考研英语（一）2012年真题答案.docx

2012年英语（一）试题参考答案 Section I Use of English 1. B. maintain 2. A. when 3. B. weakened 4. D. accepted 5. C. bound 6. B. subject 7. D. applies 8. B. raise 9. A. line 10. B. as 11. A. so 12. C. upset 13. C. cultivate 14. D. tied 15. A. concepts 16. C. shapes 17. A. dismissed 18. C. address 19. D. accountable 20. D. as a result Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Text1 21.D. a cause of undesirable behaviors. 22.B. learn from advertisers’ experience. 23.A. adequately probe social and biological factors. 24.C. occurs without our realizing it. 25.D. questionable. Text2 26.C. dishonoring. 27.D. get permission to purchase a power plant. 28.A. managerial practices. 29.D. the limits of states’ power over nuclear issues. 30.A. Entergy’s business elsewhere might be affected. Text3 31.A. uncertainty and complexity. 32.B. shared efforts. 33.B. has been examined by the scientific community. 34.D. scientific work calls for a critical mind. 35.C. Evolution of Credibility in Doing Science. Text4 36.C. unions have enlarged their public-sector membership. 37.D. Public-sector unions seldom get in trouble for their actions. 38.B. indirectly augmented. 39.C. may be a barrier to public-sector reforms. 40.A. disapproval. Part B 41. C. Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day. 42. D. This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading—between passive consumption and active creation—whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine. 43. A. Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity. 44. F. One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is tha