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      Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
      Part A
      Directions:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
      Text1
      A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys. People art actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured people’s control. Which is it at stress marker. While they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge。
      “Further contradicting conventional wisdom we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home” writes one of the researchers. Sarah Damaske In fact women say they feel better at work. She notes. “it is men not women. Who report being happier at home than at work” Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without but more so for non parents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health。
      What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when they’ re at home whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. For many men the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay home they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the blurring of roles and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women it’ s not surprising that women are more stressed at home。
      But it’s not just a gender thing. At work people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing: working making money doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income. The bargain is very pure: Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life-sustaining moola。
      On the home front however people have no such clarity. Rare is the household in which the division of labor is so clinically and methodically laid out. There are a lot of tasks to be done there are inadequate rewards for most of them. Your home colleagues-your family-have no clear rewards for their labor; they need to be talked into it or if they’ re teenagers threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices. Plus they’ re your family. You cannot fire your family. You never really get to go home from home。
      So it’s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite the co-workers are much harder to motivate。
      21.According to Paragraph 1,most previous surveys found that home___________
      [A]was an un realistic place for relaxation
      [B]generated more stress than the workplace
      [C]was an ideal plac efor stress measurement
      [D]offered greater relaxation than the workplace
      22.According to Damaske,who are likely to be the happiest at home?
      [A]Working mothers
      [B]Childless husbands
      [C] Childless wives
      [D]Working fathers
      23 The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that___________
      [A]they are both breadwinners and housewives
      [B]their home is also a place for kicking back
      [C]there is often much housework left behind
      [D]it is difficult for them to leave their office
      24.The word “moola”(Line4,Para 4)most probably means___________
      [A]energy
      [B]skills
      [C]earnings
      [D]nutrition
      25.The home front differs from the workplace in that_____________
      [A]home is hardly a cozier working environment
      [B]division of labor at home is seldom clear-cut
      [C]household tasks are generally more motivating
      [D]family labor is often adequately rewarded
      答案:
      Text 1
      21 答案D offered greater relaxation than the workplace
      解析:细节题。精读题干,划出关键词 Paragraph 1,previous surveys,home。根据题干回到原文精确定位到第1句。首句提出“最新研究表明,与大部分研究相反,人们在家比在公司的压力更大”。说明之前的研究与新研究不同,题干问previous surveys,因此之前的研究是公司比家里的压力大。
      22 答案B childless husbands
      解析:细节题。精读题干,划出关键词大写人物D,问家里谁最幸福。根据题干回文定位到第二段后半部分“It is men…report being happier”,因此男性更幸福。接下来,“but more so for nonparents”。因此答案为没有孩子的丈夫。
      23 答案A they are both bread winners and housewives
      解析:细节题。题干提出“the blurring of working women’s roles”,根据题干定位到第三段后半部分“the blurring of roles”,指代前面两句话“For women who stay home……..And for women who work outside the home”。根据原文定位句信息,得出女性既要忙工作又要忙家务。
      24.答案 C earnings 这是一道词义句意题,定位在第四段第二句,At work,people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.在工作中,人们清楚地知道他们该做什么,工作,赚钱,为了得到收入完成他们必须要做的工作。这与划线单词相对应,employee draws out life-sustaining moola 和draw an income相对应,所以moola是earnings同义。
      25.答案 B division of labor at home is seldom-clear-cut 这是一道因果细节题,答案定位在第五段首句,On the home front, however, people have no such clarity.然而,对于家庭,人们并不是很清楚。no such clarity与seldom-clear-cut 相对应。
      Text 2
      For years studies have found that first-generation college students-those who do not have a parent with a college degree-lag other students on a range of education achievement factors. Their grades are lower and their dropout rates are higher. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them. This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students but then watching many of them fail means that higher education has “continued to reproduce and widen rather than close” achievement gap based on social class according to the depressing beginning of a paper forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science。
      But the article is actually quite optimistic as it outlines a potential solution to this problem suggesting that an approach(which involves a one-hour next-to-no-cost program)can close 63 percent of the achievement gap(measured by such factors as grades)between first-generation and other students。
      The authors of the paper are from different universities and their findings are based on a study involving 147 students(who completed the project)at an unnamed private university. First generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree Most of the first-generation students(59.1percent) were recipients of Pell Grants,a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need,while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree
      Their thesis-that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact-was based on the view that first-gene ration students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap。
