上篇历年真题
Read the following text?Choose the best words for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1?10 points
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11，2009?It is the first worldwide epidemic 1 by the World Health Organization in 41 years?
The heightened alert 2 an emergency meeting with flu expects in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia and rising 3 in Britain，Japan，Chile and elsewhere?
But the epidemic is“4”in severity according to Margaret Chan，the organization?s director general， 5 the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery，often in the 6 of any medical treatment?
The outbreak came to global 7 in late April 2009，when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths 8 healthy adults?As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic，cases began to 9 in New York City，the southwestern United States and around the world?
In the United States，new cases seemed to fade 10 warmer weather arrived?But in late September 2009，officials reported there was 11 flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the 12 tested are the new swine flu，also known asAH1N1，not seasonal flu?In the U?S?it has 13 more than one million people，and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations?
Federal health officials 14 Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began 15 orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine?The new vaccine，which is different from the annual flu vaccine，is 16 ahead of expectations?More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009，though most of those 17 doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type,which is not 18 for pregnant women,people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties,heart disease or several other 19?But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high?risk groups：health care workers，people 20 infants and healthy young people?
1. ［A］criticized［B］appointed［C］commented［D］designated
2. ［A］proceeded［B］activated［C］followed ［D］prompted
3. ［A］digits ［B］numbers［C］amounts ［D］sums
4. ［A］moderate ［B］normal［C］unusual［D］extreme
5. ［A］with［B］in ［C］from ［D］by
6. ［A］progress ［B］absence［C］presence［D］favor
7. ［A］reality ［B］phenomenon［C］concept［D］notice
8. ［A］over［B］for ［C］among［D］to
9. ［A］stay up ［B］crop up［C］fill up［D］cover up
10. ［A］as［B］if ［C］unless［D］until
11. ［A］excessive［B］enormous［C］significant ［D］magnificent
12. ［A］categories［B］examples［C］patterns［D］samples
13. ［A］imparted［B］immersed［C］injected［D］infected
14. ［A］released ［B］relayed［C］relieved［D］remained
15. ［A］placing［B］delivering［C］taking［D］giving
16. ［A］feasible［B］available［C］reliable ［D］applicable
17. ［A］prevalent［B］principal［C］innovative［D］initial
18. ［A］presented［B］restricted［C］recommended ［D］introduced
19. ［A］problems［B］issues［C］agonies［D］sufferings
20. ［A］involved in［B］caring for［C］concerned with ［D］warding off
Part A
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 1
The longest bull run in a century of art?market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst，“Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, at Sotheby?s in London on September 15th 2008?All but two pieces sold, fetching more than 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist?It was a last victory?As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street，Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy?
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since 2003?At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier?Since then it may have come down to$50 billion?But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed，passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries?
In the weeks and months that followed Mr?Hirst?s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable?In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms?Sales of contemporary art fell by two?thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008?Within weeks the world?s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby?s and Christie?s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them?
The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989?This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant?But Edward Dolman, Christie?s chief executive, says: “I?m pretty confident we?re at the bottom?”
What makes this slump different from the last，he says，is that there are still buyers in the market?Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell?The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market?But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return?
21?In the first paragraph，Damien Hirst?s sale was referred to as“a last victory”because?
［A］the art market had witnessed a succession of victories
［B］the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids
［C］“Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” won over all masterpieces
［D］it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis
22. By saying“spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable”Lines 1～2，Para?3，the author suggests that.
［A］collectors were no longer actively involved in art?market auctions
［B］people stopped every kind of spending and stayed away from galleries
［C］art collection as a fashion had lost its appeal to a great extent
［D］works of art in general had gone out of fashion so they were not worth buying
23?Which of the following statements is NOT true?
［A］Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007 to 2008?
［B］The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum?
［C］The art market generally went downward in various ways?
［D］Some art dealers were awaiting better chances to come?
24?The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are.
［A］auction houses? favorites
［B］contemporary trends
［C］factors promoting artwork circulation
［D］styles representing Impressionists
25?The most appropriate title for this text could be.
［A］Fluctuation of Art Prices
［B］Up?to?date Art Auctions
［C］Art Market in Decline
［D］Shifted Interest in Arts
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