2018MBA英语真题英语二试题.doc

2018年研究生入学统一考试试题(英语二)
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 the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
Why do people read negative ments and do other things that will obviously be painful? Because humans have an inherent need to 1 uncertainty, according to a recent study in Psychological Science. The new research reveals that the need to know is so strong that people will 2 to satisfy their curiosity even when it is clear the answer will 3 .
In a series of four experiments, behavioral scientists at the University of Chicago and the Wisconsin School of Business tested students' willingness to 4 themselves to unpleasant stimuli in an effort to satisfy curiosity. For one 5 each participant was shown a pile of pens that the researcher claimed were from a previous experiment. The twist? Half of the pens would 6 an electric shock when clicked.
Twenty-seven students were told which pens were electrified;another twenty-seven were told only that some were electrified 7  left alone in the room, the students who did not know which ones would shock them clicked more pens and incurred more shocks than the students who knew what would 8  .Subsequent experiments reproduced this effect with other stimuli,  9 the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and photographs of disgusting insects.
The drive to  10