2013年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语（二）真题卷【Section I Use of English】Directions：Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank andmark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)Given the advantages of electronic money,you might think that we would move quickly to the cashlesssociety in which all payments are made electronically.,a true cashless society is probably not aroundthe corner.Indeed,predictions have been for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.Forexample,Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon“revolutionize thevery of money itself,”only to itself several years later.Why has the movement to a cashlesssociety been so in coming?Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper,several factors work the disappearance of the paper system.First,it is very to set up thecomputer,card reader,and telecommunications networks necessary to make electronic money the formof payment.Second,paper checks have the advantage that they receipts,something that manyconsumers are unwilling to .Third,the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of“float”it takes several days a check is cashed and funds are from the issuers account,which meansthat the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meantime.electronic payments areimmediate,they eliminate the float for the consumer.Fourth,electronic means of payment security and privacy concerns.We often hear media reportsthat an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information there.The fact that this is not an occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to accessbank accounts in electronic payments systems and from someone elses accounts.The of thistype of fraud is no easy task,and a new field of computer science is developing to security issues.Afurther concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic that contains alarge amount of personal data on buying habits.There are concerns that government,employers,andmarketers might be able to access these data,thereby encroaching on our privacy.12345678910111213141516171819201.HoweverAMoreoverBThereforeCOtherwiseD2.offAbackBoverCaroundD3.powerAconceptBhistoryCroleD4.rewardAresistBresumeCreverseD5.silentAsuddenBslowCsteadyD6.forAagainstBwithConD7.imaginativeAexpensiveBsensitiveCproductiveD【Section II Reading Comprehension（Part A）】Directions：Read the following four texts.Answer the questionsbelow each text by by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points)8.AsimilarBoriginalCtemporaryDdominant9.AcollectBprovideCcopyDprint10.give upAtake overBbring backCpass downD11.beforeAafterBsinceCwhenD12.keptAborrowedBreleasedCwithdrawnD13.UnlessAUntilBBecauseCThoughD14.hideAexpressBraiseCeaseD15.analyzedAsharedBstoredCdisplayedD16.unsafeAunnaturalBuncommonCunclearD17.stealAchooseBbenefitCreturnD18.considerationApreventionBmanipulationCjustificationD19.cope withAfight againstBadapt toCcall forD20.chunkAchipBpathCtrailDText 1In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cottoncountry about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only twoemployees today,”a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the manaway from the machines.”Davidsons article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that thereason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largelybecause of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession,but it is also because of the advances inboth globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacinglabor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job,could earn an average lifestyle.But,today,average is officially over.Being average just wont earn you what it used to.It cant when so manymore employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheaprobotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extratheir unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But theres been an acceleration.AsDavidson notes,”In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almostall the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobsabout 6 million intotal disappeared.”There will always be changenew jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know forsure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers tohave more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employ