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1、欢迎您阅读并下载本文档,本文档来源于互联网,如有侵权请联系删除!我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档!考研英语真题含答案剖析 2006 年全国硕士研究生入学一致考试英语试题 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)The homeless make up a growing percentage of America s populat
2、ion.1 homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments can t possibly 2.To help homeless people 3 independence,the federal government must support job training programs,4 the minimum wage,and fund more low-cost housing.5 everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless.Est
3、imates 6 anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million.7 the figure may vary,analysts do agree on another matter:that the number of the homeless is 8.One of the federal government s studies 9 that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.Finding ways to 10 this growing
4、homeless population has become increasingly difficult.11 when homeless individuals manage to find a 12 that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night,a good number still spend the bulk of each day 13 the street.Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alc
5、ohol or drugs.And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders.Many others,14 not addicted or mentally ill,simply lack the everyday 15 skills needed to turn their lives 16.Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are 17 programs th
6、at address the many needs of the homeless.18 Edward Zlotkowski,director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts,19 it,“There has to be 20 of programs.What s needed is a package deal.”1.A Indeed 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档,本文档来源于互联网,如有侵权请联系删除!我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档!考研英语真题含答案剖析 B Likewise C Therefore D Furth
7、ermore 2.A stand B cope C approve D retain 3.A in B for C with D toward 4.A raise B add C take D keep 5.A generally B almost C hardly D not 6.A cover B change C range D differ 7.A Now that B Although C Provided D Except that 8.A inflating B expanding C increasing D extending 9.A predicts 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档
8、,本文档来源于互联网,如有侵权请联系删除!我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档!考研英语真题含答案剖析 B displays C proves D discovers 10.A assist B track C sustain D dismiss 11.A Hence B But C Even D Only 12.A lodging B shelter C dwelling D house 13.A searching B strolling C crowding D wandering 14.A when B once C while D whereas 15.A life B existence
9、C survival D maintenance 16.A around B over C on D up 17.A complex 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档,本文档来源于互联网,如有侵权请联系删除!我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档!考研英语真题含答案剖析 B comprehensive C complementary D compensating 18.A So B Since C As D Thus 19.A puts B interprets C assumes D makes 20.A supervision B manipulation C regulation D coordinatio
10、n Section II Reading Comprehension 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 In spite of“endless talk of difference,”American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.T
11、here is“the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse,and the casualness and absence of deference”characteristic of popular culture.People are absorbed into“a culture of consumption”launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.Inste
12、ad of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite,”these were stores“anyone could enter,regardless of class or background.This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.”The mass media,advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.Immigrants are quickly fitting into this com
13、monculture,which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous.Writing for the National Immigration Forum,Gregory Rodriguez reports that today s immigration is neither at unprecedented levels nor resistant to assimilation.In 1998 immigrants were percent of population;in 1900,percent.In the
14、 10 years prior to 1990,immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents;in the 10 years prior to 1890,for every 1,000.Now,consider three indices of assimilation-language,home ownership and intermarriage.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档,本文档来源于互联网,如有侵权请联系删除!我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档!考研英语真题含答案剖析 The 1990 Census revealed that“a majority
15、of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English well or very well after ten years of residence.”The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English.“By the third generation,the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.
16、”Hence the description of America as a“graveyard”for languages.By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrived before 1970 had a home ownership rate of percent,higher than the percent rate among native-born Americans.Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do white
17、s and blacks.”By the third generation,one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics,and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks,yet “so
18、me Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation s assimilative power.”Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America?Indeed.It is big enough to have a bit of everything.But particularly when viewed against America s turbulent
19、past,today s social indices hardly suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.21.The word “homogenizing”(Line 2,Paragraph 1)most probably means _.A identifying B associating C assimilating D monopolizing 22.According to the author,the department stores of the 19th century _.A played a role
20、in the spread of popular culture B became intimate shops for common consumers C satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite D owed its emergence to the culture of consumption 23.The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S._.A are resistant to homogenization B exert a great influence on America
21、n culture C are hardly a threat to the common culture D constitute the majority of the population 24.Why are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks mentioned in Paragraph 5?A To prove their popularity around the world.B To reveal the public s fear of immigrants.C To give examples of successful immig
22、rants.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档,本文档来源于互联网,如有侵权请联系删除!我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档!考研英语真题含答案剖析 D To show the powerful influence of American culture.25.In the author s opinion,the absorption of immigrants into American society is _.A rewarding B successful C fruitless D harmful Text 2 Stratford-on-Avon,as we all know,has only one
23、 industry-William Shakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches.There is the Royal Shakespeare Company(RSC),which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon.And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the touris
24、ts who come,not to see the plays,but to look at Anne Hathaway s Cottage,Shakespeare s birthplace and the other sights.The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue.They frankly dislike the RSC s actors,them with their long hair and beards and sandals and nois
25、iness.It s all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare,who earns their living,was himself an actor(with a beard)and did his share of noise-making.The tourist streams are not entirely separate.The sightseers who come by bus-and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the sid
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