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2019年全国硕士研究生招生考试
英语(一)
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考生编号
考生姓名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 the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
Today, we live in a world where GPS systems, digital maps, and other
navigation apps are all available on our smartphones. ] of us just walk
straight into the woods without a phone. But phones 2 on batteries, and
batteries can die faster than we realize. 3 you get lost without a phone or a
compass, and you 4 can't find north, a few tricks may help you navigate
5 to civilization, one of which is to follow the land.
When you find yourself 6 a trail, but not in a completely 7 area of
land, you have to answer two questions: Which 8 is downhill, in this
particular area? And where is the nearest water source? Humans overwhelmingly
live in valleys, and on supplies of fresh water. 9 , if you head downhill, and
follow any H2O you find, you should 10 see signs of people.
If you've explored the area before, keep an eye out for familiar sights—you
may be 11 how quickly identifying a distinctive rock or tree can restore your
bearings.
Another 12 : Climb high and look for signs of human habitation. 13 ,
even in dense forest, you should be able to 14 gaps in the tree line due to
roads, train tracks, and other paths people carve 15 the woods. Head toward
these 16 to find a way out. At night, scan the horizon for 17 light
sources, such as fires and streetlights, then walk toward the glow of light
pollution.
18 , assuming you're lost in an area humans tend to frequent, look for
the 19 we leave on the landscape. Trail blazes, tire tracks, and other features
can 20 you to civilization.
英语(一)试题.1.(共14页)1. A. Some B. Most C. Few D. All
2. A. put B. take C. run D. come
3. A. Since B. If C. Though D. Until
4. A. formally B. relatively C. gradually D. literally
5. A. back B. next C. around D. away
6. A. onto B. off C. across D. along
7. A. unattractive B. uncrowded C. unchanged D. unfamiliar
8. A. site B. point C. way D. place
9. A. So B. Yet C. Instead D. Besides
10. A. immediately B. intentionally C. unexpectedly D. eventually
11. A. surprised B. annoyed C. frightened D. confused
12. A. problem B. option C. view D. result
13. A. Above all B. In contrast C. On average D. For example
14. A. bridge B. avoid C. spot D. separate
15. A. from B. through C. beyond D. under
16. A. posts B. links C. shades D. breaks
17. A. artificial B. mysterious C. hidden D. limited
18. A. Finally B. Consequently C. Incidentally D. Generally
19. A. memories B. marks C. notes D. belongings
20. A. restrict B. adapt C. lead D. expose
Section 口 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 the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)
英语(一)试题.2.(共14页)Text 1
Financial regulators in Britain have imposed a rather unusual rule on the bosses
of big banks. Starting next year, any guaranteed bonus of top executives could be
delayed 10 years if their banks are under investigation for wrongdoing. The main
purpose of this “clawback” rule is to hold bankers accountable for harmful risk
taking and to restore public trust in financial institutions. Yet officials also hope
for a much larger benefit: more long-term decision-making, not only by banks
but by all corporations, to build a stronger economy for future generations.
“ Short-termism," or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly
traded companies, says the Bank of England's top economist, Andrew Haldane.
He quotes a giant of classical economics, Alfred Marshall, in describing this
financial impatience as acting like " children who pick the plums out of their
pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain,
he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.
Transient investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can
hinder a firm's efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer
loyalty. This has been dubbed quarterly capitalism. ”
In addition, new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of
equities, quicker use of information, and thus shorter attention spans in financial
markets. " There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the
expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US
Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.
In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public
companies to defer performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year,
slightly helping reduce ushort-termism. " In its latest survey of CEO pay, The
Wall Street Journal finds that "a substantial part" of executive pay is now tied to
performance.
Much more could be done to encourage " long-termism," such as changes in
the tax code and quicker disclosure of stock acquisitions. In France, shareholders
who hold onto a company investment for at least two years can sometimes earn
more voting rights in a company.
Within companies, the right compensation design can provide incentives for
executives to think beyond their own time at the company and on behalf of all
stakeholders. Britain's new rule is a reminder to bankers that society has an
interest in their performance, not just for the short term but for the long term.
英语(一)试题.3.(共14页)21. According to Paragraph 1, one motive in imposing the new rule is to.
A. enhance bankers' sense of responsibility
B. help corporations achieve larger profits
C. build a new system of financial regulation
D. guarantee the bonuses of top executives
22. Alfred Marshall is quoted to indicate.
A. the conditions for generating quick profits
B. governments' impatience in decision-making
C. the solid structure of publicly traded companies
D. ushort-termismn in economic activities
23. It is argued that the influence of transient investment on public companies can
be.
