考博英语-319
(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
二、综合题型(总题数：5，分数：10.00)
1.How can rearchers in "sleep laboratories" tell that the animals they are obrving are asleep or not?
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A.They e if the animals respond to light and sound.
B.They do this by obrving changes in the animals' brain signals, breathing, heartbeat, and muscle activity. √
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C.They e if the animals' eyes are clod.
下雨天的作文 D.They can tell this by eing if the animals lie down or not.
仙人走兽解析：从第三段“The answers come from…than when they appear to be awake．”可知，研究人员用一种叫做EEC的机器测量脑信号、呼吸、心跳和肌肉活动，以判断它们是否在睡觉，因为动物睡觉时和醒着时，测量结果是不一样的。
2.The statement," Hors and cows, for example, rarely clo their eyes" aims to show that ______.
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A.the animals rarely need any rest
B.they almost always keep alert to danger
C.they often stay awake
D.their eyes are rarely clod even when they are asleep √
解析：作者在第二段说，马和牛很少闭上眼睛，但这并不能说明它们不睡觉。事实上它们睡觉的时候眼睛经常是睁开的。
3.Animals that are good sleepers ______.
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&d to have a good sleep after they have exhausted themlves by getting rid of hunting animals
&d to have a good sleep after they get tired from hunting other animals
C.are all mammals
D.almost always have a safe resting place √
解析：根据第三段中句子“Interestingly，the good…from their enemies”可知，能睡觉的动物都是有安全休息地点的捕食者，所以选D。其余选项都不正确。
4.According to the author, all animals ______.
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A.spend some time resting √
B.clo their eyes when sleeping
C.are good sleepers
D.are poor sleepers
解析：答案A(all animals must spend some time resting)跟第一段的首句All animals must rest意思相同。
5.According to the rearch findings mentioned in the passage, reptiles ______.
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A.such as turtles and snakes cannot clo their eyes
B.cannot be studied with an EEC
C.do not sleep in the tree n of the word √
D.do not need to rest
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解析：答案C的意思与第三段中的do not truly sleep的意思完全吻合。
三、
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed.(总题数：5，分数：10.00)
子非鱼焉知鱼之乐的意思
6.According to the author, humorists differ from ordinary people in the n that ______.
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A.they give vent to their sorrows in a laughable way
B.they have much trouble in their life and they are melancholy
C.they are more nsible of the sadness of life and they endure and express the pain cheerfully √
D.they are mostly clowns with a breaking heart
解析：在第三段中，作者认为每个人的人生都有忧郁与悲伤，所以B不正确。而幽默家对悲伤更敏感，主动积极的去弥补它。幽默家从困境中得到滋养，高高兴兴的忍受痛苦，用幽默的语言表达出来，所以选项C比选项A恰当。作者认为说幽默家是小丑是不恰当的，所以D不正确。
7.The passage's success lies in its extensive u of ______.
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A.parallelism
&aphors √
&my
D.similes
解析：parallelism排比；metaphor暗喻；metonymy换喻；simile明喻。全文多次使用暗喻的修辞手法，使文章生动、含蓄而耐人寻味，激发人的思考，比如“the strong tide of human woe”，这正是文章的成功之处。因此选B。鼻子里面有血
8.A humorous piece of writing can make the reader's emotional respons untrustworthy
becau ______.
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A.it express the truth of the sadness of human life with a sparkling surface √采集英文
B.everyone has his happy moments and unhappy moments
C.there is an obvious line between laughing and crying
D.it is like poetry, very rhythmic
解析：根据第三段最后一句话“Beneath the sparking surface…human woe”选答案A。
9.The author us the example of the soap bubble blower to show that ______.
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A.skill is required to produce humor
&ither too much exaggeration nor absolute explicitness is fit for humor √
C.people should perfect the art of humor just as the bubble blower does to the bubbles
工作简历表 D.humor should make people frantic for a while
解析：第二段说“Humor is a little like that…it is a complete mystery．”，意思是说幽默经受不住夸张，也经受不住过于直截了当。答案B正是这个意思。
10.In the first paragraph the author wants to say that ______.
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A.just as scientists can disct a frog, so analysts can disct humor
B.detailed, scientific analysis is not appropriate for humor, for it may make humor lo its
aesthetic value √
C.some people' s analysis of humor are too scientific
D.analysts' attempts at humor are not instructive enough to interest the author
解析：第一段中讲到“Humor can be discted…dies in the process”，意思是说人们能够像解剖青蛙那样剖析幽默，不过一经剖析，幽默则荡然无存。其中The thing指代humor，die意思是“消失”。
四、
The word science is heard so often, in modem times that almost everybody has some notion of its meaning.(总题数：5，分数：10.00)
