PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]
SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this ction there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answer marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
代理人英文PASSAGE ONE
合肥翻译公司(1) When I was twenty-ven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but the were tting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect. My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to putting it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to a. Just at nightfall, when hope wa
s about gone, I was picked up by a small ship which was bound for London. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.
(2) About ten o’clock on the following morning, dirty and hungry, I was dragging mylf along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nur-maid, tosd a big pear – minus one bite – into the gutter. I stopped, of cour, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpo, and of cour I straightened up then, and looked indifferent and pretended that I hadn’t been thinking about the pear at all. This same think kept happening and happening, and I couldn’t get the pear.
(3) I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to ize it, when a wi
经典好听的英文歌曲ndow behind me was raid, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying: “Step in here, plea.”
(4) I was admitted by a man rvant, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They nt away the rvant, and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the prence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best as I could.
(5) Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Tho two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of ttling everything.attach是什么意思
(6) You will remember that the Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be ud for a special purpo connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of the had been ud and ca
nceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in posssion of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn’t. Brother A said he couldn’t offer it at a bank or anywhere el, becau he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway, on that million, and keep out of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B went down to the Bank and bought that note. Then he dictated a letter, which one of his clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.
(7) I finally became the pick of them.
41. In Para. 1, the phra “t my feet” probably means ____.
A. put me aside
B. prepare me
C. let me walk
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D. start my journey
42. It can be concluded from Para. 2 that ____.
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A. the man wanted to maintain dignity though starved
B. the man could not get a proper chance to eat the pear.
C. the man did not really want the pear since it was dirty
D. it was very difficult for the man to get the pear
43. Compared with Brother A, Brother B was more ____ towards the effect of the one-million-pound bank-note on a total stranger.
A. neutral
B. negative
C. rerved
法语歌曲D. positive
the namePASSAGE TWO
(1) The concept of peace is a very important one in cultures all over the world. Think about how we greet people. In some languages, the phras for greetings contain the word for peace. In some cultures we greet people by shaking hands or with another gesture to show that we are not carrying weapons – that we come in peace. And there are certain symbols which people in very different cultures recognize as reprenting peace. Let’s look at a few of them.
The dove
fengtai(2) The dove has been a symbol of peace and innocence for thousands of years in many
different cultures. In ancient Greek mythology it was a symbol of love and the renewal of life. In ancient Japan a dove carrying a sword symbolized the end of war.
(3) There was a tradition in Europe that if a dove flew around a hou where someone was dying then their soul would be at peace. And there are legends which say that the devil can turn himlf into any bird except for a dove. In Christian are, the dove was ud to symbolize the Holy Ghost and was often painted above Christ’s head.
(4) But it was Pablo Picasso who made the dove a modern symbol of peace when he ud it on a poster for the World Peace Congress in 1949.
The rainbow
(5) The rainbow is another ancient and universal symbol, often reprenting the connection between human beings and their gods. In Greek mythology it was associated with Iris, the goddess who brought messages from the gods on Mount Olympus. In Scandinavian mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the gods and the earth. In th
e Bible a rainbow showed Noah that the Biblical flood was finally over, and that God had forgiven his people. In the Chine tradition, the rainbow is a common symbol for marriage becau the colours reprent the union of yin and yang. Nowadays the rainbow is ud by many popular movements for peace and the environment, reprenting the possibility of a better world in the future and promising sunshine after the rain.