A. indirect
B. adverse
C. minimal
D. temporary
24. The US and France examples are used to illustrate.
A. the obstacles to preventing ushort-termismM
B. the significance of long-term thinking
C. the approaches to promoting M long-termismn
D. the prevalence of short-term thinking
25. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Failure of Quarterly Capitalism
B. Patience as a Corporate Virtue
C. Decisiveness Required of Top Executives
D. Frustration of Risk-taking Bankers
英语(一)试题.4.(共14页)Text 2
Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs ( grade-point
averages) over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer
era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be
pleased. But another, related force—a policy often buried deep in course catalogs
called “grade forgiveness”一is helping raise GPAs.
Grade forgiveness allows students to retake a course in which they received a
low grade, and the most recent grade or the highest grade is the only one that
counts in calculating a student's overall GPA. 「
The use of this little-known practice has accelerated in recent years, as
colleges continue to do their utmost to keep students in school ( and paying
tuition) and improve their graduation rates. When this practice first started
decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to
take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level
courses. But now most colleges, save for many selective campuses, allow all
undergraduates, and even gMfUMe students, to get their low grades forgiven.
College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less
about the grade itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses
critical to their degree program and graduation without incurring a big penalty.
uUltimately,n said Jack Miner, Ohio State University's registrar, "we see
students achieve more success because they retake a course and do better in
subsequent courses or master the content that allows them to graduate on time."
That said, there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges, own
needs as well. For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to
their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention—so better
grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money. And anything that
raises GPAs will likely make students—who, at the end of the day, are paying
the bill—feel they've gotten a better value for their tuition dollars, which is
another big concern for colleges.
Indeed, grade forgiveness is just another way that universities are responding
to consumers9 expectations for higher education. Since students and parents
expect a college degree to lead to a job, it is in the best interest of a school to
turn out graduates who are as qualified as possible—or at least appear to be. On
this, students* and colleges* incentives seem to be aligned.
英语(一)试题.5.(共14页)26. What is commonly regarded as the cause of grade inflation?
A. The change of course catalogs.
B. Students5 indifference to GPAs.
C. Colleges5 neglect of GPAs.
D. The influence of consumer culture.
27. What was the original purpose of grade forgiveness?
A. To help freshmen adapt to college learning.
B. To maintain colleges5 graduation rates.
C. To prepare graduates for a challenging future.
D. To increase universities* income from tuition.
28. According to Paragraph 5, grade forgiveness enables colleges to.
A. obtain more financial support
B. boost their student enrollments
C. improve their teaching quality
D. meet local governments * needs
29. What does the phrase "to be alignedM (Line 5, Para. 6) most probably mean?
A. To counterbalance each other.
B. To complement each other.
C. To be identical with each other.
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D. To be contradictory to each other.
30. The author examines the practice of grade forgiveness by.
A. assessing its feasibility
B. analyzing the causes behind it
C. comparing different views on it
D. listing its long-run effects
英语(一)试题.6.(共14页)Text 3
This year marks exactly two centuries since the publication of Frankenstein ;
or, The Modem Prometheus, by Mary Shelley. Even before the invention of the
electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction that
would foreshadow many ethical questions to be raised by technologies yet to come.
Today the rapid growth of artificial intelligence ( Al) raises fundamental
questions: "What is intelligence, identity, or consciousness? What makes
humans humans?"
What is being called artificial general intelligence, machines that would
imitate the way humans think, continues to evade scientists. Yet humans remain
fascinated by the idea of robots that would look, move, and respond like
humans, similar to those recently depicted on popular sci-fi TV series such as
"Westworld” and uHumans."
Just how people think is still far too complex to be understood, let alone
reproduced, says David Eagleman, a Stanford University neuroscientist. "We are
just in a situation where there are no good theories explaining what consciousness
actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there. ”
But that doesn't mean crucial ethical issues involving Al aren't at hand. The
coming use of autonomous vehicles, for example, poses thorny ethical questions.
Human drivers sometimes must make split-second decisions. Their reactions
may be a complex combination of instant reflexes, input from past driving
experiences, and what their eyes and ears tell them in that moment. Al "vision"
today is not nearly as sophisticated as that of humans. And to anticipate every
imaginable driving situation is a difficult programming problem.
Whenever decisions are based on masses of data, " you quickly get into a lot
of ethical questions,M notes Tan Kiat How, chief executive of a Singapore-based
agency that is helping the government develop a voluntary code for the ethical use
of Al. Along with Singapore, other governments and mega-corporations are
beginning to establish their own guidelines. Britain is setting up a data ethics
center. India released its Al ethics strategy this spring.
On June 7 Google pledged not toudesign or deploy Al" that would cause
“ overall harm, ” or to develop Al-directed weapons or use Al for surveillance that
would violate international norms. It also pledged not to deploy Al whose use
would violate international laws or human rights.
