1、专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷 100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)On
2、 the 12th day of March 1847, in the rue Laffitte, I happened upon a large yellow notice announcing a sale of furniture and valuable curios. An estate was to be disposed of, the owner having died. The notice did not name the dead person, but the sale was to be held at 9 rue dAntin on the 16th, betwee
3、n noon and five oclock. The notice also stated that the apartments and contents could be viewed on the 13th and 14th. (2)I have always been interested in curios. I promised myself I would not miss this opportunity, if not of actually buying, then at least of looking. (3)The following day, I directed
4、 my steps towards 9 rue dAntin. (4)It was early, and yet a good crowd of visitors had already gathered in the apartment, men for the most part, but also a number of ladies who, though dressed in velvet and wearing Indian shawls, and all with their own elegant broughams standing at the door, were exa
5、mining the riches set out before them with astonished, even admiring eyes. (5)After a while, I quite saw the reason for their admiration and astonishment, for having begun myself to look around I had no difficulty in recognizing that I was in the apartment of a kept woman. Now if there is one thing
6、that ladies of fashion desire to see above all else, and there were society ladies present, it is the rooms occupied by those women who have carriages which spatter their own with mud every day of the week, who have their boxes at the Opera or the Theatre-Italien just as they do, and indeed next to
7、theirs, and who display for all Paris to see the insolent opulence of their beauty, diamonds and shameless conduct. (6)The woman in whose apartments I now found myself was dead: the most virtuous of ladies were thus able to go everywhere, even into the bedroom. Death had purified the air of this gli
8、ttering den of iniquity. And in any case they could always say, if they needed the excuse, that they had done no more than come to a sale without knowing whose rooms these were. I had read the notices, they had wanted to view what the notices advertised and mark out their selections in advance. It c
9、ould not have been simpler, though this did not prevent them from looking through these splendid things for traces of the secret life of a courtesan of which they had doubtless been given very strange accounts. (7)Unfortunately, the mysteries had died with the goddess, and in spite of their best end
10、eavours these good ladies found only what had been put up for sale since the time of death, and could detect nothing of what had been sold while the occupant had been alive. (8)But there was certainly rich booty(战利品 )to be had. The furniture was superb. Rosewood and Buhl-work pieces, Severs vases an
11、d blue china porcelain, Dresden figurines, satins, velvet and lace, everything in fact. (9)I wandered from room to room in the wake of these inquisitive aristocratic ladies who had arrived before me. They went into a bedroom hung with Persian fabrics and I was about to go in after them, when they ca
12、me out again almost immediately, smiling and as it were put to shame by this latest revelation. The effect was to make me even keener to see inside. It was the dressing-room, complete down to the very last details, in which the dead womans profligacy(挥霍 )had seemingly reached its height. (10)On a la
13、rge table standing against one wall, it measured a good six feet by three, shone the finest treasures of Aucoc and Odiot. It was a magnificent collection, and among the countless objects each so essential to the appearance of the kind of woman in whose home we had gathered, there was not one that wa
14、s not made of gold or silver. But it was a collection that could only have been assembled piece by piece, and clearly more than one love had gone into its making. (11)I, who was not the least put out by the sight of the dressing-room of a kept woman, spent some time agreeably inspecting its contents
15、, neglecting none of them, and I noticed that all these magnificently wrought implements bore different initials and all manner of coronets(宝冠 ). (12)As I contemplated all these things, each to my mind standing for a separate prostitution of the poor girl, I reflected that God had been merciful to h
16、er since He had not suffered her to live long enough to undergo the usual punishment but had allowed her to die at the height of her wealth and beauty, long before the coming of old age, that first death of courtesans. (13)Indeed, what sadder sight is there than vice in old age, especially in a woma
17、n? It has no dignity and is singularly unattractive. Those everlasting regrets, not for wrong turnings taken but for wrong calculations made and money foolishly spent, are among the most harrowing things that can be heard. I once knew a former woman of easy virtue of whose past life there remained o
