2016考研英语二考前终极预测题及答案解析（一）.docVIP

考生注意事项 　　1.考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。 　　(1)考生在考试开考15分钟后不得入场。 　　(2)交卷出场时间不得早于考试结束前30分钟。 　　(3)交卷结束后，不得再进考场续考，也不得在考场附近逗留或交谈。 　　2.答题前，应按准考证上的有关内容填写答题卡上的“考生姓名”“报考单位”“考生编号”　等信息。 　　3.答案必须按要求填涂或写在指定的答题卡上。 　　(1)填涂部分应该按照答题卡上的要求用2B铅笔完成。如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。 　　(2)书写部分必须用(蓝)黑色字迹钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔在答题卡上作答。字迹要清楚。 　　4.考试结束后，将答题卡装入原试卷袋中，试卷交给监考人员。 　　Section Ⅰ Use of English 　　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) 　　While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harm-ful 1 is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology. 　　The similarity between disease organisms and personal devices is 2 . Viruses and other para- sites control larger organisms, 3 resources in order to multiply and spread. Smartphones and other gadgets do the same thing, 4 ever-increasing amounts of human attention and electricity sup- plied 5 wire umbilici. 　　It is tempting to 6 a “strategy” to both phages and phablets, neither of which is sentient. 7 , the process is evolutionary, consisting of many random evolutions, 8 experimented with by many product designers. This makes it all the more powerful. 　　Tech 9 occurs through actively-learnt responses, or “operant conditioning” as animal be haviourists call it. The scientific parallel here also involves a rodent, typically a rat, which occupies a 10 cage called a Skinner Box. The animal is 11 with a food pellet for solving puzzles and punished with an electric shock when it fails. 　　“Are we getting a positive boost of hormones when we 12 look at our phone, seeking re- wards?” asks David Shuker, an animal behaviourist at St Andrews university, sounding a little like a man withholding serious scientific endorsement 13 an idea that a journalist had in the shower. Re- search is needed, he says. Tech tycoons would meanwhile 14 that the popularity of mobile devices is attributed to the brilliance of their designs. Thi