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1、2015 年考研英语二真题及答案Directions:Read the following text. Choose 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 withor even looking ata stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to a
2、gree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a 1 on a subway.Its a sad realityour desire to avoid interacting with other human beingsbecause theres2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldnt know it , 3 into your phone. This universal protection sends
3、the 4 : “Please dont approach me.”What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach. We fear rejection , or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as “weird.” We fear well be 7 .We fear well be disruptive.Strangers
4、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 security blanket,” Wortmann says. “They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is go
5、ing to be more 11 .”But once we rip off the bandaid,tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up,it doesnt 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 thei
6、r 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 didnt expect a p
7、ositive 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 thrive off of social connections. Its that 20 : Talk
8、ing to strangers can make you feel connected.1. A. ticket B. permit C.signal D. record2. A. nothing B. little C.another D. much3. A. beaten B. guided C.plugged D. brought4. A. message B. code C.notice D. sign5. A. under B. beyond C. behind D. from6. A. misinterpreted B. misapplied C. misadjusted D.
9、mismatched7. A. fired B. judged C. replaced D. delayed8. A. unreasonable B. ungrateful C. unconventional D. unfamiliar9. A. comfortable B. anxious C. confident D. angry10. A. attend B. point C. take D. turn11. A. dangerous B. mysterious C. violent D. boring12. A. hurt B. resist C. bend D. decay13. A
10、. lecture B. conversation C. debate D. negotiation14. A. trainees B. employees C. researchers D. passengers15. A. reveal B. choose C. predict D. design16. A. voyage B. flight C. walk D. ride17. A. went through B. did away C. caught up D. put up18. A. In turn B. In particular C.In fact D. In conseque
11、nce19. A. unless B. since C. if D. whereas20. A. funny B. simple C. logical D. rareSection Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections: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 1A new study suggests t
12、hat contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed athome than at work. Researchers measured peoples cortisol, which is a stress marker, whilwere at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdo
13、m, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home,” writes one of the researchers, 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 surprise is that the findings h
14、old true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when they re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.
15、 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- household tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the
16、 workplace in making adjustments for working women, its not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But its 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 barga
17、in is very pure. Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola.On 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 do
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