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1、词汇题题型：主要两种题型，熟词辟意和生僻词汇例题1:“entertain ” most nearly meansIn P assage 1, li ne 2,A. amuseB. harborC. occupyD. cherishE. engage原文：Anyone with more tha n a sup erficial kno wledge of Shakes pear's p lays must n ecessarily en tertai n some doubt concerning their true authorsh ip. 例题2:“ range ” most n

2、early meansIn line 23,A. scopeB. dista neeC. variati onD. ranking'S)humor has internatiOaage because it is constructed out of a deep comprehension ofE. value His （Mark Twinhuma n n ature and a profound symp athy for huma n relati on shi ps and huma n faili ngs.Tipi:如果一道词汇题发现它是大家很熟悉的词，我们一定要小心，不能马

3、上在选项中选所谓你 知道的含义的同义词。那么，什么是生僻词汇呢？生僻词汇题的特点是这个单词很长，同时这个词具备没有明显的词根词缀 的特点，再次它在阅读文章中出现的位置很可能是一个概括性的概念词汇、或者是句子活段落并列结 构中的某个部分中出现的词汇。总而言之一句话-就是你不认识的单词！例题：In P assage 2, li ne 75, the word “ en cycl op edic” most n early meansA. tech ni calB. comp rehe nsiveC. abridgedD. disci pli nedE. sp ecialized原文：Shakesp

4、eare ' s dramatic gifts had little to do wincyclopedic knowledge, complex ideasToT a fluency with great systems of thought.Tip2:如果词汇题的定位点出现了平行结构，则去这个平行结构的其他部分找相对应的单词（如 考的是形容词，则去找形容词；考的是动词，则去找动词），并且在选项中找一个与这个对应单 词的同义词。就这道题而言，encyclopedic的位置在knowledge这个名词前，因此判断出它是一个形容词 （最起码它 起形容词的作用）。而另一部分有个ideas与

5、kno wledge明显对应，那么修饰idea的comp lex （复杂而综合的）就是en cyclo pedic的意思。选项中只有 comp rehe nsive （全面而广泛的）与 comp lex的意思一 样。方法总结:1. 根据题干中所给的行数找定位点2. 读完整个句子，所考察单词一律翻译成空格”避免在思维中该词原有含义对解题的干扰，同 时避免在翻译过程中不通顺的问题。3. 以所考单词为分界点，看前半句与后半句是什么意思。并判断其关系。如果是平行结构，则要 看平行结构中的对应点。4. 如是记叙文、或本句找不出答案，则要读此定位句的上一句话、再读其下一句话。如还没有答_案，则需判断这个定

6、位句所属段落作者想要表达的含义，尤其是从态度上判断。I练习1.S: They are altogether un like the provin ces, where the surp rises lie not in discoveri ng what is odd or new but in app reciati ng, at last what is rout ine and everyday, a larger acco mp lishme nt tha n one might imag ine. Q: In line 21, app reciati ng most n early

7、meansA. p reserv ing from harmB. i ncreasi ng in valueC. un dersta nding betterD. p raisi ngE. tha nking2.S: In the Un ited States, the traditi onal view embraced by society is that fen ces are European, out of p lace in the America n Ian dsca pe.Q: In line 1, bmbraced most nearly meansA. caressedB.

8、 adop tedC. en foldedD. in cludedE. En circled3.S: The cost of hav ing so successfully itemized and p ige on holed n ature, of being able to n ame n ames and explain behaviors, is to limit certa in po ssibilities of see ing and app rehe nding. For exa mp le, the moder n huma n thi nks that he or she

9、 can best un dersta nd a tree (or a sp ecies of tree) by exam ining a sin gle tree. Q: As used in lines 87-88, “ apprehending' most nearly meansA. seizi ngB. an tici pat ingC. feari ngD. un dersta ndingE. doubt ing4.S: It sits atop a wooded hillside overlook ing the Pacific in Malibu, California

10、. Critics have contemp tuously compared it to Disneyland. “A | plasticparadise in kitsch city” , grumped one. “It outstrips any existing monument to expen sive, aggressive bad taste, cultural p rete nsion, and self-aggra ndizeme nt.Q: In lin e3, p lastic most n early meansA. pliableB. artificialC. i

