2000-2013年考研英语完形填空真题和答案(英语一)

他们伤心而哭，但当开始流泪时他们才

变得伤心。”伤心和哭之间是因果 关系，所以答案应该是

D. because

。

14.C

解析：词义辨析

/

语义逻辑题。解题关键

although

。

although

表示假设，让步。由上文提

到当人们流泪时才觉得伤心可知，

伤心在流泪之后。

这里要说另一种情况“伤心也会在流泪

之前”而

A. exhausts“使筋疲力尽；

使疲惫不堪”，

B. follows “跟随” C. precedes“先

于，表示在……之前发生

(

或出现)”；D. suppresses“压制；阻止；抑制”，语义不符。

15.B

解析：词义辨析题。由已知信息可知原文要表达“证据显示情绪是肌肉反映的结果”A.

into“进入……中，

到……里” B. from “来自”表原因，符合表达需要，故为正确答案。

C. towards

向，

朝

D. beyond “超出，超过”意思不符合，故排除。

16.D

解析：词义辨析题。A. fetch“取来”，B. bite“咬，

叮”，

C. pick“采，

摘”，

D.

hold“拿，

抱，

握住”，根据上下文信息可知该 实验要求志愿者用牙咬住或者用嘴含住

一支笔。

hold

的意思最符合。

17.A

解析：词义辨析

/

语义逻辑题。由已知信息“用嘴含住 一支笔”推测，这个动作会产生一种

失望的表情

A. disappointed“失望的”意思最符合，B. excited “兴奋的”，

C.

joyful“快乐的”，D. indifferent“漠不关心的”都不符合语境，故排除。

18.D

解析：词义辨析题。A. adapted to“变得习惯于……,

使适应于……”，B. catered to “迎

合，

满足某种需要或要求”，

C. turned……to“转向”，

D. reacted to“对……作出反应”，< /p>

根据原文表达需要“在观看有趣的动画片时……”此处正确选项是

D. reacted to

。

19.A

解析：

词义辨析题。

根据前文信息，

由前面的实验结果“那些被强制锻炼笑肌的人比那些嘴

唇皱着表情失望的人在观看有趣的动画片时反应更加丰富”，我们可以推断出一个结论< /p>

A.

suggesting

表明，后接 结论的句子，符合要求，故为正确答案。B. requiring “需要，要

求”，

C. mentioning “提到”，D. supposing“假定，

假设”都不符合上下文语境，

故排除。

20.C

解析：

逻辑分析题。

上文提到了“表情而不是其他的方式可能会影响情绪”，

后文又提到了

“笑的生理行为可以使心情好转”，前后句解释的是同一种情况。

A. Eventually

和

B.

Consequently

，都是作为“总结”的副词，

D. Conversely

表示“相反”，只有

C.

Similarly“相似的是”，符合上下文逻辑，是 正确选项。

2010

年考研英语（一）试题

Section I

Use of English

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B],

[C] or [D] on

ANSWER SHEET 1

. (10 points)

In

1924

America's

National

Research

Council

sent

two

engineers

to

supervise

a

series

of

industrial

experiments

at

a

large

telephone-parts

factory

called

the

Hawthorne

Plant

near

Chicago. It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lighting ___1___ workers' productivity. Instead,

the studies ended

2___ giving their name to the

idea that the very ___3___ to being experimented upon changed subjects' behavior.

The

idea

arose

because

of

the

___4___

behavior

of

the

women

in

the

Hawthorne

plant.

According to ___5___ of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased,

but

also

when

it

was

dimmed.

It

did

not

___6___

what

was

done

in

the

experiment;

___7___

something was changed, productivity rose. A(n) ___8___ that they were being experimented upon

seemed to be ___9___ to alter workers' behavior ___10___ itself.

