湖南成考《专升本英语》真题及答案(4)【2019年】

Passage Three

On a dry and cold Friday afenoon last October，Sharon Seline exchanged text messages with her daugher who was in college.They"chatted"back and forh，with the mom asking how things were going and the daugher answering psitively flowed by enotions(表情符)showing smils，b-i-g smiles and hearts.

Later that night，her daughter attempted suicide.

In the days that followed，it came to light that she'd hidden herself in her dorm，crying and showing signs ofdepression-a completely different reality from the one that she conveyed in text and Facebook posts.

As human beings，our only real method of connection is through real communication.Studies show that only7%of communication is based on writing and spraking.The ma jority of 93%is based on body language.Indeed，it's only when we can heard a tone of voice or look into someone's eyes that we're able to know when"I'm fine"doesn't mean they're fine all.

This is where social media gets risky.

With modem technology，anyone can hide beind the text，the e-mail，or the Facebook post，projecting any image they want and creating a false image of their choosing.They can be whoever they want to be.And without the ability toreceive body language，their audiences are none the wiser.

This presents a paradox which doesn't exist before.With all the power social technologies at our fingertips，we are more connected-and potentially more disconnected-than ever betore.

Every relevant metric(衡量标准)shows that we are interacting at a great speed and frequency through social media.But are we really communicating?With 93%of ourcommunication context(语境)lost，we are now attempting to establish relationships and make decisions based on phrases or emoticons，which may or may not accurately represent the truth.

44.Why does social media get risky according to the author?

A.The users'social connection is lost.

B.The users'messages may be ignored.

C.The users'real emotion may be hidden.

D.The users'voices can hardy be heard.

45.What phenomenon does the underlined word“paradox"

(Paragraph 7)reflect?

A.People can be both happy and unhappy.

B.People can be both connected and disconnected.

C.People can end up being both wise and stupid.

D.People can form both true and false impressions.

46.What is true about today's communication through social media?

A.It causes more health risks.

B.It gives litle communication context.

C.It leads to better relationships.

D.It improves the quality of interaction.

47.What is the best title for the passage?

A.Social Media and Its Function

B.Social Media and Its Abuses

C.Social Media and Its Future

D.Social Media and Its Risks

Passage Four

Alan Lakein，a time management expert，thinks that nothing is a total waste of time，including doing nothing at times.If you arrange things so that you find time to relax and"do nothing", you will get more done and have more fun doing it.

One of his clients,a space engineer, didn't know how to "do nothing". Every minute of his leisure time was scheduled with intense activities. He had an outdoor-activites schedule in which he switched from skiing to tennis. His girlfriend kept up with him in these activities, although she would have preferred just to sit by the fire and relax once in a while. Like too many people, he felt the need to be doing something all the time, for doing nothing seemed a waste of time. His "relaxing by the fire"consisted of playing chess, reading magazines, or checking emails.

For an experiment, Alan asked him to"waste"his time for five minutes during one of their sessions together.

What the engineer ended up doing was relaxing, stting quietly and daydreaming. When he was finally able to admit that emotional reasons caused him to reject relaxing as waste of time, he began to look more critically at that way of thinking. Once he knew that relaxing was a good use oftime, he became less serious about being busy and started enjoying each activity more. Previously he had been so busy doing that he had no time to have fun at anything. He began to do less and have more fun. When Alan saw the client about three years later, he still had as busy a schedule a sever, but he was able to balance his activity with relaxing so that he came back to work Monday morning not feeling tired out from a busy weekend but refreshed.

48. What did"doing nothing"mean to the space engineer at first?

A. Outdoor activities.

B.A waste of time.

C. Few daily schedules.

D. More family hours.

49. What made the engineer reject relaxing?

A. Social reasons.B. Family reasons.

C. Emotional reasons.

D. Physical reasons.

50. What happened after the engineer learned "doing nothing?

A. He was not as busy as before.

B. He began to en joy each activity more.

C.He started to do more of everything.

D.He did not have as much fun as before.

51.What can be inferned from the passage about“doing nothing"?

A.It makes people enjoy more indoor activities.

B.It enables you to have more work time.

C.It serves to improve family relationship.

D.It helps you do things more efficiently.

44.【答案】C

【解析】文章第六段提到，随着现代技术的发展，每个人都可以隐藏在短信、邮件等后面，只发他们想要让别人看到的内容，隐藏自己的真实情感，这样的社交媒介会造成极大的风险，故选C。

45.【答案】B

【解析】文章第七段提到，社会科技力量越强大，人们联系越紧密，同时，潜在的联系可能会更少，所以这里的悖论指的就是联系和不联系共存，故选B。

46.【答案】B

【解析】文章第八段提到，在人们用现代科技手段进行交流时，实际上93%的真实语境已经消失了，所以线上交流给人们提供的语境很少，故选B。

47.【答案】D

【解析】文章主要讲了随着社交媒体技术不断进步，人们交流看似紧密，但是获得的真实信息减少了很多，整篇都围绕着社交媒体以及社交媒体所带来的风险展开，故选D。

48.【答案】B

【解析】文章第二段倒数第二句提到，这位航天工程师和其他人一样，觉得有必要一直做点什么，因为他认为什么都不干似乎就是浪费时间，故选B。

49.【答案】C

【解析】文章第三段第三句提到，这位航天工程师最后承认，情感因素导致了他拒绝放松，故选C。

50.【答案】B

【解析】文章第三段第四句提到，航天工程师真正明白了“doing nothing”的含义，认为放松是对时间的很好利用，他开始不再让自己那么忙，享受每一项活动，故选B。

51.【答案】D

【解析】从文章最后一段可知，三年后，航天工程师仍有忙碌的工作安排，但他学会了平衡工作时间与放松时间，星期一上班也不再无精打采，工作效率提高了，由此可知，“doing nothing”可以帮助人们提高做事的效率，故选D。