1、专业英语八级（阅读）练习试卷 7及答案与解析 0 My mother told me a story every evening while we waited for father to close the shop and come home. The shop remained open till midnight. Bullock carts in long caravans arrived late in the evening from distant villages, loaded with coconut, rice, and other commodities for th
2、e market. The animals were unyoked under the big tamarind tree for the night, and the cartmen drifted in twos and threes to the shop, for a chat or to ask for things to eat or smoke. How my father loved to discuss with them the price of grain, rainfall, harvest, and the state of irrigation channels!
3、 Or they talked about old litigations. One heard repeated references to magistrates, affidavits, witnesses in the case, and appeals, punctuated with roars of laughters possibly the memory of some absurd legality or loophole tickled them. My father ignored food and sleep when he had company. My mothe
4、r sent me out several times to see if he could be made to turn in. He was a man of uncertain temper and one could not really guess how he would react to interruptions, and so my mother coached me to go up, watch his mood, and gently remind him of food and home. I stood under the shop awning, coughin
5、g and clearing my throat, hoping to catch his eyes. But the talk was all-absorbing and he would not glance in my direction, and I got absorbed in their talk, although I did not understand a word of it. After a while my mothers voice came gently on the night air, calling, “Raju, Raju“ and my father i
6、nterrupted his activities to look at me and say, “Tell your mother not to wait for me. Tell her to place a handful of toffee and buttermilk in a bowl, with just one piece of lime pickle, and keep it in the oven for me. Ill come in later. “ It was almost a formula with him five days in week. He alway
7、s added, “Not that Im really hungry tonight. “ And then I believe he went on to discuss health problems with his cronies. But I didnt stop to hear further. I made a quick dash back home. There was a dark patch between the light from the shop and the dim lantern shedding its light on our threshold, a
8、 matter of about ten yards, I suppose, but the passage through it gave me a cold sweat. I expected wild animals and supernatural creatures to emerge and grab me. My mother waited on the doorstop to receive me and said, “Not hungry, I suppose ! Thatll give him an excuse to talk to the village folk al
9、l night, and then come in for an hours sleep and get up with the crowing of that foolish cock somewhere. He will spoil his health. “ I followed her into the kitchen. She placed my plate and hers side by side on the floor, drew the ricepot within reach, and served me and herself simultaneously, and w
10、e finished our dinner by the sooty tin lamp, stuck on a nail in the wall. She unrolled a mat for me in the front room, and I lay down to sleep. She sat at my side, awaiting fathers return. Her presence gave me a feeling of inexplicable coziness. I felt I ought to put her proximity to good use, and c
11、omplained, “Something is bothering my hair,“ and she ran her fingers through my hair, and scratched the nape of my neck. And then I commanded, “A story. “ Immediately she began, “Once upon a time there was a man called Devaka. “ I heard his name mentioned almost every night. He was a hermit, saint,
12、or something of the kind. I never learned fully what he did or why, sleep overcoming me before my mother was through even the preamble. 1 What can we infer from the conversation between the uriters father and the cartmen? （ A） One might find unfavorable faults in the legal code in lawsuits. （ B） The
13、re were times when the cronies came to foolish decisions. （ C） The magistrates were serious and punctilious. （ D） Matters related to farming were of great interest to them. 2 What occurred before Baju went to sleep? （ A） He felt uncomfortable to lie on the mat and complained. （ B） He wanted his moth
14、er to move as close to him as possible. （ C） He learned a lot about the legendary hero Devaka. （ D） His father returned soon. 3 When his father stayed on at the shop after closing time, the following happened EXCEPT that （ A） his father returned home very late and ate what had been set aside for him
15、. （ B） his mother sent him several times to the shop to see if he could call his father home. （ C） his father came home and ate the night time meal with him and his mother. （ D） his father slept for a short while before he got up when the cock crowed. 4 “. I ought to put her proximity to good use, .
