2018年考研英语二试题与答案解析（完整版）_第2页

　　4. 【答案】C

　　【解析】固定搭配考查。根据原文语境，考查短语____ sb to sth 意为“让某人承受某事”。因此，C选项为正选。

　　5.【答案】 B

　　【解析】根据上文，第二段句首提到in a series of four experiments,说明是在“实验”的语境。结合四个选项，[A]信息[B]实验[C]复习[D]观念，只有B选项和段落语境相符合。因此为正选。

　　6.【答案】 C

　　【解析】动宾搭配。结合语境，“当点击的时候，一半的钢笔会____电流。”根据动宾搭配，本题需要一个动词来搭配电流，考查四个选项，[A]移除[B]削弱[C]传递[D]打扰 A选项更符合语境。

　　7.【答案】 D

　　【解析】时间状语的考查。结合语境，“___被独自留在房间，学生会....”,因此，这是一个非常明显的时间状语从句。正选为D.

　　8. 【答案】A

　　【解析】动词辨析。结合原文语境，由who 引导的定语从句修饰前面的学生，而在定语从句中，又出现由what引导的宾语从句。结合宾语从句的含义，“知道接下来会发生什么”更符合语境。

　　9. 【答案】B

　　【解析】结合语境，后面语境为并列关系，因此此题应填举例子。B为正选。

　　10. 【答案】D

　　【解析】Discover 与上文中的Curiosity 相对应。

　　11 .【答案】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 .【答案】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. 【答案】B

　　【解析】跟前文的drives 相对应。

　　14. 【答案】A

　　【解析】本题与前文的backfire相对应，都属于贬义词。

　　15. 【答案】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. 【答案】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. 【答案】B

　　【解析】动宾搭配。

　　18.【答案】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.【答案】A

　　【解析】whether 引导宾语从句。

　　20.【答案】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.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rigitfully so.

　　But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all -and the subtle devaluing of anything less-misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy neds.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.But even now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.

　　In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.