2013年英语二考研专硕试题真题(2013年1月5日).pdf

启用前绝密 2013 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语二试题年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语二试题 MBA,MPA,MPAcc 专业硕士统一考试 Section I Use of English 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)（本题答案在题号后）Given the advantage of electronic money,you might think that we should move quickly to the cashless society in which all payments are made electronically._1 However,a true cashless society is probably not around the corner.Indeed,predictions have been 2around_ 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.concept of money itself,”only to 4.reverse itself several years later.Why has the movement to a cashless society been so 5.slow in coming?Although e-money might be more convenient and may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper,several factors work 6.against the disappearance of the paper system.First,it is very 7.expensive to set up the computer,card reader,and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the 8.dominant form of payment.Second,electronic means of payment 14.raise security and privacy concerns.We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information 15.stored there.Because this is not an 16.uncommon occurrence,unscrupulous persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and 17.steal funds by moving them from someone elses accounts into their own.The 18.prevention of this type of fraud is no easy task,and a whole new field of computer science has developed to 19.cope with security issues.A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic 20.trail that contains a large amount of personal data on buying habits.1.A However B Moreover C Therefore D Otherwise 2.A off B back C over D around 3.A power B concept C history D role 4.A reward B resist C resume D reverse 启用前绝密 5.A silent B sudden C slow D steady 6.A for B against Cwith D on 7.A imaginative B expensive C sensitive D productive 8.A similar B original C temporary D dominant 9.A collect B provide C copy D print 10.A give up B take over C bring back D pass down 11.A before B after C since D when 12.A kept B borrowed C released D withdrawn 13.A Unless B Until C Because D Though 14.A hide B express C raise Dease 15.A analyzed B shared C stored D displayed 16.A unsafe B unnatural C uncommon D unclear 17.A steal B choose C benefit D return 18.A consideration B prevention C manipulation D justification 19.A cope with B fight against C adapt to D call for 20.A chunk B chip C path D trail 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.(40 points)Text 1 启用前绝密 In an essay,entitled“Making It in America,”in the latest issue of The Atlantic,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has 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.”Davidsons 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 sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession,but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.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 wont earn you what it used to.It cant 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.Average is over.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.As they say,if horses could have voted,there never would have been cars.But theres been an acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs about 6 million in total disappeared.”And you aint seen nothin yet.Last April,Annie Lowrey of Slate wrote about a start-up called“E la Carte”that is out to shrink the need for waiters and waitresses:The company“has produced a kind of souped-up iPad that lets you order and pay right at your table.The brainchild of a bunch of M.I.T.engineers,the nifty invention,known as the Presto,might be found at a restaurant near you soon.You select what you want to eat and add items to a cart.Depending on the restaurants preferences,the console could show you nutritional information,ingredients lists and photographs.You can make special requests,like dressing on the side or quintuple bacon.When youre done,the order zings over to the kitchen,and the Presto tells you how long it will take for your items to come out.Bored with your companions?Play games on the machine.When youre through with your meal,you pay on the console,splitting the bill item by item if you wish and paying however you want.And you can have your receipt e-mailed to you.Each console goes for$100 per month.If a restaurant serves meals eight hours a day,seven days a week,it works out to 42 cents per hour per table making the Presto cheaper than even the very cheapest waiter.”What the iPad wont do in an above average way a Chinese worker will.Consider this paragraph from Sundays terrific article in The Times by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher about why Apple does so much of its 启用前绝密 manufacturing in China:“Apple had redesigned the iPhones screen at the last minute,forcing an assembly-line overhaul.New screens began arriving at the Chinese plant near midnight.A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the companys dormitories,according to the executive.Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea,guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames.Within 96 hours,the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,the executive said.Theres no American plant that can match that.”And automation is not just coming to manufacturing,explains Curtis Carlson,the chief executive of SRI International,a Silicon Valley idea lab that invented the Apple iPhone program known as Siri,the digital personal assistant.“Siri is the beginning of a huge transformation in how we interact with banks,insurance companies,retail stores,health care providers,information retrieval services and product services.”There will always be change new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.Here are the latest unemployment rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Americans over 25 years old:those with less than a high school degree,13.8 percent;those with a high school degree and no college,8.7 percent;those with some college or associate degree,7.7 percent;and those with bachelors degree or higher,4.1 percent.