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1、考研历年英二真题阅读文2021上下文、时间、空间、情景、对象、话语前提等与词汇使用有关的都是语境因素。大家需要留心一点，同个单词在不同的语言环境、抑或和不同的词汇搭配，就有产生不同含义。下文是小编为你精心编辑整理的考研历年英二真题阅读文，希望对你有所帮助，更多内容，请点击相关栏目查看，谢谢!考研历年英二真题阅读文1Text 3The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing-Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocer
2、y chain Whole Foods for $l3.5bn,but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn t have any physical product at all. What WhatsApp offered Facebook was an intricate and finely detailed web of its users friendships and social lives.Facebook pr
3、omised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through. Even without knowing what was in the messages, the knowledge of who sent them and to whom was enormously revealing and still could be. Wh
4、at political journalist, what party whip, would not want to know the makeup of the WhatsApp groups in which Therea May s enemies are currently plotting? It may be that the value of Whole Foods to Amazon is not so much the 460 shops it owns, but the records of which customers have purchased what.Comp
5、etition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power. But it is clumsy. For one thing, it is very slow compared to the pace of Change within the digital economy. By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by ne
6、w abuses of power. But there is a deeper conceptual problem, too. Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don t pay for them. The users of their Services are not their customers. That would be th
7、e people who buy advertising from them-and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.The product they re selling is data, and we, the users, convert our lives to date for the benefit of the digital gia
8、nts. Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew the produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield. Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spamme out of our inboxes. It doesn t feel like a human or demo
9、cratic relationship, even if both sides benefit.31. According to Paragraph 1, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for its .A digital productsB user informationC physical assetsD quality service32. Linking phone numbers to Facebook identities may .A worsen political disputesB mess up customer recordsC pose a
10、risk to Facebook usersD mislead the European commission33. According to the author, competition law .A should sever the new market powersB may worsen the economic imbalanceC should not provide just one legal solutionD cannot keep pace with the changing market34. Competition law as presently interpre
11、ted can hardly protect Facebook users because .A they are not defined as customersB they are not financially reliableC the services are generally digitalD the services are paid for by advertisers35. The ants analogy is used to illustrate .A a win-win business model between digital giantsB a typical
12、competition pattern among digital giantsC the benefits provided for digital giants customersD the relationship between digital giants and their users考研历年英二真题阅读文2Text3Even in traditional offices， the lingua franca of corporate America has gottenmuch more emotional and much more right-brained than it
13、was 20 years ago， said Ha rva rd Business School professor Nancy Koehn She sta rted spinning off examples. If you and I pa rachuted 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 obje
14、ctives，but we didn t talk about energy;we didn t talk about passion. Koehn pointed out that this new era of corporate vocabula ry 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 i
15、dea that I m a coach，and you re my team，and we re in this togethec. 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 Khu rana points out，i
16、ncrease 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， saidKhuranaThis new focus on personal fulfillment can help keep employees motivated
17、amid increasingly loud debates over work-life balance The mommy wars of the 1990s a re still going on today, prompting arguments about whywomen still can thave it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg s Lean In，whose title has become abuzzword in its own right. Terms like unplug，offline，life-hack，bandw
18、idth，andcapacity are all about setting boundaries between the office and the home But ifyour work is your passion, you II be more likely to devote yourself to it，even ifthat means going home for dinner and then working long after the kids are in bedBut this seems to be the irony of office speak：Ever
19、yone makes fun of it，butmanage rs love it，companies depend on it，and regular people willingly absorb itAs Nunberg said， You can get people to think it s nonsense at the same timethat you buy into it. In a workplace that s fundamentally indiffe rent to your lifeand its meaning office speak can help y
20、ou figu re out how you relate to yourwork-and how your work defines who you are31. According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become_Amore e motionalBmore objectiveCless energeticDless energeticEless strategic32. team -oriented corporate vocabulary is closely related to_Ahistorical incidentsBgend
21、er differenceCsports cultureDathletic executives33.Khurana believes that the importation of terminology aims to_Arevive historical termsBpromote company imageCfoster corporate cooperationDstrengthen employee loyalty34.It can be inferred that Lean In_Avoices for working womenBappeals to passionate wo
22、rkaholicsCtriggers dcbates among mommiesDpraises motivated employees35.Which of the following statements is true about office speak?AManagers admire it but avoid itBLinguists believe it to be nonsenseCCompanies find it to be fundamentalDRegular people mock it but accept it考研历年英二真题阅读文3Text 3Scientist
23、s have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms; if we are judging whether someone
24、 is dangerous, our brains and bodies are hard-wired to react very quickly, within milliseconds. But we need more time to assess other factors. To accurately tell whether someone is sociable, studies show, we need at least a minute, preferably five. It takes a while to judge complex aspects of person
25、ality, like neuroticism or open-mindedness.But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli arent exclusive to the interpersonal realm. Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading h
26、as little to do with eating. We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else were doing, Subjects exposed to fast-food flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.Yet we can reverse such influences. If we know we will overreact
27、 to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face (one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling), we can take a moment before buying. If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants, we can help screeners under
28、stand their biases-or hire outside screeners.John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly “thin slice” information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in “thick sliced” long-term study. When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invit
29、es them to his island retreat for a muck longer evaluation; two days, not two seconds.Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: doge can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes. But historically we have spent about 12 perc
30、ent of our days contemplating the longer term. Although technology might change the way we react, it hasnt changed our nature. We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the high-speed trend.31. The time needed in making decisions may_.A vary according to the urgency
31、 of the situationB prove the complexity of our brain reactionC depend on the importance of the assessmentD predetermine the accuracy of our judgment32. Our reaction to a fast-food logo shows that snao decisions_.A can be associativeB are not unconsciousC can be dangerousD are not impulsive33. Toreve
32、rse the negative influences of snap decisions,we should_.A trust our first impressionB do as people usually doC think before we actD ask for expert advice34. John Gottman says that reliable snap reaction are based on_.A critical assessmentBthin sliced studyC sensible explanationD adequate informatio
33、n35. The authors attitude toward reversing the high-speed trend is_.A tolerantB uncertainC optimisticD doubtful考研历年英二真题阅读文4Text 4When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband and energy. Housing is seldom mentioned.Why i
34、s that? To some extent the housing sector must shoulder the blame. We have not been good at communicating the real value that housing can contribute to economic growth. Then there is the scale of the typical housing project. It is hard to shove for attention among multibillion-pound infrastructure p
35、roject, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere. But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate. Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough
36、 new homes.The comprehensive spending review offers an opportunity for the government to help rectify this. It needs to put historical prejudices to one side and take some steps to address our urgent housing need.There are some indications that it is preparing to do just that. The communities minist
37、er, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt. Evidence shows that 60,000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the c
38、ap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%.Ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.But it is not just down to the government. While these measur
39、es would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing ?4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015,is unlikely to be extended beyond then. The Labour party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalitions spe
40、nding plans if returns to power. The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants. We need to adjust to this changing climate.36. The author believes that the housing sector_A has attracted much attentionB involves certain political fact
41、orsC shoulders too much responsibilityD has lost its real value in economy37. It can be learned that affordable housing has_A increased its home supplyB offered spending opportunitiesC suffered government biasesD disappointed the government38. According to Paragraph 5,George Osborne may_.A allow gre
42、ater government debt for housingB stop local authorities from building homesC prepare to reduce housing stock debtD release a lifted GDP growth forecast39.It can be inferred that a stable rental environment would_.Alower the costs of registered providersBlessen the impact of government interferenceC
43、contribute to funding new developmentsDrelieve the ministers of responsibilities40.The author believes that after 2015,the government may_.Aimplement more policies to support housingBreview the need for large-scale public grantsCrenew the affordable housing grants programmeDstop generous funding to the housing sector考研英二历年阅读真题大全 要做好考研阅读必须要提升两方面能力：一是较强的阅读能力，指快速、准确读懂文章意思 历年考研英二真题阅读理解 说到词汇量，很多同学都以为考研词汇只要记住5500基础词就行了，其实不然，这里给大家第 16 页 共 16 页