2005-2012年历年考研英语真题%2B答案完美打印版(2013考研英语)

2012 考研英语（一）真题及答案

Section I Use of English
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark
A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently.
The court cannot _1_ its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law _2_ justices behave like
politicians. Yet, in several instances, justices acted in ways that _3_ the court’s reputation for
being independent and impartial.
Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, appeared at political events. That kind of activity makes it
less likely that the court’s decisions will be _4_ as impartial judgments. Part of the problem is
that the justices are not _5_by an ethics code. At the very least, the court should make itself
_6_to the code of conduct that _7_to the rest of the federal judiciary.
This and other similar cases _8_the question of whether there is still a _9_between the court and
politics.
The framers of the Constitution envisioned law _10_having authority apart from politics. They
gave justices permanent positions _11_they would be free to _12_ those in power and have no
need to _13_ political support. Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics
precisely because they are so closely _14_.
Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social _15_
like liberty and property. When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it _16_ is
inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily _17_ as
unjust.
The justices must _18_ doubts about the court’s legitimacy by making themselves _19_ to the
code of conduct. That would make rulings more likely to be seen as separate from politics and,
_20_, convincing as law.
1. [A]emphasize [B]maintain [C]modify [D] recognize
2. [A]when [B]lest [C]before [D] unless
3. [A]restored [B]weakened [C]established [D] eliminated
4. [A]challenged [B]compromised [C]suspected [D] accepted
5. [A]advanced [B]caught [C]bound [D]founded
6. [A]resistant [B]subject [C]immune [D]prone
7. [A]resorts [B]sticks [C]loads [D]applies
8. [A]evade [B]raise [C]deny [D]settle
9. [A]line [B]barrier [C]similarity [D]conflict
10. [A]by [B]as [C]though [D]towards
11. [A]so [B]since [C]provided [D]though
12. [A]serve [B]satisfy [C]upset [D]replace
13. [A]confirm [B]express [C]cultivate [D]offer
14. [A]guarded [B]followed [C]studied [D]tied
15. [A]concepts [B]theories [C]divisions [D]conceptions
16. [A]excludes [B]questions [C]shapes [D]controls
17. [A]dismissed [B]released [C]ranked [D]distorted
18. [A]suppress [B]exploit [C]address [D]ignore

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19. [A]accessible [B]amiable [C]agreeable [D]accountable
20. [A]by all mesns [B]atall costs [C]in a word [D]as a result

Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,
B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Text 1
Come on –Everybody’s doing it. That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is
what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure. It usually leads to no
good-drinking, drugs and casual sex. But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg
contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in
which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve
their lives and possibly the word.
Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action:
In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out
to make cigarettes uncool. In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife
recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.
The idea seems promising，and Rosenberg is a perceptive observer. Her critique of the lameness
of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits,
and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.” Dare to be different,
please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among
teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in. Rosenberg argues convincingly that
public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer
pressure.
But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive. Join the Club is
filled with too much irrelevant detail and not enough exploration of the social and biological
factors that make peer pressure so powerful. The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s
presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long. Rage Against the Haze failed once
state funding was cut. Evidence that the LoveLife program produces lasting changes is limited
and mixed.
There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior. An emerging
body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through
networks of friends via social communication. This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we
unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every day.
Far less certain, however, is how successfully experts and bureaucrats can select our peer groups
and steer their activities in virtuous directions. It ’s like the teacher who breaks up the
troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates. The tactic never
really works. And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real
world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.
21. According to the first paragraph, peer pressure often emerges as
[A] a supplement to the social cure
[B] a stimulus to group dynamics
[C] an obstacle to school progress
[D] a cause of undesirable behaviors

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22. Rosenberg holds that public advocates should
[A] recruit professional advertisers
[B] learn from advertisers’ experience
[C] stay away from commercial advertisers
[D] recognize the limitations of advertisements
23. In the author’s view, Rosenberg’s book fails to
[A] adequately probe social and biological factors
[B] effectively evade the flaws of the social cure
[C] illustrate the functions of state funding
[D]produce a long-lasting social effect
24. Paragraph 5shows that our imitation of behaviors
[A] is harmful to our networks of friends
[B] will mislead behavioral studies
[C] occurs without our realizing it
[D] can produce negative health habits
25. The author suggests in the last paragraph that the effect of peer pressure is
[A] harmful
[B] desirable
[C] profound
[D] questionable
Text 2
A deal is a deal-except, apparently ,when Entergy is involved. The company, a major energy
supplier in New England, provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it
was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the strict nuclear regulations.
Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the
constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running. It’s a stunning move.
The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear
power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon. As a condition of receiving state approval for t he sale,
the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012. In 2006, the
state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant’s license be subject to Vermont
legislature’s approval. Then, too, the company went along.