您当前所在位置:首页 > 考研 > 考研试题 > 考研英语试题

2015考研英语终极冲刺模拟试题二

编辑:sx_guohr

2015-11-19

下面分享考研英语终极冲刺模拟试题二,希望大家可以提前模拟一下考试。试试自己这段时间复习的怎样?

Section I Use of English

Directions:

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)

When television first began to expand, very few of the people who had become famous as radio commentators were equally effective on television. Some of the 1 they experienced when they were trying to 2 themselves to the new medium were technical. When working 3 radio, for example, they had become 4 to seeing on 5 of the listener. This 6 of seeing for others means that the 7 has to be very good at talking. 8 all, he has to be able to 9 a continuous sequence of visual images which 10 meaning to the sounds which the listener hears. In the 11 of television, however, the commentator sees 12 with the viewer. His role, therefore, is 13 different. He is there to make 14 that the viewer does not 15 some points of interest, to help him 16 on particular things, and to 17 the images on the television screen. 18 his radio colleague, he must know the 19 of silence and how to use it at those moments 20 the pictures speaks for themselves.

1. A. difficultiesB. successesC. sufferingsD. incidents

2. A. turnB. adaptC. alterD. modify

3. A. onB. atC. with D. behind

4. A. experiencedB. determinedC. establishedD. accustomed

5. A. accountB. sideC. pointD. behalf

6. A. efficiencyB. technologyC. artD. performance

7. A. commentatorB. TV viewerC. speakerD. author

8. A. OfB. ForC. AboveD. In

9. A. inspire B. createC. causeD. perceive

10. A. addB. applyC. affectD. reflect

11. A. occasionB. eventC. factD. case

12. A. somethingB. nothingC. everythingD. anything

13. A. equallyB. completelyC. initiallyD. hardly

14. A. definiteB. possibleC. sureD. clear

15. A. loseB. depriveC. relieveD. miss

16. A. focusB. attendC. followD. insist

17. A. exhibitB. demonstrateC. exposeD. interpret

18. A. LikeB. UnlikeC. AsD. For

19. A. purposeB. goalC. valueD. intention

20. A. ifB. when C. whichD. as

Section II Reading Comprehension

Part A

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 1

It’s plain common sense—the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience. It’s plain common sense, but it’s not true. Recent research reveals that happiness and unhappiness are not really two sides of the same emotion. They are two distinct feelings that, coexisting, rise and fall independently.

People might think that the higher a person’s level of unhappiness, the lower their level of happiness and vice versa. But when researchers measure people’s average levels of happiness and unhappiness, they often find little relationship between the two.

The recognition that feelings of happiness and unhappiness can co-exist much like love and hate in a close relationship may offer valuable clues on how to lead a happier life. It suggests, for example, that changing or avoiding things that make you miserable may well make you less miserable, but probably won’t make you any happier. That advice is backed up by an extraordinary series of studies which indicate that a genetic predisposition for unhappiness may run in certain families. On the other hand, researchers have found happiness doesn’t appear to be anyone’s heritage. The capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.

Psychologists have settled on a working definition of the feeling—happiness is a sense of subjective well-being. They have also begun to find out who’s happy, who isn’t and why. To date, the research hasn’t found a simple formula for a happy life, but it has discovered some of the actions and attitudes that seem to bring people closer to that most desired of feelings.

Why is unhappiness less influenced by environment? When we are happy, we are more responsive to people and keep up connections better than when we are feeling sad. This doesn’t mean, however, that some people are born to be sad and that’s that. Genes may predispose one to unhappiness, but disposition can be influenced by personal choice. You can increase your happiness through your own actions.

21. According to the text, it is true that

[A] unhappiness is more inherited than affected by environment.

[B] happiness and unhappiness are mutually conditional.

[C] unhappiness is subject to external more than internal factors.

[D] happiness is an uncontrollable subjective feeling.

22. The author argues that one can achieve happiness by

[A] maintaining it at an average level.

[B] escaping miserable occurrences in life.

[C] pursuing it with one’s painstaking effort.

[D] realizing its coexistence with unhappiness.

23. The phrase “To date” (Para. 4) can be best replaced by

[A] As a result.

[B] In addition.

[C] At present.

[D] Until now.

24. What do you think the author believes about happiness and unhappiness?

[A] One feels unhappy owing to his miserable origin.

[B] They are independent but existing concurrently

[C] One feels happy by participating in more activities.

[D] They are actions and attitudes taken by human beings.

25. The sentence “That’s that” (Para. 5) probably means: Some people are born to be sad

[A] and the situation cannot be altered.

