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1、2022年考博英语-复旦大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Peter Sellers wouldnt be allowed his career today. All those funny racial stereotypesthe caricatured frogs. Woops, yids and goodness-gracious-me Pakis are in clear breach of the codes of political correctness.His lewd disguises and overdone accents belong with bla
2、ck-and-white minstrel shows and clog-dancingits the comedy of yesteryear.Have you tried listening to The Goon Show lately? It is a reworking of The Gang Show. Excruciatingly bad and dated, and full of explosions, Gunfire and jokes about Hitler and the War.Nonetheless, Sellers continues to obsess peo
3、ple. Hes already been the subject of biographies galore, including, act in 1994, a 1,200-page magnum opus by myself, which is now being turned into a biopic starring Geoffrey Rush.The appeal lies in the mythic dimensions of Sellers story. He had everything and it wasnt enough. He was a comedian with
4、 a tragic inability to enjoy life. He was world-famous and desperately lonely. At the height of his fame, as inspector Clouseau, his eccentricity tipped over the edge into genuine insanity. He was a basket case.This is irresistible material. Sellers subversive and immoderate behaviour puts him in a
5、class of his own. Picture my disappointment with Ed Sikovs tome, therefore. Heres a thick book that tells us nothing new.For newcomers to Sellers, however, Mr. Strangdove is a perfect digest of the mans life and work, briskly told. Sellers was descended form a family of bare-knuckle East End prize-l
6、ighters. Although his parents were music hall entertainers. His clinging, whining mother, Peg, was a quick-change artist and his father, Bill, was a ukulele player and soft-shoe-shuffle merchant.The young peter was raised in the ghostly, twilight world of shabby theatres and end-of-the-pier revues;
7、dog acts, acrobatic midgets, incompetent conjurors and gypsy violinists. To go from these origins and become as big as The Beatles, as he was in the Sixties, is an amazing feat.Sellers spent the Second World War in the Air force, impersonating officers and playing the drums to entertain the troops.
8、When he was demobbed he worked in holiday camps and began getting spots on radio. Culminating in The Goon Show. He dubbed the voices of Churchill and Humphrey Bogart on film soundtracks, and it was while hanging abouttrue studios that he was offered walk-on roles.His breakthrough came with the part
9、of a teddy boy in The ladykillers, a film that improves with each viewing. This led to the role off Fred Kite, the shaven-headed, belligerent shop steward in Im All right Jack which won him a British Academy Best Actor statuette. When Peter Ustinov dropped out of The pink Panther on a Friday. Seller
10、s flew to the set in Rome on Monday to replace him. The rest is history.Or notoriety. Sellers descent into madness was swift. He got rid of his wife and children and chased after Britt Eklang, whom he pounced on in The Dorchester and married ten days later. He took drugs to enhance his potency, and
11、this precipitated a heart attack. Having worked on Dr. Strangelove during the day, each evening be locked himself in the bathroom and threatened to commit suicide. Bryan Forbes and Nanette Newnan had to come over and talk to him through the door. He then decided to be wanted to marry Nanette. He als
12、o wanted to marry Sophia Loren, Princess Margaret and Liza Minnelli.His misbehavior and unprofessionalism cost film studios millions of dollars. Sets had to be repainted and costumes remade if they were purple or green-colors of which he was morbidly superstitious.He enjoyed messing about during fil
13、ming and blowing his lines; he pulled gums on people. He walked off Casino Royale and was discovered in Britt Eklangs mothers house in Sweden. Meanwhile, Orson Welles and the rest of the cast were in full make-up and on full pay back at Pinewood, waiting for him to reappear.Sellers was happy only in
14、 company of his gadgets, cameras and fast cars, which hed replace or abandon with manic frequency. At one of his weddings, the maids of honor were the brides dogs. He was also selfish in the extreme: when his relationships broke up, hed send his henchmen round to retrieve his gifts.1.People are stil
15、l obsessed with Peter Sellers because_.2.By saying “ he was a basket case”，the author means that Peter Sellers was_.3.According to the passage, Peter Sellers look drugs to improve_.4.The “galore” in paragraph 4 means_ .5.Peter Sellers can be described as_.问题1选项A.he was a geniusB.he was as big as The
16、 BeatlesC.his life was full of drama and contradictionD.he led a very austere life问题2选项A.handicappedB.derangedC.impetuousD.callous问题3选项A.his theatrical performanceB.his breathtaking performanceC.his walk-on roles on the stageD.his performance sexually问题4选项A.numerousB.anecdotalC.criticalD.unauthorized问题5
