距離2016年考研還有不到20天的時間，在此我們為大家提供一份2016考研英語二試題預測并附上答案，以供參考。

　　1.考生必須嚴格遵守各項考場規則。

　　(1)考生在考試開考15分鐘后不得入場。

　　(2)交卷出場時間不得早于考試結束前30分鐘。

　　(3)交卷結束后，不得再進考場續考，也不得在考場附近逗留或交談。

　　2.答題前，應按準考證上的有關內容填寫答題卡上的“考生姓名”“報考單位”“考生編號”　等信息。

　　3.答案必須按要求填涂或寫在指定的答題卡上。

　　(1)填涂部分應該按照答題卡上的要求用2B鉛筆完成。如要改動，必須用橡皮擦干凈。

　　(2)書寫部分必須用(藍)黑色字跡鋼筆、圓珠筆或簽字筆在答題卡上作答。字跡要清楚。

　　4.考試結束后，將答題卡裝入原試卷袋中，試卷交給監考人員。

　　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)

　　While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harm- ful 1 is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology.

　　The similarity between disease organisms and personal devices is 2 . Viruses and other para- sites control larger organisms, 3 resources in order to multiply and spread. Smartphones and other gadgets do the same thing, 4 ever-increasing amounts of human attention and electricity sup- plied 5 wire umbilici.

　　It is tempting to 6 a “strategy” to both phages and phablets, neither of which is sentient. 7 , the process is evolutionary, consisting of many random evolutions, 8 experimented with by many product designers. This makes it all the more powerful.

　　Tech 9 occurs through actively-learnt responses, or “operant conditioning” as animal be haviourists call it. The scientific parallel here also involves a rodent, typically a rat, which occupies a 10 cage called a Skinner Box. The animal is 11 with a food pellet for solving puzzles and punished with an electric shock when it fails.

　　“Are we getting a positive boost of hormones when we 12 look at our phone, seeking re- wards?” asks David Shuker, an animal behaviourist at St Andrews university, sounding a little like a man withholding serious scientific endorsement 13 an idea that a journalist had in the shower. Re- search is needed, he says. Tech tycoons would meanwhile 14 that the popularity of mobile devices is attributed to the brilliance of their designs. This is precisely what people whose thought processes have been 15 by an invasive pseudo-organism would believe.

　　16 , mobile technology causes symptoms less severe than physiological diseases. There are even benefits to 17 sufferers for shortened attention spans and the caffeine overload triggered by visits to Starbucks for the free Wi-Fi. Most importantly, you can 18 the Financial Times in places as remote as Alaska or Sidcup. In this 19 , a mobile device is closer to a symbiotic organism than a parasite. This would make it 20 to an intestinal bacterium that helps a person to stay alive, rather than a virus that may kill you.