[B] and happiness remains inaccessible.

[C] but they don’t think much about it.

[D] but they remain unconscious of it.

Text 2

Over the pastcentury, all kinds of unfairness and discrimination have been condemned or madeillegal. But one insidious form continues to thrive: alphabetism. This, forthose as yet unaware of such a disadvantage, refers to discrimination againstthose whose surnames begin with a letter in the lower half of the alphabet。

It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a bigadvantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phonedirectories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life overZo? Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of thealphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginningwith letters between A and K。

Thus the American president and vice-president have surnamesstarting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush’spredecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of thealphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking, six of theseven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabeticallyadvantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi).The world’s three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) areall close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanesecharacters. As are the world’s five richest men (Gates, Buffett, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht)。

Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all thespare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets inearly. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupilsalphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. Soshort-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked theimproving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. At the time thealphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape. Yet theresult may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention,as well as less confidence in speaking publicly。

The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, theABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans mostpeople are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, electionballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawnup alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough throughthem。

26. What does the author intend to illustrate with AAAA cars andZodiac cars?

[A] A kind of overlooked inequality。

[B] A type of conspicuous bias。

[C] A type of personal prejudice。

[D] A kind of brand discrimination。

27. What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?

[A] In both East and West, names are essential to success.

[B] The alphabet is to blame for the failure of Zo? Zysman.

[C] Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies’ names。

[D] Some form of discrimination is too subtle to recognize。

28. The 4th paragraph suggests that

[A] questions are often put to the more intelligent students。

[B] alphabetically disadvantaged students often escape form class.

[C] teachers should pay attention to all of their students.

[D] students should be seated according to their eyesight。

29. What does the author mean by “most people areliterally having a ZZZ” (Lines 2-3, Paragraph 5)?

[A] They are getting impatient。

[B] They are noisily dozing off。

[C] They are feeling humiliated。

[D] They are busy with word puzzles。

30. Which of the following is true according to the text?

[A] People with surnames beginning with N to Z are oftenill-treated。

[B] VIPs in the Western world gain a great deal from alphabetism。

[C] The campaign to eliminate alphabetism still has a long way togo。

[D] Putting things alphabetically may lead to unintentional bias。  Text 3  To paraphrase18th-century statesman Edmund Burke,“all that is neededfor the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing。”One suchcause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animalshave rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respondforcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the publicand thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of theanimal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on publicfunding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearingallegations of cruelty to animals in research settings, many are perplexed thatanyone would deliberately harm an animal。

For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights boothat a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers notto use anything that comes from or is animals—no meat , no fur, nomedicines, Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccinescome from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, “Then I wouldhave to say yes。” Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, “ Don’t worry,scientists will find some way of using computers。” Such well-meaningpeople just don't understand。

Scientists must communicate their message to the public in acompassionate, understandable way—in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need tomake clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother's hipreplacement, a father's bypass operation, a baby's vaccinations, and even apet's shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed toproduce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animalresearch seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst。

Much can be done. Scientists could“adopt”middleschool classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respondto letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged andacquire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be openedto tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care. Finally, becausethe ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community shouldactively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as StephenCooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research,but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is areal possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the preciousembers of medical progress。

31. The author begins his article with Edmund Burke's words to

[A] call on scientists to take some actions。

[B] criticize the misguided cause of animal rights。

[C] warn of the doom of biomedical research。

[D] show the triumph of the animal rights movement。

32. Misled people tend to think that using an animal in research is

[A] cruel but natural。

[B] inhuman and unacceptable。

[C] inevitable but vicious。

[D] pointless and wasteful。

33. The example of the grandmotherly woman is used to show thepublic’s

[A] discontent with animal research。

[B] ignorance about medical science。

[C] indifference to epidemics。

[D] anxiety about animal rights。

34. The author believes that, in face of the challenge from animalrights advocates, scientists should

[A] communicate more with the public。

[B] employ hi-tech means in research。

[C] feel no shame for their cause。

[D] strive to develop new cures。

35. From the text we learn that Stephen Cooper is

[A] a well-known humanist。

[B] a medical practitioner。

[C] an enthusiast in animal rights。

[D] a supporter of animal research。

Text 4

I am a neuroscientist.I make a living by studying how the brain works.Although neuroscience has taken huge strides forward in the past decade,it is a long way from being able to address the problems dealt with by psychotherapy.3) Neuroscience cannot yet explain how we feel,and it is a long way from being able to prescribe what a miserable person must do to feel better.So,as a neuroscientist,I feel I should have a conclusion about the alternative approach.

