2014年考研英语(一)真题及答案解析(经典打印版)

欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！1 2014 年考研英语(一)真题及答案 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 not 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 have 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 significantly 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 believe 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 your 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 to 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 欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！3 his zeal for fundamental fairness 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 financially 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 structure 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 as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.Even the very phrase jobseekers allowance invented in 1996 is about redefining the unemployed as a jobseeker who had no mandatory right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.Instead,the claimant receives a time-limited allowance,conditional on actively seeking a job;no entitlement and no insurance,at 71.70 a week,one of the least generous in the EU.21.George Osbornes scheme was intended to Aprovide the unemployed with easier access to benefits.Bencourage jobseekers active engagement in job seeking.Cmotivate the unemployed to report voluntarily.Dguarantee jobseekers legitimate right to benefits.22.The phrase,to sign on(Line 3,Para.2)most probably means Ato check on the availability of jobs at the jobcentre.Bto accept the governments restrictions on the allowance.Cto register for an allowance from the government.Dto attend a governmental job-training program.23.What prompted the chancellor to develop his scheme?AA desire to secure a better life for all.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！4 BAn eagerness to protect the unemployed.CAn urge to be generous to the claimants.DA passion to ensure fairness for taxpayers.24.According to Paragraph 3,being unemployed makes one feel Auneasy Benraged.Cinsulted.Dguilty.25.To which of the following would the author most probably agree?AThe British welfare system indulges jobseekers laziness.BOsbornes reforms will reduce the risk of unemployment.CThe jobseekers allowance has met their actual needs.DUnemployment benefits should not be made conditional.Text 2 All around the world,lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other professionwith the possi