2010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。2010年MBA联考英语真题及答案
Directions:
Read the following text.Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and
markA,B,C,D on answer sheet1(10points)
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 Word Health Organization in 41 years.
The heightened alert ____2___ an emergency meeting with flu experts 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 as(A)H1N1,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__ dose 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
group，health care workers, people ___20____infants and healthy young people.
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Section Ⅱ Reading comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage
by choosing A, B, C and D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)
Text1
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 (see picture). All but
two pieces sold, fetching more than ā70m, a record for a sale by a single
artist. It was a last hurrah. 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 vertiginously 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. MBA加油站
In the weeks and months that followed Mr Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort
became deeply unfashionable, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the
banks coincided with the loss of thousands of jobs and the financial demise of
many art-buying investors. 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—for Chinese contemporary art—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.
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The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese
stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989, a move that started the most
serious contraction in the market since the second world war. This time experts
reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have
been far more volatile. 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, whereas in the early 1990s, when interest rates were
high, there was no demand even though many collectors wanted to sell. Christie’s
revenues in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of
2006. 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 hadwitnessed a succession of victoryies
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”(Line
1-2,Para.3),the author suggests that_____ .
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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 ture?
A .Sales of contemporary art fell dramatically from 2007to 2008.
B.The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum.
C.The 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
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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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I was addressing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room -- a
women's group that had invited men to join them. Throughout the evening one man
had been particularly talkative frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while
his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening I
commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don't talk to them.
This man quickly concurred. He gestured toward his wife and said "She's the
talker in our family." The room burst into laughter; the man looked puzzled and
hurt. "It's true" he explained. "When I come home from work I have nothing to
say. If she didn't keep the conversation going we'd spend the whole evening in
silence."
This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk
more than women in public situations they often talk less at home. And this
pattern is wreaking havoc with marriage.
The pattern was observed by political scientist Andrew Hacker in the late
'70s. Sociologist Catherine Kohler Riessman reports in her new book "Divorce
Talk" that most of the women she interviewed -- but only a few of the men --
gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorces. Given the current
divorce rate of nearly 50 percent that amounts to millions of cases in the
United States every year -- a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
In my own research complaints from women about their husbands most often
focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a
career to accompany a husband to his or doing far more than their share of daily
life-support work like cleaning cooking social arrangements and errands. Instead
they focused on communication: "He doesn't listen to me" "He doesn't talk to
me." I found as Hacker observed years before that most wives want their husbands
to be first and foremost conversational partners but few husbands share this
expectation of their wives.
In short the image that best represents the current crisis is the
stereotypical cartoon scene of a man sitting at the breakfast table with a
newspaper held up in front of his face while a woman glares at the back of it
wanting to talk.
26.What is most wives' main expectation of their husbands?
A.Talking to them.
B.Trusting them.
C.Supporting their careers.
D. Shsring housework.
27.Judging from the context ,the phrase “wreaking havoc”(Line 3,Para.2)most
probably means ___ .
A generating motivation.
B.exerting influence
C.causing damage
Dcreating pressure
28.All of the following are true EXCEPT_______
A.men tend to talk more in public tan women
B.nearly 50percent of recent divorces are caused by failed conversation
C.women attach much importance to communication between couples
Da female tends to be more talkative at home than her spouse
29.Which of the following can best summarize the mian idea of this text
?
A.The moral decaying deserves more research by sociologists .
B.Marriage break_up stems from sex inequalities.
C.Husband and wofe have different expectations from their marriage.
D.Conversational patterns between man and wife are different.
30.In the following part immediately after this text,the author will most
probably focus on ______
A.a vivid account of the new book Divorce Talk
B.a detailed description of the stereotypical cartoon
C.other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S.
D a brief introduction to the political scientist Andrew Hacker
Txet3
over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating
automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers. These habits have helped
companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks, apply lotions and
wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed
set of daily cues.
“There are fundamental public health problems, like hand washing with soap,
that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s
habits,” Dr. Curtis said. “We wanted to learn from private industry how to
create new behaviors that happen automatically.”
The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to — Procter & Gamble,
Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever — had invested hundreds of millions of dollars
finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to
introduce new routines.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use every
day — chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water
purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric
softeners, vitamins — are results of manufactured habits. A century ago, few
people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day. Today, because of
canny advertising and public health campaigns, many Americans habitually give
their pearly whites a cavity-preventing scrub twice a day, often with Colgate,
Crest or one of the other brands.
A few decades ago, many people didn’t drink water outside of a meal. Then
beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs,and now
office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long. Chewing gum, once
bought primarily by adolescent boys, is now featured in commercials as a breath
freshener and teeth cleanser for use after a meal. Skin moisturizers are
advertised as part of morning beauty rituals,slipped in between hair brushing
and putting on makeup.
“Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,”
said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter
& Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of Tide, Crest and other
products last year. “Creating positive habits is a huge part of improving our
consumers’ lives, and it’s essential to making new products commercially
viable.”
