全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语模拟试题（七） 第 页 共 5 页 1全国硕士研究 生入学统一考试英语模拟试题（七 ）Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, CorD on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Natural and functional are the latest fashion words in the food and soft-drinks 1 . Enviga, a new health drink made by Coca-Cola, the worlds biggest maker of fizzy soft drinks, and Nestl, the largest food firm, is supposed to be both. A combination of“natural”green-tea extracts, caffeine and“plant micronutrients”, it will go on sale 2 America next month. Its makers 3 it can help consumers to lose 4 . “Enviga 5 calorie burning,” declared Rhona Applebaum, Coca-Colas chief scientist, 6 the new drink was unveiled in late 2006. Coke claims studies have shown that a healthy person of 7 weight can burn 60 to 100 calories 8 consuming three 9 of Enviga over 24 hours. The 10 have not been 11 public.Health and wellness are the main sources of 1 2 in the soft-drinks industry. In 2005 global sales of healthy drinks, 13 include 14 water, fruit juice, and sports and energy drinks, 15 $138 billion, or 45% of the soft-drinks market. Growth rates are seven times higher than for carbonated sugary drinks. In America sales of carbonated drinks 1 6 a little in 2005 1 7 government campaigns and media coverage raised concerns over obesity. Will consumers 1 8 Enviga? Only one out of every three new soft drinks is a success, says Robert van Brugge, a drinks analyst at Sanford Bernstein. Envigas fate will probably turn on Cokes claim that it helps to burn calories. Yet drinking it would be a pretty inefficient way to lose weight. To shed the 560 calories in a Big Mac, you would have to 19 about 20 cans of the stuff. Going for a long run would seem to be a lessernot to mention more 20 punishment for drinking too much.1.A produces B circles C layers D industries2.A throgh B toward C across D to3.A reclaim B claim C doubt D acclaim4.A fat B calories C weight D heavy5.A increases B decreases C enhance D rises6.A who B which C and D when7.A normal B common C average D ordinary8.A by B on Cin D of9.A tons B cans C bars D bottoms10.A researchers B inquiries C works D studies11.A made B put C let D produced12.A increase B growth C drop D decline13.A and B or C by which D which14.A pure B miner C bottled D bottle15.A mounted to B amounted on C amounted to D amounted by16.A shrank B doubled C increased D declined17.A which B as C that D though18.A take up B take in C take to D take off19.A swallow B drink C eat D take20.A economic B economical C mean D expensiveSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,CorD. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)Text 1In the 1 960s, Perus sugar industry was among the most efficient in the world. It was all downhill thereafter. A military government expropriated the sugar estates on the countrys north coast, turning them into government-owned co-operatives. Having peaked at 1m tonnes in 1975, output fell to 400,000 tonnes by the early 1990s. But since then the sugar industry has passed into private hands again. Over the past decade production has returned to its historic peakand is now set to boom. The change has been gradual. The government has sold its stake in the industry in tranches. But now investors are piling in. As in other parts of South and Central America they are attracted by higher prices for sugar because of its use for ethanol. Industry sources predict that land under sugar will expand by 1 0,000 hectares (25,000 acres) a year, more than doubling output over the next decade. That would turn Peru into an exporterthough not on the scale of Brazil or Colombia.Last year, local investors secured a controlling stake in Casa Grande, the largest sugar plantation. Bioterra, a Spanish company, plans a $90m ethanol plant nearby. Maple, a Texas company, has bought 1 0,600 hectares of land in the northern department of Piura. Its plans call for an investment of $ 1 20m and ethanol production of 120m litres a year. Brazilian and Ecuadorean investors are also active. Part of the attraction is that Peru has signed a free-trade agreement with the United States. Provided that it can satisfy the concerns of the new Democratic-controlled Congress in Washington D.C., about the enforcement of labour rights, this agreement should be approved later this year. It would render permanent existing trade preferences under which ethanol from Peru can enter the United States dutyfree. By contrast, ethanol exported from Brazil, the worlds biggest producer, must pay a tariff of 54 cents a gallon. Two harsh realities might sour these sweet dreams. Colombia, Central