PDF《2018 年研究生入学统一考试试题（英语二）》

11 C 解析: 本词与后文的 Basic drives 的详细说明.与shelter 一样都属于人类的基本需求.

12 D 解析:破折号的内容是对前文 instinct 的解释.说明这种本能能够促进新的科学发展,属于 因果关系. 13. B 解析:跟前文的 drives 相对应. 14. A 解析:本题与前文的 backfire 相对应,都属于贬义词. 15. A 解析:从后文的试验中,参与者应该被鼓励参与,因此跟前文的坚持相对应. 16. A 解析:通过后文的 after 能看出这个事情并没有发生,因此填预测. 17. B 解析:动宾搭配. 18:C 解析:of 引导的后置定语.由一个人的好奇心所带来的结果. 19:A 解析:whether 引导宾语从句. 20:D 解析:关联对应,对应

18 题的 outcome. Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points) Text

1 It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future. Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering. He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization, but practical. When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike chain? As Koziatek knows, there is learning in just about everything. Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum. They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle. But he'

s also found a kind of insidious prejudice. Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority. Schools in the family of vocational education have that stereotype, that it'

s for kids who can'

t make it academically, he says. On one hand, that viewpoint is a logical product of America'

s evolution. Manufa........