湖南浏阳一中2016届第二次月考英语试题及答案(3)

C. organize huge quantities of information like a computer.
D. know how to access huge amounts of information later.  
31. What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow's research?
A. We are becoming more intelligent.  B. We have poorer memories than before.
C. We are using memory differently.   D. We need a better way to access information.
D
    America’s businesses are getting older and fatter, while many new businesses are dying in infancy.
A study last month by the Brookings Institution found that the proportion of older firms has grown steadily over several decades, while the survival rate of new companies has fallen. In addition, young people are starting companies at a sharply lower rate than in the past.
A new report from the National Association of Manufacturers shows a major cause: The cost of obeying government regulations has risen to more than $2 trillion (12.26 trillion yuan) annually, or 12 percent of the GDP, and this cost falls disproportionately on smaller, newer businesses.
It’s risky, difficult and expensive to start a business, and getting more so. Governments are imposing various new rules on a seemingly daily basis: health insurance, minimum wage increases and, most recently in California, compulsory paid sick days for even hourly employees. These regulations shift huge social welfare costs directly onto often-struggling small businesses, while being proportionally much less costly for larger companies.
This is partly an unintended issue of resources—established companies can cope with new costs more easily—but it’s also deliberate. For instance, big insurance companies got a seat at the table to help write Obamacare, but less politically powerful firms—like medical device manufacturers—got squeezed.
Mature, successful corporations can employ ex-lawmakers with connections, distribute campaign contributions and even write regulations for themselves. They are also more likely to want to protect steady revenue streams than revolutionize their industry.
Major companies that have been so ill-managed they would otherwise collapse—airlines, car companies and banks—stagger（蹒跚）on because politicians ride to the rescue with bags of taxpayer money.
The genius of our unique system of government is the determination to protect and defend the rights of the individual over the rights of the nation. As such, the rise of a well-connected oligarchy（寡头政治）that protects big business at the expense of small business, and the established over the new, is opposite to American ideals.
Income inequality—which is directly caused by faulty government policy—is being promoted as the reason to impose more of that bad policy. But let’s be perfectly clear, we do not have a free market but one where government picks winners and losers through regulations and financial aids.
Politics is, and always has been, about balancing competing interests seeking to benefit themselves, and that’s as it should be, but the force of government should never be used to reduce competition, kill innovation or support and extend artificial monopolies（垄断）by harming the consumer, the taxpayer and the economy. Policy must breed our new and small businesses or see the as-yet undreamed of innovations that could be our bright future die in infancy.
32. We can learn from the passage that ______________.
A. over several decades, new companies have grown steadily.
B. mature, successful corporations prefer to maintain their stable incomes.
C. less politically powerful firms also have their voice in making regulations.
D. The cost of obeying government regulations falls equally on all businesses.
33. We can infer from the last three paragraphs that ____________.
A. the state economy may depend on those innovative businesses.
B. the rise of a well-connected oligarchy is contrary to American ideals.
C. income inequality is what the government should take action to resolve.
D. the government picks winners and losers through the law of free market.
34. It can be concluded from the passage that _______________
A. big insurance companies have better relationship with Obama.
B. most of the ex-lawmakers work in mature, successful corporations.
C. larger and older firms have a command of resources of various aspects.
D. politicians like providing financial aids to the companies of worse operation.

35. As to the development of smaller businesses, the writer is _______________
A. contented.  B. confident.   C. convinced.  D. concerned.
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We all face quantities of stress in day-to-day living, whether at work, in the home, or anywhere in between.   36    Here’s how stress can help us on an everyday basis.
    ◆Sharpening your memory.
    Did you ever notice that sometimes when you are stressed, your memory seems to improve? Remember that test you passed where the answer seemed to come out of nowhere?   37   It’s because of stress hormones (荷尔蒙) that increase your alertness when it’s most needed.
    ◆  38 
    Successful employees turn stress into motivation. Have you ever noticed that you get the least amount of work done when you have fewest deadlines? Too little stress can affect how much you actually get done. When you take risks and choose to get over the difficulty, it improves your mental toughness and self-confidence.
    ◆Helping you resist the attack of illness.
       39    Believe it or not, the right kind of stress can help your body’s defenses against illness. When you get sick, stress causes you to make hormones that battle threats to your health. That burst of stress is helpful to your immune system when your body faces a threat.