2023 全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语(二)试题.docx

PAGE PAGE # 绝密★启用前 2023年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语（二） （科目代码204） 考生注意事项 答题前，考生必须在试题册指定位置上填写考生姓名和考生编号; 在答题卡指定位置上填写报考单位、考生姓名和考生编号，并涂写 考生编号信息点。 考生须把试题册上的试卷条形码粘贴条取下，粘贴在答题卡“试卷 条形码粘贴位置”框中。不按规定粘贴条形码而影响评卷结果的，责 任由考生自负。 选择题的答案必须涂写在答题卡相应题号的选项上，非选择题的答 案必须书写在答题卡指定位置的边框区域内。超出答题区域书写的答 案无效；在草稿纸、试题册上答题无效。 填（书）写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔或者钢笔书写，字迹工整、 笔迹清楚；涂写部分必须使用2B铅笔填涂。 考试结束后，将答题卡和试题册按规定一并交回，不可带出考场。 考生姓名： 考生编号： 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 the ANSWER SHEET .( 10 points) Here’s a common scenario that any number of entrepreneurs face today: you’re the CEO of a small business, and though you’re making a nice __1__, you need to find a way to take it to the next level. What you need to do is_2_growth by establishing a growth team. A growth team is made up of members from different departments within your company, and it harnesses the power of collaboration to focus _3_on finding ways to grow. Let’s look at a real-world _4_. Prior to forming a growth team, the software company BitTorrent had 50 employees working in the _5_departments of engineering, marketing and product development. This brought them good results until 2012, when their growth plateaued. The _6_was that too many customers were using the basic, free version of their product. And _7_improvements to the premium, paid version, few people were making the upgrade. Things changed, _8_, when an innovative project-marketing manager came aboard, _9_ a growth team and sparked the kind of__10__ perspective they needed. By looking at engineering issues from a marketing point of view, it became clear that the _11_of upgrades wasn’t due to a quality issue. Most customers were simply unaware of the premium version and what it offered. Armed with this __12__, the marketing and engineering teams joined forces to raise awareness by prominently __13__ the premium version to users of the free version __14__, upgrades skyrocketed, and revenue increased by 9