2019年考研英语一真题

2019年考研英语一真题（文字完整版）

2019年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语(一)试题

Section I Use of English

Directions:

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

Today we live in a world where GPS systems,digital maps,and other navigation apps are

available on our smart phones.I of us just walk straight into the woods without a phone.But

phones2on batteries,and batteries can die faster than we realize,3you get lost without

a phone or a compass,and you4cant find north,a few tricks to help you navigate_5to

civilization,one of which is to follow the land.

When you find yourself well6a trail,but not in a completely7area,you have to

answer two questions:Which8is downhill,in this particular area?And where is the nearest

water source?Humans overwhelmingly live in valleys,and on supplies of fresh water._9,if

you head downhill,and follow any H20you find,you should10see signs of people If you’ve explored the area before,keep an eye out for familiar sights-you may be 11

how quickly identifying a distinctive rock or tree can restore your bearings. Another12Climb high and look for signs of human habitation.13even in dense fores,you should be able to14gaps in the tree line due to roads,train tracks,and other

paths people carve15the woods.Head toward these16to find a way out.At might can the horizon for17light sources such as fires and streetlights,then walk toward the glow

of light pollution.

18,assuming you're lost in an area humans tend to frequent,look for the19we

leave on the landscape.Trail blazes tire tracks.and other features can20you to civilization.

1.[A]Some[B]Most[C]Few[D]All

2.[A]put[B]take[C]run[D]come

3.[A]Since[B]If[C]Though[D]until

4.[A]Formally[B]relatively[C]gradually[D]literally

5.[A]back[B]next[C]around[D]away

6.[A]onto[B]off[C]across[D]alone

7.[A]unattractive[B]uncrowded[C]unchanged[D]unfamiliar

8.[A]site[B]point[C]way[D]place

9.[A]So[B]Yet[C]Instead[D]Besides

lO.[A]immediately[B]intentionally[C]unexpectedly[D]eventually

11.[A]surprised[B]annoyed[C]frightened[D]confused

12.[A]problem[B]option[C]view[D]result

13.[A]Above all[B]In contrast[C]On average[D]For example

14.[A]bridge[B]avoid[C]spot[D]separate

15.[A]form[B]through[C]beyond[D]Under

16.[A]posts[B]links[C]shades[D]breaks

17.[A]artificial[B]mysterious[C]hidden[D]limited

18.[A]Finally[B]Consequently[C]Incidentally[D]Generally

19.[A]memories[B]marks[C]notes[D]belongings

20.[A]restrict[B]adopt[C]lead[D]expose

Section II Reading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Read the following four texts,Answer the questions each text by choosing A B.C or D.

Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET(40points)

Text1

Financial regulators in Britain have imposed a rather unusual rule on the bosses of big banks.

Starting next year.any guaranteed bonus of top executives could be delayed1o years if their banks are under investigation for wrongdoing.The main purpose of this"clawback"rule is to hold bankers accountable for harmful risk taking and to restore public trust in financial institution,Yet officials also hope for a much larger benefit:more long term decision-making not only by banks but by all corporations, to build a stronger economy for future generations.

“Short-termism”or the desire for quick profits,has worsened in publicly traded companies.

says the Bank of England's top economist.Andrew Haldane.He quotes a gaint of classical

economics,Alfred Marshall in describing this financial impatience as acting like" Children who

pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once”rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain.he notes has

dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades.Transient investors, who demand

high quarterly profits from companies,can hinder a firms efforts to invest in

lone-term research

or to build up customer loyalty.This has been dubbed"quarterly capitalism”.

In addition,new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of equities quicker use

of information,and thus shorters attention spans in financial markets."There seems to be a

predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing,”said Commissioner

Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.

In the US,the Sarbanes-Oxley Acl of2002has pushed most public companies to defer

performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year,slightly helping reduce"short-termism."In its latest survey of CEO pay The Wall street Journal finds that"a substantial part"of executive pay is now tied to performance.

Much more could be done to encourage"long-termism,such as changes in the tax code

and quicker disclosure of stock acquisitions.In France,shareholders who hold onto a company

investment for at least two years can sometimes can more voting rights in a company.

