2023年贵州考研英语考试模拟卷（2）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.We can infer from the experience of Michell thatA．he has shown the gifts as an actor when he was a child.B．he was a drama major at Cambridge and produced many works there.C．he still made great achievements when reverting to TV career.D．he had worked as a resident director for more than twenty years. 2.The word "obsessed" (Line 4, Paragraph 1) may meanA．bored.B．puzzled.C．angry.D．fascinated. 3.The primary factor accounting for Michell's directing Notting Hill is thatA．he was once an assistant at the Royal Court Theatre.B．The Buddha of Suburbia he took charge of interested many people.C．he has done a good job in the dramatisation of Austin's Persuasion.D．the film My Night With Reg he directed was a great success. 4.The slogan on the poster for Enduring Love indicates thatA．Enduring Love will be as successful as Notting Hill.B．people can only remember Michell for his Notting Hill.C．Notting Hill left a very deep impression on the audience.D．Michell needs to make a better propaganda through this way. 5.The main idea of the text is toA．call on the employers to enable the disabled employees.B．introduce some useful equipment for those disabled staff.C．criticize those who don't do anything for their disabled employees.D．suggest the employers to make advantage of various technologies. 6.The adjustments that employer can make for the disabled people may NOT includeA．making the office light brighter for the deaf to lipread.B．acquiring useful information through the voice recognition system.C．using screen readers to tell them the telephone numbers.D．running office telephones via a conventional exchange. 7.The attitude of most employers toward DDA amendments isA．supportive.B．negative.C．optimistic.D．pessimistic. 8.It can be inferred from the text that many employersA．modify their existing systems to make the disabled feel comfortable.B．know little about what's the real meaning of DDA's amendments.C．have to cover the total costs of new and adapted equipment.D．make full use of technology and funding. 9.From the beginning of the text, we can conclude thatA．there is no discrimination against disabled people after Oct. 1.B．the employers must assist those campaigners to complete their duties.C．previous DDA only had restrictions on companies with more than 15 people.D．the companies have to prepare new equipment for their disabled employees. 10.Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: 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. Text 1 Whether or not animals feel is not altogether an easy question to answer. A human being has direct awareness only of the pains which he himself suffers. Our knowledge of the pains even of other human beings is only an inference from their words, and to a lesser extent their behaviors. Animals cannot tell us what they feel. We can, of course, study their bodily reactions to the kind of stimuli which would be painful to human beings and this has often been done. When such stimuli are applied to animals, their pupils dilate, their pulse rate and blood pressure rise, they may withdraw the stimulated limb and they may make struggling movements. Nevertheless it has been pointed out that none of these reactions can safely be taken as indications that the animal experiences pain because they can all be evoked when the parts of the body stimulated have been isolated from the higher nervous centres. Furthermore, when disease produces such an isolation in human beings the corresponding stimuli are painless. We must therefore look for other evidence as the capacity of animals to experience pain. Basically, all the nervous elements which underlie the experience of pain by human beings are to be found in all mammalian vertebrates at least; this is hardly surprising as pain is a response to a potentially harmful stimulus and is therefore of great biological importance for survival. Is there any reason, then, for supposing that animals. though equipped with all the necessary neurological structures, do not experience pain Such a view would seem to presuppose a profound qualitative difference in the mental life of animals and men. The difference between the human and subhuman nervous system lies chiefly in the much greater development of the human forebrain. This would be significant in the present context only if there were reason to believe that it alone was correlated with the occurrence of conscious experiences. But much of our knowledge of the nervous regulation of consciousness is derived from experiments on animals. In everyday life we take it for granted that animals see and hear, and there seems no reason to suppose that they do not feel pain. So, while the reactions of the pupils, pulse rate and blood pressure mentioned above can in exceptional circumstances occur without the conscious experience of pain, it seems likely that in the intact animal they are indications that pain is being experienced.The human nervous system differs from that of animals in that（）A．man has more developed forebrain.B．man can feel pains while animals can't.C．man has different neural structures.D．man's mental life is in nature different from that of animals.11.Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: 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. Text 1 Whether or not animals feel is not altogether an easy question to answer. A human being has direct awareness only of the pains which he himself suffers. Our knowledge of the pains even of other human beings is only an inference from their words, and to a lesser extent their behaviors. Animals cannot tell us what they feel. We can, of course, study their bodily reactions to the kind of stimuli which would be painful to human beings and this has often been done. When such stimuli are applied to animals, their pupils dilate, their pulse rate and blood pressure rise, they may withdraw the stimulated limb and they may make struggling movements. Nevertheless it has been pointed out that none of these reactions can safely be taken as indications that the animal experiences pain because they can all be evoked when the parts of the body stimulated have been isolated from the higher nervous centres. Furthermore, when disease produces such an isolation in human beings the corresponding stimuli are painless. We must therefore look for other evidence as the capacity