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1、年寒窗苦读日，只盼金榜题名时，祝你考试拿高分，鲤鱼跳龙门！加油！2018江苏考研英语一真题及答案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 on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)Trust is a tricky business. On the one hand, its a necessary condition1many worthwhile th
2、ings: child care, friendships, etc. On the other hand, putting your2, in the wrong place often carries a high3.4, why do we trust at all? Well, because it feels good.5people place their trust in an individual or an institution, their brains release oxytocin, a hormone that6pleasurable feelings and t
3、riggers the herding instruct that prompts humans to7with one another. Scientists have found that exposure8this hormone puts us in a trusting9: In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money t
4、o strangers than were their10who inhaled something else.11for us, we also have a sixth sense for dishonesty that may12us. A Canadian study found that children as young as 14 months can differentiate13a credible person and a dishonest one. Sixty toddlers were each14to an adult tester holding a plasti
5、c container. The tester would ask, “Whats in here?” before looking into the container, smiling, and exclaiming, “Wow!” Each subject was then invited to look15.Half of them found a toy; the other half16the container was empty-and realized the tester had17them.Among the children who had not been trick
6、ed, the majority were18to cooperate with the tester in learning a new skill, demonstrating that they trusted his leadership.19, only five of the 30 children paired with the “20”tester participated in a follow-up activity.86941. A on B like C for D from2. A faith B concern C attention D interest3. A
7、benefit B debt C hope D price4. A Therefore B Then C Instead D Again5. AUntil B Unless C Although D When6. A selects B produces C applies D maintains7. A consult B compete C connect D compare8. A at B by Cof Dto9. A context B mood C period D circle10.A counterparts B substitutes C colleagues Dsuppor
8、ters11.A Funny B Lucky C Odd D Ironic12.A monitor B protect C surprise D delight13.A between B within C toward D over14.A transferred B added C introduced D entrusted15.A out B back C around D inside16.A discovered B proved C insisted D .remembered17.A betrayed Bwronged C fooled D mocked18.A forced
9、B willing C hesitant D entitled19.A In contrast B As a result C On the whole D For instance20.A inflexible B incapable C unreliable D unsuitableSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your ans
10、wers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)Text 1Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?Dont dismiss that possibility entirely. About half of U.S. jobs are at high ri
11、sk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed. Lower-income jobs like gardening or day care dont appeal to robots. But many middle-class occupations-trucking, financial advice, software engineering have aroused their interest, or
12、soon will. The rich own the robots, so they will be fine.This isnt to be alarmist. Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past. The Industrial Revolution didnt go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living
13、 standards and created more jobs than it destroyed. Likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work. But in the medium term, middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.The first step, as Erik Brynj
14、olfsson and Andrew McAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training. Curriculums from grammar school to college- should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication. Vocational schools should do a better job of foste
15、ring problem-solving skills and helping students work alongside robots. Online education can supplement the traditional kind. It could make extra training and instruction affordable. Professionals trying to acquire new skills will be able to do so without going into debt.The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U.S. to revive its fading business dynamism: Starting new companies must be made easier. In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transiti
