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1、2022年考博英语-北京科技大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Marcia Seligson calls the wedding dress the “key metaphor” in the elaborate effort to make the American wedding an “idealized departure from reality,” and notes that in the early 1970s, at a time when love-ins, live-ins, and hippie weddings were throwing brickba
2、ts at tradition, 94 percent of American brides still chose to be married in white. The color has long been associated with weddings because of its supposed symbolic link to virginity. Commenting slyly on the tradition, Judith Martin (1982) observes that an engaged couple needs to decide “whether wea
3、ring a white wedding dress will be worth enduring the sneers of people who believe these must be accessorized by intact hymens.”Viewed historically, the link between white and virginity (or, as it is sometimes euphemized, purity) is not as absolute as is often supposed. Brides in ancient Rome marrie
4、d in white, but because the color signified joy; they were veiled in a bright orange veil, or flammeum, that suggested the flames of passion. In the western Catholic tradition, too, white has always been the color of joy, and it remains the iconographically correct hue for such jubilant occasions as
5、 Easter Sunday. Some traditional societies use white to denote the significance of various passage ceremonies, among them funerals as well as weddings. For example, among the Andaman Islanders, said A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, white indicated simply a change of status; and the traditional Chinese white f
6、or funerals was a symbolic representation of hope.The “traditional” white wedding dress, moreover, is a recent innovation. Barbara Tober explains that its popularity may owe less to the mystique of virginity than to a curious twist of conspicuous display. Most Victorian brides, she says, wore simply
7、 their “best finery” on their wedding day, and many wore traditional ethnic costumes. The white dress was an ostentatiously impractical innovation that became popular among the upper classes precisely because of its defects: “Victorian brides from privileged backgrounds wore white to indicate that t
8、hey were rich enough to wear a dress for one day only.” And throughout the first years of this century, brides from somewhat less privileged backgrounds would trot out the white dress on special occasions throughout the first year of their marriage. The custom of locking the treasure away after the
9、weddingso that, like a toasting glass, it could never be used for a lesser purposeis less than a hundred years old.1. According to the passage, wearing a white wedding dress has little to do with（ ）.2. From historical point of view, the white color has been associated with all of the following EXCEP
10、T（ ）.3. It can be inferred from the passage that white dress（ ）.4. Nowadays, after the wedding white dress for brides from ordinary families（ ）.5. The best title for the passage is（ ）.问题1选项A.virginitytB.puritytC.hopetD.traditiont问题2选项A.ceremonies of weddings and funeralstB.flames of passion in new c
11、ouplestC.feelings of joytD.changes of social statust问题3选项A.enjoys general popularitytB.represents traditional styletC.means something that brings people joytD.symbolizes the aristocracy of Victorianst问题4选项A.was worn throughout the first yeartB.was never worn againtC.was worn once in a whiletD.was re
12、served for special purposet问题5选项A.Tradition of White Wedding DresstB.Origin of Wedding DresstC.History of Wedding DresstD.Appeal of White Dress【答案】第1题:C第2题:B第3题:A第4题:B第5题:D【解析】第1题:细节事实题。题干意思是“根据文章可知，穿白色的婚纱与没有关系”。第一段提到The color has long been associated with weddings because of its supposed symbolic l
13、ink to virginity.（这种颜色长期以来一直与婚礼联系在一起，因为它被认为是贞操的象征）可知，白色和童贞纯洁有联系，A项“贞洁”和B项“纯洁”都正确；第二段最后一句提到and the traditional Chinese white for funerals was a symbolic representation of hope.（而传统的中国白色葬礼是希望的象征）可知，白色的婚纱和希望没什么关系，希望是中国传统葬礼上使用白色的含义，所以C项“希望”与白色婚纱没关系；文章第三段讲到了维多利亚时代低层阶级的新娘在结婚那天会穿上白色婚纱，婚礼后会把它像宝物一样锁起来，最后一句提到
14、it could never be used for a lesser purposeis less than a hundred years old（它不能用于其他用途，已经有不到一百年的历史了）可知，穿白色婚纱和传统有关，所以D项“传统”正确。该题只有C项与穿白色的婚纱无关，故该题选择C项。第2题:细节事实题。题干意思是“从历史的角度来看，白色一直与以下所有的联系在一起，除了”。根据第二段第四句Some traditional societies use white to denote the significance of various passage ceremonies, amon
15、g them funerals as well as weddings.（一些传统社会用白色来表示各种仪式的意义，包括葬礼和婚礼）可知，A项“婚礼和葬礼的仪式”与白色有联系；根据第二段第二句they were veiled in a bright orange veil, or flammeum, that suggested the flames of passion（她们戴着一层明亮的橙色面纱，或称火焰，象征着激情的火焰）可知B项“新夫妇的激情之火”和白色没有什么关系；根据Brides in ancient Rome married in white, but because the co
16、lor signified joy（古罗马的新娘结婚时穿白色，但因为白色象征着快乐）可知C项“快乐的感觉”与白色有联系；根据among the Andaman Islanders, said A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, white indicated simply a change of status（在安达曼岛民中，白色仅仅表示身份的改变）可知D项“社会地位的变化”也与白色有联系。该题只有B项与白色无关，故该题选择B项。第3题:推理判断题。题干意思是“从短文中可以推断出白色的衣服”。根据文章第二段我们可知在很多地方和场合都会使用白色，因此可以推断白色在很多地方的场合都普遍受到欢迎；所以A项“普遍受欢迎”正确。B项“代表传统风格
