2015年全国硕士研究生招生考试
英语（二）
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2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）试题
Section I U of English
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)
In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with—or even looking at—a stranger is virtuall y unbearable. Everyone around us ems to agree b y the wa y the y cling to their phones, even without a 1 on a subwa y.
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 b y y ou. But
y ou wouldn't know it, 3 into y our 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?
One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, an executive mental coach. We
fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as "weird." We fear we'll be_]_. We fear we'll be disruptive.
Strangers are inherentl y 8 to us, so we are more likel y 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 curit y blanket," Wortmann sa y s. "The y are our happ y glass that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 ."
But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn't 12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Eple y and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13 . The y had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14 . "When Dr. Eple y and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 15 how the y would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if the y 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 reportedl y more enjo y able 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 y ou feel connected.
1.[A] signal
2.[A] nothing
3.[A] beaten
4.[A] message
5.[A] under
6.[A] misa pplied
7.[A] j udged
8.[A] unreasonable
play
9.[A] comfortable
10.[A] attend
11.[A] dangerous
12.[A] bend
13.[A] lecture
14.[A] trainees
15.[A] reveal
16.[A] voyag e
17.[A] went through
18.[A] In tu m
19.[A] unless
20.[A] funny
Part A Directions: [B]perm it[C]ticket[D]record [B]little[C]another[D]muc h
[B]plugged[C]guid ed[D]brou ght [B]code[C]notice[D]signimperative
[B]beyond[C]behind[D]fr om
[B]misinterpreted[C]misad j usted[D]mismatched [B]fired[C]re plac ed[D]delayed [B]ungr atefu l[C]unconventional[D]unfamiliar [B]confident[C]anxious[D]angry [B]tu m[C]take[D]poin t
[B]mysterious[C]violent[D]bori ng [B]resist[C]hurt[D]deca y [B]debate[C]conversation[D]negotiation [B]em ploye es[C]rearchers[D]pas n gers [B]choo[C]pred ict[D]desig n [B]fl ight[C]walk[D]ride
[B]did a wa y[C]ca ught u p[D]put up [B]In fact[C]In particular[D]In conquence [B]whereas[C]if[D]since
[B]simple[C]logical[D]rare Section II Reading Comprehension
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. (40 points)
Text 1
A new stud y suggests that contrary to most surve y s, people are actuall y more stresd at home than at work. Rearchers measured people's cortisol, which is a stress marker, while the y were at work and while the y were at home and found it higher at what is suppod to be a place of refuge.
"Fu门her contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home," writes one of the rearchers, Sarah Damaske. In fact women even sa y the y 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 wh y people who work outside the home have better health.
spratly
What the stud y doesn't measure is whether people are still doing work when the y're at home, whether it is houhold work or work brought home from the office. For man y men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who sta y home, the y never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home, the y 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.
But it's not just a gender thing. At work, people prett y much know what the y're suppod to be doing: working, making mone y, doing the tasks the y have to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure: Emplo y ee puts in hours of ph y sical or mental labor and emplo y ee draws out life-sustaining moola.
On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is the houhold in which the division of labor is so clinicall y and methodicall y laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be done, there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleagues y our famil y have no clear rewards for their labor; the y need to be talked into it, or if the y're teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, the y're y our famil y. You cannot fire y our famil y. You never reall y get to go home from home.
So it's not surprising that people are more stresd at home. Not onl y are the tasks apparentl y infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate .
21. According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that home.
[A]offered greater relaxation than the workplace雅思考试时间
[B]was an ideal place for stress measurement
policestation[C]generated more stress than the workplace
[D]was an unrealistic place for relaxation
22. According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?
[A]Working mothers.
[B]Childless husbands.
[C]Working fathers.
[D]Childless wives.
23.The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that.
julianne hough>wasabi是什么意思
[A]their home is also a place for kicking back
[B]they are both bread winners and houwives
[C]there is often much houwork left behind
[D]it is difficult for them to leave their office
24.The word "moola" (Line 4, Para. 4) most probably means.
[A]skills
[B]energy
[C]earnings
故弄玄虚英语[D]nutrition
25.The home front differs from the workplace in that.
[A]family labor is often adequately rewarded不知不觉英文
[B]home is hardly a cozier working environment
[C]houhold tasks are generally more motivating
[D]division of labor at home is ldom clear-cut
