2017考研英语二完型填空来源及浅析

2017考研英语二完型填空来源及浅析

2017考研英语二完形填空文章来源及浅析

历年来，考研英语二的完形填空、阅读理解原文大都出自于英语国家原版报刊书籍，如Economist, Nature, Scientific American, News Week, Washington Post 等，去年和今年英语二的阅读题型仍没超出这个范围。

去年（2016）考研英语二的完形填空文章来源于Harvard Business Review 《哈佛商业评论》2015年6月9日的文章Companies in Happy Cities Invest More for the Long Term.而今年（2017）的完形填空则来自The Atlantic 《大西洋月刊》2016年6月28日的一篇文章：Would a Work-Free World Be So Bad?

MBA加油站老师分析发现，从时间上可以看，每年的英语考题都是极为新鲜热乎的，一般出自当年的外文杂志；而从文章题材上看，也都是时下关注度颇高且与生活相关度极高的一些话题。比如今年的这篇a future without work. 随着社会的发展，科技的进步，大量的劳力被机器所替代，这类主题的文章曾引发过激烈的讨论，网上搜索相关关键字会发现这样的文章不计其数。前几年考试出现的“电子货币”、“瘦并不见得比胖好”也都是如此。

针对这样的特点，MBA加油站的老师一直提倡，考研英语复习一定要以外文杂志为阅读练习内容，以便能更好的阅读、理解文章，同时适应地道的英语写作风格，为写作打下基础。

很多MBA加油站的学员最初阅读量比较少，写出的作文逻辑混乱，言之无物，表达非常chinglish（中国式英语），也不会分析现象背后的原因。而通过大量地阅读原版外文杂志，我们不仅可以学到地道的英文表达，还能够让你在英语写作时有话想说，有话可说。

下面我们来看下今年的完形填空及原文。

这篇文章原文大约2000字，此次完形填空选取了开头4段（加粗的部分），约388字。大家可以看到文中有三处灰色阴影部分，第二处做了改写，malaise 改为unease，其它两处删掉，剩余部分则完全没有变化，完全迎合了大纲的词汇要求，把超纲的词汇进行简单改写，把没有必要的插入语，从句删掉，以便降低阅读难度。

文中划线的词语即为此次考试的题目设置点。从词汇的选择上来看都不是什么过难的词汇，整体难度与这几年考试持平。完形填空历来是考生们比较头大的一个

题型，考的不仅是词汇，更是对上下文的逻辑理解，所以并不是单纯的认识几个词语就行了，这就要求考生们在复习的时候一定要学会句子及篇章的阅读而不是只记句子中单个的词汇。就从这篇文章开启你的英语阅读之路吧！

Would a Work-Free World Be So Bad? Fears of civilization-wide idleness are based too much on the downsides of being unemployed in a society premised on the concept of employment.

People have speculated for centuries about a future without work, and today is no different, with academics, writers, and activists once again warning that technology is replacing human workers. Some imagine that the coming work-free world will be defined by inequality: A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.

A different, less paranoid, and not mutually exclusive prediction holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one characterized by purposelessness: Without jobs to give their lives meaning, people will simply become lazy and depressed. Indeed, today’s unemployed don’t seem to be having a great time. One

Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans. Also, some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated, middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs. Another study shows that people are often happier at work than in their free time. Perhaps this is why many worry about the agonizing dullness of a jobless future.

But it doesn’t necessarily follow from findings like these that a world without work would be filled with malaise. Such visions are based on the downsides of being unemployed in a society built on the concept of employment. In the absence of work, a society designed with other ends in mind could yield strikingly different circumstances for the future of labor and leisure. Today, the virtue of work may be a bit overblown. “Many jobs are boring, degrading, unhealthy, and a squandering of human potential,” says John Danaher, a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway who has written about a world without work. “Global surveys find that the vast majority of people are unhapp y at work.”

These days, because leisure time is relatively scarce for most workers, people use their free time to counterbalance the intellectual and emotional demands of their jobs. “When I come home from a hard day’s work, I often feel tired,” Danaher says, adding, “In a world in which I don’t have to work, I might feel rather different”—perhaps different enough to throw himself into a hobby or a passion project with the intensity usually reserved for professional matters.

Having a job can provide a measure of financial stability, but in addition to stressing over how to cover life’s necessities, today’s jobless are frequently made to feel like social outcasts. “People who avoid work are viewed as parasites and leeches,” Danaher says. Perhaps as a result of this cultural attitude, for most people, self-esteem and identity are tied up intricately with their job, or lack of job.

Plus, in many modern-day societies, unemployment can also be downright boring. American towns and cities aren’t really built for lots of free time: Public spaces tend to be small islands in seas of private property, and there aren’t many places without entry fees where adults can meet new people or come up with ways to entertain one another. The roots of this boredom may run even deeper. Peter Gray, a professor of psychology at Boston College who studies the concept of