. [A] deliver 14. [A] by chance 15. [A] if 16. [A] moderate 17. [A] at 18. [A] Above all

19. [A] fundamental 20. [A] By accident

[B] Consider [C] Observe [B] feared [C] happened [B] stabler [C] lighter [B] advantage [C] inclination [B] sums up [C] turns out [B] behind [C] over [B] spontaneous [C] inevitable [B] doubt [C] stop [B] limited [C] indefinite [B] forward [C] afterward [B] influences [C] results [B] on [C] by [B] carry [C] perform [B] in contrast [C] as usual [B] unless [C] as [B] overcome [C] determine [B] for [C] after [B] After all

[C] However

[B] comprehensive[C] equivalent [B] In time

[C] So far

[D] Imagine [D] threatened [D] dimmer [D] priority [D] puts forward [D] along [D] gradual [D] think [D] different [D] backward [D] costs [D] across [D] apply [D] for instance [D] lest [D] reach [D] with [D] Otherwise [D] hostile [D] Better still

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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. (40 points)

Text 1

Section II Reading Comprehension

Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. \but habit rules the unreflecting herd,\the ever-changing 21st century, even the word \So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

\Markova, author of \Open Mind\and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. \we are taught instead to 'decide,' just as our president calls himself 'the Decider.' \all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.\

All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, she says. Researchers in the late 1960 covered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally (or collaboratively) and innovatively. At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought. \— that anyone can do anything,\Ms. Markova's business partner. \commonness. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.\

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21. The view of Wordsworth habit is claimed by being ________.

A. casual B. familiar C. mechanical D. changeable 22. The researchers have discovered that the formation of habit can be ________

A. predicted B. regulated C. traced D. guided 23. \

A. tracks B. series C. characteristics D. connections

24. Ms. Markova's comments suggest that the practice of standard testing ________?

A, prevents new habits form being formed B, no longer emphasizes commonness

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