obeis英语专业八级(阅读模拟试题练习)

2021年1月22日发(作者：贵州工业大学)
TEM 8 READING EXERCISE
TEXT

01

A
magazines
design
is
more
than
decoration,
more
than
simple
packaging.
It
expresses the
magazines
very character.
The
Atlantic Monthly
has
long attempted to
provide
a
design
environment
in
which
two
disparate
traditions
--
literary
and
journalistic -- can co-exist
in pleasurable dignity
.
The redesign that we
introduce with
this issue -- the work of our art director, Judy Garlan -- represents, we think, a notable
enhancement of
that environment. Garlan
explains some of what
was
in
her
mind as
she
began
to
create
the
new
design:
I
saw
this
as
an
opportunity
to
bring
the
look
closer
to
matching
the
elegance
and
power
of
the
writing,
which
the
magazine
is
known
for.
The overall design
has to be able to encompass a
great diversity of styles
and
subjects
--
urgent
pieces
of
reporting,
serious
essays,
lighter
pieces,
lifestyle- oriented
pieces,
short
stories,
and
poetry.
We
don
’
t
want
lighter
pieces
to
seem too heavy
, and we don
’
t want heavier pieces to seem too pretty
.


We
also
use
a
broad
range
of
art
and
photography
,
and
the
design
has
to
work
well
with that, too. At the same time, the magazine needs to have a consistent feel, needs to
underscore the sense that everything
in
it
is part of one
Atlantic
world.
The primary
typefaces Garlan chose for this task are Times Roman, for a more readable body type,
and
Bauer
Bodoni,
for
a
more
stylish
and
flexible
display
type
(article
titles,
large
initials, and so on). Other aspects of
the
new design are structural. The articles
in
the
front of the magazine, which once flowed into one another, now stand on their own, to
gain
prominence.
The
Travel
column,
now
featured
in
every
issue,
has
been
moved
from
the
back
to
the
front.
As
noted
in
this
space
last
month,
the
word
“Monthly”

rejoins
the Atlantic in 1981 after having served as the art director of several other magazines.


During
her
tenure
here
the
Atlantic
has
won
more
than
300
awards
for
visual
excellence.
From
the
Society
of
illustrators,
the
American
Institute
of
Graphic
Arts,
the
Art
Directors
Club,
Communication
Arts,
and
elsewhere.
Garlan
was
in
various
ways
assisted
in
the
redesign
by
the
entire
art-department
staff:
Robin
Gilmore,
Barnes,
Betsy
Urrico,
Gillian
Kahn,
and
Lisa
Manning.
The
artist
Nicholas
Gaetano
contributed as well: he redrew our colophon (the figure of Neptune that appears on the
contents
page)
and
created
the
symbols
that
will
appear
regularly
on
this
page
(a
rendition of our building), on
the Puzzler page,
above
the opening of
letters,
and on
the
masthead.
Gaetano,
whose
work
manages
to
combine
stylish
clarity
and
breezy
strength, is the cover artist for this issue.


1. Part of the new design is to be concerned with the following EXCEPT ______

A) variation in the typefaces.

B) reorganization of articles in the front.

C) creation of the travel column.

D) reinstatement of its former name.
2. According to the passage, the new design work involves ______

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A) other artists as well.

B) other writers as well.

C) only the cover artist.

D) only the art director.

3. This article aims to ______

A) emphasize the importance of a magazine's design.

B) introduce the magazine's art director.

C) persuade the reader to subscribe to the magazine.

D) inform the reader of its new design and features.


