2018考研英語閱讀理解練習
閱讀理解是考研英語中的重點題型,爲了幫助大家練習,小編整理了一些考研英語閱讀理解試題,希望能幫到大家!
閱讀練習【1】It’s plain common sense—the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience. It’s plain common sense, but it’s not true. Recent research reveals that happiness and unhappiness are not really two sides of the same emotion. They are two distinct feelings that, coexisting, rise and fall independently.
People might think that the higher a person’s level of unhappiness, the lower their level of happiness and vice versa. But when researchers measure people’s average levels of happiness and unhappiness, they often find little relationship between the two.
The recognition that feelings of happiness and unhappiness can co-exist much like love and hate in a close relationship may offer valuable clues on how to lead a happier life. It suggests, for example, that changing or avoiding things that make you miserable may well make you less miserable, but probably won’t make you any happier. That advice is backed up by an extraordinary series of studies which indicate that a genetic predisposition for unhappiness may run in certain families. On the other hand, researchers have found happiness doesn’t appear to be anyone’s heritage. The capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.
Psychologists have settled on a working definition of the feeling—happiness is a sense of subjective well-being. They have also begun to find out who’s happy, who isn’t and why. To date, the research hasn’t found a simple formula for a happy life, but it has discovered some of the actions and attitudes that seem to bring people closer to that most desired of feelings.
Why is unhappiness less influenced by environment? When we are happy, we are more responsive to people and keep up connections better than when we are feeling sad. This doesn’t mean, however, that some people are born to be sad and that’s that. Genes may predispose one to unhappiness, but disposition can be influenced by personal choice. You can increase your happiness through your own actions.
1. According to the text, it is true that
[A] unhappiness is more inherited than affected by environment.
[B] happiness and unhappiness are mutually conditional.
[C] unhappiness is subject to external more than internal factors.
[D] happiness is an uncontrollable subjective feeling.
2. The author argues that one can achieve happiness by
[A] maintaining it at an average level.
[B] escaping miserable occurrences in life.
[C] pursuing it with one’s painstaking effort.
[D] realizing its coexistence with unhappiness.
3. The phrase “To date” (Para. 4) can be best replaced by
[A] As a result.
[B] In addition.
[C] At present.
[D] Until now.
4. What do you think the author believes about happiness and unhappiness?
[A] One feels unhappy owing to his miserable origin.
[B] They are independent but existing concurrently
[C] One feels happy by participating in more activities.
[D] They are actions and attitudes taken by human beings.
5. The sentence “That’s that” (Para. 5) probably means: Some people are born to be sad
[A] and the situation cannot be altered.
[B] and happiness remains inaccessible.
[C] but they don’t think much about it.
[D] but they remain unconscious of it.
參考答案:A C D B A
閱讀練習【2】The Wall Street Journal has continued as the world’s most credible news source and one that refused to conform to the passing prejudice and error of the journalistic herd. Naturally the Journal receives ongoing abuse from the herd for its distressing independence. Yet, rarely is the criticism straightforward but rather an assault on the conservatism of the Journal’s editorial page, which strikes conformist journalists as an insult and is the real cause of the herd’s distress. Rather the criticism focuses on the Journal’s bottom line, its sluggish share price, and rumors that the family controlling the paper, the Bancroft family, is unhappy and about to sell it.
The rumors of the Bancrofts’ unhappiness are all highly exaggerated and quickly refuted. For this proud family whose ancestor, Clarence W. Barron, purchased the Journal and with it the Dow Jones news service in 1902 conceives of its ownership as a “public trust.” That is how Roy A. Hammer, a lawyer and trustee for the entities through which the Bancrofts control the paper, described their sense of ownership. This is not so unusual. Great newspapers have always played a major role in American civic life. I said “great newspapers,” serious newspapers, the kind that put gathering news ahead of sensationalism.
Most of the truly profitable newspapers in the country today are essentially shopping circulars with some cheap journalism printed on those pages not devoted to shopping mall sales. The great newspaper chains take over local papers, fire journalists, and set out to fill their pages with still more advertisements. Well, they supply a service. They let readers know about the price, say, of chicken at the Giant or snow tires at the CVS. But fewer and fewer local newspapers supply much news and analysis. Great newspapers do, and not one that I know of makes a vast amount of money.
Great newspapers do help to set the agenda for the nation. They break stories of corruption or on other vital matters. One of the few things I find admirable about the New York Times is that its controlling family, the Sulzberger family, is not intent on squeezing every penny of profit out of its flagship paper. Thus last week when I read a long critique in the Times of the Wall Street Journal’s management for its sluggish financial performance, I discovered hypocrisy.
