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1、2022年考博英语-厦门大学考前提分综合测验卷（附带答案及详解）1. 单选题Players will be_against four others worldwide in a timed competition to answer trivia questions from the 1950s to present day.问题1选项A.trifledB.wreathedC.instigatedD.pitted【答案】D【解析】trifle浪费,虚度; wreathe环绕盘旋; instigate教唆, 怂恿; pit使留疤痕,使竞争,pit against使与对抗, 使竞争。句意：玩家将在
2、一场计时比赛中与来自世界各地的另外四名玩家进行较量, 回答从20世纪60年代至今的一些琐碎问题。选项D符合句意。2. 单选题Any nation that interferes in the internal affairs of another nation should be_condemned.问题1选项A.verballyB.universallyC.wickedlyD.visually【答案】B【解析】verbally口头地；universally普遍地；wickedly恶劣地，居心叵测地；visually视觉地。句意：任何干涉他国内政的国家都应受到普遍谴责。选项B符合句意。3. 单
3、选题Hello,my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began about five years ago,and now I need help. Like most journalists, I cant deny that one of my private joys is seeing my byline in print. Now the internet is allowing me to feed this vanity to an ever greater extent,and the occasional s
4、neaky web search has grown into a full-blown obsession with how high up Googles ranking my articles appear when I put my name into the search box. When I last looked,my best effort was a rather humiliating 47th place. You know you have a problem when you find yourself competing for ranking with a re
5、tired basketball player from the 1970s.Not that Im alone in suffering from a dysfunctional techno-habit. New technologies have revealed a whole raft of hitherto unsuspected personality problems: think crackberry, powerpointlessness or cheesepodding. Most of us are familiar with sending an email to a
6、 colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead of talking to them. Some go onto the web to snoop on old friends,colleagues or even first dates. More of us than ever reveal highly personal information on blogs or My Space entries. A few will even use internet anonymity to fool others into believing
7、 they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and technological tics new versions of old afflictions,or are we developing fresh mind bugs?Developing a bad habit is easier than many might think. You can become addicted to potentially anything you do, says Mark Griffiths, an addiction
8、researcher at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, because addictions rely on constant rewards. Indeed,although definitions of addiction vary,there is a body of evidence that suggests drug addictions and non-drug habits share the same neural pathways. While only a hardcore few can be considered tr
9、ue technology addicts,an entirely unscientific survey of the web,and of New Scientist staff,has revealed how prevalent techno-addictions may have become.The web in particular has opened up a host of opportunities for overindulgence. Take Wikipedia, Updating the entriessomething anyone can dohas beco
10、me almost a way of life for some. There are more than 2400 Wikipedians, who have edited more than 4000 pages each. Its clearly like crack for some people, says Dan Closely at Cornell University in New York,who has studied how websites such as Wikipedia foster a community. To committed Wikipedians, h
11、e says,the site is more than a useful information resource; its the embodiment of an ideology of free information for all.Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of us would rather die than be caught surreptitiously browsing through someone elses photos,there need be no such qualms abo
12、ut the private pics people put up on these sites. Most people using Flickr and similar sites spent time each day browsing albums owned by people they had never met. They do this for emotional kicks. Khalid and Dix suggest: flicking through someone elses wedding photos, for example, allows people to
13、daydream about their own nuptials.Email is another area where things can get out of hand. While email has led to a revival of the habit of penning short notes to friends and acquaintances,the ease with, which we can do this means that we dont always think hard enough about where our casual comments
14、could end up. This was the undoing of US broadcaster Keith Olbermann, who earlier this year sent a private email in which he described a fellow MSNBC reporter as dumber than a suitcase of rocks. Unfortunately for Olbermann, the words found their way into the New York Daily News.Pam Briggs, a special
15、ist in human-computer interaction at the University of Northumbria,UK,says the lack of cues such as facial expressions or body language when communicating electronically can lead us to overcompensate in what we say. The medium is so thin, theres little room for projecting ourselves into it, says Bri
16、ggs.When all the social cues disappear,we feel we have to put something else into the void, which is often an overemotional or over-intimate message.The habit of forwarding jokey emails or YouTube videosthink Diet Coke and Mentos fountainscan also say a lot about how people want to be perceived, Briggs adds.We rarely want to be seen as too ser
