1、专业英语八级（文学作品类阅读理解）模拟试卷 1及答案与解析 0 My wandering eye alighted on a rather portly middle-aged man who was talking earnestly from the platform to a young lady at the next window but one to ours. His fine profile was vaguely familiar to me. The young lady was evidently American, and he was evidently Englis
2、h; otherwise I should have guessed from his impressive air that he was her father. 1 wished I could hear what he was saying. I was sure he was giving the very best advice; and the strong tenderness of his gaze was really beautiful. He seemed magnetic, as he poured out his final injunctions. I could
3、feel something of his magnetism even where I stood. And the magnetism like the profile, was vaguely familiar to me. Where had I experienced it? In a flash I remembered. The man was Hubert Le Ros. But how changed since last I saw him! That was seven or eight years ago, in the Strand. He was then as u
4、sual out of an engagement, and borrowed half a crown. It seemed a privilege to lend anything to him. He was always magnetic. And why his magnetism had never made him successful on the London stage was always a mystery to me. He was an excellent actor, and a man of sober habit. But, like many others
5、of his kind, Hubert Le Ros drifted speedily away into the provinces; and I, like every one else, ceased to remember him. It was strange to see him, after all these years, here on the platform of Euston, looking so prosperous and solid. It was not only the flesh that he had put on, but also the cloth
6、es, that made him hard to recognize. In the old days, an imitation fur coat had seemed to be as integral a part of him as were his ill-shorn lantern jaws. But now his costume was a model of rich and somber moderation, drawing, not calling attention to itself. He looked like a banker. Any one would h
7、ave been proud to be seen off by him. Stand back, please! The train was about to start, and I waved farewell to my friend. Le Ros did not stand back. He stood clasping in both hands the hands of the young American. Stand back, sir, please! He obeyed, but quickly darted forward again to whisper some
8、final word. I think there were tears in her eyes. There certainly were tears in his when, at length, having watched the train out of sight, he turned round. He seemed, nevertheless, delighted to see me. He asked me where I had been hiding all these years; and simultaneously repaid me the half-crown
9、as though it had been borrowed yesterday. He linked his arm in mine, and walked with me slowly along the platform, saying with what pleasure he read my dramatic criticisms every Saturday. I told him, in return, how much he was missed on the stage. Ah, yes, he said, I never act on the stage nowadays.
10、 He laid some emphasis on the stage, and I asked him where, then, he did act. On the platform, he answered. You mean, said I, that you recite at concerts? He smiled. This, he whispered, striking his stick on the ground, is the platform I mean. Had his mysterious prosperity unhinged him? He looked qu
11、ite sane. I begged him to be more explicit. I suppose, he said presently, giving me a light for the cigar which he had offered me, you have been seeing a friend off? I assented. He asked me what I supposed he had been doing. I said that I had watched him doing the same thing. No, he said gravely. Th
12、at lady was not a friend of mine. I met her for the first time this morning, less than half an hour ago, here, and again he struck the platform with his stick. I confessed that I was bewildered. He smiled. You may, he said, have heard of the Anglo-American Social Bureau? I had not. He explained to m
13、e that of the thousands of Americans who annually pass through England there are many hundreds who have no English friends. In the old days they used to bring letters of introduction. But the English are so inhospitable that these letters are hardly worth the paper they are written on. Thus, said Le
14、 Ros, The A.A.S.B. supplies a long-felt want. Americans are a sociable people, and most of them have plenty of money to spend. The A.A.S.B. supplies them with English friends. Fifty percent of the fees is paid over to the friends. The other fifty is retained by the A.A.S. B. I am not, alas! a direct
15、or. If I were, I should be a very rich man indeed. I am only an employee. But even so I do very well. I am one of the seers-off. By Max Beerbohm 1 According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE? （ A） Huberts charisma led him towards success in the past. （ B） We were rewarded abu
16、ndantly for lending Hubert money. （ C） Hubert used to live in the countryside. （ D） Huberts name had been sunk into oblivion. 2 Whats the most apparent rhetorical device used in the third paragraph? （ A） Comparison. （ B） Contrast. （ C） Metaphor. （ D） Simile. 3 We can infer from the passage that Hube
17、rts previous profession used to be a(n)_. （ A） playwright （ B） actor （ C） businessman （ D） employee 4 According to paragraph 6, why did Hubert strike the platform? （ A） As a habitual behavior. （ B） To make his statement more convincing. （ C） To tell the author where he works. （ D） To call the author
18、s attention of his words. 5 We can infer from this passage that people in general need the A.A.S.B.service because of all the following EXCEPT_. （ A） earning the respect of the guard （ B） Saving them from being despised by their fellow-passengers （ C） giving them a precious memory for the whole voya
19、ge （ D） making themselves pleasant during the whole journey 5 Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I have a
20、few things in my mind which I have often longed to say for the instruction of the young; for it is in ones tender early years that such things will best take root and be most enduring and most valuable. First, then. I will say to you my young friends and I say it beseechingly, urgingly Always obey y
21、our parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you dont, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment. Be respectful to yo
22、ur superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others. If a person offend you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. That will be sufficient. If you shall find that he ha
23、d not intended any offense, come out frankly and confess yourself in the wrong when you struck him; acknowledge it like a man and say you didnt mean to. Yes, always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined. G
24、o to bed early, get up early this is wise. Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another. But a lark is really the best thing to get up with. It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the ri
