2014年考研英语一真题完整版答案解析.pdf

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1、欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！2014年考研英语真题完整版答案解析2014年考研英语真题答案解析Directions:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)As many people hit middle age,they often start to notice that their memory and mental c

2、larity are not what they used to be.We suddenly cant remember _1_ we put the keys just a moment ago,or an old acquaintances name,or the name of anold band we used to love.As the brain _2_,we refer to these occurrences as“senior moments.”_3_seeminglyinnocent,this loss of mental focus can potentially

3、have a(n)_4_ impact on our professional,social,and personal_5_.Neuroscientists,experts who study the nervous system,are increasingly showing that theres actually a lot that can be done.It _6_ out that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do,and the right mental _7_ cansignifican

4、tly improve our basic cognitive _8_.Thinking is essentially a _9_ of making connections in the brain.Toa certain extent,our ability to _10_ in making the connections that drive intelligence is inherited._11_,becausethese connections are made through effort and practice,scientists believe that intell

5、igence can expand and fluctuate_12_ mental effort.Now,a new Web-based company has taken it a step _13_ and developed the first“brain training program”designed toactually help people improve and regain their mental _14_.The Web-based program _15_ you to systematically improve your memory and attentio

6、n skills.The program keeps_16_ of your progress and provides detailed feedback _17_ your performance and improvement.Most importantly,it _18_modifies and enhances the games you play to _19_ on the strengths you are developingmuch like a(n)_20_exercise routine requires you to increase resistance and

7、vary your muscle use.1.Awhere Bwhen Cthat Dwhy2.Aimproves Bfades Crecovers Dcollapses3.AIf BUnless COnce DWhile4.Auneven Blimited Cdamaging Dobscure5.Awellbeing Benvironment Crelationship Doutlook6.Aturns Bfinds Cpoints Dfigures7.Aroundabouts Bresponses Cworkouts Dassociations8.Agenre Bfunctions Cci

8、rcumstances Dcriterion9.Achannel Bcondition Csequence Dprocess10.Apersist Bbelieve Cexcel Dfeature11.A Therefore B Moreover C Otherwise D However12.Aaccording to Bregardless of Capart from Dinstead of13.Aback Bfurther Caside Daround14.Asharpness Bstability Cframework Dflexibility15.Aforces Breminds

9、Churries Dallows16.Ahold Btrack Corder Dpace17.Ato Bwith Cfor Don18.Airregularly Bhabitually Cconstantly Dunusually19.Acarry Bput Cbuild Dtake欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！20.Arisky Beffective Cidle DfamiliarSection Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts

10、.Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on theANSWER SHEET.(40 points)Text 1In order to“change lives for the better”and reduce“dependency”George Osborne,C hancellor of the Exchequer,introducedthe“upfront work search”scheme.Only if the jobl ess arrive at the job

11、centre with a CV,register for online job search,andstart looking for work will they be eligible for benefit and then they should report weekly rather than fort nightly.What could bemore reasonable?More apparent reasonableness followed.There will now be a seven-day wait for the j obseekers allowance.

12、“Those first fewdays should be spent looking for work,not looking to sign on.”he claimed.“Were doing these things because we know theyhelp people st ay off benefits and help those on benefits get in to work faster.”Help?Really?On first h earing,this was thesocially concerned chancellor,trying to cha

13、nge lives for the better,co mplete with“reforms”to an obviously indulgent systemthat demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work,and subsidises laziness.What motivated him,we we reto understand,was his zeal for“fundamental fairness”protecting the taxpayer,control ling spending a

14、nd ensuring that onlythe most deserving claimants received their benefits.Losing a job is hu rting:you dont skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your h eart,delighted at the prospect of doublingyour income from the generous state.It is fina ncially terrifying,psychologically embarrassing and yo

15、u know that support isminimal and extraordinarily hard to get.You are now not wanted;you support is minimal and extraord inarily hard to get.Youare now not wanted;you are now excluded from the work envir onment that offers purpose and structure in your life.Worse,the crucial income to feed y ourself

16、 and your family and pay the bills has disappeared.Ask anyone newly unemployed whatthey want and the answer is always:a job.But in Osborneland,your first instinct is to fall into dependency permanent depen dency if you can get it supported by astate only too ready to indulge your falsehood.It is as

17、though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefitadministra tion system never happened.The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can in sure yourself against therisk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.Even the very phrase“jobse

18、ekersallowance”invented in 1996 is about redefining the unemployed as a“jobseeker”who had no mandatory right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.Instead,the clai mant receives a time-limited“allowance,”conditional on actively seeking a job;no entitle men

19、t and no insurance,at 71.70 a week,one of the leastgenerous in the EU.21.George Osbor nes scheme was intended toAprovide the unemployed with easier access to benefits.Bencourage jobseekers active engagement in job seeking.Cmotivate the unemployed to report voluntarily.Dguarantee jobseekers legitimat

20、e right to benefits.22.The phrase,“to sign on”(Line 3,Para.2)most probably meansAto check on the availability of jobs at the jobcentre.Bto accept the governments restrictions on the allowance.Cto register for an allowance from the government.Dto attend a governmental job-training program.23.What pro

21、mpted the chancellor to develop his scheme?AA desire to secure a better life for all.BAn eagerness to protect the unemployed.欢迎您阅读并下载本文档，本文档来源于互联网，如有侵权请联系删除！我们将竭诚为您提供优质的文档！CAn urge to be generous to the claimants.DA passion to ensure fairness for taxpayers.24.According to Paragraph 3,being unemploye

22、d makes one feelAuneasyBenraged.Cinsulted.Dguilty.25.To which of the following would the author most probably agree?AThe British welfare system in dulges jobseekers laziness.BOsbornes reforms will reduce the risk of unemployment.CThe jobseekers allowance has met their actual needs.DUnemployment benefits should not be made conditional.Text 2