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2012考研英语一真题及答案

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 ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed laughter as “a bodily exercise precious
to health.” But1some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence
on physical fitness. Laughter does 2 short-term changes in the function
of the heart and its blood vessels, 3 heart rate and oxygen consumption.
But because hard laughter is difficult to 4 , a good laugh is unlikely
to have 5 benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.
6 , instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter
apparently accomplishes the 7 . Studies dating back to the 1930s indicate
that laughter 8 muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after
the laugh dies down.
Such bodily reaction might conceivably help 9 the effects of psychological
stress. Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types
of 10 feedback that improve an individual’s emotional
state. 11 one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially
rooted 12 physical reactions. It was argued at the end of the 19th century


that humans do not cry 13 they are sad but that they become sad when
the tears begin to flow.
Although sadness also 14 tears, evidence suggests that emotions can
flow 15 muscular responses. In an experiment published in 1988, social
psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of Würzburg in Germany asked volunteers
to 16 a pen either with their teeth – thereby creating an artificial
smile – or with their lips, which would produce a(n) 17 expression. Those
forced to exercise their smiling muscles 18 more enthusiastically to funny
cartoons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, 19 that
expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way
around. 20 , the physical act of laughter could improve mood.
1.[A] among [B] except [C] despite [D] like
2.[A] reflect [B] demand [C] indicate [D] produce
3.[A] stabilizing [B] boosting [C] impairing [D] determining
4.[A] transmit [B] sustain [C] evaluate [D] observe
5.[A] measurable [B] manageable [C] affordable [D] renewable
6.[A] In turn [B] In fact [C] In addition [D] In brief
7.[A] opposite [B] impossible [C] average [D] expected
8.[A] hardens [B] weakens [C] tightens [D] relaxes


9.[A] aggravate [B] generate [C] moderate [D] enhance
10.[A] physical [B] mental [C] subconscious [D] internal
11.[A] Except for [B] According to [C] Due to [D] As for
12.[A] with [B] on [C] in [D] at
13.[A] unless [B] until [C] if [D] because
14.[A] exhausts [B] follows [C] precedes [D] suppresses
15.[A] into [B] from [C] towards [D] beyond
16.[A] fetch [B] bite [C] pick [D] hold
17.[A] disappointed [B] excited [C] joyful [D] indifferent
18.[A] adapted [B] catered [C] turned [D] reacted
19.[A] suggesting [B] requiring [C] mentioning [D] supposing
20.[A] Eventually [B] Consequently [C] Similarly [D] Conversely
Section I Use of English
1.C 2.D 3.B 4.B 5.A 6.B 7.A 8.D 9.C 10.A 11.B 12.C 13.D 14.C 15.B 16.D 17.A 18.D
19.A 20.C
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
The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music
director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden
announcement of his appointment in 2009. For the most part, the response has been
favorable, to say the least. “Hooray! At last!” wrote Anthony Tommasini, a
sober-sided classical-music critic.
One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that
Gilbert is comparatively little known. Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’
s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of
the formidable conductor about him.” As a description of the next music director
of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre
Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.
For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one.
To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it
is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear
interesting orchestral music. All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up
my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.


Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live
performance are missing the point. For the time, attention, and money of the
art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera
houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded
performances of the great classical musicians of the 20thcentury. These recordings
are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than
today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place
of the listener’s choosing. The widespread availability of such recordings has thus
brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.
One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music
that is not yet available on record. Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been
widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who
is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant
organization.” But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding
the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough. If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are
to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest
orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.
21. We learn from Paragraph 1 that Gilbert’s appointment has
[A] incurred criticism. [B] raised suspicion. [C] received acclaim. [D] aroused
curiosity.
22. Tommasini regards Gilbert as an artist who is


[A] influential. [B] modest. [C] respectable. [D] talented.
23. The author believes that the devoted concertgoers
[A] ignore the expenses of live performances. [B] reject most kinds of recorded
performances.
[C] exaggerate the variety of live performances. [D] overestimate the value of live
performances.
24. According to the text, which of the following is true of recordings?
[A] They are often inferior to live concerts in quality.
[B] They are easily accessible to the general public.
[C] They help improve the quality of music.
[D] They have only covered masterpieces.
25. Regarding Gilbert’s role in revitalizing the Philharmonic, the author feels
[A] doubtful. [B] enthusiastic. [C] confident. [D] puzzled.
Text 2
When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation
was surprisingly straight up. Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague
excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running
a company.” Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says.


Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford
Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.
McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind
of company he wanted to run. It also sent a clear message to the outside world about
his aspirations. And McGee isn’t alone. In recent weeks the No. 2 executives at
Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a
CEO post. As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure,
executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on. A turbulent business
environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud
their reputations.
As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing
to make the jump without a net. In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from
a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum
Research. As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.
The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional.
For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most
attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached. Says KornFerry senior
partner Dennis Carey: “I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board
has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.”
Those who jumped without a job haven’t always landed in top positions quickly. Ellen
Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade ago, saying she wanted to be a CEO. It
was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.


Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO. He finally took
that post at a major financial institution three years later.
Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers. The financial
crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one. “The
traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally
inverted,” says one headhunter. “The people who’ve been hurt the worst are those
who’ve stayed too long.”
26. When McGee announced his departure, his manner can best be described as being
[A] arrogant. [B] frank. [C] self- centered. [D] impulsive.
27. According to Paragraph 2, senior executives’ quitting may be spurred by
[A] their expectation of better financial status.
[B] their need to reflect on their private life.
[C] their strained relations with the boards.
[D] their pursuit of new career goals.
28. The word “poached” (Line 3, Paragraph 4) most probably means
[A] approved of. [B] attended to. [C] hunted for.[D] guarded against.
29. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that
[A] top performers used to cling to their posts.


[B] loyalty of top performers is getting out-dated.
[C] top performers care more about reputations.
[D] it’s safer to stick to the traditional rules.
30. Which of the following is the best title for the text?
[A] CEOs: Where to Go?
[B] CEOs: All the Way Up?
[C] Top Managers Jump without a Net
[D] The Only Way Out for Top Performers
Text 3
The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No
longer. While traditional “paid” media—such as television commercials and print
advertisements – still play a major role, companies today can exploit many
alternative forms of media. Consumers passionate about a product may create “earned”
media by willingly promoting it to friends, and a company may leverage “owned”
media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with
its Web site. The way consumers now approach the process of making purchase decisions
means that marketing’s impact stems from a broad range of factors beyond conventional
paid media.


Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting their own products. For
earned media, such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses. But in some
cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for
instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site. We define such
sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place
their content or e-commerce engines within that environment. This trend, which we
believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel
providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further. Johnson & Johnson,
for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes
complementary and even competitive products. Besides generating income, the
presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies
opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’
marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.
The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more (and
more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate
consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging
hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign
becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative
allegations about a brand or product. Members of social networks, for instance, are
learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that
originally created them.
If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott
products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk. In such a case, the


company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning
curve has been steep. Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from
its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well- orchestrated
social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers
directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.
31. Consumers may create “earned” media when they are
[A] obsessed with online shopping at certain Web sites.
[B] inspired by product-promoting e-mails sent to them.
[C] eager to help their friends promote quality products.
[D] enthusiastic about recommending their favorite products.
32. According to Paragraph 2, sold media feature
[A] a safe business environment. [B] random competition.
[C] strong user traffic. [D] flexibility in organization.
33. The author indicates in Paragraph 3 that earned media
[A] invite constant conflicts with passionate consumers.
[B] can be used to produce negative effects in marketing.
[C] may be responsible for fiercer competition.


[D] deserve all the negative comments about them.
34. Toyota Motor’s experience is cited as an example of
[A] responding effectively to hijacked media.
[B] persuading customers into boycotting products.
[C] cooperating with supportive consumers.
[D] taking advantage of hijacked media.
35. Which of the following is the text mainly about?
[A] Alternatives to conventional paid media.
[B] Conflict between hijacked and earned media.
[C] Dominance of hijacked media.
[D] Popularity of owned media.
Text 4
It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover
story, “I Love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing
gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than
a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that
children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine
happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by


moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even
though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior
writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources
of intense gratification and delight.”
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the
only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about
newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual
“Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one
celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that
admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support
kitten- killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents
to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if
they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the
message that children are the single most important thing in the world:obviously
their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People
present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like
Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than
childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there,
considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet


to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with
round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because
Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby
is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week
of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious
way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same
way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just
a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
36. Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a childcan bring
[A] temporary delight. [B] enjoyment in progress.
[C] happiness in retrospect. [D] lasting reward.
learn from Paragraph 2 that
[A] celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip.
[B] single mothers with babies deserve greater attention.
[C] news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining.
[D] having children is highly valued by the public.
38. It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that聽childless folks


[A] are constantly exposed to criticism. [B] are largely ignored by the media.
[C] fail to fulfill their social responsibilities. [D] are less likely to be
satisfied with their life.
ing to Paragraph 4, the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is
[A] soothing. [B] ambiguous.
[C] compensatory. [D] misleading.
of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
[A] Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.
[B] Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.
[C] Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.
[D] We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.
Section II Reading Comprehension;
Part A;
21.C 22.B 23.D 24.B 25.A 26.B 27.D 28.C 29.A 30.B 31.D 32.C 33.B 34.A 35.A 36.C 37.D
38.A 39.D 40.B
Part B
Directions:


