1、慢Q有道考神来米考研英语（二）阅读真题的逻辑2021年阅读真题唐迟章晋林！编著公顶尖考研专属赠品had disappeared,not all had done so.In the medical field,to take an obvious example,the pandemic meant that there were still clear shortages of doctors,nurses and othermedical personnel.Of course,it is not like you can take an unemployed waiter and tra
2、in him to be adoctor in a few weeks,no matter who pays for it.But even if you cannot close that gap,maybe you can close others,and doing so would be to the benefit of all concerned.Thatseems to be the case in Sweden:When forced to furlough 90 per cent of their cabinstaff,Scandinavian Airlines decide
3、d to start up a short retraining program that reskilledthe laid-off workers to support hospital staff.The effort was a collective one andinvolved other companies as well as a Swedish university.21.Research by the World Economic Forum suggestsAan increase in full-time employmentBan urgent demand for
4、new job skillsCa steady growth of job opportunitiesDa controversy about the“core skills”尖考研djky66)22.AT&T is cited to showAan alternative to the fire-and-hire strategyBan immediate need for government supportCthe importance of staff appraisal standardsDthe characteristics of reskilling programs23.Ef
5、forts to resolve the skills mismatch in CanadaAhave driven up labour costsBhave proved to be inconsistentChave met with fierce oppositionDhave appeared to be insufficient24.We can learn from Paragraph 3 that there was_Aa call for policy adjustment03Ba change in hiring practicesCa lack of medical wor
6、kersDa sign of economic recovery25.Scandinavian Airlines decided toAcreate job vacancies for the unemployedBprepare their laid-off workers for other jobsCretrain their cabin staff for better servicesDfinance their staffs college educationText 2With the global population predicted to hit close to 10
7、billion by 2050,and forecaststhat agricultural production in some regions will need to nearly double to keep pace,food security is increasingly making headlines.In the UK,it has become a big talkingpoint recently too,for a rather particular reason:Brexit.Brexit is seen by some as an opportunity to r
8、everse a recent trend towards theUK importing food.The country produces only about 60 per cent of the food it eats,down from almost three-quarters in the late 1980s.A move back to self-sufficiency,the argument goes,would boost the farming industry,political sovereignty and even thenations health.Sou
9、nds great-but how feasible is this vision?According to a report on UK food production from the University of Leeds,UK,85per cent of the countrys total land area is associated with meat and dairy production.That supplies 80 per cent of what is consumed,so even covering the whole country inlivestock f
10、arms wouldnt allow us to cover all our meat and dairy needs.There are many caveats to those figures,but they are still grave.To become muchmore self-sufficient,the UK would need to drastically reduce its consumption of animalfoods,and probably also farm more intensively-meaning fewer green fields an
11、d morefactory-style production.But switching to a mainly plant-based diet wouldnt help.There is a good reasonwhy the UK is dominated by animal husbandry:most of its terrain doesnt have theright soil or climate to grow crops on a commercial basis.Just 25 per cent of the04countrys land is suitable for
12、 crop-growing,most of which is already occupied byarable fields.Even if we converted all the suitable land to fields of fruit and veg-which would involve taking out all the nature reserves and removing thousandsof people from their homes-we would achieve only a 30 per cent boost in cropproduction.Ju
13、st 23 per cent of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the UK are currently home-grown,so even with the most extreme measures we could meet only 30 per cent of ourfresh produce needs.That is before we look for the space to grow the grains,sugars,seeds and oils that provide us with the vast bulk of o
14、ur current calorie intake.26.Some people argue that food self-sufficiency in the UK wouldAbe hindered by its population growthBcontribute to the nations well-beingCbecome a priority of the governmentDpose a challenge to its farming industry尖考研27.The report by the University of Leeds shows that in th
15、e UKAfarmland has been inefficiently utilizedBfactory-style production needs reformingCmost land is used for meat and dairy productionDmore green fields will be converted for farming28.Crop-growing in the UK is restricted due toAits farming technologyBits dietary traditionCits natural conditionsDits
16、 commercial interests29.It can be learned from the last paragraph that British peopleArely largely on imports for fresh produceBenjoy a steady rise in fruit consumption05Care seeking effective ways to cut calorie intakeDare trying to grow new varieties of grains30.The authors attitude to food self-s
17、ufficiency in the UK isAdefensiveBdoubtfulCtolerantDoptimisticText 3When Microsoft bought task management app Wunderlist and mobile calendarSunrise in 2015,it picked two newcomers that were attracting considerable buzz inSilicon Valley.Microsofts own Office dominates the market for productivitysoftw
18、are,but the start-ups represented a new wave of technology designed from the ground up forthe smartphone world.Both apps,however,were later scrapped,after Microsoft said it had used their bestfeatures in its own products.Their teams of engineers stayed on,making them two ofthe many acqui-hiresthat t
19、he biggest companies have used to feed their great hungerfor tech talent.To Microsofts critics,the fates of Wunderlist and Sunrise are examples of aremorseless drive by Big Tech to chew up any innovative companies that lie in theirpath.They bought the seedlings and closed them down,complained Paul A
20、rnold,apartner at San Francisco-based Switch Ventures,putting an end to businesses that mightone day turn into competitors.Microsoft declined to comment.Like other start-up investors,Mr.Arnolds own business often depends on sellingstart-ups to larger tech companies,though he admits to mixed feelings
21、 about the result:Ithink these things are good for me,if I put my selfish hat on.But are they good for theAmerican economy?I dont know.The US Federal Trade Commission says it wants to find the answer to that question.This week,it asked the five most valuable US tech companies for information abouttheir many small acquisitions over the past decade.Although only a research project at06