1、BFT阅读（综合）模拟试卷 7及答案与解析 一、 Part 1 0 In the world of entertainment, TV talk shows have undoubtedly flooded every inch of space on daytime television.【 R1】 _But no two shows are more profoundly opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and the Oprah
2、 Winfrey show. Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of “trash talk“.【 R2】 _For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show themes of love, sex, cheating, guilt, hate, conflict and morality to a different level. 【 R3】 _ Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its
3、extreme, but Oprah goes in the opposite direction.【 R4】 _Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your workweek, to getting to know your neighbors. Compared with Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dumped on society. Jerry ends ever with a “final
4、word“.【 R5】 _Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable. Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone.【 R6】 _Most of these people have the time, money, and stability to deal with lifes tougher problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of an ass
5、ociation with the young adults of society.【 R7】_They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underneath the shows exploitation. While the two shows are as different as night and day, both have ruled the talk show circuit for many years now.【 R8】 _Ironically, both could also be cons
6、idered pioneers in the talk show world. A. He makes a small speech that sums up the entire moral of the show. B. The show focuses on the improvement of society and an individuals quality of life. C. The shows main target audience are middle-class Americans. D. Each one caters to a different audience
7、 while both have a strong following from large groups of fans. E. The topics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be. F. These are 18 to 20 years old whose main troubles in life involve love relationship, sex, money and peers. G And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one varies
8、 in style and format. H Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is a display and exploitation of societys moral catastrophe, yet people are willing to eat up the intriguing predicaments of other peoples lives. 1 【 R1】 2 【 R2】 3 【 R3】 4 【 R4】 5 【 R5】 6 【 R6】 7 【 R7】 8 【 R8】 8 Beauty has always been regarded
9、 as something praiseworthy.【 R1】 _They have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants.【 R2】 _While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive la
10、dder, it is harmful to a woman. 【 R3】 _Their effort and ability were thought to account for their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones.【 R4】 _All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable th
11、an the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than was that of attractive overnight successes. 【 R5】 _An attractive woman is perceived to be more feminine and an attractiv
12、e man more masculine than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has advantage in traditionally female jobs.【 R6】 _This is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently,“ says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the
13、effects of attractiveness on political candidates.【 R7】 _She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, in order of attractiveness, one group of men and one group of women. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to ra
14、nk them again, in the order they vote for them. The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men. 【 R8】 _ A. But an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the masculine qualities required. B. She did a survey among college students. C. Almost