TEXT 02

This rather puts the 1,068 in Missing Persons in the shade. When Dr Nicholls wrote to
the Spectator
in 1989 asking
for names of people whom
readers had
looked up
in
the
DNB and had been disappointed not to
find, she says
that she received some 100,000
suggestions. (Well, she had written to
“other quality newspapers” too.
) As soon as her
committee
had
whittled
the
numbers
down,
the
professional
problems
of
an
editor
began.
Contributors
didn
’
t
file
copy
on
time;
some
who
did
sent
too
many:
50,000
words
instead
of
500
is
a
record,
according
Dr
Nicholls.
There
remains
the
dinner-party
game
of
who
’
s
out.
That
is
a
game
that
the
reviewers
have
played
and
will continue to play
. Criminals were my initial worry
. After all, the original edition of
the
DNB
boasted:
Malefactors
whose
crimes
excite
a
permanent
interest
have
received
hardly
less
attention
than
benefactors.
Mr.
John
Gross
clearly
had
similar
anxieties, for he complains that, while the murderer Christie is in, Crippen is out. One
might say
in reply that the
injustice of
the hanging of
Evans
instead of Christie was a
force
in the repeal of capital punishment
in
Britain, as
Ludovie Kennedy (the author
of Christie entry in Missing Persons) notes.


But then Crippen was reputed as the first murderer to be caught by telegraphy (he had
tried to escape by ship to America). It is surprising to find Max Miller excluded when
really
not
very
memorable
names
get
in. There
has been
a conscious effort to put
in
artists
and
architects
from
the
Middle
Ages.
About
their
lives
not
much
is
always
known.
Of
Hugo
of
Bury
St.
Edmunds,
a
12th-century
illuminator
whose
dates
of
birth
and
death
are
not
recorded,
his
biographer
comments:”
Whether

or
not
Hugo
was a
wall- painter,
the records
f
his
activities
as carver and
manuscript painter attest
to
his
versatility”
.
Then
there
had
to
be
more
women,
too
(12
per
cent,
against
the
original DBNs 3), such as Roy
Strong’s
subject, the Tudor painter Levina Teerlinc, of
whom
he remarks:
“
her
most characteristic
feature
is a
head attached
to a too
small,
spindly body
. Her technique
remained awkward, thin
and often cursory
, doesn
’
t seem
to
qualify
her
as
a
memorable
artist.
Y
et
it
may
be
better
than
the
record
of
the
original DNB, which included lives of people who never existed (such as Merlin) and
even managed to give thanks to J. W. Clerke as a contributor, though, as a later edition
ad
mits
in
a
shamefaced
footnote,
“
except
for
the
entry
in
the
List
of
Contributors
th
ere is no trace of J. W. Clerke”
.
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1. The writer suggests that there is no sense in buying the latest volume ______

A) because it is not worth the price.

B) because it has fewer entries than before.

C) unless one has all the volumes in his collection.

D) unless an expanded DNB will come out shortly.


2.
On
the
issue
of
who
should
be
included
in
the
DNB,
the
writer
seems
to
suggest




that ______
A) the editors had clear rules to follow.

B) there were too many criminals in the entries.

C) the editors clearly favoured benefactors.

D) the editors were irrational in their choices.

3. Crippen was absent from the DNB ______

A) because he escaped to the U.S.
B) because death sentence had been abolished.

C) for reasons not clarified.

D) because of the editors' mistake.

4. The author quoted a few entries in the last paragraph to ______

A) illustrate some features of the DNB.

B) give emphasis to his argument.

C) impress the reader with its content.

D) highlight the people in the Middle Ages.
5. Throughout the passage, the writer's tone towards the DNB was ______

A) complimentary
.

B) supportive.

C) sarcastic.

D) bitter.


TEXT 03

Despite Denmark’s manifest virtues, Danes ne
ver talk about how proud they are to be
Danes.
This
would
sound
weird
in
Danish.
When
Danes
talk
to
foreigners
about
Denmark,
they
always
begin
by
commenting
on
its
tininess,
its
unimportance
,
the
difficulty
of
its
language,
the
general
small-mindedness
and
self-indulgence
of
their
countrymen
and
the
high
taxes.
No
Dane
would
look
you
in
the
eye
and
say
,
“Denmark is

a great country
.” Y
ou’re supposed to figure this out for yourself.?