After several decades, the same data were ___11___ to econometric the analysis. Hawthorne

experiments

has

another

surprise

store

___12___

the

descriptions

on

record,

no

systematic

___13___ was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.

It

turns

out

that

peculiar

way

of

conducting

the

experiments

may

be

have

let

to

___14___

interpretation of what happed. ___15___, lighting was always changed on a Sunday. When work

started again on Monday, output ___16___ rose compared with the previous Saturday and ___17___

to rise for the next couple of days. ___18___, a comparison with data for weeks when there was no

experimentation showed that output always went up on Monday, workers ___19___ to be diligent

for the first few days of the week in any case, before ___20___ a plateau and then slackening off.

This suggests that the alleged

1.

[A] affected

2.

[A] at

3.

[A] truth

4.

[A] controversial

[B] achieved

[B] up

[B] sight

[B] perplexing

[C] extracted

[C] with

[C] act

[C] mischievous

[D] restored

[D] off

[D] proof

[D] ambiguous

[D] assessments

[D] work

5.

[A] requirements

[B] explanation

[C] accounts

6.

[A] conclude

[B] matter

[C] indicate

7.

[A] as far as

8.

[A] awareness

9.

[A] suitable

10.

[A] about

11.

[A] compared

12.

[A] contrary to

13.

[A] evidence

14.

[A] disputable

15.

[A] In contrast

16.

[A] duly

17.

[A] failed

20.

[A] breaking

[B] for fear that

[B] expectation

[B] excessive

[B] for

[B] shown

[B] consistent with

[B] guidance

[B] enlightening

[B] For example

[B] accidentally

[B] ceased

[B] climbing

[C] in case that

[C] sentiment

[C] enough

[C] on

[C] subjected

[C] implication

[C] reliable

[C] In consequence

[C] unpredictably

[C] started

[C] surpassing

[D] so long as

[D] illusion

[D] abundant

[D] by

[D] conveyed

[D] peculiar to

[D] source

[D] misleading

[D] As usual

[D] suddenly

[D] continued

[D] hitting

[C] parallel with

2009

年考研英语（一）试题

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D

on

ANSWER SHEET 1

. (10 points)

Research on animal intelligence always makes me wonder just how smart humans are. ___1___

the fruit-fly experiments described in Carl Zimmer's piece in the Science Times on Tuesday. Fruit

flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly

___2___ to live shorter lives. This

suggests that ___3___ bulbs burn longer, that there is an ___4___ in not being too terrifically bright.

Intelligence, it ___5___ out, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and

is slow ___6___ the starting line because it depends on learning

—

a gradual ___7___

—

instead of

instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they've apparently learned

is when to ___8___.

Is

there

an

adaptive

value

to

___9___

intelligence?

That's

the

question

behind

this

new

research. I like it. Instead of casting a wistful glance ___10___ at all the species we've left in the dust

I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real ___11___ of our own intelligence might be. This is ___12___

the mind of every animal I've ever met.

Research

on

animal

intelligence

also

makes

me

wonder

what

experiments

animals

would

___13___

on

humans

if

they

had

the

chance.

Every

cat

with

an

owner,

___14___,

is

running

a

small- scale

study

in

operant

conditioning.

We

believe that

___15___

animals

ran

the

labs,

they

would test us to ___16___ the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for terrain. They

would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really

___17___, not merely how much of it

there is. ___18___, they would hope to study a ___19___ question: Are humans actually aware of the

world they live in? ___20___ the results are inconclusive.

1.

[A] Suppose

2.

[A] tended

3.

[A] thinner

4.

[A] tendency

5.

[A] insists on

6.

[A] off

7.

[A] incredible

[B] Consider

[B] feared

[B] stabler

[B] advantage

[B] sums up

[B] behind

[B] spontaneous

[C] Observe

[C] happened

[C] lighter

[C] inclination

[C] turns out

[C] over

[C] inevitable

[D] Imagine

[D] threatened

[D] dimmer

[D] priority

[D] puts forward

[D] along

[D] gradual

Section I

Use of English

8.

[A] fight

9.

