2018考研英语一真题(完整版)精选.pdf

2018 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语(一) 本文由凯程陆老师整理 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and markA, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Trust is a tricky business. On the one hand, its a necessary condition 1 many worthwhile things: child care, friendships, etc. On the other hand, putting your 2 , in the wrong place often carries a high 3 . 4 , why do we trust at all? Well, because it feels good. 5 people place their trust in an individual or an institution, their brains release oxytocin, a hormone that 6 pleasurable feelings and triggers the herding instruct that prompts humans to 7 with one another. Scientists have found that exposure 8 this hormone puts us in a trusting 9 : In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their 10 who inhaled something else. 11 for us, we also have a sixth sense for dishonesty that may 12 us. A Canadian study found that children as young as 14 months can differentiate 13 a credible person and a dishonest one. Sixty “ ’ toddlers were each 14 to an adult tester holding a plastic container. The tester would ask, What s in ” “ ” here? before looking into the container, smiling, and exclaiming, Wow! Each subject was then invited to look 15 . Half of th