It
is the
land of the silk safety
net, where almost
half
the national budget
goes toward
smoothing out
life’s
inequalities, and there
is plenty of
money
f or
schools, day care,
retraining
programmes,
job
seminars-Danes
love
seminars:
three
days
at
a
study
centre
hearing about
waste
management
is almost as
good as a ski trip.
It
is a culture
bombarded
by
English,
in
advertising,
pop
music,
the
Internet,
and
despite
all
the
English that Danish absorbs
—
there
is
no
Danish Academy to defend against
it
—
old
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dialects
persist
in
Jutland
that
can
barely
be
understood
by
Copenhageners.
It
is
the
land where, as the saying
goes,“ Fe w

have too
much and
fewer
have too
little,
”and
a foreigner is struck by the sweet egalitarianism that prevails, where the lowliest clerk
gives
you
a
level
gaze,
where
Sir
and
Madame
have
disappeared
from
common
usage, even Mr. and Mrs. It’ s a
nation of recyclers—
about 55 % of Danish
garbage
gets
made
into something
new
—
and
no nuclear power plants.
It’s a nation of tireless
planner. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general.
?


Such
a
nation
of
overachievers
—

a
brochure
from
the
Ministry
of
Business
and
Industry says, “Denmark is one of the world’s cleanest and most organize d countries,
with
virtually
no
pollution,
crime,
or
poverty
.
Denmark
is
the
most
corruption-free
soci
ety
in the Northern Hemisphere.
”So, of course, one’s
heart

lifts at any
sighting
of
Danish
sleaze:
skinhead
graffiti
on
buildings(“Foreigners
Out
of
Denmark!
”),
broken beer bottles in the gutters, drunken teenagers slumped in the park.
?


Nonetheless,
it
is
an
orderly
land.
Y
ou
drive
through
a
Danish
town,
it
comes
to
an
end at a stonewall, and on the other
side
is a
field of barley
, a
nice clean
line: town
here, country there. It is not a nation of jaywalkers. People stand on the curb and wait
for the red
light
t
o change, even
if
it’s 2 a.m. and there’s
not a car
in sight.
However,
Danes
don’
t
think
of
themselves
as
awaiting
-at-2-a.m.-for-the-green- light
people
--
th
at’s
how
they
see
Swedes
and
Ger
mans.
Danes
see
themselves
as
jazzy
people,
improvisers,
more
free spirited
than
Swedes, but the
truth
is (though one should
not
say
it)
that
Danes
are
very
much
like
Germans
and
Swedes.
Orderliness
is
a
main
selling
point.
Denmark
has
few
natural
resources,
limited
manufacturing
capability;
its
future
in
Europe
will
be
as
a
broker,
banker,
and
distributor
of
goods.
Y
ou
send
your
goods
by
container
ship
to
Copenhagen,
and
these
bright,
young,
English-speaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your goods around
to
Scandinavia,
the
Baltic
States,
and
Russia.
Airports,
seaports,
highways,
and
rail
lines are ultramodern
and well- maintained.
?


The orderliness of the society doesn’t mean
that Danish lives are less messy or lonely
than
yours or
mine, and
no Dane would tell
you
so.
Y
ou can
hear plenty about bitter
family
feuds and
the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible
people
who
went
off
one
day
and
killed
themselves.
An
orderly
society
c
an
not
exempt
its
members from the hazards of life.
?


But
there
is
a
sense
of
entitlement
and
security
that
Danes
grow
up
with.
Certain
things are
yours by
virtue of citizenship, and
you shouldn’t
feel
bad
f o r taking what
you’re entitled to,
you’re as
good
as anyone else. The
rules of
the welfare system
are
clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a
new
one;
and
the
orderliness
of
the
system
makes
it
possible
for
the
country
to
weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.


1. The author thinks that Danes adopt a ___ attitude towards their country
.

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A. boastful

B. modest

C. deprecating
D. mysterious
2. Which of the following is NOT a Danish characteristic cited in the passage?
A. Fondness of foreign culture.
B. Equality in society
.
C. Linguistic tolerance.
D. Persistent planning.

