2005年英语专业八级考试全真试卷
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PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)
TEXT A
I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.
I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin's smile.
"Arch, it's Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."
He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.
"You haven't sold many bananas today, pop," I said anxiously.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"What can I do? No one seems to want them."
It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father's bananas.
"I ought to yell," said my father dolefully. "I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I'm ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. "
I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.
"I'll yell for you, pop," I volunteered.
"Arch, no," he said, "go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I'll be late."
But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.
My father tried to stop me at last. "Nu," he said smiling to console me, "that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But it's plain we are unlucky today! Let's go home."
I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.
TEXT A
I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the factory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.
I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile -Charlie Chaplin's smile.
"Arch, it's Mikey," he said. "So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana."
He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.
"You haven't sold many bananas today, pop," I said anxiously.
He shrugged his shoulders.
"What can I do? No one seems to want them."
It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely over the pavements. The rusty sky darkened over New York building, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my father's bananas.
"I ought to yell," said my father dolefully. "I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sore. Anyway, I'm ashamed of yelling, it makes me feel like a fool. "
I had eaten one of his bananas. My sick conscience told me that I ought to pay for it somehow. I must remain here and help my father.
"I'll yell for you, pop," I volunteered.
"Arch, no," he said, "go home; you have worked enough today. Just tell momma I'll be late."
But I yelled and yelled. My father, standing by, spoke occasional words of praise, and said I was a wonderful yeller. Nobody else paid attention. The workers drifted past us wearily, endlessly; a defeated army wrapped in dreams of home. Elevated trains crashed; the Cooper Union clock burned above us; the sky grew black, the wind poured, the slush burned through our shoes. There were thousands of strange, silent figures pouring over the sidewalks in snow. None of them stopped to buy bananas. I yelled and yelled, nobody listened.
My father tried to stop me at last. "Nu," he said smiling to console me, "that was wonderful yelling. Mikey. But it's plain we are unlucky today! Let's go home."
I was frantic, and almost in tears. I insisted on keeping up my desperate yells. But at last my father persuaded me to leave with him.
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11. "unyoked" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to
A ：sent out
B ：released
C ：dispatched
D ：removed
B ：released
C ：dispatched
D ：removed
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12. Which of the following in the first paragraph does NOT indicated crowds of people?
A ：Thousands of
B ：Flowed
C ：Pouring
D ：Unyoked
B ：Flowed
C ：Pouring
D ：Unyoked
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13. Which of the following is intended to be a pair of contrast in the passage?
A ：Huge crowds and lonely individuals.
B ：Weather conditions and street lamps.
C ：Clattering trains and peddlers' yells.
D ：Moving crowds and street traffic.
B ：Weather conditions and street lamps.
C ：Clattering trains and peddlers' yells.
D ：Moving crowds and street traffic.
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14. Which of the following words is NOT suitable to describe the character of the son?
A ：Compassionate
B ：Responsible
C ：Shy
D ：Determined
B ：Responsible
C ：Shy
D ：Determined
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15. What is the theme of the story?
A ：The misery of the factory workers.
B ：How to survive in a harsh environment.
C ：Generation gap between the father and the son.
D ：Love between the father and the son.
B ：How to survive in a harsh environment.
C ：Generation gap between the father and the son.
D ：Love between the father and the son.
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16. What is the author's attitude towards the father and the son?
A ：Indifferent
B ：Sympathetic
C ：Appreciative
D ：Difficult to tell
B ：Sympathetic
C ：Appreciative
D ：Difficult to tell
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TEXT B
提示：原文出自美国时代杂志（TIME） 日期Jan. 29, 2001
文章标题No Fall Insurance 作者AN K. SMITH, M.D.
When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year. At 89 and suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidence of hip fractures not only increases after age 50 but doubles every five to six years as the risk of falling increases. Slipping and tumbling are not the only causes of hip fractures; weakened bones sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the major cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...
提示：原文出自美国时代杂志（TIME） 日期Jan. 29, 2001
文章标题No Fall Insurance 作者AN K. SMITH, M.D.
When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip two weeks ago, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year. At 89 and suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease, Reagan is in one of the highest-risk groups for this type of accident. The incidence of hip fractures not only increases after age 50 but doubles every five to six years as the risk of falling increases. Slipping and tumbling are not the only causes of hip fractures; weakened bones sometimes break spontaneously. But falling is the major cause, representing 90% of all hip fractures. These... ...
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17. The following are all specific measures to guard against injuries with the EXCEPTION of
A ：removal of throw rugs.
B ：easy access to devices
C ：installation of grab bars
D ：re-arrangement of furniture
B ：easy access to devices
C ：installation of grab bars
D ：re-arrangement of furniture
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18. In which paragraph does the author state his purpose of writing?
A ：The third paragraph
B ：The first paragraph
C ：The last paragraph
D ：The last but one paragraph
B ：The first paragraph
C ：The last paragraph
D ：The last but one paragraph
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19. The main purpose of the passage is to
A ：offer advice on how to prevent hip fractures
B ：emphasize the importance of health precautions
C ：discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.
D ：identify the causes of hip fractures.
B ：emphasize the importance of health precautions
C ：discuss the seriousness of hip fractures.
D ：identify the causes of hip fractures.
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TEXT C
提示：原文同2003年专八英译汉翻译试题相同
In his classic novel, "The Pioneers", James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" she asks. He's astonished she can't see them. "Where! Everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.
Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being."... ...
提示：原文同2003年专八英译汉翻译试题相同
In his classic novel, "The Pioneers", James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around bewildered. All she sees is a forest. "Where are the beauties and improvements which you were to show me?" she asks. He's astonished she can't see them. "Where! Everywhere," he replies. For though they are not yet built on earth, he has built them in his mind, and they as concrete to him as if they were already constructed and finished.
Cooper was illustrating a distinctly American trait, future-mindedness: the ability to see the present from the vantage point of the future; the freedom to feel unencumbered by the past and more emotionally attached to things to come. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life for the American is always becoming, never being."... ...
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20. The third paragraph examines America's future-mindedness from the _________ perspective.
A ：future
B ：realistic
C ：historical
D ：present
B ：realistic
C ：historical
D ：present
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21. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT brought about by future-mindedness?
A ：Economic stagnation
B ：Environmental destruction
C ：High divorce rates
D ：Neglect of history
B ：Environmental destruction
C ：High divorce rates
D ：Neglect of history
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22. The word "pooh-pooh" in the sixth paragraph means
A ：appreciate
B ：praise
C ：shun
D ：ridicule
B ：praise
C ：shun
D ：ridicule
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23. According to the passage, people at present can forecast ________ of a new round of future-mindedness.
A ：the nature
B ：the location
C ：the variety
D ：the features
B ：the location
C ：the variety
D ：the features
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24. The author predicts in the last paragraph that the study of future-mindedness will focus on
A ：how it comes into being
B ：how it functions
C ：what it brings about
D ：what it is related to.
B ：how it functions
C ：what it brings about
D ：what it is related to.
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