新东方在线考研频道汇集整理了考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读100篇供考生参考，了解更多考研英语、考研政治、考研数学、考研专业课复习资料请登录新东方在线考研频道.
2014考研英语：阅读理解模拟题及答案(十二)
According to psychologists(心理学家), an emotion isaroused when a man or animal views something as either bad or good. When aperson feels like running away from something he thinks will hurt him, we callthis emotion fear. if the person wants to remove the danger by attacking it, wecallthe emotion anger. The emotions of joy and love are aroused when wethink something can help us. An emotion does not have to be created bysomething in the outside world. it can be created by a person's thoughts.
Everyone has emotions. Many psychologists believe that infants areborn without emotions. They believe children learn emotions just as they learnto read and write. A growing child not only learns his emotions but learns howto act in certain situations because of an emotion.
Psychologists think that there are two types of emotion: positiveand negative. Positive emotions include love, liking, joy, delight, and hope.They are aroused by something that appeals to a person. Negative emotions makea person unhappy or dissatisfied. They include anger, fear,despair, sadness,and disgust. in growing up, a person learns to cope with the negative emotionsin order to be happy.
Emotions may be weak or strong. Some strong emotions are sounpleasant that a person will try any means to escape from them. in order tofeel happy, the person may choose unusual ways to avoid the emotion.
Strong emotions can make it hard to think and to solve problems.They may prevent a person from learning or paying attention to what he isdoing. For example, a student taking an examination may be so worried aboutfailing that he cannot think properly. The worry drains valuable mental energyhe needs for the examination.
56. We learn from the passage that an emotion is created by something.
A)one thinks bad or good B)one feels indanger
C)one faces in the outside world D)one tries toescape from real life
57. Which of the following is NOT true?
A)Children learn emotions as they grow up.
B)Babies are born with emotions.
C)Emotions fall into two types in general.
D)People can cope with the negative emotions in life.
58. The author's purpose of writing this passage is to.
A) explain why people have emotions
B) show how people avoid the negative emotions
C) explain what people should do before emotions
D) define and classify people's emotions
59. We can safely conclude that a student may fail in an exam if.
A) he can not think properly B) he can't payattention to it
C) he can't pay attention to it D) he is not fullof energy
60. As used in the last sentence, the word drains means.
A) stopsB) tiesC) weakensD) flows gradually
Passage 12
1.A2.B3.D4.B5.C