2012年MBA联考英语真题及答案
历年真题是重要的考研参考资料，进入暑期强化复习阶段考生要抓紧时间做真题，强化复习，查漏补缺。下面分享工商管理硕士（MBA）联考英语真题，希望考生能够多做真题，多总结。2012年MBA联考英语真题及答案
Section 1 Use of Eninglish
Directions :
Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy ,the
symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be .To
the men and women who 1 )in World War II and the people they liberated ,the
GI.was the 2) man grown into hero ,the pool farm kid torn away from his home
,the guy who 3) all the burdens of battle ,who slept in cold foxholes,who went
without the 4) of food and shelter ,who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi
reign of murder .this was not a volunteer soldier ,not someone well paid ,5) an
average guy ,up 6 )the best trained ,best equipped ,fiercest ,most brutal
enemies seen in centuries。
His name is not much.GI. is just a military abbreviation 7) Government
Issue ,and it was on all of the article 8) to soldiers .And Joe? A common name
for a guy who never 9) it to the top .Joe Blow ,Joe Magrac …a working class
name.The United States has 10) had a president or vicepresident or secretary of
state Joe。
GI .joe had a (11)career fighting German ,Japanese , and Korean troops . He
appers as a character ,or a (12 ) of american personalities, in the 1945 movie
The Story of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
Some of the soldiers Pyle(13)portrayde themselves in the film. Pyle was famous
for covering the (14)side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow –and-mud
soldiers, not how many miles were(15)or what towns were captured or liberated,
His reports(16)the “willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill
Maulden. Both men(17)the dirt and exhaustion of war, the (18)of civilization
that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco,
whiskey, shelter, sleep. (19)Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe
was any American soldier,(20)the most important person in their lives。
1. performed served rebelled betrayed
2. actual common special normal
3.bore cased removed loaded
4.necessities facilitice commodities propertoes
5.and nor but hence
6.for into form against
7.meaning implying symbolizing claiming
8.handed out turn over brought back passed down
9.pushed got made managed
10.ever never either neither
11.disguised disturbed disputed distinguished
12.company collection community colony
13.employed appointed interviewed questioned
14.ethical military political human
15.ruined commuted patrolled gained
16.paralleled counteracted duplicated contradicted
17.neglected avoided emphasized admired
18.stages illusions fragments advancea
19.With To Among Beyond
20.on the contrary by this means from the outset at that
point
Section II Resdiong Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. answer the question after each text by
choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)
Text 1
Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many
parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts
across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their
thinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an
inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced
courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic
grade。
This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from
impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the
policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned
that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is
essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of
complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that
standards need to be lowered for poor children。
District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling:
teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework
counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half
their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some
students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but
what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework?
It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering
teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat,
across-the-board rule。
At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions
about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its
students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the
assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework
does nothing to ensure that the homework students are not assigning more than
they are willing to review and correct。
The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is
responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts
public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right。
21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_____。
is receiving more criticism
is no longer an educational ritual
is not required for advanced courses
is gaining more preferences
22.L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor
students_____。
tend to have moderate expectations for their education
have asked for a different educational standard
may have problems finishing their homework
have voiced their complaints about homework
23.According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it
may____。
discourage students from doing homework
result in students' indifference to their report cards
undermine the authority of state tests
restrict teachers' power in education
24. As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework
is whether______. it should be eliminated
it counts much in schooling
it places extra burdens on teachers
it is important for grades
25.A suitable title for this text could be______。
Wrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy
A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students
Thorny Questions about Homework
A Faulty Approach to Homework
Text2
Pretty in pink: adult women do not rememer being so obsessed with the
colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. Tt is not that pink is
intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may
celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls’
identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among
two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence.
Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls’
lives and interests。
Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their
DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies,
it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century:
in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical
matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What’s
more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral
dresses.When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the
more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with
strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and
faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when
amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing
strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently
attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first
few critical years。
I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception
of what is natural to kins, including our core beliefs about their psychological
development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts
developed after years of research into children’s behaviour: wrong. Turns out,
acdording to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was
popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacrurers in the 1930s。
Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase
sales, they should create a “third stepping stone” between infant wear and older
kids’ clothes. Tt was only after “toddler”became a common shoppers’ term that it
evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or
adults,into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits.
And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences
– or invent them where they did not previously exist。
26.By saying "it is...the rainbow"(Line 3, Para.1)，the author means
pink______。
should not be the sole representation of girlhood
should not be associated with girls' innocence
cannot explain girls' lack of imagination
cannot influence girls' lives and interests
27.According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours?
