[考研类试卷]考研英语(二)模拟试卷82及答案与解析.doc
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1、考研英语(二)模拟试卷 82 及答案与解析一、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. (10 points) 0 While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harmful【C1】_is spreading through their popu
2、lations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology.The similarity between disease organisms and personal devices is【C2】_. Viruses and other parasites control larger organisms,【C3】_resources in order to multiply and spread. Smartphones and other gadgets do the same thing,【C4 】_ever-increasing
3、amounts of human attention and electricity supplied【C5】_wire umbilici.It is tempting to【C6】_a “strategy“ to both phages and phablets, neither of which is sentient.【C7】_, the process is evolutionary, consisting of many random evolutions,【C8】_experimented with by many product designers. This makes it
4、all the more powerful.Tech【C9】_occurs through actively-learnt responses, or “operant conditioning“ as animal behaviourists call it. The scientific parallel here also involves a rodent, typically a rat, which occupies a【C10 】_cage called a Skinner Box. The animal is【C11】_with a food pellet for solvin
5、g puzzles and punished with an electric shock when it fails.“Are we getting a positive boost of hormones when we【C12】_look at our phone, seeking rewards?“ asks David Shuker, an animal behaviourist at St Andrews university, sounding a little like a man withholding serious scientific endorsement【C13 】
6、_an idea that a journalist had in the shower. Research is needed, he says. Tech tycoons would meanwhile【C14】_that the popularity of mobile devices is attributed to the brilliance of their designs. This is precisely what people whose thought processes have been【C15】_by an invasive pseudo-organism wou
7、ld believe.【C16 】_, mobile technology causes symptoms less severe than physiological diseases. There are even benefits to【C17】_sufferers for shortened attention spans and the caffeine overload triggered by visits to Starbucks for the free Wi-Fi. Most importantly, you can【C18】_the Financial Times in
8、places as remote as Alaska or Sidcup. In this【C19】_, a mobile device is closer to a symbiotic organism than a parasite. This would make it【C20】_to an intestinal bacterium that helps a person to stay alive, rather than a virus that may kill you.1 【C1 】(A)phenomenon(B) epidemic(C) issue(D)event2 【C2 】
9、(A)striking(B) obscure(C) interesting(D)mysterious3 【C3 】(A)relying(B) choosing(C) grabbing(D)using4 【C4 】(A)taking over(B) feeding on(C) catching up(D)allowing for5 【C5 】(A)with(B) over(C) to(D)via6 【C6 】(A)point(B) turn(C) attribute(D)prefer7 【C7 】(A)Instead(B) Moreover(C) Therefore(D)Otherwise8 【
10、C8 】(A)which(B) as(C) that(D)where9 【C9 】(A)progress(B) term(C) crisis(D)addiction10 【C10 】(A)dangerous(B) special(C) large(D)funny11 【C11 】(A)rewarded(B) resisted(C) resumed(D)reversed12 【C12 】(A)anxiously(B) occasionally(C) happily(D)endlessly13 【C13 】(A)within(B) from(C) about(D)through14 【C14 】(
11、A)support(B) approve(C) argue(D)insist15 【C15 】(A)formed(B) seperated(C) classified(D)modified16 【C16 】(A)Surprisingly(B) Importantly(C) Fortunately(D)Regrettably17 【C17 】(A)compensate(B) help(C) comfort(D)improve18 【C18 】(A)share(B) obtain(C) subscribe(D)observe19 【C19 】(A)part(B) sense(C) level(D)
12、way20 【C20 】(A)adaptive(B) careful(C) similar(D)captivePart ADirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)20 “Its such a simple thing,“ said John Spitzer, managing director of equipment standards for the United States Golf Assoc
13、iation. “Im amazed that so many people spend so much time and energy on trying to change it.“ The simple thing to which he refers is the humble golf tee, a peg made of wood that most of us grab by the handful or buy for a few pennies each, stick in our pockets, and dont give a second thought to.The
14、road to the tee began with a Boston-area dentist named George F. Grant, who received a patent in 1899 for “an Improvement in Golf-Tees.“ Grants tees consisted of a small piece of rubber tubing attached to a tapered wooden peg to be pushed into the ground. The rubber held the ball, and yielded when t
15、he club contacted it. He had them produced by a nearby manufacturing concern and gave them out to his friends but never tried to sell or market them.That fell to William Lowellanother tooth doctor, coincidentallywho created the Reddy Tee in 1921. It was a one-piece implement of solid wood, painted r
16、ed at the top so it could be easily found and cleverly named. He paid Walter Hagen and trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood to endorse and use the device, and it was a commercial success, with more than $100,000 in sales by the time it was patented in 1925.The introduction of the oversize metal driver in
17、the 1980s led most golfers to adopt longer tees to go along with the larger and higher sweet spot of those clubs. The USGA has banned tees longer than 4 inches, a height that is well past the point of diminishing returns. Even back in the 1960s, Jack Nicklaus understood the value of teeing the ball
18、high, which he explained by saying, “Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.“Golfers who have fairly steep swings(like me)break a lot of tees. We can only envy the legendary Canadian pro Moe Norman, who could play for weeks with a single tee. When his play
19、ing partners asked him how he managed to stripe his drives without dislodging the peg, he answered, “Im trying to hit the ball, not the tee.“ So are we all, Moe. So are we all.21 The sentence “most of us . a second thought to“ in the first paragraph explains that the tee is_.(A)portable(B) inexpensi
20、ve(C) unimpressive(D)easy to catch22 According to Paragraph 2, a small piece of rubber tubing_.(A)can support the ball(B) must fall when the ball is hit(C) will be pushed into the ground(D)will be broken when being contacted23 According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is NOT true of the Reddy
21、 Tee?(A)It is painted red at the top to befit its name.(B) Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood brought the patent.(C) It is invented by a dentist who tried to sell or market it.(D)The inventor spent about 4 years in obtaining a patent on it.24 Jack Nicklaus believes that golfers get longer tees to elevate
22、 the ball because_.(A)the longer tees are matched to the longer gulf clubs(B) the ball is easy to get dirty in the soil than in the air(C) the height far exceeds the point of diminishing returns(D)the higher sweet spot is helpful for golfers to hit the ball further25 We may learn from the last sente
23、nce that the author_.(A)has done as Moe does but still fails(B) also plays with a single tee for weeks(C) believes that Moe doesnt tell his partners the truth(D)thinks Moe fails to understand what his partners ask25 “Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists?“ Rick Scott, the
24、Florida governor, once asked. A leader of a prominent Internet company once told me that the firm regards admission to Harvard as a useful proof of talent, but a college education itself as useless. Parents and students themselves are acting on these principles, retreating from the humanities.Ive be
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