11、mp erma nentD. inno vativeE. inexpen sive5.S: For the truth was, as Mulcahy had to ack no wledge, pacing up and dow n his small office, that in sp ite of all the evide nee he had bee n give n of the p reside nt' s un remitti ng hatred, he found himself hurt by theletterwoun ded, to be hon est, n

12、ot only in his self-esteem but in some ten derer pl ace, in that sense of con tract betwee n people that tran sce nds personal anim osities and facti onal differe nces, that holds the in dividual disti net from the deed and maintains eve n in the fieriest opp ositi on the dream of final agreeme nt a

13、nd con cord. He had not known, in short, that the p reside nt disliked him sp flatly.Q: In line 60,“flatly ” most nearly meansA. eve niyB. tautlyC. shallowlyD. unemp haticallyE. un equivocally6.I didn ' t venture into the room again for more than a few seconds at a time, except when I was with g

14、row n-ups. Embolde ned by their company I talked with my elders.I was still being watched. Tsearch ing gaze was always the same, so mela ncholy and accus ing that I begi n to feel a sense of guilt Q: Inline 60,“searching ” most nearly means(A) bidden道别的(B) beseech ing 恳求的(C) resourceful 丰富的(D) forlo

15、rn 孤独的(E) pen etrati ng 锐利的7.to make the magnificent cat' s story more poignant still, many scientists have concluded that the spedseverely in bred, the result of a disastrous popu latidn crabh thousa nds of years ago from which the poor ani mals have hardly had a cha nee to recover.Q: Inline 16

16、,” crash ” most nearly means(A) accide nt(B) inten sity(C) decli ne(D) no ise(E) exti ncti on“ modest ” most nearly means shyself con scious secretive dece nt moderate8. Jerry had certa in ambiti ons: ambiti on makes more liars tha n egotism does. But Jerry was so careful, his lies such modest calcu

17、lati ons, that he was always believed.Q：(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)9.ln Celebrated Wome n Travelers of the Ni netee nth Cen tury (1883Dave nport Adams comme nts: "Fettered as wome n are in Euro pean coun tries by restrai nts, obligati ons, and res pon sibilities, which are too ofte n arbitrary and artifici

18、al., it is n atural eno ugh that whe n the opportun ity offers, they should hail eve n a temporary ema ncip ati on through travel.”call out to gesture to come from welcome sum monQ: in con text,“ hail 80) (most n early means(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)lO.The imitati on thesis argues p rimarily in moral terms. Ac

19、cordi ng to it, televisi on consump ti on leads above all to moral dan gers. Anyone who is exp osed to the medium becomes habituated to liberti nism, irres pon sibility, crime, and viole nee.Q: as used in line 14,(A)destructio n(B)viewi ng(C)erosi on(D)pu rchas ing(E)obsessi on“consumption ” most ne

20、arly means11.U niike every one else, the theorist has rema ined com pl etely in tact morally, can dist in guish in a sovereig n manner betwee n dece pti on and reality, and enjoys comp lete immun ity in the face of the idiocy that he or she sorrowfully diag no ses in the rest of us.excelle nt opulen

21、t elitist absolute opp ressiveQ: in line 59,“ sovereign ” is best understood to mean(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)举例说明题丨1.In passage 2, Reber describes Marcon' s w(jrlocdie»ftoA. Disp arage the n arrow- min ded ness of some of the scie ntific com mun ityB. Illustrate the dan gers of commercial con trol ov

22、er scie neeC. Suggest why Jan skys discovery was greater tha n Marcon'D. Show that theoretical scie nee is sup erior to app lied scie neeE. Criticize the attitude of the industrialists of Marcon' s dayThe pundits of Marconi' s day said his ideas abous wireowould not work because radio wa

23、ves weresimilar to light and would not bend around the curvature of the Earth. Eve n after Marconitran satla ntic radio tran smissi on in 1901, many doubted his results because there was no known way radio waves would p erform as he rep orted.2.The author like ns at to a rainbow trout ” (li ne63-64)

