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1、1 2014 年研究生入学考试英语（一）试题年研究生入学考试英语（一）试题 Section I Use of English 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) As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are n
2、ot what they used to be. We suddenly cant remember _1_ we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintances name, or the name of an old band we used to love. As the brain _2_, we refer to these occurrences as senior moments. _3_ seemingly innocent, this loss of mental focus can potentially hav
3、e a (n) _4_ impact on our professional, social, and personal _5_. Neuroscientists, experts who study the nervous system, are increasingly showing that theres actually a lot that can be done. It _6_ out that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental _7_ can si
4、gnificantly improve our basic cognitive _8_. Thinking is essentially a _9_ of making connections in the brain. To a certain extent, our ability to _10_ in making the connections that drive intelligence is inherited. _11_, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists bel
5、ieve that intelligence can expand and fluctuate _12_ mental effort. Now, a new Web-based company has taken it a step _13_ and developed the first brain training program designed to actually help people improve and regain their mental _14_. The Web-based program _15_ you to systematically improve you
6、r memory and attention skills. The program keeps _16_ of your progress and provides detailed feedback _17_ your performance and improvement. Most importantly, it _18_modifies and enhances the games you play to _19_ on the strengths you are developingmuch like a(n) _20_exercise routine requires you t
7、o increase resistance and vary your muscle use. 1. Awhere Bwhen Cthat Dwhy 2. Aimproves Bfades Crecovers Dcollapses 3. AIf BUnless COnce DWhile 4. Auneven Blimited Cdamaging Dobscure 5. Awellbeing Benvironment Crelationship Doutlook 2 6. Aturns Bfinds Cpoints Dfigures 7. Aroundabouts Bresponses Cwor
8、kouts Dassociations 8. Agenre Bfunctions Ccircumstances Dcriterion 9. Achannel Bcondition Csequence Dprocess 10. Apersist Bbelieve Cexcel Dfeature 11. A Therefore B Moreover C Otherwise D However 12. Aaccording to Bregardless of Capart from Dinstead of 13. Aback Bfurther Caside Daround 14. Asharpnes
9、s Bstability Cframework Dflexibility 15. Aforces Breminds Churries Dallows 16. Ahold Btrack Corder Dpace 17. Ato Bwith Cfor Don 18. Airregularly Bhabitually Cconstantly Dunusually 19. Acarry Bput Cbuild Dtake 20. Arisky Beffective Cidle Dfamiliar Section Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read
10、 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 In order to change lives for the better and reduce dependency George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the upfront work search scheme. On
11、ly if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly. What could be more reasonable? More apparent reasonableness followed. There will now be a seve
12、n-day wait for the jobseekers allowance. Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on. he claimed. Were doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster. Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the
13、 socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with reforms to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness. What motivated him, we were to understand, was 3 his zeal for fundamental fair
14、ness protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits. Losing a job is hurting: you dont skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state. It is fin
15、ancially terrifying, psychologically embarrassing and you know that support is minimal and extraordinarily hard to get. You are now not wanted; you support is minimal and extraordinarily hard to get. You are now not wanted; you are now excluded from the work environment that offers purpose and struc
16、ture in your life. Worse, the crucial income to feed yourself and your family and pay the bills has disappeared. Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always: a job. But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependency permanent dependency if you can get it supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood. It is
