考博英语分类模拟题2019年(52)
(总分45, 做题时间90分钟)
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension
Passage One
In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the white man impos his rule by brute force, there are countries where the black man protests by tting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both side who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor of violence—as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other, what is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of w
ar-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering mean nothing. No solution **es to light the morning after when we dismally contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.
The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despid, mistrusted and even percuted by their own kind becau they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law enforcement. If half the energy that goes into violent acts were put to good u, if our efforts were directed at cleaning up the slums and ghettos, at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would have gone a long way to arriving at a solution. Our strength is undermined by having to mop up the mess that violence leaves in its wake. In a well-directed effort, it would not be impossible to fulfill the ideals of a stable social program. The benefits that can be derived from constructive solutions are
everywhere apparent in the world around us. Genuine and lasting solutions are always possible, providing we work within the framework of the law.
Before we can even begin to contemplate peaceful co-existence between the races, we must appreciate each other's problems. And to do this, we must learn about them: it is a simple exerci in communication, in exchanging information. "Talk, talk, talk," the advocates of violence say, "all you ever do is talk, and we are none the wir." It's rather like the story of the famous barrister who painstakingly explained his ca to the judge. After listening to a lengthy argument the **plained that after all this talk, he was none the wir. "Possible, my lord," the barrister replied, "none the wir, but surely far better informed." Knowledge is the necessary prerequisite to wisdom; the knowledge that violence creates the evils it pretends to solve.
1.
Which can best replace the word "acute" (Para. 1)?
∙怎样搜索微信群** and quick to notice and understand things.
∙** a sharp end or point.
∙** nsitive and well developed.
** or vere.
A B C D
2.
What does the author intend to convey in the first paragraph?情到深处人孤独
∙销售职责** leads to nowhere but making things wor.
∙** is the root of evils.
∙** is what humankind rents most.
** can be eliminated sooner or later.
A B C D
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3.
What does the author think of our energy and strength?
∙** are wasted and might be well directed and achieve more meaningful results.
∙** are already constructive and well directed and will fulfill a stable society.
∙** will work only with coordinated efforts.
** will work like magic on the solution of racial prejudice.
绿丝带A B C D
什么是定向运动4.
What do truly reasonable men advocate to solve the problem of race prejudice?
∙** enforcement.
∙**.
∙**.
** violence mess.
A B C D
5.
According to the author, what's the prerequisite of peaceful co-existence between the races?
∙** understanding.
∙** cooperative.
∙** from each other.
** the misunderstanding gap between races' customs.
A B C D
Passage Two
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be discted, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himlf up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won't stand much blowing up, and it won't stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Esntially, it is a complete mystery. A human frame convuld with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit.
One of the **monly said about humorists is that they are really very sad people—clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone's life and that the humorist, perhaps more nsible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will rve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot (or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of the dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
人民的勤务员 Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don't have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a hum
orous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional respons are un- trustworthy and em likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is becau humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays clo to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
6.
In the first paragraph the author wants to say that ______.
∙** as scientists can disct a frog, so analysts can disct humor
∙**, scientific analysis is not appropriate for humor, for it may make humor lo its aesthetic value
∙** people's analysis of humor are too scientific
**' attempts at humor are not instructive enough to interest the author
A B C D
7.
The author us the example of the soap bubble blower to show that ______.
待字成语∙** is required to produce humor
∙** too much exaggeration nor absolute explicitness is fit for humor
∙** should perfect the art of humor just as the bubble blower does to the bubbles
** should make people frantic for a while
A B C D
8.
According to the author, humorists differ from ordinary people in the n that ______.
∙** give vent to their sorrows in a laughable way
