1、考研英语阅读unit15Unit 15 Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.心之所愿，无所不成。学习内容题 材词 数建议时间得分统计做题备忘Part AText 1科普知识429/10Text 2社会生活458/10Text 3文化教育454/10Text 4商业经济415/10Part B文化教育633/10Part C文化教育454/10Part ADirections：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Te
2、xt 1The video game poses a world a much simpler world than our own, wherein success is very clearly defined and, for a time, clearly attainable. Through practice, a player can control this world for a while. He can escape from the anxieties of real life into a place where his own actions always coun
3、t, where he can be a hero. When the game is over, he hasnt lost or been beaten. Is a surfer beaten when he flies from a wave?Most video games call for some semblance of hand-eye coordination, and some hospitals are now using them in rehabilitation programs for brain-damaged patients. It has been fou
4、nd that some patients who were otherwise thought to be unreachable have been “brought out” through their use. Moreover, experimental research is now being conducted regarding the feasibility of video games as a test for drunken driving. Intoxicants act to slow reaction time and impair coordination a
5、nd nowhere is this kind of impairment more measurable than on the video game play field. Some day a poor showing at “Six-Pack Man” may cost you your license.Video games for the microcomputer are not restricted to mere “twitch” games, however. Strategy games are at last as popular, and among these ar
6、e the so-called “fantasy role-playing” adventures. These games allow the player to construct a whole new personality, choosing strengths and weaknesses from a list of possible character traits.Nowadays, more and more adolescents are crowded in electronic game houses for whole days to experience what
7、 they perceive to be excitement. In the due course, they train their abilities in confronting with new situations, and whats more, they learn how to communicate with their targeted rivals, in a novel and friendly way. But there is such a large amount of criticism concerning the electronic games that
8、 they are generally seen as a vile ways of discovering hostility and belligerence. And the managers of such businesses are severely criticized by the schools and parents alike. On the other hand, this business seems never fading, but instead it becomes a success in many places, even it is strictly c
9、ontrolled by certain policies.One might choose, for instance, a character who is extremely dexterous and swift, but these positive traits must be traded off against others, such as strength and endurance. Players have a tendency to become extremely attached to their characters. My preference runs to
10、ward brawn as opposed to brain, which probably reflects some compromise between reality and my own desires. Im also attached to extrasensory powers, which are likewise denied to me in the real world.1. According to the text, the video game player canA be successful in his life if success is clearly
11、defined.B control the world of our own for a time.C forget about the uneasiness of real life for a while.D never lose the game when he plays a hero.2. It can be inferred from the passage that “Six-Pack Man”A is a kind of video game. B costs you a lot of money.C is dangerous to public morals. D helps
12、 conduct experiment.3. It can be inferred from the text that video games can improve A extrasensory powers. B personalities and characters.C physical and mental power. D cooperation between hands and eyes.4. The author would probably agree thatA video games create a world which reflect our real life
13、.B video games contribute to teenagers hostility and belligerence.C more video games should be developed regarding the benefits of them.D video games mirror a balance between reality and our own wishes.5. According to the test, which of the following statements is true?A Video games have been used i
14、n the test for drunken driving.B Video games can help healing brain-damage.C Its no good for the youth to play video games.D Some video games allow constructing perfect personalities.Text 2For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in Britain is a responsibility nobody wants. As a result, many travel
15、ers go abroad ill prepared to avoid serious disease.Why is travel medicine so unloved? Partly theres an identity problem. Because it takes an interest in anything that impinges on the health of travelers, this emerging medical specialism invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines. It delves
16、into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria and plague. But travel medicine has a more serious obstacle to overcome. Travel clinics are meant to tell people how to avoid ending up dead or in a tropical diseases hospital when they come home, but it is notoriously di
17、fficult to get anybody pay out money for keeping people healthy.Travel medicine has also been colonized by commercial interests the vast majority of travel clinics in Britain are run by airlines or travel companies. And while travel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be less
18、keen to spread bad news about travelers diarrhea in Turkey, or to take the time to spell out preventive measures travelers could take. “The NHS finds it difficult to define travelers health,” says Ron Behrens, the only NHS consultant in travel and tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic
19、of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. “Should it come within the NHS or should it be paid for? Its a gray area, and opinion is split. No one seems to have any responsibility for defining its role,” he says.To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on
20、 statistics that are patchy at best. In most cases we just dont know how many Britons contract diseases when abroad. And even if a disease is linked to travel there is rarely any information about where those afflicted went, what they ate, how they behaved, or which vaccinations they had. This short
21、age of hard facts and figures makes it difficult to give detailed advice to people, information that might even save their lives.A recent leader in the British Medical Journal argued: “Travel medicine will emerge as a credible discipline only if the risks encountered by travelers and the relative be
22、nefits of public health interventions are well defined in terms of their relative occurrence, distribution and control.” Exactly how much money is wasted by poor travel advice? The real figure is anybodys guess, but it could easily run into millions. Behrens gives one example. Britain spends more th
23、an 1 million each year just on cholera vaccines that often dont work and so give people a false sense of security, “Information on the prevention and treatment of all forms of diarrhea would be a better priority,” he says.6. Travel medicine in Britain isA not something anyone wants to run. B the res
24、ponsibility of nobody.C administered by the government. D handled adequately by travel agents.7. Travel companies deal with travel medicine toA prevent people from falling ill. B make money out of it.C give travelers preventive measures. D get the government to pay for it.8. The word “colonize” in t
25、he third paragraph is closest in meaning toA establish a colony. B transplant. C invade. D transform.9. In Behrens opinion the question that who should run travel medicineA is for the government to decide. B should be left to specialist hospitals.C can be left to travel companies. D has no clear and
26、 simple answer.10. People will only think better of travel medicine ifA it is given more resources by the government and the NHS.B more accurate information on its value is available.C the government takes over responsibility from the NHS.D travelers pay more attention to the advice they get.Text 3T
27、he majority of successful senior managers do not closely follow the classical rational model of first clarifying goals, assessing the problem, formulating options, estimating likelihood of success, making a decision, and only then taking action to implement the decision. Rather, in their day-by-day
28、tactical maneuvers, these senior executives rely on what is vaguely termed “intuition” to manage a network of interrelated problems that require them to deal with ambiguity, inconsistency, novelty, and surprise; and to integrate action into the process to thinking.Generations of writers on managemen
29、t have recognized that some practicing managers rely heavily on intuition. In general, however, such writers display a poor grasp of what intuition is. Some see it as the opposite of rationality; others view it as an excuse for capriciousness. Isenbergs recent research on the cognitive processes of
30、senior managers reveals that managers intuition is neither of these.Rather, senior managers use intuition in at least five distinct ways. First, they intuitively sense when a problem exists. Second, managers rely on intuition to perform well-learned behavior patterns rapidly. This intuition is not a
31、rbitrary or irrational, but is based on years of painstaking practice and hands, on experience that build skills. A third function of intuition is to synthesize isolated bits of data and practice into an integrated picture, often in an “Aha!” experience. Fourth, some managers use intuition as a chec
32、k on the results of more rational analysis. Most senior executives are familiar with the formal decision analysis models and tools, and those who use such systematic methods for reaching decisions are occasionally leery of solutions suggested by these methods which run counter to their sense of the correct course of action. Finally, managers can use intuit
