多选题Alec Guinness has few equals among English speaking actors, and in his autobiography he reveals himself to possess an uncommonly ______ prose style as well.AambivalentBinfamousCfelicitousDhappyEredundantFephemeral
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第1题：
He said that he ______ already _______ the English film.A. has; seen
B. has; see
C. had; seen
参考答案：C
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第2题：
In spite of his ________ (break) English, he finally made himself understood.
参考答案：Broken
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第3题：
He will never forget the place () he had his first English lesson.A、where
B、when
C、which
D、what
参考答案：A
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第4题：
Still in his late thirties, Silverberg has published more than a hundred books, and he is disarmingly frank about the relationship between the quality of genuine prose and the quality of available outlet.
正确答案：译文：还不到四十岁，西尔弗伯格就已出版了一百多本书籍，而他对真正散文的质量与应时之作的质量之间的关系十分坦诚，毫无掩饰。本题考核知识点：词义的选择。
该句是and连接的两个并列分句，其主干是Silverberg has published... , and he is frank about...。
词汇：in one’s thirties意为“在（某人）三十几岁时”，由于本句中有late修饰，如果直译为“三十几岁晚期”不符合汉语表达习惯，应意译为“不到四十岁”。disarmingly意为“使人消除敌意(或怀疑、怒气等)的”，与frank一起应译为“十分坦诚、直言不讳”。genuine意为“真正的；坦率的，真诚的”。available意为“可获得的，可找到的”，outlet意为“（思想、感情、精力发泄的）出路，表现机会”，available outlet不能直译，而应根据上文对应的genuine prose（真正的散文）意译为“应时之作”。
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第5题：
Passage One
One of the well-known of American writers is Samuel Clemens, whose pen name is Mark Twain. Bom in 1835, Twain grew up in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. As did many other boys of his day,
Twain dreamed of traveling on river boats and of someday becoming a riverboat pilot. Twain used his memories of the life of a river town in his two most famous books, Huckleberry Finn and Torn Sawyer.
As a young man, Twain held many jobs. He was a printer, a good miner, and, for a time, he was a riverboat pilot. During his pilot days, he adopted the name Mark Twain. This was a term used by the boatmen to mean that the water measured two fathoms, or twelve feet, which was deep enough for safe passage.
Finally Twain became a successful writer. He traveled a great deal, writing and speaking, and became very popular both in the United States and in Europe.
Twain's style. of writing was simple and direct. Among the things he wrote about were superstitious (迷信的) people and people who were easily fooled. He used his unusual gift for humor to write about many things of importance.
36. Generally speaking, this article is about______.
A. a riverboat pilot
B. a printer
C. a gold miner
D. a famous writer
正确答案：D这篇文章讲的是Mark Twain的故事，他是美国著名的作家。参见第一句。
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第6题：
Mark Twain is one of America′s much-beloved authors,creating imaginative and humorous classics for children and adults alike,such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,The Prince and The Pauper,and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn．Twain passed away in 1910,leaving behind a treasure of great literature．But now,100 years after his death,he′11 have a brand-new book on the shelves:a three-volume autobiography．
Twain hasn′t been keeping busy in his tomb:it was his wish that publishers wait until 100 years after his death to publish his memoirs(自传),which he spent the last decade of his life working on．
The autobiography totals more than 5,000 pages,and likely won′t be all sunshine and roses．It?seems that Twain harbored some bitterness against former girlfriends and ex-friends．He also writes?negatively about politicians of his day,such as Teddy Roosevelt．It′s likely that he requested such?a long lead time for the memoirs because he didn′t want to hurt the feelings of anyone mentioned in?this work．
Although small sections of the memoirs have been previously published,the autobiography has?never been available in full,and should provide great insights into the man behind the classic?books．The first volume of the set will be available in November,and the trilogy is being published?by the University of California,Berkeley．
“There are so many biographies of Twain,and many of them have used bits and pieces of the?autobiography,”editor Robert Hirst told The Independent．“But biographers pick and choose what?bits to quote．By publishing Twain′s book in full,we hope that people will be able to come to their?own complete conclusions about what sort of a man he was．"
According to Paragraph 1,which of the following statements is TRUE of Mark Twain?《》（）A.He left behind lots of money．
B.His works were written for children．
C.His works are full of adventures．
D.He is famous for his great works．答案：D解析：【考情点拨】推理判断题。
【应试指导】由文章第一段中的“Mark Twain is one of America’S much-beloved authors，creating imaginative and humorous classics for children and adults Mike…”可知，马克·吐温是美国著名的作家，其作品广受成人和孩子的喜爱，故选D。 -
第7题：
共用题干
Man of Few Words
Everyone chases success,but not all of us want to be famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is______(51)for keeping to himself.When the 63-year-old man was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature,reporters were warned that they would find him"particularly difficult to______（52)".
