重庆师范大学考研真题 英语专业(3)

招收专业：英语语言文学、外国语言学及应用语言学研究方向：英语语言学、文体学、英美文学、英语国家文化研究、英语教学理论及应用、现代英语研究、社会语言学、翻译理论

Example

When∧art museum wants a new exhibit, [1] [2]

often build it.

Good Manners, Good Business

Nobody actually wants to cause offence, but as business becomes ever

more international, it‘s increasing easy to get it wrong. There may (1). ___________ be a single European market but it does not mean that managers behave

the same in Greece as they do in Denmark.

In many European countries the handshaking is an automatic gesture. In (2). __________

France good manners require on arriving at a business meeting a (3). __________ manager shakes hands with everyone present. This can be demanding task (4). __________ and, in a crowded room, may require gymnastic ability if the furthest hand is (5). __________ to be reached.

Handshaking is almost as popular as other countries — including Germany, (6). __________

Belgium and Italy. But for Northern Europeans, such as the British and (7). __________ Scandinavians, are not quite so fond of physical demonstrations of friendliness.

In Europe the most common challenge is not the content of the food, but in the (8). __________ way you behave as you eat. Some things are just not done. In France it is not

good manners to raise trick questions of business over the main course. (9). __________ Business has its place: after the cheese course. Except you are prepared to eat (10). __________ in silence you have to talk about something — something, that is, other than the

business deal which you are continually chewing over in your head.

III. Reading comprehension. (30 points)

In this section there are three reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then write your answers on your answer sheet.

Passage One

In the past few years, discoveries about Mars have indicated that evidence of life will eventually be found there. But visits to the Red Planet may confound the ability to tell the true origin of Martian life. Did humans bring it, or did it arise on Mars before humans arrived?

Patterns in the Martian soil suggest past water flow, and scientists are fairly certain that there are vast frozen ice caps at the planet‘s poles. Water is, as far as scientists know, the essential ingredient for life. Astrobiologists are concerned with the origin, distribution, and destiny of life in the universe. As earthbound humans in a pre-intergalactic travel era, they must look for places on Earth having conditions similar to those existing on other planets. But that‘s tough on life-abundant Earth. Mars is a great place for red soil, but it‘s not too hospitable to life.