[A] invisible

10.

[A] upward

11.

[A] features

12.

[A] outside

13.

[A] deliver

14.

[A] by chance

15.

[A] if

16.

[A] moderate

17.

[A] at

18.

[A] Above all

19.

[A] fundamental

20.

[A] By accident

[B] doubt

[B] limited

[B] forward

[B] influences

[B] on

[B] carry

[B] in contrast

[B] unless

[B] overcome

[B] for

[B] After all

[B] comprehensive

[B] In time

[C] stop

[C] indefinite

[C] afterward

[C] results

[C] by

[C] perform

[C] as usual

[C] as

[C] determine

[C] after

[C] However

[C] equivalent

[C] So far

[D] think

[D] different

[D] backward

[D] costs

[D] across

[D] apply

[D] for instance

[D] lest

[D] reach

[D] with

[D] Otherwise

[D] hostile

[D] Better still

2009

年考研英语（一）答案

Section I: Use of English (10 points)

1.

6.

B

A

2.

7.

A

D

3.

8.

D

C

4.

9.

B

B

5.

C

10.

D

15.

A

20.

C

11.

D

16.

C

12.

B

17.

B

13.

C

18.

A

14.

D

19.

A

2008

年考研英语（一）试题

Section I

Use of English

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D

on

ANSWER SHEET 1

. (10 points)

The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those

hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is ___1___ to say it anyway. He is

that

___2___

bird,

a

scientist

who

works

independently

___3___

any

institution.

He

helped

popularize

the

idea

that

some

diseases

not

___4___

thought

to

have

a

bacterial

cause

were

actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.

___5___ he, however, might tremble at the ___6___ of what he is about to do. T

ogether with

another

two

scientists,

he

is

publishing

a

paper

which

not

only

___7___

that

one

group

of

humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about.

The group in ___8___ are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural

selection.

This group generally do well in IQ test, ___9___ 12-15 points above the ___10___ value of 100,

and have contributed ___11___ to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the ___12___ of

their

elites,

including

several

world-renowned

scientists,

___13___.

They

also

suffer

more

often

than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts,

___14___, have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been ___15___ to social effects,

such as a strong tradition of ___16___ education. The latter was seen as a (an) ___17___ of genetic

isolation.

Dr.

Cochran

suggests

that

the

intelligence

and

diseases

are

intimately

___18___.

His

argument is that the unusual history of these people has ___19___ them to unique evolutionary

pressures that have resulted in this ___20___ state of affairs.

1.

[A] selected

2.

[A] unique

3.

[A] of

4.

[A] subsequently

5.

[A] Only

6.

[A] thought

7.

[A] advises

[B] prepared

[B] particular

[B] with

[B] presently

[B] So

[B] sight

[B] suggests

[C] obliged

[C] special

[C] in

[C] previously

[C] Even

[C] cost

[C] protests

[D] pleased

[D] rare

[D] against

[D] lately

[D] Hence

[D] risk

[D] objects

8.

[A] progress

9.

[A] attaining

10.

[A] normal

[B] fact

[B] scoring

[B] common

[C] need

[C] reaching

[C] mean

[D] question

[D] calculating

[D] total

[D] unaccountably

11.

[A] unconsciously

[B] disproportionately

[C] indefinitely

12.

[A] missions

13.

[A] affirm

14.

[A] moreover

15.

[A] given up

16.

[A] assessing

17.

[A] development

18.

[A] linked

19.

[A] limited

20.

[A] paradoxical

[B] fortunes

[B] witness

[B] therefore

[B] got over

[B] supervising

[B] origin

[B] integrated

[B] subjected

[B] incompatible

[C] interests

[C] observe

[C] however

[C] carried on

[C] administering

[C] consequence

[C] woven

[C] converted

[C] inevitable

[D] careers

[D] approve

[D] meanwhile

[D] put down

[D] valuing

[D] instrument

[D] combined

[D] directed

[D] continuous