2011年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试（英语二）试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered black and mark A,B,C or D onANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)The Internet affords anonymity to its users,a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech.But that veryCan privacy be preserved2 bringing safety and security to a world that seems increasingly 3?Last month,Howard Schmidt,the nation's cyber-czar,offered the federal government a 4 to make the Weba safer place-a"voluntary trusted identity"system that would be the high-tech5 of a physical key,a fingerprintand a photo ID card,all rolled6 one.The system might use a smart identity card,or a digital credential 7 to aspecific computer .and would authenticate users at a range of online services.The idea is to 8 a federation of private online identity systems.User could 9 which system to join,andonly registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems.The approachcontrasts with one that would require an Internet driver's license 10 by the government.Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these"single sign-on"systems that make itpossible for users to 11 just once but use many different services.12.the approach would create a"walled garden"n cyberspace,with safe"neighborhoods"and bright"streetlights"to establish a sense of a 13 community.Mr.Schmidt described it as a"voluntary ecosystem"in which"individuals and organizations can completeonline transactions with 14,trusting the identities ofeach other and the identities of theinfrastructure 15 which the transaction runs".Still,the administration's plan has 16privacy rights activists.Some applaud the approach;others areconcerned.It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would 17 be a compulsoryInternet“drive's license”mentality.The plan has also been greeted with 18by some computer security experts,who worry that the"voluntaryecosystem"envisioned by Mr.Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet 19.They argue that all Intemetusers should be20 to register and identify themselves,in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive onpublic roads.1.A.sweptB.skippedC.walkedD.ridden2.A.forB.withinC.whileD.though3.A.carelessB.lawlessC.pointlessD.helpless4.A.reasonB.reminderC.compromiseD.proposal5.A.informationB.interferenceC.entertainmentD.equivalent6.A.byB.intoC.fromD.over7.A.linkedB.directedC.chainedD.compared8.A.dismissB.discoverC.createD.improve9.A.recallB.suggestC.selectD.realize10.A.releasedB.issuedC.distributedD.delivered11.A.carry onB.linger onC.set inD.log in12.A.In vainB.In effectC.In returnD.In contrast13.A.trustedc.thrivingD.competing14.A.cautionB.delightC.confidenceD.patience15.A.onB.afterC.beyondD.across16.A.dividedB.disappointedC.protectedD.united17.A.frequentlyB.incidentallyC.occasionallyD.eventually18.A.skepticismB.relevanceC.indifferenceD.enthusiasm19.A.manageableB.defendableC.vulnerableD.invisible20.A.invitedB.appointedC.allowedD.forcedSectionⅡReading ComprehensionPartADirections:Read the following four texts.Answer the questions after each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark youranswers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40points)Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000:a year later shebecame president of Brown University.For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles withoutattracting much eroticism.But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman'scompensation committee;how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked?By Februarythe next year Ms.Simmons had left the board.The position was just taking up too much time,she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful,yet less biased,advisers on a firm's board.Having madetheir wealth and their reputations elsewhere,they presumably have enough independence to disagree with thechief executive's proposals.If the sky,and the share price is falling,outside directors should be able to give advicebased on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database hat covered more than 10,000 firms and more than64,000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.Then they simply checked which directors stayed from oneproxy statement to the next.The most likely reason for departing a board was age,so the researchers concentratedon those"surprise"disappearances by directors under the age of 70.They fount that after a surprise departure,theprobability that the company will subsequently have to restate eamings increased by nearly 20%.The likelihoodof being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases,and the stock is likely to perform worse.The effecttended to be larger for larger fimms.Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performanceat the firm is suggestive,it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.Often they"trade up."Leaving riskier,smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputationsif they leave a firm before bad news breaks,even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the timeany wrongdoing occurred.Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to createincentives.Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms.Simmons,once again very popular oncampus.21.According to Paragraph 1,Ms.Simmons was criticized forA gaining excessive profits2[B]failing to fulfill her duty[C]refusing to make compromises[D]leaving the board in tough times22.We leam from Paragraph 2 that outside directors are supposed to be[A]generous investors[B]unbiased executives[C]share price forecasters[D]independent advisers23.According to the researchers from Ohio University after an outside director's surprise departure,the firm islikely to[A]become more stable[B]report increased eamings[C]do less well in the stock market[D]perform worse in lawsuits24.