翻译硕士英语阅读理解专项强化真题试卷35
(总分100,考试时间60分钟)
阅读理解
(2)Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of a talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well, I have a few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in one's tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then, I will say to you, my young friends and I say it beechingly—Always obey your parents, when they are prent. This is the best policy in the long run, becau if you don't they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to othe
rs. If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he had not intended any offen, come out frankly and confess yourlf in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didn't mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
1. 1.According to the passage, why do people have to listen to some instructive advice when they were young?
A. Becau the advice are given by the elderly who have plenty of experience.
菜豆树B. Becau the didactic advice are suitable to youth.
C. Becau they should always obey the elderly.
D. Becau the youth would retain the impressive words and never treat them with oblivio
usness.
2. 2.What is the author's suggestion concerning the parents' words?
A. Their words are merely superstition.
B. Their words may help you accomplish more in your life.
丰碑的故事C. Their words could prevent you from making your own judgment.
D. Their words may offend you.
3. 3.The italicized word "humoring" means______.
A. putting into a good mood
B. making concessions to
C. entertaining
D. having the power to evoke laughter
4. 4.Among the following kinds of respon, which is not the proper behaviour when you are offended by others?
A. To grasp a proper chance and make a counterattack.
B. To decide whether the offender's behavior is performed with purpo or not.
C. Always being reluctant to strike back.
D. To resort to a furious return for the offen.
5. 5.The italicized term "the low and unrefined" means______.
A. the lower class
B. the barbarian三月英语
C. people lacking cultivation
D. the poor
(3)Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flights how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matter, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight; More than anything el, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make onelf popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.
"Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans(鹈鹕), the albatross(信天翁)? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!"
心经译文
" I don't mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know. "
卢冠廷如何测骨龄 "See here, Jonathan," said his father, not unkindly. "Winter isn't far away. Boats will be few, and surface fish will be swimming deep. If you must study, —then study food, and how to get it. This flying business is all very well, but you can't eat a glide. You know. Don'
蚊拍t you forget that the reasons you fly is to eat. "
Jonathan nodded obediently. For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls: he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers(码头)and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread. But he couldn't make it work.
It's all so pointless, he thought, deliberately, dropping a hard-won anchovy(鳀类鱼)to a hungry old gull chasing him. "I could be spending all this time learning to fly. There's so much to learn!"
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