2022年考博英语-天津师范大学考前模拟强化练习题60（附答案详解）

1、2022年考博英语-天津师范大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题In most cases impoverished mothers have symptoms of anxiety because of the （ ）they must cope with in their daily lives, rather than because of true mental health issues.问题1选项A.adversityB.substanceC.depletionD.trauma【答案】A【解析】考查名词辨析。adversity意为“困境，不幸”；substance意为“物质，材料”；depletion意为“消耗，用尽”；trauma意为“创伤”。句意：在大多数情况下，贫困的母亲有焦虑的症状，因为他们必须应对日常生活中的不幸，而不是因为真正的心理健康问题。2. 单选题To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil

2、argued in the mid-twentieth century. Even our virtual playgrounds pay homage to the deeply felt need for place: MySpace was, until recently, called “a place for friends; Second Life mimics real-life places with its homes, offices, and restaurants. What is different about mobile playgrounds is that mobile devices force real life and virtual life (and real places and virtual places) to try to coexist in a way they never have before.We want to see this as a good, enabling thingI can fire off that e

3、-mail to the office and then get back to relaxing on my vacation!but it is instructive to go to a playground today: even on a weekend, you will see parents engrossed in their iPhones and BlackBerrys while their children make increasingly loud bids for their attention. The November 2, 2009 cover of The New Yorker sadly and beautifully satirized this trend: it shows an illustration of children out trick-or-treating, basked in the glow of houselights, while their parents bask in the glow of the sma

4、rt-phone in which they are rapt. Even our leisure time, it seems, has been colonized by our need to stay connected and it is a constant struggle to set limits on our engagement with the virtual world so that we can attend to the real one in front of us.And when we decide to leave home entirely, we find it difficult to leave the demands of work behind. Consider the cruise ship industry: every year, more than three million people board a Carnival Cruise ship to take a vacation. They spend a great

5、deal of time eating and gambling, and then eating some more. The perpetual buffets that have long been a staple of the cruise ship lifestyle cater to one kind of hunger; Carnival now caters to another one that seems counterintuitive in vacationers eager to get away from it all: staying connected. With their twenty-four-hour Internet cafes, onboard WiFi, and an advertising campaign that features bikini-clad patrons lounging on deck chairs with laptop computers, Carnival Cruise Lines has enthusias

6、tically responded to the demands of patrons who seek an ideal of maritime escape but still want to check their e-mail several times a day.This, too, is the strange new world of leisure: never disconnected, and never really free from the demands of daily life. Notwithstanding all the talk of mobility, we find ourselves tethered in novel waysnot to a hometown, or to a particular social background, but to our devices themselves and the feeling of connection they provide, which we seemingly cannot s

7、it still without.1.According to the first paragraph, what can we learn about MySpace and Second Life?2.When saying it is instructive to go to a playground today, the author means that （ ）.3.The following statements are TRUE except（ ）.4.The word tethered in the last paragraph probably means（ ）.5.This passage is intended to （ ）.问题1选项A.They function as real life venues for entertainment.B.They deserve credit for reflecting the human soul.C.As virtual playgrounds, they resemble reality in terms of p

8、lace.D.Through mobile devices, they represent engagement with society.问题2选项A.smart phones are the culprit for the poor relations between parents and childrenB.responsible parents are supposed to engage their children with outdoor activitiesC.playgrounds are the places for parents and children to spend time togetherD.peoples indulgence in staying connected can be witnessed there问题3选项A.people vacationing on Carnival Cruise ships have access to the Internet todayB.eating and gambling are the exclus

9、ive things people can enjoy on cruise shipsC.Carnival Cruise Lines cater to vacationers demands to stay in contact with othersD.peoples desire to remain connected makes it difficult for them to escape from work问题4选项A.confinedB.disconnectedC.immuneD.indifferent问题5选项A.analyze the various reasons for humans to settle downB.advocate the necessity of virtual connection in leisure timeC.enumerate the enormous benefits of mobile devices for work and lifeD.highlight the transformation of mobility through ubiquitous connection【答案】第1题:C第2题:D第3题:B第4题:A第5题:D【解析】第1题:细节事实题。由文章第一段中Even our virtual playgrounds pay homage to the deeply felt need for place: MySpace was, until recently, called “a place for friends”; Second Life mimics real-life places with its homes, offices, an

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