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago.He seemed ______(53)by the news that he won the US $1.3 million prize.
"It came as a complete surprise.I wasn't even aware they were due to make the announcement,"he said.His_______(54)of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden,on December 10.But despite being described as_______(55)to track down,the critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town,South Africa,to an English-speaking family,Coetzee______(56)his break- through in 1980 with the novel"Waiting for the Barbarians".He_______(57)his place among the wor1d's leading writers with two Booker prize victories,Britain's highest honour for novels.He first _______(58)in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace.
A major theme in his work is South Africa's former apartheid system,which divided whites from blacks. _______(59)with the problems of violence,crime and racial division that still exist in the country,his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid_______(60)within."I have always been more interested in the past than the future,"he said in a rare interview.
"The past_______(61)its shadow over the present.I hope I have made one or two people think _______(62)about whether they want to forget the past completely."In fact,this purity in his writing seems to be______(63)in his personal life.Coetzee is a vegetarian,a cyclist rather than a motorist and he doesn't drink alcohol.But what he has______(64)to literature,culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up."In looking at weakness and failure in life,"the Noble prize judging panel said,"Coetzee's work_______(65)the divine spark in man."52._________
A:catch
B:come across
C:run into
D:bump into答案：A解析：be well-known for keeping to himself意思是“以很少与人来往为大家所熟知”，符合句意。
come across , run into , bump into在语义上都有某种“偶然性”，意思是“偶然遇见”，不符合句意。particularly difficult to catch意思是“特别难找到他”，符合句意。
由后面一句话“It came as a complete surprise.”可知，Goetzee觉得这个奖来得很突然。联系上下文，可推测出当Goetzee得知他获得了诺贝尔奖时，他觉得很震惊。D项符合句意。
此处需要一个名词。like作“喜欢”解时是动词；devote是“奉献”的意思，是动词；attract 是“吸引”的意思，是动词。love既可作动词，也可作名词，因此C为正确答案。
该句意思是：尽管人们认为很难找到Goetzee，但是评论家一致认为他的作品很容易理解。despite引导的是一种反向对比，主句中有easy，那么该处应是它的反义词difficult。因此A 为正确答案。
make a breakthrough是固定搭配，意思是“取得突破”。C项符合句意。
to take one's place是固定说法，是“占据一席之地，跻身于”的意思。C项符合句意。
这个句子里没有宾语，因此需要一个不及物动词，在这四个动词中，只有“won”既可作及物动词，又可作不及物动词。其他三个词均为及物动词，所以C为正确答案。
除了deal外，handle , solve和remove后都不跟with。因此A为正确答案。
该句意思是：在处理这个国家依然存在的暴力、犯罪和种族隔离问题时，他的书能使一般人从内部理解种族隔离制度。“从……角度”常用from。因此D为正确答案。
cast its shadow on/over是固定说法，是“使不快，（在心理上）投下阴影”的意思。D项符合句意。
think twice是固定说法，是“再三考虑，慎重思考”的意思。B项符合句意。
这两个句子意思是：事实上，Coetzee作品中的这种纯洁性似乎也反映在他的个人生活之中。他是一个吃素食的人，他骑车而不开车，并且他也不喝酒。nuirror作动词时，是“反映” 的意思，符合句意。
从下文“far greater than the things he has given up（比他放弃的东西要多得多）”来看，应选择contributed。该句意思是：但是，他对文学、文化、南非人民所做出的贡献比他放弃的东西要多得多。A项符合句意。
该句意思是：Goetzee的作品表现了人类的非凡才华。express意思是“表达，表现”，符合句意。 -
第8题：
If one has failed to report his or her income tax for quite a few years, he or she may be put in prison.A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned答案：A解析： -
第9题：
