2015年考研英语二阅读第四篇真题汇总

凯程考研，为学员服务，为学生引路！2015年考研英语二阅读真题汇总Text1A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured peoples cortisol, which is a 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 even say they feel better at work, shenotes.“ It is men, notwomen, who report being happier at home than at work. ”Another surprise is that findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health.What the study doesnt measure is whether people are still doing work when theyre 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-householdtasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace a making adjustments for working women, its not surprising that women are more stressed at home.But its not just a gender thing. Atwork, people pretty much know what theyre supposed to be doing:working,marking 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 theyre teenagers, threatened with complete removal of all electronic devices.Plus,theyre your family.You cannot fire your family.You never really get to go home from home.So its 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 offered greater relaxation than the workplaceB was an ideal place for stress measurementC generated more stress than the workplaceD was an unrealistic place for relaxation22. According to Damaske, who are likely to be the happiest at home?A Childless wivesB Working mothersC Childless husbandsD Working fathers23.The blurring of working women's roles refers to the fact that_A it is difficult for them to leave their officeB their home is also a place for kicking backC there is often much housework left behindD they are both bread winners and housewives24.The word“ moola”(Line4,Para4)most probably means_A skillsB energyC earningsD nutrition25.The home front differs from the workplace in that_A division of labor at home is seldom clear-cutB home is hardly a cozier working environmentC household tasks are generally more motivatingD family labor is often adequately rewardedText 2For years，studies have found that fiest-generation college students those who do not have a parent with a college 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 recuit 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 whden, rather than close” an achievement gap based on social class, according to the depressing beginning ofa paper forthcoming in the joutnal Psychological Science.But the article is actually quite optimisitic, 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 finding are based on a study invoving 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 (59.1 percent) were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with at least one parent with a four-year d