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors[A]may stay for the attractive offers from the firm[B]have often had records of wrongdoings in the firm[C]are accustomed to stress-free work in the firm[D]will decline incentives from the firm25.The author's attitude toward the role of outside directors is[A]permissive[B]positive[C]scomful[D]criticalText2Whatever happened to the death of newspaper?A year ago the end seemed near.The recession threatened toremove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the intemet.Newspapers like the San FranciscoChronicle were chronicling their own doom.America's Federal Trade commission launched a round of talks abouthow to save newspapers.Should they become charitable corporations?Should the state subsidize them It willhold another meeting soon.But the discussions now seem out of date.In much of the world there is the sign of crisis.German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession.Even American newspapers,which inhabit the most troubled come of the global industry,have not only survivedbut often retumed to profit.Not the 20%profit margins that were routine a few years ago,but profit all the same.It has not been much fun.Many papers stayed afloat by pushing joumalists overboard.The AmericanSociety of News Editors reckons that 13,500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007.Readers are paying more forslimmer products.Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs.Yet these desperatemeasures have proved the right ones and,sadly for many journalists,they can be pushed further.Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses,with a healthier mix of revenues from readers andadvertisers.American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads.Fully 87%of their revenuescame from advertising in 2008,according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation Development(OECD).In Japan the proportion is 35%.Not surprisingly,Japanese newspapers are much more stable.The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody,but much of the damage has beenconcentrated in areas where newspaper are least distinctive.Car and film reviewers have gone.So have science3and general business reporters.Foreign bureaus have been savagely cut off.Newspapers are less complete as aresult.But completeness is no longer a virtue in the newspaper business.26.By saying"Newspapers like...their own doom"(Lines 3-4,Para.1),the author indicates thatnewspaper_[A]neglected the sign of crisis[B]failed to get state subsidies[C]were not charitable corporations[D]were in a desperate situation27.Some newspapers refused delivery to distant suburbs probably because.[A]readers threatened to pay less[B]newspapers wanted to reduce costs[D]subscribers complained about slimmer products28.Compared with their American counterparts,Japanese newspapers are much more stable because they_[A]have more sources of revenue[B]have more balanced newsrooms[C]are less dependent on advertising[D]are less affected by readership29.What can be inferred from the last paragraph about the current newspaper business?[A]Distinctiveness is an essential feature of newspapers.[B]Completeness is to blame for the failure of newspaper.[C]Foreign bureaus play a crucial role in the newspaper business.[D]Readers have lost their interest in car and film reviews.30.The most appropriate title for this text would be_[A]American Newspapers:Struggling for Survival[B]American Newspapers:Gone with the Wind[C]American Newspapers:A Thriving Business[D]American Newspapers:A Hopeless StoryText3We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers retuming home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriagebureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combinationwith the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase"less is more"wasactually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associatedwith the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War IIand took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence onthe course of American architecture,but none more so that Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact that a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modem architects,he employed metal,glass and laminatedwood-materials that we take for granted today buy that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticatedpresentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,weresmaller-two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward "less"was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building moremodest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designedin the 1890s and the early 20th century.The "Case Study Houses"commissioned from talented modern architects by Califomia Arts Architecturemagazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more"trend.Aestheticeffect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph everydaylife-few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers-but his belief thatself-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.31.The postwar American housing style largely reflected the Americans'[A]prosperity and growth[B]efficiency and practicality[C]restraint and confidence[D]pride and faithfulness32.Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about Bauhaus?[A]It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.[B]Its designing concept was affected by World War II.[C]Most American architects used to be associated with it.[D]It had a great influence upon American architecture.33.Mies held that elegance of architectural design[A]was related to large space[B]was identified with emptiness[C]was not reliant on abundant decoration[D]was not associated with efficiency34.What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago's Lake Shore Drive?[A]They ignored details and proportions.[B]They were built with materials popular at that time.[C]They were more spacious than neighboring buildings.[D]They shared some characteristics of abstract art.35.What can we learn about the design of the "Case Study House"?[A]Mechanical devices were widely used.[B]Natural scenes were taken into consideration[C]Details were sacrificed for the overall effect.[D]Eco-friendly materials were employed.Text4Will the European Union make it?The question would have sounded strange not long ago.Now even theproject's greatest cheerleader's talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle"of debt,population decline andlower growth.As well as those chronic problems,the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core,the 16 countries thatuse the single currency.Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies,weaker or stronger,will one day