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1、專業(yè)英語考試復(fù)習(xí)資料專業(yè)八級(jí)分類模擬41專業(yè)英語考試復(fù)習(xí)資料專業(yè)八級(jí)分類模擬41專業(yè)八級(jí)分類模擬41READING COMPREHENSION The opening and closing of doors are the most significant actions of mans life. What a mystery lies in doors! No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door. Even the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth g

2、lows red at dusk, may harbor surprises. The plumber may actually have called (while you were out) and fixed that leaking faucet. The cook may have had a fit of the vapors and demanded her passports. The wise man opens his front door with humility and a spirit of acceptance. Which one of us has not s

3、at in some anteroom and watched the inscrutable panels of a door that was full of meaning? Perhaps you were waiting to apply for a job; perhaps you had some deal you were ambitious to put over. You watched the confidential stenographer flit in and out, carelessly turning that mystic portal which, to

4、 you, revolved on hinges of fate. And then the young woman said, Mr. Cranberry will see you now. As you grasped the knob the thought flashed, When I open this door again, what will have happened? There are many kinds of doors, such as revolving doors for hotels, shops, and public buildings. These ar

5、e typical of the brisk, bustling ways of modern life. Can you imagine John Milton or William Penn skipping through a revolving door? Then there are the curious little slatted doors that still swing outside denatured barrooms and extend only from shoulder to knee. There are trapdoors, sliding doors,

6、double doors, stage doors, prison doors, glass doors. But the symbol and mystery of a door resides in its quality of concealment. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to hide what lies inside, and to keep the heart in suspense. Also, there are many ways of openin

7、g doors. There is the cheery push of elbow with which the waiter shoves open the kitchen door when he bears in your try of supper. There is the sympathetic and awful silence of the dentists maid who opens the door into the operating room, and, without speaking, implies that the doctor is ready for y

8、ou. There is the brisk cataclysmic opening of a door when the nurse comes in very early in the morningIts a boy! Doors are the symbol of privacy, of retreat, of the minds escape into blissful quietude or sad secret struggle. A room without doors is not a room, but a hallway. No matter where he is, a

9、 man can make himself at home behind a closed door. The mind works best behind closed doors. Men are not horses to be herded together. Dogs know the meaning and anguish of doors. Have you ever noticed a puppy yearning at a shut portal? It is a symbol of human life. The opening of doors is a mystic a

10、ct: it has in it some flavor of the unknown, some sense of moving into a new moment, a new pattern of the human rigmarole. It includes the highest glimpses of mortal gladness; reunions, reconciliations, the bliss of lovers long patted. Even in sadness, the opening of a door may bring relief: it chan

11、ges and redistributes human forces. But the closing of doors is far more terrible. It is a confession of finality. Every door closed brings something to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door gently shut is often the most

12、tragic gesture in life. Every one knows the seizure of anguish that comes just after the closing of a door, when the loved one is still near, within sound of voice, and yet already far away. The opening and closing of doors is a part of the stern fluency of life. Life will not stay still and let us

13、alone. We are continually opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life lasts not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes. The closing of a door is irrevocable. It snaps the pack-thread of the heart. It is no avail to reopen, to go back. Pinero spoke n

14、onsense when he made Paula Tanqueray say, The future is only the past entered through another gate. Alas, there is no other gate. When the door is shut, it is shut forever. There is no other entrance to that vanished pulse of time. The moving finger writes, and having writ. There is a certain kind o

15、f door-shutting that will come to us all. The kind of door-shutting that is done very quietly, with the sharp click of the latch to break the stillness. They will think then, one hopes, of our unfulfilled decencies rather than of our pluperfect misdemeanors. Then they will go out and close the door.

16、 1. John Milton and William Penn couldnt have seen _.A.revolving doorsB.slatted doorsC.stage doorsD.prison doors答案:A解析 根據(jù)第4段前兩句話可知，旋轉(zhuǎn)門是現(xiàn)代的產(chǎn)物。第3句指出：“你能想象彌爾頓和潘恩穿過旋轉(zhuǎn)門的情景嗎?”，這個(gè)句子明顯帶有懷疑口吻，由此可知，A為答案。2. The relationship between the fourth and fifth paragraphs is that _.A.both present the meaning of opening

