《2016年1月MBA联考英语真题阅读部分》.doc

2010年1月MBA联考英语真题2010年全国硕士研究生MBA考试英语真题 答案解析 1-5 : DC B A A 6-10: B D C B A 11-15: C D D A A 16-20: B D C A B 21-25: DACC C 26-30: A C B D B 31-35: A AD C B 36-40: D CC B D 41-45：F T F T F Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension 本文出处：Nov 26th 2009，From The Economist　　原文标题：A special report on the art market：Suspended animation Text 1 The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching （售出sell for） more than￡70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy. The world art market had already been losing momentum (风光不再) for a while after rising bewilderingly（令人困惑地confusingly）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 then it may have come down to (amount to） $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond（远远超过）its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries. （23题出处） In the weeks and months that followed Mr. Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them. The current downturn (downward) in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. This time experts reck