2000考研英语真题及答案(编辑修改稿)

2000考研英语真题及答案(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

［ C］ the war had destroyed the economies of most potential petitors ［ D］ the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy loss of . predominance in the world economy in the 1980s is manifested in the fact that the American_____ . ［ A］ TV industry had withdrawn to its domestic market ［ B］ semiconductor industry had been taken over by foreign enterprises ［ C］ machinetool industry had collapsed after suicidal actions ［ D］ auto industry had lost part of its domestic market can be inferred from the passage? ［ A］ It is human nature to shift between selfdoubt and blind pried. ［ B］ Intense petition may contribute to economic progress. ［ C］ The revival of the economy depends on international cooperation. ［ D］ A long history of success may pave the way for further development. author seems to believe the revival of the . economy in the 1990s can be attributed to the____ . ［ A］ turning of the business cycle ［ B］ restructuring of industry ［ C］ improved business management ［ D］ success in education Passage 2 Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females, but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70yearolds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male mortality is being changed. Now, by babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when the are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby(particularly a boy baby)surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes one more agent of evolution has gone. There is another way to mit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious munities, very few women has 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has bee average. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished. India shows what is happening. The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples. The grand mediocrity of today everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in uppermiddleclass India pared to the tribes. For us, this means that evolution is over。 the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change No other species fills so many places in nature. But in the pass 100,000 years even the pass 100year our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We did not evolve, because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they look at an anic being as average looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his prehension. No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond prehension for its ugliness. But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us. used to be the danger in being a man according to the first paragraph? ［ A］ A lack of mates. ［ B］ A fierce petition. ［ C］ A lower survival rate. ［ D］ A defective gene. does the example of India illustrate? ［ A］ Wealthy people tend to have fewer children than poor people. ［ B］ Natural selection hardly works among the rich and the poor. ［ C］ The middle class population is 80% smaller than that of the tribes. ［ D］ India is one of the countries with a very high birth rate. author argues that our bodies have stopped evolving because____ . ［ A］ life has been improved by technological advance ［ B］ the number of female babies has been declining ［ C］ our species has reached the highest stage of evolution ［ D］ the difference between wealth and poverty is disappearing of the following would be the best title for the passage? ［ A］ Sex Ration Changes in Human Evolution ［ B］ Ways of Continuing Man39。 s Evolution ［ C］ The Evolutionary Future of Nature ［ D］ Human Evolution Going Nowhere Passage 3 When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to e they may be regarded as normal. With regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right, it can hardly be classed as Literature. This, in brief, is what the Futurist says。 for a noise and violence and speed. Consequently, our feelings, thoughts and emotions have undergone a corresponding change. This speeding up of life, says the Futurist, requires a new form of expression. We must speed up our literature too, if we want to interpret modern stress. We must pour out a large stream of essential words, unhampered by stops, or qualifying adjectives, of finite verbs. Instead of describing sounds we must make up words that imitate them。 we must use many sizes of type and different colored inks on the same page, and shorten or lengthen words at will. Certainly their descriptions of battles are confused. But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river and then to find that the l。