全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试英语预测试题参考答案及详细解答(1-3)
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PART II Reading Comprehension (50%)
Section A
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each
passage is follozoed by some questions or un-finished
statements. For each of them there are four choices marked
A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and
blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
pencil.
Question 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Just 30 years ago some 700 million people lived in
cities, Today the number stands at 1,800 mil-lion, and by
the end of the century it will top 3,000 million -- more
than half the worlds estimated population. By the year
2,000 an estimated 650 million people will crowd into 60
cities of five million or more -- three-quarters of them in
the developing world. Only a single First World city --
metropoli-tan Tokyo, which will have 24 million people --
is expected to be among the global top five; London,ranked
second in 1950 with ten million people, will not even make
2,000s top 25.
In places where rates of natural population increase
exceed three percent annually -- meaning much of the Third
World -- that alone is enough to double a citys population
within 20 years. But equally powerful are the streams of
hopeful migrants from the countryside.
What faces and confuses urban planners is the huge
scale of these trends. There have never been cities of 30
million people, let alone ones dependent on roads, sewer
and water supplies barely adequate for urban areas a tenth
that size. And the flood of new arrivals in swelling Third
World cities far over-takes the supply of jobs --
particularly as modem industries put a premium on
technology rather than manpower. So it will be virtually
impossible to find permanent employment for 30 to 40 per
cent of the 1,000 million new city inhabitants expected by
the year 2,000. Despite the terrible conditions that the
city newcomers face, their numbers are growing at rates as
much as twice that of the cities themselves-- and every
step taken to improve their living conditions in the slums
only attracts more migrants.
21. Which of the following is the main topic of this
passage?
A. The increase of world population.
B. The improvement of urban living conditions.
C. The migrants from the countryside and their
unemployment.
D. The expansion of cities and its consequences.
22. The autho~ uses Tokyo as an example mainly to show
that
A. the biggest cities will still be in First World
countries
B. its development speed will be greater than that of
London
C. most of the biggest cities will be in the Third
World countries
D.Japanese will keep control of the growth of big
cities such as Tokyo
23. Which of the following is NOT true according to
the passage?
A. Over half of the worlds population will move to
cities by 2,000.
B. The order of the worlds biggest cities will be
changed fundamentally by the year 2,000.
C. The world population will reach about 6,000
million by 2,000.
D. The poor countries will suffer more the expansion
of cities by 2,000.
24. According to the last paragraph, all of the
following are tree EXCEPT that
A. development of modem technology will reduce the
use of manpower
B. urban planners will have no past experiences to
borrow
C. the growth of urban population is faster than that
of cities
D. the improvement of urban living conditions is to
attract more migrants from the countryside
25. The expression "put a premium on" in line 4,
para. 3, can best be replaced by
A. are in need of B. devote much attention to
C. have no lack of D. think little of
参考答案:
PARTⅡ ReadingComprehensiOn
Section A
21.D 本题是主旨题。通篇文章说明了由于城市的扩大造成城市人口越来越多,从而带来许多难以克服的困难。
22.C 本题是测试对文章内涵的理解。第一段第四行说仅只有一个第一世界国家城市——东京,将会有2 400万人口,可望进入全球前五位。伦敦在1950年1 000万人而名列世界第二,到2000年甚至不能进入前25位。从中可以看出大多数最大城市都在第三世界国家。
23.A 本题是测试对文章细节的理解。第一段第二句说到本世纪末生活在城市中的人口将达到30亿,超过世界估计人口数的一半还多。不是说将有世界人口的一半以上搬进大城市。
24.D 本题是测试对文章细节的理解。最后一段的末尾说到贫民窟的生活水平的改善只会吸引更多的人进人大城市,而非城市生活水平的改善。
25.B 本题是成语释义题。根据上下文可猜测出它的含义。devote much attention表示“使受到重视”。
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