1、MBA（英语）阅读理解练习试卷 18 及答案与解析一、Section III Reading ComprehensionDirections: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.0 A Defining genius. B Bias attacked. C Truly great mind is born, not made. D The line betwe
2、en the exceptional and the ordinary blurs. E Brain steers, labor facilitates. F Great lesson from a great character. The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means, and the exercise of ordinary qualities. The common life of every day, with its cares, necessities, and duties, affor
3、d ample opportunity for acquiring experience of the best kind; and its most beaten paths provide the true worker with abundant scope for effort and room for self-improvement. The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work
4、in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful. 1. _ Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the
5、best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful-such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. 2. _ Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these o
6、rdinary qualities; the very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified. A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoke
7、n of it as the power of making efforts. John Foster held it to be the power of lighting ones own fire. Buffon said of genius “it is patience“. 3. _ Newtons was unquestionably a mind of the very highest order, and yet, when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries, he modes
8、tly answered, “By always thinking unto them.“ At another time he thus expressed his method of study: “I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.“ It was in Newtons case, as in every other, only by diligent
9、application and perseverance that his great reputation was achieved. Even his recreation consisted in change of study, laying down one subject to take up another. To Dr. Bentley, he said: “If I have done the public any service, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought.“ 4. _ The extraor
10、dinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Thus Voltaire held that it is only a very slight line of separation that divides the man of genius f
11、rom the man of ordinary mould. Beccaria was even of opinion that all men might be poets and orators, and Reynolds that they might be painters and sculptors. If this were really so, that stolid Englishman might not have been so very far wrong after all, who, on Canovas death, inquired of his brother
12、whether it was “his intention to carry on the business!“ 5. _ Locked, Helvetius, and Diderot believed that all men have an equal aptitude for genius. But while admitting to the fullest extent the wonderful achievements of labor, and recognizing the fact that men of the most distinguished genius have
13、 invariably been found the most indefatigable workers, it must nevertheless be sufficiently obvious that, without the original endowment of heart and brain, no amount of labor, however well applied, could have produced a Shakespeare, a Newton, a Beethoven, or a Michelangelo.5 Good sense is the most
14、equitably distributed thing in the world, for each man considers himself so well provided with it that even those who are most difficult to satisfy in everything else do not usually wish to have more of it than they have already. It is not likely that everyone is, mistaken in this; it shows, rather,
15、 that the ability to judge rightly and separate the true from the false, which is essentially what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men, and thus that our opinions differ not because some men are better endowed with reason than others, but only because we direct our thoughts
16、 along different paths, and do not consider the same things, for it is not enough to have a good mind: what is most important is to apply it rightly. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices; and those who walk very slowly can advance much further, if they always keep to the direct road,
