心道>赵丽颖头像 专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷164
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(1) On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this largess that accounts for the prence within the city's walls of a considerable ction of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are to a large extent strangers who have pulled up stakes somewhere and come to town, eking sanctuary or fulfillment or some greater or lesr grail. The capacity to make such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
(2) New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertain
ment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiator, the evangelist, the promoter, the actor, the trader, and the merchant. It carries on its lapel the unexpungeable odor of the long past, so that no matter where you sit in New York you feel the vibrations of great times and tall deeds, of queer people and events and undertakings. I am sitting at the moment in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown. No air moves in or out of the room, yet I am curiously affected by emanations from the immediate surroundings. I am twenty-two blocks from where Rudolph Valentino lay in state, eight blocks from where Nathan Hale was executed, five blocks from the publisher's office where Ernest Hemingway hit Max Eastman on the no, four miles from where Walt Whitman sat sweating out editorials for the Brooklyn Eagle, thirty-four blocks from the street Willa Cather lived in when she came to New York to write books about Nebraska, one block from where Marceline ud to clown on the boards of the Hippodrome, thirty-six blocks from the spot where the historian Joe Gould kicked a radio to pieces in full view of me public, thirteen blocks from where Harry Thaw shot Stanford White, five blocks from where I ud to usher at me Met
ropolitan Opera and only 112 blocks from me spot where Clarence Day me elder was washed of his sins in me Church of me Epiphany (I could continue this list indefinitely). And for mat matter I am probably occupying me very room that any number of exalted and somewi memorable characters sat in, some of mem on hot, breamless afternoons, lonely and private and full of their own n of emanations from without.
(3) New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most den communities it succeeds in insulating me individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events mat are taking place every minute. Since I have been sitting in this miasmic air shaft, a good many rather splashy events have occurred in town. A man shot and killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. It caud no stir outside his block and got only small mention in the papers. I did not attend. Since my arrival, the greatest air show ever staged in all me world took place in town. I didn't attend and neither did most of the eight million other inhabitants, although they say there was quite a crowd. I didn't even hear any planes except a couple of westbound commercial airliners that habitually u this air shaft to fly
over.The biggest oceangoing ships on the North Atlantic arrived and departed. I didn't notice them and neither did most other New Yorkers. I am told this is the greatest aport in the world, with 650 miles of waterfront, and ships calling here from many exotic lands, but the only boat I've happened to notice since my arrival was a small sloop tacking out of the East River night before last on the ebb tide when I was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. I heard the Queen Mary blow one midnight, though, and the sound carried the whole history of departure and longing and loss.
(4) I mention the events merely to show that New York is peculiarly constructed to absorb almost anything that comes along (whether a thousand-foot liner out of the East or a twenty-thousand-man convention out of the West) without inflicting the event on its inhabitants; so that every event is, in a n, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choo his spectacle and so conrve his soul. In most metropolis, small and large, the choice is often not with the individual at all. He is thrown to the Lions. The Lions are overwhelming; the event is unavoidable.
(5) Although New York often imparts a feeling of great forlornness or forsakenness, it ldom ems dead or unresourceful; and you always feel that either by shifting your location ten blocks or by reducing your fortune by five dollars you can experience rejuvenation. Many people who have no real independence of spirit depend on the city's tremendous variety and sources of excitement for spiritual sustenance and maintenance of morale. In the country there are a few chances of sudden rejuvenation—a shift in weather, perhaps, or something arriving in the mail. But in New York the chances are endless. I think that although many persons are here from some excess of spirit (which caud them to break away from their small town), some, too, are here from a deficiency of spirit, who find in New York a protection, or an easy substitution.
1.According to Para. 1, the author ems to believe that______.(B)个人计划怎么写
A. New York is not suitable for people to live in
B. whether an individual enjoys living in New York depends on luck
C. most residents of New York lead an isolated life
D. New York is a city full of bizarreness and mystery
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解析：细节题。文章第一段倒数第二句提到，纽约这个城市既可以“毁灭”一个人，也可以充分满足一个人，这在很大程度上取决于个人运气。由此可知，一个人能否享受在纽约的生活，取决于他的运气如何，故[B]为答案。[A]是迷惑项，由该段最后两句可以看出，作者是用戏谑的语言说明，纽约并不能使每一个居民都感到满意，只有适合它的人才能在这里找到快乐，[A]表意过于绝对，故排除；从该段第二句得知，大部分曼哈顿居民来到纽约时都互不相识，但并不能推测出大部分纽约居民都离群索居，故排除[C]；[D]迷惑性较高，该段第一句提到，任何渴望获得离奇奖赏的人，纽约都会送上两件礼物：孤寂和私密。但这里作者并非指纽约本身是充满了离奇古怪的城市，故排除[D]。
2.What type of rhetorical device is ud in the fifth ntence in Para. 2?(D)
A. Analogy.
安全标准B. Allusion.
C. Contrast.
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D. Parallelism.
解析：修辞题。第二段第五句由九个短句组成，每一个短句都具有相似的结构，即…blocks(miles)from…作者通过这样的结构表明他的住所离纽约各个名人轶事发生地的距离，以此说明纽约是一个各界名流汇聚的城市。在修辞手法中，一连串具有相似结构的句子连续出现，起到增强气势的作用，属于排比的修辞手法，故[D]为答案。[A]“类比，类推”，指逻辑思维上的一种修辞手法，不符合此句用法，故排除；[B]“典故”，是迷惑项。虽然作者在这句话中提到了很多著名的人物和地点，但作者并未对它们加以引申阐述，因此不能称之为典故，故排除；[C]“对比”，作者在此句中并没有将各位名人进行对比，故排除。
