Write your essay on on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)
2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试(英语二)试题
标准答案
section I Use of English（10points）
1.D 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.A 6.B 7.D 8.C 9.B 10.A 11.C 12.D 13.D 14.A 15.C 16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.B
Section Ⅱ Reading comprehension
partA
21.D 22.A 23.B 24.C 25.C 26.A 27.C 28.B 29.D 30.B 31.A 32.A 33.D 34.C 35.B 36.D 37.A 38.C 39.B 40.D Part B
41.F 42.T 43.F 44.T 45.F
Section Ⅲ Translation
最近，“承受力”成了一个流行词，但对Ted Ning来说，他对其含义有自己亲身的体会。在经历了一段无法承受的痛苦生活后，他清楚的认识到，旨在提高承受力的价值观只有通过每日的行为和抉择才能得到体现。
Ning回忆起九十年代后期销售保险那困惑的一年。在经历了网络泡沫的膨胀和破灭后，他急需找到一份工作，因此就与Boulder公司签了约。
但情况并不顺利。“这的确是糟糕的一步，因为它激不起我的工作热情，”Ning说。不出所料，工作上的进退维谷造成他销售业绩不佳。“我很痛苦，愁肠百结，常常在半夜惊醒，望着天花板发愣。我身无分文，需要这份工作。大家都说，?等等看，过一段时间情况会好转的。?”
Section Ⅳ Writing Part A
Dear xxx,
I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to you for your kindness to receive me when I
participated in an exchange program in USA.
Your generous help made it possible that I had a very pleasant stay and a chance to know
American cultures better. Besides, I think it is an honor for me to make friends with you and I will cherish the goodwill you showed to me wherever I go. I do hope that you will visit China one day, so that I could have the opportunity to repay your kindness and refresh our friendship.
I feel obliged to thank you again.
Sincerely yours,
Zhang Wei
Part B
In this chart, we can see the mobile phone subscriptions in developed countries have a steady and slight increase from 1990 to 2007 and then remain constant in 2008. Meanwhile the mobile phone subscriptions in developing countries have witnessed a slow increase from 1990 to 2004 and then a great surge from 2004 to 20007: the biggest surge happens from 2005 to 2006.
This chart reflects different developing modes of mobile phone industry in developed and developing countries. The developed countries have a limited number of populations, most of whom are well-educated. Therefore, the spreading of the mobile phone service is efficient and soon the market is saturated. Also at the beginning the developed countries have more people who can afford this service. The developing countries have a large population who keeps a large demand for mobile service. As the mobile phone service becomes cheaper and cheaper, the increasing customers subscribe to benefit from this service.
As discussed above, it is not surprising to see this change. In my opinion, this trend that the number of mobile-phone subscriptions is increasingly increasing will continue for a while in the future.
2011年硕士研究生入学考试2011英语二 真题及参考答案
Section I Use of English
Directions：
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech. But that very anonymity is also behind the explosion of cyber-crime that has 1 across the Web.
Can privacy be preserved 2 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 Web a safer place-a “voluntary trusted identity” system that would be the high-tech 5 of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled 6 one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential 7 to a specific 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, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems. The approach contrasts 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 it possible 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 complete online transactions with 14 ,trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure 15 which the transaction runs”.
Still, the administration’s plan has 16 privacy rights activists. Some applaud the approach; others are concerned. It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would 17 be a compulsory Internet “drive’s license” mentality.
The plan has also been greeted with 18 by some computer security experts, who worry that the “voluntary ecosystem” envisioned by Mr. Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet 19 .They argue that all Internet users should be 20 to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads. 1． 2． 3． 4． 5． 6． 7． 8． 9． 10． 11． 12． 13．
A.swept A.for
A.careless A.reason
A.information A.by A.linked A.dismiss A.recall A.relcased A.carry on A.In vain A.trusted
B.skipped B.within B.lawless B.reminder B.interference B.into B.directed B.discover B.suggest B.issued B.linger on B.In effect B.modernized
C.walked C.while C.pointless C.compromise C.entertainment C.from C.chained C.create C.select
C.distributed C.set in C.In return c.thriving
D.ridden D.though D.helpless D.proposal D.equivalent D.over
D.compared D.improve D.realize D.delivered D.log in
D.In contrast D.competing
14． 15． 16． 17． 18． 19． 20． A.caution A.on
A.divided A.frequestly A.skepticism A.manageable A.invited B.delight B.after
B.disappointed B.incidentally B.relerance B.defendable B.appointed C.confidence C.beyond C.protected C.occasionally C.indifference C.vulnerable C.allowed D.patience D.across D.united D.eventually D.enthusiasm D.invisible D.forced
完形填空参考答案
1~5 ACBDD 6~10 BACCB 11~15 DBACA 16~20 ADACD
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40points)
Text 1
Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs’s board as an outside director in January 2000: a year later she became president of Brown University. For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much eroticism. But by the end of 2009 Ms. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February the 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 made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive’s proposals. If the sky, and the share price is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.
The researchers from Ohio University used a database hat covered more than 10,000 firms and more than 64,000 different directors between 1989 and 2004. Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next. The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70. They fount that after a surprise departure, the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increased by nearly 20%. The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse. The effect tended to be larger for larger firms. Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at 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.