24、 in order toA. Stress the imp orta nee of color in artB. Suggest art ' s dependence on its environmentC. Mock those who p refer abstract pain ti ngD. Argue that must be groun ded in a revere nee for n atureE. Compare the activity of painting to mundane pu rsuitsWhe never I have see n art in its

25、land of origi n, I have bee n struck by its relia nee on pl ace. In America, Japan ese art looks withdraw into itself, as if stiffe ned in self-defe nse; Australia n Aborig inal art, unu tterably po werful in Australia, loses meaning, can eve n look merely decorative, whe n carted off that continen

26、t, los ing force as visibly as a rain bow trout fades whe n cast onto the bank of a river.3.ln sp ite of such omissi ons, what Rose nblatt does in clude in his discussi on makes for an astute and worthwhile study. Black fictio n surveys a wide variety of no vels, bringing to our atte nti on in the p

27、 rocess some fasc in ati ng and little-k nown works like James Weld on Joha on' s Autobiogra phy of an EkxDlored Man.'s Autob-ography MOnmExstQ: The author of the p assage refers to James Weld on Joh nson p robably in order toA. Point out affinities between Rosenblatt' s method of themat

28、ic analysis isidlearlier criticB. Clarify the point about exp ressi oni stic style made earlier in the p assageC. Qualify the assessment of Rosenblatt' s book made in the first paragraph of the passageD. Illustrate the affinities among Black novels disclosed by Rosenblattalysis ' s literary

29、anE. Give a specific example of one of the accomplishments of Rosenblatts' work4. Many theories have bee n formulated to exp lai n the role of grazers such as zooplankton in con trolli ng the amount of p la nkto nic algae (p hyt oplankton) in lakes. The first theories of such grazer con trol wer

30、e merely based on observati ons of n egative correlati ons betwee n algal and zooplankton nu mbers. A low nu mber of algal cells in the p rese nee of a high nu mber of grazers suggested, but did not pro ve, that the grazers had removed most of the algae. The conv erse observati on, of the abse nee o

31、f grazers in areas of highp hyt oplankton concen tratio n, led Hardy to prop ose his principle of an imal exclusi on, which hypo thesized that p hyt oplankton p roduced a rep elle nt that excluded grazers from regi ons of high p hyt oplankton concen trati on. This was the first suggesti on of algal

32、defe nses aga inst graz ing.Q: The author most likely mentions Hardy' s principle of animal exclusion in order toA. Give an exa mple of one theory about the in teracti on of grazers and p hyt oplanktonB. Support the conten ti on that p hyt oplankton nu mbers are con trolled p rimarily by en vir

33、onmen tal factorsC. Defend the first theory of algal defe nses aga inst graz ingD. Demon strate the sup eriority of laboratory studies of zooplankton feedi ng rates to other kinds of studies of such ratesE. Refute researchers who believed that low nu mbers of p hyt oplankton in dicated the graz ing

34、effect of low nu mbers of zooplankton5. One way out of this dilemma was to turn to the records of legal courts, for there the voice of the non elite can most often be heard, as wit nesses, plain tiffs, and defe ndan ts. These docume nts have actedaaso int of entry into the mental world of the poor.

35、Historians such as Le Roy Ladurie have used the documents to extract case histories, which have illumi nated the attitudes of differe nt social groupsQ: The author men ti ons Le Roy Ladurie (li ne 16) in order toA. Give an exa mple of a historia n who has made one kind of use of court recordsB. Cite

36、 a historia n who has based case histories on the birth, marriage, and death records of the non eliteC. Ide ntify the author of the quotati on cited in the p revious sentenceD. Gai n authoritative support for the view that the case history app roach is the most fruitful app roach to court recordsE.