While the statement is vague, it represents one starting point. So does the idea
that decisions made by Al systems should be explainable, transparent, and fair.
To put it another way: How can we make sure that the thinking of intelligent
machines reflects humanity's highest values? Only then will they be useful
servants and not Frankenstein's out-of-control monster.
英语(一)试题.7.(共14页)31. Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is mentioned because it______.
A. fascinates Al scientists all over the world
B. has remained popular for as long as 200 years
C. involves some concerns raised by Al today
D. has sparked serious ethical controversies
32. In David Eagleman's opinion, our current knowledge of consciousness
A. helps explain artificial intelligence
B. can be misleading to robot making
C. inspires popular sci-fi TV series
D. is too limited for us to reproduce it
33. The solution to the ethical issues brought by autonomous vehicles
A. can hardly ever be found
B. is still beyond our capacity
C. causes little public concern
D. has aroused much curiosity
34. The author's attitude toward Google's pledges is one of.
A. affirmation
B. skepticism
C. contempt
D. respect
35. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. AFs Future: In the Hands of Tech Giants
B. Frankenstein, the Novel Predicting the Age of Al
C. The Conscience of Al: Complex But Inevitable
D. Al Shall Be Killers Once Out of Control
英语(一)试题.8.(共14页)Text 4
States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make
online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave
shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.
The Supreme Court's opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old
decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.
The decisions made it more difficult for states to collect sales tax on certain online
purchases.
The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's
purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a
warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.
Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves
if they weren't charged it, but most didn't realize they owed it and few paid.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the previous decisions were flawed.
u Each year the physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic
reality and results in significant revenue losses to the states,v he wrote in an
opinion joined by four other justices. Kennedy wrote that the rule “limited states'
ability to seek long-term prosperity and has prevented market participants from
competing on an even playing field."
The ruling is a victory for big chains with a presence in many states, since
they usually collect sales tax on online purchases already. Now, rivals will be
charging sales tax where they hadn't before. Big chains have been collecting sales
tax nationwide because they typically have physical stores in whatever state a
purchase is being shipped to. Amazon, com, with its network of warehouses, also
collects sales tax in every state that charges it, though third-party sellers who use
the site don't have to.
Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state
or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to
addresses outside those states. Sellers that use eBay and Etsy, which provide
platforms for smaller sellers, also haven't been collecting sales tax nationwide.
Under the ruling Thursday, states can pass laws requiring out-of-state sellers to
collect the state's sales tax from customers and send it to the state.
Retail trade groups praised the ruling, saying it levels the playing field for
local and online businesses. The losers, said retail analyst Neil Saunders, are
online-only retailers, especially smaller ones. Those retailers may face headaches
complying with various state sales tax laws. The Small Business &
Entrepreneurship Council advocacy group said in a statement, " Small businesses
and internet entrepreneurs are not well served at all by this decision."
英语(一)试题.9.(共14页)36. The Supreme Court decision Thursday will.
A. better businesses, relations with states
B. put most online businesses in a dilemma
C. make more online shoppers pay sales tax
D. force some states to cut sales tax
37. It can be learned from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the overruled decisions.
A. have led to the dominance of e-commerce
B. have cost consumers a lot over the years
C. were widely criticized by online purchasers
D. were considered unfavorable by states
38. According to Justice Anthony Kennedy, the physical presence rule
has.
A. hindered economic development
B. brought prosperity to the country
C. harmed fair market competition
D. boosted growth in states5 revenue
39. Who are most likely to welcome the Supreme Court ruling?
A. Internet entrepreneurs.
B. Big-chain owners.
C. Third-party sellers.
D. Small retailers<
40. In dealing with the Supreme Court decision Thursday, the author.
A. gives a factual account of it and discusses its consequences
B. describes the long and complicated process of its making
C. presents its main points with conflicting views on them
D. cites some cases related to it and analyzes their implications
英语(一)试题・10.(共14页)Part B
Directions:
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For questions 41-45, you
are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from
the list A-G and filling them into the numbered boxes. Paragraphs C and F
have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
(10 points)
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A. These tools can help you win every argument—not in the unhelpful sense of
beating your opponents but in the better sense of learning about the issues that
divide people, learning why they disagree with us and learning to talk and
work together with them. If we readjust our view of arguments—from a verbal
fight or tennis game to a reasoned exchange through which we all gain mutual
respect and understanding—then we change the very nature of what it means
to "win" an argument.
B. Of course, many discussions are not so successful. Still, we need to be careful
not to accuse opponents of bad arguments too quickly. We need to learn how
to evaluate them properly. A large part of evaluation is calling out bad
arguments, but we also need to admit good arguments by opponents and to
apply the same critical standards to ourselves. Humility requires you to
recognize weaknesses in your own arguments and sometimes also to accept
reasons on the opposite side.
