2022年考研英语二真题.docx

2022考研英语二真题
Section I Use of English
　　Directions：
　　Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
　　The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech. But that very anonymity is also behind the explosion of cyber-crime that has 1 across the Web.
　　Can privacy be preserved 2 bringing safety and security to a world that seems increasingly 3 ?
　　Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation’s cyber-czar, offered the federal government a 4 to make the Web a safer place-a “voluntary trusted identity” system that would be the high-tech 5 of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card, all rolled 6 one. The system might use a smart identity card, or a digital credential 7 to a specific computer .and would authenticate users at a range of online services.
　　The idea is to 8 a federation of private online identity systems. User could 9 which system to join, and only registered users whose identities have been authenticated could navigate those systems. The approach contrasts with one that would require an Internet driver’s license 10 by the government.
　　Google and Microsoft are among companies that already have these“single sign-on” systems that make it possible for users to 11 just once but use many different services.
　　12 .the approach would create a “walled garden” n cyberspace, with safe “neighborhoods” and bright “streetlights” to establish a sense of a 13 community.
　　Mr. Schmidt described it as a “voluntary ecosystem” in which “individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with 14 ,trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure 15 which the transaction runs”.
　　Still, the administration’s plan has 16 privacy rights activists. Some applaud the approach; others are concerned. It seems clear that such a scheme is an initiative push toward what would 17 be a compulsory Internet “drive’s license” mentality.
　　The plan has also been greeted with 18 by some computer security experts, who worry that the “voluntary ecosystem” envisioned by Mr. Schmidt would still leave much of the Internet 19 .They argue that all Internet users should be 20 to register and identify themselves, in the same way that drivers must be licensed to drive on public roads.
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A.swept
B.skipped
C.walked
D.ridden
2．
A.for
B.within
C.while
D.though
3．
A.careless
B.lawless
C.pointless
D.helpless
4．
A.reason
B.reminder
C.compromise
D.proposal
5．
A.information
B.interference
C.entertainment
D.equivalent
6．
A.by
B.into
C.from
D.over
7．
A.linked
B.directed
C.chained
D.compared
8．
A.dismiss
B.discover
C.create
D.improve
9．
A.recall
B.suggest
C.select
D.realize

10．
A.relcased
B.issued
C.distributed
D.delivered
11．
A.carryon
B.lingeron
C.setin
D.login
12．
A.Invain
B.Ineffect
C.Inreturn
D.Incontrast
13．
A.trusted
B.modernized
c.thriving
D.competing
14．
A.caution
B.delight
C.confidence
D.patience
15．
A.on
B.after
C.beyond
D.across
16．
A.divided
B.disappointed
C.protected
D.united
17．
A.frequestly
B.incidentally
C.occasionally
D.eventually
18．
A.skepticism
B.relerance
C.indifference
D.enthusiasm
19．
A.manageable
B.defendable
C.vulnerable
D.invisible
20．
A.invited
B.appointed
C.allowed
D.forced

　　Section II Reading Comprehension
　　Part A
　　Directions:
　　Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40points)
　　Text 1
　　Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs’s board as an outside director in January 2022: a year later she became president of Brown University. For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much eroticism. But by the end of 2022 Ms. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February the next year Ms. Simmons had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time, she said.
　　Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful, yet less biased, advisers on a firm’s board. Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere, they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive’s proposals. If the sky, and the share price is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.
　　The researchers from Ohio University used a database hat covered more than 10,000 firms and more than 64,000 different directors between 1989 and 2022. Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next. The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70. They fount that after a surprise departure, the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increased by nearly 20%. The likelihood of being named in a federal class-action lawsuit also increases, and the stock is likely to perform worse. The effect tended to be larger for larger firms. Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive, it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship. Often they “trade up.” Leaving riskier, smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.
　　But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred. Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives. Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus.
　　21. According to Paragraph 1, Ms. Simmons was criticized for .
　　[A]gaining excessive profits
　　[B]failing to fulfill her duty
　　[C]refusing to make compromises
　　[D]leaving the board in tough times
　　22. We learn from Paragraph 2 that outside directors are supposed to be .
　　[A]generous investors
　　[B]unbiased executives
　　[C]share price forecasters
　　[D]independent advisers
　　23. According to the researchers from Ohio University after an outside director’s surprise departure, the firm is likely to .
　　[A]become more stable
　　[B]report increased earnings
　　[C]do less well in the stock market
　　[D]perform worse in lawsuits
　　24. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors .
　　[A]may stay for the attractive offers from the firm
　　[B]have often had records of wrongdoings in the firm
　　[C]are accustomed to stress-free work in the firm
　　[D]will decline incentives from the firm
　　25. The author’s attitude toward the role of outside directors is .
　　[A]permissive
　　[B]positive
　　[C]scornful
　　[D]critical
　　Text 2
　　Whatever happened to the death of newspaper? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the internet. Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom. America’s Federal Trade commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers. Should they become charitable corporations? Should the state subsidize them ? It will hold another meeting soon. But the discussions now seem out of date.
　　In much of the world there is the sign of crisis. German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession. Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled come of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit. Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.
　　It has not been much fun. Many papers stayed afloat by pushing journalists overboard. The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13,500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2022. Readers are paying more for slimmer products. Some papers even had the nerve to refuse delivery to distant suburbs. Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.
　　Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses, with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers. American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads. Fully 87% of their revenues came from advertising in 2022, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.
　　A “southern” camp headed by French wants something different: ”European economic government” within an inner core of euro-zone members. Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers. Finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, curo-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
　　It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world’s largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.
　　36. The EU is faced with so many problems that .
　　[A] it has more or less lost faith in markets
　　[B] even its supporters begin to feel concerned
　　[C] some of its member countries plan to abandon euro
　　[D] it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation
　　37. The debate over the EU’s single currency is stuck because the dominant powers .
　　[A] are competing for the leading position
　　[B] are busy handling their own crises
　　[C] fail to reach an agreement on harmonization
　　[D] disagree on the steps towards disintegration
　　38. To solve the euro problem ,Germany proposed that .
　　[A] EU funds for poor regions be increased
　　[B] stricter regulations be imposed
　　[C] only core members be involved in economic co-ordination
　　[D] voting rights of the EU members be guaranteed
　　39. The French proposal of handling the crisis implies that __ __.
　　[A]poor countries are more likely to get funds
　　[B]strict monetary policy will be applied to poor countries
　　[C]loans will be readily available to rich countries
　　[D]rich countries will basically control Eurobonds
　　40. Regarding the future of the EU, the author seems to feel __ __.
　　[A]pessimistic
　　[B]desperate
　　[C]conceited
　　[D]hopeful
　　Part B
　　Directions:
　　Read the following text and answer the questions by finding information from the right column that corresponds to each of the marked details given in the left column. There are two extra choices in the right column. Mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)