硕士研究生入学考试英语命题预测试卷(十)—5
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. （10 points）
46）Extraordinary claims,scientists like to say,require extraordinary proof,and none has been more extraordinary in recent years than Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut's claim that he and his colleagues had cloned a sheep named Dolly from a mammary cell of a pregnant ewe. 47）More than a year later,nobody has managed to reproduce the Dolly experiment,and Wilmut is under growing pressure to prove that his famous sheep is what he says she is. Last week at a genetics meeting at the University of Louisville,in Kentucky,he blandly conceded that there was a “remote possibility” that there could have been a mix?up?that Dolly could turn out to be the clone not of the adult ewe,but of the fetus the ewe was carrying.
So does that mean all the cloning hoopla Dolly set off was for naught?Not quite.48）What Wilmut is conceding is that Dolly's mum?or should we say her twin sister?-probably had some fetal cells circulating in her bloodstream,and that one of these fetal cells could conceivably have found its way into the laboratory culture from which Dolly sprang. Cloning an embryo from a fetal cell,of course,would not be as big a deal.What made the Dolly experiment so extraordinary was that Wilmut had managed to get the DNA of an adult cell to revert to its early embryonic state,opening the door to the cloning of a cell from full?grown human,say,a Michael Jordan or a Bill Gates.
49）Wilmut last week put the chances that Dolly was some sort of fetal?cell contamination at less than a million to one.Nonetheless,he and his colleagues are scrambling to track down any other tissue samples taken from Dolly's mum so they can perform the genetic tests that will determine,once and for all,if Dolly's DNA and her mum's DNA are identical.
Meanwhile,scientists trying to make another Dolly?or her bovine equivalent?have come intriguingly close.For example,James Robl,at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,and his colleague Steven Stice have succeeded in cloning calf embryos from adult cells taken from a big,hoofed cow leg supplied by a local slaughterhouse.So far they've cloned hundreds of cells and nurtured dozens into embryos,but to date none of those embryos has survived past 60 days of gestation.
But this comes as no surprise,says Stice,the chief scientist for Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester,Mass.After all,it took Wilmut's team 400 tries to create Dolly.Others attempting to reproduce the experiment could very easily find it takes 6,000 tries.Dolly,in other words,may turn out to be a fluke,not a fake. 50）No matter what she is,it's looking less and less likely that we're going to see clones of Bill Gates or Michael Jordan anytime soon.
Section Ⅲ Writing
Part A
51.Directions:
Suppose you' ve graduated and been in a corporation for one year. Write a work report as every new comer is required. There will be three parts in the report:
1）benefits from the year
2）troubles that you came across during the year
3）drawbacks of the corporation or your suggestion to the corporation.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your name at the end of the report. Use “Jack Well” instead. （10 points）
Part B
52.Directions:
（1）Title:Help Children to Be Independent
（2）Your composition should be based on the Outlines below.
Outlines:
（1）Many children are used to depending on others
（2）How can parents help children to be independent
（3）With parents? help children can be independent gradually
硕士研究生入学考试英语命题预测试卷(十)—5的延伸阅读——复习英语要讲究技巧
一，重视单词。
从第一天开始复习到考试的前一天，考试大纲词汇就应不离手，因为这是一切的基础。考试大纲是命题专家出题的依据、基础，所以考生一定要重视。背单词时，可以总结同义词、一词多义以及包含“高级”短语的句子，然后跟同桌的研友们对话，或者“厚颜无耻”地主动向他们“炫耀”，同时也坚持参加英语辩论活动，把自己最新积累的词句一一“亮”出，这样考生会感觉记得特别牢固。
二，日积月累。
作为一门语言，充满了繁琐与细节的，想一口吃成大胖子是不太现实的，必须耐心地积累“量变”以求“质变”。学习英语的时间安排也是有规律可循的，如果你一天安排3个小时学英语，那么与其一鼓作气学3个小时倒不如改成上下午各1.5小时。持续学习、及时复习才能收到较为理想的效果。可以参照着名的“艾宾浩斯遗忘曲线”来合理安排时间，最大限度地降低遗忘率，以获得较好的学习效果。
三，研读真题。
历年考研英语全真试题是了解考研水平的最快途径，也是熟悉命题规律的唯一途径。所以要在老师的指导下分阶段复习考研英语真题。找一个安静的环境，先用一周的时间做一套真题，做完后，对自己的错题先看一下怎么错的，错在哪里，能不能解决。剩下的时间要分析题型，也就是看这些题目是属于细节题、推理题，还是主旨大意题……当复习完十年的真题，建议考生放20天左右的时间，重新再做真题，分析自己的做题思路，考前一个月适当做些高质量的模拟题练练手。另外，希望考生真题至少看三遍。第一遍先做，做完之后归纳总结错题的原因。第二遍主要精读文章解决单词句子翻译。第三遍前两遍的内容都要看。
四，增加课外阅读。
课外阅读在考研英语复习中占有重要地位，对提高成绩有很大作用，建议大家订一份《英语世界》杂志，阅读上面的文章，也会有不少收获。如果有条件，看看自己学校图书馆是否有这本书，有的话坚持看，肯定会有收获的！
希望以上的介绍对2013的考研同学有所帮助，另外，大家在学习英语学习方法时，要从自身实际出发，选择真正适合自己的复习方法。 | 