C. None of this will be easy, but you can start even if others refuse to. Next time
you state your position, formulate an argument for what you claim and
honestly ask yourself whether your argument is any good. Next time you talk
with someone who takes a stand, ask them to give you a reason for their view.
Spell out their argument fully and charitably. Assess its strength impartially.
Raise objections and listen carefully to their replies.
英语(一)试题.11.(共14页)D. Carnegie would be right if arguments were fights, which is how we often think
of them. Like physical fights, verbal fights can leave both sides bloodied.
Even when you win, you end up no better off. Your prospects would be
almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions—like, say, tennis
games. Pairs of opponents hit the ball back and forth until one winner emerges
from all who entered. Everybody else loses. This kind of thinking is why so
many people try to avoid arguments, especially about politics and religion.
E. In his 1936 work How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
wrote: uThere is only one way...to get the best of an argument—and that is to
avoid it." This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken
view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social
lives—and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.
F. These views of arguments also undermine reason. If you see a conversation as
a fight or competition, you can win by cheating as long as you don't get
caught. You will be happy to convince people with bad arguments. You can
call their views stupid, or joke about how ignorant they are. None of these
tricks will help you understand them, their positions or the issues that divide
you, but they can help you win—in one way.
G. There is a better way to win arguments. Imagine that you favor increasing the
minimum wage in our state, and I do not. If you yell, "Yes," and I yell,
"No," neither of us learns anything. We neither understand nor respect each
other, and we have no basis for compromise or cooperation. In contrast,
suppose you give a reasonable argument: that full-time workers should not
have to live in poverty. Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that
a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less
time, Now we can understand each other's positions and recognize our shared
values, since we both care about needy workers.
英语(一)试题.12.(共14页)Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into
Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
It was only after I started to write a weekly column about the medical
journals, and began to read scientific papers from beginning to end, that I
realised just how bad much of the medical literature frequently was. I came to
recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show
that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1. 17 times
more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.
(46) There is a great deal of this kind of nonsense in the medical journals which,
when taken up by broadcasters and the lay press, generates both health scares and
shortlived dietary enthusiasms.
Why is so much bad science published? A recent paper, titled "The Natural
Selection of Bad ScienceM, published on the Royal Society's open science
website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question. It says that
the problem is not merely that people do bad science, but that our current system
of career advancement positively encourages it. What is important is not truth,
but publication, which has become almost an end in itself. There has been a kind
of inflationary process at work: (47) nowadays anyone applying for a research
post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been
required for the same post only 10 years ago. Never mind the quality, then,
count the number.
(48) Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by
trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the
assessment of an applicant's papers, This is the famed citation index, that is to
say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific
literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often
than one of small account. (49) This would be reasonable if it were not for the
fact that scientists can easily arrange to cite themselves in their future
publications, or get associates to do so for them in return for similar favours.
Boiling down an individuaFs output to simple metrics, such as number of
publications or journal impacts, entails considerable savings in time, energy and
ambiguity. Unfortunately, the long-term costs of using simple quantitative
metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great. (50) If we are
serious about ensuring that our science is both meaningful and reproducible, we
must ensure that our institutions encourage that kind of science.
英语(一)试题.13.(共14页)Section HI Writing
Part A
51. Directions:
Suppose you are working for the u Aiding Rural Primary Schoolsn project of
your university. Write an email to answer the inquiry from an international
student volunteer, specifying the details of the project.
You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET.
Do not use your own name in the email; use “Li Ming” instead. ( 10
points)
Part B
52. Directions:
Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the picture below. In your essay,
you should
1) describe the picture briefly,
2) interpret the implied meaning, and
3) give your comments.
Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)
2019年考研英语(一)真题答案速查表
1 ~5 CCBDA 6 ~10 BDCAD 11-15 ABDCB 16-20 DAABC 21-25 ADBCB
26 ~30 DAACB , 31 ~35 CDBAC 36 ~40 CDCBA 41 ~45 EDGBA
46. 医学期刊中充斥着诸如此类的无稽之谈,一旦被电视台和外行新闻媒体报道,就会引
发人们对健康问题的恐慌和短暂的饮食热潮。
47. 如今,任何申请某一研究职位的人必须发表的论文数量是10年前的两倍。
48. 人们已经做出努力来遏制这一趋势,比如,试着将某种质量和数量标准纳入对申请人
论文的评估中。
49. 如果不是因为科学家们可以很容易在今后发表的论文中引用自己的论文,或给同行类
似的好处就能让他们在今后发表的论文中也引用自己的论文,这一措施将是合理的。
50. 如果我们真的想确保科学是有意义且可复制的,就必须保证我们的制度能够激励这
种科学的发展。
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