[外语类试卷]专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷94及答案与解析.doc

1、专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷 94及答案与解析 SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS In this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A , B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. 0 (1)Mr.

2、 Duffy raised his eyes from the paper and gazed out of his window on the cheerless evening landscape. The river lay quiet beside the empty distillery and from time to time a light appeared in some house on Lucan Road. What an end! The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to

3、think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred. The cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach. Not merely had she degraded herself; she had degraded him. His souls companion! He thought of the hobbling wretches whom h

4、e had seen carrying cans and bottles to be filled by the barman. Just God, what an end! Evidently she had been unfit to live, without any strength of purpose, an easy prey to habits, one of the wrecks on which civilization has been reared. But that she could have sunk so low! Was it possible he had

5、deceived himself so utterly about her? He remembered her outburst of that night and interpreted it in a harsher sense than he had ever done. He had no difficulty now in approving of the course he had taken. (2)As the light failed and his memory began to wander he thought her hand touched his. The sh

6、ock which had first attacked his stomach was now attacking his nerves. He put on his overcoat and hat quickly and went out. The cold air met him on the threshold; it crept into the sleeves of his coat. When he came to the public-house at Chapel Bridge he went in and ordered a hot punch. (3)The propr

7、ietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six working-men in the shop discussing the value of a gentlemans estate in County Kildare. They drank at intervals from their huge pint tumblers, and smoked, spitting often on the floor and sometimes dragging the sawdust o

8、ver their heavy boots. Mr. Duffy sat on his stool and gazed at them, without seeing or hearing them. After a while they went out and he called for another punch. He sat a long time over it. The shop was very quiet. The proprietor sprawled on the counter reading the newspaper and yawning. Now and aga

9、in a tram was heard swishing along the lonely road outside. (4)As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images on which he now conceived her, he realized that she was dead, that she had ceased to exist, that she had become a memory. He began to feel ill at ease.

10、 He asked himself what else could he have done. He could not have lived with her openly. He had done what seemed to him best. How was he to blame? Now that she was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night after night alone in that room. His life would be lonely too until

11、he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory if anyone remembered him. 1 Mr. Duffys immediate reaction to the report of the womans death was that of_. （ A） disgust （ B） guilt （ C） grief （ D） compassion 2 We can infer from the last paragraph that Mr. Duffy was in a(n)_ mood. （ A） angry （ B） fretfu

12、l （ C） irritable （ D） remorseful 3 According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true? （ A） Mr. Duffy once confided in the woman. （ B） Mr. Duffy felt an intense sense of shame. （ C） The woman wanted to end the relationship. （ D） They became estranged probably after a quarrel. 3

13、(1)Every street had a story, every building a memory. Those blessed with wonderful childhoods can drive the streets of their hometowns and happily roll back the years. The rest are pulled home by duty and leave as soon as possible. After Ray Atlee had been in Clanton(his hometown)for fifteen minutes

14、 he was anxious to get out. (2)The town had changed, but then it hadnt. On the highways leading in, the cheap metal buildings and mobile homes were gathering as tightly as possible next to the roads for maximum visibility. This town had no zoning whatsoever. A landowner could build anything with no

15、permit, no inspection, no notice to adjoining landowners, nothing. Only hog farms and nuclear reactors required approvals and paperwork. The result was a slash-and-build clutter that got uglier by the year. (3)But in the older sections, nearer the square, the town had not changed at all. The long sh

16、aded streets were as clean and neat as when Ray roamed them on his bike. Most of me houses were still owned by people he knew, or if those folks had passed on the new owners kept the lawns clipped and the shutters painted. Only a few were being neglected. A handful had been abandoned. (4)This deep i

17、n Bible country, it was still an unwritten rule in the town that little was done on Sundays except go to church, sit on porches, visit neighbours, rest and relax the way God intended. (5)It was cloudy, quite cool for May, and as he toured his old turf, killing time until the appointed hour for the f

18、amily meeting, he tried to dwell on the good memories from Clanton. There was Dizzy Dean Park where he had played Little League for the Pirates, and there was the public pool hed swum in every summer except 1969 when the city closed it rather than admit black children. There were the churches Baptis

