12006 年年全全国国硕硕士士研研究究生生招招生生考考试试英英语语试试题题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D onANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)The homeless make up a growing percentage of Americas population.1, homelessness has reached suchproportions that local governments cant possibly2. To help homeless people3independence, the federalgovernment must support job training programs,4 the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing.5everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates6anywhere from 600,000 to 3million.7the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless is8.One of the federal governments studies9that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by theend of this decade.Finding ways to10 this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult. 11whenhomeless individuals manage to find a12that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, agood number still spend the bulk of each day13the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adultsare addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Manyothers,14not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday15skills needed to turn theirlives16. Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when thereare17programs that address the many needs of the homeless.18Edward Zlotkowski, director ofcommunity service at Bentley College in Massachusetts,19it, “There has to be20of programs. Whatsneeded is a package deal.”1.A IndeedB LikewiseC ThereforeD Furthermore2.A standB copeC approveD retain3.A inB forC withD toward4.A raiseB addC takeD keep5.A GenerallyB AlmostC HardlyD Not6.A coverB changeC rangeD differ7.A Now thatB AlthoughC ProvidedD Except that8.A inflatingB expandingC increasingD extending9.A predictsB displaysC provesD discovers10.A assistB trackC sustainD dismiss11.A HenceB ButC EvenD Only12.A lodgingB shelterC dwellingD house13.A searchingB strollingC crowdingD wandering14.A whenB onceC whileD whereas15.A lifeB existenceC survivalD maintenance全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页，共 39 页216.A aroundB overC onD up17.A complexB comprehensiveCcomplementaryD compensating18.A SoB SinceC AsD Thus19.A putsB interpretsC assumesD makes20.A supervision B manipulationC regulationD coordinationSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C, or D. Markyour answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people.There 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 the19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimateshops catering to a knowledgeable elite” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class orbackground. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media, advertising and sports areother forces for homogenization.Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not bealtogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguezreports that todays immigration is neither at unprecedented levels nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998immigrants were 9.8 percent of the population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, considerthree indices of assimilationlanguage, home ownership and intermarriage.The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countriesof origin spoke English well or very well after ten years of residence.” The children of immigrants tend to bebilingual and proficient in English. “By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority ofimmigrant families.” Hence the description of America as a “graveyard” for languages. By 1996 foreign-bornimmigrants who had arrived before 1970 had a home ownership rate of 75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percentrate among native-born Americans.Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites andblacks.” By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent ofAsian-American women are married to non-Asians.Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United Statesremain somehow immune to the nations assimilative power.”全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 2 页，共 39 页3Are there divisive issues and poc