2011年考研英语二真题-名校题库网

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Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose“fat taxes”on unhealthy food and introduce cigarettestyle warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.The demands follow comments made last week by the health secretary,Andrew Lansley,who insisted the government could not force people to make healthy choices and promised to free businesses from public health regulations.But senior medical figures want to stop fastfood outlets opening near schools,restrict advertising of products high in fat,salt or sugar,and limit sponsorship of sports events by fastfood producers such as McDonald's.They argue that government action is necessary to curb Britain's addiction to unhealthy food and help halt spiraling rates of obesity,diabetes and heart disease.Professor Terence Stephenson,president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health,said that the consumption of unhealthy food should be seen to be just as damaging as smoking or excessive drinking.“Thirty years ago,it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs,and yet that is what we have now.Are we willing to be just as courageous in respect of obesity?I would suggest that we should be,”said the leader of the UK's children's doctors.Lansley has alarmed health campaigners by suggesting he wants industry rather than government to take the lead.He said that manufacturers of crisps and candies could play a central role in the Chang for Life campaign,the centerpiece of government efforts to boost healthy eating and fitness.He has also criticized the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's highprofile attempt to improve school lunches in England as an example of how“lecturing”people was not the best way to change their behavior.Stephenson suggested potential restrictions could include banning TV advertisements for foods high in fat,salt or sugar before 9 pm and limiting them on billboards or in cinemas.“If we were really bold,we might even begin to think of highcalorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising,product placement and sponsorship of sports events，”he said.Such a move could affect firms such as McDonald's,which sponsors the youth coaching scheme run by the Football Association.Fastfood chains should also stop offering“inducements”such as toys,cute animals and mobile phone credit to lure young customers,Stephenson said.Professor Dinesh Bhugra,president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,said:“If children are taught about the impact that food has on their growth,and that some things can harm,at least information is available up front.”He also argues councils to impose“fastfoodfreezones”around schools and hospitals—areas within which takeaways cannot open.A department of Health spokesman said:“We need to create a new vision for public health where all of society works together to get healthy and live longer.This includes creating a new‘responsibility,deal with business,built on social responsibly,not state regulation.Later this year,we will publish a white paper setting out exactly how we will achieve this.”The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves,especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.Dinesh Bhugra suggested that_____

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正确答案：B

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由题干关键词Dinesh Bhugra定位至第九段和第十段。第九段“If children are taught about the impact…”（如果人们告诉孩子们快餐食品对他们的成长发育会产生何种影响，并告诉孩子们某些食品是有害的，孩子们至少可以预先获知这些信息）第十段“He also argues councils to…”（他还坚决建议市政府在学校和医院附近强制划出“无快餐区”，在这些区域中不能开设外卖餐馆）。可以总结出他的观点有两个：一是主观上告知孩子快餐有害健康；二是客观上限制快餐店的设置。核对几个备选项后发现B项和Dinesh Bhugra的第二个观点是一致的。

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Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose“fat taxes”on unhealthy food and introduce cigarettestyle warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.The demands follow comments made last week by the health secretary,Andrew Lansley,who insisted the government could not force people to make healthy choices and promised to free businesses from public health regulations.But senior medical figures want to stop fastfood outlets opening near schools,restrict advertising of products high in fat,salt or sugar,and limit sponsorship of sports events by fastfood producers such as McDonald's.They argue that government action is necessary to curb Britain's addiction to unhealthy food and help halt spiraling rates of obesity,diabetes and heart disease.Professor Terence Stephenson,president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health,said that the consumption of unhealthy food should be seen to be just as damaging as smoking or excessive drinking.“Thirty years ago,it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs,and yet that is what we have now.Are we willing to be just as courageous in respect of obesity?I would suggest that we should be,”said the leader of the UK's children's doctors.Lansley has alarmed health campaigners by suggesting he wants industry rather than government to take the lead.He said that manufacturers of crisps and candies could play a central role in the Chang for Life campaign,the centerpiece of government efforts to boost healthy eating and fitness.He has also criticized the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's highprofile attempt to improve school lunches in England as an example of how“lecturing”people was not the best way to change their behavior.Stephenson suggested potential restrictions could include banning TV advertisements for foods high in fat,salt or sugar before 9 pm and limiting them on billboards or in cinemas.“If we were really bold,we might even begin to think of highcalorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising,product placement and sponsorship of sports events，”he said.Such a move could affect firms such as McDonald's,which sponsors the youth coaching scheme run by the Football Association.Fastfood chains should also stop offering“inducements”such as toys,cute animals and mobile phone credit to lure young customers,Stephenson said.Professor Dinesh Bhugra,president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,said:“If children are taught about the impact that food has on their growth,and that some things can harm,at least information is available up front.”He also argues councils to impose“fastfoodfreezones”around schools and hospitals—areas within which takeaways cannot open.A department of Health spokesman said:“We need to create a new vision for public health where all of society works together to get healthy and live longer.This includes creating a new‘responsibility,deal with business,built on social responsibly,not state regulation.Later this year,we will publish a white paper setting out exactly how we will achieve this.”The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves,especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.Jamie Oliver seemed to believe that_____

