2006年考研英语命题预测模拟试题(一)1
北京新航道学校考研阅读主讲 印建坤 Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1(10 points)
The current French bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectique. In 1 , there is
everything 2 blockbuster thrillers to Catherine Millet\\'s \has been 3 praised as high art and 4 as upmarket porn. Then there are novels 5 the sticky questions of good and 6 (\Prym\(\ 7 continue in the non-fiction list, 8 this week by Michel Onfray\\'s \ 9 some of philosophy\\'s perennial debates. Those who like their big issues in small chunks are also enjoying Frederic Beigbeder\\'s \
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survey of France\\'s 10 20th-century
books, 11 with Mr Beigbeder\\'s 12 humour from the title on (\critiqued by me\
In Britain, meanwhile, there is olive oil all over the non- fiction list. It\\'s a staple 13 for Nigella Lawson, a domestic divinity and celebrity 14 , whose
latest 15 of recipes tops the list. Annie Hawes, in second 16 , took herself 17 to the sun- drenched hills of Italy to grow her own olives and write a book about them-as did Carol Drinkwater, just 18 the border in France. Fiction-wise, it\\'s business as 19 , with the requisite holiday mix of thrillers, romance, fantasy-and Harry Potter, with \burning 20 at number three.
1. A. literature B. narrative C. story D. fiction
2. A. on B. from C. about D. of 3. A. both B. equally C. rather D. together 4. A. approved B. admired C. derided D. scolded 5. A .attempting B, dealing C. tackling D. talking 6. A. .evil B. sin C. wickedness D. bad
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7. A. topics B. ideas C. arguments D. themes 8.A. topped B. covered C. overdone D. surpassed 9. A. of B. by C. at D. on
10. A good B. favourite C. favorable D. satisfying 11. A. dealt B. handled C. touched D. managed 12.A. brand B. trademark C. marked D. obvious 13. A. ingredient B. constitution C. part D. factor 14.A. writer B. novelist C. chef D. journalist 15.A. set B. anthology C. collection D. album 16. A. rank B. place C. point D. status 17.A. up B. on C. off D. in
18. A. above B. around C. about D. across 19. A. usual B. usually C. common D. commonly 20. A. bright B. intense C. dazzling D. brilliant Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points) Text 1
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\Economic Affairs, summing up the attitude of British novelists towards business. The IEA, a free market think-tank, has just published a collection of essays (\Representation of Business in English Literature\academics chronicling the hostility of the country\\'s men and women of letters to the sordid business of making money. The implication is that Britain\\'s economic performance is retarded by an anti-industrial culture.
Rather than blaming recalcitrant workers and incompetent managers for Britain\\'s economic worries, then, we can put George Orwell and Martin Amis in the dock instead. From Dickens\\'s Scrooge to Amis’s John Self in his 1980s novel \mean, greedy, amoral money-men that has alienated their impressionable readers from the noble pursuit of capitalism. The argument has been well made before, most famously in 1981 by Martin Wiener, an American academic, in his \Lady Thatcher was a devotee of Mr. Wiener\\'s, and she led a crusade to revive the \
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liberal elite had allegedly trampled underfoot. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, sounds as though he agrees with her. At a recent speech to the Confederation of British Industry, he declared that it should be the duty of every teacher in the country to \of business and enterprise\
Certainly, most novelists are hostile to capitalism, but this refrain risks scapegoating writers for failings for which they are not to blame. Britain\\'s culture is no more anti-business than that of other countries. The Romantic Movement, which started as a reaction against the industrial revolution of the century, was born and
flourished in Germany, but has not stopped the Germans from being Europe\\'s most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists.
Even the Americans are guilty of blackening business\\'s name. SMERSH and SPECTRE went out with the cold war. James Bond now takes on international media magnates rather than Rosa Kleb. His films such as \downtrodden, moral heroes against the evil of faceless corporatism. Yet none of this seems to have dented
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2006年考研英语命题预测模拟试题(一)1
