专业八级-410及答案解析.doc

1、专业八级-410 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、READING COMPREHENSIO(总题数：0，分数：0.00)二、Passage 1(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Is there anything more boring than hearing about someone else“s dream? And is there anything more miraculous than having one of your own? The voluptuous pleasure of Harold Murakami“s enthralling ficti

2、onsfull of enigmatic imagery, random nonsense, and profundities that may or may not hold up in the light of dayreminds me of dreaming. Like no other author I can think of, Murakami captures the juxtapositions of the trivial and the momentous that characterize dream life, those crazy incidents that s

3、eem so vivid in the moment and so blurry and preposterous later on. His characters live ordinary lives, boiling pasta for lunch, riding the bus, and blasting Prince while working out at the gym. Then suddenly and matter-of-factly, they do something utterly nuts, like strike up a conversation with a

4、coquettish Siamese cat. Or maybe mackerel and sardines begin to rain from the sky. In Murakami“s world, these things make complete, cock-eyed sense. Like many of Murakami“s heroes, Kafka Tamura in Kafka on the Shore has more rewarding relationships with literature and music than with people. (Muraka

5、mi“s passion for music is infectious; nothing made me want to rush out and purchase a Brahms CD until I read his Sputnik Sweetheart.) On his 15th birthday, Kafka runs away from his Tokyo home for obscure reasons related to his famous sculptor father. His choice of a destination is arbitrary. Or is i

6、t? “Shikoku, I decide. That“s where I“ll go. The more I look at the mapactually every time I study itthe more I feel Shikoku tugging at me.“ On the island of Shikoku, Kafka makes himself a fixture at the local library, where he settles into a comfortable sofa and starts reading The Arabian Nights: “

7、Like the genie in the bottle they have this sort of vital, living sense of play, of freedom that common sense can“t keep bottled up.“ As in a David Lynch movie, all the library staffers are philosophical eccentrics ready to advance the surreal narrative. Oshima, the androgynous clerk, talks to Kafka

8、 about (inevitably) Kafka and the merits of driving while listening to Schubert (“a dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I“m driving, I might want to close my eyes and di

9、e right there“). The tragically alluring head librarian, Miss Saeki, once wrote a hit song called “Kafka on the Shore“and may or may not be Kafka“s long-lost mother. Alarmingly, she also stars in his erotic fantasies. In alternating chapters, Murakami records the even odder antics of Nakata, a simpl

10、eminded cat catcher who spends his days chatting with tabbies in a vacant Tokyo lot. One afternoon, a menacing dog leads him to the home of a sadistic cat killer who goes by the name Johnnie Walker. Walker ends up dead by the end of the encounter; back in Shikoku, Kafka unaccountably finds himself d

11、renched in blood. Soon, Nakata too begins feeling an inexplicable pull toward the island. If this plot sounds totally demented, trust me, it gets even weirder than that. Like a dream, you just have to be there. And, like a dream, what this dazzling novel meansor whether it means anything at allwe ma

12、y never know.（分数：20.00）(1).What is “Kafka on the Shore“?（分数：4.00）A.It is a fiction written by a head librarian Miss Saeki.B.It is an autobiographical novel of Kafkka Tamura.C.It is a movie adapted from Haruki Murakami“s book.D.It is the name of a hit song in a novel under the same name.(2).According

13、 to the author, which of the following is NOT true about Haruki Murakami“s novels?（分数：4.00）A.They bring the sensory pleasure to the author.B.They are full of imagination without any profundities.C.They juxtapose the trivial with the momentous.D.They are similar in characteristics to dreams.(3).Accor

14、ding to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about Kafka?（分数：4.00）A.He is familiar with literature and music.B.He has a good relationship with his father.C.He leaves Tokyo for Shikoku at his teens.D.He often goes to the local library on Shikoku Island.(4).The word “demented“ in the last p

15、aragraph refers to（分数：4.00）A.crazy.B.interesting.C.fancy.D.boring.(5).What is the writer“s tone in this passage?（分数：4.00）A.Approving.B.Criticizing.C.Ironical.D.Neutral.三、Passage 2(总题数：1，分数：20.00)I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five y

16、ears ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant. We sat side by side, watching the sun go down behind the old Texaco service station across the busy street, a street that I was never allowed to cross unless accompanied by an adult, or at the very least, an older sibling. Cherry-s