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正确答案：C

本题解析：

特征词比对由题干信号词Jamie Oliver可以定位到第六段“He（Lansley）has also criticized the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver'shighprofile attempt to improve school lunches in England as an example of how“lecturing”people was not the best way to change their behavior”（他还批评了名厨Jamie Oliver为改善英国学校午餐进行的备受关注的尝试，指责这样的尝试是“讲座”而非改变人们的行为的最好方式），该处证明Jamie Oliver的观点是通过讲座是改变人们行为。核对备选项后发现C项与原文意思是完全一致的。

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Text 4 Will the European Union make it?The question would have sounded strange not long ago.Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a“Bermuda triangle”of debt,population decline and lower growth.As well as those chronic problems,the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core,the 16 countries that use the single currency.Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies,weaker or stronger,will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency,which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.Yet the debate about how to save Europe's single currency from disintegration is stuck.It is stuck because the euro zone's dominant powers,France and Germany,agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone,but disagree about what to harmonies.Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow,spending and competitiveness,backed by quasiautomatic sanctions for governments that do not obey.These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU megaprojects and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.It insists that economic coordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club,among whom there is a small majority for freemarket liberalism and economic rigour;in the inner core alone,Germany fears,a small majority favour French interference.A“southern”camp headed by French wants something different:“European economic government”within an inner core of eurozone members.Translated,that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members,via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.Finally,figures close to the France government have murmured,eurozone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization:e.g.,curbing competition in corporatetax rates or labour costs.It is too soon to write off the EU.It remains the world's largest trading block.At its best,the European project is remarkably liberal:built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries,its internal borders are far more open to goods,capital and labour than any comparable trading area.It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization,and make capitalism benign.

Regarding the future of the EU,the author seems to feel____

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正确答案：D

本题解析：

态度题【命题思路】这是一道态度题。态度有正向答案，也有负向答案，需要对文章最后一段的信息进行锁定，从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到最后一段首句“It is too soon to write off the EU.”其中动词短语“write off”的意思是“取消；认定……失败”。因此这句话的意思是“认定欧盟失败还为时过早”。由此判断得出作者对欧盟的态度很乐观，根据答案给出的备选选项，只有D项“有希望的”与作者的态度一致，故D项正确。

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Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1，000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1，200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

Mies held that elegance of architectural design____

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正确答案：C

本题解析：

细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题。需要对文章第四段的信息进行锁定，从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到第四段第二句“Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.”这句话中“he believed”是题干中“Mies held”的同义置换。“derive from”为固定搭配，意为“源于”，C项中“reliant on”意为“依靠”，因此C项中的was not reliant on和原文中的did not derive from是同义置换。原文中的abundance就是指abundant decoration，故C项正确。

