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1、【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流考研英语二阅读模拟题目及答案.精品文档.Passage OneAfter a busy day of work and play, the body needs to rest. Sleep is necessary for good health. During this time, the body recovers from the activities of the previous day. The rest that you get while sleeping enables your body to prepare itsel

2、f for the next day.There are four levels of sleep, each being a little deeper than the one before. As you sleep, your muscles relax little by little. Your heart beats more slowly, and your brain slows down. After you reach the fourth level, your body shifts back and forth from one level of sleep to

3、the other.Although your mind slows down, from time to time you will dream. Scientists who study sleep state that when dreaming occurs, your eyeballs begin to move more quickly (Although your eyelids are closed). This stage of sleep is called REM, which stands for rapid eye movement.If you have troub

4、le falling asleep, some people recommend breathing very deeply. Other people believe that drinking warm milk will help make you drowsy. There is also an old suggestion the counting sheep will put you to sleep!1. A good title for this passage is _. A Sleep B Good Health C Dreams D Work and Rest 2. Th

5、e word drowsy in the last paragraph means _. A sick B stand up C asleep D a little sleepy 3. This passage suggests that not getting enough sleep might make you _. A dream more often B have poor health C nervous D breathe quickly4. During REM, _. A your eyes move quickly B you dream C you are restles

6、s D both A and B5. The average number of hours of sleep that an adult needs is _ . A approximately six hours B around ten hours C about eight hours D not stated here标准答案：1：A文章的第一段谈到睡眠能使身体健康， 第二段、第三段谈到睡眠的几种状态，最后一段谈到很快入睡的几种方法。因此整篇文章都围绕睡眠而谈， 因此A为正确答案。2：D drowsy :瞌睡的， 想睡的。 因为上一句的意思是：“如果你睡觉有困难的话， 有人建议慢慢的

7、深深呼吸。”紧接着作者说：“另外一些人认为喝热牛奶能使你, 根据上下文应该选“瞌睡的”， 因此只有D 最符合题意。sick : 有病的；stand up :起立。 asleep : 睡着的。3：B答案在文章的第一段第二句话：“Sleep is necessary for good health.”意思是：“睡眠有利于身体健康。”因此本句的意思是睡眠不足有害健康。只有B最符合题意。4：D答案在第三段第二句话：“Scientists who study sleep state that when dreaming occurs your eyeballs begin to move more qu

8、ickly.”意思是：“研究睡眠的科学家指出一个人做梦的时候眼球移动速度加快。”因此正确答案为D。5：D文章中没有谈到成年人的平均睡眠时间。Passage Two Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of own sex. How would you react? Unless there was something definitely wrong with you, you wouldnt be too happ

9、y about it, to say the least. It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children conditions which they themselves wouldnt put up with for one minute! Any discussion of this topic is bound to question the aims of educa

10、tion. Stuffing childrens heads full of knowledge is far from being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of educations is to equip future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school possibly o

11、ffer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock. A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a true version of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other, to lea

12、rn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school life. What a practical advantage it is ( to give just a

13、small example ) to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls! What nonsense co-education makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girl or vice-versa. When segregated, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart

14、. Rivalry between the sexes is fostered. In a coeducational school, everything falls into its proper place. But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-education is the healthy attitude to life it encourages. Boys dont grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures airy goddesses, more like b

15、ook-illustrations to a fairy-tale, than human beings. Girls dont grow up imagining that men are romantic heroes. Years of living together at school dispel illusions of this kind. There are no goddesses with freckles, pigtails, piercing voices and inky fingers. There are no romantic heroes with knobb

16、ly knees, dirty fingernails and unkempt hair. The awkward stage of adolescence brings into sharp focus some of the physical and emotional problems involved in growing up. These can better be overcome in a co-educational environment. Segregated schools sometimes provide the right conditions for sexua

17、l deviation. This is hardly possible under a co-educational system. When the time comes for the pupils to leave school, they are fully prepared to enter society as well-adjusted adults. They have already had years of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women. 1. What is

18、the best title for this passage? A only co-education can be in harmony with society. B people are in great need of co-education. C any form of education other than co-education is simply unthinkable. D co-education has many features. 2. what does co-education offer to children? A A society. B A true

19、 small model of society. C A real life. D True version of social condition. 3. According to the passage, what is one of the chief aims of education? A It is for students to acquire knowledge. B It is to equip future citizens with scientific technology. C It is to equip future citizens with what is r

