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2018 考研英语（二）真题及参考答案（完整版）
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Section Ⅰ Use of English
Directions:
textChoose each numbered
Read the following . the best word(s) for blank and mark [A],[B], [C] or [D] on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
Why do people read negative Internet comments and do other things that will obviously
Because humans have an need uncertainbe painful? inherent to 1 ty, according to a recent study in Psychological Science. The new research reveals that the need to know is strong that people to satisfy their curiosity even when it is clear the will 2 answer will 3 .
In a series of experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of
Chicago and
tested
the Wisconsin school of Business students 4 themselves to ’ willingness to
stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity. 5 , each participant
unpleasant For one was shown a pens that the claimed were from a The pile of researcher previous experiment. twist? Half of the pens 6 an electric shock when would clicked.
Twenty-seven were pens were twenty-werstudents told with electrified; another seven e told only that some were electrified. 7 left alone in the room. The students who did not know which ones would shock them clicked more pens and incurred more shocks than the students who knew that 8 . Subsequent experiments reproduced this would effect with other fingernailon a and stimuli, 9 the sound of s chalkboard photographs of disgusting insects.
The drive is deeply rooted in humans, much the same as the basic to 10 drives for
11 or shelter, says Christopher Hsee of the University of Chicago. Curiosity is often considered a good 1new scientific advances, for
— it
instinct 2 instance can sometimes 13 can backfire. The insight that curiosity can drive such you to do 14 things is a profound one.
Unhealthycuriosity ipossible to 15 ,
however.
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but
In a final participants
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on one’s
following gh ahead of time help determine 19 it is h curiosity the endeavor. Thinking about 20 is key to reducing the possible long-term negative
”Hsee says. In other words, ’t read online
effects of curiosity, don comments.
1.A.ignore B.protect C.discuss D.resolve 2.A.refuse 3.A.rise 4.A.alert 5.A.trial 6.A.remove 7.A.Unless 8.A.change 9.A.such as 10.A.disagree 11.A.pay 12.A.begin with
B.seek C.wait B.last C.hurt B.expose C.tie C.revieB.message w B.deliver C.weaken C.Whe
B.If n C.disappe
B.continue ar B.rather C.regardless than of B.forgive C.discover C.marriagB.food
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D.regret D.mislead D.treat D.concept D.interru pt
D.Though
D.happen D.owing to
D.forget
D.schooli ng
D.learn from
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13.A.inquiry 14.A.self-deceptive
15.A.trace 16.A.conceal 17.A.choose 18.A.relief 19.A.how 20.A.limitations
B.withdrawal
D.self-destructive B.define B.overlook B.remember B.outcome B.why B.investments
范文 范例 指导 学习 C.persistence D.diligence
C.self-B.self-reliant evident
C.replace C.design C.promise C.plan C.where
C.consequences
D.resist D.predict D.pretend D.duty D.whether D.strategies
Section IIReading Comprehension
Part A Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A],[B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
(40 points) Text 1
It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts
to give his students a better future.
Mr. Koziatek is part of something pioneering. He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something mechanical memorization, but practical. When did it able to name the 13th
become accepted
of books and tests wisdom that
and
students should be
president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike Chain?
As Koziatek know, there is learning in just about everything. Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum. They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.
But he ’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice. Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority. School in the family of vocational education stereotype...that it ’s for kids who can ’t make it academically, ” he says
On one hand,that viewpoint is
evolution.Manufacturing
a logical
“have that .
product of America’s
that
is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated. More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.
But the headlong push into bachelor
devaluing of
’s d
egrees for all
—and the subtle
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