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Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose“fat taxes”on unhealthy food and introduce cigarettestyle warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.The demands follow comments made last week by the health secretary,Andrew Lansley,who insisted the government could not force people to make healthy choices and promised to free businesses from public health regulations.But senior medical figures want to stop fastfood outlets opening near schools,restrict advertising of products high in fat,salt or sugar,and limit sponsorship of sports events by fastfood producers such as McDonald's.They argue that government action is necessary to curb Britain's addiction to unhealthy food and help halt spiraling rates of obesity,diabetes and heart disease.Professor Terence Stephenson,president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health,said that the consumption of unhealthy food should be seen to be just as damaging as smoking or excessive drinking.“Thirty years ago,it would have been inconceivable to have imagined a ban on smoking in the workplace or in pubs,and yet that is what we have now.Are we willing to be just as courageous in respect of obesity?I would suggest that we should be,”said the leader of the UK's children's doctors.Lansley has alarmed health campaigners by suggesting he wants industry rather than government to take the lead.He said that manufacturers of crisps and candies could play a central role in the Chang for Life campaign,the centerpiece of government efforts to boost healthy eating and fitness.He has also criticized the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's highprofile attempt to improve school lunches in England as an example of how“lecturing”people was not the best way to change their behavior.Stephenson suggested potential restrictions could include banning TV advertisements for foods high in fat,salt or sugar before 9 pm and limiting them on billboards or in cinemas.“If we were really bold,we might even begin to think of highcalorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising,product placement and sponsorship of sports events，”he said.Such a move could affect firms such as McDonald's,which sponsors the youth coaching scheme run by the Football Association.Fastfood chains should also stop offering“inducements”such as toys,cute animals and mobile phone credit to lure young customers,Stephenson said.Professor Dinesh Bhugra,president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,said:“If children are taught about the impact that food has on their growth,and that some things can harm,at least information is available up front.”He also argues councils to impose“fastfoodfreezones”around schools and hospitals—areas within which takeaways cannot open.A department of Health spokesman said:“We need to create a new vision for public health where all of society works together to get healthy and live longer.This includes creating a new‘responsibility,deal with business,built on social responsibly,not state regulation.Later this year,we will publish a white paper setting out exactly how we will achieve this.”The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves,especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.Terence Stephenson agreed that_____

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正确答案：D

本题解析：

特征词比对由题干信号词“Terence Stephenson”定位至第四段和第七段。第四段中提及Terence Stephenson的观点是：the consumption of unhealthy food should be seen to be just as damaging as smoking or excessive drinking（不健康食品的食用应该被视为与吸烟或者酗酒有同样的危害性）。第七段中他的观点是：potential restrictions could include banning TV advertisements for…“If we were really bold,we might even begin to think of highcalorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes——by setting strict limits on…”（如果我们真正勇敢无畏，我们甚至可以考虑用对待烟草的方式对待高热量快餐食品，即严格限制其广告宣传，产品摆放和对体育赛事的赞助）另外，通过对Terence Stephenson的身份介绍和上下文可以发现他是作为资深医务人员（“senior medical figures”第三段）和著名医生（“leading doctors”第一段）的代表，那么他也认同以下观点：第一段中“ministers impose‘fat taxes’on unhealthy food and introduce cigarettestyle warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet”和第三段中“stop fastfood outlets opening near schools,restrict advertising of products high in fat,salt or sugar,and limit sponsorship of sports events by fastfood producers such as McDonald's”这两处也间接表述了他的观点，是和上述的直接引述他的观点内容是一致的，核心就是要仿效在禁烟运动采取的种种手段来控制不健康食品。而审读几个备选项后发现，D项和Terence Stephenson观点一致。

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Text 4 Will the European Union make it?The question would have sounded strange not long ago.Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a“Bermuda triangle”of debt,population decline and lower growth.As well as those chronic problems,the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core,the 16 countries that use the single currency.Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies,weaker or stronger,will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency,which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.Yet the debate about how to save Europe's single currency from disintegration is stuck.It is stuck because the euro zone's dominant powers,France and Germany,agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone,but disagree about what to harmonies.Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow,spending and competitiveness,backed by quasiautomatic sanctions for governments that do not obey.These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU megaprojects and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.It insists that economic coordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club,among whom there is a small majority for freemarket liberalism and economic rigour;in the inner core alone,Germany fears,a small majority favour French interference.A“southern”camp headed by French wants something different:“European economic government”within an inner core of eurozone members.Translated,that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members,via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.Finally,figures close to the France government have murmured,eurozone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization:e.g.,curbing competition in corporatetax rates or labour costs.It is too soon to write off the EU.It remains the world's largest trading block.At its best,the European project is remarkably liberal:built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries,its internal borders are far more open to goods,capital and labour than any comparable trading area.It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization,and make capitalism benign.