20、equired in getting a position in society. D It is for students to get academic achievements. 4.Why do boys and girls in co-education have no illusion about each other? A They live together and know each other too well. B Years of living together at school dismiss such illusion. C co-education encour

21、age them to have an healthy attitude toward life. D They are familiar with each others problems.答案详解 1.C 除了男女合校，其他形式的教育简直难以想象。答案见第一段“设想请你在一个只有你一样性别的人存在的社会生活12年光景，你会如何反应呢？除非你本人确实有毛病，否则，你至少不会太高兴。因此，世界上有那么多的父母愿意把这种不正常的环境（他们自己一分钟都受不了的环境）强加给他们的孩子们，这太令人惊讶！”第二段讲“教育的目的之一就是为未来的公民在成人社会中找一席之地，准备好需要的一切。而社会由男女组成

22、，那分校又怎能准备？”后两段讲合校之优点，分校之缺点，具体对比突出主题。这都说明C最合适。 A.只有合校才能和社会相协调。D.合校有许多特点。这两项文章内容涉及到，但作为最佳标题则不确切。B.人们非常需要合校。文内没有直接谈到。 2.B 一个真实社会的缩影。这在第三段第一句“男女合校确实能给孩子们提供一个社会真实的缩影。”下面的内容都是围绕这个主题而写的具体情况。如：生活在一起，彼此了解，对比等。 A. 社会。C.一种真实的生活。D.真实的社会情况。都没有B项那样确切。 3.C 为未来公民在社会上拥有一席之地，准备好所需要的一切。这在第二段“这个话题的讨论必然会引出教育目的的问题。把各种知识塞

23、进孩子头脑远不是教育主要的目的，教育的主要目的之一是为未来公民在成人社会求得一席之地，准备好所需一切。” A. 学生学到只是。B.以科技武装未来公民。C.为学生缺德学术成就。都只是知识学习的一个部分。 4.B 几年学校共同生活打消了幻想。答案在第四段中,“在学校中，几年生活在一起消除这一类的幻想。没有什么脸上有雀斑，梳着鞭子，涂着指甲，尖的噪音的女神，也没有膝部有疙瘩，指甲脏兮兮，头发乱蓬蓬的浪漫英雄。棘手的青春期明显呈现出来的成长过程中身体上和感情上的问题，在男女合校环境中得到很好的解决。” A. 他们生活在一起，彼此太了解。此答案太过，不是太了解而不产生幻想，而是了解情况；真人就在眼前，人

24、就实际了，消除了幻想。C. 合校鼓励他们对生活有一种健康积极的态度。这是合校的大方向，不是消除幻想的根本原因。D. 他们熟悉彼此的问题。不全是消除幻想之因，而是处理问题的前奏。这在最后一段最后两句话有说明“当学生离校的时刻来到时，他们已是很有适应性的成人，为进入社会做好了充分准备。他们已有几年处理面临男女的许多问题的经验。”Passage ThreeThe internet, e-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. In the future, capitalist markets will la

25、rgely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, contractual arrangements and access rights.Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new internet and business-to-business internet services being

26、 introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOs and corporate executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, “No, quite contrary.” The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a “technological renaissance” say th

27、ey are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civil in their dealings with colleagues and friendsnot to mention strangers. And whats more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing.The techno gur

28、us (领袖) promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Instead, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape.If an earlier generation was preoccupied with

29、the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the .com generation, it seems, is more caught up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell

30、phones, our 24-hour interact news and entertainment all seize for our attention.And while we have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proli

31、feration of labor-and-time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of commodified activity around us. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each others electronic messages. The cell phone is a

32、 great time-saver, except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants our attention.Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyper speed culture is making all

33、of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect?Maybe we need to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. If this new technology revolution is only about hyper efficiency, then we risk losing something even

34、precious than timeour sense of what it means to be a caring human being.1. According to the passage, corporate executives think that A technology renaissance should be pushed forward. B technology has a profound impact on their lives. C technology actually results in a decline in their life quality.