19、t, Methodist, and Presbyterian facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height They were empty now, but in an hour or so the more faithful would gather for evening services. (6)The square was as lifeless as the streets leading to it. Wi

20、th eight thousand people, Clanton was just large enough to have attracted the discount stores that had wiped out so many small towns. But here the people had been faithful to their downtown merchants, and there wasnt a single empty or boarded-up building around the square no small miracle. The retai

21、l shops were mixed in with the banks and law offices and cafes, all closed for the Sabbath. (7)He inched through the cemetery and surveyed the Atlee section in the old part, where the tombstones were grander. Some of his ancestors had built monuments for their dead. Ray had always assumed that the f

22、amily money hed never seen must have been buried in those graves. He parked and walked to his mothers grave, something he hadnt done in years. She was buried among the Atlees, at the far edge of the family plot because she had barely belonged. (8)Soon, in less than an hour, he would be sitting in hi

23、s fathers study, sipping bad instant tea and receiving instructions on exactly how his father would be laid to rest. Many orders were about to be given, many decrees and directions, because his father(who used to be a judge)was a great man and cared deeply about how he was to be remembered. (9)Movin

24、g again, Ray passed the water tower hed climbed twice, the second time with the police waiting below. He grimaced at his old high school, a place hed never visited since hed left it. Behind it was the football field where his brother Forrest had romped over opponents and almost became famous before

25、getting bounced off the team. (10)It was twenty minutes before five, Sunday, May 7. Time for the family meeting. 4 From the first paragraph, we get the impression that _. （ A） Ray cherished his childhood memories （ B） Ray had something urgent to take care of （ C） Ray may not have a happy childhood （

26、 D） Ray cannot remember his childhood days 5 Which of the following adjectives is NOT suitable to describe Rays hometown? （ A） Lifeless. （ B） Religious. （ C） Traditional. （ D） Quiet. 6 From the passage we can infer that the relationship between Ray and his parents was _. （ A） close （ B） remote （ C）

27、tense （ D） harmony 6 (1)Since the Titanic vanished beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 85 years ago, nothing in the hundreds of books and films about the ship has ever hinted at a connection to Japan until now. Director James Camerons 200 million epic Titanic premiered at the Tokyo Inter

28、national Film Festival last Saturday. Among the audience for a glimpse of Hollywoods costliest film there are descendants of the liners only Japanese survivor. (2)The newly rediscovered diary of Masabumi Hosono has Titanic enthusiasts in a frenzy. The document is scrawled in 4,300 Japanese character

29、 on a rare piece of RMS Titanic stationery. Written as the Japanese bureaucrat steamed to safety in New York aboard the ocean liner Carpathia, which rescued 706 survivors, the account and other documents released by his grandchildren last week offer a fresh and poignantreminder of the emotional wrec

30、kage left by the tragedy. (3)Hosono, then 42 and an official at Japans Transportation Ministry, was studying railway networks in Europe. He boarded the Titanic in Southampton, en route home via the US. According to Hosonos account, he was awakened by a “loud knock“ on the door of his second-class de

31、ck with the steerage passengers. Hosono tried to race back upstairs, but a sailor blocked his way. The Japanese feigned ignorance and pushed past. He arrived on deck to find lifeboats being lowered into darkness, flares bursting over the ship and an eerie human silence. He wrote: “Not a single passe

32、nger would howl or scream.“ (4)Yet Hosono was screaming inside. Women were being taken to lifeboats and men held back at gunpoint. “I tried to prepare myself for the last moment with no agitation, making up my mind not to do anyming disgraceful as a Japanese,“ he wrote. “But still I found myself loo

33、king for and waiting for any possible chance of survival.“ Then an officer shouted, “Room for two more!“ Hosono recalled:“I myself was deep in desolate thought that I would no more be able to see my beloved wife and children.“ Then he jumped into me boat. (5)When Hosono arrived in Tokyo two months l

34、ater, he was met with suspicion mat he had survived at someone elses expense. The culture of shame was especially strong in prewar Japan. In the face of rumors and bad press, Hosono was dismissed from his post in 1914. He worked at the office part-time until retiring in 1923. His grandchildren say h

