2015年北京专升本英语真题及答案

A little baby’s heart rate is between 90 and 140 beats per minute. An adult’s heart rate ismore likely to be about 72 beats per minute. We can __44__ how many beats in a day usingmultiplication.     So, you can be __45__ sure that
A.bringing
B.fetching
C.moving
D.taking

27: It has been proved that placebos have the effect of active medicine in treating asthma _____.

28: According to the passage, the findings have interesting implications in that _____.

29: Questions 32 to 35 are based on the following passage.
When you take a pill, you and your doctor hope it will work —and that helps it work. That’snot a new idea. But now researchers say they know just how much of a drug’s effect comes fromthe patient’s expectation: at least half.
When patients in the midst of a headache attack took a dummy ( 假的) pill which they thoughtof as a widely used headache drug, it reduced their pain. It worked almost as much as when theytook the real drug thinking it was a placebo (安慰剂).
“There was no difference between the real drug and the placebo dressed up with a nice word inreducing pain,”researcher Ted Kaptchuk says. “Basically we show that words can actuallydouble the effect of a drug. That’s pretty impressive.”

And if it works when treating headaches, it also might work for a wide variety of otherillnesses. The findings have interesting implications for doctors and patients, because what doctorssay about a medicine appears to have a lot to do with its benefits.
A.half of the drug’s effect, if not more, is from the patients’expectations
B.dummy pills could be thought of as a widely used headache drug
C.your and your doctor’s hope helps the drug work
D.placebos work better than real drugs

30: Placebos can have the effect of active medicine in reducing pains when doctors _____.

A tree growing in a remote area of southeastern Guinea was once home to thousands of bats. Ayear ago, a two-year-old boy who lived within meters of the tree died in December 2013 and laterwas identified as the first person in West Africa to have developed
A.he got a bat’s virus
B.he was attacked by bats
C.he was infected with Ebola
D.he fell off the tree with bats

Are there any chronic (长期的) complainers where you work? It seems like everyworkplace has them —the people for whom the weather is always too warm or too cold, thefood is bad, the work is dull, and so on. No matter how good things get, they still only see
I’m not saying we should forbid complaining, but workplaces need to do something aboutthe chronic complainers because they tend to make people around them unhappy at work. It ’s afact that negative people are highly contagious (传染的) and one chronic compla
A friend of mine who’s a dentist told me about an elderly complainer who was a patient ofhers. Every time he came in for an appointment, he ’d complain. My friend is a naturally happyperson and would try to cheer him up. But it didn’t work and just made h
Chronic complainers are those who _____.
A.usually express feelings of dissatisfaction
B.tend to see the good side of everything
C.like to talk with anyone about weather
D.often share their feelings about others