15、 everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier. D. Their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck. E. But in the executive circle, beauty can be a liability. F. However, the women who had ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes. G. Why are a
16、ttractive women not thought to be able? H. Handsome male executives were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men. 9 【 R1】 10 【 R2】 11 【 R3】 12 【 R4】 13 【 R5】 14 【 R6】 15 【 R7】 16 【 R8】 16 The cat has probably been associated with Man since it was first given a place by his fire in return
17、 for keeping the cave dwelling free of rats and mice.【 R1】 _Mans attitude has ranged through indifference and neglect to the extremes of persecution and worship. 【 R2】 _Temples were built in their honour. Probably the most revered of animal deities was Bast, the cat-headed goddess.【 R3】 _Occasionall
18、y, Bast was depicted as lion-headed, but the majority of the statues of her show her as cat-headed, often surrounded by sacred cats or kittens. The Egyptians had great faith in the power of a living cat to protect them from both natural and supernatural evils.【 R4】 _These decorated their homes and w
19、ere buried with them to ensure that the soul of the dead person was protected on its perilous journey through the hostile spirit world. 【 R5】 _At the end of the last century, a cat cemetery was discovered near the site the ancient city of Bubastis. Here literally hundreds of thousands of little cat
20、mummies were found ranged neatly on shelves.【 R6】 _Thousands were left. An Alexandrian speculator finally thought of a way of turning them into money. He offered them for sale as manure and in 1890 he had a cargo of 180,000 of them shipped to Liverpool.【 R7】 _They mad less than 4 a ton, much less th
21、an the value of a single specimen today. The ancient Jews believed that when a religious person who had reached a high degree of sanctity died, his soul entered the body of a cat and remained there until the cat itself died a natural death. 【 R8】 _ A. They made small ornaments and charms representin
22、g cats and the various cat deities. B. The relationship between the cat and Man has not been constant, however. C. There was even a city, Bubastis, named after her. D. Some were stolen, some destroyed, and antique dealers sold many to tourists. E. Only then could it enter paradise. F. They were sold
23、 by auction and the auctioneer actually used on instead of his hammer! G Pious Egyptians always mummified their cats and had them buried with almost as much reverence as if they were human beings. H. To the early Egyptians, the cat was a goddess. 17 【 R1】 18 【 R2】 19 【 R3】 20 【 R4】 21 【 R5】 22 【 R6】
24、 23 【 R7】 24 【 R8】 BFT阅读（综合）模拟试卷 7答案与解析 一、 Part 1 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 1 【正确答案】 G 【试题解析】 文章开头一句意为： “在娱乐界 ，各种电视脱口秀在白天电视节目中无所不在。 ”句 G中的 “them”就是指这些脱口秀节目，因为各种脱口秀节目太多了，所以经常看的人就会对每个节目的风格及形式有所了解。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 2 【正确答案】 E 【试题解析】 文章的第 2段主要是关于脱口秀主持人 Jerry Springer的。第 1句提出 Jerry Springer很容易被认为是垃圾谈话节目之王，第 3句以举例
25、的形式指出他的谈话节目从不同的角度讨论最常见的话题，也就是说 Jerry的节目与众不同。句 E也说明 Jerry的节目超 出一般人的预想。因此选 E。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 3 【正确答案】 H 【试题解析】 句 H道出了 Jerry节目的实质，是总结性的句子，因此为正确选项。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 第 3段主要是关于另一个脱口秀主持人 Oprah的，句 B介绍Oprah节目的主要话题，后句提到一些话题，与之相对应，因此 B正确。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 5 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 本段提到 Jerry节目的一个特点
