2006考研英語考題（考生回憶版）及參考答案解析

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2006年全國攻讀碩士學(xué)位研究生入學(xué)考試英語試題

Section I Use of English

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

The homeless make up a growing percentage of America’s population.

1 ， homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments can’t possibly 2 . To help homeless people 3 independence, the federal government must support job training programs, 4 the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing.

5 everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates

6 anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million. 7 the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless is 8 . One of the federal government’s studies 9 that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade.

Finding ways to 10 this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult. 11 when homeless individuals manage to find a 12 that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day 13 the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others, 14 not addicted or mentally ill, simply lack the everyday 15 skills needed to turn their lives 16 . Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there ar e 17 pr o g r a m s th a t ad d r e s s th e ma n y ne e d s of th e ho m e l e s s .

18 Edward Zlotkowski, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts, 19 it, “There has to be 20 of programs. What’s needed is a package deal.”

1. [A] Indeed

2. [A] stand

[B] Likewise

[B] cope

[C] Therefore

[C] approve

[D] Furthermore

[D] retain

3. [A] in

[B] for

[C] with

[D] toward

4. [A] raise

[B] add

[C] take

[D] keep

5. [A] Generally	[B] Almost	[C] Hardly	[D] Not
6. [A] cover	[B] change	[C] range	[D] differ
7. [A] Now that	[B] Although	[C] Provided	[D] Except that
8. [A] inflating	[B] expanding	[C] increasing	[D] extending
9. [A] predicts	[B] displays	[C] proves	[D] discovers
10. [A] assist	[B] track	[C] sustain	[D] dismiss
11. [A] Hence	[B] But	[C] Even	[D] Only
12. [A] lodging	[B] shelter	[C] dwelling	[D] house
13. [A] searching	[B] strolling	[C] crowding	[D] wandering
14. [A] when	[B] once	[C] while	[D] whereas
15. [A] life	[B] existence	[C] survival	[D] maintenance
16. [A] around	[B] over	[C] on	[D] up
17. [A] complex	[B] comprehensive	[C] complementary	[D] compensating
18. [A] So	[B] Since	[C] As	[D] Thus
19. [A] puts	[B] interprets	[C] assumes	[D] makes
20. [A] supervision	[B] manipulation	[C] regulation	[D] coordination

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. (40 points)

Text 1

In spite of “endless talk of difference,” American society is an amazing machine for homogenizing people. There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference” characteristic of popular culture. People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act.” The mass media, advertising and sports are other forces for homogenization.

Immigrants are quickly fitting into this common culture, which may not be altogether elevating but is hardly poisonous. Writing for the National Immigration Forum, Gregory Rodriguez reports that today’s immigration is neither at unprecedented levels nor resistant to assimilation. In 1998 immigrants were 9.8 percent of the population; in 1900, 13.6 percent. In the 10 years prior to 1990, 3.1 immigrants arrived for every 1,000 residents; in the 10 years prior to 1890, 9.2 for every 1,000. Now, consider three indices of assimilation – language, home ownership and intermarriage.

The 1990 Census revealed that “a majority of immigrants from each of the fifteen most common countries of origin spoke English ‘well’ or ‘very well’ after ten years of residence.” The children of immigrants tend to be bilingual and proficient in English. “By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.” Hence the description of America as a “graveyard” for languages. By 1996 foreign-born immigrants who had arrived before 1970 had a home ownership rate of

75.6 percent, higher than the 69.8 percent rate among native-born Americans.

Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S.-born whites and blacks.” By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian-American women are married to non-Asians.

Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power.”

Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America’s turbulent past, today’s social indices hardly suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.

21. The word “homogenizing” (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means

[A] identifying.

[B] associating.

[C] assimilating.

[D] monopolizing.

22. According to the author, the department stores of the 19th century

[A] played a role in the spread of popular culture.

[B] became intimate shops for common consumers.

[C] satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite.

[D] owed its emergence to the culture of consumption.

23. The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S.

[A] are resistant to homogenization.