17、 doorsB.the fourth generalizes and the fifth gives examplesC.each presents one side of the pictureD.the fifth is the logical result of the fourth答案:C解析 第4段講的是“門”的種類及其隱蔽性，而第5段講的是“開門”所蘊(yùn)涵的意義(如服務(wù)員上菜、小孩出生)，因此，這兩段講的是“門”這一話題的不同方面，故選C。本題易誤選D，原因是第5段開頭有also一詞，考生可能會(huì)誤認(rèn)為該詞是“而且，還”之義，其實(shí)also在此處意為“同樣地”，進(jìn)而排除D。3. The

18、closing of doors may imply all the following EXCEPT _.A.endB.sadnessC.reliefD.distance答案:C解析 第7段第3句提到，甚至在悲傷之時(shí)，開門可能會(huì)減輕痛苦。這就表明是“開門”而不是“關(guān)門”可以減輕痛苦，故選C。第7段后半部分對(duì)“關(guān)門”帶來的“結(jié)束”、“悲傷”、“距離”等影響都有相應(yīng)的表述，因此A、B、D三項(xiàng)均可排除。4. Which of the following idioms can be inferred from the last three paragraphs?A.Birds of a feathe

19、r flock together.B.No pains, no gains.C.Chance favors the prepared mind.D.Time goes never to return.答案:D解析 倒數(shù)第2段提到，門一關(guān)閉就不再開啟，我們無法進(jìn)入已經(jīng)消逝的時(shí)間，這就表明“時(shí)間一去不復(fù)返”。故D正確。5. What does the first sentence in the third paragraph indicate?答案:People may inevitably encounter varied doors.解析 第3段首句的意思是“我們之中有誰沒有曾坐在某個(gè)前廳，盯

20、著詭異卻充滿意義的門板呢?”這個(gè)句子有雙重否定，which和not，即表示肯定；加上下文的舉例，這就表示我們每個(gè)人都會(huì)碰到“門”，而對(duì)于不同的人，“門”的含義也是不同的，言下之意即我們都會(huì)碰到各種不同的“門”，故答案可表述為People may inevitably encounter varied doors。 Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx has eight floors, seven gymnasiums, a football field and a planetarium. But there is one place off li

21、mits to its more than 3,000 students: the six-lane swimming pool, which has been dry for more than a decade. Flanked by empty bleachers, coated with dust and dimly lighted by a few fluorescent bulbs, whose dull buzzing noise substitutes for splashing and cheering, the pool evokes an aura of eerie lo

22、neliness. Within the New York City public school system, though, the troubled Truman pool represents a trend. Of the 50 swimming pools tucked inside the citys 1,200 school buildings, 10 are in unusable condition. At Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan, the pool, empty since leaks and fil

23、tration problems were discovered in 1986, has been used over the years to store old chairs and desks. The pool at Walton High School in the Bronx has been closed since the 1980s, despite a $54 million schoolwide renovation. Next to Trumans competitive pool is a smaller practice pool, which is also e

24、mpty, except for grime, spattered paint and a few cigarette butts. For the swimming enthusiasts of the city public school system, the empty school pools are a sad spectacle, hollow symbols of lost opportunities: to combat obesity; to provide summer job training in a city that has had to import lifeg

25、uards from Europe in recent years; to entice that subset of students who just may love the water even if they hate everything else about high school. Swimming kind of puts you in a different frame of mindtheres noise and laughter, people feeling free and weightless, said Sana Q. Nasser, the principa

26、l of Truman. Here we have a pool that needs a teensy bit to get it going, and to see it empty is heart-wrenching. The latest version of Mayor Michael R. Bloombergs $13.1 billion, five-year educational capital plan, to be announced in the coming weeks, will include $60 million for upgrades to a dozen

27、 school pools, including $7 million for Truman, $5 million for Walton and $4 million for King, said Steven W. Lawitts, senior vice president of the School Construction Authority. These pools are going to be fixed, Mr. Lawitts said. But the school systems capital plans have historically called for pr

28、ojects that never end up happening, among them the planned renovation of one of two pools at the George Washington High School campus, in Washington Heights. Also, the mayors plan relies on $6.5 billion from the state, which is resisting a court order to give the city schools more money. I would lov

29、e it to be the case that kids could swim next year at Truman High School, said Eva S. Moskowitz, chairwoman of the City Council Education Committee, whose father swam on the Stuyvesant High School team. People should not be fooled that simply because the pool repair is in the capital budget it will

30、happen. Teachers and principals say that when school pools work, they are oases from whatever troubles may pass in the hallways and classrooms. Tension over test scores and safety concerns dissipates in the smell of chlorine, the creak of diving boards, the splash of the butterfly stroke. On the Wes

31、t Side of Manhattan, the purported existence of a pool at Martin Luther King Jr. High School was such a mystery that it inspired an article in The Advocate, a student newspaper on campus. Appearing under the headline Unlocking MLKs Secrets, the article was accompanied by a photograph showing old fur

32、niture and a television set stacked next to the empty pool. At other schools, the situation is reversed. The seniors would always tell the freshmen they could go find the pool on the fifth floor, said Adam Kerzner, a Bronx Science swimmer who graduated from the schoolwhich has no fifth floorin 1997.