25、ght kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time its no trick at all. Now as to the matter of lying, you want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Once caught, you can never again be in the eyes to the g
26、ood and the pure, what you were before. Many a young person has injured himself permanently through a single clumsy and ill finished lie, the result of carelessness born of incomplete training. Some authorities hold that the young out not to lie at all. That of course, is putting it rather stronger
27、than necessary; still while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and precision which alone can make the accomplishment grac
28、eful and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to detail these are requirements; these in time, will make the student perfect; upon these only, may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence. Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience, went to the equip
29、ment of that peerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world the lofty and sounding maxim that “Truth is mighty and will prevail“ the most majestic compound fracture of fact which any of woman born has yet achieved. For the history of our race, and each individuals experience, are se
30、wn thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is immortal. There is in Boston a monument of the man who discovered anesthesia; many people are aware, in these latter days, that that man didnt discover it at all, but stole the discovery from another man. Is this t
31、ruth mighty, and will it prevail? Ah no, my hearers, the monument is made of hardy material, but the lie it tells will outlast it a million years. An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid; such a lie as that has no more real permanence than an
32、 average truth. Why, you might as well tell the truth at once and be done with it. A feeble, stupid, preposterous lie will not live two years except it be a slander upon somebody. It is indestructible, then of course, but that is no merit of yours. A final word: begin your practice of this gracious
33、and beautiful art early begin now. If I had begun earlier, I could have learned how. By Mark Twain 6 Which one of the following is NOT one of the intentions of the author according to this argumentative essay? （ A） admonishing the young people for being disrespectful to others （ B） accusing the youn
34、gsters for being lazy （ C） learning to tell lies artistically and skillfully （ D） admitting that it is wrong to face the mistakes unconditionally 7 Whats the tone of the authors writing? （ A） peaceful （ B） sarcastic （ C） indifferent （ D） ardent 8 In paragraph 3, whats the implicit meaning of the sen
35、tence “Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined“? （ A） Cultivated man should behave gently. （ B） Only those who take the lower position are able to ignite dynamite. （ C） In this age violence is no longer effective. （ D） One should defend his or her own rights while remain polite. 9 Whats the meaning
36、of the underlined word “preposterous“ in the last paragraph? （ A） ridiculous （ B） solid （ C） plausible （ D） lame 9 And when the Moon shone in the heavens the Nightingale flew to the Rose-tree, and set her breast against the thorn. All night long she sang with her breast against the thorn, and the co
37、ld crystal Moon leaned down and listened. All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into her breast, and her life-blood ebbed away from her. She sang first of the birth of love in the heart of a boy and a girl. And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvello
38、us rose, petal following petal, as song followed song. Pale was it, at first, as the mist that hangs over the river pale as the feet of the morning, and silver as the wings of the dawn. As the shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver, as the shadow of a rose in a water-pool, so was the rose that bloss
39、omed on the topmost spray of the Tree. But the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer against the thorn. “Press closer, little Nightingale,“ cried the Tree, “or the Day will come before the rose is finished.“ So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and louder and louder grew her
40、song, for she sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid. And a delicate flush of pink came into the leaves of the rose, like the flush in the face of the bridegroom when he kisses the lips of the bride. But the thorn had not yet reached her heart, so the roses heart remained white
41、, for only a Nightingales hearts-blood can crimson the heart of a rose. And the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer against the thorn. “Press closer, little Nightingale,“ cried the Tree, “or the Day will come before the rose is finished.“ So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn
42、, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb. And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the ea
43、stern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart. But the Nightingales voice grew fainter, and her little wings began to beat, and a film came over her eyes. Fainter and fainter grew her song, and she felt something choking her in her throat. Then she gave one last bu
44、rst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. “Look, look!“ cried the Tree, “the rose is finished now“; but the Nightingale made no answer, for s
45、he was lying dead in the long grass, with the thorn in her heart. And at noon the Student opened his window and looked out. “Why, what a wonderful piece of luck!“ he cried; “here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that 1 am sure it has a long Latin n
46、ame“; and he leaned down and plucked it. Then he put on his hat, and ran up to the Professors house with the rose in his hand. The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet. “You said that you would dance with me if I b
47、rought you a red rose,“ cried the Student. “Here is the reddest rose in all the world. You will wear it tonight next your heart, and as we dance together it will tell you how I love you.“ But the girl frowned. “I am afraid it will not go with my dress,“ she answered; “and, besides, the Chamberlains
48、nephew has sent me some real jewels, and everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers.“ “Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,“ said the Student angrily; and he threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter, and a cart-wheel went over it. “Ungrateful!“ said the girl.
49、 “I tell you what, you are very rude; and, after all, who are you? Only a Student. “What I a silly thing Love is,“ said the Student as he walked away. “It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to Philosophy and study Metaphysics.“ By Oscar Wilde 10 How did the rose turn red? （
