2014年考研英语精选模拟试题及答案

1、育路考研网： UserUser2014 年考研英语精选模拟试题及答案以下是我们整理的2014 年考研英语 精选模拟试题及答案，供您参考！Section I Use of English Directions ：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)Many professions are associated with a particular stereotype. The 1 im

2、age of a writer, for instance, is 2 a slightly easy-looking person, locked in an attic, writing 3 furiously for days 4 . Naturally, he has his favorite pen and note-paper, or a beat-up typewriter, 5 which he could not produce a readable word.Nowadays, we know that such images 6 little resemblance to

3、 reality. But are they 7 false? In the case of at least one writer, it would seem not Dame Muriel Spark, who 8 80 in February, in many ways resembles this stereotypical sitter. She is certainly not crazy, and she doesnt work in an attic. But she is rather 9 about the tools of her 10.She 11 writing w

4、ith a certain type of pen in a certain type of notebook, which she buys from a certain 12 in Edinburgh called James Thin. In fact, so 13 is she that, if someone uses one of her pens 14 , she immediately throws it away. And she claims she would have enormous difficulty writing in any notebook 15 thos

5、e sold by James Thin. This could soon be a problem, as the shop no longer 16 them, and Dame Muriel s 17 of 72-page spiral bound is nearly finished.As well as her18about writing materials, Muriel Spark 19 one other characteristic with the stereotypical writer： her work is the most important thing in

6、her life. It has stopped her from marrying; 20_ her old friends and made her new ones, and driven her from London to New York to Rome. Today she lives in the Italian province of Tuscany with a friend.1. A historicB antiqueCseniorDclassic2. A inBofCwithDfor3. AawayBoff Con Ddown4. A on finish Bon fin

7、al C on end D on stop5. A except Bwithout Cbeyond D on6. A bear Bstand Chold D keep7. A extremelyB thoroughlyClikelyD completelyThe Better Business Bureau at Vancouver gets 250 complaints a week, twice as many as five years ago.The bureau then had one complaints counselor and now has four. People co

8、mplain about being insulted,UserPage 1育路考研网： UserUserhaving their intelligence and integrity questioned, and being threatened. One will hear about people being hauled almost bodily out the door by somebody saying things like I dont have to serve you! or this is private property, get out and dont com

9、e back!What can customers do? If the bureaus arbitration process fails to settlea dispute, a customer s only re?course iso tsue in call claims court. But because of the costs and time it takes,relatively few ever do.There is a lot of support for the notion that service has, in part, fallen victim to

10、 generational change. Many young people regard retailing as just a bead-end job that youre just going to do temporarily on your way to a real job. Young clerks often lack both knowledge and civility. Employers have to train young people in simple manners because that is not being done at home. Sales

11、people today, especially the younger ones, have grownup in a television-computer society where they ve interacted largely wthi complaints from businesses about graduates is the lack of inter-personal skills.machines. One of the biggestWhat customers really want is access. They want to get through wh

12、en they call, they dont want busysignals, they dont want interactive systems telling them to posh one for this and two for that they dont want voice mail. And if customers do not get what they want, they defect. Some people go back to local smallbusinesses ： the Asian greengrocer, a Greek baker and

13、a Greek fishmonger. They dont wear nametags, but one gets to know them, all by name.21. At a business place of bad service, the worst one can get is A indifference and rudenessB naked hostility and physical violenceC having intelligence and integrity questionedD being insulted and threatened22. One

14、of the reasons for such ill feeling in the marketplace is thatA shoppers are usually strident, frustrated and impatientB shoppers often take businesses to court to settle themC businesses use new technology instead of employeesD businesses are keen on keeping customers, not getting them23. What has

15、changed at Vancouver Better Service Bureau in the past five years?A More effective.B Less bureaucracy. CMore business.D Better staff.UserPage 2育路考研网： UserUser24. Young clerks often lack interpersonal skills chiefly because they.A are skilled in dealing with machines not peopleB are not trained in si

