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1997年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

Section II

Directions:

For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C], and [D]. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)

Manpower Inc., with 560,000 workers, is the world’s largest temporary employment agency. Every morning, its people 大41家 into the offices and factories of America, seeking a day’s work for a day’s pay. One day at a time. 大42家 industrial giants like General Motors and IBM struggle to survive 大43家 reducing the number of employees, Manpower, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is booming.

大44家 its economy continues to recover, the US is increasingly becoming a nation of part-timers and temporary workers. This “大45家” work force is the most important 大46家 in American business today, and it is 大47家 changing the relationship between people and their jobs. The phenomenon provides a way for companies to remain globally competitive 大48家 avoiding market cycles and the growing burdens 大49家 by employment rules, healthcare costs and pension plans. For workers it can mean an end to the security, benefits and sense of 大50家 that came from being a loyal employee. 41. [A] swarm[B] stride[C] separate[D] slip 42. [A] For[B] Because[C] As[D] Since 43. [A] from[B] in[C] on[D] by

44. [A] Even though[B] Now that[C] If only[D] Provided that 45. [A] durable[B] disposable[C] available[D] transferable 46. [A] approach[B] flow[C] fashion[D] trend

47. [A] instantly[B] reversely[C] fundamentally[D] sufficiently

Cloze Test

48. [A] but[B] while[C] and[D] whereas

49. [A] imposed[B] restricted[C] illustrated[D] confined 50. [A] excitement[B] conviction[C] enthusiasm[D] importance

Section III Reading Comprehension

Directions:

Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets. (40 points)

Text 1

It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group’s on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: “We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.”

The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia -- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part -- other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.

Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death -- probably by a deadly injection or pill -- to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. “I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks,” he says.

51. From the second paragraph we learn that ________.

[A] the objection to euthanasia is slow to come in other countries [B] physicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasia

[C] changing technology is chiefly responsible for the hasty passage of the law [D] it takes time to realize the significance of the law’s passage

52. When the author says that observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means ________.

[A] observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasia [B] similar bills are likely to be passed in the US, Canada and other countries [C] observers are waiting to see the result of the game of dominoes [D] the effect-taking process of the passed bill may finally come to a stop 53. When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will ________.

[A] face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia [B] experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient [C] have an intense fear of terrible suffering [D] undergo a cooling off period of seven days