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1、2022年考博英语-中国地质大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题The students listening to the pompous officials long speech were soon very boring; no doubt many of them had their minds more on what was for lunch than on what he was saying.问题1选项A.wereB.very boringC.had their mindsD.on what was for lunch than onE.没有问题【答案】B【解析
2、】形容词误用。boring改为bored。 boring 令人厌烦的。bored 感到无聊的。2. 单选题1. In the quest for better health, many people turn to doctors, self-help books or herbal supplements. But they overlook a powerful weapon that could help them fight illness and depression, speed recovery, slow aging and prolong life: their friend
3、s. Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of friendship and social networks in overall health. A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period than those with fewer friends. A l
4、arge 2007 study showed an increase of nearly 60 percent in the risk for obesity among people whose friends gained weight And last year, Harvard researchers reported that strong social ties could promote brain health as we age. “In general, the role of friendship in our lives isnt terribly well appre
5、ciated,” said Rebecca G Adams, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “There is just scads of stuff on families and marriage, but very little on friendship. It baffles me. Friendship has a bigger impact on our psychological well一being than family relationships.”2.
6、In a new book, “The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a 40Year Friendship”(Gotham), Jeffrey Zaslow tells the story of 11 childhood friends who scattered from Iowa to eight different States. Despite the distance, their friendships endured through college and marriage, divorce and other crises, in
7、cluding the death of one of the women in her 20s. Using, scrapbooks, photo albums and the womens own memories, Mr. Zaslow chronicles how their close friendships have shaped their lives and continue to sustain them. The role of friendship in their health and well-being is evident in almost every chap
8、ter.3. Two of the friends have recently learned they have breast cancer. Kelly Zwagerman,now a high school teacher who lives in Northfield, Minn, said that when she got her diagnosis in September 2007，her doctor told her to surround herself with loved ones. Instead, she reached out to her childhood
9、friends, even though they lived far away, “The first people I told were the women from Ames，” she said in an interview. J e-mailed them. I immediately had e-mails and phone calls and messages of support. It was instant that the love poured in from all of them.” When she complained that her treatment
10、 led to painful sores in her throat, an Ames girl sent a smoothie maker and recipes. Another, who had lost a daughter to leukemia, sent Ms. Zwagerman a hand-knitted hat, knowing her head would be cold without hair, still another sent pajamas made of special fabric to help cope with night sweats. Ms
11、Zwagerman said she was often more comfortable discussing her illness with her girlfriends than with her doctor，“ We go so far back that these women will talk about anything，” she said.4. Ms. Zwagerman says her friends from Ames have been an essential factor in her treatment and recovery, and researc
12、h her out. In 2006, a study of nearly 3,000 nurses with breast cancer found that women without close friends were four times as likely to die from the disease as women with 10 or more friends. And notably, proximity and the amount of contact with a friend wasnt associated with survival. Just having
13、friends was protective.5. Bella DePaulo, a visiting psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose work focuses on single people and friendships, notes that in many studies, friendship has an even greater effect on health than a spouse or family member. In the study of nu
14、rses with breast cancer, having a spouse wasnt associated with survival. While many friendship studies focus on the intense relationships of women, some research shows that men can benefit, too. In a six-year study of 736 middle-age Swedish men, attachment to a single person didnt appear to affect t
15、he risk of heart attack and fatal coronary heart disease, but having friendships did. Only smoking was as important a risk factor as lack of social support.6. Exactly why friendship has such a big effect isnt entirely clear. While friends can run errands and pick up medicine for a sick person, the b
16、enefits go well beyond physical assistance; indeed, proximity does not seem to be a factor. It may be that people with strong social ties also have better access to health services and care. Beyond that, however, friendship clearly has a profound psychological effect. People with strong friendships are less likely than others to get colds, perhaps because they have lower stress levels.7. Last year, researchers studied 34 s
