Passage One One silly question I simply cannot tolerate is "How do you feel?" Usually the question is asked of a man in action—a man walking along the street, or busily working at his desk. So what do you expect him to say? He'll probably say, "Fine, I'm all right." But you have put a bug in his ear—maybe now he is not sure. If you are his good friend, you may have seen something on his face, or in his walk, that he overlooked that morning. It makes him worrying a little. He looks in a mirror to see if everything is all right, while you go merrily on your way asking someone else, "How do you feel?" Every question has its time and place. It's perfectly acceptable, for instance, to ask "How do you feel?" if you are visiting a close friend in the hospital. But if the fellow is walking on both legs, hurrying to take a train or sitting at his desk working, it's no time to ask him that silly question. When George Bernard Shaw, the famous British writer of plays was in his eighties, someone asked him, "How do you feel?" Shaw put him in his place. "When you reach my age," he said, "either you feel all right or you are dead."
1. According to the writer, greetings, such as "How do you feel?" ______.
A.show one's consideration for others
B.are a good way to make friends
C.are proper to ask a man in action
D.generally make one feel uneasy
A B C D
D
本文说的是:有人不分时间和场合地使用问候语“How do you feel?”(你感觉如何?)简直使人无法忍受。从文章中的第一个句子我们就可以推断出本题的正确答案是D“通常会使人感觉不自在”。
2. The question "How do you feel?" seems to be correct and suitable when asked of ______.
A.a friend who is ill
B.a person who has lost a close friend
C.a stranger who looks somewhat worried
D.a man who is working at his desk
A B C D
A
本题问在何时用“How do you feel?”这个句子来问候似乎是比较恰当合适的。通读一下全文,我们可以从第二段第二句中找到与本题答案相关的提示信息。这句话指出,在医院探望生病的好朋友时此问候语就比较合适。由此可知本题的正确答案应为A“生病的朋友”。
3. George Bernard Shaw's reply in this passage shows his ______.
A.silliness
B.cleverness
C.carelessness
D.politeness
A B C D
B
本题是一道具体细节题。问文章中萧伯纳的回答表现了他的什么性格。利用查阅式阅读法,我们可以在本文最后两个句子中找到相关信息:萧伯纳的回答使问“How do you feel?”这个问题的人自讨没趣,由此可见他的回答是很机智幽默的。因此,本题的正确答案应是B。
4. "You have put a bug in his ear" means that you have ______
A.made him laugh
B.shown concern for him
C.made fun of him
D.given him some kind of warning
A B C D
D
本题是考查句子含义类问题,目的是要求考生根据上下文理解词组“put a bug in his ear”的意义。利用查阅式阅读法找到与此相关的上下文,我们可以推断出你问候从事各种正常活动的人“How do you feel?”可能暗示着他还存在未曾意识到的某些问题。因此选择项A、B和C没有在上下文中表现出来,而D“似乎在提醒他什么”,这个选项的内容刚好表现了原文的信息。所以,本题的正确答案应是D。
5. This passage can be entitled ______.
A.Silly Question
B.Don't Trouble a Busy Man
C.What Are Good Greetings
D.George Bernard Shaw's Reply
A B C D
A
本题是关于全文的最佳标题类问题,需要通读全文,在综观全文的基础之上才能总结归纳出来。文章各段都是围绕着“How do you feel?”这个使用不当就会成为一个愚蠢的问题的问候语而展开的。所以本文最好的标题是选择项A“一个愚蠢的问题”。
Passage Two More than 30000 drivers and front seat passengers are killed or seriously injured each year. At a speed of only 30 miles per hour it is the same as falling from a third floor window. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half. Therefore drivers or front seat passengers over 14 in most vehicles must wear a seat belt. If you do not, you could be fined up to £50. It will not be up to the drivers to make sure you wear your belt. But it will be the driver's responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of some kind. However, you do not have to wear a seat belt if you are reversing your vehicle; or you are making a local delivery or collecting using a special vehicle; or if you have a valid medical certificate which excuses you from wearing it. Make sure these circumstances apply to you before you decide not to wear your seat belt. Remember you may be taken to court for not doing so, and you may be fined if you cannot prove to the court that you have been excused from wearing it.
Passage Three If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876—1974) concluded from other men's work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities. He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of a large number of people tend to be lowest in the summer. Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in spring man's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature. Fall is the nextbest season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be good time to take a long vacation from thinking.
1. According to this passage, your intelligence probably ______.
Passage Four On June 17, 1744, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows. We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces, they were taught all your sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods... they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know, and make men of them.
1. The passage is about ______.
A.the talk between the Indians and the officials
B.the colleges of the northern provinces
C.the educational values of the Indians
D.the problems of the Americans in the mid-eighteenth century
Passage Five I came to India a year ago to find a village in which I could live and write but it was many months before I settled down happily in this Himalayan community. I wasted a lot of time looking for the "typical" village, yet no such thing exists. Conditions vary too widely. But the villages I stayed in had much in commonpoverty, dirt, ignorance. Often the villagers themselves were puzzled, suspicious. Why had I come? I had put aside my work as a political journalist because my ideas had changed. I had come to believe that what was happening in the Third World was more important than anything else. But to understand how threequarters of the world's people live, and how their future might affect ours, I felt that I first had to try and share their way of life. In the end I chose a mountain village because it was a little cooler than those in the plains. I took the bus from town along a bumpy road. Then came a rough walk down a steep path to the river. After this I began the climb into the Mils. Whenever I stopped to catch my breath, there was a magnificent view. After several hours' walk the village came into view.
1. After the writer had arrived in India ______.
A.he spent a year writing about the place he lived in
B.he took quite a long time finding a suitable place to live
C.he spent years looking for a certain village
D.he lived in a Himalayan community for many months