【正文】 y be wiped out in some areas of Africa. The hippo, laments Dr. Simon Lyster of the World Wide Fund for Nature, is the fotten beast. Unfortunately for hippos, they39。s crash was the seventh accidentthe fifth resulting in 10 involving A320 since its 11 in 1987. But some of those accidents have raised the question of whether the aircraft39。2020 年瘋狂考研英語(yǔ)沖刺 考試中心 模擬題 之 (4) 摘自考試中心之 2020年全國(guó)碩士研究生入學(xué)統(tǒng)一考試英語(yǔ)考試參考書(shū)（非英語(yǔ)專業(yè)）☆☆☆☆ *********************************************************** 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 accident drew renewed attention to the popular but I A320. It was the first plane Airbus designed using highly puterized systems that are 2 to curb pilot error and allow crews to land 3 autopilot. Now 4 all Airbus planesfrom the A320 to the jumbo A340operate on a fly by wire system, which uses electrical impulses 5 cables and pulleys to move the control 6 on the plane39。s puter system may be too plicated. Several of the crashed resulted from pilot39。re easy targets. They like to gather in herds at muddy pools and just sit there, virtually motionless. Hunters simply shoot the hippos in the water. Not surprisingly, there39。 targets. [C] outnumber elephants and hippos in the future. [D] bee tourist attractions in African national parks. Passage 2 Eating right to prevent heart disease may seem plicated and confusing, but it39。s no surprise that the relationship between diet and cancer is still largely a matter of educated guessworkand in many cases, the guesses have turned out to be wrong. Take the much publicized link between highfat diets and breast cancer, for example. Women who live in Western countries, where highfat diets are the norm, tend to have high breastcancer rates. Even more telling: women of Japanese ancestry who live in the , get the disease six times more often than their grandmothers and greatgrandmothers in Japan. Yet a huge recent study of 90 000 women has refuted the breast cancerfat link. A similar process of educatedguessanderror led people to load up on the nutritional supplement beta carotene in the early 1990s. Scientists noted that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoidsthe same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart diseasewere responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and mon carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer. Yet a series of targeted studies in Finland and the . showed that beta carotene supplements don39。 it offers a pleasant bination of sound and sense. Against this majority view is the doctrine of an aggressive minority, who make up for their small number by their great learning and their place of authority in the world of scholarship. They are the professional linguists who deny that there is such a thing as correctness. The language, they say, is what anybody and everybody speaks. Hence there must be no interference with what they regard as a product of nature。s what engineering is about finding a way to solve problems while working under many types of restrictionspolitical, financial and environmental ones, for instance. Although online experiments can enhance an engineer39。 experience in handling real apparatus. [C] confuse the difference between the real and simulated world. [D] be used as a supplementary means in engineering training. Part B Directions: In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 4145, choose the most suitable one from the list AG to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices that do not fit in any of the gaps: Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The making of weathervanes (devices fixed on the top of buildings to show directions of the wind) is an ancient skill, going back to early Egyptian times. Today the craft is still very much alive in the workshop that Graham Smith has set up. He is one of the few people in the country who make handcut weathervanes. Graham39。t have an artistic element to it, whereas this is exciting and creative, he says. I really enjoy the design side. (42) . Graham also keeps plenty of traditional designs in stock, since they prove as popular as the oneoffs. It seems that people are attracted to handcrafting, Graham says. They wele the opportunity to acquire something a little bit different. (43) . I have found my place in the market. People love the individuality and I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing a nondescript shape turn into something almost lifelike, he says. (44) . And nowadays, with more and more people moving to the country, individuals want to put an exclusive finishing touch to their properties. It has been a boost to crafts like mines, (45) . American and Danish buyers in particular are showing interest. Pricing, he explains, depends on the intricacy of the design.”His most recent request was for a curlycoaled dog. W