英语专八冲刺最新模考试卷含答案（上）

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2006)

　　-GRADE EIGHT-

　　TIME LIMIT: 190MIN

　　PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (30MIN)

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　　PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

　　In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

　　TEXT　A

　　He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.

　　The knuckles of the doctor's hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife's death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.

　　Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company's store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.

　　Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "'That is to confound you, you blithering old sentimentalist," he cried, shaking with laughter.

　　The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife and left her money to him is a very curious story. It is delicious, like the twisted little apples that grow in the orchards of Winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground is hard with frost underfoot. The apples have been taken from the trees by the pickers. They have been put in barrels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that are filled with books, magazines, furniture, and people. On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy' s hands. One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple has been gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed as he sat in his buggy behind the jaded grey horse and went slowly along country roads. On the papers were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts.

　　One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.

　　The tall dark girl came to see Doctor Reefy because she was in the family way and had become frightened. She was in that condition because of a series of circumstances also curious.

　　The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels. For two years she saw suitors almost every evening. Except two they were all alike. They talked to her of passion and there was a strained eager quality in their voices and in their eyes when they looked at her. The two who were different were much unlike each other. One of them, a slender young man with white hands, the son of a jeweler in Winesburg, talked continually of virginity. When he was with her he was never off the subject. The other, a black-haired boy with large ears, said nothing at all but always managed to get her into the darkness, where he began to kiss her.

　　For a time the tall dark girl thought she would marry the jeweler's

　　son. For hours she sat in silence listening as he talked to her and then

　　she began to be afraid of something. Beneath his talk of virginity she began to think there was a lust greater than in all the others. At times it seemed to her that as he talked he was holding her body in his hands. She imagined him turning it slowly about in the white hands and staring at it. At night she dreamed that he had bitten into her body and that his jaws were dripping. She had the dream three times, then she became in the family way to the one who said nothing at all but who in the moment of his passion actually did bite her shoulder so that for days the marks of his teeth showed......-......-.

　　After the tall dark girl came to know Doctor Reefy it seemed to her that she never wanted to leave him again. She went into his office one morning and without her saying anything he seemed to know what had happened to her.

　　In the office of the doctor there was a woman, the wife of the man who kept the bookstore in Winesburg. Like all old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to her teeth and groaned. Her husband was with her and when the tooth was taken out they both screamed and blood ran down on the woman's white dress. The tall dark girl did not pay any attention. When the woman and the man had gone the doctor smiled. "I will take you driving into the country with me," he said.

　　For several weeks the tall dark girl and the doctor were together almost every day. The condition that had brought her to him passed in an illness, but she was like one who has discovered the sweetness of the twisted apples, she could not get her mind fixed again upon the round perfect fruit that is eaten in the city apartments. In the fall after the beginning of her acquaintanceship with him she married Doctor Reefy and in the following spring she died. During the winter he read to her all of the odds and ends of thoughts he had scribbled on the bits of paper. After he had read them he laughed and stuffed them away in his pockets to become round hard balls.

　　11.According to the story Doctor Reefy's life seems very ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿.

　　A. eccentricB. normal C. enjoyableD. optimistic (A)

　　12.The story tells us that the tall dark girl was in the family way. The phrase "in the family way" means＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿.

　　A. troubledB. pregnantC. twistedD. cheated (B)

　　13.Doctor Reef lives a ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ life.

　　A.happyB. miserableC. easy-goingD. reckless (B)

　　14. The tall dark girl's marriage to Doctor Reef proves to be a ＿＿＿＿＿ one.

　　A. transientB. understandable C. perfectD. funny (A)

　　15. Doctor Reef's paper balls probably symbolize his ＿＿＿＿＿＿.

　　A eagerness to shut himself away from society

　　B suppressed desire to communicate with people

　　C optimism about life

　　D cynical attitude towards life (B)

Text B

　　Stratford-on-Avon, as we all know, has only one industry-William Shakespeare-but there are two distinctly separate and increasingly hostile branches. There is the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), which presents superb productions of the plays at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the Avon. And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come, not to see the plays, but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage, Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.

　　The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue. They frankly dislike the RSC's actors, them with their long hair and beards and sandals and noisiness. It's all deliciously ironic when you consider that Shakespeare, who earns their living, was himself an actor (with a beard) and did his share of noise - making.

　　The tourist streams are not entirely separate. The sightseers who come by bus- and often take in Warwick Castle and Blenheim Palace on the side - don't usually see the plays, and some of them are even surprised to find a theatre in Stratford. However, the playgoers do manage a little sight - seeing along with their play going. It is the playgoers, the RSC contends, who bring in much of the town's revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants. The sightseers can take in everything and get out of town by nightfall.

　　The townsfolk don't see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford cries poor traditionally. Nevertheless every hotel in town seems to be adding a new wing or cocktaillounge. Hilton is building its own hotel there, which you may be sure will be decorated with Hamlet Hamburger Bars, the Lear Lounge, the Banquo Banqueting Room, and so forth, and will be very expensive.

