MBA英语二真题2015

2015年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语（二）真题卷【Section I Use of English】Directions：Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank andmark 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 isvirtually unbearable.Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones,even withouta on a subway.Its a sad reality our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings because theres tobe gained from talking to the stranger standing by you.But you wouldnt know it,into your phone.Thisuniversal protection sends the:“Please dont approach me.”What is it that makes us feel we need tohideour screens?One answer is fear,according to Jon Wortmann,an executive mental coach.We fear rejection,or thatour innocent social advances will be as“weird”.We fear well be.We fear well be disruptive.Strangers are inherentlyto us,so we are more likely to feel when communicating with themcompared with our friends and acquaintances.To avoid this anxiety,weto our phones.“Phonesbecome our security blanket,”Wortmann says.“They are our happy glasses that protect us from what weperceive is going to be more.”But once we rip off the band-aid,tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up,it doesntsobad.In one 2011 experiment,behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters todo the unthinkable:Start a.They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow.“When Dr.Epley and Ms.Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to how they would feel aftertalking to a stranger,the commuters thought their would be more pleasant if they sat on their own,”the New York Times summarizes.Though the participants didnt expect a positive experience,after theywith the experiment,“not a single person reported having been embarrassed.”,these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication,which makes absolute sense,human beings thrive off of social connections.Its that:Talking tostrangers can make you feel connected.12345678910111213141516171819201.ticketApermitBsignalCrecordD2.nothingAlittleBanotherCmuchD3.beatenAguidedBpluggedCbroughtD4.messageAcodeBnoticeCsignD5.underAbeyondBbehindCfromD6.misinterpretedAmisappliedBmisadjustedCmismatchedD7.firedAjudgedBreplacedCdelayedD【Section II Reading Comprehension（Part A）】Directions：Read the following four texts.Answer the questionsbelow each text by by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points)8.unreasonableAungratefulBunconventionalCunfamiliarDfortableAanxiousBconfidentCangryD10.attendApointBtakeCturnD11.dangerousAmysteriousBviolentCboringD12.hurtAresistBbendCdecayD13.lectureAconversationBdebateCnegotiationD14.traineesAemployeesBresearchersCpassengersD15.revealAchooseBpredictCdesignD16.voyageAflightBwalkCrideD17.went throughAdid awayBcaught upCput upD18.In turnAIn particularBIn factCIn consequenceD19.unlessAsinceBifCwhereasD20.funnyAsimpleBlogicalCrareDText 1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys,people are actually more stressed at home than atwork.Researchers measured peoples cortisol,which is a stress marker,while they were at work and whilethey 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 ofstress at work than at home,”writes one of the researchers,Sarah Damske.In fact women even say they feelbetter at work,she notes.“It is men,not women,who report being happier at home than at work.”Anothersurprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without,but more so for nonparents.Thisis why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when theyre at home,whether itis household work or work brought home from the office.For many men,the end of the workday is a time tokick back.For women who stay home,they never get to leave the office.And for women who work outsidethe home,they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks.With the blurring of roles,and the fact thatthe home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women,its not surprisingthat 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 bargain is verypure: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 oflabor is so clinically and methodically laid out.There are a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequaterewards 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 theyre teenagers,threatened with complete removal of all electronicdevices.