1、考研真相一一基础薄弱大幅提分专用绝密启用前1997年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语（一）(科目代码：201)考生注意事项1.答题前，考生须在试题册指定位置上填写考生编号和考生姓名；在答题卡指定位置上填写报考单位、考生姓名和考生编号，并涂写考生编号信息点。2.考生须把试题册上的“试卷条形码”粘贴条取下，粘贴在答题卡的“试卷条形码粘贴位置”框中。不按规定粘贴条形码而影响评卷结果的，责任由考生自负。3.选择题的答案必须涂写在答题卡相应题号的选项上，非选择题的答案必须书写在答题卡指定位置的边框区域内。超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题册上答题无效。4.填（书）写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔书写，字迹
2、工整、笔迹清楚；涂写部分必须使用2B铅笔填涂。5.考试结束，将答题卡和试题册按规定交回。(以下信息考生必须认真填写)考生编号考生姓名考研真相一一基础薄弱大幅提分专用41.AswarmBstrideCseparateDslip42.AForBBecauseCAsDSince43.AfromBinConDby44.AEven though BNow thatCIf onlyDProvided that45.AdurableBdisposableCavailableDtransferable46.AapproachBflowCfashionDtrend47.AinstantlyBreverselyC
3、fundamentallyDsufficiently48.AbutBwhileCandDwhereas49.AimposedBrestrictedCillustratedDconfined50.AlexcitementBconvictionCenthusiasmDimportancePart II Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions.For each questionthere are four answers marked A,B,C and D.Re
4、ad the passages carefully andchoose the best answer to each of the questions.Then mark your answer onANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets.(40 points)英语（一）试题.2.（共14页）考研真相一一基础薄弱大幅提分专用Passage 1It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken.After sixmonths of
5、 arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates,AustraliasNorthern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors totake the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.The measure passed by theconvincing vote of 15 to 10.Almost immediately word flashed on the
6、Internetand was picked up,half a world away,by John Hofsess,executive director ofthe Right to Die Society of Canada.He sent it on via the groups on-line service,Death NET.Says Hofsess:We posted bulletins all day long,because of coursethis isnt just something that happened in Australia.Its world hist
7、ory.The full import may take a while to sink in.The NT Rights of theTerminally Ill law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with itsmoral and practical implications.Some have breathed sighs of relief,others,including churches,right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Associati
8、on,bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage.But the tide is unlikely toturn back.In Australia-where an aging population,life-extending technologyand changing community attitudes have all played their part-other states aregoing to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.I
9、n the US andCanada,where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength,observers arewaiting for the dominoes to start falling.Under the new Northern Territory law,an adult patient can request death-probably by a deadly injection or pill-to put an end to suffering.The patientmust be diagnosed as te
10、rminally ill by two doctors.After a cooling offperiodof seven days,the patient can sign a certificate of request.After 48 hours thewish for death can be met.For Lloyd Nickson,a 54-year-old Darwin residentsuffering from lung cancer,the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can geton with living wi
11、thout the haunting fear of his suffering:a terrifying death fromhis breathing condition.Im not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view,but what I was afraid of was how Id go,because Ive watched people die in thehospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks,he says.英语（一)试题.3.（共14页)考研
12、真相一一基础薄弱大幅提分专用51.From the second paragraph we learn thata the objection to euthanasia is slow to come in other countriesBphysicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasiaCchanging technology is chiefly responsible for the hasty passage of the lawDit takes time to realize the significance of
13、the laws passage52.When the author says that observers are waiting for the dominoes to startfalling,he meansA observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasiaBsimilar bills are likely to be passed in the US,Canada and other countriesCobservers are waiting to see the resu
14、lt of the game of dominoesDthe effect-taking process of the passed bill may finally come to a stop53.When Lloyd Nickson dies,he willAface his death with calm characteristic of euthanasiaBexperience the suffering of a lung cancer patientChave an intense fear of terrible sufferingDundergo a cooling off period of seven days54.The authors attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that ofAoppositionBsuspicionCapprovalDindifference英语（一）试题.4.（共14页）
