考研英语二真题与答案解析.docx

1、考研英语二真题与答案解析2015年考研英语二真题及答案（完整版）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 on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with - or even looking at - a stranger is virtually

2、unbearable. Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones, even without a 1 on a subway.Its a sad reality - our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings- because theres 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. But you wouldnt know it, 3 into y

3、our phone. This universal protection sends the 4 :“Please dont approach me.”What is it that makes us feel we need to hid 5 our screens?One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, an executive mental coach. We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as “weird.” We fear well

4、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 uneasiness, we 10 to turn our phones. “Phones become our security blanket,” Wortmann says. “They are our happy g

5、lasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 .”But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesnt12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters todo the unthinkable:“Start

6、a 13 . They 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 the would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they sat on thier own,” The New York Times su

7、mmarizes. Though the participants didnt expect a positive experience, after they 17 with the experiment, “not a single person reported having been embarrassed.”18 these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, 19 human beings thri

8、ve off of social connections. Its that 20 : Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.1.Aticket Bpermit Csignal Drecord2.Anothing Blittle Canother Dmuch3.Abeaten Bguided Cplugged Dbrought4.Amessage Bcode Cnotice Dsign5.Aunder Bbeyond Cbehind Dfrom6.Amisinterpreted Bmisapplied Cmisadjusted Dmi

9、smatched7.Afired Bjudged Creplaced Ddelayed8.Aunreasonable Bungrateful Cunconventional Dunfamiliar9.Acomfortable B anxious C confident Dangry10.Aattend Bpoint Ctake Dturn11.Adangerous B mysterious Cviolent Dboring12.Ahurt B resist Cbend Ddecay13.Alecture Bconversation Cdebate Dnegotiation14.Atrainee

10、s Bemployees Cresearchers Dpassengers15.Areveal Bchoose Cpredict Ddesign16.Avoyage Bflight Cwalk Dride17.Awent through Bdid away Ccaught up Dput up18.AIn turn BIn particular CIn fact DIn consequence19. Aunless Bsince Cif Dwhereas20. Afunny Bsimple Clogical DrareSection II Reading ComprehensionPart A

11、Directions:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C,or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)Text 1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys，people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured peoples cortisol

12、, which is a stress marker, while they were at were work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home.”Write one of the resea

13、rchers, Sarah Damaske.In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes, “It is men, not women, who report being happier at home than at work.” Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work o

14、utside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when theyre at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who say home, they never get to leave

15、 the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catchupwithhousehold tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, its not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But it

16、s 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 draw an income. The bargain is very pure; Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out lifesustaining moola.On

17、 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 a lot of tasks to be done,there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleaguesyour familyhave no clear rewards for most of

18、them. Your home colleaguesyour familyhave no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it, or if theyre teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, theyre your family. You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home.So its not

19、surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the coworkers are much harder to motivate.21.According to Paragraph 1，most previous surveys found that home .Awas an unrealistic place for relaxationBgenerated more stress than the workplaceCwas an ideal pl

20、ace for stress measurementDoffered greater relaxation than the workplace22.According to Damaske，who are likely to be the happiest at home?AWorking mothersBChildless husbandsCChildless wivesDWorking fathers23.The blurring of working womens roles refers to the fact that .Athey are both bread winners a

21、nd 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”(Tine 4，Para 4)most probably means .AenergyBskillsCearningsDnutrition25.The home front differs from the workplace in that .Ahome is har

22、dly a cozier working environmentBdivision of labor at home is seldom clear-cutChousehold tasks are generally more motivatingDfamily labor is often adequately rewardedText 2For years, studies have found that first-generation college student those who do not have a parent with a college degree lag oth

23、er students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower than 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. Thi

24、s has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation student, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen, rather than close.” An achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in

25、 the journal Psychological Science.But the article is actually 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) betw

26、een first-generation and other students.The authors of the paper 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 parent with four-year college degr

27、ee. Most of the first-generation students (59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant of undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with four-year degree.Their thesis that a relatively modest intervention c

28、ould have a big impact was based on the view that first-generation 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

29、 to close the achievement gap.Many first-generation students “struggled 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 colleges dont talk about the class advantages a

30、nd disadvantages of different groups of students. Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students educational experiences, many first-generation students lack of sight about why they are struggling and do not understand students like them can improve.”26.

31、 Recruiting more first-generation students has .A. reduced their dropout ratesB. narrowed the achievement gapC. missed its original purposeD. depressed college students27. The author of the research article are optimistic because .A. the problem is solvableB. their approach is costlessC. the recruiting rate has increasedD. their findings appeal to students28. The study suggests that most first-generation students .A. study at private universitiesB. are from single-parent familiesC. are in need of financial supportD. have failed their college29. The