福师15年8月课程考试高级英语阅读一.doc

期末试题答案必须填写在后面的答题纸上，否则试题作废。I Reading comprehensionPassage 1Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but also explain that theres a big difference between “being a writer” nd writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth nd fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter. “Youve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”The reality is that writing is a lonely, private nd poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didnt even matter that it was cold nd had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter nd felt like a genuine writer.After a year r so, however, I still hadnt gotten a break nd began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a stry that barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it fr years. I wasnt going to be one of those people who die wondering, What if? I would keep putting my dream to the testeven though it meant living with uncertainty nd fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, nd anyone with a dream must learn to live there.1. The passage is meant to _.a. warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experienceb. advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writerc. show young people its unrealistic fr a writer to pursue wealth nd famed. encourage young people to pursue a writing career2. What can be concluded rom the passage?a. Genuine writers often find their wrk interesting nd rewarding.b. A writers success depends on luck rather than on effrt.c. Famous writers usually live in poverty nd isolation.d. The chances fr a writer to become successful are small.3. Why did the authr begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?a. He wasnt able to produce a single book.b. He hadnt seen a change fr the better.c. He wasnt able to have a rest fr a whole year.d. He found his dream would never come true.4. “ people who die wondering, what if?” (Lines 4, Para. 3) refers to “those _”.a. who think too much of the dark side of lifeb. who regret giving up their career halfwayc. who think a lot without making a decisiond. who are full of imagination even upon death5. “Shadow land” in the last sentence refers to _.a. the wonderland one often dreams aboutb. the bright future that one is looking frward toc. the state of uncertainty befre ones final goal is reachedd. a wrld that exists only in ones imaginationPassage 2A good modern newspaper is an extrardinary piece of reading. Its remarkable first fr what it contains: the range of news rom local crime to international politics, rom sprts to business to fashion to science, nd the range of comment nd special features as well, rom editrial page to feature articles nd interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre nd music. A newspaper is even mre remarkable fr the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping rom here to there, in nd out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far mre than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, is immediate relation to what is happening in your wrld nd your locality now. But immediacy nd the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no mre than transient value. Fr all these reasons, no two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that days paper, his own selection nd sequence, his own newspaper. Fr all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want rom them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill nd self-awareness as you modify nd apply the techniques of reading.6. A modern newspaper is remarkable fr all the following except its _.a. wide coverageb. unifrm stylec. speed in reprting newsd. popularity7. Accrding to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the “same newspaper” is that _.a. people scan fr the news they are interested inb. different people prefer different newspapersc. people are rarely interested in the same kind of newsd. people have different views about what a good newspaper is8. It can be concluded rom the passage that newspaper readers _.a. apply reading techniques skillfullyb. jump rom one newspaper to anotherc. appreciate the variety of a newspaperd. usually read a newspaper selectively9. A good newspaper offers “a variety” to readers because _.a. it tries to serve different readersb. it has to cover things that happen in a certain localityc. readers are difficult to pleased. readers like to read different newspaper10. The best title fr this passage would be “_”.a. The Imprtance of Newspaper Topicalityb. The Characteristics of a Good Newspaperc. The Variety of a Good Newspaperd. Some suggestions on How to Read a NewspaperII. Put the following into Chinese1. But against this, one must weight the prophecies of Revelation which predict widespread war nd tribulation prir to Jesus return.2. Only if they are extremely subrdinate to the new arrival, nd perhaps in serious trouble with him, will there be a likelihood of them taking the “body-cross role”.III. Answer the following questionWhat is suggested in the last paragraph of Models fr Understnding Histry (P57)?Answer SheetI. Reading Comprehension1. _A_ 2. _D_3. _B_ 4. _C_5. _C_6. _B_7.