3. The author’s reaction to the statemen
t by the Ministry of Business and Industry
is
___.
A. disapproving


B. approving


?C.
n
oncommittal

D. doubtful
4. According to the passage, Danish orderliness ___.
A. sets the people apart from Germans and Swedes
B. spares Danes social troubles besetting other people
C. is considered economically essential to the country
D. prevents Danes from acknowledging existing troubles
5. At the end of the passage the author states all the following EXCEPT that
___.
A. Danes are clearly informed of their social benefits
B. Danes take for granted what is given to them
C. the open system helps to tide the country over
D. orderliness has alleviated unemployment

TEXT 04

Fred Cooke of Salford turned 90 two days ago and the world
has been beating a path
to his door. If you haven’t noticed, the
backstreet boy educated at Blackpool grammar
styles
himself
more
grandly
as
Alastair
Cooke,
broadcaster
extraordinaire.
An
honorable
KBE,
he
would
be
Sir
Alastair
if
he
had
not
taken
American
citizenship
more than half a century ago.
?


If
it
sounds
snobbish
to
draw
attention
to
his
humble
origins,
it
should
be
reflected
that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them.
But the
fact
that
he opted to renounce
his
British passport
in 1941
—
just
when
his
country
needed all the wartime help it could get-is hardly a matter for congratulation.
?


Cooke
has
made
a
fortune
out
of
his
love
affair
with
America,
entrancing
listeners
with a
weekly
monologue
that
has
won Radio 4
many devoted adherents.
Part of the
pull
is
the
developed
drawl.
This
is
t
he
man
who
gave
the
world
“midatlantic”,
the
language of the disc jockey and public relations man.
?


He
sounds
American
to
us
and
English
to
them,
while
in
reality
he
has
for
decades
belonged
to
neither.
Cooke’s
world
is
an
America
that
exists
largely
in
the
imagination.
He
took
ages
to
acknowledge
the
disaster
that
was
Vietnam
and
even
longer
to
wake
up
to
Watergate.
His
politics
have
drifted
to
the
right
with
age,
and
most of his opinions have been acquired on the golf course with fellow celebrities.
?


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He
chased
after
stars
on
arrival
in
America,
Fixing
up
an
interview
with
Charlie
Chaplin and briefly becoming his friend. He told Cooke he could turn him into a fine
light comedian; instead he is an impressionist’s dream.?


Cooke
liked
the
sound
of
his
first
wife’s
name
almost
as
much
as
he
admired
her
good
looks.
But
he
found
bringing
up
baby
difficult
and
left
her
for
the
wife
of
his
landlord. Women
listeners were
unimpressed when,
in 1996,
he declared on air
that
the
fact
that
4%
of
women
in
the
American
armed
forces
were
raped
showed
remarkable
self-r
estraint
on
the
part
of
Uncle
Sam’s
soldiers.
His
arrogance
in
not
allowing BBC editors to see his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his
detriment.
His defenders said
he could
not
help
living with the 1930s values
he
had
acquired
and
somewhat
dubiously
went
on
to
cite
“gallantry”
as
chief
amo
ng
them.
Cooke’s
raconteur
style
encouraged
a
whole
generation
of
BBC
men
to
think
of
themselves as more important than the story. His treacle tones were the model for the
regular
World
Service
reports
From
Our
Own
Correspondent,
known
as
FOOCs
in
the business. They may yet be his epitaph.

1. At the beginning of the passage the writer sounds critical of ___.
A. Cooke’s obscure origins

B. Cooke’s broadcasting style

C. Cooke’s American citizenship

D. C
ooke’s fondness of America

2. The following adjectives can be suitably applied to Cooke EXCEPT ___.
A. old-fashioned
B. sincere
C. arrogant
D. popular
3.
The writer comments on Cooke’s life and career in a slightly ___ tone.