17、cented smoke from Grandpa“s pipe kept the hungry mosquitoes at bay while gray, wispy swirls danced around our heads. Now and again, he blew a smoke ring and laughed as I tried to target the hole with my finger. I, clad in a cool summer night, and Grandpa, his sleeveless T-shirt, sat watching the tra

18、ffic. We counted cars and tried to guess the color of the next one to turn the corner. Once again, I was caught in the middle of circumstances. The fourth born of six children, it was not uncommon that I was either too young or too old for something. This night I was both. While my two baby brothers

19、 slept inside the house, my three older siblings played with friends around the corner, where I was not allowed to go. I stayed with Grandpa, and that was okay with me. I was where I wanted to be. My grandfather was babysitting while my mother, father and grandmother went out. “Thirsty?“ Grandpa ask

20、ed, never removing the pipe from his mouth. “Yes,“ was my reply. “How would you like to run over to the gas station there and get yourself a bottle of Coke?“ I couldn“t believe my ears. Had I heard it right? Was he talking to me? On my family“s modest income, Coke was not a part of our budget or die

21、t. A few tantalizing sips was all I had ever had, and certainly never my own bottle. “Okay,“ I replied shyly, already wondering how I would get across the street. Surely Grandpa was going to come with me. Grandpa stretched his long leg out straight and reached his huge hand deep into the pocket. I c

22、ould hear the familiar jangling of the loose change he always carried. Opening his fist, he exposed a mound of silver coins. There must have been a million dollars there. He instructed me to pick out a dime. After he deposited the rest of the change back into his pocket, he stood up. “Okay,“ he said

23、, helping me down the stairs and to the curb, “I“m going to stay here and keep an ear out for the babies. I“ll tell you when it“s safe to cross. You go over to the Coke machine, get your Coke and come back out. Wait for me to tell you when it“s safe to cross back.“ My heart pounded. I clutched my di

24、me tightly in my sweaty palm. Excitement took my breath away. Grandpa held my hand tightly. Together we looked up the street and down, and back up again. He stepped off the curb and told me it was safe to cross. He let go of my hand and I ran. I ran faster than I had ever run before. The street seem

25、ed wide. I wondered if I would make it to the other side. Reaching the other side, I turned to find Grandpa. There he was, standing exactly where I had left him, smiling proudly. I waved. “Go on, hurry up,“ he yelled. My heart pounded wildly as I walked inside the dark garage. I had been inside the

26、garage before with my father. My surroundings were familiar. I heard the Coca-Cola machine motor humming even before I saw it. I walked directly to the big old red-and-white dispenser. I knew where to insert my dime. I had seen it done before and had fantasized about this moment many times. The big

27、old monster greedily accepted my dime, and I heard the bottles shift. On tiptoes I reached up and opened the heavy door. There they were: one neat row of thick green bottles, necks staring directly at me, and ice cold from the refrigeration. I held the door open with my shoulder and grabbed one. Wit

28、h a quick yank, I pulled it free from its bondage. Another one immediately took its place. The bottle was cold in my sweaty hands. I will never forget the feeling of the cool glass on my skin. With two hands, I positioned the bottleneck under the heavy brass opener that was bolted to the wall. The c

29、ap dropped into an old wooden box, and I reached in to retrieve it. I was cold and bent in the middle, but I knew I needed to have this souvenir. Coke in hand, I proudly marched back out into the early evening dusk. Grandpa was waiting patiently. He smiled. “Stop right there,“ he yelled. One or two

30、cars sped by me, and once again, Grandpa stepped off the curb. “Come on, now,“ he said, “run.“ I did. Cool brown foam sprayed my hands. “Don“t ever do that alone,“ he warned. I held the Coke bottle tightly; fearful he would make me pour it into a cup, ruining this dream come true. He didn“t. One lon

31、g swallow of the cold beverage cooled my sweating body. I don“t think I ever felt so proud.（分数：20.00）(1).From the first three paragraphs, we can infer that（分数：4.00）A.the author would prefer playing with his three older siblings to staying with his grandpa.B.they were living in the suburbs where ther

32、e were not too much traffic on the road.C.the grandpa was always the one to babysit for the author and his siblings.D.the author enjoyed the time that he spent with his grandpa.(2).By saying “I was caught in the middle of circumstances“ in the third paragraph, the author means（分数：4.00）A.he was facin

