2011考研英语（一）模拟试卷二

2010考研英语（一）模拟试卷二

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)

Foreign financiers complaining about the legal wars they will launch to recover bad

debts in Russia rarely mean much. The expense of a lawsuit 1 the satisfaction; the chances of getting any money are 2 . Yet Noga, a company owned by Nessim Gaon, a 78-year-old businessman 3 in Geneva, has been suing the Russian government since 1993, attempting to 4 Russian assets abroad. At Mr. Gaon's request, bailiffs last week very nearly 5 two of Russia's most advanced warplanes at the Paris air 6 . The organisers 7 off the Russian authorities, and the planes flew home, just 8 time. 9 near-misses include a sail-training ship, the Sedov, nuclear-waste shipments, and the president's plane.

Mr. Gaon, whose previous business partners include regimes in Nigeria and Sudan, put an 10 clause in his original export deals: Russia must abandon its sovereign immunity. An arbitration court in Stockholm has found in his 11 , so far, to the 12 of $110 million, out of a total 13 of $420 million. Other courts 14 the world have let him have a 15 at any Russian assets 16 reach.

The odd thing is 17 Russia, now awash with cash, does not simply pay up. Mr. Gaon says he was told at one point that a 10% 18 on the debt to someone high up in the finance ministry would solve things. 19 off Mr. Gaon costs much in legal fees. Not accepting international judgments sits ill with the current Kremlin line 20 the rule of law. Mr. Gaon says his next move will be to seize Russia's embassy in Paris.

1A. outdoes B. outperform C. outshine D. outweighs . 2A. thin B. slim C. lean D. wiry . 3A. based B. found C. established D. set . 4A. grasp B. hold C. seize D. snatch . 5A. caught B. got C. grabbed D. arrested . 6A. show B. exhibition C. display D. . demonstration 7A. stilted B. tipped C. dumped D. slanted

. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 。 A. in B. on C. at D. to A. Avoiding B. Fending C. Escaping D. Shielding A. kickback B. payment C. cut D. reward A. how B. when C. why D. where A. in B. within C. out of D. beyond A. crack B. break C. split D. snap A. in B. at C. around D. over A. demanded B. requested C. required D. claimed A. tune B. figure C. account D. count A. support B. good C. favor D. preference A. usual B. unusual C. common D. uncommon A. Others B. Another C. The other D. Other A. in B. on C. at D. upon 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 consequences of heavy drinking are well documented: failing health, broken

marriages, regrettable late-night phone calls. But according to Gregory Luzaich's calculations, there can be a downside to modest drinking, too—though one that damages the wallet, not the liver.

The Pek Wine Steward prevents wine from spoiling by injecting argon, an inert gas, into the bottle before sealing it airtight with silicon. Mr. Luzaich, a mechanical engineer in Windsor, Calif. —in the Sonoma County wine country—first tallied the costs of his

reasonable consumption in October 2001.“I'd like to come home in the evening and have a glass of wine with dinner,” he said. “My wife doesn't drink very much, so the bottle wouldn't get consumed. And maybe I would forget about it the next day, and I'd check back a day or two later, and the wine would be spoiled.” That meant he was wasting most of a $15 to $20 bottle of wine, dozens of times a year.

A check of the wine-preservation gadgets on the market left Mr. Luzaich dissatisfied. High-end wine cabinets cost thousands of dollars—a huge investment for a glass-a-day

drinker. Affordable preservers, meanwhile, didn't quite perform to Mr. Luzaich's liking； he thought they allowed too much oxidation, which degrades the taste of a wine.

The solution, he decided, was a better gas. Many preservers pumped nitrogen into an opened bottle to slow a wine's decline, even though oenological literature suggested that argon was more effective. So when he began designing the Pek Wine Steward, a metal cone into which a wine bottle is inserted, Mr. Luzaich found that his main challenge was to figure out how best to introduce the argon.

He spent months fine-tuning a gas injection system. “We used computational fluid dynamics to model the gas flow, ” Mr. Luzaich said, referring to a computer-analysis technique that measures how smoothly particles are flowing. The goal was to create an injector that could swap a bottle's oxygen atoms for argon atoms； argon is an inert gas, and thus unlikely to harm a nice Chianti.

Mr. Luzaich, who had previously designed medical and telecommunications

products, also worked on creating an airtight seal, to secure the bottle after the argon was injected. He experimented with several substances, from neoprene to a visco-elastic

polymer （which he dismissed as “too gooey”）, before settling on a food-grade silicon.

To save wine, a bottle is placed inside the Pek Wine Steward, the top is closed, and a trigger is pulled for 5 to 10 seconds, depending on how much wine remains. When the

trigger is released, the bottle is sealed automatically, preserving the wine for a week or more, the company says. “We wanted to make it very easy for the consumer, ” Mr. Luzaich said. “It's basically mindless.”

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