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to buttress employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to post-high school education.21.The joke in Paragraph 1 is used to illustrate_ A the impact of technological advances B the alleviation of job pressure C the shrinkage of textile mills D the decline of middle-class incomes 22.According to Paragraph 3,to be a successful employee,one has to_ A work on cheap software B ask for a moderate salary 启用前绝密 C adopt an average lifestyle D contribute something unique 23.The quotation in Paragraph 4 explains that _ A gains of technology have been erased B job opportunities are disappearing at a high speed C factories are making much less money than before D new jobs and services have been offered 24.According to the author,to reduce unemployment,the most important is_ A to accelerate the I.T.revolution B to ensure more education for people C ro advance economic globalization D to pass more bills in the 21st century 25.Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the text?A New Law Takes Effect B Technology Goes Cheap C Average Is Over D Recession Is Bad Text 2 Imagine a new immigration policy A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay,and who would make some money and then go home.Between 1908 and 1915,about 7 million people arrived while about 2 启用前绝密 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had an affectionate nickname,uccelli di passaggio,birds of passage.Today,we are much more rigid about immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens fit for deportation.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We dont need more categories,but we need to change the way we think about categories.We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving in the gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home health-care aides and particle physicists are among todays birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle laws,jurisdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Imagine life with a radically different immigration policy:The Jamaican woman who came as a visitor and was looking after your aunt until she died could try living in Canada for a while.You could eventually ask her to come back to care for your mother.The Indian software developer could take some of his Silicon Valley earnings home to join friends in a little start-up,knowing that he could always work in California again.Or the Mexican laborer who busts his back on a Wisconsin dairy farm for wages that keep milk cheap would come and go as needed because he could decide which dairy to work for,and a bi-national bank program was helping him save money to build a better life for his kids in Mexico.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.A new system that encourages both sojourners and settlers would not only help ensure that our society receives the human resources it will need in the future,it also could have an added benefit:Changing the rigid 启用前绝密 framework might help us resolve the status of the estimated 11 million unauthorized migrants who are our shared legacy of policy failures.Currently,we do not do gray zones well.Hundreds of thousands of people slosh around in indeterminate status because theyre caught in bureaucratic limbo or because they have been granted temporary stays that are repeatedly extended.President Barack Obama created a paler shade of gray this summer by exercising prosecutorial discretion not to deport some young people who were brought to this country illegally as children.But these are exceptions,not rules.The basic mechanism for legal immigration today,apart from the special category of refugee,is the legal permanent resident visa,or green card.Most recipients are people sponsored by close relatives who live in the United States.As the name implies,this mechanism is designed for immigrants who are settling down.The visa can be revoked if the holder does not show intent to remain by not maintaining a U.S.address,going abroad to work full time or just traveling indefinitely.Legal residents are assumed to be on their way to becoming Americans,physically,culturally and legally.After five years of living here,they become eligible for citizenship and a chance to gain voting rights and full access to the social safety net.This is a fine way to deal with people who arrive with deep connections to the country and who resolve to stay.That can and should be most immigrants.But this mechanism has two problems:The nation is not prepared to offer citizenship to every migrant who is offered a job.And not everyone who comes here wants to stay forever.It may have once made sense to think of immigrants as sodbusters who were coming to settle empty spaces.But that antique reasoning does not apply when the country is looking at a long,steep race to remain competitive in the world economy,particularly not when innovation and entrepreneurship are supposed to be our comparative advantage.To succeed,we need modern birds of passage.The challenges differ depending on whether you are looking at the high end of the skills spectrum,the information workers or at low-skilled laborers.A frequent proposal for highly skilled workers comes with the slogan,Staple a green card to the diploma.That is supposed to ensure that a greater share of brainy international students remain in the United States after earning degrees in science and technology.But what if they are not ready for a long-term commitment?No one would suggest that investment capital or design processes need to reside permanently in one nation.Talent today yearns to be equally mobile.Rather than try to oblige smart young people from abroad to stay here,we should allow them to think of the United States as a place where they can always return,a place where they will 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