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2015 年全国研究生入学统一考试英语(二)真题
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 ANSWER SHEET 1(10 points)
In our contemporary culture,the prospect municating with-or even looking at—a
stranger is virtually unbearable Everyone around us seems to agree by the way they fiddle with
their phones,even without a 1 underground
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 strange r standing by you. But you wouldn’t know it, 3 into your
phone. This universal armor sends the 4 :“Please don’t approach me.”
What is it that makes us feel we need to hide 5 our screens?
One answer is fear, according to Jon Wortmann, executive mental coach We fear rejection,
or that our innocent social advances will be 6 as“creep,”We fear we’II be 7 We fear we’II be
disruptive Strangers are inherently 8 to us,so we are more likely to feel 9 municating
with pared with our friends and acquaintances To avoid this anxiety, we 10 to our
phones.“Phones e our security blanket,“Wortmann says.”They are our happy
glasses that protect us from what we perceive is going to be more 11 .”
But once we rip off the bandaid,tuck our smartphones in our pockets and look up,it doesn’t
12 so bad. In one 2011 experiment,behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder
muters to do the unthinkable: Start a 13 . They had Chicago muters talk to
their fellow 14 . "When and Ms. Schroeder asked other people in the same train station
to 15 how they would feel after talking to a stranger, muters thought their 16 would be
more pleasant if they sat on their own," the New York Times summarizes. Though the participants
didn't expect a positive experience, after they 17 with
the experiment, "not a single person reported having been snubbed.”
18 , mutes were reportedly more pared with those sans
communication,