MBA英语历年真习题答案详解

1、2001年MBA英语真题及答案考生须知选择题的答案须用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡上，其它笔填涂的或做在试卷或其它类型答题卡上的答案无效。其他题一律用蓝色或黑色钢笔或圆珠笔在答题纸上按规定要求作答，凡做在试卷上或未做在指定位置的答案无效。交卷时，请配合监考人员验收，并请监考人员在准考证相应位置签字（作为考生交卷的凭据）。否则，所产生的一切后果由考生自负。2001年全国攻读工商管理硕士研究生入学考试英语试题Section I Vocabulary (10 points)Directions:There are 20 incomplete sentences in this section. For ea

2、ch sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.1.The annual-of the department store starts tomorrow.Astocking. BstocktakingCstockpiling.Dstockholding.2.Remember to ask for a -of quality for these goods;

3、otherwise they will not offer any maintenance.Awarranty.BpromiseCcertificate.Drecejpt.3.In many countries tobacco and medicine are government-.Acontrol.BmonopolyCbusiness.Dbelongings.4.Bank notes are not usually-into gold nowadays.Ainverted.BrevertibleCconvertible.Ddiverting.5.I-you that the goods w

4、ill be delivered next week.Ainsist.BconfirmCassure.Densure.6.The manager just-his resignation to the board meeting yesterday and today another one took his place.Asent up.Bsent offCsent out.Dsent in.7.Lets not-over such a trifle!Afall through.Bfall outCfall off.Dfall back.8.The cultures of China and

5、 Japan have shared many features,but each has used them according to its national-.Apersonality.BtemperamentCinterest.Ddestiny.9.Our journey was slow because the train stopped-at different villages.Agradually.BcontinuouslyCconstantly.Dcontinually.10.When he realized the police had spotted him,the ma

6、n-the exit as quickly as possible.Amade for.Bmade outCmade up to.Dmade way.11.The goods-when we arrived at the airport.Awere just unloaded.Bwere just being unloadedCwere just been unloaded.Dhad just unloaded.12.The professor can hardly find sufficient grounds-his argument in favor of the new theory.

7、Awhich to base on.Bon which to baseCto base on which.Dwhich to be based on.13.I think your words carry more weight than-.Aanybody elses.Bthat of anybodysCanybodyelse.Delse anybodys.14.The second book was-by August 1996,but two years later,the end was still nowhere in sight.Ato complete.BcompletedCto

8、 have been completed.Dto have completed.15.I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible,but I-fully occupied the whole of last week.Awere.BwasChad been.Dhave been.16.No difficulty and no hardship-discouraged him.Ahas.BhaveChas been.Dhave been.17.I always keep candles in

9、 the house-there is a power cut.Aif.Bin caseCon condition that.Dwhen.18.Some modern childrens fiction deals with serious problems and situations with a realism seldom-in earlier books.Aattempted.BattemptingCbeing attempted.Dhaving attempted.19.Written in a hurry,-.Ahe made many mistakes in the paper

10、.Bthere were a lot of mistakes in the paper.Cwe found plenty of errors in her paperDthe paper was full of errors.20.Some student prefer a strict teacher who tells them exactly what to do.Others prefer-to work on their own.Aleaving.Bto leaveChaving been left.Dto be left.Section II Cloze (10 points)Di

11、rections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory.The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions,the bases 21the decisions we make,and the roots of our habits

12、 and skills are to be 22in our past experiences,which are broughtsintosthe present23memory.Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep 24 available for later use.It includes not only"remembering"thing like arithmetic or historical facts,but also any change in the way an animal typically

13、behaves.Memory is25when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile.Memory is also involved when a sixyearold child learns to swing a baseball bat.Memory26not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines.Computers,for example

14、,contain devices for storing data for later use.It is interesting to compare the memorystorage capacity of a computer27that of a human being.The instantaccess memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000"words"ready for28use.A naverage American teenager probably recognizes the meaning

15、s of about 100,000 words of English.However,this is but a fraction of the total29of information which the teenager has stored.Consider,for example,the number of facts and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.The use of words is the basis of the advanced problemsolving intelligence of huma

16、n beings.A large part of a persons memory is in terms of words and30of words.21Aof. Bto. Cfor. Don22Akept. Bfound. Csought. Dstored23Aby. Bfrom. Cwith. Din24.Aexperiences. BbasesCobservations. Dinformation.25Acalled. Btaken. Cinvolved. Dincluded26Aexists. Bappears. Caffects. Dseems27Ato. Bwith. Caga

