考研英语二模拟试题及答案解析(7)
考研英语二模拟试题及答案解析（7）
(1~20/共20题)Section ⅠUse 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.
Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors__1__, scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, and the results have been__2__Now a study of several thousand Americans born between 1885 and 1980 reveals that well-being__3__increases with age—but overall happiness__4__when a person was born.
__5__studies that have__6__older adults with the middle-aged and young have sometimes found that older adults are not as happy. But these studies could not__7__whether their__8__was because of their age or because of their__9__life experience. The new study, published online January 24 in Psychological Science ,__10__out the answer by examining 30 years of data on thousands of Americans, including__11__measures of mood and well-being, reports of job and relationship success, and objective measures of health.
The researchers found, after controlling for variables__12__health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well-being increases over everyone′s lifetime.__13__people who have lived through extreme hardship, such as the Great Depression,__14__much less happy than those who have had more__15__lives. This finding helps to__16__why past studies have found conflicting results—experience__17__, and tough times can__18__an entire generation′s happiness for the rest of their lives. The__19__news is,__20__we′ve lived through, we can all look forward to feeling more content as we age.
第1题
A.alike
B.alongside
C.aside
D.besides
第2题
A.conflicting
B.worrying
C.revealing
D.appealing
第3题
A.accordingly
B.indeed
C.hence
D.nevertheless
第4题
A.resides with
B.rests with
C.depends on
D.reckons on
第5题
A.Following
B.Preceding
C.Previous
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第6题
A.matched
B.related
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D.associated
第7题
A.derive
B.discern
C.discover
D.detect
第8题
A.discontent
B.unwillingness
C.incompetence
D.precariousness 第9题
A.limited
B.abundant
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D.different
第10题
A.ruled
B.teased
C.left
D.marked
第11题
A.biological
B.medical
C.physical
D.psychological 第12题
A.instead of
B.along with
C.such as
D.apart from
第13题
A.Thus
B.Even
C.Then
D.But
第14题
A.start up
B.start off
C.start over
D.start on
第15题
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C.insecure
D.meaningful
第16题
A.explain
B.estimate
C.establish
D.exhibit
第17题
A.expands
B.emerges
C.matters
D.recurs
第18题
A.enrich
B.influence
C.boost
D.delay
第19题
A.good
B.surprising
C.bad
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第20题
A.while
B.though
C.no matter what
D.no matter how
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(21~25/共20题)Section ⅡReading Comprehension
Directions :
Read the following four terts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B],[C]or [D].Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
With polished stone floors and a plate-glass roof, a shining multi-storey shopping mall has just opened beside a motorway north of Paris. Named Qwartz, and costing 300m, it houses 165 shops and what developers call " eating concepts". Two other American-style shopping malls opened in the greater Paris region last year, and a third, So Ouest, in 2012. A country that prides itself on
fashion designer boutiques and artisanal shops seems to be turning into one of mall rats.
Partly this is just catching up. Until recently, strict planning rules stopped big out-of-town shopping centres around the French capital. Most malls that existed, such as Velizy 2 or Rosny 2, dated from the 1970s, when five new towns were built in the Paris suburbs. But a new relaxed attitude has now let more modern projects go ahead.
It also points to two features of French society that escape the gaze of historic Paris. One is most shoppers′ suburban way of life. Only 2. 2m people live in the capital itself. Yet the greater Paris region, excluding the city, counts over four times more inhabitants, many in small towns and car-dependent suburbs. The new malls, ringed by car parks, are handy, even alluring. Fully 62% of the French told one poll that malls were their favourite places to shop, ahead of the high street or traditional department stores.
The other trend is the global taste of consumers. Besides a huge French hypermarket, Qwartz′s big pull is Primark, an Irish cheap-fashion retailer, and Marks & Spencer, a British chain. Just down the road, So Ouest boasts Hollister, an American surfwear brand, Starbucks, an American coffee house, and foreign fashion chains such as H&M and Zara. In today′s temples of consumption, global is a la mode.
This is not quite the France favoured by Arnaud Montebourg, the industry minister and architect of a "Made in France" campaign. He is now trying to keep American hands off Alstom, the French maker of TGV fast trains. He once posed cheerfully for a magazine, dressed in a striped Breton top and holding a Moulinex food-blender.
Yet even French brands are not always home-made, as Benjamin Carle, a reporter, discovered filming a television documentary about his efforts to live for a year using only products made in France. The result was comic—and sobering. Not only was it impossible to find some items, including a fridge and coffee. Mr Carle initially had to empty his flat of anything that did not meet the test of 50% of its value being made in France. Out went the bicycle, computer, guitar, most of the furniture, beer, clothes, toothbrush and more. The share of his stuff that qualified as French-made? Just 4.5%.
第21题
According to Paragraph 1, France is proud of its______.
A.fashion industry
B.eating concepts
C.cooking culture
D.shopping malls
第22题
For shoppers who live in the suburb, the new shopping malls are______.
A.modern and fashionable
B.luxurious and expensive
C.distant and inconvenient
D.convenient and attractive
第23题
The word "la mode" (Line 5, Para. 4) most probably means______.
A.taste
B.notion
C.popularity
D.phenomenon
第24题
According to the text, Arnaud Montebourg is______.
A.a supporter of American brands
B.an advocate of French products
C.an architect of TGV fast trains
D.an opponent of French brands
第25题
We can conclude from the last paragraph that______.
A.French brands may be made in other countries
B.a number of French products are actually fake
C.the quality of French products is questionable
D.a large part of French brands are made at home
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(26~30/共20题)Section ⅡReading Comprehension
Directions :
Read the following four terts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B],[C]or [D].Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Don′t talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time needed to download a ringtone.
This new generation of user-friendly spy-phone software has become widely available in the last year—and it confers stunning powers. The latest programs can silently turn on handset microphones even when no call is being made, allowing a spy to listen to voices in a room halfway around the world. Targets are none the wiser: neither call logs nor phone bills show records of the secretly transmitted data.
More than 200 companies sell spy-phone software online, at prices as low as $ 50. Vendors are loath to release sales figures. But some experts claim that a surprising number of people carry a mobile that has been compromised, usually by a spouse, lover, parent or co-worker. Many employees, experts say, hope to discover a supervisor′s dishonest dealings and tip off the top boss anonymously. Max Maiellaro, head of Agata Christie Investigation, a private-investigation firm in Milan, estimates that 3 percent of mobiles in France and Germany are tapped, and about 5 percent or so in Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain. James Atkinson, a spy-phone expert at Granite Island Group, a security consultancy in Gloucester, Massachusetts, puts the number of tapped phones in the U.S. at 3 percent. Even if these numbers are inflated, clearly many otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to break wiretapping laws.
Spyware thrives on iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones because they have ample processing power. In the United States, the spread of GSM networks, which are more vulnerable than older technologies, has also enlarged the pool of potential victims. Spyware being developed for law-enforcement agencies will accompany a text message and automatically install itself in the victim′ s phone when the message is opened, according to an Italian developer who declined to be identified. One worry is that the software will find its way into the hands of