26、， 即用一个 “final word”结尾，句A是对 final word作的解释，即对整个节目做的总结。因此 A正确。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本段开头提出， Oprah的节目不是面对每一位观众的，也就是说只是面对一部分观众。句 C指出了 Oprah的目标观众主要是中产阶级的美国人，从语义上与第 1句紧密连接，因此选 C。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 7 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 本段又提到了 Jerry的目标观众是年轻的成人。句 F中的 “these”指前句中的 “youngadults of society”。因为 18 20岁的
27、人正是年轻的成人，句 F介绍了这一部分人在生活中的主要问题。因为有了问题，所以他们想要在节目中寻找答案，句 F又与最后一句密切相关，因此选 F。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 8 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 本段提出 Oprah与 Jerry的节目截然不同，句 D是截然不同的根本原因，因为目标观众不同，节目内容、风格肯定也不会相同，因此 D为正确选项。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 【知识模块 】 逻辑分析选择填空题 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 本文对美貌问题展开讨论。通常人们认为美貌是一件好事。长相好会在许多方面得到好处和实惠。由此推断，人们肯定认为美貌的人会比一般人更快
28、乐和健康。所以选 C最符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 10 【正确答案】 E 【试题解析】 空格前讲了美貌的好处，空格后却说美貌对于男人在行政圈中升官是个有利因素，而对于女人却是有害的。所以空格处应该是一个引起下一句转折关系的句子。 E选项： “然而，在行政圈中，美貌很可能会是一种负担。 ”最符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 11 【正确答案】 H 【试题解析】 前面已经讲了美貌对于男人是个有利因素，空格后又进一步说他们的成功归功于他们的努力和能力。所以 H选项： “大家认为长相好的男性行政人员比长相一般的人更正直诚恳。 ”承上启下，符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析
29、选择填空题 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 与男性正好相反的是，漂亮的女人通常被认为不如长相一般的人诚实、值得信任。所以她们的成功经常不被人们认为是个人能力的表现，而归功于幸运。所以 D选项是对前一句的进一步解释，符合逻辑。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 13 【正确答案】 G 【试题解析】 前面一段讲了美貌的女性经常被认为是靠运气而不是靠能力成功。空格后的内容解释说，漂亮的女人更适合做传统的女性职业工作。一段话的第 1个句子经常是主旨句，具有承上启下的作用。 G选项： “为什么漂亮的女性不被认为有能力呢 ?”以问句的形式连接上段，同时引出下面的解释，非常符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻
30、辑分析选择填空题 14 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 空格前说了漂亮的女性在一 些传统的女性职业里占优势，但不适合做被认为是男性统治的工作。为什么呢 ?A选项解释了这个原因： “漂亮的女人做男性工作显得缺少工作本身需要的阳刚之气。 ” 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 15 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 空格前是 Anne对此现象的评论。空格后是她做的一个调查研究。所以中间缺少一个过渡句。 B选项： “她在学生中间做了个调查。 ”符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 16 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 调查的结果是：漂亮的男性完全击败了不漂亮的男性；那么女 性呢 ?根据本文的中心
31、思想我们可以推测：漂亮的女性在选举中应该是一败涂地。也就是选项 F的内容。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 17 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 空格前说很久以来猫和人类一直有着某种联系。空格后面说人类对猫的态度从冷漠忽视到极端的崇拜有着很大的变化。所以这两个句子中间需要一个承上启下的过渡句。 B选项 “然而，猫和人类的关系却并不是一直持续不变的。 ”符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 18 【正确答案】 H 【 试题解析】 下面几段说的是早期埃及人对猫的态度。从空格后的内容看，早期埃及人为猫修建庙宇，所以他们是把猫当成神来看待的。选项 H最符合题
32、意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 19 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 空格前面说最受尊敬的动物神是 Bast，一个长着猫头的女神。人们是怎么来崇拜这个神的呢 ?C选项进一步解释说明， “人们甚至用她来命名一个城市 Bubastis”，人们对猫的崇拜可想而知。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 20 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 空格前说人们深 信猫能够保护他们远离邪恶势力，空格后说这些东西装饰他们的家并且死后和他们埋葬在一起继续保护他们。所以推测人们根据猫的形状做成各种饰品和摆放在家里保护他们。 A选项符合逻辑。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 21 【正确答案】 G 【试题解析】
33、 本段讲的是在 Bubastis附近的一个墓地里发现了成千上万的猫木乃伊。由此可推测出古代埃及人把猫制成木乃伊并且像安葬人类一样安葬起来。所以 G选项符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 22 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 空格前说 成千上万的猫木乃伊被发现。空格后面说只有数千个被留下来。所以空格处应该说的是这些木乃伊的去向， D选项： “一些被偷了，一些被破坏了，还有一些被卖给游客了。 ”符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题 23 【正确答案】 F 【试题解析】 空格前说一个亚历山大的投机商想出来一个赚钱的方法：把这些木乃伊当成肥料卖出去。空格后面说每吨木乃伊卖不到 4英镑。所以空格处应该说这些木乃伊是怎么被卖的。选项 F： “它们是被拍卖的，拍卖商还竟然用一个木乃伊当成锤子来用。 ”符合题意。 【知识模块】 逻辑分析 选择填空题 24 【正确答案】 E 【试题解析】 这段话说的是古代犹太人的信仰：修行很高的人死后灵魂会进入猫身体内，并且会一直留在那里，直到猫自然死亡。那么猫死亡之后呢 ?选项 E给出了答案： “直到那时他才进入天堂。 ” 【知识模块】 逻辑分析选择填空题
