考研英语二真题及.doc

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____年硕士研究生入学统一考试
英语二真题及答案
Section I Use of English
Directions:
new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more
stressed at home than at work. Researchers measured people ’ s cortisol, whic stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
“ Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as
men have lower levels of stress at work than at home, one of the ”researchers,writes
Sarah Damske. In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes.
not women, who report being happier at home than at work. ” Another surpri
that findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents. This is why people who work outside the home have better health.
What the study doesn ’ t measure is whether people are still doing work when they ’ re at home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office. For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back. For women who stay
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home, they never get to leave the office. And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch-up-with-household tasks. With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace a making adjustments for working women, it ’ s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.
So it ’ s not surprising that people are more stressed at home. Not only are the tasks apparently infinite, the co-workers are much harder to motivate.
According to Paragraph 1, most previous surveys found that home_____
[A] offered greater relaxation than the workplace
was an ideal place for stress measurement
generated more stress than the workplace
was an unrealistic place for relaxation
22. According to Damaske,