35、 D technology should be aggressively championed.2. Which of the following is NOT true? A Technology was supposed to free people. B The .com generation became slaves of technology. C New technologies occupy much of our time. D It is difficult to avoid the influence of technology wonders.3. What is th

36、e most valuable resource for the .com generation? A Technological wonders. B Access to information. C Time. D Time saving devices.4. In the sixth paragraph, the author implied that A social conservatives blamed the loss of morality on technology. B the .com generation was less civil than the earlier

37、 generations. C the hyper speed culture led to the decline in civility. D technology might make people less impatient.5. An appropriate title for the passage might be A The New Internet Life. B The Drawbacks of too Much Access. C The Failure of Technological Renaissance. D The Declining Quality of L

38、ife.本文讲述了科技带来的负面影响。第l段指出网络、电子商务和全球化使新的经济时代成为可能；第2段作者通过调查指出新科技给 人们的生活带来的负面影响；第3-6段分析科技从哪些方面影响人们的生活；第7段表明了作者的看法一味追求高效率的科技也许会使人们丧失比时间更宝贵的 东西。1C细节判断题。根据corporate executives定位到第2段。从每个人的回答“没有，正好相反”可推断C正确；公司经理们的回答和接下来讲到的时间更长，压力更大，更不耐烦等等可 知他们要强调的是科技给他们带来的负面影响，故A、B、D都可排除。2B细节判断题。从第3段可知A中的free是文中liberate的同义替换

39、，故A不选；第3段说到网络生活开始奴役我们。但并不是说网络一代变成了技术的奴隶，故B错误，为正确答案；从Instead 可推知，技术专家们向人们保证“使生活变得更方便，节省更多的时间”的诺言没有实现，相反科技的进步占用了人们更多的时间，C、D的说法是正确的。3C细节判断题。根据resource定位到第4段第2句。第2句明确指出，各种业务占据了我们的闲暇时光，时问反倒成了最稀少的资源，故选C。4D细节推断题。第6段最后一个疑问旬“是不是这种高速文化使大家失去了耐心，不愿意倾听、服从，不愿意深思熟虑?”由此可知D正确。该段第l 句指明社会保守派将人们变得没有礼貌归咎于道德规范和宗教价值的沦丧故A错

40、误；B项是社会保守派的观点，故排除；C“高速文化导致了文明的沦丧”这与该 段最后一句是有出入的，故C也可排除。5B主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了新的科技革命本着为人类节约时间、节约能量的宗旨，但事实上却 给人们带来了很多的负面影响，使人们更加忙碌不堪。A“新的网络生活”太过笼统；C“科技复兴的失败”，不符合文意；D “生活质量的下降”这只是第2段公司经理们的观点，过于片面，故选B。Passage FourOpen up most fashion magazines and you will see incredibly thin models with impossible hair and we

41、aring unreasonably expensive, impracticably styled clothes. But shouldnt clothes be comfortably durable and make a principle of being simple for the individual who wears them? Why are we constantly told that we need to buy new clothes and add fresh pieces to our collection?Fashions change year after

42、 year so lots of people can make piles of money. If folks are convinced that they need a different look each season, that this years sweaters length and shoes style are important, they can be persuaded to buy. The fashion industry would have you ignore your shortcomings and just make you feel beauti

43、ful and happy. In fact it is not only a phenomenon we can find in peoples dressing.Fashion controls our lives. Fashion controls what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, the way we cut our hair, the makeup we buy and use, the color of the cars we drive. Fashion even controls our ideas. You dont beli

44、eve me? How many of your friends are vegetarians? Why are they vegetarians? Because it is fashionable!Where does fashion come from? Often the reasons are quite logical. Scientists and historians study the fashions of the past and discover the secrets of each fashion.When girls see an attractive guy,

45、 their blood pressure rises and their lips become redder. Thats why guys think that girls wearing lipstick are beautiful.Why do guys shave their heads? In the past soldiers shaved their heads to kill the insects that lived in their hair. Now guys shave their heads so that they look strong and mascul

46、ine, like soldiers.People spend a lot of time and money on fashion. But are they wasting their money? Changes in fashion help to develop new technologies. Changes in style create work for people all over the world. Many people work in the fashion industry, particularly in the fashion capitals of Lon

47、don, New York, Paris and Milan.And finally, fashion makes you feel good, doesnt it? When you are dressed in the latest style, dancing to the most fashionable music, after watching the latest hit film, you feel great, dont you?1. Whats the authors viewpoint about the models and their hairstyles and clothes? A Unbiased. B Indifferent. C Critical. D Appreciative.2. It is indicated by the author that clothes should be A comfortable a