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练习题 1)When the firein the movies, the people lost their heads and ran in all directions. A) broke in B) broke up C) broke out D) broke into 2) Don t hangthe window. It s dan
Part I Reading Comprehension
Part I Reading Comprehension
Directions: In this part of the exercise you will have 15 passages followed by
questions about the meaning of the material. You are to choose the ONE best
answer, A, B, C, D to each question. Answer all questions following a passage
on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage:
For Emily Dickinson there were three worlds, and she lived in all of them, making
them the substance of everything that she thought and wrote. There was the world
of nature, the things and the creatures that she saw, heard, felt about her; there
was the "estate" that was the world of friendship; and there was the world of the
unseen and unheard. From her youth she was looked upon as different. She was
direct, impulsive, original, and the droll wit who said unconventional things which
others thought but dared not speak, and said them incomparably well. The
characteristics which made her inscrutable to those who knew her continue to
bewilder and surprise, for she lived by paradoxes.
Certainly the greatest paradox was the fact that the three most pervasive friendships
were the most elusive. She saw the Revernd Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia but
three or four times in the course of her life, and then briefly, yet her admiration of him
as an ideal and her yearning for him as a person were of unsurpassed importance in
her growth as a poet. She sought out for professional advice the critic and publicist
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and invited his aid as mentor for more than twenty
years, though she never once adopted any counsel he dared to hazard. In the last
decade of her life, she c
ame to be a warm admirer of the poet and novelist Helen
Hunt Jackson, the only qualified judge among Emily Dickinson's contemporaries who
believed her to be a great poet, yet Emily Dickinson steadfastly refused to publish
even though Mrs. Jackson's importunity was insistent.
1. What is the author's main purpose in the passage?
a. To provide information about the childhood of Emily Dickinson
b. To discuss some of Emily Dickinson's critics
c. To give some insight into Emily Dickinson's character and personality
d. To comment on the quality of Emily Dickinson's poetry
2. According to the passage, many of the people who knew Emily Dickinson thought
of her as a. sociableb. unusualc. sadd. insensitive
3. According to the passage, HelenHunt Jackson wanted
a. as much recognition as Emily Dickinson received
b. her work to be criticized by Emily Dickinson
c. Emily Dickinson to write better poetry
d. Emily Dickinson's poetry to be published
4. The author's attitude toward Emily Dickinson isa. ironicb. distantc. amused
d. respectfulQuestions 5 to 8 are based on the following passage:
although the architects Samuel Mcintire and Charles Bullfinch designed notabe
buildings in Salem and Boston, respectively, Asher Benjamin, a carpenter from
Greenfield. Massachusetts, is credited with having exerted more direct influence
than any other single person on architecture in New England. In 1797 he published
a book called The Country Builder's Assistant. It was not the first book on architecture
printed in the United States, but it was the first genuinely American treatment of the
subject. It was very much a "how-to-do-it" public structures. Carpenters throughout
the Nor
theast were a literate breed. They acquired Benjamin's book and began to
pattern their construction work on his plans. The First Congregational Church in
Bennington, Vermont, one of the most admired of all New England churches, was
built by the carpenter Lavius Fillmore and closely resembles one of the designs found
in Asher's book. Like Fillmore, most local carpenters had souls of their own and were
not given to automated reproductions from the book. But the total result is a pervasive
pattern that continues to give New England its distinctive flavor.
5. The emphasis in Benjamin's book could best be described asa. religious
b. ruralc. practicald. continental
6. Who built the first Congregational Church in Bennington?a. Mclntire
b. Bullfinchc. Benjamind. Fillmore
7. Benjamin's relation to the carpenters of his day could best be compared with that
of a. a teacher to studentsb. a commander to troopsc. an enemy to adversaries
d. an idol to worshipers
8. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
a. Architects Versus Carpenters in New England
b. How Bennington's Church was Built
c. The Influence of Asher Benjamin on New England Architecture
d. The Colomal Buildings of Salem and Boston
Questions 9 to 14 are based on the following passage:
An important new industry, oil refining, grew after the Civil War. Crude oil, or
petroleum-a dark, thick ooze from the earth-had been known for hundreds of years.
But little use had ever been made of it. In the 1850's Samuel M. Kier, a manufacturer
in western Pennsylvania, began collecting the oil from local scepages and refining it
into kerosene. Refining, like smelting, is a processs of removing impurities
from a raw
material.
Kerosene was used to light lamps. It was a cheap substitute for whale oil, which was
becoming harder to get. Soon there was a large demand for kerosene. People began
to search for new supplies of petroleum.
The first oil well was drilled by E.L.Drake, a retired railroad conductor. In 1859 he
began drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvanis. The whole venture seemed so impractical
and foolish that onlookers called it "Drake's Folly". But when he had drilled down
about 70 feet(21 meters), Drake struck oil. His well began to yield 20 barrels of
crude oil a day.
News of Drake's success brought oil prospectors to the scene. By the early 1860's
these wildcatters were drilling for "black gold" all over western Pennsylvania. The
boom rivaled the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West
atmosphere. And it brought far more wealth to the prospectors than any gold rush.
Crude oil could be refined into many products. For some years kerosene continued
to be the principal one. It was sold in grocery stores and door-to-door. In the 1880's
and 1890's refiners learned how to make other petroleum products such as waxes
and lubricating oils. Petroleum was not then used to make gasoline or heating oil.
9. What is the best title for the passage?
a. Oil Refining: A Historical Perspective
b. The California Gold Rush: et Rich Quickly
c. Private Property: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted
d. Kerosene Lamps: A Light in the Tunnel
10. It can be inferred form the passage that kerosene was preferable to whale oil
because whale oil was tooa. expensiveb. thickc. hotd. poll[1] [2] [3] 下一页 |
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