| 考博易错题（2019/5/24） |
| 第1题： 2 Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affecteD、Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values that we unquestionably accept are false.Don Quizote makes chivalry seem absurd;Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science;A、Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original.Chivalry was suspect beforeCervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science beforeAldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satire method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous combination, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. Satire exists because there is need for it. It has lived because the readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is hypocritical, sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it. Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens de- vote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expresseD、 Why does the author mentionDon Quixcote ,Brave New World andA、Modest Pro- posal in the first paragraphA．They are famous examples of satiric literature. B．They present commonsense solutions to problems. C、They are appropriate for readers of all ages. D．They are books with similar stories. |
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| 第2题：One country that is certain of the effect of films on tourism isAustrali A、The Tourist Office of Queensland say thatCrocodileDundee, 61 Paul Hogan, madeAustralia the popular 62 it is today. In the three years afterCrocodileDundee was 63 , visitor numbers double D、 64 what makes people want to visit the place where a movie was filmed In many cases the reason is 65 the film makes audiences 66 of the existence of a place. 67 the JamesBond movie The Man with the Golden Gun was filmed in Phuket, Thailand, most Westerners had never heard of it. Today it is a major destination. Leonardo diCaprio’s film TheBeach has 68 tourism in another part of Thailan D、The film is about the discovery of the most idyllic beach in the worl D、As a result the Thai authorities are 69 a tourist boom in the film’s 70 ,Koh Phi Phi. Some people are influenced by a movie’s 71 as much as its location, especially if it is a romance. Four Weddings and a Funeral has 72 that" TheCrown" hotel inAmersham has been busy ever 73 the movie was first shown. In fact the bedroom where the 74 played by Hugh Grant andAndie McDowell spend their first night together is 75 for years ahea D、"We’ve 76 the number of marriage proposals that have been made there," say the hotel 77 . It is not just the tourist boards who are happy 78 the influence of films on a destination. Residents of a rather run down area of London have seen house prices almost double 79 Julia Robert’s romance with Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. Film stars, such as Madonna, who had previously thought of Notting Hill as a good place for a party, have now bought 80 there. Perhaps they hope to revive their romances. A、involvedB、prearrangedC、scheduled D、booked |
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| 第3题： They tried to drive their horse into the river, but he simply could ______ not. A．budge B．surge C．trudge D．dredge |
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| 第4题：She______the list of names to see if hers was on it.
A．glanced B．gazed C．peered D．scanned |
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| 第5题：The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness.But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (承担的义务), self-improvement. Ask a bachelor (单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children,But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchil D、 Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money; buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless.And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all. What is the author trying to tell usA．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain. B．One must know how to attain happiness. C．It is important to make commitments. D、It is pain that leads to happiness. |
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