Within companies,the right compensation design can provide incentives for executives to

think beyond their own time at the company and on behalf of all stakeholders, Britain’s new rule is a reminder to bankers that society has an interest in their performance not just for the short term but for the long term.

21.According to Paragraph1,one motive in imposing the new rule is the

A.enhance bankers'sense of responsibility

B help corporations achieve larger profits

C.build a new system of financial regulation

D.guarantee the bonuses of top executives

22.Alfred Marshall is quoted to indicate

A.the conditions for generating quick profits

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/ee9237381.html,ernments impatience in decision-making

C.the solid structure of publicly traded companies

D."short-termism"in economic activities

23.It is argued that the influence of transient investment on public companies can be

A.indited

B.adverse

C.minimal D temporary

24.The US and France examples and used to illustrate

A.the obstacles to preventing"short-termism.

B.the significance or long term thinking.

C.the approaches to promoting long-termism.

D.the prevalence of short-term thinking.

25.Which of the following would be the best title for the text

A.Failure of Quarterly Capitalism

B.Patience as a Corporate Virtue

C.Decisiveness Required of Top Executives

D.Frustration of Risk-taking Bankers

Text2

Grade inflation-the gradual increase in average GPAs(grade-point averages)over the past

few decades-is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which

students are treated like customers to be pleased.But another,related force-a policy often buried deep in course catalogs called grade forgiveness"-is helping raise GPAs.

Grade forgiveness allows students to retake a course in which they received a low grade,and

the most recent grade or the highest grade is the only one that counts in calculating a student's

overall GPA.

The use of this little-known practice has accelerated in recent years,as colleges continue to

do their utmost to keep students in school(and paying tuition)and improve their gradation rates.

When this practice fir started decades ago,it was usually limited to freshmen,to give them a

second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level

courses.But now most colleges,save for many selective campuses,allow all undergraduates,and

even graduate students,to get their low grades forgiven.

College officials tend to emphasize that the goal of grade forgiveness is less about the grade

itself and more about encouraging students to retake courses critical to their degree program and

gradation without incurring a big penalty."Untimely."said Jack Mine,Ohio State University's

registrar."we see students achieve more success because they retake a course and do better in

subsequent contents or master the content that allows them to graduate on time. That said,there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges own needs as well.For

public institutions state finds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as

graduation rates and student retention so better grades can,by boosting figures like those,mean

more money.And anything that raises GPAs will likely make students who,at the end of the day

are paying the bill-feel they’ve gotten a better value for their tuition dollars,which is another big

concern for colleges.

Indeed grade forgiveness is just another way that universities are responding to consumers'

expectations for higher education.Since students and parents expect a college degree to lead to a job,it is in the best interest of a school to tum out gradates who are as qualified as possible-or

at least appear to be.On this,students'and colleges’incentives seem to be aligned.

26.What is commonly regarded as the cause of grade inflation?

A.The change of course catalogs.

B.Students indifference to GPAS.

C Colleges neglect of GPAS.

D.The influence of consumer culture.

27.What was the original purpose of grade forgiveness

A.To help freshmen adapt to college learning.

B.To maintain colleges graduation rates.

C.To prepare graduates for a challenging future.

D.To increase universities’income from tuition.

28.According to Paragraph5.grade forgiveness enables colleges

A.obtain more financial support.

B.boost their student enrollments.

C.improve their teaching quality.

D.meet local governments’needs.

29.What does the phrase“to be aligned”(Line5.Para.6)most probably mean?

A.To counterbalance each other

B.To complement each other.

C.To be identical with each other

D.To be contradictory to each other.

30.The author examines the practice of grade forgiveness by

A assessing its feasibility

B.analyzing the causes behind it.

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/ee9237381.html,paring different views on it.

D.listing its long-run effects

Text3

This year marks exactly two centuries since the publication of Frankenstein,or.The Modem

Prometheus by Mary Shelley.Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author

produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction that would foreshadow many chical questions

to be raised by technologies yet to come.

Today the rapid growth of artificial intelligence(An)raises fundamental questions: "What is

intelligence,identity,or consciousness?what makes humans humans?

What is being called artificial general intelligence,machines that would imitate the way

humans think continues to evade scientists.Yet humans remain fascinated by the idea of robots

that would look,move,and respond like humans,similar to those recently depicted on popular

sci-fi Tv series such as"Westworld and"Humans".

