考研-模拟试题-新航道2006考研英语命题预测题(一)(2)

新航道考研英语命题预测题(一)(2)His story of urbanization begins, not surprisingly, with the industrial revolution when populations shifted and increased, exacerbating problems of housing and crime. In the th century many planning programs and utopias (Ebenezer Howards garden city and Charles Fouriers “phalansteries among them) were proposed as remedies. These have left their mark on 20th-century cities, as did Baron Hausmanns boulevards in Paris, Eugene Viollet-le-Ducs and Owen Joness arguments for historical style, and Adolf Looss fateful turn-of-the-century call to abolish ornament which, in turn, inspired Le Corbusiers austere modem functionalism. The reader will recognize all these ideas in the surfaces of the cities that hosted them: New York, Paris, London, and Vienna.Cities changed again after the Second World War as populations grew, technology raced and prosperity spread. Like it or not, todays cities are the muddled product, among other things, of speed, greed, outmoded social agendas and ill-suited postmodern aesthetics. Some bemoan the old citys death; others welcome its replacement by the electronically driven global village. Mr. Rykwert has his worries, to be sure, but he does not see ruin or anomie everywhere. He defends the city as a human and social necessity. In Chandigarh, Canberra and New York he sees overall success; in New Delhi, Paris and Shanghai, large areas of failing. For Mr. Rykwert, a man on foot in the age of speeding virtual, good architecture may still show us a face where flaneurs can read the story of their urban setting in familiar metaphors.26. An argument made by supporters of functionism is thatA. post-war modernist architecture was coming under fireB. UN building in New York blocks the housing projectsC. windswept plazas present “face” to the inhabitants of the cityD. functionism reflects the needs of the social body27. According to Mr Rykwert, “dictum” can serve asA. bookB. marketC. formD. words28. The word “exacerbating”(line 3, para 4) meansAdeterioratingBinspiringC. encouragingD. surprising29.According to Mr Rykwert, heA. sees damage here and thereB. is absolutely a functionistC. is completely disappointed with the citys deathD. is objectively commenting the city ?30. The author associates the issue of functionism with post-war modernist architecture becauseA. they are both Mr Rykwerts argumentsB. it is a comparison to show the importance of post-war modernist architectureC. functionism and post-war modernism architecture are totally contradictoryD. Mr Rykwert supports functionismText 3JOY WILLIAMSS quirky fourth novel The Quick and the Dead follows a trio of -yearold misfits in a warped Charlies Angels set in the American south-west. Driven hazily to defend animal rights, the girls accomplish little beyond diatribe: they rescue a putrefied ram and hurl stones at stuffed elephants. In what is structurally a road novel that ends up where it began, the desultory threesome stumbles upon both cruelty to animals and unlikely romance. A mournful dog is strangled by an irate neighbor, a taxidermist falls in love with an 8-year-old direct-action firebrand determined that he atone for his sins. A careen across the barely tamed Arizona prairie, this peculiar book aims less for a traditional storyline than a sequence of jangled (often hilarious) conversations, ludicrous circumstances, and absurdist tableaux. The consequent long-walk-to-nowhere is both the books limitation and its charm.All three girls are motherless. Fiercely political Alice discovers that her erstwhile parents are her grandparents, who thereupon shrivel: Deceit had kept them young whereas the truth had accelerated them practically into decrepitude. Both parents of the doleful Corvus drowned while driving on a flooded interstate off-ramp. The mother of the more conventional Annabel (one of those people who would say, Well get in touch soonest when they never wanted to see you again) slammed her car drunkenly into a fish restaurant. Later, Annabels father observes to his wifes ghost, You didnt want to order what I ordered, darling. The sharp-tongued wraith snaps back: Thats because you always ordered badly and wanted me to experience your miserable mistake.Against a roundly apocalyptic world view, the great pleasures of this book are line-by-line. Ms Williams can lacerate setting and character alike in a few slashes: It was one of those rugged American places, a remote, sad-ass, but plucky downwind town whose citizens were flawed and brave. Alices acerbity spits little wisdoms: putting lost teeth under a pillow for money is a classic capitalistic consumer ploy, designed to wean you away at an early age from healthy horror and sensible dismay to greedy, deluded, sunny expectancy.Whether or not the novel, like Alice, expressly advocates animal rights, an animal motif crops up in every scene, as flesh-and blood critters (usually dead) or insipid decoration on crockery. If Ms Williams does not intend to induce human horror at a pending bestial Armageddon, she at least invokes a future of earthly loneliness, where animals appear only as ceramic-hen butter dishes and endangered-species Elastoplasts. One caution: when flimsy narrative superstructure begins to sag, anarchic wackiness can grow wearing. While The Quick and the Dead is edgy from its first page, the trouble with starting at the edge is there is nowhere to go. Nevertheless, Ms Williams is original, energetic and viscously funny: Carl Hiaasen with a conscience.31. The girls in the novelAdid nothing about reflecting the society facts.?Bprotected animals successfully.Cwere cruel to the animals.Dmurdered their neighbors dog.32. This novel is attentive to each of the following exceptAbackgroundsBconversationsCtraditional storylineD scenes33. The main idea of the novel isAcare about the childrenBhow to make crockeryCfight with the animal-killersDanimal protection34. The second paragraph tells usA.the miserable life of the girls.B.the girls parents are growing old.C.society contradiction and circumstances the girls live in.D.the backgrounds of the story and the heroines.35. For Alice, putting lost teeth under a pillow for money is notAjust a beautiful dream.Ba way to be away the cheating.?Ca way to be away the lust .?Da way to prevent one from illness.Text 4FEW people, except conspiracy theorists, would have expected so public a spat as the one this week between the two ringmasters of Formula One (F1) motor racing. Bernie Ecclestone, a fabulously wealthy British motor sport entrepreneur, is at odds, it would seem, with his longstanding associate, Max Mosley, president of F1s governing body, the Federation International de lAutomobile (FIA).Ostensibly, the dispute has broken out over what looked like a done deal. Last June, the FIA voted unanimously to extend Mr. Ecclestones exclusive rights to stage and broadcast F1 racing, which expire in , by 0 years. For these lucrative rights, Mr. Ecclestone was to pay the FIA a mere $360m in total, and only $60m immediately. The FIA claims that Mr. Ecclestone has not made the payment of $60m, a claim denied by Mr. Ecclestone, who insists the money has been placed in an escrow account. Mr.