Colours are encoded in girls' DNA。
Blue used to be regarded as the colour for girls。
Pink used to be a neutral colour in symbolising genders。
White is prefered by babies。
28.The author suggests that our perception of children's psychological
development was much influenced by_____。
the marketing of products for children
the observation of children's nature
researches into children's behavior
studies of childhood consumption
29.We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised
to_____。
focus on infant wear and older kids' clothes
attach equal importance to different genders
classify consumers into smaller groups
create some common shoppers' terms
30.It can be concluded that girls' attraction to pink seems to be____。
clearly explained by their inborn tendency
fully understood by clothing manufacturers
mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen
well interpreted by psychological experts
Text3
In 2010. a federal judge shook America's biotech industry to its core.
Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades-by 2005 some 20% of human
genes were parented. But in March 2010 a judge ruled that genes were
unpatentable. Executives were violentlyagitated. The Biotechnology Industry
Organisation (BIO), a trade group, assured members that this was just a
“preliminary step” in a longer battle.
On July 29th they were relieved, at least temporarily. A federal appeals
court overturned the prior decision,ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed
holb patents to two genss that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.
The chief executive of Myriad, a company in Utah,said the ruling was a blessing
to firms and patients alike.
But as companies continue their attempts at personalised medicine, the
courts will remain rather busy. The Myriad case itself is probably not over
Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of
nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than
reward it; and patents' monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as
Myriad's. A growing number seem to agree.Last year a federal task-force urged
reform for patents related to genetic tests. In October the Department of
Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule
“is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have
been separated from cotton seeds. ”
Despite the appeals court's decision, big questions remain unanswered. For
example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome violates the
patents of indivi dual genes within it. The case may yet reach the Supreme
Court.
As the industry advances ,however,other suits may have an even greater
impact.companies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA
molecules-most are already patented or in the public domain .firms are now
studying how genes intcract,looking for correlations that might be used to
determine the causes of disease or predict a drug’s efficacy,companies are eager
to win patents for ‘connecting the dits’,expaains hans sauer,alawyer for the
BIO。
Their success may be determined by a suit related to this issue, brought by
the Mayo Clinic, which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term. The BIO
rtcently held a convention which included seddions to coach lawyers on the
shifting landscape for patents. Each meeting was packed。
31.it canbe learned from paragraph I that the biotech companies would
like-----
A.their executives to be active
B.judges to rule out gene patenting
C.genes to be patcntablc
D.the BIO to issue a warning
32.those who are against gene patents believe that----
A.genetic tests are not reliable
B.only man-made products are patentable
C.patents on genes depend much on innovatiaon
D.courts should restrict access to gene tic tests
33.according to hans sauer ,companies are eager to win patents for----
A.establishing disease comelations
B.discovering gene interactions
C.drawing pictures of genes
D.identifying human DNA
34.By saying “each meeting was packed”(line4,para6)the author means that
-----
A.the supreme court was authoritative
B.the BIO was a powerful organization
C.gene patenting was a great concern
D.lawyers were keen to attend conventiongs
35.generally speaking ,the author’s attitude toward gene patenting
is----
A.critical
B.supportive
C.scornful
D.objective
Text 4
The great recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is
probably beginning. Before it ends,
it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of
young adults. And ultimately, it is likely to reshape our politics,our culture,
and the character of our society for years。
No one tries harder than the jobless to find silver linings in this
national economic disaster. Many said that unemployment, while extremely
painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and
more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others. In
limited respects, perhaps the recession will leave society better off. At the
very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and
bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal
spending。
But for the most part, these benefits seem thin, uncertain, and far off. In
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, the economic historian Benjamin
Friedman argues that both inside and outside the U.S. ,lengthy periods of
economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more
mean-spirited and less inclusive, and have usually stopped or reversed the
advance of rights and freedoms. Anti-immigrant sentiment typically increases, as
does conflict between races and classes。
Income inequality usually falls during a recession, but it has not shrunk
in this one,. Indeed, this period of economic weakness may reinforce class
divides, and decrease opportunities to cross them--- especially for young
people. The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University,
suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances
dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to
where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it
is the masses beneath them that are left behind。
In the internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has
always been hidden winthin American society. More difficult, in the moment , is
discerning precisely how these lean times are affecting society’s character. In
many respects, the U.S. was more socially tolerant entering this resession than
at any time in its history, and a variety of national polls on social conflict
since then have shown mixed results. We will have to wait and see exactly how
these hard times will reshape our social fabric. But they certainly it, and all
the more so the longer they extend。
36.By saying “to find silver linings”(Line 1,Para.2)the author suggest that
