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1、MPA英语真题Section Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Directions：Read the following text。Choose the best word（s）for each numbered blank and markA,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.（10 points）In o

2、ur contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with - or even looking at - a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a 1 underground.Its a sad reality - our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings

3、- because theres 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldnt know it, 3 into your phone. This universal armor sends the 4 : Please dont approach me.What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive me

4、ntal coach. We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as creepy,. We fear well be 7 . We fear well be disruptive. Strangers are inherently 8 to us, so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances. To avoid this anxiety,

5、 we 10 to our phones. Phones become our security blanket, Wortmann says. They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 .But once we rip off the bandaid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesnt 12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment, behavioral

6、scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a13. The duo had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14. When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station to 15 how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the comm

7、uters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on their own, the New York Times summarizes. Though the participants didnt expect a positive experience, after they 17 with the experiment, not a single person reported having been snubbed.18, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable com

8、pared with those sans communication, which makes absolute sense, 19 human beings thrive off of social connections. Its that 20: Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.1.A ticketB permitC signalD record2.A nothingB littleC anotherD much3.A beatenB guidedC pluggedD brought4.A messageB codeC

9、noticeD sign5.A underB beyondC behindD from6.A misappliedB mismatchedC misadjustedD misinterpreted7.A replacedB firedC judgedD delayed8.A unreasonableB ungratefulC unconventionalD unfamiliar9.A comfortableB confidentC anxiousD angry10.A attendB pointC takeD turn11.A dangerousB mysteriousC violentD b

10、oring12.A hurtB resistC bendD decay13.A lectureB conversationC debateD negotiation14.A passengersB employeesC researchersD trainees15.A revealB chooseC predict D design16.A voyageB rideC walkD flight17.A went throughB did awayC caught upD put up18.A in turnB in fact C in particularD in consequence19

11、.A unlessB sinceC ifD whereas20.A funnyB logicalC simpleD rare正确选项： 1-5 CDCAC 6-10 DCDCD 11-15 AABAC 16-20 BABBCSection Reading Comprehension Part ADirections：Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points

12、)Text1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys. People art actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured peoples control. Which is it at stress marker. While they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge。“F

13、urther contradicting conventional wisdom we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home” writes one of the researchers. Sarah Damaske In fact women say they feel better at work. She notes. “it is men not women. Who report being happier at home than at work” Anoth

14、er surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without but more so for non parents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health。What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when they re at home whether it is household work or w

15、ork brought home from the office. For many men the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay home they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the blurring of roles and the fact that the hom

16、e front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women it s not surprising that women are more stressed at home。But its not just a gender thing. At work people pretty much know what theyre supposed to be doing: working making money doing the tasks they have to do in order to

17、draw an income. The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola。On the home front however people have no such clarity. Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. There are

18、a lot of tasks to be done there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleagues-your family-have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it or if they re teenagers threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus they re your family. You cannot fir

19、e your family. You never really get to go home from home。So its not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite the co-workers are much harder to motivate。21.According to Paragraph 1，most previous surveys found that home_Awas an un realistic place for

20、 relaxationBgenerated more stress than the workplaceCwas an ideal plac efor stress measurementDoffered greater relaxation than the workplace22.According to Damaske，who are likely to be the happiest at home?AWorking mothersBChildless husbandsC Childless wivesDWorking fathers23 The blurring of working

21、 womens roles refers to the fact that_Athey are both breadwinners and housewivesBtheir home is also a place for kicking backCthere is often much housework left behindDit is difficult for them to leave their office24.The word “moola”(Line4，Para 4)most probably means_Aenergy Bskills Cearnings Dnutriti

22、on25.The home front differs from the workplace in that_Ahome is hardly a cozier working environmentBdivision of labor at home is seldom clear-cutChousehold tasks are generally more motivatingDfamily labor is often adequately rewarde答案：21 答案D offered greater relaxation than the workplace22 答案B childl

23、ess husbands23 答案A they are both bread winners and housewives24.答案 C 25.答案 B division of labor at home is seldom-clear-cut Text 2For years studies have found that first-generation college students-those who do not have a parent with a college degree-lag other students on a range of education achieve

24、ment factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting firs

25、t-generation students but then watching many of them fail means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen rather than close” achievement gap based on social class according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science。But the article is ac

26、tually quite optimistic as it outlines a potential solution to this problem suggesting that an approach(which involves a one-hour next-to-no-cost program)can close 63 percent of the achievement gap(measured by such factors as grades)between first-generation and other students。The authors of the pape

27、r are from different universities and their findings are based on a study involving 147 students(who completed the project)at an unnamed private university. First generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree Most of the first-generation students(59.1percent) were rec

28、ipients of Pell Grants，a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need，while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degreeTheir thesis-that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact-was based on the view that first-gene rati

29、on students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap。Many first-generation students stru

30、ggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education，learn the rules of the game, and take advantage of college resources” they write And this becomes more of a problem when collages dont talk about the class advantage and disadvantages of different groups of students Because US colleges an

31、d universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students educational experience，many first-gene ration students lack sight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve26. Recruiting more first-generation students hasAreduced their dropout ratesBnarrow