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1、精品_精品资料_Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text .Choose the best wordsfor each numbered blank and markA, B, C or D on ANSWERSHEET110 pointsIn our contemporary culture , the prospect of communicating with -or even looking at-a stranger is virtually unbearable Everyone around us see

2、ms to agree by the way they fiddle with their phones, even without a 1 undergroundIts a sad reality -our desire to avoid interacting with other humanbeings-because theres 2 to be gained from talking to the strange r standing by you. But you wouldntknow it , 3 into your phone. This universal armor se

3、nds 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 mental coach We fear rejection , or that our innocent social advances will be 6 ascreep,We fear weII可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_be 7 We fear weII be dis

4、ruptive Strangers are inherently 8 to us, so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends andacquaintances To avoid this anxiety, we 10 to our phones.Phones become our security blanket , Wortmann says.They are our happyglassesthat protect us from what we percei

5、ve 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 2022 experiment , behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13 . Theyhad Chicago train commuters ta

6、lk 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 talkingto a stranger, the commuters thought their 16 would be more pleasant if they saton their own, the New York Times summarizes. Though the participants didnt expec

7、t a positive experience, after they 17 withthe experiment, not a single person reported having been snubbed.18 , these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those sans communication, which makes absolute sense, 19 human beings thrive off of social可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_connections.

8、Its that 20 : Talking to strangers can make you feel connected.1. A ticket B permit Csignall D record2. A nothing B link Canother D much3. A beaten B guided Cplugged D brought4. A message B cede Cnotice D sign5. A under B beyond C behind D from6. A misinterprete B misapplied C misadjusted D mismatch

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10、B conversation C debate D negotiation14. A trainees B employees C researchers D passengers15. A reveal B choose C predictl D design16. A voyage B flight C walk D ride17. A went through B did away C caught up D put up18. A In turn B In particular CIn fact D In consequence19. A unless B since C if D w

11、hereas20. A funny B simple C Iogical D rare答案：1. signal 2. Much 3. plugged 4. message 5. behind可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_6. misinterpreted7. judged 8. unfamiliar 9. anxious 10. turn11. dangerous 12. hurt 13. Conversation 14. passengers15. predict 16. ride 17. went through 18. in fact19. since 20. Simp

12、leSection Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Text 1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys. People art actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchersmeasured peoples cortntlol. Which isit at stress marker. While they were at work and while they were at home and found it highe

13、r at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_Further 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 saythey feel better at work. She notes. it

14、is mennot women. Who report being bappicr at home than at work, Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with childrcn and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why pcoplc who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are st

15、ill doing work when they re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. Formany 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-wi

16、th -household tasks. With the blurring of roles, andthe fact that the home 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

17、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 life -sustaining moola.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_On the home front, however, people have no such clarity. Rar

18、e is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. Thereare 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 teena

19、gers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus, they re your family. You cannot fire your family. Younever 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 t

20、o motivate.21. According to Pa ragraph 1,most previous su rveys found that home A was an un realistic place for relaxationB generated more stress than the workplaceC was an ideal place for stress measurementD offered greater relaxation than the workplace可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_22. According to Damas

21、ke, who are likely to be the happiest at home.A Working mothersB Childless husbandsC Childless wivesD Working fathers23 The blurring of working womens roles refers to the fact thay A they are both bread winners and housewivesB their home is also a place for kicking backC there is often much housewor

22、k left behindD it is difficult for them to leave their office可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_24. The wordmoolaLine4, Para 4most probably means AenergyBskillsCearningsDnutrition25. The home front differs from the workplace in that A home is hardly a cozier working environmentB division of labor at home is se

23、ldom clear-cutC household tasks are generally more motivatingD family labor is often adequately rewarded答案：可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_21.D offered greater relaxation than the workplace22. B childless husbands23.A they are both bread winners and housewives24.Cearnings25.B division of labor at home is se

24、ldom clear-cutText 2For years, studies have found that first -generation college students -those whodo not have a parent with a college degree-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 l

25、ikely 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 first -generation students, but then watching many of them fail, means that higher education has continued to re

26、produce and widen, rather than close achievement gap based on social class, according tothe depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_Sciense.But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, sugge

