2020年MBA考研英语阅读模拟题3

MBA联考是肯定会考英语的，但是英语真的是让许多考生困扰的问题，英语考试中的阅读题如果做好的话会直接提升分数，因此要做好英语阅读。话不多说，先来随坦途网MBA考试频道小编看一篇阅读模拟题练习吧！ 

Pretty in pink: adult women do not rememer being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls’ lives. Tt is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls’ identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.

Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What’s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem

inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.

I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kins, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children’s behaviour: wrong. Turns out, acdording to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacrurers in the 1930s.

Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping stone” between infant wear and older kids’ clothes. Tt was only after “toddler”became a common shoppers’ term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults,into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences – or invent them where they did not previously exist.

26.By saying "it is...the rainbow"(Line 3, Para.1),the author means pink______.

[A]should not be the sole representation of girlhood [B]should not be associated with girls' innocence

[C]cannot explain girls' lack of imagination [D]cannot influence girls' lives and interests

27.According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours?

[A]Colours are encoded in girls' DNA.[B]Blue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.

[C]Pink used to be a neutral colour in symbolising genders. [D]White is prefered by babies.

28.The author suggests that our perception of children's psychological development was much influenced by_____.

[A]the marketing of products for children [B]the observation of children's nature

[C]researches into children's behavior [D]studies of childhood consumption

29.We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to_____.

[A]focus on infant wear and older kids' clothes [B]attach equal importance to different genders

[C]classify consumers into smaller groups [D]create some common shoppers' terms

30.It can be concluded that girls' attraction to pink seems to be____.

[A] clearly explained by their inborn tendency [B]fully understood by clothing manufacturers

[C] mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen [D]well interpreted by psychological experts

参考答案：

26.A 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C

今天的分享先到这里，在英语的备考中，不管什么时候，单词词汇都是最基础的，需要积累自己的词汇量；其次再配和模拟题进行练习，才能真正拿到理想分数。另外，小编想要强调的是，历年真题真的很重要，透过历年真题，考生可以掌握大纲考点及命题思路，也希望考生们能够通过小编的分享获得理想的MBA考试初试成绩！