2017年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（一）

　　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)

　　Could a hug a day keep the doctor away? The answer may be a resounding “yes!”  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. Believe it or not, a warm embrace might even help you  4  getting sick this winter.

　　In a recent study   5   over 400 health 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 .People 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.  11  among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe   12  .

　　“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. Hugging “is a marker of intimacy and helps   15  the feeling that others are there to help   16  difficulty.”

　　Some 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 mother and their newborn babies. Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain , and some of it is released into the bloodstream. But some of it   19   in the brain, where it   20  mood, behavior and physiology.

　　1．[A]  Unlike           [B]  Besides               [C]  Despite         [D]  Throughout

　　2．[A]  connected      [B]  restricted         [C]  equal           [D]  inferior

　　3．[A]  choice            [B]  view               [C]  lesson          [D]  host

　　4．[A]   recall             [B]  forget                [C]  avoid           [D]  keep

　　5．[A]  collecting       [B]  involving          [C]  guiding     [D]  affecting

　　6．[A]  of               [B]  in                 [C]  at              [D]  on

　　7．[A]  devoted          [B]  exposed               [C]  lost              [D]  attracted

　　8．[A]  across           [B]  along               [C]  down            [D]  out

　　9．[A]  calculated      [B]  denied               [C]  doubted        [D]  imagined

　　10．[A]  served            [B]  required             [C]  restored        [D]  explained

　　11．[A]  Even          [B]  Still                      [C]  Rather          [D]  Thus

　　12．[A]  defeats           [B]  symptoms          [C]   tests           [D]  errors

　　13．[A]  minimized     [B]  highlighted          [C]  controlled    [D]  increased

　　14．[A]  equipped       [B] associated            [C] presented       [D] compared

　　15．[A]  assess           [B] moderate             [C] generate                [D] record

　　16．[A]  in the face of  [B] in the form of     [C] in the way of   [D] in the name of

　　17．[A]  transfer         [B] commit                [C] attribute                [D] return

　　18．[A]  because        [B] unless                  [C] though          [D] until

　　19．[A]  emerges        [B] vanishes               [C] remains        [D] decreases

　　20．[A]  experiences   [B] combines               [C] justifies         [D]influences \