17、inst. Dfor28.Aprogressive. BinstructiveCinstant. Dprotective.29Adeal. Bnumber. Cmount. Damount30.Acombinations. BcorrectionsCcoordinations. Dcollections.Section III Reading comprehension (40 points)Section ADirections:.There are 5 passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or u

18、nfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D.You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.Questions 31 to 34 are based on the following passage:The stability of the U.S. banking system is maintained by

19、means of supervision and regulation,inspections,deposit insurance,and loans to troubled banks.For over 50 years,these precautions have prevented banking panics.However,there have been some close calls.The collapse of Continental lllinois Bank & Trusted Company of Chicago in 1984 did not bring do

20、wn the banking system,but it certainly rattled some windows.In the late 1970s,Continental soared to a leadership position among Midwestern banks.Parts of its growth strategy were risky,however.It made many loans in the energy field,including billion that it took over from Penn Square Band of Oklahom

21、a City.To obtain the funds it needed to make these loans,Continental relied heavily on shortterm borrowing from other banks and large,30day certificates of deposit-"hot money",in banking jargon.At least one Continental officer saw danger signs and wrote a warning memo to her superiors,but

22、the memo went unheeded .Although the Comptroller of the Currency inspected Continental on a regular basis,it failed to see low serious its problems were going to be.Penn Square Bank was closed by regulators in July 1982.When energy prices began to slip,most of the billion in loans that Continental h

23、ad taken over from the smaller banks turned out to be had.Other loans to troubled companies such Chrysler,lnternational Harvester,and Braniff looked questionable.Seeing these problem，"hot money"owners began to pull their funds out of Continental.By the spring of 1984,a run on Continental h

24、ad begun.In May,the bank had to borrow .5 billion from the Fed to replace overnight funds it bad lost.But this was not enough.To try to stem the outflow of deposits from Continemtal,the FDIC agreed to guarantee not just the first ,000 of each depositors money but all of it.Nevertheless,the run conti

25、nued.Federal regulators tried hard to find a sound bank that could take over Continental-a common way of rescuing failing banks.But Continental was just too big for anyone to buy.By July,all hope of a private sector rescue was dashed.Regulators faced a stark choice:Let Continental collapse,or take i

26、t over themselves.Letting the bank fail seemed too risky.It was estimated that more than 100 other banks had placed enough funds in Continental to put them at risk if Continental failed.Thus,on a rainy Thursday at the end of July,the FDIC in effect nationalized Continental Illinois at a cost of .5 b

27、illion.This kept the banks doors open and prevented a chain reaction.However,in all but a technical sense,Continental had become the biggest bank failure in U.S.history.31.In the spring of 1984,Continental experienced-.Aa fast growth period. Ba stability periodCa run. Dan oil price decrease.32.By Ju

28、ly,all hope of a private sector rescue was-.Adestroyed. BabsurdCdesperate. Ddamaged.33.The nationalizatin of Continental-.Asaved itBmade"hot money"owners continue to pull their funds out of Continental.Calmost brought down the banking systemDfired many highranking officers.34.Banking panic

29、s may be prevented by means of-.Adeposit insurance.Bgrowth strategyClongterm borrowing.Dwarning memo.Questions 35 to 38 are based on the following passage:If sustainable competitive advantage depends on workforce skills,American firms have a problem.Humanresource management is not traditionally seen

30、 as central to the competitive survival of the firm in the United States.Skill acquisition is considered as an individual responsibility.Labor is simply another factor of production to be hired-rented at the lowest possible cost-much as one buys raw materials or equipment.The lack of importance atta

31、ched to humanresource management can be seen in the corporation hierarchy.In an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command.The post of head of humanresource managements is usually a specialized job,off at the edge of the corporate hierarchy.The executive who holds i

32、t is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer(CEO).By way of contrast,in Japan the head of humanresource management is central-usually the second most important executive,after the CEO,in the firms hierarchy.While American firms often talk

33、about the vast amounts spent on training their work forces,in fact they invest less in the skill of their employees than do the Japanese or German firms.The money they do invest is also more highly concentrated on professional and managerial employees.And the limited investments that are made in tra

34、ining workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies.As a result,problems emerge when new breakthrough technologies arrive.If American workers,for example,take

35、 much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany(as they do),the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United Stated.More time is required before equipment is up and running at capacity,and the need for extensive retrai

