Passage 1 A new economics paper has some old-fashioned advice for people navigating the stresses of life: Find a spouse who is also your best friend. Social scientists have long known that married people tend to be happier, but they debate whether that is because marriage causes happiness or simply because happier people are more 1 to get married. The new paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, controlled for pre-marriage happiness levels. It 2 that being married makes people happier and more satisfied 3 their lives than those who remain single—particularly during the most stressful periods, like midlife crises. Even as fewer people are marrying, the disadvantages of remaining single have broad 4 . It's important because marriage is increasingly a force behind inequality. Stable marriages are more common among educated, high-income people, and increasingly out of reach for those who are not. That divide appears to 5 not just people's income and family stability, but also their happiness and stress levels.
1.
A.eager
B.likely
C.easy
D.excited
A B C D
B
[解析] 考查固定搭配。此处意为“但对于这是因为婚姻带来了幸福，还是越幸福的人越______走进婚姻，他们意见不一”。be more likely to为固定搭配，意为“更可能”，符合题意，故B项likely为正确答案。be more eager to“更盼望，渴望”；easy的比较级形式为easier；be more excited to“更兴奋”，均不符合题意，排除。故本题选B。
2.
A.denied
B.concluded
C.doubted
D.imagined
A B C D
B
[解析] 考查动词辨析+上下文语义。此处意为“文章______，婚姻使人们比孑然一身者更幸福……”。it指代上一句的主语The new paper，故B项concluded“得出结论；推论出”符合题意，为正确答案。deny“否认”、doubt“怀疑”和imagine“想象”均不符合题意，排除。故本题选B。
Passage 2 Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you're doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you're holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John A. Bargh. Psychologists have known that one person's perception of another's "warmth" is a powerful deter- miner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either "'warm" or "cold" is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a "cold" person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies' conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth "mother" rather than one made of wire, even when the wire "mother" carried a food bottle. Harlow's work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills. Feelings of "warmth" and "coldness" in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as "warm" or "cold" is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries. To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study's hypotheses, handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form: The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of "Person A" based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink. "We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly. " says Bargh.
1. According to Paragraph 1, a person's emotion may be affected by ______.
A.the visitors to his office
B.the psychology lessons he has
C.his physical feeling of coldness
D.the things he has bought online
A B C D
C
[解析] 细节推理题。由第一段第三句“Fhe physical sensation of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions”可知。
2. The author mentions Harlow's experiment to show that ______.
A.adults should develop social skills
B.babies need warm physical contact
C.caregivers should be healthy adults
D.monkeys have social relationships
A B C D
B
[解析] 细节推理题。答案见第二段最后一句话。
3. In Bargh's experiment, the students were asked to ______.
A.evaluate someone's personality
B.write down their hypotheses
C.fill out a personal information form
D.hold coffee and cold drink alternatively
A B C D
A
[解析] 细节理解题。由第四段“the students were asked to rate the personality of 'Person A' based on a particular description”一句可知。
4. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A.abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
B.feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
分子、分母分别是公差为1、3的等差数列。应填入
故本题选A。
故本题选B。
故本题选B。
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