33、 It was kind of like a hazing thing. Swim teams representing all eight Staten Island high schools vie for practice time at Curtis High School, the boroughs only public school with a pool. Its hectic, said Jim Meraglia, Curtiss athletic director. 6. Which of the following details of swimming pool in

34、Martin Luther King Jr. High School is INCORRECT?A.It has been used as a storage of old chairs and desks since 1986.B.It is included in the Mayors five-year educational capital plan.C.It is still in unusable condition despite a schoolwide renovation.D.It ever inspired an article titled Unlocking MLKs

35、 Secrets.答案:C解析 C張冠李戴，把關(guān)于Walton High School“沃爾頓中學(xué)”的表述套用于馬丁路德金中學(xué)，故為答案。7. Which of the following benefits of swimming is NOT mentioned in the passage?A.Losing weight.B.Keeping healthy.C.Relieving stress.D.Forgetting troubles.答案:B解析 本題是關(guān)于游泳的益處，B“保持健康”看似符合常識(shí)，但文中未提及，選B。8. The authors tone towards the top

36、ic can most probably be described as _.A.concernedB.optimisticC.criticalD.sarcastic答案:A解析 本文雖然沒有出現(xiàn)過表明作者態(tài)度的詞語和句子，但通過引述他人的話語以及引用數(shù)據(jù)等方式，表明了作者對(duì)于該現(xiàn)象及其解決辦法是關(guān)心、關(guān)切的，故選A。作者并未明確譴責(zé)哪一方，排除C；第4、5段表明由于資金短缺很難預(yù)測(cè)問題的解決，故B不選；文章最后提到兩個(gè)學(xué)生調(diào)侃學(xué)校泳池，但這不是全文的基調(diào)，D也不選。9. According to the passage, what may be the cause of empty scho

37、ol pools?答案:Shortage of finance解析 第4段提到，市長(zhǎng)教育計(jì)劃最后能否兌現(xiàn)很難預(yù)測(cè)，因?yàn)閬碓从趪?guó)家的那部分資金很難得到保證，因此答案為Shortage of finance。10. What does Adam Kerzner imply by saying The seniors would always tell the freshmen they could go find the pool on the fifth floor?答案:The seniors are satirizing the schools lack of a pool.解析 該句字面意

38、思是“高年級(jí)學(xué)生總是告訴新生可以去5樓的游泳池游泳”，下文緊接著指出，實(shí)際上該學(xué)校當(dāng)時(shí)根本沒有5樓。高年級(jí)學(xué)生是在以玩笑的方式諷刺學(xué)校沒有泳池這一糟糕的現(xiàn)象，所以答案可表述為The seniors are satirizing the schools lack of a pool。 As we hurtle towards the new millennium, what is the better symbol of the relentless passage of time than the ancient sundial? Sundials come in many forms, bu

39、t horizontal ones are by far the most common. Usually set on a pedestal, they consist of a flat dial face and a gnomonthe slanting piece of metal that casts the shadow. Believe it or not, interest in sundials is increasing in the west. A quick glance at the Interact reveals burgeoning sundial societ

40、ies all over the world for the scientifically inclined and even detailed sundial trials for those who want to check out the dials in gardens in the United States, France or Britain. This is time travel with a difference. Quotes or mottoes have traditionally been inscribed on sundials to promote refl

41、ection and thought, and these sayings are repeated on the modern versions of the old timepiece. The philosophical sayings add to the image of the timelessness of sundials, but are also reminders in the great poetic traditions of the transient nature of human life. Time began in a garden is a quotati

42、on referring to the Christian Bible legend of the Garden of Eden where, Christian belief says, human life began at the dawn of Creation, and from having been eternal, humans became subject to the decay of time. I am a shadow. So are you reminds the observer that a passing life can be as swift and tr