The first question I must answer is:“What do psychotherapies have to offer?”First,let us deal with the scientific angle.The best way to start is by assessing a claim that has cropped up several times over the year.It was first made of psychoanalysis,but it has been extended to other psychotherapies.It is the claim that psychoanalysis is the successor to religion,that it gives a scientific,rather than a superstitious,answer to the question of how best to lead a happy,fulfilled life.

I would say this claim is at best half right.Psychoanalysis may indeed answer the question of how best to lead a happy life,but it has a lot more in common with religion than it has with science.In fact,psychoanalysis is not the successor to religion,it is just another religion.

This assessment is based on the way religions and sciences deal with fundamental truths.In religions,truths are laid down by God and revealed to the prophets who,in their turn,pass them on to the faithful.They are sacred mysteries that cannot be questioned.In science,on the other hand,truths are nothing if not questionable.The laws of science are deduced from the results of experiments and can be used to predict new experimental results.If new results go against the prediction,they show the law to be false.A new experimental result,or a new theory for deriving predictions from the results,can change the accepted truths.If a scientific statement cannot,in principle,be proved wrong then it tells us nothing.

Psychoanalysis suffers from just this problem.4)It is a maxim that our psychological problems are rooted in past conflicts,and that the repressed memories of these conflicts emerge from the unconscious in coded forms that can be interpreted by the analyst.But the codes are so obscure and so flexible that they defy rational explanation.There is no way the maxims could be disproved.They may not be sacred,but they are definitely mysteries.

Many other therapies are based on untestable theories.Of course,that doesn‘t necessarily prevent them from working.There is no doubt thousands of people feel that psychoanalysis has helped them to lead fuller and happier lives.But the number of satisfied customers is no guide to scientific validity;if it were,religion would come out way ahead.

36. The author considers his role as a neuroscientist____.

[A]irrelevant to that of a psychoanalyst

[B]different from that of a psychoanalyst

[C]of the same importance as that of a psychotherapeutist

[D]purely imaginary and impractical

37. According to the author,psychoanalysis is another religion in that____.

[A]it does nothing towards revealing fundamental truth

[B]its conclusions are seldom capable of being tested

[C]it has too many prophets and blind believers

[D]it takes over many doctrines from religious beliefs

38. By saying that“Psychoanalysis suffers from just this problem”(Para.5)the author means that____.

[A]psychoanalysis deals with problems or conflicts inside the unconscious

[B]the assertions in psychoanalysis cannot be disproved

[C]psychoanalysis attaches no importance to doing experiments

[D]psychoanalysts can not explain psychological problems to patients

39. Which of the following is a science according to the author?

[A]Neuroscience.

[B]Psychoanalysis.

[C]Psychotherapy.

[D]None of the above.

40. The main purpose of the passage is____.

[A]to refute the practical value of psychoanalysis

[B]to propose neuroscience as an alternative to psychoanalysis

[C]to compare the theories of psychoanalysis with religious doctrines

[D]to explain why psychoanalysis is not a science

Part B

Directions:

The following paragraph are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs int0 a coherent text by choosing from the list A-G to filling them int0 the numbered boxes. Paragraphs E and G have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

Long before Man lived on the Earth, there were fishes, reptiles,birds, insects, and some mammals. Although some oftheseanimals were ancestors of kinds living today, others are now extinct, that is,they have no descendants alive now. 41. Very occasionally the rocks showimpression of skin, so that, apart from color, we can build up a reasonablyaccurate picture of an animal that died millions of years ago. The kind of rockin which the remains are found tells us much about the nature of the originalland, often of the plants that grew on it, and even of its climate.

42. . Nearly all of the fossils that we know were preserved in rocksformed by water action, and most of these are of animals that lived in or nearwater. Thus it follows that there must be many kinds of mammals, birds, andinsects, of which we know nothing.

43. . There were also crab-like creatures, whose bodies were coveredwith a horny substance. The body segments each had two pairs of legs, one pairfor walking on the sandy bottom, the other for swimming. The head was a kind ofshield with a pair of compound eyes, often with thousands of lenses. They wereusually an inch or two long but some were 2 feet.

44. . Of these, the ammonites are very interesting and important.They have a shell composed of many chambers, each representing a temporary homeof the animal. As the young grew larger it grew a new chamber and sealed offthe previous one. Thousands of these can be seen in the rocks on the DorsetCoast.

45. .About 75 million years ago the Age of Reptiles was over andmost of the groups died out. The mammals quickly developed, and we can tracethe evolution of many familiar animals such as the elephant and horse. Many ofthe later mammals, though now extinct, were known to primitive man and werefeatured by him in cave paintings and on bone carvings.

