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1、12015 年年全全国国硕硕士士研研究究生生入入学学考考试试英英语语（二二）试试题题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 onANSWER SHEET. (10 points)In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with - or even looking at - a stranger is
2、virtuallyunbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a1underground.Its a sad reality - our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings - because theres2to be gainedfrom talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldnt know it,3
3、into your phone. This universal armorsends the4: Please dont approach me.What is it that makes us feel we need to hide5our screens?One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach. We fear rejection, or that ourinnocent social advances will be6as creepy,. We fear well be7. We fe
4、ar well be disruptive. Strangersare inherently8to us, so we are more likely to feel9when communicating with them compared with ourfriends and acquaintances. To avoid this anxiety, we10to our phones. Phones become our security blanket,Wortmann says. They are our happy glasses that protect us from wha
5、t we perceive is going to be more11.”But once we rip off the bandaid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesnt12so bad. Inone 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do theunthinkable: Start a13. They had Chicago train commuter
6、s talk to their fellow14. When Dr. Epley andMs. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to15how they would feel after talking to a stranger,the commuters thought their16would be more pleasant if they sat on their own, the New York Timessummarizes. Though the participants didnt expect
7、a positive experience, after they17with 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,19human beings thrive off of social connections. Its that20: Talking tostrangers
8、 can make you feel connected.1. A ticketB permitC signalD record全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页，共 44 页22. A nothingB linkC anotherD much3. A beatenB guidedC pluggedD brought4. A messageB cedeC noticeD sign5. A underB beyondC behindD from6. A misinterpretB misappliedC misadjustedD mismatched7. A firedB judge
9、dC replacedD delayed8. A unreasonableB ungratefulC unconventionalD unfamiliar9. A comfortableB anxiousC confidentD angry10. A attendB pointC takeD turn11. A dangerousB mysteriousC violentD boring12. A hurtB resistC bendD decay13. A lectureB conversationC debateD negotiation14. A traineesB employeesC
10、 researchersD passengers15. A revealB chooseC predictD design16. A voyageB flightC walkD ride17. A went throughB did awayC caught upD put up18. A In turnB In particularC In factD In consequence19. A unlessB sinceC ifD whereas20. A funnyB simpleC logicalD rareSection II Reading Comprehension全国硕士研究生入学
11、考试英语（二）真题第 2 页，共 44 页3Part ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark youranswers on ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work.Researche
12、rs measured peoples cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were athome 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 stressat work than at home, ”
13、 writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damske. In fact women even say they feel better atwork, she notes.“ It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work. ”Another surprise is thatfindings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why
14、 people whowork outside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when theyre at home, whether it ishousehold work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kickback. For women who stay home, they ne
15、ver 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 frontlags well behind the workplace a making adjustments for working women, its not surprising that women are morestressed
16、 at home.But its not just a gender thing. At work, people pretty much know what theyre 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 laboris so clinically and methodically laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be don
