2010考研英语二真题及答案
Secti on I Use of En glish
Directio ns:
Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.
Choose the best o ne and mark your an swers on ANSWER SHEET l. (10 poi nts)
The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic    1    by the World Health Orga ni zation in 41 years.
The heightened alert    2    an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that convened
after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising    3    in Brita in, Japa n, Chile and elsewhere.
But the epidemic is "    4    " in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's
director general,    5    the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms
and a full recovery, ofte n in the    6    of any medical treatme nt.
The outbreak came to global    7    in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an
unu sually large nu mber of hospitalizati ons and deaths    8    healthy adults. As much of Mexico City
shut dow n at the height of a pan ic, cases bega n to    9    in New York City, the southwester n Un ited
States and around the world.
In the United States, new cases seemed to fade    10    warmer weather arrived. But in late
September 2009, officials reported there was    11    flu activity in almost every state and that
virtually all the    12    tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seas onal flu. In
the U.S., it has    13    more tha n one millio n people, and caused more tha n 600 deaths and more
than 6,000 hospitalizati ons.
Federal health officials    14    Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and
began    15    orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is
differe nt from the annual flu vacc in e, is    16    ahead of expectatio ns. More tha n three millio n doses
were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those    17    doses were of the
FluMist nasal spray type, which is not    18    for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with
breath ing difficulties, heart disease or several other    19    . But it was still    possible to vacci nate
people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people    20    infants and healthy young people.
1 [A] criticized
[B] appo in ted
[C]comme nted
[D] desig nated
2 [A] proceeded
[B] activated
[C] followed
[D] prompted
3 [A] digits
[B] nu mbers
[C] amounts
[D] sums
4 [A] moderate
[B] no rmal
[C] unu sual
[D] extreme
5 [A] with
[B] in
[C] from
[D] by
6 [A] progress
[B]absenee
[C] prese nee
[D] favor
7 [A] realitycari
[B] phe nomenon
[C] concept
[D] notice
8. [A]over
[B] for
[C] among
[D] to
9 [A] stay up
[B] crop up
[C] fill up
[D] cover up
10 [A] as
[B] if
[C] unl ess
[D] un til
11 [A] excessive
[B] eno rmous
[C] sig ni fica nt
[D]mag nifice nt
12 [A]categories
[B] examples
[C] patterns
[D] samples
13 [A] imparted
[B] immerse
[C] injected
[D] in fected
14 [A] released
[B] relayed
[C] relieved
[D] remai ned
15 [A] placi ng
[B] deliveri ng
[C] taki ng
[D] givi ng
16 [A] feasible
[B] available
[C] reliable
[D] applicable
17 [A] prevale nt
[B] prin cipal
[C] inno vative
[D] in itial
18 [A] prese nted
[B] restricted
[C] recomme nded
[D] in troduced
19 [A] problems
[B] issues
[C] ago nies
[D] sufferi ngs
20 [A] in volved in
[B] cari ng for
[C] concerned with
[D] wardi ng off
Section II Reading comprehension
Part A
Textl
The Iongest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damie n Hirst,    “ Beautiful In side My Head Forevet Sotheby ”' s in London on September 15th
2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than £ 70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auct ion eer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehma n Brothers, filed for ban kruptcy.
The world art market had already been losing momentum for a while after rising bewilderingly since
2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder
of Arts Economics, a research firm — double the figure five years earlier. Since the n it may have come dow n to $50 billi on. But the market gen erates in terest far bey ond its size because it brings together great wealth, eno rmous egos, greed, passi on and con troversy in a way matched by few other in dustries.
In the weeks and mon ths that fo llowed Mr Hirst ' sale, spe nding of any sort became deeply
un fashi on able, especially in New York, where the bail-out of the banks coin cided with the loss of thousa nds of jobs and the finan cial demise of many art-bu ying in vestors. I n the art world that mea nt collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of con temporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector— for Chin ese con temporary art— they were dow n by n early 90% in the year to November 2008. With in weeks the world    ' s two biggest auct ion houses, Sotheby    ' s and Christie
out n early $200m in guara ntees to clie nts who had placed works for sale with them.
The curre nt dow ntur n in the art market is the worst since the Japa nese stopped buying Impressi oni sts
at the end of 1989, a move that started the most serious contraction in the market since the Second World War. This time experts reck on that prices are about 40% dow n on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant. But Edward Dolman, Christie    ' s chief executive, says:    “ I ' m pretty cor

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