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1、2023年河北考研英语考试考前冲刺卷（4）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.Text 1When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to mechanize, he may very profitably consider the ape.If we tackled the
2、 problem of breeding for brains with as much enthusiasm as we devote to breeding dogs of surrealistic shapes, we could eventually produce assorted models of useful primates, ranging in size from the gorilla down to the baboon, each adapted to a special kind of work. It is not putting too much strain
3、 on the imagination to assume that geneticists could produce a super-ape, which is able to understand some scores of words and capable of being trained for such jobs as picking fruit, cleaning up the litter in parks, shining shoes, collecting garbage, doing household chores and even baby-sitting, al
4、though I have known some babies I would not care to trust with a valuable ape.Apes could do many jobs, such as cleaning streets and the more repetitive types of agricultural work, without supervision, though they might need protection from those egregious specimens of Home sapiens who think it amusi
5、ng to tease or bully anything they consider lower on the evolutionary ladder. For other tasks, such as delivering papers and laboring on the docks, our man-ape would have to work under human overseers; and, incidentally, I would love to see the finale of the twenty-first century version of On the Wa
6、terfront in which the honest but hairy hero will drum on his chest afterliterallytaking the wicked labor leader apart.Once a supply of nonhuman workers becomes available, a whole range of low IQ jobs could be thankfully given up by mankind, to its great mental and physical advantage. What is more, o
7、ne of the problems which has annoyed so many fictional Utopias would be avoided: There would be none of the degradingly subhuman Epsilons of Huxley’s Brave New World to act as a permanent reproach to society, for there is a profound moral difference between breeding sub-men and super-apes, tho
8、ugh the end products are much the same. The first would introduce a form of slavery, but the second would be a biological triumph which could benefit both men and animals.Notes: surrealistic超现实的。primate灵长类动物。gorilla大猩猩。baboon狒狒. chore杂活. care to do sth. (常用于否定句)(=willing to do or agree to do sth. )愿
9、意做某事。trust A with B把B托付给A。 egregious (通常指环人或坏事)异乎寻常的，突出的。Home sapiens人类。finale n.结局。Epsilons 奴隶人名。assorted各色各样的。Utopia乌托邦，理想主义。The author of this article is（）Amerely attempting to be humorous about the future workers.Brevealing his high opinion of mankind's prospect.Cexpressing his doubts about
10、the possibility of breeding a super-ape.Dpresenting an applausible theory in a humorous tone.2.Text 2Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower.
11、Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become absorbed in some book o
12、r other, and usually it is only much later that you realize that you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointmentwithout buying a book, of course.This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There
13、 are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart’s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting: Can I help you, sire. You needn’t buy anything you
14、 don’t want. In a Bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire discreetly an
15、d look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.You-have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on, say, ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book
16、 about brass-rubbing something which had only vaguely interested you up till then. This volume on the subject, however, happened to be so well illustrated and the part of the text you read proved so interesting that you just had to buy it. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section. Booksellers must be both long-suffering and indulgent.There is a sto