问答题Practice 7 Some people would say that the Englishman's home is no longer his castle; that it has become his workshop. This is partly because the average English is keen on working with his own hands and partly because he feels, for one reason or another, that he must do for himself many household jobs for which, some years ago, he would have hired professional help. The main reason for this is a financial one.. the high cost of labor has meant that the builders and decorators' costs have reached a level which makes them prohibitive for house-proud English people of modest means. So, if they wish to keep their houses looking bright and smart, they have to tackle some of the repairs and decorating themselves. As a result, there has grown up in the post-war years what is sometimes referred to as the “Do-it-yourself Movement”. The “Do-it-yourself Movement” began with home decorating but has since spread into a much wider field. Nowadays there seem to be very few things that cannot be made by the “do-it- yourself” method.正确答案： 【参考译文】
有些人会说,英国人的家不再是自己的城堡,而成了自家的工场。一方面是因为普通英国人热衷于自己动手干活,另一方面是因为出于某种原因,他觉得自己必须干许多家务活,而在几年前,他会雇专业人员来干。其中主要原因是经济问题:劳动力昂贵意味着请建筑工和装潢工的费用涨了许多,以家为荣但收入不高的英国人负担不起。因此,如果这些英国人想让自己的住宅保持明亮而又漂亮,他们就得自己动手对住宅作些修缮和装饰。其结果是,在战后的年代里,英国出现了有时候被称为“自己动手”的运动。
“自己动手运动”始于居室装潢,此后又扩展到更多领域。如今,没有多少事情不能自己动手来做。解析： 暂无解析 -
第10题：
填空题If he had taken his lawyer’s advice, he (save) ____ himself a great deal of trouble.正确答案： would have saved解析：
本题考查虚拟语气。句意：如果他听从了律师的建议，就会给自己省去很多麻烦。虚拟语气中，主句用过去完成时，从句就得用would/ could have done。故填入would have saved。 -
第11题：
问答题练习4 Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. (1) It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child—things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. (2) But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is continually being told not to do things, or being punished for what he has done wrong.正确答案：
(1) 在他的生活里,不可能再有得到这么多而无需付出和回报的时候了。
(2) 但是孩子也有自己的痛苦:他没有做自己想做的事的自由,人们总是告诉他不能做什么,或者为他做的错事惩罚他。解析： 暂无解析 -
第12题：
问答题Practice 6 I have known very few writers, but those I have known, and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper. They have a character, perhaps two; they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration; all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun; one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in Scottish Highlands. I have never heard anyone making a ‘skeleton’, as we were taught at school. In the breaking and remarking, in the timing, interweaving, beginning afresh, the writer comes to concern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began. This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination. A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another, and it is gone; but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it. Sometimes the years within a writer outlives a book he has written. I have heard of writers who read nothing but their own books; like adolescents they stand before the mirror, and still cannot fathom the exact outline of the vision before them. For the same reason, writers talk interminably about their own books, winkling out hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them. Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair. He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore. This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please. A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.正确答案：
【参考译文】