[A] The shell gush have a long history in the rock and many differentkinds are known.

[B] Nevertheless, we know a great deal about many of them because theirbones and shells have been preserved in the rocks as fossils. From them we cantell their size and shape, how they walked, the kind of food they ate.

[C] The first animals with true backbones were the fishes, first knownin the rocks of 375 million years ago. About 300 million years ago theamphibians, the animals able to live both on land and in water, appeared. Theywere giant, sometimes 8 feet long, and many of them lived in the swampy poolsin which our coal seam, or layer, or formed. The amphibians gave rise to thereptiles and for nearly 150 million years these were the principal forms oflife on land, in the sea, and in the air.

[D] The best index fossils tend to be marine creatures. These animalsevolved rapidly and spread over large areas of the world.

[E] The earliest animals whose remains have been found were all verysimple kinds and lived in the sea. Later forms are more complex, and amongthese are the sea?lilies, relations of the star?fishes, which had long armsand were attached by a long stalk to the sea bed, or to rocks.

[F] When an animal dies the body, its bones, or shell, may often becarried away by streams into lakes or the sea and there get covered up by mud.If the animal lived in the sea its body would probably sink and be covered withmud. More and more mud would fall upon it until the bones or shell becomeembedded and preserved.

[G] Many factors can influence how fossils are preserved in rocks.Remains of an organism may be replaced by minerals, dissolved by an acidicsolution to leave only their impression, or simply reduced to a more stableform.Part C

Directions:

Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments int0 Chinese. Your translation should be written carefully on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

There is no question that science-fiction writers have become more ambitious, stylistically and thematically, in recent years. (46) But this may have less to do with the luring call of academic surroundings than with changing market conditions—a factor that academic critics rarely take into account. Robert Silverberg, a former president of The Science Fiction Writers of America, is one of the most prolific professionals in a field dominated by people who actually write for a living. (Unlike mystery or Western writers, most science-fiction writers cannot expect to cash in on fat movie sales or TV tie-ins.) (47) Still in his late thirties, Silverberg has published more than a hundred books, and he is disarmingly frank about the relationship between the quality of genuine prose and the quality of available outlet. By his own account, he was “an annoyingly verbal young man” from Brooklyn who picked up his first science-fiction book at the age of ten, started writing seriously at the age of thirteen, and at seventeen nearly gave up in despair over his inability to break into the pulp magazines. (48) At his parents’ urging, he enrolled in Columbia University, so that, if worst came to worst, he could always go to the School of Journalism and “get a nice steady job somewhere”. During his sophomore year, he sold his first science-fiction story to a Scottish magazine named Nebula. By the end of his junior year, he had sold a novel and twenty more stories. (49) By the end of his senior year, he was earning two hundred dollars a week writing science fiction, and his parents were reconciled to his pursuit of the literary life. “I became very cynical very quickly,” he says. First I couldn’t sell anything, then I could sell everything. The market played to my worst characteristics. An editor of a schlock magazine would call up to tell me he had a ten-thousand-word hole to fill in his next issue. I’d fill it overnight for a hundred and fifty dollars. I found that rewriting made no difference. (50) I knew I could not possibly write the kinds of things I admired as a reader—Joyce, Kafka, Mann—so I detached myself from my work. I was a phenomenon among my friends in college, a published, selling author. But they always asked, “When are you going to do something serious?” —meaning something that wasn’t science fiction—and I kept telling them, “ When I’m financially secure.”

Section Ⅲ Writing

Part A

51. Directions:

Write an email to the editor of your local newspaper, stating your point of view on reading extensively.

Your should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2

Do not sign your own name at the end of the leter. User “LI MING” instead.

Part B

52. Directions:

Write an essay of 160——200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should

1) describe the drawing briefly,

2) explain it‘s intended meaning, and

3) give your comments.

Your should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

威廉希尔app 总结的考研英语终极冲刺模拟试题二。希望对大家有所帮助!更多关于考研英语辅导的内容尽在威廉希尔app 考研英语辅导栏目。

相关推荐

2015年考研师姐谈考研英语高分经验 


免责声明

威廉希尔app (51edu.com)在建设过程中引用了互联网上的一些信息资源并对有明确来源的信息注明了出处,版权归原作者及原网站所有,如果您对本站信息资源版权的归属问题存有异议,请您致信qinquan#51edu.com(将#换成@),我们会立即做出答复并及时解决。如果您认为本站有侵犯您权益的行为,请通知我们,我们一定根据实际情况及时处理。