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1、1997年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题Part I Cloze TestDirections:For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B , C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)Manpower Inc., with 560 00
2、0 workers, is the worlds largest temporary employment agency. Every morning, its people 1 into the offices and factories of America, seeking a days work fbr a days pay.One day at a time._2_industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive 3 reducing the number of employees, Manpower,
3、 based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.4_its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a nation of part- timers and temporary workers. This 5 work force is the most important 6 in American business today, and it is 7 changing the relationship between people and their jobs. Th
4、e phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globally competitive 8 avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens 9 by employment rules, health care costs and pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the security, benefits and sense of 10 that came from being a loyal employee.1.Aswar
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6、lustratedLdconfined10. AexcitementLbconvictionLcenthusiasmLDimportancePart II Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the
7、 questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (40 points)Passage 1It was 3: 45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australias Northern Territory beca
8、me the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of
9、the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group * s on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn t just something that happened in Australia. Itr s world history.MThe full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of t
10、he Terminally 111 law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-toTife groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage.
11、But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia一where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement i
12、s gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death-probably by a deadly injection or pil!一to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a “cooling o
13、ff period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suff
14、ering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. 4*rm not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how Id go, because Ive watched people die in the hospital fighting fbr oxygen and clawing at their masks, he says.11. From the second paragraph we learn that.
15、A the objection to euthanasia is slow to come in other countriesB physicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasiaC changing technology is chiefly responsible fbr the hasty passage of the lawD it takes time to realize the significance of the law s passage12. When the author says that observ
16、ers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means.A observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasiaB similar bills are likely to be passed in the US, Canada and other countriesC observers are waiting to see the result of the game of dominoesD the effect-taking
17、 process of the passed bill may finally come to a stop13. When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will.A face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasiaB experience the suffering of a lung cancer patientC have an intense fear of terrible sufferingD undergo a cooling off period of seven days|q. rhe authors
18、 attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that of.A opposition B suspicion C approval D indifferencePassage 2A report consistently brought back by visitors to the US is how friendly, courteous, and helpful most Americans were to them. To be fair, this observation is also frequently made of Canada and
19、 Canadians, and should best be considered North American. There are, of course, exceptions. Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.For a long period of time and in many par
20、ts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwisedull existence. Dullness and loneliness were common problems of the families who generally lived distant from one another. Strangers and travelers were welcome sources of diversion, and brought news of the outside world.The harsh reali
21、ties of the frontier also shaped this tradition of hospitality. Someone traveling alone, if hungry, injured, or ill, often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cabin or settlement. It was not a matter of choice for the traveler or merely a charitable impulse on the part of the settlers. It refl
22、ected the harshness of daily life: if you didnt take in the stranger and take care of him, there was no one else who would. And someday, remember, you might be in the same situation.Today there are many charitable organizations which specialize in helping the weary traveler. Yet, the old tradition o
23、f hospitality to strangers is still very strong in the US, especially in the smaller cities and towns away from the busy tourist trails. I was just traveling through, got talking with this American, and pretty soon he invited me home for dinner-amazing. Such observations reported by visitors to the
24、US are not uncommon, but are not always understood properly. The casual friendliness of many Americans should be interpreted neither as superficial nor as artificial, but as the result of a historically developed cultural tradition.As is true of any developed society, in America a complex set of cul
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