A. ironic
B. detached
?C.
s
cathing D. indifferent


TEXT 05

Mr.
Duffy
raised
his
eyes
from
the
paper
and
gazed
out
of
his
window
on
the
cheerless evening
landscape.
The river
lay quiet beside the empty distillery and
from
time to time a light appeared in some house on Lucan Road. What an end! 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. The cautious words of a reporter won over
to
conceal the details of a commonplace
vulgar death attacked
his stomach. Not
merely
had she degraded herself, she had degraded him. His soul’s comp
anion! He thought of
the hobbling wretches whom
he
had seen carrying
cans and bottles to be
filled by the
barman.
Just
God,
what
an
end!
Evidently
she
had
been
unfit
to
live,
without
any
strength
of
purpose,
an
easy
prey
to
habits,
one
of
the
wrecks
on
which
civilization
has been reared. But that she could have sunk so low! Was it possible he had deceived
himself
so
utterly
about
her?
He
remembered
her
outburst
of
that
night
and
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interpreted
it
in
a
harsher
sense
than
he
had
ever
done.
He
had
no
difficulty
now
in
approving of the course he had taken.

As the
light
failed and his
memory began to wander
he thought her hand touched his.
The shock which
had
first attacked
his stomach
was now attacking
his
nerves. He put
on his overcoat and hat quickly and went out. The cold air met him on the threshold; it
crept into the sleeves of his coat. When he came to the public house at Chapel Bridge
he went in and ordered a hot punch.

The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or
six working-
men
in the shop discussing the
value of a
gentleman’s
e state
in County
Kildare.
They drank
at
intervals
from
their
huge pint tumblers, and smoked, spitting
often
on
the
floor
and
sometimes
dragging
the
sawdust
over
their
heavy
boots.
Mr
Duffy
sat
on
his
stool
and
gazed
at
them,
without
seeing
or
hearing
them.
After
a
while they
went out and
he called
for
another
punch. He
sat a
long time over
it.
The
shop
was
very
quiet.
The
proprietor
sprawled
on
the
counter
reading
the
newspaper
and
yawning.
Now
and
again
a
tram
was
heard
swishing
along
the
lonely
road
outside.

As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images on
which
he
now
conceived
her,
he
realized
that
she
was
dead,
that
she
had
ceased
to
exist, that she
had become a
memory
.
He began to
feel
ill
at ease.
He asked
himself
what else
he could
have done. He could
not
have
lived with
her openly. He
had done
what
seemed
to
him
best.
How
was
he
to
blame?
Now
that
she
was
gone
he
understood
how
lonely
her
life
must
have been, sitting
night after
night alone
in that
room.
His
life
would
be
lonely
too
until
he,
too,
died,
ceased
to
exist,
became
a
memory -- if anyone remembered him.

1. Mr
Duffy’s immediate reaction to the

report of the woman’s death wa
s that of ___.
A. disgust


B. guilt


C. grief


D. compassion
2.
It
can
be
inferred
from
the
passage
that
the
reporter
wrote
about
the
woman’s
death in a ___ manner.
A. detailed B. provocative


C. discreet



D. sensational
3. We can infer from the last paragraph that Mr Duffy was in a(n) ___ mood.
A. angry




B. fretful




C. irritable

D. remorseful
4. According to the passage , which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Mr Duffy once confided in the woman.

B. Mr Duffy felt an intense sense of shame.

C. The woman wanted to end the relationship.
D. They became estranged probably after a quarrel.

TEXT 06

The
University
in
Transformation,
edited
by
Australian
futurists
Sohail
Inayatullah
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and
Jennifer
Gidley
,
presents
some
20
highly
varied
outlooks
on
tomorrow’s
universities by writers representing both Western and non-Western perspectives. Their
essays raise a broad range of issues, questioning nearly every key assumption we have
about higher education today
.

The
most
widely
discussed
alternative
to
the
traditional
campus
is
the
Internet
University
--
a
voluntary
community
to
scholars/teachers
physically
scattered
throughout a country or around the world but all linked in cyberspace. A computerized
university could
have
many advantages, such as easy scheduling, efficient delivery of
lectures
to
thousands
or
even
millions
of
students
at
once,
and
ready
access
for
students everywhere to the resources of al
l the world’s great libraries.