我所认识的作家寥寥无几,然而凡是我所认识和尊敬的作家,都立即承认在他们动笔时,不清楚要写什么,怎么写。他们心中有一个或两个角色。他们处于急切不安的状态,而这被当作是灵感。他们无不承认,一旦“旅程”开始,“目的地”常有急剧的变化。据我所知,有位作家花了9个月的时间写了一部有关克什米尔的小说后来却把整个故事背景换成了苏格兰高地。我从未听说过任何一位作家像我们在学校学的那样,动笔前先列什么提纲。作家在剪裁修改、构思时间、穿插情节、以至从头重写的过程中,会领悟到素材中有很多东西是他刚动笔时所未意识到的。这种有机的加工过程往往达到不寻常自我发现的境界,具有难以言表的构思魅力。一个朦胧的形象出现在作家的脑海里,他左添一笔,右添一笔,形象反而消逝了;可是,好像还有什么东西存在着,不把它捕捉到,作家是不会罢休的。有时,一个作家一本书写完了,但兴奋仍未消散。我听说一些作家,除了自己的书外,别的书一概不读,犹如希腊神话中那位漂亮少年,站在镜前,不能辨认出自身的真面目。由于这个原因,作家喋喋不休地谈论自己的书,挖掘其隐晦的含义,增添新的含义,询问周围人的反应。作家如此行事当然会被人误解。他还不如给人讲一个犯罪案件或一个恋爱故事。顺便说一句,他也是个不可饶恕的令人厌烦的人。
这种企图消除自己和读者之间距离的作法,企图用不了解自己的人的观点来研究自己塑造的形象的作法,会导致作家的毁灭,因为他已经开始为取悦他人而写作了。
一两年前,一位年轻的英国作家发表了中肯的看法。他说,初稿是才华,以后各稿都是艺术。也是由于这个原因,作家同任何艺术家一样,找不到可休息的场所,找不到伙伴和活动使自己得到安逸。任何局外人的判断也比不上他自己内心的正确判断。一旦作家从内心的紊乱中理出头绪,就应按任何评论家想象不到的无情规范约束自己去写作;当他沽名钓誉时,他就脱离了自我生活,脱离了对自己灵魂最深处世界的探索。解析： 暂无解析 -
第13题：
In his composition he made few spelling mistakes.
参考答案： 他在作文中的拼写错误很少。
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第14题：
He has made himself()with us.A、acquaint
B、acquainted
C、acquainting
D、to acquaint
正确答案：B
解析：make oneself acquainted with sb：让他人了解自己
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第15题：
Poor speaker of English though he was at the time，he still managed to make himself______.
A．understand
B．understood
C．undemanding
D．to understand
正确答案：B
解析：句意：虽然他当时英语很差，但他仍尽量表达自己的意思。本题考查固定搭配。make oneself understood意为“(用另一种语言)表达自己的意思”。 -
第16题：
______ the story how he lost his hearing.
A. Everyone knows
B. Edison himself liked to tell
C. No one knows
D. Edison himself disbelieved
正确答案：B
55．第二段。原文是没有人肯定他失聪的真正原因，而他自己却喜欢告诉别人这样的故事。选项 B是正确的。 -
第17题：
How often one hears children wishing they were grown up，and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains，and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities. If a child has good parents，he is well fed，looked after and loved. It is unlikely that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition，life is always presenting new things to the child-things that have lost their，interest for older people because they are too well known. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain，or in the snow. His first，visit to the seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains：he is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks older people are；he is continually being told what to do and what not to do. Therefore，a child is not happy as he wishes to be.
When the young man starts to earn his own living，he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents；but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities. With no one to pay for his food，his clothes，or his room，he has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child，he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents，he may get himself into trouble. If，however，he works hard，goes by the law and has good health，he may feel satisfied in seeing himself make steady progress in his job and in building up for himself his own position in society.
Old age has always been thought of as the worst age to be；but it is not necessary for the old to be unhappy. With old age comes wisdom and the ability to help others with advice wisely given. The old can have the joy of seeing their children making progress in life；they can watch their grandchildren growing up around them；and，perhaps best of all，they can，if their life has been a useful one，feel the happiness of having come through the battle of life safely and of having reached a time when they can lie back and rest，leaving everything to others.
The happiest people should be those who______.