      Many first-generation students’ struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education,learn the rules of the game, and take advantage of college resources” they write And this becomes more of a problem when collages don’t talk about the class advantage and disadvantages of different groups of students Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students’ educational experience,many first-gene ration students lack sight about why they are struggling and do not understand how students’ like them can improve
      26. Recruiting more first-generation students has
      [A]reduced their dropout rates
      [B]narrowed the achievement gap
      [C] missed its original purpose
      [D]depressed college students
      27 The author of the research article are optimistic because
      [A]the problem is solvable
      [B]their approach is costless
      [q the recruiting rate has increased
      [D]their finding appeal to students
      28 The study suggests that most first-gene ration students
      [A]study at private universities
      [B]are from single-parent families
      [q are in need of financial support
      [D]have failed their collage
      29. The author of the paper believe that first-generation students
      [A]are actually indifferent to the achievement gap
      [B]can have a potential influence on other students
      [C] may lack opportunities to apply for research projects
      [D]are inexperienced in handling their issues at college
      30.We may infer from the last paragraph that――
      [A]universities often r~ect the culture of the middle-class
      [B]students are usually to blame for their lack of resources
      [C]social class greatly helps en rich educational experiences
      [D]colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question
      T2:
      26. 答案 C missed its original purpose 细节题 定位在首段末句,This has created “a paradox” in that recruiting first-generation students but then watching many of them fail means that higher education has“continued to reproduce and widen rather than close” achievement gap.文中说雇佣第一代大学生然后看着他们失败,这是一种自相矛盾的事,这意味着更进一步的教育不断扩大了而不是缩小了这种差距。C选项是此句话的概括,也就是招聘第一代大学没能达到其最初的目的。
      27. 答案 A the problem is solvable 因果细节题 定位在二段首句, But the article is actually quite optimistic as it outlines a potential solution to this problem...文章相当乐观因为它给出了可能解决这一问题的办法,as后就是文章乐观的原因,it outlines a potential solution to this problem与A选项同意替换。
      28. 答案C are in need of financial support 细节题 定位在三段第三句 Most of the first-generation students (59.1percent) were recipients of Pell Grant, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need... with financial need..与选项C同意替换
      29. 答案D are inexperienced in handling their issues at college 细节题 定位在四段首句后半句 ....first-generation students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students. 第一代大学生缺少的不是潜力,而是在处理大多数大学生面对的问题时的实际的常识。but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students与选项D同意替换
      30. 答案 D colleges are partly responsible for the problem in question 段落推断题 定位在末段第三句 Because US colleges and universities seldom acknowledge how social class can affect students’ educational experience....因为美国一些学院和大学很少承认社会阶级对学生教育经历的影响,所以。。。这就意味着学校应该为目前的问题负部分责任,与选项D相对应。
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      Text3
      Even in traditional offices,“the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago,"said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn She started spinning off examples。“If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990,we would see much less frequent use of terms like Journey mission passion. There were goals,there were strategies,there were objectives,but we didn’t talk about energy;we didn’t talk about passion。”
      Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabulary is very “team”-oriented-and not by coincidence。“Let’s not forget sDorts-in male-dominated corporate America,it’s still a big deal. It’s not explicitly conscious;it’s the idea that I’m a coach,and you’re my team,and we’re in this together. There are lots and lots of CEOs in very different companies,but most think of themselves as coaches and this is their team and they want to win"。
      These terms a re also intended to infuse work with meaning-and,as Khurana points out,increase allegiance to the firm。“You have the importation of terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit organizations and religious organizations:Terms like vision,values,passion,and purpose,”said Khurana
      This new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance The “mommy wars” of the 1990s a re still going on today prompting arguments about why women still can't have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In,whose title has become a buzzword in its own right. Terms like unplug,offline,life-hack,bandwidth,and capacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home But if your work is your “passion” you’ll be more likely to devote yourself to it,even if that means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bed
      But this seems to be the irony of office speak:Everyone makes fun of it,but manage rs love it,companies depend on it,and regular people willingly absorb it As Nunberg said,“You can get people to think it’s nonsense at the same time that you buy into it。” In a workplace that’s fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work-and how your work defines who you are
      31. According to NancyKoehn office language has become________
      [A]more e motional
      [B]more objective
      [C]less energetic
      [D]less energetic
      [E]less strategic
      32.“team”-oriented corporate vocabulary is closely related to________
      [A]historical incidents
      [B]gender difference
      [C]sports culture
      [D]athletic executives
      33.Khurana believes that the importation of terminology aims to________
      [A]revive historical terms
      [B]promote company image
      [C]foster corporate cooperation
      [D]strengthen employee loyalty
      34.It can be inferred that Lean In_________
      [A]voices for working women
      [B]appeals to passionate workaholics
      [C]triggers debates among mommies
      [D]praises motivated employees
      35.Which of the following statements is true about office speak?