16、mple manners at homeC fall victims to generational changeD take retailing to be a temporary job25. The authors attitude towards businesses and bad service isthem.A attacking B understandingC regretting Dwarning Text 2The United States is the United Nations biggest deadbeat. Conservatives in Congress

17、, led by Senator Jessie Helms, stopped Washington from paying its dues until the UN reduced its as?sessment and madeother changes. Now, thanks to the hard work Richard Holbrook, America s UN representative, and forpeacekeeping. Mr. Helms, who has praised the deal, should release the dues he has been

18、 holding hostage $ 582 million of the $1.3 billion the UN says it is owed.The new formula would reduce the US contribution to the general UN budget to 22 percent from the current level of 25 percent a symbolic difference of only $ 34 million a year. Washing?ton, which has been payingjust over 30 per

19、cent of the peacekeeping budget, would now pay 27 percent a difference of $ 80 million to$ 120 million a year and that percentage will drop fur?ther. While poor countries would not pay more, the dues of other wealthy nations would rise un?der the new system.The agreement would probably not have been

20、 reached without the intervention of the media magnate Ted Turner, who is already contributing $ 1 billion to UN programs over 10 years. Mr. Turner gave $ 34 million to cover the one-year gap during which other nations prepare to raise their contributions. His offer should embarrass Congress, which

21、forced diplomats to waste their influence at the UN in months of negotiations to save a sum that is modest by federal budget stan?dards.US debts reduced the UNs ability to reimburse nations that contributed peacekeepers to UN missions worldwide. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jordan and other poor countries

22、essentially made up for the absence of US financial support. Since Washington benefits from peacekeepers, which damp down conflicts without US troops, It should not be discouraging nations from sending them.Washingtons natural allies at the UN were concerned that the US wanted influence without meet

23、ing its treaty obligations. Some of them withheld support for US proposals. Mr. Helms should also end his hold on an additional $244 million in back dues, whose release he has conditioned on a reduction in US dues for specialized UN agencies such as UNICEF and the UN refugee organization. These agen

24、cies need full support. Switch by Mr. Helms would help the in?coming Bush administration, which would reap the benefits of the restoration of America s full in?fluence at the United Nations.UserPage 3育路考研网： UserUser26. Senator Jessie Helms stopped the US government from paying its dues to the UN bec

25、ause he wants .A other countries to pay as much as the USB Washington to make assessments and changesC the UNs general budget to be trimmed ,D the US to share a smaller part of the burden27. The new formula has adjusted the assessment and will save the US government at least a year.A $114 millionB $

26、 154 millionC $ 200 millionD $ 234 million28. After the budget reassessment, the gap left by the US will be covered by.A Ted TurnerB peacekeeping countriesC all member nationsD other wealthy nations29. The author believes that Richard Holbrooks negotiations at the UN were. AA money-saving successB A

27、n eye-catching embarrassmentC A waste of US influenceD A defense of US interest30. From the passage, we can infer that.A The US contribution to the UN has become a huge burden to WashingtonB The new formula has not solved all problems concerning the US duesC The dispute over the US dues has been del

28、iberately made politicalD Ted turners intervention saved the US a diplomatic disaster Text 3With its cluster of high-rises known as the Frankfurter Manhattan, its big banks and its bustling airport, thisis a town with pretensions. Petra Roth, the mayor, sees it as a global city providing hub functio

29、ns for the Continent,a place that should be as cosmopolitan as New York.UserPage 4育路考研网： UserUserFrankfurt is not just the city of foreign companies, but it is also home to 8000 Muslims, most of them Turks of modest means. Foreigners, including a large contingent from the former Yugoslavia, make up

30、30 percent of the population; one of the highest ratios for any city in Europe troubled by immigration. But there is no blood on the streets. Quietly flows the Main River be?neath that mock-New World skyline.As Germany goes these days, so goes Europe. And if Frankfurt, the headquarters for Europes n