The hypocrisy is all the greater coming from liberals who are criticizing conservatives for their alleged devotion the “Almighty Dollar.” Profits are essential to all businesses. For one thing they are a very accurate poll of the populace’s tastes, but there are other services some corporations supply to society. Both the Journal and the Times supply—at too high a cost—information that enlightens the citizenry.
1. The journalistic herd’s distress is caused by the Wall Street Journal’s _____.
[A] credibility [B] prejudice [C] conformism [D] professionalism
2. The Bancroft family purchased the Wall Street Journal to _____.
[A] sell it for a higher price [B] promote the Dow Jones news service
[C] dominate the great newspapers chains [D] influence American civic life
3. It can be inferred from the passage that great newspapers _____ .
[A] have to engage in a form of sensationalism [B] make a bigger profit than local papers
[C] supply much news and analysis [D] refuse to accept the error of the journalistic herd
4. The author says “I discovered hypocrisy” (Last line, Paragraph 4), because _____ .
[A] the Times was involved in corruption [B] the Times was becoming profit-driven
[C] the Times was attacking the Journal [D] the Journal was in financial difficulty
5. The author seems to believe that all the newspapers should _____.
[A] maxmize the profit [B] satisfy the public’s tastes [C] provide social services [D] inform the readers at a high cost
參考答案:1.C 2.D 3.C 4.B 5.C
相關文章
-
2018考研英語閱讀理解練習題
引導語:爲了幫助大家更好地準備考研,以下是本站小編爲大家整理的2018考研英語閱讀理解練習題,歡迎閱讀! 練習一People do not analyze every problem they meet。 Sometimes they try to remember a solution from the -
2018考研英語閱讀理解練習試題
英語閱讀理解算是比較難搞的.一個題型,下面是小編整理的一些考研英語閱讀理解題,希望能幫到大家! 考研英語閱讀理解【1】The author of some forty novels, a number of plays, volumes of verse, historical, criti -
2018年考研英語閱讀理解模擬練習題
《魯濱孫漂流記》作者是英國人笛福。小說採用第一人稱的寫法,描寫了出身於商人之家的魯濱孫,不甘過平庸的生活,一心向往着充滿冒險與挑戰的海外生活,於是私自離家出海航行,去實現遨遊世界的夢想,但每次都歷盡艱險。小說第一 -
2017年考研英語閱讀理解專項練習題與解析
閱讀理解 text 1 廣告業是美國經濟的晴雨表WhenRupert Murdoch sees beams of light in the American advertising market, it isnot necessarily time to reach for the sunglasses. Last October, when t -
2017考研英語一閱讀理解練習試題
炎炎夏日列日當頭。正是因爲有這樣的環境,正激起了我要在暑假參加實習的決心。也想通過親身體驗社會實踐讓自己更進一步瞭解社會,在實踐中增長見識,鍛鍊自己的才幹,培養自己的韌性,更爲重要的是檢驗一下自己所學的東西能否 -
2017年考研英語閱讀理解練習試題
考研英語一試題只分爲了三個部分,第二個部分就是閱讀理解。下面是小編整理的一些考研英語閱讀理解試題,歡迎閱讀! Part AText 1France, which prides itself as the global innovator of fashion, has decided its f -
2018考研英語閱讀理解分塊閱讀
分塊閱讀是看一道題再讀相應的內容嗎,之前用整體讀一遍嗎?以下是小編整理的關於考研英語閱讀理解分塊閱讀,希望大家認真閱讀! 考研英語閱讀理解分塊閱讀(1)大致記下第一題的題幹信息(不是選項信息);(2)開始閱讀第一 -
2018年考研英語閱讀理解專練「附答案」
俗話說得閱讀者得英語,因此可以看出考研英語閱讀的重要性,以下是本站小編搜索整理的一份考研英語閱讀理解專練【附答案】,供參考練習,希望對大家有所幫助!想了解更多相關信息請持續關注我們應屆畢業生考試網! Text 1Pr -
2018考研英語閱讀理解專項複習技巧
考研英語閱讀是英語考試的重頭戲,不僅所佔的分值高,難度大,還是比較拉分的一項,因此大家比較重視閱讀,那麼應該怎麼複習效果纔會好呢?爲幫大家更好的備考,小編爲大家分享一篇考研英語閱讀複習計劃,希望大家可以參考。 一 -
2018年專四英語考試閱讀理解練習
A fair face may hide a foul heart.以下是小編爲大家搜索整理的2018年專四英語考試閱讀理解練習,希望能給大家帶來幫助!更多精彩內容請及時關注我們應屆畢業生考試網!People have been painting pictures for at leas