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1 y( n" s2 O- j5 h$ Q SECTION A
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短文大意:本文是有关丹麦社会秩序的介绍。
/ U) ]8 S7 D& x! J% Q4 y) ? 16.答案:B% [1 @5 v% d+ T a1 `
【参考译文】作者认为丹麦人对他们的国家持什么样的态度?* W; ?+ \1 t$ ?& k0 s
【试题分析】本题为推理题。% Z$ G4 t! Y8 d* d( _* s7 ~3 i
【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。0 c- X3 ^& a2 U
17.答案:A& z5 N7 B2 ~: e4 f- w) H' w" j+ D, Z
【参考译文】下列哪一项不是文中所评价的丹麦人的特征?
C0 J6 G+ n' T# Z$ a1 }; M& p! y 【试题分析】本题为细节题,可用排除法解答。
' V# M: i' |6 Q2 @- d/ C! k/ @ 【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。( M/ b# a, p' M+ M
18.答案:D
1 j% |+ n# v+ W; @- g6 b 【参考译文】作者对工商业部长所说的话的反应是什么?
+ V" _" W+ p7 I8 [ 【试题分析】本题为推理题。, K6 h9 F* b7 I3 t/ c& _
【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。* a! a4 G! B9 J, p7 E
19.答案:C
' Z: L) [" Y% Z8 I$ L- h 【参考译文】根据该短文,丹麦社会的井然有序怎样?
" ]$ ^" j1 U( y3 }$ f; b7 w6 H' f 【试题分析】本题为细节题。" {) N9 ~3 x7 W: g8 F
【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。6 ~ l- c! g6 L, u) r
20.答案:D- I6 k" M, u1 N7 i; S
【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?2 }4 C) m- {4 Y- X
【试题分析】本题为细节题,可用排除法解答。' P; o) P- T" Q$ S3 C* }* S
【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。: x; K' f3 h, O
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5 y& f5 k P& l8 a 短文大意:本文主要介绍的是三类使用英语的人。" v% S& o/ t7 {8 k- j& n# ^
21.答案:D% {: Y. D7 a$ I$ I
【参考译文】自信类的人对语言的态度如何?
8 h; O# r+ M Q5 Q+ j1 k5 J 【试题分析】本题为细节题。
* P7 J0 i" N; y8 Z. r: r9 E 【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。& y3 O F, z2 P2 p* U) h$ H; d* P
22.答案:B
D9 k& R8 p; F7 T( J 【参考译文】为何焦虑类的人被认为是不幸的?
/ |3 ~3 {% E3 V9 h" s 【试题分析】本题为细节题。
! l7 _% C( v/ T; p5 N 【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。
9 w$ ^6 Z! X* F/ g$ `7 u 23.答案:D
! _+ Q- z; Q8 I- q2 B* L Y 【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?
! i, J6 i! t" {. z* _; b R 【试题分析】本题为推理题。
^. ? ^, P2 X4 P9 ~; ? 【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”。
6 w$ B/ ^+ _9 [# d$ { TEXT C) K6 b Q) _7 C" c. u0 G! i; {
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。+ a* a2 ]3 ^/ [& o: F
24.答案:C3 @- m" h! ~; ^* Y
【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?- ?2 O6 {* Y5 l; ~* F9 J
【试题分析】本题为细节题。8 ~9 Q3 x! D3 G8 f* Z
6 C% H6 `! u p 【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。 |