31、ew Central Bank and so the capital of Europes nascent shared currency, the euro, is comfortable being apart-Muslim city with 27 mosques, perhaps the so-called New Europe of one money and blurred borders can bea more tolerant place.Xenophobia is very unusual in Frankfurt,SAID Francesco Renaldo, an It

32、alian banker. Perhaps its the 300 foreign banks, or the vast airport, or the long American presence. Not until 1994 did 30 000 American troopspack up and go home the Cold War ended and, so people here say, the city shaped in the soldiers open,can-do spirit.But even here, at the heart of American-inf

33、luenced Europe, far from the strained psyche of a former East German city like Esau, where rightists this year killed an African immigrant, the ghost of xenophobia is not entirely absent. For Frankfurt like Germany, like Europeis strug?gling to define a shifting identity.As the departed US soldiers

34、suggest, this city is no longer part of a Cold War country living what Safer Seneca, a German intellectual of Turkish descent, has called a quasi a-national exis?tence under the umbrella of the West. Far from it, this is now the financial center of a strong Germany seeking to define and express a ne

35、w national pride.But Frankfurt is also the capital of a unique experiment in abolishing the nation-state through the voluntary abandonment of sovereignty involved in giving up national control of monetary poli?cy and adopting a common currency.So the Continents largest state, on reborn only in 1990,

36、 yet also one that is being abolished, veers, this way and that in its mood, one minute nostalgic for a proud Fatherland, the next in the vanguard of what Foreign Minister Joshua Fischer, himself a child of Frankfurt, calls a post-national era.31. Frankfurt is referred to as aglobal citylike New Yor

37、k because of A the foreign banks and businessesB the number of foreigners in the cityC the 80,000 Muslims and mosquesD the refugees from former Yugoslavia32. Quietly flows the Main River beneath that mock-New World skyline probably means that .A The new central bank had a large inflow of fundsB The

38、city life goes on quietly without racial conflictsUserPage 5育路考研网： UserUserC The population moves quietly in the street of the cityD The foreigners come to the city like a flow of river33. The word xenophobia probably means.A fear of warB psychological nervousnessC hatred of foreignersD open, can-do

39、 spirit34. With the end of the Cold War, Germany is expected to.A remain under the umbrella of the U SB assume a new national prideC become the financial center of EuropeD have surges of rightist killings35. The unique experiment of European Union requires Germany to.A enter a post-national eraB ret

40、urn to the old proud FatherlandC abandon sovereignty and governmentD seek a shifting identity Text 4For many years, and discussion of reparations to compensate the descendants of African slaves for 246 years of bondage and another century of legalized discrimination was dismissed.Opponents contend t

41、hat the fledgling reparations movement overlooks many important facts. First, the assert, reparations usually are paid to direct victims, as was the case when the US gov?ernment apologizedand paid compensation to Japanese-Americans interned during the World War II. Similarly, Holocaust (大屠杀 )survivo

42、rs have received payments from the Germans. In addition, not all blacks were slaves, and an estimated 3 000 were slave owners.!-empirenews.page-8. AobservedB enteredC sawD turned9. A particularB specificC peculiarD special10. AbusinessBtradeCvocationD careerUserPage 6育路考研网： UserUser11. Apersists in

43、B insists on C keeps on D indulges in12. Agrocer Bchemist C stationer D baker13. Amysterious B conventional Csuperstitious D traditional14. A by fortune B by accident C on purpose D by coincidence15. Amuch as B rather than C such as D other than16. A piles B stores C stocks D conceals17. A supply B

44、provision C supplement D addition18. Adevotion B preoccupation C worship D obsession19. A shares B agrees C sides D possesses20. Aspent B cost C exhausted D tired Section II Reading ComprehensionPart 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 1For thousands of Canadians, bad service is neither make-believe nor amusing. It is an aggra?vating and worsening rea