of animals to experience pain. Basically, all the nervous elements which underlie the experience of pain by human beings are to be found in all mammalian vertebrates at least; this is hardly surprising as pain is a response to a potentially harmful stimulus and is therefore of great biological importance for survival. Is there any reason, then, for supposing that animals. though equipped with all the necessary neurological structures, do not experience pain Such a view would seem to presuppose a profound qualitative difference in the mental life of animals and men. The difference between the human and subhuman nervous system lies chiefly in the much greater development of the human forebrain. This would be significant in the present context only if there were reason to believe that it alone was correlated with the occurrence of conscious experiences. But much of our knowledge of the nervous regulation of consciousness is derived from experiments on animals. In everyday life we take it for granted that animals see and hear, and there seems no reason to suppose that they do not feel pain. So, while the reactions of the pupils, pulse rate and blood pressure mentioned above can in exceptional circumstances occur without the conscious experience of pain, it seems likely that in the intact animal they are indications that pain is being experienced.Our knowledge of the pains animals feel can be obtained through（）A．an inference from their words.B．study of their direct awareness of the pains.C．study of their reaction to pain causing stimuli.D．an inference from their behavior.12.Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: 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. Text 1 Whether or not animals feel is not altogether an easy question to answer. A human being has direct awareness only of the pains which he himself suffers. Our knowledge of the pains even of other human beings is only an inference from their words, and to a lesser extent their behaviors. Animals cannot tell us what they feel. We can, of course, study their bodily reactions to the kind of stimuli which would be painful to human beings and this has often been done. When such stimuli are applied to animals, their pupils dilate, their pulse rate and blood pressure rise, they may withdraw the stimulated limb and they may make struggling movements. Nevertheless it has been pointed out that none of these reactions can safely be taken as indications that the animal experiences pain because they can all be evoked when the parts of the body stimulated have been isolated from the higher nervous centres. Furthermore, when disease produces such an isolation in human beings the corresponding stimuli are painless. We must therefore look for other evidence as the capacity of animals to experience pain. Basically, all the nervous elements which underlie the experience of pain by human beings are to be found in all mammalian vertebrates at least; this is hardly surprising as pain is a response to a potentially harmful stimulus and is therefore of great biological importance for survival. Is there any reason, then, for supposing that animals. though equipped with all the necessary neurological structures, do not experience pain Such a view would seem to presuppose a profound qualitative difference in the mental life of animals and men. The difference between the human and subhuman nervous system lies chiefly in the much greater development of the human forebrain. This would be significant in the present context only if there were reason to believe that it alone was correlated with the occurrence of conscious experiences. But much of our knowledge of the nervous regulation of consciousness is derived from experiments on animals. In everyday life we take it for granted that animals see and hear, and there seems no reason to suppose that they do not feel pain. So, while the reactions of the pupils, pulse rate and blood pressure mentioned above can in exceptional circumstances occur without the conscious experience of pain, it seems likely that in the intact animal they are indications that pain is being experienced.We can conclude from the last paragraph that（）A．the reactions of the pupils are relevant to pain.B．the fact that animals see and hear has been commonly accepted.C．animals can feel pain in exceptional circumstances.D．it's reasonable to suppose that animals don't feel pain.13.Text 2 Now that many media chieftains have fallen into disrepute and have left, those who are still in positions feel the need to take the problem seriously. CEOs were overturned as were some stocks. That is how AOL Time Warner entertainment group Chairman Jeff Bewkes summed it up. The era of the imperial (one-man rule) CEO has come to an end, MTV Networks Chairman Tom Freston added. The two executives agreed that the industry’s complex and often ill-fated megs mergers had proven that bigger is not necessarily better, no matter how big the reputations of the personalities behind them. The continuing flameout of media executives who a few years ago were hailed as visionaries was active this month, and the industry’s fears reached into the executive ranks of music, publishing and TV. Technology visionary Steve Case left as chairman of AOL Time Warner, replaced by Chief Executive Richard Parsons. Top executives at Sony Music, MCA Records and Random House were booted. And Walter Isaacson, chairman of CNN Networks, left for a think tank. This shows just how difficult it has become to find the right managers for the terribly altered media. Many executives got caught up in the late 90’s boom in the media industry and got ahead of themselves in strategic vision for their companies, said Mark May, of US investment firm Kaufman Bros. It takes more than a couple of years for these companies to be ready for another visionary. The collapse of the dotcom bubble, the ability of music fans to get songs free on the Internet, sagging bottom lines and intense competition among cable TV news networks are some developments that helped trip up media executives recently. But the urge to merge was one of their weakest points. It is not that media companies should avoid all mergers, said Larry Haverty, managing director at State Street Research, a US investment management firm. They need acquisitions for growth. But making them work is a real challenge. They need to choose what pieces fit together and how much they are worth. They need to adjust quickly when technology and consumer habit trends shift. And, more than ever, they must be careful not to promise too much. Sony Corp. of America Chairman Howard Stringer said that an executive today is the rarest of senior entertainment executives, equally adept at business, management strategy and value creation, as well as a consummate (完美的) and proven developer of content, talent and ideas.What caused the decline of media（）A．