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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2015年考研英语二真题及答案(完整版)Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with - or even looking at - a stranger is virtually
2、 unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones, even without a 1 on a subway.Its a sad reality - our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings- because theres 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldnt know it, 3 into
3、your phone. This universal protection sends the 4 :“Please dont approach me.”What is it that makes us feel we need to hid 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 well
4、 be 7 . We fear well 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 turn our phones. “Phones become our security blanket,” Wortmann says. “They are our happy
5、glasses 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 doesnt12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters todo the unthinkable:“Start
6、 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 the would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on thier own,” The New York Times s
7、ummarizes. Though the participants didnt expect a positive experience, after they 17 with the experiment, “not a single person reported having been embarrassed.”18 these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, 19 human beings thr
8、ive off of social connections. Its that 20 : Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.1.Aticket Bpermit Csignal Drecord2.Anothing Blittle Canother Dmuch3.Abeaten Bguided Cplugged Dbrought4.Amessage Bcode Cnotice Dsign5.Aunder Bbeyond Cbehind Dfrom6.Amisinterpreted Bmisapplied Cmisadjusted Dm
9、ismatched7.Afired Bjudged Creplaced Ddelayed8.Aunreasonable Bungrateful Cunconventional Dunfamiliar9.Acomfortable B anxious C confident Dangry10.Aattend Bpoint Ctake Dturn11.Adangerous B mysterious Cviolent Dboring12.Ahurt B resist Cbend Ddecay13.Alecture Bconversation Cdebate Dnegotiation14.Atraine
10、es Bemployees Cresearchers Dpassengers15.Areveal Bchoose Cpredict Ddesign16.Avoyage Bflight Cwalk Dride17.Awent through Bdid away Ccaught up Dput up18.AIn turn BIn particular CIn fact DIn consequence19. Aunless Bsince Cif Dwhereas20. Afunny Bsimple Clogical DrareSection II Reading ComprehensionPart
11、ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C,or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)Text 1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured peoples cortiso
12、l, which is a stress marker, while they were at were work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home.”Write one of the rese
13、archers, Sarah Damaske.In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes, “It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work.” Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work
14、outside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when theyre at home, whether it is household 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 say home, they never get to leav
15、e the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catchupwithhousehold tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, its not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But i
16、ts not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what theyre supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure; Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out lifesustaining moola.O
17、n the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleaguesyour familyhave no clear rewards for most of
18、 them. Your home colleaguesyour familyhave no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if theyre teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, theyre your family. You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.So its not
19、 surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the coworkers are much harder to motivate.21.According to Paragraph 1,most previous surveys found that home .Awas an unrealistic place for relaxationBgenerated more stress than the workplaceCwas an ideal p
20、lace for stress measurementDoffered greater relaxation than the workplace22.According to Damaske,who are likely to be the happiest at home?AWorking mothersBChildless husbandsCChildless wivesDWorking fathers23.The blurring of working womens roles refers to the fact that .Athey are both bread winners
21、and housewivesBtheir home is also a place for kicking backCthere is often much housework left behindDit is difficult for them to leave their office24.The word “moola”(Tine 4,Para 4)most probably means .AenergyBskillsCearningsDnutrition25.The home front differs from the workplace in that .Ahome is ha
22、rdly a cozier working environmentBdivision of labor at home is seldom clear-cutChousehold tasks are generally more motivatingDfamily labor is often adequately rewardedText 2For years, studies have found that first-generation college student those who do not have a parent with a college degree lag ot
23、her students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower than and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. Th
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