18、nly a daughter who was almost as beautiful as the mother had once been, or so her contemporaries said. This poor child, to whom her mother never said “You are my daughter“ except to order her to keep her now that she was old just as she had been kept when she was young, this wretched creature was ca
19、lled Louise and, in obedience to her mother, she sold herself without inclination or passion or pleasure, rather as she might have followed an honest trade had it ever entered anyones head to teach her one. 1 According to the passage, we can infer that while alive, the apartment owner _. （ A） enjoye
20、d beauty, fame and wealth in Paris （ B） was admired and respected by those ladies present （ C） looked down upon those ladies of upper society （ D） had a close connection with those ladies present 2 The sentence “Death had purified the air of this glittering den of iniquity“ in Para. 6 means _. （ A）
21、those noble ladies would never come here if not for the owners death （ B） the apartment became much neater after the owners death （ C） the deeds of the owner of the apartment were forgiven after her death （ D） the owner of the apartment became innocent because of her death 3 The reason for those lad
22、ies of upper society appearing in the apartment is that _. （ A） they wanted to buy some curios on sale （ B） they wanted to discover the secret life of the dead （ C） they were curious about the sale in the apartment （ D） they wanted to show condolences to the dead 4 Which of the following indicates t
23、he lavishness of the dead most? （ A） The splendid furniture in the apartment. （ B） The Persian fabrics hung in a bedroom. （ C） Having boxes at the Opera or the Theatre-Italien. （ D） The collection of treasures in the dressing room. 5 Which of the following words best describes the authors feeling to
24、wards the dead? （ A） Scornful. （ B） Admiring. （ C） Appreciating. （ D） Sympathetic. 5 (1)Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths and healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one, or a full education from a half-empty one are contained in that word. Whatever ups
25、 and downs the term “liberal“ suffers in the political vocabulary, it soars above all controversy in the educational world. In the blackest pits of education the squirming victim has only to ask, “Whats the liberal about this?“ to shame his persecutors. In times past a liberal education set off a fr
26、ee man from a slave or a gentleman from laborers and artisans. It now distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely professional or practical or from the trivialities which are no training at all. Such an education involves a combination of knowledge, skills
27、and standards. (2)So far as knowledge is concerned, the record is ambiguous. It is sufficiently confused for the fact-filled freak who excels in quiz shows to have passed himself off in some company as an educated man. More respectable is the notion that there are some things which every educated ma
28、n ought to know; but many highly educated men would cheerfully admit to a vast ignorance, and the framers of curriculums have differed greatly in the knowledge they prescribe. If there have been times when all students at school or college studied the same things, as if it were obvious that without
29、exposure to a common body of knowledge they would not be educated at all, there have been other times when specialization ran so wild that it might almost seem as if educated men had abandoned the thought of ever talking to each other once their education was completed. (3)If knowledge is one of our
30、 marks, we can hardly be dogmatic about the kind or the amount. A single fertile field tilled with care and imagination can probably develop all the instincts of an educated man. However, if the framer of a curriculum wants to minimize his risks, he can invoke an ancient doctrine which holds that an
31、 educated man ought to know a little about everything and a lot about something. (4)The “little about everything“ is best interpreted these days by those who have given most thought to the sort of general education an informed individual ought to have. More is required than a sampling of the introdu
32、ctory courses which specialists offer in their own disciplines. Courses are needed in each of the major divisions of knowledge the humanities, the natural sciences and social sciences which are organized with the breadth of view and the imaginative power of competent staffs who understand the needs
33、of interested amateurs. But over and above this exciting smattering(略懂 )of knowledge, students should bite deeply into at least one subject and taste its full flavor. It is not enough to be dilettantes in everything without striving also to be craftsmen in something. (5)If there is some ambiguity ab