      [A]Managers admire it but avoid it
      [B]Linguists believe it to be nonsense
      [C]Companies find it to be fundamental
      [D]Regular people mock it but accept it
      T3
      31 答案A more emotional
      解析:细节题。根据题干关键词NancyKoehn及office language定位,找到第一段的Nancy Koehn引号里的那句话the lingua franca…gotten much more emotional and much more bright-brained.选项A中的more emotional即完全符合原文。
      32 答案 C sports culture
      解析:细节题。题干中出现team-oriented corporate vocabulary,根据该信息回到第二段定位,提到it’s the idea that ‘m a coach...team…but most…coaches…team.,都是与运动有关的信息,与选项进行匹配,恰当是运动文化。
      33 答案D strengthen employee loyalty
      解析:细节题。题干出现大写任命Khurana,并出现普通名词importation of terminology定位到第三段Khurana说的那句话…non-profit… and religious…vision, values, passion,…purpose,及下文第四段首句提到personal fulfillment…keep employees motived….,这些均是职员的道德有关,因此对应答案D加强员工的忠诚感。
      34 答案A voices for working women
      解析:推理题。根据题干中的Lean In大写字母,定位到第四段第二句,arguments about why women still can’t have it all and books…Lean In,因此Lean In肯定是与女性有关的书籍且与工作有关,对应答案A 工作女性的呼唤,是对原文的同义替换。
      35 答案C companies find it to be fundamental
      解析:细节判断题。根据题干office speak及段落定位原则,定位到最后一段第一句,发现首句出现句间转折But,及句内转折but,因此后一个but更重要,提到but managers love it, companies depend on it。对应选项即为C 公司觉得它是基础性的,很重要。此外,该段最后一句话又提到了此点很重要。
      Text4
      Many people talked of the 288000new jobs the Labor Department reported for Jure along with the drop in the unemployment take to 6 J percent. at good news. And they were right. For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace. We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace。
      However there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked. There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time. This figure is now 830000(44 percent)above its year ago level。
      Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare it is worth making an important distinction. Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs. They take part-time work because this is all they can get. An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will behaving a very hard time making ends meet。
      There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June but the general direction has been down. Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession but it is down by 640000(7.9 percent)from its year ago level。
      We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us. The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35hours in the reference week. If the answer is “yes。”they are classified as working part-time. The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice. They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week。
      The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment. For many people especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance。
      However Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families. With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance。
      36. Which part of the jobs picture was neglected?
      A. The prospect of a thriving job market。
      B. The increase of voluntary part-time jobs。
      C. The possibility of full employment。
      D. The acceleration of job creation。
      37. Many people work part-time because they
      A. prefer part-time jobs to full-time jobs
      B. feel that is enough to make ends meet
      C. cannot get their hands on full-time jobs
      D. haven' t seen the weakness of the market
      38. Involuntary part-time employment in the US
      A. is harder to acquire than one year ago
      B. shows a general tendency of decline
      C. satisfies the real need of the jobless
      D. is lower than before the recession
      39. It can be learned that with Obamacare 。
      A. it is no longer easy for part-timers to get insurance
      B. employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance
      C. it is still challenging to get insurance for family members
      D. full-time employment is still essential for insurance
      40. The text mainly discusses 。
      A. employment in the US
      B. part-timer classification
      C. insurance through Medicaid
      D. Obamacare’s trouble
      T4
      36 B The increase of voluntary part-time jobs. 细节题定位到第二段第一句和第二句However, there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked. 第二句there was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part time. 选项B是文章内容的同义替换。
      37 C cannot get their hands on full-time jobs.细节题定位到第三段的第三句话they take part-time work because this is all they can get.可见C选项是文章内容的同义替换。
      38. B: shows a general tendency of decline 细节题根据题干关键词involuntary part-time employment in the US定位到原文第四段,转折词但是总的方向是在下降。同意替换答案B,总的趋势是在下降。
      39. B employment is no longer a precondition to get insurance 推断题根据题干关键词obamacare,定位到原文第6段第一句,自愿做兼职工作的问题与奥巴马的医疗政策有关,因为一个主要原因是允许人们在就业之外得到保险,同意替换答案就业不再是得到保险的一个前提。
      40 B part-timer classification 主旨题本文主要讲美国人现在选择兼职工作人群分类,并分析其原因。首先,因为全职工作不好找,就业率总体还是在下降;另外,美国人是被迫选择兼职工作;最后,与奥巴马的的医疗政策有关,就业不再是得到保险的一个前提。
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