考研英语（一）2017年真题.docx

2017年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语（一）试题 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) ①Could a hug a day keep the doctor away? = 2 \* GB3 ②The answer may be a resounding “yes!” ③ 1 helping you feel close and 2 to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a 3 of health benefits to your body and mind. = 4 \* GB3 ④Believe it or not, a warm embrace might even help you 4 getting sick this winter. ①In a recent study 5 over 400 healthy adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs 6 the participants’ susceptibility to developing the common cold after being 7 to the virus. = 2 \* GB3 ②People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come 8 with a cold, and the researchers 9 that the stress-reducing effects of hugging 10 about 32 percent of that beneficial effect. ③ 11 among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe 12 . ①“Hugging protects people who are under stress from the 13 risk for colds that’s usually 14 with stress,” notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie. = 2 \* GB3 ②Hugging “is a marker of intimacy and helps 15 the feeling that others are there to help 16 difficulty.” ①Some experts 17 the stress-reducing, health-related benefits of hugging to the release of oxytocin, often called “the bonding hormone” 18 it promotes attachment in relationships, including that between mothers and their newborn babies. = 2 \* GB3 ②Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain, and some of it is released into the bloodstream. ③But some of it 19 in the brain, where it 20 mood, behavior and physiology. 1. [A] Unlike [B] Besides [C] Throughout [D] Despite 2. [A] equal