　　Anyway, the townsfolk can't understand why the Royal Shakespeare Company needs a subsidy. (The theatre has broken attendance records for three years in a row. Last year its 1,431 seats were 94 per cent occupied all year long and this year they'll do better.) The reason, of course, is that costs have rocketed and ticket prices have stayed low.

　　It would be a shame to raise prices too much because it would drive away the young people who are Stratford's most attractive clientele. They come entirely for the plays, not the sights. They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) -lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m.

　　16. From the first two paragraphs , we learn that

　　A. the townsfolk deny the RSC ' s contribution to the town's revenue A

　　B. the actors of the RSC imitate Shakespeare on and off stage

　　C. the two branches of the RSC are not on good terms

　　D. the townsfolk earn little from tourism

　　17. It can be inferred from Paragraph 3 that

　　A. the sightseers cannot visit the Castle and the Palace separately

　　B. the playgoers spend more money than the sightseers B

　　C. the sightseers do more shopping than the playgoers

　　D. the playgoers go to no other places in town than the theater

　　18. By saying "Stratford cries poor traditionally" (Line 2-3, Paragraph 4), the author implies that

　　A. Stratford cannot afford the expansion projects

　　B. Stratford has long been in financial difficulties

　　C. the town is not really short of money C

　　D. the townsfolk used to be poorly paid

19. According to the townsfolk, the RSC deserves no subsidy because

　　A. ticket prices can be raised to cover the spending

　　B. the company is financially ill-managed

　　C. the behavior of the actors is not socially acceptable

　　D. the theatre attendance is on the rise D

　　20. From the text we can conclude that the author

　　A. is supportive of both sides

　　B. favors the townsfolk's view

　　C. takes a detached attitude

　　D. is sympathetic to the RSC. D

　　Text C

　　Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the emergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth-century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period. Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured because, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement -utopian socialism-- which was already popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades that culminated in the first women's rights conference held at Seneca Falls. New York, in 1848. Thus, a complete understanding of the origins and development of nineteenth-century feminism in the United States requires that the geographical focus be widened to include Europe and that the detailed study already made of social conditions be expanded to include the ideological development of feminism.

　　The earliest and most popular of the utopian socialists were the Saint-Simonians. The specifically feminist part of Saint-Simonianism has, however, been less studied than the group's contribution to early socialism. This is regrettable on two counts. By 1832 feminism was the central concern of Saint-Simonianism and entirely absorbed its adherents' energy; hence, by ignoring its feminism. European historians have misunderstood Saint-Simonianism. Moreover, since many feminist ideas can be traced to Saint-Simonianism, European historians' appreciation of later feminism in France and the United States remained limited.

Saint-Simon's followers, many of whom were women, based their feminism on an interpretation of his project to reorganize the globe by replacing brute force with the rule of spiritual powers. The new world order would be ruled together by a male, to represent reflection, and a female, to represent sentiment. This complementarity reflects the fact that, while the Saint-Simonians did not reject the belief that there were innate differences between men and women, they nevertheless foresaw an equally important social and political role for both sexes in their Utopia.

　　Only a few Saint-Simonians opposed a definition of sexualequality based on gender distinction. This minority believed that individuals of both sexes were born similar in capacity and character, and they ascribed male-female differences to socialization and education. The envisioned result of both currents of thought, however, was that women would enter public life in the new age and that sexualequality would reward men as well as women with an improved way of life.

　　21.It can be inferred that the author considers those

　　historians who describe early feminists in the Unrated:

　　States as "solitary" to be

　　Ainsufficiently familiar with the international

　　origins of nineteenth-century American feminist thought (A)

　　Boverly concerned with the regional diversity

　　of feminist ideas in the period before 1848

　　Cnot focused narrowly enough in their geo-

　　graphical scope

　　Dinsufficiently aware of the ideological consequences of the Seneca Falls conference

　　22.According to the passage, which of the following

　　is true of the Seneca Falls conference on women's rights?

　　AIt was primarily a product of nineteenth-

　　century Saint-Simonian feminist thought.

　　BIt was the work of American activists who

　　were independent of feminists abroad.

　　C It was the culminating achievement of the

　　Utopian socialist movement.

　　DIt was a manifestation of an international

　　movement for social change and feminism (D)

　　23.The author's attitude toward most European

　　historians who have studied the Saint-Simonians

　　is primarily one of

　　A approval of the specific focus of their research

　　B disapproval of their lack of attention to the

　　issue that absorbed most of the Saint-Simonians' energy after 1832(B)

　　Capproval of their general focus on social conditions

　　Ddisapproval of their lack of attention to links

　　between the Saint-Simonians and their American counterparts

　　24.It can be inferred from the passage that the author

　　believes that study of Saint-Simonianism is necessary

　　for historians of American feminism because such study

　　Awould clarify the ideological origins of those

　　feminist ideas that influenced American feminism(A)

　　Bwould increase understanding of a movement

　　that deeply influenced the Utopian socialism of early American feminists

　　Cwould focus attention on the most important

　　aspect of Saint-Simonian thought before 1832

　　Dpromises to offer insight into a movement that

　　was a direct outgrowth of the Seneca Falls conference of 1848

　
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