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1、2022年考博英语-河北工业大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题My father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful, kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a farm hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near the town of Bidwell, Ohio. He had then a horse of his own and on Saturd
2、ay evenings drove into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse with other farm handsAt ten oclock Father drove home along a lonely country road, made his horse comfortable for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy in his position in life. He had at that time no notion of trying to r
3、ise in the world.It was in the spring of his thirty-fifth year that Father married my mother, then a country schoolteacher, and in the following spring I came wriggling and crying into the world. Something happened to the two people. They became ambitious. The American passion for getting up in the
4、world took possession of them.It may have been that Mother was responsible. Being a schoolteacher she had no doubt read books and magazines. She had, I presume, read of how Garfield, Lincoln and other Americans rose from poverty to fame and greatness and as I lay beside herin the days of her lying-i
5、nshe may have dreamed that I would someday rule men and cities. At any rate, she induced Father to give up his place as a farm hand, sell his horse and embark on an independent enterprise of his ownThe first venture into which the two people went turned out badly. They rented ten acres of poor stony
6、 land on Griggs Road, eight miles from Bidwell, and launched into chicken raising. I grew into boyhood on the place and got my first impressions of life there. From the beginning they were impressions of disaster and if, in my turn, I am a gloomy man inclined to see the darker side of life, I attrib
7、uted it to the fact that what should have been for me the happy joyous days of childhood were spent on a chicken farm.One unversed in such maters can have no notion of the many and tragic things that can happen to a chicken. It is born out of an egg lives for a few weeks as a tiny fluffy thing such
8、as you will see pictured on Easter cards, then becomes hideously naked, eats quantities of corn and meal bought by the sweat of your fathers brow, gets diseases called pip, cholera and other names, stands looking with stupid eyes at the sun, becomes sick and dies. A few hens and now and then a roost
9、er, intended to serve Gods mysterious ends, struggle through to maturity. The hens lay eggs out of which come other chickens and the dreadful cycle is thus made complete. It is all unbelievably complex. Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken an
10、d is so dreadfully disillusioned. Small chickens just setting out on the journey of life, look so bright and alert and they are in fact so dreadfully stupid. They are so much like people they mix one up in ones judgments of life. If disease does not kill them they wait until your expectations are th
11、oroughly aroused and then walk under the wheels of a wag In later life I have seen how a literature has been built up on the subject of fortunes to be made out of the raising of chickens. Do not be led astray by it. It was not written for you. Go hunt for gold on the frozen hills of Alaska, put your
12、 faith in the honesty of a politician, believe if you will that the world is daily growing better and that good will triumph over evil, but do not read and believe the literature that is written concerning the henI, however, digress. My tale does not primarily concern itself with the hen. If correct
13、ly told it will center on the egg. For ten years my father and mother struggled to make our chicken farm pay and then they gave up that struggle and began another. They moved into the town of Bidwell, Ohio, and embarked in the restaurant business. After ten years of worry, we threw all aside and pac
14、king our belongings on a wagon drove down Griggs Road toward Bidwell, a tiny caravan of hope looking for a new place from which to start on our upward journey through life.1. The narrator of the story views life pessimistically because _.2. According to the narrator, in which way do chickens resembl
15、e human beings?3. According to the narrator, one of the few pleasures in raising chickens is that _.4. The narrators opinion of books and articles written about chicken farming is that they are _.5. Which pair of adjectives most accurately conveys the narrators feelings about his childhood?问题1选项A.he
16、 grew up on a chicken farmB.his parents never succeeded at anything they didC.his life has been all work and no playD.he and his family were always in debt问题2选项A.Chickens, like children, are expensive to bring up.B.Chickens, like people, appear to be brighter than they really are.C.Chickens, as well as humans, are dirty, diseased, and smelly.D.Tragedies befall both chickens and humans.
