英语阅读(二)自考题-4美丽家族
父亲作文(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
PART ONE
Ⅰ.Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages. Following each passage, there are five questions with four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the best answer and then write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.
农业发展银行招聘Passage One
Whether we are aware of it or not, architecture is a part of everybody's personal history. The chances are that it is in a building that we are born and in which we die; that we work and learn and teach; that we think and make things; that we ll and buy, organize and negotiate, invent things, care for others. Most of us wake up in a building in
the morning, go to another building or ries of buildings to pass our day, and return to a building to sleep at night.
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古代文学家 Simply from living in buildings, we all have sufficient knowledge to begin a study of the history of architecture. But before doing so, there is one fundamental point we have to note, which makes architecture both different from the many other different arts and more difficult to judge: it has to be practical as well as attractive, uful on the one hand and beautiful on the other.
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The word architecture goes back through Latin to the Greek for "master builder". The ancients not only invented the word, but they gave it its clearest and **prehensive definition in the structures they left behind. According to Vitruvius, a Roman writer, architecture is the union of "firmness, commodity and delight". The first two conditions are concerned with the down-to-earth side of architecture-its structural practicality. The third deals with its visual or aesthetic aspect. Without "firmness", it is dangerous; without "commodity", it is merely large-scale sculpture; and without "delight", it is just a building.
For any given building, all three conditions are vital, but the history of architecture shows that they were not always of equal interest to the peoples of different periods. Some periods were structurally innovative, the buildings of the Romans, for example, while others, such as tho of the Greeks, tended to accept inherited structural methods **paratively little change or advancement. The changing function of buildings also varies greatly from period to period. Once the patterns of u of certain long-lived types, such as Hindu temples, Christian churches or the modern office block, are established, it is only usually minor functional changes that follow.
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1. Which of the following best express the main idea of the first paragraph?______A. We are not aware of the importance of architecture. B. Everybody knows the u of a building. C. Architecture plays a very important part in people's lives. D. Architecture is not a part of everybody's personal history.
2. Architecture is different from the many other different arts becau ______.A. it is more difficult to judge B. it is not practical C. it has to be uful but not attractive D. it has to be both practical and beautiful
3. The word "architecture" means "master builder" in ______.A. Latin B. Greek C. Rome D. Christian churches
4. The word "they" (Line 2, Para. 4) refers to ______.A. buildings B. people C. firmness, commodity and delight D. the history of architecture
5. According to the passage, the Romans ______.A. had little interest in changing the function of their buildings B. liked the ancient structure of the buildings C. tended to accept inherited structural methods D. tended to change the function of the buildings
Passage Two
Rush hour in a provincial town is certainly not so busy as in London, but even so there are plenty of people moving about. Long, patient queues wait wearily for bus. Never-ending lines of cars are checked while red traffic lights change to green. Thousands of people are packed tightly in trains, the men's faces buried in their evening papers while women trying in vain to knit. In a slow train it may well be an hour's journey to their station.
James Saxon is in his ****er, quietly smoking a cigarette. When he is traveling by train at this time, he always reaches the station at ten past five by the station clock, but he never catches the 5:14 train. Instead he travels by the train which leaves at twenty-four minutes past five so as to be sure of getting **er at. There are no first-**partments or rerved ats on this train. He appears to be absorbed in the sport news on the back page of his paper and ignores the hurrying crowds.
敏捷制造 Facing him this evening there is a Finnish youth of eighteen, Matti Arpola. This is his first visit to England, though he already knows Geoffrey, the eldest son of the Jackson family, with whom he is going to stay.
As there are veral people standing, James Saxon is the only person he can e clearly. Matti decides that he is probably a typical Englishman, and he obrves James carefully.
"Can he really be typical?" he thinks. He has an umbrella, neatly rolled, but no bowler hat; in fact, no hat at all. Of cour, he is reading about cricket and he is rerved and not
interested in other people. But he is only of average height and his hair is: not fair, but as dark as that of an Italian, and curly, with almost no parting. He is not smoking a pipe and although we foreigners think that a real Englishman ought to have a moustache, he is clean-shaven. His no is slightly crooked. What a rious face he has! He is frowning a little, but the eyes beneath his worried-looking forehead are sincere and honest. I don't think he is intelligent.