37、Point out the first historia n to realize the value of court records in illu min ati ng the ben efits and values of the non elite6. So if Fido and I are sitti ng on the terrace, admiri ng the view, we in habit worlds with radically differe nt princip les of phenomeno logy. Say that the wind is to ou

38、r backs. Our world lies all before us, withi n a 180 degree angle. The dog well, we don ' t know, do we?“ principle of phenomenology s 34-35mentionememorable things that happen behaviors caused by certa in kinds of p erce pti on ways and means of knowing about somethi ng rules one uses to determ

39、 ine the p hilos op hical truth about a certa in thi ng effects of a sin gle in dividual' s p erce ptio n on what others believeQ： the example in the last paragraph suggests that can best be defi ned as(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)7. That nin etee nth-ce ntury French no velist Honore De Balzac could be finan

40、cially wise in his ficti on while los ing all his money in life was an irony dup licated in other matters.For in sta nee, the very wome n who had bee n draw n to him by the pen etrat ing in tuiti on of the female heart that he showed in his no vels were app alled to discover how insen sitive and awk

41、ward the real man could be.Balzac' s work as not especially popular among female readersBalzac could not write convincin gly about finan cial mattersBalzac' s in sights into character were not evide nt in his everyday life people who knew Balzac person ally could not res pect his as an artis

42、t readers had un reas on able exp ectati ons of Balzac the manQ: the example in lines 4-8 primarily suggests that(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)8. It seems the true source of creati on for Balzac was not sen sitivity but imag in ati on. Balzac origi nally sprang from an in tuiti on he first discovered as a wretched

43、 little school boy locked in a dark closet of his board ing school: life is a prison, and only imag in ati on can open its door.ex plai n why Balzac was un able to con duct his finan cial affairs prop erly point out a possible source of Balzac' s powerful imaginationexon erate the board ing scho

44、ol for Balzac ' s lackluster p erforma nee foster the imp ressi on that Balzac was an unruly stude nt depict the conditions of boarding school life during Balzac ' s youthQ: question 10, the author mentions Balzac' s experiences as a schoolboy in order to(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)9. The imitati on

45、thesis argues p rimarily in moral terms. Accord ing to it, televisi on consump tio n leads above all to moral dan gers. Anyone who is exp osed to the medium becomes habituated to liberti nism,irres pon sibility, crime, and viole nee. The p rivate con seque nces are blun ted, callous; and obst in ate

46、 in dividuals; the p ublic con seque nces are the loss of social virtues and gen eral moral decli ne. This form of critique draws, as is obvious at first gla nee, on traditi on al, bourgeois sources. The motifs that recur in this thesis can be iden tified as far back as the eightee nth cen tury in t

47、he vain warnings that early cultural criticism soun ded aga inst the dan gers of read ing no vels.point out television' s literary originsun derscore the gen eral decli ne of culture emphasize television' s relianee on visual imageryexp ose n arrow- min ded resista nee to new forms of exp re

48、ssi on attack the cultural shortco mings of televisi on p roducersQ: the author makes the comparison to the novel in lines 21-24 in order to(A)(B)(C)(D)(E) 推断题 练习1.One author after another denounces“ the Englishman ' s insultingly inhospitable brick wall, topped wbroken bottles. ” Frank J. Scott

49、, early landscape architect who had a large impact on the look of America first suburbs, worked tirelessly to rid the landscape fences, which he derided as a feudal holdover from Britain. Writing in 1870, he held that “to narrow our own or our neighbor ' s views of the free graces of Nature w”as

50、 selfish and undemocratic.Q：In line 10-12, Frank J. Scott 's observation implies that natureA. is graceful and beautiful only in areas uninhabited by humansB. should be available for all to enjoy without hindranceC. must be incorporated into the design of American suburbsD. exerts a more powerfu

51、l effect on the British than on AmericansE. Is less evident in American suburbs than in the British countryside2. The one word that sums up the attitude of the silent filmmakers is enthusiasm, conveyed most strongly before formulas took shape and when there was more room for experimentation. Theisnt

52、husiasm uncertainty ofte n resulted in such accide ntal discoveries as new camera or edit ing tech niq uesQ：The author of Passage 1 uses phrase“enthusiastic uncertainty ” in line 17 to suggest that thewereA. excited to be experimenting in a new fieldB. delighted at the opportunity to study new technologyC. optimistic in spite of the obstacles that faced themD. eager to challenge existing conventionsEeager to please but unsure of what the pu