2015考研英语二真题及答案

1、 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： 20152015 考研英语二真题及答案考研英语二真题及答案 完形填空完形填空 ： Section I Use of EnglishSection I Use of English Directions:Directions: In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with - or even looking at - a stranger is virtually unbearable. Everyone around us seems to

2、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 your phone. This universal protection se

3、nds the 4 :“Please don t 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 be 7 . We fear well be disruptive. S

4、trangers 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 glasses that protect us from what we

5、 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 doesnt 12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters todo the unthinkable:“Start a 13 . They had Chicago train com

6、muters talk to their fellow 14 . When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： 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

7、summarizes. Though the participants didn t 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

8、thrive off of social connections. Its that 20 : Talking to strangers can make you feel connected. 1.Asignal Bpermit Cticket Drecord 2.Anothing Blittle Canother Dmuch 3.Abeaten Bguided Cplugged Dbrought 4.Asign Bcode Cnotice Dmessage 5.Aunder Bbehind Cbeyond Dfrom 6.Amisapplied Bmismatched Cmisajuste

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11、cal Csimple Drare 答案：答案： A. signal D. much B. plugged D. message C. behind D. misinterpreted C. judged D. unfamiliar A. anxious D. turn A. dangerous A hurt B. conversation A. passengers C. predict B. ride A. went through B. in fact B. since C. simple 阅读：阅读： 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： Text1Te

12、xt1 A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured peoples cortisol, which is a 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. “Furth

13、er 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 even say they feel better at work, shenotes. “ It is men, notwomen, who report being happier at home than at work. ”

14、Another surprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. 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 theyre at home, whether it is household work or

15、 work 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-householdtasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that th

16、e home front lags well behind the workplace a making adjustments for working women, its not surprising that women are more stressed at home. But its not just a gender thing. Atwork, people pretty much know what they re supposed to be doing:working,marking money,doing the tasks they have to do in ord

17、er to 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. Ther

18、e are 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 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： need to be talked into it, or if theyre teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic device

19、s.Plus,theyre your family.You cannot fire 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 foun

20、d that home_ A offered greater relaxation than the workplace B was an ideal place for stress measurement C generated more stress than the workplace D was an unrealistic place for relaxation 22. According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home? A Childless wives B Working mothers C Chi

21、ldless husbands D Working fathers 23.The blurring of working womens roles refers to the fact that_ A it is difficult for them to leave their office B their home is also a place for kicking back C there is often much housework left behind D they are both bread winners and housewives 24.The word“ mool

22、a”(Line4,Para4)most probably means_ A skills B energy C earnings D nutrition 25.The home front differs from the workplace in that_ 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： A division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut B home is hardly a cozier working environment C household tasks are generally more mot

23、ivating D family labor is often adequately rewarded Text 1 Text 1 答案答案 21 A offered greater relaxation than the workplace 22 C childless husbands 23 D they are both bread winners and housewives. 24 C earnings 25 A division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut Text 2Text 2 For years，studies have foun

24、d that fiest-generation college students those who do not have a parent with a college lag other students on a range of education achievement 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

25、education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recuit more of them. This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and whden, rather than close” an achievement ga

26、p based on social class, according to the depressing beginning ofa paper forthcoming in the joutnal Psychological Science. But the article is actually quite optimisitic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach (which involves a one-hour, next-to-no-cost progr

27、am) can close 63 percent of the achievement gap (measured by such factors as grades) between first-generation and other students. 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their finding are based on a study invoving 147 students (who completed t

28、he 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 (59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

29、 Their thesis that a relatively modest intervention could 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 autho

30、rs to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievenebt gap. Many first-generation students “struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education, learn the rules of the game, abd take advantage of college resources,” they write.And this becomes more of a problem

31、when college dont talk about the class advantages and disadvantages of diffierent groups of students. “Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect about why they are struggling and do not understand how students like them can improve. 26 Recruiting more first-