43、ansitory as the shadow that drifts over the face of a sundial, while the enigmatic I make timeDost thou? plays on the double meaning of the English words for marking or keeping time, like a clock, and marking time by failing to make progress. Sundials have long been beautifully crafted but now some

44、innovative Western Sculptors are creating dramatic new variations on the theme, such as a vertical or wall dial from a modern courtyard setting. Bold colorful sun designs or simple minimalist wall plaques are available, and there is even a water fountain dial where the water jet replaces the gnomon

45、(finger) as marker of time. Clever designs playing with the sun and resulting shadow forms also use stark hunks of rough-hewn stone, taking us back to those pointers of old, or employ reflective materials like glass. The earliest sundials are recorded in use around 300 BC. They come from the stage i

46、n ancient times when men and women began to use simple sticks and markers to show the time of day as the shadows progressed. Such devices grew steadily more complex until by Roman times no fewer than 12 types of sundial were recorded, including a sophisticated portable version. More than mere marker

47、s of time, such dials served for centuries to indicate mankinds understanding of the complexities of the heavens. Somewhere along the line, someone realized that a slanting object would cast a more accurate shadow than a vertical one for the purposes of keeping time. The problem of seasonal changes

48、was removed by placing the slanting object parallel to the Earths axis. Even after clocks and watches were invented, their reliability was questionable and sundials still had to be used to check their accuracy. But eventually, as the 18th and 19th centuries progressed, and coinciding with the era of

49、 picturesque or idealized landscape gardening in Britain and Europe, sundials became garden ornaments first and timekeepers second. Their value in this area has never been questioned, as successful gardens often rely on such focal points for impact. With their inherent dignity and image of scientifi

50、c order triumphing over chaos, sundials provide the perfect centerpiece for herb gardens, historic gardens, hospitals, schools, riversides churches (set in thyme of cause), knot gardens, memorial gardens, cemeteries and civic gardens. Armillary sundials are especially aesthetically pleasing, with th

51、eir circular or spherical shape and make superb garden ornaments. Consisting of several rings, they revolved from the celestial globes used by ancient astronomers to plot the position of the stars. The word armillary comes from the Latin armillarya bracelet or ring. One ring representing the equator

52、 has the hours walked on it, a second stands for the meridian, and a third the horizon. The rod through the centre representing the earths axis shows the time by casting its shadow on to the hour times marked on the equatorial ring. Sun time is not the same as watch time because it measures time as

53、it is, not as we would like it to be, with noon today exactly 24 hours away from noon tomorrow. Before the world became a small place and people didnt move around very much, local time was a perfectly satisfactory measurement. But as modern communication and means of travel grew more sophisticated s

54、tandard time zones were adopted. As a result, your sundial will agree with your watch only on four days of the year, not because it is inaccurate but because it is measuring a different kind of time. Adjustments for daylight saving time throw yet another spoke in the wheel. Theres a new kind of tour

55、 for youtime travel. It couldnt catch on. 11. Nowadays, the sundial is popular again in the West because _.A.many quotes or mottoes promote peoples reflection of the use of sundialsB.sundials can be used as a tool to check the accuracy of clocks and watchesC.sundial can be a perfect ornament with it

56、s dignity and image of scientific orderD.many nations in the West begin to rely on the sundial for making the time答案:C解析 第1段倒數(shù)第4句提到，西方人對(duì)日晷的興趣正與日俱增，閱讀下文可知，西方人把日晷當(dāng)作一種裝飾；第9段提到，日晷有著內(nèi)在的高貴氣質(zhì)，代表著科學(xué)秩序的形象，故C正確。12. According to the passage, armillary sundials _.A.consists of at least three rings with differen

57、t meaningsB.can not be used to mark the time at that timeC.are used purely as a kind of garden ornamentsD.are a kind of bracelets representing the equator答案:A解析 第10段提到armillary sundial由several rings組成，第11段指出armillary一詞原義為“手鐲，環(huán)形物”，繼而介紹了三個(gè)代表不同意義的環(huán)，因此可推斷armillary至少有三個(gè)環(huán)，故A正確。13. According to the passage

58、, which of the following is NOT true?A.According to the historical record, people began to use sundials around 300 BC.B.The quotes or mottoes now are inscribed on sundials to promote thought.C.Sundials are set on a pedestal, consisting of a dial face and a piece of metal.D.Sundials have been beautifully crafted and modified since its existence.答案:B解析 根據(jù)第2段首句的“促進(jìn)思考與反省”，可知B表述不完整，故選B。第1段提到，日晷通常安放在石臺(tái)上