2018考研英语二阅读理解真题完整版（凯程首发）
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below each text by choosing[A],[B],[C] or[D].Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40points)
Text1
It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.
茯苓的作用和功效Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering.He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization,but practical.When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike Chain?
As Koziatek know,there is learning in just about everything.Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.They can also learn geometry by asmbling a bicycle.
But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice.Working with your hands is en as almost a mark of inferiority.School in the family of vocational education“have hat it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.
On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job curity that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.
But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—miss an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens moredoors.Buteven now,54percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only44percent of workers are adequately trained.
什么笔记本好In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrate
d that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need tho jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.
Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call.When education becomes one-size-fits-all,it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.
捕风捉影近义词21.A broken bike chain is mentioned to show students’lack of.
A.academic training
B.practical ability
C.pioneering spirit
22.There exists the prejudice that vocational education is for kids who.
A.have a stereotyped mind
B.have no career motivation
C.are financially disadvantaged
D.are not academically successful约数的定义
23.we can infer from Paragraph5that high school graduates.
A.ud to have more job opportunities
B.ud to have big financial concerns
C.are entitled to more educational privileges
D.are reluctant to work in manufacturing
24.The headlong push into bachelors degrees for all.
A.helps create a lot of middle-skill jobs
B.may narrow the gap in working-class jobs
C.indicates the overvaluing of higher education
D.is expected to yield a better-trained workforce
25.The author’s attitude toward Koziatek’s school can be described as.
B.cautious
春天C.supportive
D.disappointed
Text2
While fossil fuels—coal，oil，gas—still generate roughly85percent of the world’s energy supply,it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and
solar.The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world：They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.
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Some growth stems from a commitment by governments and farsighted business to fund cleaner energy sources.But increasingly the story is about the plummetingprices of renewables，especially wind and solar.The cost of solar panels has dropped by80percent and the cost of wind turbines by clo to one-third in the past eight years.
In many parts of the world renewable energy is already a principal energy source.In Scotland，for example，wind turbines provide enough electricity to power95percent of homes.While the rest of the world takes the lead，notably China and Europe，the United States is also eing a remarkable shift.In March，for the first time，wind and solar power accounted for more than10 percent of the power generated in the US，reported the US Energy Information Administration.
President Trump has underlined fossil fuels—especially coal—as the path to economic growth.In a recent speech in Iowa，he dismisd wind power as an unreliable energy source.But that message did not play well with many in Iowa，where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36percent of the state’s electricity generation—and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power their data centers.
The question“what happens when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine?”has provided a q
uick put-down for skeptics.But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.
The advance is driven in part by vehicle manufacturers，who are placing big bets on battery-powered electric vehicles.Although electric cars are still a rarity on roads now,this massive investment could change the picture rapidly in coming years.
印务While there’s a long way to go，the trend lines for renewables are spiking.The pace of change in energy sources appears to be speeding up—perhaps just in time to have a meaningful effect in slowing climate change.What Washington does—or doesn’t do—to promote alternative energy may mean less and less at a time of a global shift in thought.
26.The word“plummeting”（Line3，Para.2）is clost in meaning to.
A.stabilizing
B.changing
C.falling
D.rising
27.According to Paragraph3，the u of renewable energy in America.
A.is progressing notably
B.is as extensive as in Europe
C.faces many challenges
D.has proved to be impractical
28.It can be learned that in Iowa,.
A.wind is a widely ud energy source
B.wind energy has replaced fossil fuels
D.there is a shortage of clean energy supply
29.Which ofthe following is true about clean energy according to Paragraphs5&6?
A.Its application has boosted battery storage.
B.It is commonly ud in car manufacturing.
C.Its continuous supply is becoming a reality.
D.Its sustainable exploitation will remain difficult.
30.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that renewable energy.
A.will bring the US clor to other countries
B.will accelerate global environmental change
C.is not really encouraged by the US government
D.is not competitive enough with regard to its cost
Text3
The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing—Amazon has just annou
nced the purcha of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for$13.5bn，but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging rvice，which
doesn’t have any physical product at all.What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed web of its urs’friendships and social lives．
Facebook promid the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities，but it broke the promi almost as soon as the deal went through．Even
without knowing what was in the messages，the knowledge of who nt them and to whom was
enormously revealing and still could be．What political journalist，what party whip，would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Theresa May’s enemies are currentlyplotting?It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the460 shops it owns,but the records of which customers have purchad what.
Competition law appears to be the only way to address the imbalances of power．But it is clumsy.For one thing,it is very slow compared to the pace of change within the digital economy. By the time a problem has been addresd and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to b
e replaced by new abus of power．But there is a deeper conceptual problem,too. Competition law as prently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the urs of the rvices don’t pay for them．The urs of their rvices are
not their customers．That would be the people who buy advertising from them—and Facebook and老人与海摘抄
Google，the two virtual giants，dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media
and entertainment companies．
The product they’re lling is data，and we，the urs，convert our lives to data for the benefit of the digital giants.Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphidsfor the honeydew they produce when they feed,so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield．Ants keep predatory incts away from where their aphids feed;Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.It doesn’t feel like a human or democratic relationship，even if both sides benefit．
31.According to Paragraph1,Facebook acquired WhatsApp for its.
A.digital products
B.ur information
C.physical asts
