历年考研英语完型填空.docx

1、历年考研英语完型填空2012年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语二试题Section Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or Don ANSWER SHEET 1. ( 10 points) Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adven

2、turism, but thats not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World Warand the people they liberated, the GI. was the 2 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of food and she

3、lter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name isnt much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue

4、, and it was on all of the articles 8 to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka. Joe Magrac.a working class name. The United States has 10 had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe. G.I. Joe had a 11 career fighting German, Japan

5、ese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character. or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of G.I. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the war, wr

6、iting about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each o

7、ther and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person in their lives. 1.A performed B served C rebelled D betrayed 2.A actual B common C special D normal 3.A bore B cased C remov

8、ed D loaded 4.A necessities B facilities C commodities D properties 5.A and B nor C but D hence 6.A for B into C form D against 7.A meaning B implying C symbolizing D claiming 8.A handed out B turn over C brought back D passed down 9.A pushed B got C made D managed 10.A ever B never C either D neith

9、er 11.A disguised B disturbed C disputed D distinguished 12.A company B collection C community D colony 13.A employed B appointed C interviewed D questioned 14.A ethical B military C political D human 15.A ruined B commuted C patrolled D gained 16.A paralleled B counteracted C duplicated D contradic

10、ted 17.A neglected B avoided C emphasized D admired 18.A stages B illusions C fragments D advances 19.A With B To C Among D Beyond 20.A on the contrary B by this means C from the outset D at that point2011年考研英语一真题及答案Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed laught

11、er as “a bodily exercise precious to health.” But _some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical filness Laughter does _short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, _ heart rate and oxygen consumption But because hard laughter is difficult

12、to _, a good laugh is unlikely to have _ benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does._, instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the _, studies dating back to the 1930s indicate that laughter. muscles,Such bodily reaction might conceivably hel

13、p_the effects of psychological stress.Anyway,the act of laughing probably does produce other types of _feedback,that improve an individuals emotional state. _one classical theory of emotion,our feelings are partially rooted _ physical reactions. It was argued at the end of the 19th century that huma

14、ns do not cry _they are sad but they become sad when te tears begin to flow.Although sadness also _ tears,evidence suggests that emotions can flow _ muscular responses.In an experiment published in 1988,social psychologist Fritz.1Aamong Bexcept Cdespite Dlike2Areflect Bdemand Cindicate Dproduce3Asta

15、bilizing Bboosting Cimpairing Ddetermining4Atransmit Bsustain Cevaluate Dobserve5Ameasurable Bmanageable Caffordable Drenewable6AIn turn BIn fact CIn addition DIn brief7Aopposite Bimpossible Caverage Dexpected8Ahardens Bweakens Ctightens Drelaxes9Aaggravate Bgenerate Cmoderate Denhance10Aphysical Bm

16、entl Csubconscious Dinternal11AExcept for BAccording to CDue to DAs for12Awith Bon Cin Dat13Aunless Buntil Cif Dbecause14Aexhausts Bfollows Cprecedes Dsuppresses15Ainto Bfrom Ctowards Dbeyond16Afetch Bbite Cpick Dhold17Adisappointed Bexcited Cjoyful Dindifferent18Aadapted Bcatered Cturned Dreacted19

17、Asuggesting Brequiring Cmentioning Dsupposing20AEventually BConsequently CSimilarly DConversely2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:In 1924 Americas National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of industrial experiments at a large telephone-parts factory cal

18、led the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lighting workers productivity. Instead, the studies ended giving their name to the Hawthorne effect, the extremely influential idea that the very to being experimented upon changed subjects behavior.The idea arose because

19、 of the behavior of the women in the Hawthorne plant. According to of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not what was done in the experiment; something was changed, productivity rose. A(n) that they were being experimented upon

20、seemed to be to alter workers behavior itself.After several decades, the same data were to econometric the analysis. Hawthorne experiments has another surprise store the descriptions on record, no systematic was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.It turns out that

21、peculiar way of conducting the experiments may be have let to interpretation of what happed. , lighting was always changed on a Sunday. When work started again on Monday, output rose compared with the previous Saturday and 17 to rise for the next couple of days. , a comparison with data for weeks wh

22、en there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Monday, workers to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before a plateau and then slackening off. This suggests that the alleged Hawthorne effect is hard to pin down.1. A affected B achieved C extracted D res

23、tored2. A at B up C with D off3. A truth B sight C act D proof4. A controversial B perplexing C mischievous D ambiguous5. A requirements B explanations C accounts D assessments6. A conclude B matter C indicate D work7. A as far as B for fear that C in case that D so long as8. A awareness B expectati

24、on C sentiment D illusion9. A suitable B excessive C enough D abundant10. A about B for C on D by11. A compared B shown C subjected D conveyed12. A contrary to B consistent with C parallel with D peculiar to13. A evidence B guidance C implication D source14. A disputable B enlightening C reliable D

25、misleading15. A In contrast B For example C In consequence D As usual16. A duly B accidentally C unpredictably D suddenly17. A failed B ceased C started D continued20. A breaking B climbing C surpassing D hitting2009年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Research on animal intelligence alw

26、ays makes me wonder just how smart humans are. 1 the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmers piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly 2 to live shorter lives. This suggests that 3 bulbs burn longer, that there is an 4 in not

27、being too terrifically bright. Intelligence, it 5 out, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow 6 the starting line because it depends on learning a gradual 7 instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things theyve apparently lea

28、rned is when to 8 . Is there an adaptive value to 9 intelligence? Thats the question behind this new research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance 10 at all the species weve left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real 11 of our own intelligence might be. This is 12 the mi

29、nd of every animal Ive ever met. Research on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiments animals would 13 on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner, 14 , is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. we believe that 15 animals ran the labs, they would test us

30、to 16 the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really 17 , not merely how much of it there is. 18 , they would hope to study a 19 question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in? 20 the results are inconclusive.1. A