35、e never mentioned the Titanic again before his death in 1939. (6)Even then, shame continued to haunt the family. In newspapers, letters and even a school textbook, Hosono was denounced as a disgrace to Japan. Readers Digest reopened the wound in 1956 witii an abridged Japanese version of Walter Load

36、s best seller. A Night to remember, which described “Anglo-Saxons“ as acting bravely on the Titanic, while “Frenchmen, Italians, Americans, Japanese and Chinese were disgraceful.“ Citing his fathers diary, one of Hosonos sons, Hideo, launched a letter-writing campaign to restore the family name. But

37、 nobody in Japan seemed to care. (7)The diary resurfaced last summer. A representative for a US foundation tiiat plans to hold an exhibition of Titanic artifacts in Japan next August found Hosonos name on a passenger list. A search led him to Haruomi Hosono, a well-known composer, and to his cousin

38、Yuruoi, Hideos daughter. She revealed that she had her grandfathers dairy as well as a collection of his letters and postcards. “I was floored,“ says Michael Findley, cofounder of the Titanic International Society in the US. “This is a fantastic, fresh new look at the sinking and the only one writte

39、n on Titanic stationery immediately after the disaster.“ (8)The information allows enthusiasts to rearrange some historical minutes, such as which lifeboat Hosono jumped into. More chilling, me account confirms that the crew tried to keep foreigners and third-class passengers on the ships lower deck

40、, effectively ensuring their name. The diary cannot correct injustice, but Hosonos family hopes it will help clear his name. The Titanic foundation also hopes to capitalize on the diary and the movie to promote its upcoming exhibition. To that end, Haruomi Hosono, the composer, has been asked to giv

41、e a talk at next months public premiere of Titanic! The diary cannot, of course, match Camerons fictionalized epic for drama and intrigue. But at least Masabumi Hosonos tale really happened. 7 From the description in the passage, “Carpathia“ was _. （ A） the ocean liner sent to rescue the sinking vic

42、tims （ B） me ocean liner Hosono boarded to return to Japan （ C） the boat Hosono jumped into when “Titanic“ was sinking （ D） the ocean liner sailing together with “Titanic“ 8 Which of the following is NOT likely to happen after the rediscovery of the diary? （ A） People will reconsider some of the det

43、ails related to the “Titanic“ tragedy. （ B） The oppressive condemnation on Hosono from his country fellows will be erased. （ C） Some businessmen will take advantage of the diary for their own purpose. （ D） Hosonos descendents would seize the opportunity to clear their family name. 9 The authors atti

44、tude towards the Japanese survivor is _. （ A） positive （ B） negative （ C） neutral （ D） unconcerned 9 (1)“All right, boys and girls, whod like to see some magic?“ Twice a day the ferry Arahura and it is greeted with cries of “Me!“ from children, and with sighs of relief from parents, glad to find som

45、ething to occupy their kids for at least half an hour of the three-hour trip. (2)The parental savior in question is Nigel Kennedy, a professional magician who has been working in the ferry for the past seven years. The facilities aren t great there is no designated performance space, and he has to c

46、onjure more or less in a corridor but there is room enough to wave a wand and wow an audience more captive than most. (3)Kennedy, 33, thrives on the work, which guarantees him a level of exposure he would not readily find elsewhere. The Arahura carries thousands of people each day in the holiday sea

47、son. “Every time I travel,“ says Jonathan Morgan, manager of passenger services for the ferry line, “he is ringed with kids, like the Pied Piper.“ (4)The key to what Morgan refers to as Kennedys stunning success is audience participation: every show, he ropes in four kids to help, although they usua

48、lly wind up being the butt of his tricks. Wands are apt to wobble, droop, squeak or vanish; lossies and hankies turn up in unexpected places. Kennedy is a dab hand with balloons, too, twisting them at top speed into crowns, swords, worms, ducks and donkeys. (5)The childrens work, he says, is his bre

49、ad and butter, although it is not without its hazards. “Adults are very predictable to perform for as an audience. They will always clap in the same place, always laugh in the same place. But kids, you cant predict what theyre going to say or do. Sometimes youre going to have a little five-year-old whos going to sit there with his arms folded and say this tricks absolutely pathetic some word hes learnt from his parents.“ (6)Kennedy was drawn to magic in the classic manner. “I got given a magic book when I was