考研2015英语（二）真题.pdfVIP

新东方在线考研英语讲义 2015年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语(二)试题 Section ⅠUse 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) ① In our contemporary culture, the prospect of communicating with—or even looking at—a stranger is virtually unbearable. ② Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they cling to their phones, even without a 1 on a subway. ① It ’s a sad reality—our desire to avoid interacting with other human beings—because there ’s 2 to be gained from talking to the stranger standing by you. ② But you wouldn ’t know it, 3 into your phone. ③This universal protection sends the 4 : “Please don ’t approach me.” ①What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens? ① One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, an executive mental coach. ② We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as “weird.”③We fear we ’ll be 7 . ④We fear we ’ll be disruptive. ①Strangers are inherently 8 to us, so we are more likely to feel 9 when communicating with them compared with our friends and acquaintances. ② To avoid this uneasiness, we 10 to our phones. ③ “Phones become our security blanket,” Wortmann says. ④“They are our happy glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 .” ① But once we rip off the band-aid, tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up, it doesn ’t 12 so bad. ② In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13 . ③They had Chicago train commuters talk to their fellow 14 . ④“ When Dr. Epley and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same