A．face up to difficulties in life
B．hope to be young again
C．enjoy life in different ages
D．wish to be grown up
正确答案：C
解析：见第一段，每一个年龄段有快乐和烦恼，最快乐的人不会浪费他的时间去后悔，而是享受每个午龄段所带给他的。 -
第18题：
Mark Twain is one of America′s much-beloved authors,creating imaginative and humorous classics for children and adults alike,such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,The Prince and The Pauper,and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn．Twain passed away in 1910,leaving behind a treasure of great literature．But now,100 years after his death,he′11 have a brand-new book on the shelves:a three-volume autobiography．
Twain hasn′t been keeping busy in his tomb:it was his wish that publishers wait until 100 years after his death to publish his memoirs(自传),which he spent the last decade of his life working on．
The autobiography totals more than 5,000 pages,and likely won′t be all sunshine and roses．It?seems that Twain harbored some bitterness against former girlfriends and ex-friends．He also writes?negatively about politicians of his day,such as Teddy Roosevelt．It′s likely that he requested such?a long lead time for the memoirs because he didn′t want to hurt the feelings of anyone mentioned in?this work．
Although small sections of the memoirs have been previously published,the autobiography has?never been available in full,and should provide great insights into the man behind the classic?books．The first volume of the set will be available in November,and the trilogy is being published?by the University of California,Berkeley．
“There are so many biographies of Twain,and many of them have used bits and pieces of the?autobiography,”editor Robert Hirst told The Independent．“But biographers pick and choose what?bits to quote．By publishing Twain′s book in full,we hope that people will be able to come to their?own complete conclusions about what sort of a man he was．"
What can we learn about Mark Twain′s autobiography from the passage?《》（）A.It has been published against Twain's will．
B.It shows Twain's respect for politicians．
C.It will be published in full．
D.It has been recently finished．答案：C解析：【考情点拨】推理判断题。
【应试指导】由文章第一段的最后一句以及第四段的“The first volume of the set will be available in November，and the trilogy is being published by…”可知，马克·吐温的自传会被完整出版，故选C。 -
第19题：
共用题干
Man of Few Words
Everyone chases success,but not all of us want to be famous.
South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is________(1)for keeping himself to
himself. When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier
this month,reporters were warned that they would find him"particularly difficult to
________(2)".
Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of
Chicago.He seemed__________(3)by the news that he won the U. S.$1._________(1.)3 million prize.
"It came as a complete surprise.I wasn't even aware they were due to make the
announcement,"he said.
His________(4)of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the
prize-giving in Stockholm,Sweden,on December 10._________(10.)
But despite being described as________(5)to track down,the critics agree that
his writing is easy to get to know.
Born in Cape Town,South Africa,to an English-speaking family,Coetzee_______(6)
his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel " Waiting for the Barbarians（野蛮人）".He
________(7)his place among the world's leading writers with two Booker prize victories,
Britain's highest honour for novels.He first_______(8)in 1983 for the"Life and Times
of Michael K",and his second title came in 1999 for"Disgrace".
A major theme in his work is South Africa's former apartheid（种族隔离）system,
which divided whites from blacks.________(9)with the problems of violence,crime
and racial division that still exist in the country,his books have enabled ordinary people to
understand apartheid_________(10)within.
"I have always been more interested in the past than the future,"he said in a rare
interview."The past_______(11)its shadow over the present.I hope I have made
one or two people think__________(12)about whether they want to forget the past
completely.”
In fact this purity in his writing seems to be______(13)in his personal life.
Coetzee is a vegetarian,a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn't drink alcohol.
But what he has_______(14)to literature,culture and the people of South Africa
is far greater than the things he has given up."In looking at weakness and failure in life,"
the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee's work _________ (15) the divine（神圣的）
spark in man."_________(8)
A:received
B:obtained
C:won
D:had答案：C解析： -
第20题：
He（）himself quickly to the new condition of his work.
Achanged
Baltered
Cadjusted
Dvaried
A
略 -
第21题：
单选题He never had much money for himself and his family, but he _____ a good health.Apossessed
Bprofessed
Crecounted
Drefined
正确答案： C解析：
possesse拥有。profess表示，承认。recount详细叙述。refine精炼。 -
第22题：
单选题Roger was impressed by the ______ style of his English instructor who taught in a refreshingly animated way.Ainsipid
Bfarcical
Ceffervescent
Ddidactic
Esaccharine
正确答案： E解析：
根据句意可知空缺单词的意思应和“in a refreshingly animated way”意思相近，故选C项。effervescent“冒泡的；兴高采烈的；活泼的”； insipid“清淡的；无趣的”；farcical“滑稽的；引人发笑的”；didactic“说教的；教诲的”；saccharine“含糖的；极甜的；和颜悦色的”。 -
第23题：
单选题He（）himself quickly to the new condition of his work.Achanged
Baltered
Cadjusted
Dvaried
正确答案： A解析： 暂无解析