There are no visionary executives.B．Corporate strategies are ahead of time.C．Many executives got caught in the late 90's.D．Many wise executives have left the media industry.14.Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: 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. Text 1 Whether or not animals feel is not altogether an easy question to answer. A human being has direct awareness only of the pains which he himself suffers. Our knowledge of the pains even of other human beings is only an inference from their words, and to a lesser extent their behaviors. Animals cannot tell us what they feel. We can, of course, study their bodily reactions to the kind of stimuli which would be painful to human beings and this has often been done. When such stimuli are applied to animals, their pupils dilate, their pulse rate and blood pressure rise, they may withdraw the stimulated limb and they may make struggling movements. Nevertheless it has been pointed out that none of these reactions can safely be taken as indications that the animal experiences pain because they can all be evoked when the parts of the body stimulated have been isolated from the higher nervous centres. Furthermore, when disease produces such an isolation in human beings the corresponding stimuli are painless. We must therefore look for other evidence as the capacity of animals to experience pain. Basically, all the nervous elements which underlie the experience of pain by human beings are to be found in all mammalian vertebrates at least; this is hardly surprising as pain is a response to a potentially harmful stimulus and is therefore of great biological importance for survival. Is there any reason, then, for supposing that animals. though equipped with all the necessary neurological structures, do not experience pain Such a view would seem to presuppose a profound qualitative difference in the mental life of animals and men. The difference between the human and subhuman nervous system lies chiefly in the much greater development of the human forebrain. This would be significant in the present context only if there were reason to believe that it alone was correlated with the occurrence of conscious experiences. But much of our knowledge of the nervous regulation of consciousness is derived from experiments on animals. In everyday life we take it for granted that animals see and hear, and there seems no reason to suppose that they do not feel pain. So, while the reactions of the pupils, pulse rate and blood pressure mentioned above can in exceptional circumstances occur without the conscious experience of pain, it seems likely that in the intact animal they are indications that pain is being experienced.The author seems to agree that（）A．animals may feel pain.B．only human beings can feel pain.C．we can't tel1 what pain means to an animal.D．human beings can learn from animals to avoid pain.15.Text 2 Now that many media chieftains have fallen into disrepute and have left, those who are still in positions feel the need to take the problem seriously. CEOs were overturned as were some stocks. That is how AOL Time Warner entertainment group Chairman Jeff Bewkes summed it up. The era of the imperial (one-man rule) CEO has come to an end, MTV Networks Chairman Tom Freston added. The two executives agreed that the industry’s complex and often ill-fated megs mergers had proven that bigger is not necessarily better, no matter how big the reputations of the personalities behind them. The continuing flameout of media executives who a few years ago were hailed as visionaries was active this month, and the industry’s fears reached into the executive ranks of music, publishing and TV. Technology visionary Steve Case left as chairman of AOL Time Warner, replaced by Chief Executive Richard Parsons. Top executives at Sony Music, MCA Records and Random House were booted. And Walter Isaacson, chairman of CNN Networks, left for a think tank. This shows just how difficult it has become to find the right managers for the terribly altered media. Many executives got caught up in the late 90’s boom in the media industry and got ahead of themselves in strategic vision for their companies, said Mark May, of US investment firm Kaufman Bros. It takes more than a couple of years for these companies to be ready for another visionary. The collapse of the dotcom bubble, the ability of music fans to get songs free on the Internet, sagging bottom lines and intense competition among cable TV news networks are some developments that helped trip up media executives recently. But the urge to merge was one of their weakest points. It is not that media companies should avoid all mergers, said Larry Haverty, managing director at State Street Research, a US investment management firm. They need acquisitions for growth. But making them work is a real challenge. They need to choose what pieces fit together and how much they are worth. They need to adjust quickly when technology and consumer habit trends shift. And, more than ever, they must be careful not to promise too much. Sony Corp. of America Chairman Howard Stringer said that an executive today is the rarest of senior entertainment executives, equally adept at business, management strategy and value creation, as well as a consummate (完美的) and proven developer of content, talent and ideas.Both Jeff and Tom agree that（）A．media chieftains are visionary and active.B．media executives have big reputations and nice personalities.C．the media industry should be cautious about merger.D．the media industry is too complicated to handle.16.Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: 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. Text 1 Whether or not animals feel is not altogether an easy question to answer. A human being has direct awareness only of the pains which he himself suffers. Our knowledge of the pains e。