27、sting that an approachwhich involves a one -hour,next -to -no-cost program can close 63 percent of the achievement gapmeasured by such factors as gradesbetween first -generation and other students.The authors of the paper are from different universities, and their findins are based on a study involv

28、ing 147 studentswho completed the projectat an unnamed private unive rsity First generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree Most of the first -generation students59.1 percent wererecipients of Pell Grants, a federal g rant for undergraduates with financial need, wh

29、ile this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students wit at least one parentwith a four -year degreeTheir thesis-that a relatively modest inte rvention could have a big impact -wasbased on the view that first -gene ration students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge abo

30、ut how to deal with the issues that face most college students They cite past resea rch by several authors to show that this is the gapthat must be na rrowed to close the achievement gap.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_Many first -gene ration studentsstruggle to navigate the middle -classcultureof higher ed

31、ucation , learn therules of the game, and take advantage of college resou rces, they write And this becomes more of a problem when collages dont talkabout the classadvantage and disadvantages of different groups of students Because UScolleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can

32、affectstudents educational expe rience, many first -gene ration students lack sight about why they a re struggling and do not unde rstand how students like them can improve26. Recruiting more first -generation students hasA reduced their d ropout ratesB narrowed the achievement gaoC missed its origi

33、nal pu rposeD depressed college students27 The author of the research article are optimistic because可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_A the problem is solvableB their approach is costlessq the recruiting rate has increasedDtheir finding appeal to students28 The study suggests that most first -gene ration stud

34、entsA study at private universitiesB are from single-pa rent familiesq are in need of financial supportDhave failed their collage29. The author of the paper believe that first -generation studentsAa re actually indifferent to the achievement gapB can have a potential influence on othe r students可编辑资

35、料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_C may lack opportunitiesto apply for resea rch projectsD are inexperienced in handling their issues at college30. We mayinfer from the last paragraph that -A universities often rect the culture of the middle -classB students are usually to blame for their lack of resourcesC socia

36、l class g reatly helps en rich educational experiencesD colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question答案：26.Cmissed its original purpose27.A the problem is solvable28.Care in need of financial support可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_29.D are inexperienced in handling issues at college30.D colleg

37、es are partly responsible for the problem in questionText3Even in traditional offices , the lingua franca of corporate America hasgottenmuch more emotional and much more right -brained than it was 20 years ago, said Ha rva rd Business School professor Nancy Koehn She sta rted spinning off examples.I

38、f you and I pa rachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990 ,we would see much less frequent use of terms like Journey, mission,passion. There were goals,there were strategies, there were objectives , but we didnt talk about energy. we didnt talk about passion.Koehn pointed out that this new era o

39、f corporate vocabula ry is veryteam -oriented -and not by coincidence.Lets not forget sDorts-in male -dominated corporate America, its still a big deal. Its not explicitly conscious. its theidea that Im a coach, and youre my team,and were in this togethec. There arelots and lots of CEOsin very diffe

40、rent companies, but most think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win.可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_These terms a re also intended to infuse work with meaning -and, as Khu rana points out , increase allegiance to the firm.You have the importation of terminology that historica

41、lly used to be associated with non -profit organizations and religiousorganizations ： Terms like vision,values, passion, and purpose , saidKhuranaThis new focus on personal fulfillmentcan help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work -life balance The mommy wars of the 1990s

42、 a re still going on today, prompting arguments about whywomen still canthave it all and books like Sheryl Sandbergs Lean In, whose title has become abuzzword in its own right. Terms like unplug , offline ,life -hack, bandwidth , andcapacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and th

43、e home But ifyour work is yourpassion, youII be more likely to devote yourself to it , even ifthat means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bedBut this seems to be the irony of office speak： Everyone makes fun of it , butmanage rs love it , companies depend on it, and

44、regular people willingly absorb itAs Nunberg said, You can get people to think its nonsense at the same timethat you buy intoit. In a workplace thats fundamentally indiffe rent to your lifeand its meaningoffice speak can help you figu re out how you relate to yourwork -and how your work defines who you are可编辑资料 - - - 欢迎下载精品_精品资料_31. According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become A more e