2000年英语专业八级考试答案及解析（6）
阅读理解 ASECTION A
TEXT A
短文大意：本文是有关丹麦社会秩序的介绍。
16.答案：B
【参考译文】作者认为丹麦人对他们的国家持什么样的态度？
【试题分析】本题为推理题。
【详细解答】短文第一段首句说“Despite Denmark’s manifest virtues, Danes never talk about how proud they are to be Danes.”由此可知，丹麦人对他们的国家持谦虚态度， 故答案选B。
17.答案：A
【参考译文】下列哪一项不是文中所评价的丹麦人的特征？
【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。
【详细解答】短文第二段第二句说“…and despite all the English that Danish absorbs — there is no Danish Academy to defend against it — old dialects persist in J utland that can barely be understood by Copenhageners.”由此可知，丹麦是一个在语 言上有容忍性的国家，故可排除选项C；下一句接着说“It is the land where, as the sa ying goes,“ Few have too much and fewer have too little, ”and a foreigner is str uck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails,…”由此可知丹麦社会是个人人平等的 社会，故可排除选项B；由本段最后一句“It’s a nation of tireless planner. Trains r un on time. Things operate well in general.”可知，丹麦是个有秩序守时的国家，故 可排除选项D。文中并没有提到丹麦人喜欢外国文化，故选项A为正确答案。
18.答案：D
【参考译文】作者对工商业部长所说的话的反应是什么？
【试题分析】本题为推理题。
【详细解答】工商部长在讲话中说到丹麦是世界上最干净，最有秩序的国家，没有污染，没有 犯罪与贫穷等等，作者并没有直接地表达自己的态度，而是列举了一些与该部长谈话相反的 社会现象，由此可知，作者是持怀疑的态度，故答案选D。
19.答案：C
【参考译文】根据该短文，丹麦社会的井然有序怎样？
【试题分析】本题为细节题。
【详细解答】短文第四段中说到“Orderliness is a main selling point.”由于丹麦缺乏自 然资源，井然有序的社会秩序对该国经济发展起到重要作用，故选项C为正确答案。
20.答案：D
【参考译文】下列哪一项不是作者在文中最后一段陈述的内容？
【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。
【详细解答】由本段第三句“The rules of the welfare system are clear to everyone,… ”，可排除选项A；由第二句中的“…you shouldn’t feel bad for taking what you’re e ntitled to,…”可排除选项B；由最后一句“the orderliness of the system makes it p ossible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.”可排除选项C。本段并没有提到“井然有序的社会秩序有可能减轻失业 问题”，故答案选D。
TEXT B
短文大意：本文主要介绍的是三类使用英语的人。
21.答案：D
【参考译文】自信类的人对语言的态度如何？
【试题分析】本题为细节题。
【详细解答】短文第三段在谈到自信类的人时说“…who therefore do not feel they need worry much about their use of English. Their education and occupation make them confident of speaking an unimpeachable form of English: no fear of being critici zed or corrected is likely to cross their minds, and this gives their speech tha t characteristically unselfconscious and easy flow which is often envied.”由此 可知，自信类的人总是泰然自若、无所畏惧的样子，故答案选D。
22.答案：B
【参考译文】为何焦虑类的人被认为是不幸的？
【试题分析】本题为细节题。
【详细解答】短文第五段第三句说“They live their lives in some degree of nervousnes s over their grammar,…”第六段第二句说“Their lot is also the open or veiled co ntempt of the ‘assured’on one side of them and of the “indifferent” on the oth er.”由此可知，内外受困使得焦虑类的人成为不幸者，故答案选B。
23.答案：D
【参考译文】作者认为应该如何看待焦虑者为实现他心中的好英语所做出的努力？
【试题分析】本题为推理题。
【详细解答】短文最后一段首句说“It is all too easy to raise an unworthy laugh at t he anxious.”这些人可能会在语言方面花费过多的精力，以致被英语的各种形式所困扰。 作者认为这些做法是不明智的。故答案选D“不合理的，荒谬的”。
TEXT C
短文大意：本文是对着名广播节目主持人库克的一生的评论。
24.答案：C
【参考译文】短文的开头，作者似乎对库克的哪一方面进行了批评？
【试题分析】本题为细节题。
【详细解答】短文第二段首句中说“…it should be reflected that the real snob is Coo ke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them.” 这句话表明作者对于库克放 弃英国护照的做法是持批评态度，认为这一点是不能容忍的，故答案选C。
2000年英语专业八级考试答案及解析（6）
</p> 25.答案：B【参考译文】不能用下列哪一个形容词来描述库克？
【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。
【详细解答】短文第一段描写的是库克过90岁生日的盛况，由此可知库克相当有名，故可首先 排除选项D；短文最后一段第二句说“His arrogance in not allowing BBC editors to se e his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his detriment.”由此 可知他的傲慢个性，故可排除选项C；这里接着说“His defenders said he could not hel p living with the 1930s values he had acquired and somewhat dubiously went on to cite “gallantry” as chief among them.”由此可知他是一位保守人物，故可排除选项A ；全文没有提到他的“真诚”一面，故答案选B。
26.答案：C
【参考译文】在评论库克的一生和他的职业时，作者的语气有点怎样？
【试题分析】本题为推理题。
【详细解答】文中在谈到库克的事业成功给予了肯定。而当谈到他的国籍、婚姻、军队中性犯 罪、为人处事等问题时，作者提出了极其严厉地批评。故选项C“尖锐的，讽刺的”为正确 答案。
TEXT D
短文大意：本文主要是对Duffy先生得知旧情人死讯后心情的描写。
27.答案：A
【参考译文】当Duffy先生看到有关那位女士死亡的报道时，他的第一反应是什么？
【试题分析】本题为细节题。
【详细解答】短文第一段第三句说“The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred. ”这里两次用到revolt（厌恶，反感）一词，因此答案选A。
28.答案：C
【参考译文】从文章中能推断出记者在报道该女土死亡时用的什么方式？
【试题分析】本题为推理题。
【详细解答】短文第一段第四句说“The cautious words of a reporter won over to conce al the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach.”由此可知选项 C“谨慎的”为正确答案。
29.答案：D
【参考译文】我们可以从文章最后一段推断出Duffy先生的心情如何？
【试题分析】本题为推理题。
【详细解答】短文最后—段提到，当Duffy先生坐在房间里回想与“她”的往事的时，“He be gan to feel ill at ease. He asked himself what else could he have done. He could not have lived with her openly. He had done what seemed to him best. How was he to blame?”从这里我们可以看出他处于一种自责、懊悔的情绪之中。故选项D“懊悔的” 为正确答案。
30.答案：C
【参考译文】根据该短文，下列哪一种说法是不正确的？
【试题分析】本题为细节题，可用排除法解答。
【详细解答】短文第一段第四句说“…he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred .”，由此可知他曾经十分信任她，故可排除选项A。第六句说“Not merely had she degra ded herself, she had degraded him.”这表明他感到非常羞耻，故可排除选项B；该段还 提到Duffy先生和“她”发生了一次激烈的争吵，于是他提出分手，最后一句说“He had no difficulty now in approving of the course he had taken.”这表明是Duffy先生想要 结束他们之间的关系。故答案选项C。
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