[研究生入学考试]1990-1999年考研英语试题.doc

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 Section I Close Test For each numbered blank in the following passage there are four choices labeled ［A］, ［B］, ［C］, and ［D］. Choose the best one and put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. Read the whole passage before making your choice. (10 points) ①No one knows for sure what the world would be like in the year 2001. ②Many books have been written 1 the future. ③But the 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne may be called a futurologist in the fullest 2 of the word. ④In his fantastic novels “A Trip to the Moon” and “80 Days Around the World,” he described with detail the aeroplane and even the helicopter. ⑤ These novels still have a great attraction 3 young readers of today because of their bold imagination and scientific accuracy. ⑥Below is a description of what our life will be in the year 2001 as predicted by a 4 writer. ⑦In 2001, in the home, cookers will be set so that you can cook a complete meal at the touch of a switch. ⑧Television will provide information on prices at the 5 shops as well as news and entertainment. ⑨Videophones will bring pictures as well as 6 to telephone conversations. ⑩Machines will control temperature, lighting, entertainment, security alarms, laundry and gardening. Lighting will provide decoration as well as wallpaper. At work, robots will take 7 most jobs in the manufacturing industries. Working hours will fall to under 30 hours a week. Holidays will get longer; six weeks will be the normal annual holiday. Men and women will retire at the same age. Our leisure will be different too. The home will become the center of entertainment through television and electronic games. More people will eat out in restaurants 8 they do today; also they will have a much wider variety of food available. There will be a change of taste towards a more savoury-flavored menu. New synthetic foods will form a 9 part of people’s diets. Foreign travel will 10 ; winter holidays will become more popula