1997-2012考研历年英语试题(11)

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1997-2012年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题答案

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There are some good arguments for a technical education given the right kind of student. Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early on in order to make sure children are properly equipped for the professions they want to join. It is, however, presumptuous to insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists, so many businessmen, so many accountants. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.

But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not. Of course, the basics of using any computer these days are very simple. It does not take a lifelong acquaintance to pick up various software programs. If one wanted to become a computer engineer, that is, of course, an entirely different story. Basic computer skills take -- at the very longest -- a couple of months to learn. In any case, basic computer skills are only complementary to the host of real skills that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional. It should be observed, of course, that no school, vocational or not, is helped by a confusion over its purpose.

59. The author thinks the present rush to put computers in the classroom is ________.

[A] far-reaching

[B] dubiously oriented [C] self-contradictory [D] radically reformatory

60. The belief that education is indispensable to all children ________. [A] is indicative of a pessimism in disguise

[B] came into being along with the arrival of computers

[C] is deeply rooted in the minds of computer-education advocates [D] originated from the optimistic attitude of industrialized countries

61. It could be inferred from the passage that in the author‘s country the European model of professional training is ________. [A] dependent upon the starting age of candidates [B] worth trying in various social sections [C] of little practical value

[D] attractive to every kind of professional

62. According to the author, basic computer skills should be ________. [A] included as an auxiliary course in school

[B] highlighted in acquisition of professional qualifications [C] mastered through a life-long course

[D] equally emphasized by any school, vocational or otherwise Text 4

When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton moved swiftly. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry to clone humans, he ordered that federal fnot be used fan -- no had proposed to do panel of Princeton President to back to the White 90 with recommendations a on National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) -- has been working fto put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on a near-final draft of their recommendations.

NBAC will ask that Clinton‘s 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning be extended indefinitely, and possibly that it be made law. But NBAC members are planning to word the recommendation narrowly to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of human DNA or cells -- routine in molecular biology. The panel has not yet reached agreement on a crucial question, however, whether to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning.

In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be ―morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning.‖ Shapiro explained during the meeting that the moral doubt stems mainly from fears about the risk to the health of the child. The panel then informally accepted several general conclusions, although some details have not been settled.

NBAC plans to call for a continued ban on federal government funding for any attempt to clone body cell nuclei to create a child. Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research or to knowingly endanger an embryo‘s life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research. NBAC members also indicated that they will appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer. But they were divided on whether to go further by calling for a federal law that would impose a complete ban on human cloning. Shapiro and most members favored an appeal for such legislation, but in a phone interview, he said this issue was still ―up in the air.‖ 63. We can learn from the first paragraph that ________. [A] federal funds have been used in a project to clone humans [B] the White House responded strongly to the news of cloning

[C] NBAC was authorized to control the misuse of cloning technique [D] the White House has got the panel‘s recommendations on cloning 64. The panel agreed on all of the following except that ________. [A] the ban on federal funds for human cloning should be made a law [B] the cloning of human DNA is not to be put under more control [C] it is criminal to use private funding for human cloning [D] it would be against ethical values to clone a human being

65. NBAC will leave the issue of embryo research undiscussed because ________.

[A] embryo research is just a current development of cloning

[B] the health of the child is not the main concern of embryo research [C] an embryo‘s life will not be endangered …… 此处隐藏：9902字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……