Through experiments and observation, social scientists like Dr. Berning
have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues
through relentless advertising. As this new science of habit has emerged,
controversies have erupted when the tactics have been used to sell questionable
beauty creams or unhealthy foods.
31.According to Dr.Curtis,habits like hand washing with soap________.
should be further cultivated
should be changed gradually
are deepiy rooted in history
are basically private concerns
32.Bottled water,chewing gun and skin moisturizers are mentioned in
Paragraph 5 so as to____
reveal their impact on people’habits
show the urgent need of daily necessities
indicate their effect on people’buying power
manifest the significant role of good habits
33.which of the following does NOT belong to products that help create
people’s habits?
Tide
Crest
Colgate
Unilver
34.From the text wekonw that some of consumer’s habits are developed due to
_____
perfected art of products
automatic behavior creation
commercial promotions
scientific experiments
35.the author’sattitude toward the influence of advertisement on people’s
habits is____
indifferent
negative
positive
biased
Text4
Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial
democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal
qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries;
that jurors should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of
the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on
account of race, religion, sex, or national origin; that defendants are entitled
to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of
the community and not just the letter of the law. The jury is also said to be
the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy. In a
direct democracy, citizens take turns governing themselves, rather than electing
representatives to govern for them.
But as recently as in 1986, jury selection procedures conflicted with these
democratic ideals. In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons
of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character. Although
the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial
discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880 case of strauder v. West
Virginia,the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries
provided a convenient way around this and other antidiscrimination laws.
The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the
mid-20th century. Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898,it
was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury
duty. Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty
unless they personlly asked to have their names included on the jury list. This
practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept
juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.
In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and
Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury.This law
abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them
to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community. In the
landmark 1975 decision Taylor v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court extended the
requirement that juries be representative of all parts of the community to the
state level. The Taylor decision also declared sex discrimination in jury
selection to be unconstitutional and ordered states to use the same procedures
for selecting male and female jurors.
36.From the principles of theUS jury system,welearn that ______
both litcrate and illiterate people can serve on juries
defendants are immune from trial by their peers
no age limit should be imposed for jury service
judgment should consider the opinion of the public
37.The practice of selecting so—called elite jurors prior to 1968
showed_____
the inadcquavy of antidiscrimination laws
the prevalent discrimination against certain races
the conflicting ideals in jury selection procedures
38.Even in the 1960s,women were seldom on the jury list in some states
because_____
they were automatically banned by state laws
they fell far short of the required qualifications
they were supposed to perform domestic duties
they tended to evade public engagement
39.After the Jury Selection and Service Act was passed.___
sex discrimination in jury selection was unconstitutional and had to be
abolished
educational requirements became less rigid in the selection of federal
jurors
jurors at the state level ought to be representative of the entire
community
states ought to conform to the federal court in reforming the jury
system
40.in discussing the US jury system,the text centers on_______
its nature and problems
its characteristics and tradition
its problems and their solutions
its tradition and development
Section Ⅲ Translation
46.Directions:
In this section there is a text in English .Translate it into Chinese.
Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET2
.(15points)
“Suatainability” has become apopular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the
concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured apainful period of
unsustainability in his own life made itclear to him that
sustainability-oriented values must be expressed though everyday action and
choice.
Ning recalls spending aconfusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance.
He’d been though the dot-com boom and burst and,desperate for ajob,signed on
with a Boulder agency.
It didin’t go well. “It was a really had move because that’s not my
passion,” says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a
lack of sales. “I was miserable, I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in
the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the
job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll trun the corner, give it some time.’”
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“坚持不懈”如今已成一个流行词汇，但对TedNing而言，这个概念一直有个人含义，经历了一段痛苦松懈的个人生活，使他清楚面向以坚持不懈为导向的价值观，必须贯彻到每天的行动和选择中。
Ning回忆起20世纪90年代末期卖保险的那段迷茫时光，他通过蓬勃兴起的网络疯狂地找工作，并且与Boulder代理机构签了约。
事情进展并不顺利，TedNing说到：“那真是个糟糕的选择，因为我对此没有激情，”可以预料，他把工作中的矛盾能解释为没有业务。Ning说：“我很痛苦渴望午夜起来盯着天花板，我没钱，我需要工作，每个人都说‘等吧，只要有耐心会好转的。’”
47. Directions:
You have just come back from the U.S. as a member of a Sino-American
cultural exchange program. Write a letter to your American colleague to
1) Express your thanks for his/her warm reception;
2) Welcome him/her to visit China in due course.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Zhang Wei”
instead.
Do not write your address. (10 points)
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
48. Directions:
In this section, you are asked to write an essay based on the following
chart. In your writing, you should
1) Interpret the chart and
2) Give your comments.
You should write at least 150 words.
Write your essay on on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)
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.
2010年考研英语二真题答案：
21 D 22 A 23 B 24 C 25 C
26 A 27 C 28 D 29 D 30 B
31 A 32 A 33 D34 C 35 B
36 A 37 C 38 C 39 C 40 D
新题型
F T T T F
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