Just how people think is still far too complex to be understood let alone reproduced,says

David Eagleman,a Stanford University neuroscientist,"We are just in a situation where there are

no good theories explaining what consciousness actually is and how you could ever build a machine to get there.”

But that doesn't mean crucial ethical issues involving Al aren't at hand.The coming use of

autonomous vehicles.for example poses thorny ethical questions.Human drivers sometime

make split-second decisions.Their reactions may be a complex combination of instant reflexes.

input from past driving experiences,and what their eyes and ears tell them in that moment.AI

"vision"today is not nearly as sophisticated as that of humans.And to anticipate every imaginable driving situation is a difficult programming problem. Whenever decisions are based on masses of data."you quickly get into a lot of ethical

questions,"notes Tan Kiat How,chief executive of a Singapore-based agency that is helping the

government develop a voluntary code for the ethical use of Al.Along with Singapore,other

governments and mega-corporations are beginning to establish their own guidelines.Britain is

setting up a data ethics center.India released its Al ethics strategy this spring.

On June7Google pledged not to"design or deploy Ar"that would cause"overall harm,"or

to develop Al-directed weapons or use Al for surveillance that would violate international norms.

It also pledged not to deploy AI whose use would violate international laws or human rights.

While the statement is vague,it represents one starting point,So does the idea that decisions made by Al systems should be explainable,transparent.and fair.

To put it another way.How can we make sure that the thinking of intelligent machines reflects humanity’s highest values?Only then will they be useful servants and not Frankenstein’s out-of-control monster.

31.Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is mentioned because

A.fascinates Al scientists all over the world

B.has remained popular for as long as200years.

C.involves some concerns raised by Al today

D.has sparked serious ethical controversies

32.In David Eagleman's opinion,our current knowledge of consciousness

A.helps explain artificial intelligence.

B.can be misleading to robot making

C.inspires popular sci-fi TV series

D.is too limited for us to reproduce it

33.The solution to the ethical issues brought by autonomous vehicles

A.can hardly ever be found.

B.is still beyond our capacity

C.causes little public concern

D.has aroused much curiosity

34.The authors attitude toward Google’s pledges is one of

A.Affirmation

B.skepticism

C.contempt

D.respect

35.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A.Al’s Future:In the Hands of Tech giants

B.Frankenstein,the Novel Predicting the Age of A

C.The Conscience of Al:Complex But Inevitable

D.AI Shall Be Killers once out of Control

Text4

States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases

under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big

financial win for states.

The Supreme Courts opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states

said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.The decisions made it more difficult for

states to collect sales tax on certain online purchases.

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customers purchase to a state where the business didn’t have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office.the

business did't have to collect sales tax for the state.Customers were generally responsible for

paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren’t charged it,but most didn’t realize they owed it and few paid.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the previous decisions were flawed.Each year the

physical presence rule becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant

revenue losses to the States."he wrote in an opinion joined by four other justices, Kennedy wrote that the rule limited states ability to seek long-term prosperity and has prevented market

participants from competing on an even playing field.”

The ruling is a victory for big chains with a presence in many states,since they usually

collect sales tax on online purchases already Now,rivals will be charging sales tax where they

hadn't before,Big chains have been collecting sales tax nationwide because they typically have

physical stores in whatever state a purchase is being shipped https://www.sodocs.net/doc/ee9237381.html,.with its network of warehouses also collects sales tax in every state that charges it, though third-party sellers who use the site don't have to.

Until now,many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states

have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states

Sellers that use eBay and Etsy.which provide platforms for smaller sellers,also hat collecting sales tax nationwide.Under the ruling Thursday,states can pass laws out..state sellers to collect the state's sales tax from customers and send it to the stale

Retail trade groups praised the ruling.saying it levels the playing field for local and online

businesses.The losers,said retail analyst Neil Saunders,are online-only retailers especially

smaller ones.Those retailers may face headaches complying with various state sales tax laws.The

Small Business Entrepreneurship Council advocacy group said in a statement "Small

businesses and internet entrepreneurs are not well served at all by this decision. 36.The Supreme Court decision Thursday will