考博易错题(2019/11/6) |
第1题:Montaigne’s hold on his readers arises from many causes. There is his frank and curious self-delineation. That interests, because it is the revelation of a very peculiar nature. Then there is the positive value of separate thoughts imbedded in iris strange whimsicality and humor. Lastly, there is the perennial charm of style, which is never a separate quality, but rather the amalgam and issue of all the mental and moral qualities in a man’s possession, and which bears the same relation to these that light bears to the mingled elements that make up the orb of the sun.And style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature. In literature, the charm of style is indefinable, yet all subduing, just as fine manners are in social life. In reality, it is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating worD、 "But Shadwell never deviates into sense, for instance." Young Roscius, in his provincial barn, will repeat you the great soliloquy of Hamlet, and although every word may be given with tolerable correctness, you find it just as commonplace as himself. The great actor speaks it, and you "read Shakespeare as by a flash of lightning".And it is in Montaigne’s style, in the strange freaks and turnings of his thought, his constant surprises, his curious alternations of humor and melancholy, his careless, familiar form of address, and the grace with which everything is done, that his charm lies, and which makes the hundredth perusal of him as pleasant as the first. Literature lives because of the author’s ______. A、ideas B、humor C.surprises D.style |
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第2题:Opinion polls are now beginning to show an unwilling general agreement that, whoever is to (21) and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of (22) the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to (23) employment as the norm Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work Should we not create conditions (24) which many of us can work for ourselves, (25) for an employer The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the (26) of jobs. The industrial age may now be (27) to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reverseD、This seems a discouraging thought. (28) , in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment as its history shows, has not meant (29) freedom. Employment became widespread (30) the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving (31) them the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living (32) themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from the people’s homes. (33) , as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their places of employment until, (34) , many people’s work lost all connection (35) their home lives and the places in which they liveD、 (36) , employment put women (37) a disadvantage. It became customary for the husband to go out to (38) employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to (39) some effort and resources away from the (40) goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs. A.on B.at C.to D.in |
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Because their hearing aids ate not effective. C.Because they can not see the speaker’s mouth in order to lip-reaD、 D.Because they will not be able to hear very well and this may make them feel particularly conscious of their handicap. | |
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第4题:That evening roving gangs of white teenagers began to attack blacks in downtownChicago, and the city erupted in a five-day race ______ that ended with 38 deaths, 537 serious injuries, and widespread destruction.
A.fuss B.maneuver C.deterioration D.riot |
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第5题:The history ofAfrican-Americans during the past 400 years is traditionally narrated (21) an ongoing straggle against (22) and indifference on the part of theAmerican mainstream, and a straggle (23) as an upward movement is (24) toward ever more justice and opportunity. Technology in and of (25) is not at fault; it’s much too simple to say that gunpowder or agricultural machinery or fiber optics (26) been the enemy of an (27) group of people. A、certain machine is put (28) work in a certain way-the purpose (29) which it was designeD、The people who design the machines are not intent on unleashing chaos; they are usually trying to (30) a task more quickly, cleanly, or cheaply, (31) the imperative of innovation and efficiency that has ruled Western civilization (32) the Renaissance. Mastery of technology is second only (33) money as the true measure of accomplishment in this country, and it is very likely that by (34) this under-representation in the technological realm, and by not questioning and examining the folkways that have (35) it, blacks are allowing (36) to be kept out of the mainstream once again. This time, however, they will be (37) from the greatest cash engine of the twenty-first century. Inner-city blacks in particular are in danger, and the beautiful suburbs (38) ring the decay of Hartford, shed the past and learn to exist without contemplating or encountering the tragedy of the inner city. And blacks must change as well. The ways that (39) their ancestors through captivity and coming to freedom have begun to loose their utility. If blacks (40) to survive as full participants in this society, they have to understand what works now. A、for B、off C、onD、at |
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