16、“ in Paragraph 5 means that （ A） I should enjoy the comfort she presents me. （ B） I should make her take good care of me. （ C） I should keep her as close to me as possible. （ D） I should prevent her from wasting her kindness. 5 What is the theme of the story? （ A） To show his happy family life. （ B）
17、 To narrate his routine life. （ C） To express his resent to his father. （ D） To describe the way he was raised. 5 As a contemporary artist, Jim Dine has often incorporated other peoples photography into his abstract works. But, the 68-year-old American didnt pick up a camera himself and start shooti
18、ng until he moved to Berlin in 1995 and once he did, he couldnt stop. The result is a voluminous collection of images, ranging from early-20th-century-style heliogravures to modern-day digital printings, a selection of which are on exhibition at the Maison Europenne de la Photographie in Paris. They
19、 are among his most prized achievements. “I make photographs the way I make paintings, “says Dine, “but the difference is, in photography. Its like lighting a fire every time. “ Though photography makes up a small slice of Dines vast oeuvre, the exhibit is a true retrospective, of his career. Dine m
20、ostly photographs his own artwork or the subjects that he has portrayed in sculpture, painting and prints including Venus de Milo, ravens and owls, hearts and skulls. There are still pictures of well-used tools in his Connecticut workshop, delightful digital self-portraits and intimate portraits of
21、his sleeping wife, the American photographer Diana Michener. Most revealing and novel are Dines shots of his poetry, scribbled in charcoal on walls like graffiti. To take in this show is to wander through Dines life: his childhood obsessions, his loves, his dreams. It is a poignant and powerful exhi
22、bit that rightly celebrates one of modern arts most intriguing and least hyped-talents. When he arrived on the scene in the early 1960s, Dine was seen as a pioneer in the pop-art movement. But he didnt last long; once pop stagnated, Dine moved on. “Pop art had to do with the exterior world, “ he say
23、s. He was more interested, he adds, in “what was going on inside me“. He explored his own personality, and from there developed themes. His love for handcrafting grew into a series of artworks incorporating hammers and saws. His obsession with owls and ravens came from a dream he once had. His child
24、hood toy Pinocchio, worn and chipped, appears in some self-portraits as a red and yellow blur flying through the air. Dine first dabbled in photography in the late 1970s, when Polaroid invited him to try out a new large-format camera at its head-quarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He produced a se
25、ries of colorful, out-of-focus self-portraits, and when he was done, he packed them away. A half dozen of these images in perfect condition are on display in Paris for the first time. Though masterful, they feel flat when compared with his later pictures. Dine didnt shoot again until he went to Berl
26、in in the mid-90s to teach. By then he was ready to embrace photography completely. Michener was his guide: “She opened my eyes to what was possible,“ he says. “Her approach is so natural and classic. I listened. “ When it came time to print what he had photographed, Dine chose heliogravure, the old
27、 style of printing favored by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis and Paul Strand, which gives photographs a warm tone and an almost hand drawn look like Dines etchings. He later tried out the traditional black-and-white silver-gelatin process, then digital photography and jet-ink printing, which he ado
28、res. At the same time, Dine immersed himself into Jungian psychoanalysis. That, in conjunction with his new artistic tack, proved cathartic. “The access photography that gives you to your subconscious is so fantastic,“ he says. “Ive learned how to bring these images out like a stream of consciousnes
29、s something thats not possible in the same way in drawing or painting because technique always gets in your way. “ This is evident in the way he works: when Dine shoots, he leaves things alone. Eventually, Dine turned the camera on himself. His self-portraits are disturbingly personal; he opens hims
