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Part I Reading Comprehension (60 marks, 60 minutes) Section A (每小题 2 分)
Format I
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet.(40 marks)
Passage one
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
The moment two humans lay eyes on each other has incredible. The first sight of you is a brilliant holograph. It burns its way into your new acquaintance’s eyes and can stay printed in his or her memory forever.
Artists are something able to capture this quicksilver, short emotional response. I have a friend, Robert Grossman, an accomplished artist who draws regularly for Forbes, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and other popular publications. Robert has a unique gift for capturing not only the physical appearance of his subjects, but zeroing in on the essence of their personalities. The bodies and souls of hundreds of figures radiate from his sketch pad (素描). One glance at his pictures of famous people, you can see, for instance, the insecure of arrogance of Madonna, the boyishness of Clinton, the awkwardness of George Bush.
Something at a party, Robert will do a quick sketch on a cocktail napkin of a guest. When he’s finished drawing, he puts his pen down and hands a napkin to the guest. Often a puzzled look comes over the subject’s face. He or she usually mumbles some politeness like, “well, er, that is great. But it really is not me.” The crowd’s convincing echo of “Oh yes it is!” drowns down the subject, who is left to stare back at the world’s view of himself of herself in the napkin. Once I asked Robert how he could capture people’s personalities so well. He said ,”It is simple. I just look at them.” Almost every side of people’s personalities is evident from their appearance, their gesture, the way they move.
First impressions are incredible. Because in our fast-paced information-overload world, multiple stimuli bombard us every second, people’s heads are spinning. They must form quick judgments to make sense of the world and get on with what they have to do. Whenever people meet you, they take an instant mental snapshot. That image of you becomes the data that they deal with for a long time.
1. People usually get the first impression if a person through .
A. reading an article about him or her in a famous magazine
B. getting acquainted with his or her beat friends
C. taking a brief look at his or her appearance
D. studying his or her personality carefully
【答案】C。
【解析】细节理解题。文中第一句阐述道,“The moment two humans lay eyes on each other has incredible”。 倾斜词组的含义即两眼相望,与C选项的a brief look意思是相近的。故选C。
2.Why does the author say that Robert has a unique gift?
A. He can draw the subject carefully
B. He can memorize the names of people instantly
C. He can illustrate the subject’s characteristic
D. He can communicate with famous people effectively
【答案】C。
【解析】细节理解题。第二段第三句与第四句,有一描述,“the essence of their personality”。本题C选项中的characteristics就同义替换了personality。
3.What does the phrase “zeroing in on” most probably mean?
A. relying on B. responding on
C. acknowledging on D. grasping
【答案】D。
【解析】词义推测题。定位到原文第二段第三句Robert has a unique gift for... but zeroing in on the essence of their personalities可知罗伯特有独特的天赋,他不仅能捕捉人物的外表,而且能集中注意力于他们个性的本质。通过“capturing”一词含义可以推测出该词组的意思。
4.The puzzled look on the subject’s face suggests that .
A. the artist’s drawing is out of subject’s expectation
B. the crowed treated the subject rudely
C. the artist failed to show his respect for the subject
D. the image of the drawing was too real to believe
【答案】D。
【解析】推断题。问题含义首先得理解,被Robert所描绘的这个人物脸上露出疑惑惊讶的表情是为何。定位到原文第三段,根据众人的反应推断出,再联系上文Robert的独特技能天赋是能第一眼就画出人的性格,所以推测出是由于Robert画的太逼真,让该人物惊讶的难以相信。故选D。
5.We can conclude from the passage that .
A. one should never trust a person by his or her appearance
B. the first impression usually has a long lasting influence
C. the judgment based on the first impression is always reliable
D. we can no longer make any sense of the information an hand
【答案】B。
【解析】文意总结题。B选项的中文含义是“第一印象通常有持久的影响力”,在原文第一段第二句“stay printed in his or her memory forever”以及全文最后一句“That image of you becomes the data that they deal with for a long time.”可以推断出B选项的正确性。A, C, D, 选项中的“never”, “always”, “no longer”, 都太过绝对,不符合原文内容。
Passages 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
My dad was a plumber for the public works department in our town, so from time to time he came into my school. Can you imagine sitting in the class and seeing your dad peek through the door of your classroom and wave at you? In junior high?
One girl in our class always made fun of me because my dad was a plumber and hers was a lawyer, and she would always say things like, “that’s gross!” I must admit that I was sometimes embarrassed by what my dad did, especially in my early teens, when the only thing I really cared about was what the other girls thought.
The girl lived a few streets away from us, and a winter day--the day her older sister got married--the toilet in their main upstairs bathroom cracked and there was water everywhere. Her father called every plumber in the yellow book but nobody would come out because of the major snowstorm. His daughter told her father that my father was a plumber, and he called. My father went over and took me with him. (maybe he was hoping that the lawyer’s daughter would be nicer to me.) My father fixed the toilet, help them clean up everything, and didn’t take a dime for the trouble. But as we were leaving, he told the girl, “If I ever need a lawyer, I’ll be happy to call your dad.”
As we walked to our car, he said to me, “Do you believe he didn’t know where the main shut-off valve was? What a dumb ass!”
From that point on, her dad was known in school as Attorney Dumb Ass.
When my husband and I bought our house, the first thing my father showed him was shut-off valve. I have always been proud to say that I am a plumber’s daughter.
6.When her father came to her school and peeked through the classroom door, the writer might feel .
A. pleased B. embarrassed C. disappointed D. threatened
【答案】B。
【解析】细节题。第二段第二句I must admit that I was sometimes embarrassed by what my dad did可知我必须承认我有时被我爸爸的所作所为弄得难为情,所以选B。
7.The girl’s attitude towards the writer can be best described as .
A. unfriendly B. doubtful C. kind D. sympathetic
【答案】A。
【解析】推断题。从第二段中One girl in our class always made fun of me... was a lawyer, and she ... like, “that’s gross!”对该女孩的描述中可以推测出该女孩对作者的态度不太友好,如“make fun of”(取笑), “that’s gross”(gross:粗野), 所以选A。
8.In her early teens, the only thing the writer cared about was .
A. her study
B. her appearance
C. what her father did
D. what the other girls thought
【答案】D。
【解析】细节题。第二段最后一句when the only thing I really cared about was what the other girls thought可知我真正关心的是其他女孩的想法。所以选D。
9.Why couldn’t the lawyer find anybody to fix the toilet on that winter day?
A. He had little money
B. All the plumbers were too busy to come
C. There was a major snowstorm and nobody would come out
D. One of his daughters was getting married and the house was in a mess
【答案】C。
【解析】细节题。第三段第三句Her father called ... because of the major snowstorm,可知她父亲打电话给黄皮书中的每一个水管工,但是由于大暴风雪,没有人出来。所以选C。
10.What might the writer’s father think of the lawyer?
A. Generous B. Intelligent C. Stupid D. Respectful
【答案】C。
【解析】推断题。从第五段“what a dumb ass”,“dumb ass”是笨蛋,傻子的意思,所以推测出文中作者的父亲认为这个律师是愚蠢的,选C。
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