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1、考博英语模拟 24阅读理解阅读理解Passage 1 The single business of Henry Thoreau, during forty odd years of eager activity, was to discover an economy calculated to provide a satisfying life. His one concern, which gave to his ramblings in Concord fields a value of high adventure, was to explore the true meaning of
2、wealth. As he understood the problems of economics, there were three possible solutions open to him, to exploit himself, to exploit his fellows, or to reduce the problem to its lowest denominator. The first was quite impossibleto imprison oneself in a treadmill when the morning called to great adven
3、ture. To exploit ones fellows seemed to Thoreaus sensitive social conscience an even greater infidelity. Freedom with abstinence seemed to him better than serfdom with material well-being, and he was content to move to Walden Pond and set about the high business of living, “to front only the essenti
4、al facts of life and to see what it had to teach.“ He did not advocate that other men should build cabins and live isolated. He had no wish to dogmatize concernig the best mode of livingeach must settle that for himself. But that a satisfying life should be lived, he was virtually concerned. The sto
5、ry of his emancipation from the lower economics is the one romance of his life, and Walden is his great book. It is a book in praise of life rather than of Nature, a record of calculating economies that studied saving in order to spend more largely. But it is a book of social criticism as well, in s
6、pite of its explicit denial of such a purpose. In considering the true nature of economy he concluded, with Ruskin, that the cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required in exchange for it, immediatey or in the long run. In Walden Thoreau elaborated the text: “The only wealth is life.“ 1.
7、1. The main idea of this paragraph is best expressed as _.A: problems of economicsB: Thoreaus philosophyC: Walden, Thoreaus greatest bookD: how Thoreau saved money参考答案: B 题目分值: 1.0 分 您的答案: 得分: 0.0 详细解答: 本文主要叙述梭罗如何寻求满意的生活，所以 B。2.2. Thoreaus chief aim in life was to _.A: discover a satisfactory econom
8、yB: do as little work as possibleC: convert others to his way of lifeD: write about Nature参考答案: A 题目分值: 1.0 分 您的答案: 得分: 0.0 详细解答: 根据本文的第一句话，可选出正确答案 A。3.3. Thoreaus solution to the problem of living was to _.A: study natureB: make other men work for himC: work in a millD: live in a simple way参考答案: D
9、题目分值: 1.0 分 您的答案: 得分: 0.0 详细解答: 从文中我们可以了解到，梭罗寻求有节制的自由，他搬到沃尔登庞德去了，面对基本的生活必需，这说明他生活简朴。4.4. According to Thoreau, the wealth of an individual is measured by _.A: the money he makesB: the experience be gainsC: the amount he savesD: the books he writes参考答案: B 题目分值: 1.0 分 您的答案: 得分: 0.0 详细解答: 根据and so set
10、about the high business of living，“to front only the essential facts of life and to see what it had to teach”可以判断梭罗认为真正的财富要在生活中去发现，在经历事物中去发现。5.5. In Thoreaus opinion, the price of a thing should be measured in terms of _.A: pleasureB: effortC: moneyD: life参考答案: D 题目分值: 1.0 分 您的答案: 得分: 0.0 详细解答: 最后两句
11、是选 D 的依据。Passage 2 Montaignes 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. L
12、astly, 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 mans 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
13、, 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 accou
14、nt 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 spea
15、ks it, and you “read Shakespeare as by a flash of lightning“. And it is in Montaignes 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 don
16、e, that his charm lies, and which makes the hundredth perusal of him as pleasant as the first. 6.6. Literature lives because of the authors _.A: ideasB: humorC: surprisesD: style参考答案: D 题目分值: 1.0 分 您的答案: 得分: 0.0 详细解答: 由于作者的风格，文学得以存在。作者在文中说，文学中不朽的东西是风格，而非思想。所以 D。7.7. Montaigne revealed _.A: fine mannersB: a peculiar natureC: a formal styleD: irradiatin