30、elf physically and emotionally before the lens. He says such pictures are an attempt to examine himself as well as “record the march of time, what gravity does to the face in everybody. Im a very willing subject. “ Indeed, Dine sees photography as the surest path to serf discovery. “Ive always learn
31、ed about myself in my art,“ he says. “But photography expresses me. Its me. Me. “ The Paris exhibit makes that perfectly clear. 6 According the Dine, the difference between painting and photography is that （ A） the latter requires more insight. （ B） the former needs more patience. （ C） the latter ar
32、ouses great passions in him. （ D） the former involves more indoor work. 7 The word “oeuvre“ in the second paragraph probably means （ A） all the works of an artist. （ B） all the efforts of an artist. （ C） an artists great potential. （ D） an artists great talent. 8 Which of the following photographs o
33、f Dines leaves the deepest impression on the author? （ A） Pictures of graffiti on walls. （ B） Photographs of his poetry. （ C） Shots of his well-used tools. （ D） Pictures of“ ravens and owls. 9 What does the author think of Dines self-portraits in the late 1970s? （ A） Their connotative meanings are n
34、ot rich enough. （ B） They are not so exquisite as his later works. （ C） They reflect themes of his childhood dreams. （ D） They are much better than his later pictures. 10 What is the main idea of the passage? （ A） Jim Dines exhibit is a true retrospective of his career. （ B） The author tells us Jim
35、Dines life stories as an artist. （ C） Jim Dine is distinguished for his colorful self-portraits. （ D） In a revealing exhibit, Jim Dine points his lens inward. 专业英语八级（阅读）练习试卷 7答案 与解析 【知识模块】 阅读 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。第一段第五句提到爸爸乐于和他们讨论粮食的价格、降雨多少、收成如何以及灌溉 水渠的状况，可知爸爸喜欢和送货人谈论与农业相关的事情，因为这是他们感兴趣的话题， D为答案。第一段
36、第七句指出荒唐的法律或法律漏洞让他们发笑，排除 A；文中并未提及 B和 C，排除。 【知识模块】 阅读 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。倒数第二段倒数第二句指出 “我觉得我应该充分利用这个接近妈妈的机会，于是撒娇 说： 有东西在我头发上 ，妈妈便用她的手指梳理我的头发，抚摸我的脖颈。 ”可知 B符合 文意。作者抱怨是为了让妈妈靠自己更近些，并不是因为毯子不舒服，排除 A；末段提到在 妈妈还没有讲完开头的时候，作者便睡意难挡了，可见他不完全知道这个故事，每晚只听一个 开头，排除 C；D在文中没有提及。 【知识模块】 阅读 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。第三段首句提到，当
37、妈妈叫我回家时，爸爸让我告诉妈妈给他留饭，他要晚些回家， 可见 A符合文意。第二段第二句提到妈妈几次派我看爸 爸能否回家， B符合文意；第五五段 提到我和妈妈单独吃饭，不是和爸爸一起吃，因此 C不合文意，故为答案；第四段提到妈妈 接我回家时抱怨说 “我猜肯定又是说不饿，那是他和村里人谈到深夜的借口，然后回家来睡一 小时，等那只不知道从哪里钻出来的蠢公鸡打鸣时就起床， ” 可见 D符合文意。 【知识模块】 阅读 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 语义题。第五段提到 “我觉得我应该充分利用这个接近妈妈的机会，于是撒娇说 ” ，接着 写到作者让妈妈用手指为他的头挠痒，抓挠他的脖后，这些都表明他认为
38、 应该让妈妈好好照 顾他，故 B为答案，排除 A、 D。作者让妈妈靠近他，这个信息只是表层含义，排除 C。 【知识模块】 阅读 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 主旨题。本文记叙了爸爸每天结束商店的生意后不回家，而是和村里人或送货的人闲谈，我 和妈妈每天晚上等待爸爸回家的生活，故事的主题是描述作者的日常生活，故 B为答案。 文中没有提到作者有幸福感或对爸爸不满，也没有描述他接受教育的方法，故排除其他三项。 【知识模块】 阅读 【知识模块】 阅读 6 【正确答 案】 C 【试题解析】 推断题。由题干中的 difference定位至首段。末句谈到 Dine对绘画和摄影的不同感受： the dif
39、ference is， in photography Its like lighting a fire every time. 可见，摄影激发了他极大的热情， 故 C为答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 语义题。由题干定位至第二段。首句指出： photography makes up a small slice of Dines vast oeuvre ，第二句提到： Dine mostly photographs his own artwork or the subjects that he has portrayed in sculpture， painting
40、 and prints，可见首句是说 “摄影在 Dine的作品里只占很小的一部 分 ”， A符合文意，故为答案。 【知识模块】 阅读 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。第二段介绍了 Dine的展品情况，本题内容与此相关，故定位至该段。第二段第四句 指出： Most revealing and novel are Dines shots of his poetry， B符合文意，故为答案。该句中 的 “scribbled in charcoal on walls like graffiti”只是说 “诗写在墙上，像是涂鸦 ”，并不是真正的涂 鸦，排除 A。 【知识模块】 阅读 9 【正
41、确答案】 A 【试题解析】 推断题。由题干中的 self-portraits定位至第四段。末句是对 Dines self-portraits的评价： Though masterful， they feel flat when compared with his later pictures. 由 feel flat可以推断，作者认为那 些自拍照内涵不够丰富，显得苍白，故 A为答案。其中的 “masterful”表明作者对其技巧的肯 定， B不符合文意，故排除。第三段末提到 Dine的作品主题，但不属于 “in the late 1970s”， 排除C。 【知识模块】 阅读 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 主旨题。首段指出 Jim Dine在 巴黎举办了个人摄影展。第二段简要介绍其影展作品的主 题。从第三段开始，作者介绍 Jim Dine作为摄影师的艺术之路，从早期的流行艺术先锋到自 拍照，再到 20世纪 90年代中期的摄影探索，最后指出 Dine turned the camera on himself。全 文最后总结： The Paris exhibit makes that perfectly clear. 这与 D意思一致，故为答案。 A 是第二段提到的细节， B范围过大， C未提及，排除此三项。 【知识模块】 阅读