34、out the knowledge an educated man should have, there is none at all about the skills. The first is simply the training of mind in capacity to think clearly. This has always been the business of education, but the way it is done varies enormously. Marshalling the notes of lecture is one experience; t
35、he opportunity to argue with a teacher is another. Thinking within an accepted tradition is one thing; to challenge the tradition itself is another. The best results are achieved when the idea of the examined life is held firmly before the mind and when the examination is conducted with the zest, ri
36、gor, and freedom which really stretches everyones capacities. (6)The vital aid to clear thought is the habit of approaching everything we hear and everything we are taught to believe with a certain skepticism. The method of using doubt as an examiner is a familiar one among scholars and scientists,
37、but it is also the best protection which a citizen has against the humbug that surrounds us. (7)To be able to listen to a deceptive argument and to see its dishonesty is surely one of the marks of an educated man. We may not need to be educated to possess some of this quality. A shrewd peasant was a
38、lways well enough protected against imposters in the market place, and we have all sorts of businessmen who have made themselves excellent judges of deceptions without the benefit of a high school diploma; but this kind of shrewdness goes along without a great deal of credulity. Outside the limited
39、field within which experience has taught the peasant or the illiterate businessman his lessons, he is often hopelessly gullible. The educated man, by contrast, has tried to develop a critical faculty for general use, and he likes to think that he is fortified against imposture in all its forms. (8)I
40、t does not matter for our purposes whether to imposter is a deliberate liar or not. Some are, but the commonest enemies of mankind are the unconscious frauds. Most salesmen under the intoxication of their own exuberance seem to believe in what they say. Most experts whose expertise is only a pretent
41、ious sham behave as if they had been solemnly inducted into some kind of priesthood. Very few demagogues are so cynical as to remain undeceived by their own rhetoric, and some of the worst tyrants in history have been fatally sincere. We can leave the disentanglement of motives to the students of fr
42、aud and error, but we cannot afford to be taken in by the shams. (9)We are, of course, surrounded by shams. Until recently the schools were full of them the notion that education can be had without tears, that puffed rice is a better intellectual diet than oatmeal, that adjustment to the group is mo
43、re important than knowing where the group is going, and that democracy has made it a sin to separate the sheep from the goats. Mercifully, these are much less evident now than they were before Sputnik startled us into our wits. 6 The sentence “Any education that matters is liberal.“(Para. 1)implies
44、that to some extent _. （ A） a good education provides freedom for students （ B） liberal is the only standard of a good education （ C） the criteria of judging education is relevant to liberal （ D） the goal of education is to achieve spiritual freedom 7 Which of the following statements about the seco
45、nd paragraph is NOT true? （ A） The curriculum-makers usually have different teaching contents. （ B） Well-educated men are bound to perform well after graduation. （ C） Many well-educated men didnt deny their unknown in some fields. （ D） The fact-filled man is not necessarily an educated man. 8 The wo
46、rd “dogmatic“ in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to _. （ A） critical （ B） clear （ C） serious （ D） irresolute 9 The italicized word “dilettantes“ in Para. 4 refers to people who _. （ A） are devoted to one branch of learning （ B） are excellent in everything （ C） do not study a subject thorou
47、ghly （ D） know nothing except his own profession 10 Which of the following about Para. 5 and Para. 6 is INCORRECT? （ A） The purpose of learning is to cultivate the ability of thinking. （ B） Using doubt as an examiner can benefit common people. （ C） The answer of what skills an educated man should ha
48、ve is clear. （ D） The best way to improve ones ability is to debate with others regularly. 10 (1)Dinges is one of the few women in the Army certified at level 2 combat. Level 2 involves a lot of training with two attackers on one, she explains, with the hope of “you being the one guy getting out ali
49、ve.“ In the years ahead,Dinges may face an even harder fight. She belongs to a family carrying the gene for fatal familial insomnia. The main symptom of FFI, as the disease is often called, is the inability to sleep. First the ability to nap disappears, then the ability to get a full nights sleep, until the patient cannot sleep at all. The syndrome usually strikes when the sufferer is in his or her 50s, ordinarily lasts about a year, and, as the name indicates, always ends in death. (2)FFI is an awful disease, made even worse by the fact th