The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For questions 41-45, you are
required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from the
list A-G and filling them into the numbered aphs E and G have been
correctly placed. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the
humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a
medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in
the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students
in English drop out before getting their degrees.
[B] His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy
and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college
graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.
However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a
grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.
But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like.
At Harvard, Mr Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”
– they form a sort of social glue.
[C] Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which
they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because
universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study
humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-71
than they did 20 years later. Fewer students require fewer teachers. So, at the end


of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do
something for which they have not been trained.
[D] One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across
the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and
professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many
students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard
undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must
study a non-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional
qualification.
[E] Besides professionalising the professions by this separation, top American
universities have professionalised the professor. The growth in public money for
academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold
between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its
toll. Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a
prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American
professors did not possess one. But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues
Mr Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation
are transmissible but not transferable.” So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just
over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of
knowledge.
[F] The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr Menand, is to alter the way
in which “the producers of knowledge are produced.” Otherwise, academics will


continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which
they study, investigate and criticise. “Academic inquiry, at least in some fields,
may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.” Yet quite how that happens,
Mr Menand does not say.
[G] The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and
Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of
applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For
something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand,
a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.
41. → 42. → E → 43. → 44. → 45.
Part B;
41.B 42.D 43.A 44.C 45.F;
Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into
Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and
outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is an in-depth
exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.


(46) Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share – that because
we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts – and reveal its erroneous
nature. Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that
thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act
another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action
as the conscious mind, and (47)while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control
through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question:
“Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that?”
Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord
with desire, Allen concluded: “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.”
Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you
don’t “get”success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.
Part of the fame of Allen’s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make
a person, they reveal him.” (48) This seems a justification for neglect of those
in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the
top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.
This, however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each set of
circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances
always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have
progressed. In fact, (49) circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best
in us, and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin
a conscious effort to escape from our situation. Nevertheless, as any biographer


knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an
individual.
The sobering aspect of Allen’s book is that we have no one else to blame for our
present condition except ourselves. (50) The upside is the possibilities contained
in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array
of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
Part C Translation;
46. 我们每个人都认为:自己不是机器人,因此能够控制自己的思想; 爱伦的贡献在于他研
究了这一假说,并揭示其错误的本质。
47. 我们或许只通过意识就能 维持这种控制的幻觉,但事实上,我们却总是面临一个问题:
我们为什么不能让自己去做这件事情,实现 那个目标呢?
48. 这种说法似乎为忽视需要帮助的人找到了借口,使剥削合理化,令上层人优越,底层人
卑微。
49. 环境似乎旨在激发我们的最大潜能,如果我们总感觉“上天不公”,那么不太可能会自
觉地努力脱离现状。
50. 积极的一面是,既然万事都取决于我们,那么就有无限可能。以前,我们 能够熟练应对
种种局限;现在,我们把握着未来的可能。
Section III Writing
Part A


51. Directions:
Write a letter to a friend of yours to
1) recommend one of your favorite movies and
2) give reasons for your recommendation.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead.
Do not write the address. (10 points)
51.小作文参考范文
小作文范文一:
Dear John,
I am writing, without hesitation, to share one of my favorite movies, Forest Gump,
with you, which is not only conducive to your study, but also beneficial to your
life.
For one thing, the beautiful language in this original English movie may contribute
to your study of English in listening, speaking, reading and writing. For another
thing, the profound cultural elements implicit in the scene will equip you with
foreign cultural background and, above all, enrich your daily life.


Would you like to see this movie after my recommendation? Remember to tell me your
opinion about the movie. I am looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Ming
Section III Writing
Part B
52. Directions:
Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you
should
1) describe the drawing briefly,
2) explain its intended meaning, and
3) give your comments.
You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)




52.大作文参考范文
The terrible scene depicted in the cartoon shows that some people in our life still
lack the awareness of environmental protection. The picture illustrates that two
tourists are chatting and eating happily on a boat and casually throwing their
rubbish into the lake which is full of litter and waste. The drawing sets us thinking
too much due to its far-reaching influence.
Nowadays, though the awareness of protecting environment is being accepted by more
and more people, we can still see many unpleasant scenes especially in scenic spots.
Why does this phenomenon arise? Many factors are accounting for it. First and
foremost, to some people, the consciousness of protecting environment is still not
so strong. They may not think it is a big deal to throw rubbish everywhere. In addition,
the environmental management system isn’t so satisfying. For example, in some places
there’re few regulations or the implementation is seldom performed actually.


From what has been discussed above, it is urgent to take some effective and relative
measures. In the first place, we should continue to conduct more propaganda in
communities and schools so as to let people realize the importance of protecting
environment. In the second, more rules should be made and carried out by the
government to restrain the conduction of destroying environment. People should work
together to create clean and beautiful surroundings.

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