32、generation students has_ A. reduced their dropout rates B.narrowed the achievement gap C.missed its original purpose D.depressed college students 27 The authors of the research article are optimisitic because_ A.the problem is solvable B. their approach is costless C.the recruiting rate has increase

33、d 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： D.their finding appeal to students 28 The study suggests that most first-generation students_ A.study at private universities B.are from single-parent families C.are in need of financial support D.have failed their college 29 The authors of the paper believe that

34、 first-generation students_ A are actually indifferent to the achievement gap B.can have a potential influence on other students C.may lack opportunities to apply for research projects D.are inexperienced in handing their issues at college 30 We may infer from the last paragraph that_ A. universitie

35、s often reject the culture of the middle-class B.students are usually to blame for their lack of resources C.social class greatly helps enrich educational experiences D.colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question Text 2 Text 2 答案答案 26 C missed its original purpose 27 A the problem is

36、 solvable 28 C are in need of financial support 29 D are experienced in handling their issues at college 30 D colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question Text 3Text 3 The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia

37、 McNutt announced today. The policy 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings. “Readers must have confidence in the conclu

38、sions published in our journal,” writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors (SBoRE). Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journals internal editors, or by

39、 its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to review these manuscripts. Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the statistics board was motivated by concerns broadly

40、with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Sciences overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.” Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group, says he expects the b

41、oard to “play primarily an advisory role.” He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be novel, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of

42、 publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.” 31、It can be learned from Paragraph I that A Science intends to simplify its peer-review process. Bjournals are strengthening their statistical checks. Cfew journals are blamed for mistakes in data analysis. Dlack of data analy

43、sis is common in research projects. 32、The phrase “flagged up ”(Para.2)is the closest in meaning to 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： Afound. Brevised. Cmarked Dstored 33、Giovanni Parmigiani believes that the establishment of the SBoRE may Apose a threat to all its peers Bmeet with strong oppositio

44、n Cincrease Sciences circulation. Dset an example for other journals 34、David Vaux holds that what Science is doing now A. adds to researchers worklosd. B. diminishes the role of reviewers. C. has room for further improvement. D. is to fail in the foreseeable future. 35. Which of the following is th

45、e best title of the text? A. Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers B. Professional Statisticians Deserve More Respect C. Data Analysis Finds Its Way onto Editors Desks D. Statisticians Are Coming Back with Science Text3 Text3 答案答案 31 A more emotional 32 C sports culture 33 D strengthen e

46、mployee loyalty 34 A voices for working women 35 D regular people mock it but accept it 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： Text4Text4 Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June ,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent,as good news.And they w

47、ere right.For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace.We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment, but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace. However, there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.There wa

48、s a big jump in the number of people who repot voluntarily working part-time.This figure is now 830,000(4.4 percent)above its year ago level. Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare, it is worth making an important distinction.Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time job

49、s.They take part-time work because this is all they can get.An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet. There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June,but the general dir

50、ection has been down.Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession,but it is down by 640,000(7.9percent)from is year ago level. We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us.The survey used by the Labor Departmen

51、t asks people is they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.If the answer is“yes”,they are classified as worked less than 35hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice .They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell

52、 the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week. 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment. For many people ,especially those with serious health

53、conditions or family members with serious health conditions ,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance. However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may

54、 previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance. 36. Which part of the jobs picture are neglected? A The prospect of a thriving job market. B The in

55、crease of voluntary part-time market. C The possibility of full employment. D The acceleration of job creation. 37. Many people work part-time because they_. A prefer part-time jobs to full-time jobs. B feel that is enough to make ends meet. C cannot get their hands on full-time jobs. D havent seen

56、the weakness of the market. 38. Involuntary part-time employment is the US_. A satisfies the real need of the jobless. B is harder to acquire than one year ago. C shows a general tendency of decline. D is lower than before the recession. 39. It can be learned that with Obamacare,_. 2015 考研第一时间真题解析直播地址考研第一时间真题解析直播地址： A it is no longer easy for part-timers to get insurance B full-time employment is still essential for insurance C it is still challenging to get insurance for family members D employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance 40. The text mainly