考研英语二真题2015年
Directions:
Read the following text. Choo the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A，B，C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
生物除磷 In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with—or even looking at—a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us ems to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a 1 on a subway.
It’s a sad reality—our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings—becau there’s 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldn’t know it， 3 into your phone. This universal protection nds the 4 : “Plea don’t approach me.”
What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?有关春节
One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach. We fear rejectio
n，or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as “weird.” We fear we’ll be 7 .We fear we’ll be disruptive.
Strangers are inherently 8 to us，so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances. To avoid this uneasiness, we 10 to our phones. “Phones become our curity blanket,” Wortmann says. “They are our happy glass that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 .”
But once we rip off the bandaid，tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up，it doesn’t 12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment，behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13 . They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14 . “When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 15 how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on their own,” The New York Times summarizes. Though the participants didn’t expect a positive experience, after they 17 with the experiment, “not a single person reported having been embarrasd.”
18 , the commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with tho without communication, which makes absolute n, 19 human beings thrive off of social connections. It’s that 20 : Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.
1. A. ticket B. permit C.signal D. record
2. A. nothing B. little C.another D. much
3. A. beaten B. guided C.plugged D. brought
4. A. message B. ice D. sign
5. A. under B. beyond C. behind D. from
6. A. misinterpreted B. misapplied C. misadjusted D. mismatched
履职情况
黄土高原成因 7. A. fired B. judged C. replaced D. delayed
8. A. unreasonable B. ungrateful C. unconventional D. unfamiliar
碳封存 9. A. comfortable B. anxious C. confident D. angry
10. A. attend B. point C. take D. turn
知能 11. A. dangerous B. mysterious C. violent D. boring
12. A. hurt B. resist C. bend D. decay
13. A. lecture B. conversation C. debate D. negotiation
14. A. trainees B. employees C. rearchers D. pasngers
怎么学做面包 15. A. reveal B. choo C. predict D. design
16. A. voyage B. flight C. walk D. ride
爱在你我之间 17. A. went through B. did away C. caught up D. put up
18. A. In turn B. In particular C.In fact D. In conquence
19. A. unless B. since C. if D. whereas
20. A. funny B. simple C. logical D. rare
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by chosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)
Text 1
A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stresd at home than at work. Rearchers measured people’s cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is suppod to be a place of refuge.
“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have l
ower levels of stress at work than at home,” writes one of the rearchers, Sarah Damaske. In fact women say they feel better at work. She notes. “It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work.” Another surpri is that the findings hold true for both tho with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health.
What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’ re at home, whether it is houhold work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-houhold tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it’s not surprising that women are more stresd at home.
