2015考研英语二真题及答案

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2015 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 ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)

　　In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with -- or even

looking at -- a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to

agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a 1 underground.

　　 It's a sad reality -- our desire to avoid interacting with other human

beings -- because 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 armor sends

the 4 : "Please 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, executive mental coach. We

fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as "creepy,". 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 anxiety, 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 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

snubbed."

　　18 , these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those sans

communication, which makes absolute sense, 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] link [C] another [D] much

　　3. [A] beaten [B] guided [C] plugged [D] brought

　　4. [A] message [B] cede [C] notice [D] sign

　　5. [A] under [B] beyond [C] behind [D] from

　　6. [A] misinterpret [B] misapplied [C] misadjusted [D] mismatched

　　7. [A] fired [B] judged [C] replaced [D] delayed

　　8. [A] unreasonable [B] ungrateful [C] unconventional [D] unfamiliar

　　9. [A] comfortable [B] anxious [C] confident [D] angry

　　10. [A] attend [B] point [C] take [D] turn

　　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] researchers [D] passengers

　　15. [A] reveal [B] choose [C] predict [D] design

　　16. [A] voyage [B] flight [C] walk [D] ride

　　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 consequence

　　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

choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)

　　Text 1

　　 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually

more stressed at home than at work. Researchers 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 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, ” writes one of the

researchers, Sarah Damske. 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 findings hold 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 doesn’t 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. 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

workplace a making adjustments for working women, it’s not surprising that

women are more stressed at home.

　　But it’s not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what

they’re supposed to be doing: working, marking 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 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 done, there are inadequate rewards for most

of them. Your home colleagues-your family-have no clear rewards for their

labor; they need to be talked into it, or if they’re teenagers, threatened

with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they’re your family.

You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.

　　So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are

the tasks apparently 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

　　[B] was an ideal place for stress measurement

　　[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] Childless wives

　　[B] Working mothers

　　[C] Childless husbands

　　[D] Working fathers

　　23.The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that_____

　　[A] it is difficult for them to leave their office

　　[B] their home is also a place for kicking back

　　[C] there is often much housework left behind

　　[D] they are both bread winners and housewives

　　24.The word“moola”(Line4,Para4)most probably means_____

　　[A] skills

　　[B] energy

　　[C] earnings

　　[D] nutrition

　　25.The home front differs from the workplace in that_____

　　[A] division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut

　　[B] home is hardly a cozier working environment

　　[C] household tasks are generally more motivating

　　[D] family labor is often adequately rewarded

　　Text 2

　　For years, studies have found that first-generation college students- those

who do not have a parent with a college degree- lag other students on a range

of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower 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. This has created “a paradox”

in that recruiting first- generation students, but then watching many of them

fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen,

rather than close” ab achievement gap based on social class, according to the

depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological

Science.

　　But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential

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