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1、阅读理解考研英语二真题 词汇是英语学习的门槛，我发觉身边许多同学之所以对英语不感爱好或者说是惧怕，就是因为起初词汇学习和背单词这块没有驾驭系统科学的学习方法，下文是我为你细心编辑整理的阅读理解考研英语二真题，希望对你有所帮助，更多内容，请点击相关栏目查看，感谢! 阅读理解考研英语二真题1 Text3 Even in traditional offices，"the lingua franca of corporate America has gottenmuch more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 yea

2、rs ago，" said Ha rva rd Business School professor Nancy Koehn She sta rted spinning off examples."If 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 obj

3、ectives，but we didn't talk about energy;we didn't talk about passion." Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabula ry is very "team"-oriented-and not by coincidence."Let's not forget sDorts-in male-dominated corporate America，it's still a big deal. I

4、t's not explicitly conscious;it's the idea that I'm a coach，and you're my team，and we're in this togethec. There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different companies，but most think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win". These terms a re also

5、intended to infuse work with meaning-and，as Khu rana points out，increase allegiance to the firm."You have the importation of terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit organizations and religious organizations：Terms like vision，values，passion，and purpose，"saidKhura

6、na This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance The "mommy wars" of the 1990s a re still going on today, prompting arguments about whywomen still can'thave it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean

7、 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 the home But ifyour work is your "passion," you'II be more likely to devote yourself to it，even ifthat means going ho

8、me for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed But this seems to be the irony of office speak：Everyone makes fun of it，butmanage rs love it，companies depend on it，and regular people willingly absorb itAs Nunberg said，"You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time

9、that you buy into it." In a workplace that's fundamentally indiffe rent to your lifeand its meaning office speak can help you figu re out how you relate to yourwork-and how your work defines who you are 31. According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become_ Amore e motional Bmore objecti

10、ve Cless energetic Dless energetic Eless strategic 32."team"-oriented corporate vocabulary is closely related to_ Ahistorical incidents Bgender difference Csports culture Dathletic executives 33.Khurana believes that the importation of terminology aims to_ Arevive historical terms Bpromote

11、 company image Cfoster corporate cooperation Dstrengthen employee loyalty 34.It can be inferred that Lean In_ Avoices for working women Bappeals to passionate workaholics Ctriggers dcbates among mommies Dpraises motivated employees 35.Which of the following statements is true about office speak? AMa

12、nagers admire it but avoid it BLinguists believe it to be nonsense CCompanies find it to be fundamental DRegular people mock it but accept it 答案： 31.A more emotional 32.C sports culture 33.D strengthen employee loyalty 34.A voices for working women 35.C companies find it to be fundamental 阅读理解考研英语二真

13、题2 Text 3 The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing-Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $l3.5bn,but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn't have any

14、physical product at all. What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed web of its users' friendships and social lives. Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the

15、deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be. What political journalist, what party whip, would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Therea May's enemies are current

16、ly plotting? It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what. Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. But it is clumsy. For one thing, it is very slow compared to t

17、he pace of Change within the digital economy. By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power. But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too. Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantag

18、e to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them. The users of their Services are not their customers. That would be the people who buy advertising from them-and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantag

19、e of all other media and entertainment companies. The product they're selling is data, and we, the users, convert our lives to date for the benefit of the digital giants. Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew the produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data th

20、at our digital lives yield. Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spamme out of our inboxes. It doesn't feel like a human or democratic relationship, even if both sides benefit. 31. According to Paragraph 1, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for its . A digital

21、products B user information C physical assets D quality service 32. Linking phone numbers to Facebook identities may . A worsen political disputes B mess up customer records C pose a risk to Facebook users D mislead the European commission 33. According to the author, competition law . A should seve

22、r the new market powers B may worsen the economic imbalance C should not provide just one legal solution D cannot keep pace with the changing market 34. Competition law as presently interpreted can hardly protect Facebook users because . A they are not defined as customers B they are not financially

23、 reliable C the services are generally digital D the services are paid for by advertisers 35. The ants analogy is used to illustrate . A a win-win business model between digital giants B a typical competition pattern among digital giants C the benefits provided for digital giants customers D the rel

24、ationship between digital giants and their users 阅读理解考研英语二真题3 Text 4 When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband and energy. Housing is seldom mentioned. Why is that? To some extent the housing sector must shoulder the

25、 blame. We have not been good at communicating the real value that housing can contribute to economic growth. Then there is the scale of the typical housing project. It is hard to shove for attention among multibillion-pound infrastructure project, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused e

26、lsewhere. But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged. Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate. Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes. The comprehensive spending review offers an op

27、portunity for the government to help rectify this. It needs to put historical prejudices to one side and take some steps to address our urgent housing need. There are some indications that it is preparing to do just that. The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancell

28、or of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt. Evidence shows that 60,000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the cap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%. Ministers should

29、 also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues. But it is not just down to the government. While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up

30、 to the fact that the existing ?4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2022,is unlikely to be extended beyond then. The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalitions spending plans if returns to power. The housing sector ne

31、eds to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants. We need to adjust to this changing climate. 36. The author believes that the housing sector_ A has attracted much attention B involves certain political factors C shoulders too much responsibility D has lost

32、its real value in economy 37. It can be learned that affordable housing has_ A increased its home supply B offered spending opportunities C suffered government biases D disappointed the government 38. According to Paragraph 5,George Osborne may_. A allow greater government debt for housing B stop lo

33、cal authorities from building homes C prepare to reduce housing stock debt D release a lifted GDP growth forecast 39.It can be inferred that a stable rental environment would_. Alower the costs of registered providers Blessen the impact of government interference Ccontribute to funding new developme

34、nts Drelieve the ministers of responsibilities 40.The author believes that after 2022,the government may_. Aimplement more policies to support housing Breview the need for large-scale public grants Crenew the affordable housing grants programme Dstop generous funding to the housing sector 阅读理解考研英语二真

35、题4 Text 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses. Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms; if we are jud

36、ging whether someone is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hard-wired to react very quickly, within milliseconds. But we need more time to assess other factors. To accurately tell whether someone is sociable, studies show, we need at least a minute, preferably five. It takes a while to judge compl

37、ex aspects of personality, like neuroticism or open-mindedness. But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli arent exclusive to the interpersonal realm. Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster,

38、even though reading has little to do with eating. We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else were doing, Subjects exposed to fast-food flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long. Yet we can reverse such influences. If we

39、know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying. If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants, we ca

40、n help screeners understand their biases-or hire outside screeners. John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly “thin slice” information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in “thick sliced” long-term study. When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will

41、stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a muck longer evaluation; two days, not two seconds. Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: doge can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes. But historically we

42、have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term. Although technology might change the way we react, it hasnt changed our nature. We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the high-speed trend. 31. The time needed in making decisions may_. A var

43、y according to the urgency of the situation B prove the complexity of our brain reaction C depend on the importance of the assessment D predetermine the accuracy of our judgment 32. Our reaction to a fast-food logo shows that snao decisions_. A can be associative B are not unconscious C can be dange

44、rous D are not impulsive 33. Toreverse the negative influences of snap decisions,we should_. A trust our first impression B do as people usually do C think before we act D ask for expert advice 34. John Gottman says that reliable snap reaction are based on_. A critical assessment Bthin sliced study

45、C sensible explanation D adequate information 35. The authors attitude toward reversing the high-speed trend is_. A tolerant B uncertain C optimistic D doubtful 考研英语二本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第19页 共19页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页第 19 页 共 19 页