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2010全国硕士研究生考试英语二真题及答案

Section I Use of English

Directions:

Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best

one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 points)

The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global pandemic on June 11, 2009, in the

first designation by the World Health Organization of a worldwide pandemic in 41 years.

The heightened alert came after an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened after a sharp rise in

cases in Australia, and rising numbers in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.

But the pandemic is "moderate" in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general, with the

overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the absence of any

medical treatment.

The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of

hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases

began to crop up in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.

In the United States, new cases seemed to fade as warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials

reported there was significant flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the samples tested are the new swine

flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. @Zov&0

1 In the U.S., it has infected more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000

hospitalizations.

Federal health officials released Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began taking orders from the

states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is available ahead

of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those

initial doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or

those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other problems. But it was still possible to vaccinate people in

other high-risk group: health care workers, people caring for infants and healthy young people.

Section Ⅱ Reading comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your

answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)

Text1

The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien

Hirst, “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008 (see picture). All but two

pieces sold, fetching more than ā70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last hurrah. As the auctioneer called

out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy.

The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising vertiginously since 2003. At its peak

in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double

the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far

beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched

by few other industries.

In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable, especially

in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of

many art-buying investors. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of

contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector—for Chinese contemporary art—they were down

by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and

Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.

The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of

1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the second world war. This time experts

reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more volatile. But Edward

Dolman, Christie’s chief executive, says: “I’m pretty confident we’re at the bottom.”

What makes this slump different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market, whereas in the early

1990s, when interest rates were high, there was no demand even though many collectors wanted to sell. Christie’s

revenues in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of 2006. Almost everyone who was interviewed

for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.

The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is

keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.

the first paragraph,Damien Hirst's sale was referred to as “a last victory”because ____-.

art market hadwitnessed a succession of victoryies

auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids

ful Inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces