2018年201英語（一）考研真題答案及解析

本文提供2018年201英語（一）考研真題答案及解析，以下為具體內(nèi)容

1、Trust is a tricky business. On the one hand, it’s a necessary condition _1_ many worthwhile things: child care, friendships, etc. On the other hand, putting your _2_ in the wrong place often carries a high _3_. _4_, why do we trust at all? Well, because it feels good. _5_ people place their trust in an individual or an institution, their brains release oxytocin, a hormone that _6_ pleasurable feelings and triggers the herding instruct that prompts humans to _7_ with one another. Scientists have found that exposure _8_ this hormone puts us in a trusting _9_: In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their _10_ who inhaled something else. _11_ for us, we also have a sixth sense for dishonesty that may _12_ us. A Canadian study found that children as young as 14 months can differentiate _13_ a credible person and a dishonest one. Sixty toddlers were each _14_ to an adult tester holding a plastic container. The tester would ask, “What’s in here?” before looking into the container, smiling, and exclaiming, “Wow!” Each subject was then invited to look _15_. Half of them found a toy; the other half _16_ the container was empty—and realized the tester had _17_ them. Among the children who had not been tricked, the majority were _18_ to cooperate with the tester in learning a new skill, demonstrating that they trusted his leadership. _19_, only five of the 30 children paired with the “_20_” tester participated in a follow-up activity.

問題1

A、 on

B、 like

C、 for

D、 from

問題2

A、 faith

B、 concern

C、 attention

D、 interest

問題3

A、 benefit

B、 debt

C、 hope

D、 price

問題4

A、 Therefore

B、 Then

C、 Instead

D、 Again

問題5

A、 Until

B、 Unless

C、 Although

D、 When

問題6

A、 selects

B、 produces

C、 applies

D、 maintains

問題7

A、 consult

B、 compete

C、 connect

D、 compare

問題8

A、 at

B、 by

C、 of

D、 to

問題9

A、 context

B、 mood

C、 period

D、 circle

問題10

A、 counterparts

B、 substitutes

C、 colleagues

D、 supporters

問題11

A、 Funny

B、 Lucky

C、 Odd

D、 Ironic

問題12

A、 monitor

B、 protect

C、 surprise

D、 delight

問題13

A、 between

B、 within

C、 toward

D、 over

問題14

A、 transferred

B、 added

C、 introduced

D、 entrusted

問題15

A、 out

B、 back

C、 around

D、 inside

問題16

A、 discovered

B、 proved

C、 insisted

D、 remembered

問題17

A、 betrayed

B、 wronged

C、 fooled

D、 mocked

問題18

A、 forced

B、 willing

C、 hesitant

D、 entitled

問題19

A、 In contrast

B、 As a result

C、 On the whole

D、 For instance

問題20

A、 inflexible

B、 incapable

C、 unreliable

D、 unsuitable

2、Among the annoying challenges facing the middle class is one that will probably go unmentioned in the next presidential campaign: What happens when the robots come for their jobs?Don't dismiss that possibility entirely. About half of U.S. jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed. Lower-income jobs like gardening or day care don't appeal to robots. But many middle-class occupations — trucking, financial advice, software engineering — have aroused their interest, or soon will. The rich own the robots, so they will be fine.This isn't to be alarmist. Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past. The Industrial Revolution didn't go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living standards and created more jobs than it destroyed. Likewise, automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work. But in the medium term, middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training. Curriculums — from grammar school to college — should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication. Vocational schools should do a better job of fostering problem-solving skills and helping students work alongside robots. Online education can supplement the traditional kind. It could make extra training and instruction affordable. Professionals trying to acquire new skills will be able to do so without going into debt.The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U. S. to revive its fading business dynamism: Starting new companies must be made easier. In previous eras of drastic technological change, entrepreneurs smoothed the transition by dreaming up ways to combine labor and machines. The best uses of 3D printers and virtual reality haven't been invented yet. The U.S. needs the new companies that will invent them.Finally, because automation threatens to widen the gap between capital income and labor income, taxes and the safety net will have to be rethought. Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few years, yet this will be little comfort to those who find their lives and careers upended by automation. Destroying the machines that are coming for our jobs would be nuts. But policies to help workers adapt will be indispensable. 

1.Who will be most threatened by automation?2.Which of the following best represents the author's view?3.Education in the age of automation should put more emphasis on（  ）.4.The author suggests that tax policies be aimed at （  ）.  5.In this text, the author presents a problem with（  ）.

問題1

A、Leading politicians.

B、Low-wage laborers.

C、Robot owners.

D、Middle-class workers.

問題2

A、Worries about automation are in fact groundless.

B、Optimists' opinions on new tech find little support.

C、Issues arising from automation need to be tackled.

D、Negative consequences of new tech can be avoided.

問題3

A、creative potential

B、job-hunting skills

C、individual needs

D、cooperative spirit

問題4

A、encouraging the development of automation

B、increasing the return on capital investment

C、easing the hostility between rich and poor

D、preventing the income gap from widening

問題5

A、opposing views on it

B、possible solutions to it

C、its alarming impacts

D、its major variations

3、A new survey by Harvard University finds more than two-thirds of young Americans disapprove of President Trump's use of Twitter. The implication is that Millennials prefer news from the White House to be filtered through other sources, not a president's social media platform.Most Americans rely on social media to check daily headlines. Yet as distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills. Such a trend is badly needed. During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford. And a survey conducted for BuzzFeed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.Young people who are digital natives are indeed becoming more skillful at separating fact from fiction in cyberspace. A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use “distributed trust” to verify stories. They cross-check sources and prefer news from different perspectives — especially those that are open about any bias. Many young people assume a great deal of personal responsibility for educating themselves and actively seeking out opposing viewpoints, ’’ the survey concluded.Such active research can have another effect. A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people's reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests. This forces users to be more conscious of their role in passing along information. A survey by Bama research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is “reader error,” more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting. About a third say the problem of fake news lies in "misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news” via social media. In other words, the choice to share news on social media may be the heart of the issue. “This indicates there is a real personal responsibility in counteracting this problem, ” says Roxanne Stone, editor in chief at Bama Group.So when young people are critical of an over-tweeting president, they reveal a mental discipline in thinking skills — and in their choices on when to share on social media. 