The debate over the EU's single currency is stuck because the dominant powers_____

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正确答案：C

本题解析：

细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要对文章第三段的信息进行锁定，从而判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到第三段第二句“It is stuck…what to harmonies.”根据这句话可知“the dominant powers”，即“德国和法国”虽然认为有必要在欧元区进行更多的协调，但就协调内容却无法达成共识。由此可判断主导国家未能就协调内容达成共识，C项正确。【干扰排除】原文并未提及德国和法国具体的国情及情况，只是说它们无法就协调内容达成共识，故A项和B项原文均未提及，属于无中生有，不选。第三段首句“Yet the debate…is stuck.”谈的是欧盟货币统一问题，并非D项的“瓦解步骤”，故D项是对原文的曲解，错误。

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Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1，000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1，200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

What is true about the apartments Mies building Chicago's Lake Shore Drive?

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正确答案：D

本题解析：

推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要对文章第五段的信息进行锁定，从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到第五段第二句“But they…at the time.”。大意是“但它们非常流行，因为它们有轻薄的玻璃墙，美丽的景观以及高雅的建筑细节以及比例，而这些建筑特点等同于当时受欢迎的抽象艺术。”通过“这些建筑特点等同于当时受欢迎的抽象艺术”这句话可以判断出这些建筑和抽象艺术有相同的特征，D项正确。【干扰排除】由第五段第二句“the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions”可知“建筑的细节和比例的高雅”，A项中“ignore”与原文信息相反，故错误。B项将第五段第二句“the architectural equivalent…at the time.”中的“the architectural”偷换成了“materials”，故错误。由文章第五段首句“…were smallertwobedroom units…than those in their older neighbors…”，可知C项中的“more spacious”与原文“smaller”相反，故C项不选。

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Text 3 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth,with soldiers returning home by the millions,going off to college on the G.I.Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses,it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.During the Depression and the war,Americans had learned to live with less,and that restraint,in combination with the postwar confidence in the future,made small,efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only a stimulus for the trend toward efficient living.The phrase“less is more”was actually first popularized by a German,the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,who like other people associated with the Bauhaus,a school of design,emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools.These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.Mies's signature phrase means that less decoration,properly organized,has more impact than a lot.Elegance,he believed,did not derive from abundance.Like other modern architects,he employed metal,glass and laminated woodmaterials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.Mies's sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient,rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive,for example,were smaller—twobedroom units under 1，000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.But they were popular because of their airy glass walls,the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings'details and proportions,the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward“less”was not entirely foreign.In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1，200 square feet—than the spreading twostory ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The“Case Study Houses”commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts&Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the“less is more”trend.Aesthetic effect came from the landscape,new materials and forthright detailing.In his Case Study House,Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters,though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that selfsufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about the Bauhaus?

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正确答案：D

本题解析：

推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要对文章第三段的信息进行锁定，从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息“Bauhaus”定位到第三段。该段最后一句“These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture,but none more so than Mies.”可知These designers，即Ludwig Mies van der Rohe以及other people associated with the Bauhaus，对美国建筑有很大影响，故D项正确。【干扰排除】第三段第二句中who引导的定语从句只是说Ludwing Mies van der Rohe和Bauhaus有关联而非创建者，故排除A项。与Bauhaus有关联的Ludwig Mies van der Rohe是在二战前移民美国的，但文中并未提及它的设计理念受二战影响，故B项不选。原文中只提到Bauhaus与其他人有关联，但并未说明这些人大部分是美国人，因此C项属于过度推理。

