微信扫描二维码关注启航考研（qh_kaoyan）考研自学平台 咋学微信号： 咋学网（zaxueapp）2016 考研资料分享群：248600511 2007 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section 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) By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations.The roughly 20 million 1of these nations looked 2 to the future. Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian colonialism, many of the leaders of independence 3the ideals of representative government, careers 4 to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the 5 to private property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of society. 6 there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent states, large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a 7 set of laws. On the issue of 8 of religion and the position of the church, 9, there was less agreement 10 the leadership. Roman Catholicism had been the state religion and the only one 11 by the Spanish crown. 12 most leaders sought to maintain Catholicism 13 the official religion of the new states, some sought to end the 14 of other faiths. The defense of the Church became a rallying 15 for the conservative forces. The ideals of the early leaders of independence were often egalitarian, valuing equality of everything. Bolivar had received aid from Haiti and had 16in return to abolish slavery in the areas he liberated. By 1854 slavery had been abolished everywhere except Spains 17colonies. Early promises to end Indian tribute and taxes on people of mixed origin came much 18 because the new nations still needed the revenue such policies19. Egalitarian sentiments were often tempered by fears that the mass of the population was 20 selfrule and democracy. （268 words） 1. AnativesBinhabitantsCpeoples Dindividuals 2. Aconfusedly BcheerfullyCworriedly Dhopefully 3. AsharedBforgot CattainedDrejected 4. ArelatedBcloseCopen Ddevoted 5. Aaccess BsuccessionCrightDreturn 6. APresumably BIncidentallyCObviously DGenerally 7. Aunique BcommonCparticularDtypical 8. AfreedomBoriginCimpactDreform 9. Atherefore Bhowever CindeedDmoreover 10. AwithBabout CamongDby 11. AallowedBpreached CgrantedDfunded 12. ASinceBIfCUnlessDWhile 13. Aas BforCunderDagainst 14. Aspread Binterference CexclusionDinfluence 15. Asupport Bcry CpleaDwish 16. AurgedBintended CexpectedDpromised 17. AcontrollingBformerCremainingDoriginal 18. Aslower Bfaster Ceasier Dtougher 19. Acreated BproducedCcontributedDpreferred 20. Apuzzled byBhostile toCpessimistic aboutDunprepared for微信扫描二维码关注启航考研（qh_kaoyan）考研自学平台 咋学微信号： 咋学网（zaxueapp）Section 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 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the late months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be ever more pronounced. What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: a）certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; b）winterborn babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c）soccermad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; d）none of the above.Anders Ericsson, a 58yearold psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above.” Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. “With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.” This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate pr