36、ning generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed with which new equipment can be employed.The result is a slower pace of technological change.And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half.If the bottom half cant effectively staff the

37、 processes that have to be operated,the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear.35.Which of the following applies to the management of human resources in American companies?A.They hire people at the lowest cost regardless of their skills.B.They see the gaining of

38、 skills as their employees own business.C.They attach more importance to workers than to equipment.D.They only hire skilled workers because of keen competition.36.What is the position of the head of human resource management in an American firm?A.He is one of the most important executives in the fir

39、m.B.His post is likely to disappear when new technologies are introduced.C.He is directly under the chief financial executive.D.He has no authority in making important decisions in the firm.37.The money most American firms spend in training mainly goes to-.Aworkers who can operate new equipmentBtech

40、nological and managerial staffCworkers who lack basic background skillsDtop executives.38.What is the main idea of the passage?A.American firms are different from Japanese and German firms in human resource management.B.Extensive retraining is indispensable to effective humanresource man agement.C.T

41、he head of humanresource management must be in the central position in a firms hierarchy.D.The humanresource management strategies of American firms affect their competitive capacity.Questions 39 to 42 are based on the following passage:Internet is a vast network of computers that connects many of t

42、he worlds businesses,institutions,and individuals.The internet,which means interconnected network of networks,links tens of thousands of smaller computer networks.These networks transmit huge amounts of information in the form of words,images,and sounds.The Internet was information on virtually ever

43、y topic.Network users can search through sources ranging from vast databases to small electronic"bulletin boards ,"where users form discussion groups around common interests.Much of the Internets traffic consists of messages sent from one computer user to another.These messages are called

44、electronic mail or email.Internet users have electronic addresses that allow them to send and receive email.Other uses of the network include obtaining news,joining electronic debates,and playing electronic games.One feature of the Internet,known as the World Wide Web,provides graphics,audio,and vid

45、eo to enhance the information in its documents.These documents cover a vast number of topics.People usually access the Internet with a device called a modem.Modems connect computers to the network through telephone lines.Much of the Internet operates through worldwide telephone networks of fiberopti

46、c cables.These cables contain hairthin strands of glass that carry data as pulses of light.They can transmit thousands of times more data than local phone lines,most of which consist of copper wires.The history of the Internet began in the 1960s.At that time,the Advanced Research Projects Agency (AR

47、PA)of the United States Department of Defense developed a network of computers called ARPAnet.Originally,ARPAnet connected only military a nd government computer systems.Its purpose was to make these systems secure in the event of a disaster or was.Soon after the creation of ARPAnet,universities and

48、 other institutions developed their own computer networks.These networks eventually were merged with ARPAnet to form the Internet.By the 1990s,anyone with a computer,modem,and Internet software could link up to the Internet.In the future,the Internet will probably grow more sophisticated as computer

49、 technology becomes more powerful.Many experts believe the Internet may become part of a larger network called the information superhighway.This network,still under development,would link computers with telephone companies,cable television stations,and other communication systems.People could bank,s

50、hop,watch TV,and perform many other activities through the network.39.This passage is about the-of the Internet.Afuture.Bgeneral introductionCuse.Dhistory.40.Which of the following statements about the Internet is true?A.ARPA was the first net used by American universities and institutions.B.The his

51、tory of the Internet can be traced back to fifty years ago.C.The purpose of the Internet is to protect the world in the event of war.D.ARPAnet formed the foundation of the Internet nowadays.41.The Internet enables people to do all the following things EXCEPT-.Asending email.Bobtaining newsCexchangin

52、g modem.Dinternet related chat(IRC).42.According to the last paragraph,in the future-.A.in may be hard to predict the development of the Internet.B.the Internet will become an indispensable superhighway.C.the Internet will be applied more.D.the Internet will combine cable stations.Questions 43 to 46

53、 are based on the following passage:Sex prejudices are based on and justified by the ideology that biology is destiny.According to this ideology,basic biological and psychological differences exist between the sexes.These differences require each sex to play a separate role in social life.Women are

54、the weaker sexboth physically and emotionally.Thus,they are naturally suited,much more so than men,to the performance of domestic duties .A womans place,under normal circumstances,is within the protective environment of the home.Nature has determined that women play caretaker roles,such as wife and mother and homemaker.On the other hand,men are best suited to go outsintosthe competitive world of work and politics,where serious responsibil