Y
et
the
Internet
University
poses
dangers,
too.
For
example,
a
line
of
franchised
courseware, produced by a
few superstar teachers,
marketed
under the brand name of
a
famous
institution,
and
heavily
advertised,
might
eventually
come
to
dominate
the
global
education
market,
warns
sociology
professor
Peter
Manicas
of
the
University
of
Hawaii
at
Manoa.
Besides
enforcing
a
rigidly
standardized
curriculum,
such
a
“college
education
in
a
box”

could
undersell
the
offerings
of
many
traditional
brick
and
mortar
institutions,
effectively
driving
them
out
of
business
and
throwing
thousands
of
career
academics
out
of
work,
note
Australian
communications
professors David Rooney and Greg Hearn.

On
the
other
hand,
while
global
connectivity
seems
highly
likely
to
play
some
significant
role
in
future
higher
education,
that
does
not
mean
greater
uniformity
in
course content
—
or other dangers
—
will necessarily follow. Counter-movements are
also at work.

Many in academia, including scholars contributing to this volume, are questioning the
fundamental
mission
of
university
education.
What
if,
for
instance,
instead
of
receiving primarily technical
training and building their
individual careers,
university
students
and
professors
could
focus
their
learning
and
research
efforts
on
existing
problems
in their
local communities and the world? Feminist scholar Ivana Milojevic
dares
to
dream
what
a
university
might
become
“if
we
believed
that
child

care
workers and teachers in early childhood education should be one of the highest (rather
than lowest) paid professionals?”


Co-editor Jennifer Gidley shows
how tomorrow
’
s
university
faculty
,
instead of giving
lectures
and
conducting
independent
research,
may
take
on
three
new
roles.
Some
would act as brokers, assembling customized degree-credit programmes for individual
students by
mixing and
matching the best course offerings available
from
institutions
all
around
the
world.
A
second
group,
mentors,
would
function
much
like
today’s
faculty advisers, but are
likely to be
working with
many
more students outside their
own academic specialty
. This would require them
to constantly be
learning
from their
students as well as instructing them.
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A third new role for faculty
, and
in Gidley’s view the most challenging a
nd rewarding
of
all,
would
be
as
meaning-makers:
charismatic
sages
and
practitioners
leading
groups
of
students/colleagues
in
collaborative
efforts
to
find
spiritual
as
well
as
rational and technological solutions to specific real-world problems.

Moreover, there
seems
little reason
to suppose
that any one
form of
university
must
necessarily drive out all other options. Students
may be
“enrolled”

in courses offered
at
virtual
campuses
on
the
Internet,
between
—
or
even
during
—
sessions
at
a
real
world problem focused institution.

As co-editor Sohail Inayatullah points out
in
his
introduction,
no
future
is
inevitable,
and
the
very
act
of
imagining
and
thinking
through
alternative
possibilities
can
directly affect
how thoughtfully, creatively and
urgently even a dominant technology
is
adapted
and
applied.
Even
in
academia,
the
future
belongs
to
those
who
care
enough to work their visions into practical, sustainable realities.

1. When the book reviewer discusses the Internet University
,

A. he is in favour of it.


B. his view is balanced.

C. he is slightly critical of it.

is strongly critical of it.
2. Which of the following is NOT seen as a potential danger of the Internet University?


A. Internet based courses may be less costly than traditional ones.

rs in traditional institutions may lose their jobs.

et based courseware may lack variety in course content.

Internet University may produce teachers with a lot of publicity
.
3. According to
the review, what
is the
fundamental
mission of
traditional
university
education?

A. Knowledge learning and career building.

B. Learning how to solve existing social problems.

C. Researching into solutions to current world problems.

D. Combining research efforts of teachers and students in learning.
4.
Judging
from
the
three
new
roles
envisioned
for
tomorrow
’
s
university
faculty
,
university teachers

A. are required to conduct more independent research.
B. are required to offer more courses to their students.
C. are supposed to assume more demanding duties.
D. are supposed to supervise more students in their specialty
.
5. Which category of writing does the review belong to?


A. Narration.
B. Description. C. Persuasion.
D. Exposition.

TEXT 07

Every
street
had
a
story
,
every
building
a
memory
.
Those
blessed
with
wonderful
childhoods can drive the streets of their
hometowns and
happily roll
back
the
years.
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