33、g a dilemma and did not know what decision to make.B.he was caught when he was doing something that he was not supposed to do.C.he was either too young or too old for something as the fourth born of six children.D.he was doing something that required him to consider different circumstances.(3).The a

34、uthor“s grandpa was described as being all the following EXCEPT（分数：4.00）A.considerate.B.stingy.C.careful.D.kind.(4).From the passage we can infer that the relationship between the author and his Grandpa was（分数：4.00）A.close.B.remote.C.tense.D.impossible to tell.(5).Which of the following is NOT true,

35、 according to the passage?（分数：4.00）A.It was the first time that the author crossed the street by himself.B.It was the first time that the author went in that garage.C.The author bought the Coca-Cola from a vending machine.D.The author“s grandpa kept an eye on him the whole time.四、Passage 3(总题数：1，分数：

36、20.00)I was taken by a friend one afternoon to a theatre. When the curtain was raised, the stage was perfectly empty save for tall grey curtains which enclosed it on all sides, and presently through the thick folds of those curtains children came dancing in, singly, or in pairs, till a whole troop o

37、f ten or twelve were assembled. They were all girls; none, I think, more than fourteen years old, one or two certainly not more than eight. They wore but little clothing, their legs, feet and arms being quite bare. Their hair, too, was unbound; and their faces, grave and smiling, were so utterly dea

38、r and joyful, that in looking on them one felt transported to some Garden of Hesperides, a where self was not, and the spirit floated in pure ether. Some of these children were fair and rounded, others dark and elf-like; but one and all looked entirely happy, and quite unself-conscious, giving no im

39、pression of artifice, though they had evidently had the highest and most careful training. Each flight and whirling movement seemed conceived there and then out of the joy of beingdancing had surely never been a labour to them, either in rehearsal or performance. There was no tiptoeing and posturing

40、, no hopeless muscular achievement; all was rhythm, music, light, air, and above all things, happiness. Smiles and love had gone to the fashioning of their performance; and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces and from the clever white turnings of their limbs. Amongst themthough all w

41、ere delightfulthere were two who especially riveted my attention. The first of these two was the tallest of all the children, a dark thin girl, in whose every expression and movement there was a kind of grave, fiery love. During one of the many dances, it fell to her to be the pursuer of a fair chil

42、d, whose movements had a very strange soft charm; and this chase, which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water lily, or the wooing of a moonbeam by the June night, had in it a most magical sweet passion. That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had the queerest power

43、of symbolising all longing, and moving one“s heart. In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour, and ever arrested at the very moment of conquest, one seemed to see the great secret force that hunts through the world, on and on, tragically unresting, immortally sweet. The other child w

44、ho particularly enhanced me was the smallest but one, a brown-haired fairy crowned with a half moon of white flowers, who wore a scanty little rose-petal-coloured shift that floated about her in the most delightful fashion. She danced as never child danced. Every inch of her small head and body was

45、full of the sacred fire of motion; and in her little pas seul she seemed to be the very spirit of movement. One felt that Joy had flown down, and was inhabiting there; one heard the rippling of Joy“s laughter. And, indeed, through all the theatre had risen a rustling and whispering; and sudden burst

46、s of laughing rapture. I looked at my friend; he was trying stealthily to remove something from his eyes with a finger. And to myself the stage seemed very misty, and all things in the world lovable; as though that dancing fairy had touched them with tender fire, and made them golden. God knows wher

47、e she got that power of bringing joy to our dry hearts; God knows how long she will keep it! But that little flying Love had in her the quality that lie deep in colour, in music, in the wind, and the sun, and in certain great works of artthe power to see the heart free from every barrier, and flood

48、it with delight.（分数：20.00）(1).From this passage, it can be inferred that（分数：4.00）A.the dancing girls are all very beautiful.B.the girls come from all over the world.C.the two tallest girls are the outstanding dancers.D.the girls“ performance is very successful.(2).Which of the following statements c

49、ontains a metaphor?（分数：4.00）A, and smiles and love shone from every one of their faces.B, which was like the hovering of a dragonfly round some water lily.C.That dark, tender huntress, so full of fire and yearning, had.D.In her, pursuing her white love with such wistful fervour.(3).According to the author, the tallest girl among the children（分数：4.00）A.danced with a serious expression.B.was a dark and rounded girl.C.acted as a hovering dragonfly.D.pursued her love in the dance.(4).The sentence “ .to myself the stage seemed very misty.“ in the 5th paragraph implies that the author（分数：