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1、2022年考博英语-厦门大学考前拔高综合测试题（含答案带详解）1. 单选题It is sometimes claimed that America is a_pot of different races.问题1选项A.burningB.burntC.meltingD.melted【答案】C【解析】句意：有人说美国是不同种族的大熔炉。melting pot为常用搭配, 所以选项C正确。2. 单选题When light illuminates an object, part of it is absorbed and part reflected; the_lightness of an obje
2、ct depends on the proportion of light that is reflected.问题1选项A.denotedB.embodiedC.insulatedD.perceived【答案】D【解析】denoted指示,表示; embodied所包含的; insulated被隔离的; perceived所察觉到的。句意：当光照射一个物体时, 它的一部分被吸收, 一部分被反射; 被感知的物体的亮度取决于被反射的光的比例。选项D符合句意。3. 单选题Hello,my name is Richard and I am an ego surfer. The habit began
3、 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 sneaky web search has grown into a full-blown obsession with how hi
4、gh 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 retired basketball player from the 1970s.Not that Im alone in suffer
5、ing 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 colleague sitting a couple of feet away instead of talking to the
6、m. 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 they are someone else altogether. So are these web syndromes and
7、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 researcher at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, because addic
8、tions 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 true technology addicts,an entirely unscientific survey of the web,a
9、nd 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 become almost a way of life for some. There are more than 2400 Wikiped
10、ians, 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, he says,the site is more than a useful information resource; its th
11、e 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 about the private pics people put up on these sites. Most people usin
12、g 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 daydream about their own nuptials.Email is another area where thin
13、gs 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 could end up. This was the undoing of US broadcaster Keith Olberma
14、nn, 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 specialist in human-computer interaction at the University of Northumbria
15、,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 Briggs.When all the social cues disappear,we feel we have to put some
16、thing 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 serious, so we try to project more of our personality into email