the jobless try to___。
seek subsidies from the govemment
explore reasons for the unermployment
make profits from the troubled economy
look on the bright side of the recession
37.According to Paragraph 2,the recession has made people_____。
realize the national dream
struggle against each other
challenge their lifestyle
reconsider their lifestyle
38.Benjamin Friedman believe that economic recessions may_____。
impose a heavier burden on immigrants
bring out more evils of human nature
Promote the advance of rights and freedoms
ease conflicts between races and classes
39.The research of Till Von Wachther suggests that in recession graduates
from elite universities tend to _____。
lag behind the others due to decreased opportunities
catch up quickly with experienced employees
see their life chances as dimmed as the others’
recover more quickly than the others
40.The author thinks that the influence of hard times on society
is____。
certain
positive
trivial
destructive
Part B
Directions:
Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information
from the left column that corresponds to each of the marked details given in the
right column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answers
on ANSWER SHEERT 1.(10 points)
“Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world,
is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here,” wrote the
Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle. Well, not any more it is not。
Suddenly, Britain looks to have fallen out with its favourite historical
form. This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to
a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning
from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain. Today, we want
empathy, not inspiration。
From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant
recounting the exemplary lives of great men. In 1337, Petrarch began work on his
rambling writing De Viris Illustribus – On Famous Men, highlighting the virtus
(or virtue) of classical heroes. Petrarch celebrated their greatness in
conquering fortune and rising to the top. This was the biographical tradition
which Niccolo Machiavelli turned on its head. In The Prince, the championed
cunning, ruthlessness, and boldness, rather than virtue, mercy and justice, as
the skills of successful leaders。
Over time, the attributes of greatness shifted. The Romantics commemorated
the leading painters and authors of their day, stressing the uniqueness of the
artist's personal experience rather than public glory. By contrast, the
Victorian author Samual Smiles wrote Self-Help as a catalogue of the worthy
lives of engineers , industrialists and explores . "The valuable examples which
they furnish of the power of self-help, if patient purpose, resolute working and
steadfast integrity, issuing in the formulation of truly noble and many
character, exhibit,"wrote Smiles."what it is in the power of each to accomplish
for himself"His biographies of James Walt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood
were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life。
This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his
biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and
Napoleon Bonaparte. These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but
to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals。
Communist Manifesto. For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense
wealth nor waged battles:“It is man, real, living man who does all that。” And
history should be the story of the masses and their record of struggle. As such,
it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power
relations in which each epoch stood. For:“Men make their own history, but they
do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances
chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and
transmitted from the past。”
This was the tradition which revolutionized our appreciation of the past.
In place of Thomas Carlyle, Britain nurtured Christopher Hill, EP Thompson and
Eric Hobsbawm. History from below stood alongside biographies of great men.
Whole new realms of understanding — from gender to race to cultural studies —
were opened up as scholars unpicked the multiplicity of lost societies. And it
transformed public history too: downstairs became just as fascinating as
upstairs。
emphasized the virtue of classical heroes。
41. Petrarch highlighted the public glory of the leading artists。
42. Niccolo Machiavellli focused on epochal figures whose lives were
hard to imitate。
43. Samuel Smiles opened up new realms of understanding the great men in
history。
44. Thomas Carlyle held that history should be the story of the masses
and their record of struggle。
45. Marx and Engels dismissed virtue as unnecessary for successful
leaders。
depicted the worthy lives of engineer industrialists and explorers
Section III Translation
46.Directions:
Translate the following text from English into Chinese.Write your
translation on ANSWER SHEET2.(15 points)
When people in developing countries worry about migration,they are usually
concerned at the prospect of the best and brightest departure to Silicon Valley
or to hospitals and universities in the developed world ,These are the kind of
workers that countries like Britain ,Canada and Australia try to attract by
using immigration rules that privilege college graduates 。
Lots of studies have found that well-educated people from developing
countries are particularly likely to emigrate .A big survey of Indian households
in 2004 found that nearly 40%of emigrants had more than a high-school
education,compared with around 3.3%of all Indians over the age of 25.This "brain
drain "has long bothered policymakers in poor countries ,They fear that it hurts
their economies ,depriving them of much-needed skilled workers who could have
taught at their universities ,worked in their hospitals and come up with clever
new products for their factories to make 。
Section IV Writing
Part A
47.Directions
Suppose you have found something wrong with the electronic dictionary that
you bought from an online store the other day ,Write an email to the customer
service center to
1)make a complaint and
2)demand a prompt solution
You should write about 100words on ANSERE SHEET 2
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter ,Use "zhang wei "instead
。
48、write an essay based on the following table .In your writing you
should
1)describe the table ,and
2)give your comments
You should write at least 150 words(15points)
某公司员工工作满意度调查
年龄——满意度 满意 不清楚 不满意
小于等于40岁16.7%50.0%33.3%
41-50岁0.0%36.0%64.0%
大于50岁40.0%50.0%10.0%
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