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Text 4 Will the European Union make it?The question would have sounded strange not long ago.Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a“Bermuda triangle”of debt,population decline and lower growth.As well as those chronic problems,the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core,the 16 countries that use the single currency.Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies,weaker or stronger,will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency,which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.Yet the debate about how to save Europe's single currency from disintegration is stuck.It is stuck because the euro zone's dominant powers,France and Germany,agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone,but disagree about what to harmonies.Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow,spending and competitiveness,backed by quasiautomatic sanctions for governments that do not obey.These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU megaprojects and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.It insists that economic coordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club,among whom there is a small majority for freemarket liberalism and economic rigour;in the inner core alone,Germany fears,a small majority favour French interference.A“southern”camp headed by French wants something different:“European economic government”within an inner core of eurozone members.Translated,that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members,via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.Finally,figures close to the France government have murmured,eurozone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization:e.g.,curbing competition in corporatetax rates or labour costs.It is too soon to write off the EU.It remains the world's largest trading block.At its best,the European project is remarkably liberal:built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries,its internal borders are far more open to goods,capital and labour than any comparable trading area.It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization,and make capitalism benign.

To solve the euro problem，Germany proposed that______

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正确答案：B

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细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要对文章第四段的信息进行锁定，从而判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到文章第四段首句“Germany thinks…and competitiveness…”，这句话的意思是“德国认为必须通过实施更加严格的借贷、支出和竞争条例来拯救欧元…….”。由此可知B项中“stricter regulations”是对原文“stricter rules”的同义替换，故B项正确。【干扰排除】由第四段第二句“These might…poorer regions…”可知冻结欧盟给贫困地区的资金，A项与原文信息相反，故不选。C项中的“only core members”是对第四段第三句“It insists that…all 27 members…”中的“all 27 members”偷换了概念，故错误。第四段第三句“It insists that…all 27 members…”，D项中的“be guaranteed”（得到保障）是对第四段第二句“…and even the supension…ministerial councils.”中“suspension”（停职）偷换了概念，故错误。

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Text 4 Will the European Union make it?The question would have sounded strange not long ago.Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a“Bermuda triangle”of debt,population decline and lower growth.As well as those chronic problems,the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core,the 16 countries that use the single currency.Markets have lost faith that the euro zone's economies,weaker or stronger,will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency,which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.Yet the debate about how to save Europe's single currency from disintegration is stuck.It is stuck because the euro zone's dominant powers,France and Germany,agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone,but disagree about what to harmonies.Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow,spending and competitiveness,backed by quasiautomatic sanctions for governments that do not obey.These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU megaprojects and even the suspension of a country's voting rights in EU ministerial councils.It insists that economic coordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club,among whom there is a small majority for freemarket liberalism and economic rigour;in the inner core alone,Germany fears,a small majority favour French interference.A“southern”camp headed by French wants something different:“European economic government”within an inner core of eurozone members.Translated,that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members,via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers.Finally,figures close to the France government have murmured,eurozone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization:e.g.,curbing competition in corporatetax rates or labour costs.It is too soon to write off the EU.It remains the world's largest trading block.At its best,the European project is remarkably liberal:built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries,its internal borders are far more open to goods,capital and labour than any comparable trading area.It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization,and make capitalism benign.

The French proposal of handling the crisis implies that______

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正确答案：A

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推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要锁定文章倒数第二段的信息，从而推理判断得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干信息定位到文章倒数第二段首句“A‘southern'camp headed by French wants…”再根据“implies that”定位到倒数第二段“Translated,…poorer members…”句首的“Translated”是评注性状语，相当于“in other words”。介词短语“from richer to poorer members”作后置定语修饰限定“redistribution”。由此句可知从富国到穷国再分配，即穷国更易得到资金，故A项正确。同时可以判断C项与原文信息不符，故排除。【干扰排除】由原文的分析可知对货币政策进行人为干预，以及对富国到穷国的再分配体制，这些政策都是对穷国有利的，而应该对富国更加严厉，故B项与原文信息相反，不选。第五段第二句“…redistribution…fiscal transfers.”显然对富国不利，故D项错误。

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