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1、”The question was still lingering in Schulzs mind when he attended a 3 in 2012. One night over dinner, he raised a question to a dozen or so professors and Ph.D.s from a top program in his field: “What makes you decide to get up and do what you do every day?” All experts and scholars were 4 for at l

2、east 5 seconds, before a junior scientist piped up to say that basic research can lead to important discoveries. After that, the conversation moved on to other topics. “No one else knows why theyre doing this. Its not just me, Schulz recalls thinking.Going into graduate school, hed thought, “Ill go

3、live the life of the mind. And Ill think deep, creative thoughts about interesting, relevant problems.” But the 5 he found was different. “I felt so knocked down into smaller and smaller and smaller comers. it was really depressing.” 6 , two months after his conference experiencestill not able to sh

4、ake the feeling that he wasnt doing something impactfulhe walked into his advisers office and 7 that he was quitting his Ph.D.His adviser, whom hed enjoyed working with, was 8 of his decision and asked Schulz what he planned to do next. “I dont knowI just, I have to do something different,” he recal

5、ls responding.Roughly a quarter of U.S. science and engineering Ph.D.students leave their graduate program within the first three years. To some, that number is 9 a problem to be solved. And in some cases, it may befor example, if its due to discrimination, financial hardship, or other factors unrel

6、ated to personal or professional goals.But for individual students like Schulz, dropping out is sometimes a better course of action than continuing to struggle in a program that isnt fulfilling or that no longer 10 the students long-term goals.1Aquestion Babandon Cfollow Dassess2Achanges Bpromotes C

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8、blishes Bfurthers Closes DShares【语篇解读】这是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章讲述了正在密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校攻读计算机科学博士的二年级的本杰明舒尔茨（Benjamin Schulz）为什么放弃他的博士学位的故事，介绍了博士生因为学习目标不明确经常退学的现象。1A 【解析】考查动词词义辨析。句意：当他“不适地盯着从海底管道流出的石油”时，里面的东西震动了舒尔茨，使他对自己的职业道路产生了质疑。A. question质疑；B. abandon抛弃；C. follow跟随；D. assess评估。由下文的“What am I doing sitting here trying

9、 really hard to figure out why one wire is not connected to a different wire?”和“The question was still lingering in Schulzs mind”可知，舒尔茨因看到从海底管道流出的石油，不明白自己在干什么，为什么要去纠结一根电线没有连接到另一根电线上，他开始质疑自己的职业道路，这个质疑一直留在他心里，以至于最后放弃了自己的博士学位。故选A项。2D 【解析】考查动词词义辨析。“看看世界上的一切是多么混乱，”舒尔茨回忆道，当时他正上密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校攻读计算机科学博士二年级。A. c

10、hanges改变；B. promotes提高；C. explains解释；D. recalls回忆。由下文的“Schulzwho was in his second year of a computer science Ph.D. at the University of Missouri in Columbia at the time”和“Schulz recalls thinking”可知，此处指舒尔茨回忆他攻读计算机科学博士二年级时看到从海底管道流出的石油的感受。故选D项。3B 【解析】考查名词词义辨析。当舒尔茨在2012年出席一个会议时，这个问题仍然萦绕在他的脑海中。A. camp露营

11、；B. conference会议；C. concert音乐会；D. class年纪。由下文的“two months after his conference experience”可知，舒尔茨此时出席了一个会议。故选B项。4B 【解析】考查形容词词义辨析。所有的专家和学者都沉默了至少5秒钟，然后一位初级科学家尖声说，基础研究可以带来重要的发现。A. anxious焦虑的；B. silent安静的；C. astonished吃惊的；D. enthusiastic热情的。由下文的“before a junior scientist piped up to say that basic resear

12、ch can lead to important discoveries”可知，在一位初级科学家回答舒尔茨问题之前，是没人回答问题的，因此可得出专家和学者保持了沉默了。5C 【解析】考查名词词义辨析。但他发现的现实是不同的。A. assumption假设；B. breakthrough突破；C. reality现实；D. dream梦想。由上文的“Going into graduate school, hed thought, “Ill go live the life of the mind. And Ill think deep, creative thoughts about inter

13、esting, relevant problems.”和下文的“I felt so knocked down into smaller and smaller and smaller comers. it was really depressing.”可知，进入研究生院前，舒尔茨以为自己会过一种有趣的、创造性的精神生活，但进入研究生院后，他发现自己的生活很沮丧，说明相对于自己的想象，现实的生活是不同的。故选C项。6C 【解析】考查副词词义辨析。因此，在他的参加会议两个月后，他仍无法摆脱自己没有做什么有影响力的事情的感觉，他走进了导师的办公室，宣布他将辞去博士学位。A. However然而；B. Instead反而；C. Therefore因此；D. Moreover而且。由上文语境和下文的“he was quitting his Ph.D.”可知，舒尔茨因看到从海底管道流出的石油，开始质疑自己的职业道路，这个质疑一直留在他心里，让他无力沮丧，因此他要放弃自己的博士学位。7D 【解析】考查动词词义辨析。句意