文档介绍：考研英语真题与答案
考研英语真题与答案
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions：
Read the followinc families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Prince and princess have day-jobs and ride bicycles， not horses （or helicopters）。 Even so， these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%， and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.
While Europes monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to strive for some time to come， it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.
It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchy reputation with her rather ordinary （if well-healed） granny style. The danger will come with Charles， who has both an expensive taste of lifestyle and a pretty hierarchies view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service-as non-controversial and non-political heads of state. Charles ought to know that as English history shows， it is kings of republicans， who are the monarchys worst enemies.
21、according to the first two paragraphs， king Juan Carl of span______.
[A] used to enjoy high public support
[B] was unpopular among European royals
[C] ended his reign in embarrassment
[D] ended his relationship with his rivals
22、monarchs are kept as head of state in Europe mostly______.
[A] owing to their undoubted and respectable status
[B] to achieve balance between tradition and reality
[C] to give voters more public figures to look up to
[D] due to their everlasting political embodiment
23. Which of the following is shown to be odd， according to Paragraph 4？
[A] Aristocrats excessive reliance on inherited w