1.According to Paragraphs 1 and 2, many young Americans cast doubt on（  ）.2.The phrase “beef up” (Paragraph 2) is closest in meaning to （  ）.  3.According to the Knight Foundation survey, young people （  ）.  4.The Bama survey found that a main cause for the fake news problem is（  ）.  5.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

問題1

A、the justification of the news-filtering practice

B、people's preference for social media platforms

C、the administration's ability to handle information

D、social media as a reliable source of news

問題2

A、boast

B、define

C、sharpen

D、share

問題3

A、tend to voice their opinions in cyberspace

B、verify news by referring to diverse sources

C、have a strong sense of social responsibility

D、like to exchange views on “distributed trust”

問題4

A、readers' misinterpretation

B、journalists' biased reporting

C、readers' outdated values

D、journalists' made-up stories

問題5

A、A Counteraction Against the Over-tweeting Trend.

B、A Rise in Critical Skills for Sharing News Online.

C、The Accumulation of Mutual Trust on Social Media.

D、The Platforms for Projection of Personal Interests.

4、Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well. DeepMind is one of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world. The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants. It is against that background that the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her damning verdict against the Royal Free hospital trust under the NHS, which handed over to DeepMind the records of 1.6 million patients in 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.DeepMind has almost apologised. The NHS trust has mended its ways. Further arrangements — and there may be many — between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned. There are lessons about informed patient consent to learn. But privacy is not the only angle in this case and not even the most important. Ms Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS trust, since under existing law it “controlled” the data and DeepMind merely “processed” it. But this distinction misses the point that it is processing and aggregation, not the mere possession of bits, that gives the data value.The great question is who should benefit from the analysis of all the data that our lives now generate. Privacy law builds on the concept of damage to an individual from identifiable knowledge about them. That misses the way the surveillance economy works. The data of an individual there gains its value only when it is compared with the data of countless millions more.The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted. This practice does not address the real worry. It is not enough to say that the algorithms DeepMind develops will benefit patients and save lives. What matters is that they will belong to a private monopoly which developed them using public resources. If software promises to save lives on the scale that drugs now can, big data may be expected to behave as big pharma has done. We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later. A long struggle will be needed to avoid a future of digital feudalism. Ms Denham's report is a welcome start.

1.What is true of the agreement between the NHS and DeepMind?2.The NHS trust responded to Denham's verdict with（  ）.3.The author argues in Paragraph 2 that （  ）.  4.According to the last paragraph, the real worry arising from this deal is（  ）.  5.The author's attitude toward the application of AI to healthcare is（  ）.

問題1

A、It fell short of the latter's expectations.

B、It caused conflicts among tech giants.

C、It failed to pay due attention to patients' rights.

D、It put both sides into a dangerous situation.

問題2

A、empty promises

B、tough resistance

C、sincere apologies

D、necessary adjustments

問題3

A、privacy protection must be secured at all costs

B、the value of data comes from the processing of it

C、making profits from patients' data is illegal

D、leaking patients' data is worse than selling it

問題4

A、the monopoly of big data by tech giants

B、the vicious rivalry among big pharmas

C、the uncontrolled use of new software

D、the ineffective enforcement of privacy law

問題5

A、ambiguous

B、appreciative

C、cautious

D、contemptuous

5、The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) continues to bleed red ink. It reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue. Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostly for employee health and retirement costs. There are many reasons this formerly stable federal institution finds itself on the verge of bankruptcy. Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer — Congress — insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected. This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.Now comes word that everyone involved — Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users — has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system. Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures. Most of the money would come from a penny-per- letter permanent rate increase and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare. The latter step would largely offset the financial burden of annually pre-funding retiree health care, thus addressing a long-standing complaint by the USPS and its unions.If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate 一 where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform. There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs. Also missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery. That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year. But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House. The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS. It is not, however, a sign that they're getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

1.The financial problem with the USPS is caused partly by（  ）.2.According to Paragraph 2, the USPS fails to modernize itself due to （  ）.  3.The long-standing complaint by the USPS and its unions can be addressed by （  ）.  4.In the last paragraph, the author seems to view legislators with （  ）.  5.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

問題1

A、its unbalanced budget

B、its rigid management

C、the cost for technical upgrading

D、the withdrawal of bank support

問題2

A、the interference from interest groups

B、the inadequate funding from Congress

C、the shrinking demand for postal service

D、the incompetence of postal unions

問題3

A、removing its burden of retiree health care

B、making more investment in new vehicles

C、adopting a new rate-increase mechanism

D、attracting more first-class mail users

問題4

A、respect

B、olerance

C、discontent

D、gratitude

問題5

A、The USPS Starts to Miss Its Good Old Days.

B、The Postal Service: Keep Away from My Cheese.

C、The USPS: Chronic Illness Requires a Quick Cure.

D、The Postal Service Needs More than a Band-Aid.