江苏省泰州市考研外语真题(含答案)学校:_ 班级:_ 姓名:_ 考号:_一、单选题(3题)1.AonBforCasDabout2.ASoBButCOrDThen3.A Unless B As C Lest D Although二、阅读理解(5题)4.The underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refers to 。A. criminalsB. pigeonsC. the stolen carsD. demands for money5.6.7.8.The word “passing”(Line 7, Paragraph 1) most probably means_.AinstantBtrivialCsimpleDnegligible三、1.Use of English(20题)9.(9)A.in B.to C.from D.with10.(5)A.amount B.attend C.lead D.adhere11.(2)A.of B.about C.for D.like12.(18)A.covered B.deposited C.buried D.reserved13.(7)A.skilled B.mental C.manual D.mechanical14.(6)A.living B.depending C.resting D.insisting15.(10)A.therefore B.moreover C.however D.henceforth16.(13)A.interests B.taxes C.incomes D.revenues17.(15)A.mainly B.uniquely C.approximately D.respectively18.(3)A.recognized B.revised C.suspended D.suspected19.(17)A.wiped out B.ruled out C.break down D.died out20.(4)A.illogical B.illegal C.improbable D.improper21.(14)A.living B.alive C.live D.lively22. The standard of living of any country means the average persons share of the goods and services which the country produces. A countrys standard of living, (1)_, depends first and (2)_ on its capacity to produce wealth. Wealth in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money (3)_ on things that money can buy. Goods such as food and clothing, and services such as transport and (4)_ . A countrys capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of (5)_ have an effect on one another. Wealth depends (6)_ a great extent upon a countrys natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a (7)_ climate; other regions possess none of them.Next to natural resources (8)_ the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well (9)_ as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and (10)_ wars, and (11)_ this and other reasons was (12)_ to develop her resources. (13)_ and stable political conditions, and (14)_ from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well (15)_ by nature but less well ordered.A countrys standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed (16)_ its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade. (17)_, Britains wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on (18)_ grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would (19)_ be lacking. A countrys wealth is, therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, (20)_ that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures.A.however B.therefore C.nevertheless D.furthermore23.(12)A.management B.insurance C.security D.techonology24. 【C7】A.through B.until C.into D.from25.(11)A.handle B.familiarize C.deal D.tackle26.(19)A.withdraws B.overwhelms C.invades D.exploits27. The cellphone, a device we have lived with for more than a decade, offers a good example of a popular technologys unforeseen side effects. More than one billion are (1)_ use around the world, and when asked, their (2)_ say they love their phones for the safety and convenience (3)_ provide. People also report that they are (4)_ in their use of their phones. One opinion survey (5)_ that 98 percent of Americans say they move away from (6)_ when talking on a wireless phone in public (7)_ 86 percent say they never or rarely speak (8)_ wireless phones when conducting (9)_ with clerks or bank tellers. Clearly, there exists a (10)_ between our reported cellphone behavior. and our actual behavior.Cellphone users that is to say, most of us are (11)_ instigators and victims of this form. of conversational panhandling, and it (12)_ a cumulatively negative effect on social space. As the sociologist Erving Guttmann observed in another (13)_, there is something deeply disturbing about people who are (14)_ contact in social situations because they are blatantly refusing to (15)_ to the norms of their immediate environment. Placing a cellphone call in public instantly transforms the strangers around you (16)_ unwilling listeners who must cede to your use of the public (17)_. a decidedly undemocratic effect for so democratic a technology. Listeners dont always passively (18)_ this situation: in recent years, people have been pepper-spr