17、 than those who run and go astray.For my part, I have never presumed my mind to be more perfect than average in any way; I have, in fact, often wished that my thoughts were as quick, or my imagination as precise and distinct, or my memory as capacious or prompt, as those of some other men.And I know
18、 of no other qualities than these which make for the perfection of the mind; for as to reason, or good sense, inasmuch as it alone makes us men and distinguishes us from the beasts, I am quite willing to believe that it is whole and entire in each of us, and to follow in the common opinion of the ph
19、ilosophers who say that there are differences of more or less only among the accidents, and not among the forms, or natures, of the individuals of a single species. 6 According to the author, the three elements that comprise the perfect mind are _.（A）tenacity of thought, capacious memory, quickness
20、of mind（B） precise imagination, tenacity of memory, quickness of thought（C） quickness of wit, ease of conscience, quickness of thought（D）promptness of memory, distinctness of imagination, quickness of thought 7 The basic idea of the first paragraph may be stated as follows: _.（A）all persons have an
21、equal portion of good will when they are born（B） great souls are capable of great evil（C） good sense, in terms of its distribution among persons, may be called common sense（D）good sense is the mark of the truly good person 8 About himself, the author states that _.（A）he had always sensed his mental
22、superiority over most persons（B） his awareness of his mental superiority over other was something that grew slowly, with experience（C） he actually regards his own mental faculties as inferior in many ways to those of the great majority of persons（D）he has never had the feeling that his mind was more
23、 perfect than average in any way 9 The author claims that what sets human beings apart from beasts is _.（A）a sense of organization combined with the ability to create（B） the ability to adapt to the surroundings（C） a sense of reason coupled with a strong sense of practicality（D）a sense of reason 10 A
24、ccording to the author the ability to distinguish between the true and the false is _.（A）endowed by nature to all creatures（B） endowed in equal measure to all people（C） more heavily present in some people than in others（D）an unnatural, cultivated trait in all people MBA（英语）阅读理解练习试卷 18 答案与解析一、Section
25、 III Reading ComprehensionDirections: Read the following four passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.【知识模块】 阅读理解1 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 后面的段落指出“人们经常盲目地指责运气；但是运气并不像人类那样盲目”。这说明，该段主要讲的是“驳斥人们的盲目偏见”。B 说“驳斥偏见”，这可以表达该段落的主题。【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案
26、】 A【试题解析】 后面的段落指出“天赋或许是不必要的，即使是具备最高天赋的人也不轻视使用那些一般的才能；有人甚至将天赋解释为只是增强的常识；天赋是努力的力量；天赋是点燃自己热情的力量；天才就是耐心”。这说明，该段主要讲的是“对天赋的解释”。A 说“给天赋下定义”，这可以表达该段落的主题。【知识模块】 阅读理解3 【正确答案】 F【试题解析】 后面的段落指出“牛顿的头脑是最有才智的头脑，然而，当问到他是用什么方法获得惊人的发现时，牛顿谦虚地回答，靠的是对那些问题的不断深思；牛顿的事例和其他事例一样，他是靠孜孜不倦的努力和坚持不懈的精神才获得了极大的声望”。这说明，该段主要讲的是“名人获得成功的
27、经验之谈”。F 说“来自于一位伟人的宝贵经验”，这可以表达该段落的主题。【知识模块】 阅读理解4 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 后面的段落指出“完全凭借勤奋与毅力所产生的非凡成果已经引起许多名人怀疑，天赋是否真像通常所认为的那样是一种极为异常的才能；伏尔泰认为，区分天才与一般的人的界线是非常细微的”。这说明，该段主要讲的是“区分天才与一般人的界线非常细微”。D 说“杰出与寻常之间没有明显界限 ”，这可以表达该段落的主题。【知识模块】 阅读理解5 【正确答案】 E【试题解析】 空格后面的段落指出：非常明显的是，如果没有心灵和大脑固有的天赋，不论付出多少辛劳，不论应用得多么恰当，怎么也创造不出一位
28、莎士比亚、牛顿、贝多芬或者米开朗琪罗。这说明，该段落主要讲的是“天赋非常重要”。E 说“大脑指挥，辛劳促进”，这可以表达该段落的主题。【知识模块】 阅读理解【知识模块】 阅读理解6 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 这是一道询问细节的题目，先用查阅法找到答案所在的段落，文章第二段中第一、二两句表明了这点。另外，文中的 prompt，distinct ，quick 在这里分别被其名词形式 promptness，distinctness，quickness 所取代。【知识模块】 阅读理解7 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 这是一道主旨题，把此段的信息加以综合归纳可得出结论。文中指出：这种善于判断的能力人
29、皆有之，分布较公平，所以从这个角度来看，这一能力可被看做是人们俗称的“常识”。【知识模块】 阅读理解8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 见第二段第一行，故选 D。【知识模块】 阅读理解9 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 第二二段中“inasmuch as it alone”表明，使人区别于其他动物的就是人的理性，故选 D。【知识模块】 阅读理解10 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 第一段中“that the ability to judge rightly and separate the true from the falseis by nature equal in men”这一句说明，人区分真假的能力是天生的和均等的。【知识模块】 阅读理解
