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1、2022年考博英语-武汉理工大学考前提分综合测验卷（附带答案及详解）1. 单选题The mouth of the Amazon River has long been a starting place for hunters going to the jungles of Brazil. In recent years it has been, too, the headquarters for a middle-aged American couple who hunt the smallest living things and perhaps the most deadly-viruse
2、s. Dr. Causey and his wife have discovered more new types and more old ones in new places than all of the other search teams.Dr. Causey insists that the couples success is due more to the number of viruses in the forests of the Amazon than to the skill he and his wife have developed during their eig
3、hteen years of work in Brazil.“We have found the loveliest diseases right in our backyard,” he told me one day as we walked through a light train along a jungle trail.“Oh, these viruses are here all right. There is in the jungle a great pool of disease which is carried in the blood of animals and bi
4、rds. Some of the diseases can be caught by people. It may be that we shall find that the jungle is a great center of virus disease and that it overflows from here to other parts of the world. It may be that birds carry the viruses to far countries. It may be that some viruses which presently reprodu
5、ce in man without making him ill, may change and become deadly to him. Viruses waiting for a disease, they are sometimes called. This is just an idea, you understand. We do not know, but it is important that we find out, and the first step in finding out is to learn what viruses there are in the jun
6、gles.”There is a Brazilian story about the beginning of the world which goes: When God was making the world he tried to keep everything in balance. When he made a desert, he provided it with some green places. When he made a land that was beautiful, he gave it storms and other terrible things caused
7、 by the weather. Where the earth was rich below the surface, it was also made hard to live on. Where the land could be farmed, the weather was made too hot or too cold or too dry. Where there was enough water, God made it so that there should sometimes be too much water.“But in one place God made a
8、land that was rich, where everything grew easily. Where it was not too hot and certainly not too cold, where animals were plentiful and fruit hung from the trees all the year round.”“The angels looked at this loveliness and were jealous of man.” They asked God if this was not too beautiful, too much
9、 like heaven, this valley of the Amazon.“And God said, True, this land looks like heaven, but wait until you see what happens to man when he tries to live in it.”1. The Causeys chose the mouth of the Amazon as their headquarters_.2. According to Dr. Causey, the success of his wife and himself was ma
10、inly due to _.3. Which of the following is true?4. When Dr. Causey said, “We have found the loveliest diseases right in our backyard”, he meant _.5. The central idea of the Brazilian legend is that _.问题1选项A.in order to hunt animals of the junglesB.because it was the starting point of most huntersC.b
11、ecause they did not want to stay in the jungleD.in order to have easy access to the jungle问题2选项A.their 18 years of work in BrazilB.their rich and incomparable experienceC.a large amount of viruses in the Amazon forestD.their well-chosen headquarters at the mouth of River Amazon问题3选项A.The jungle is t
12、he only place where we can find viruses.B.The Causeys went to Brazil to look for viruses and wild animals.C.Viruses are only carried in the blood of animals.D.Not all viruses are, at present, harmful to man.问题4选项A.new viruses have just been discoveredB.his discovery was a bit frighteningC.he and his
13、 wife were surrounded by harmful virusesD.his job was uninteresting at all问题5选项A.things in nature tend to be balancedB.the Amazon is the best place God has createdC.even God cannot do everything perfectlyD.there is not such a place as heaven in this world【答案】第1题:B第2题:C第3题:D第4题:C第5题:A【解析】1.【试题答案】B【试题
14、解析】细节事实题。由题干可以定位到文章第一段第一句The mouth of the Amazon River has long been a starting place for hunters going to the jungles of Brazil.（长期以来，亚马逊河口一直是猎人前往巴西丛林的起点）。B选项“因为这是大多数猎人的起点”，B选项符合题意，因此B选项正确。A选项“来猎取丛林里的动物”，文章只是说猎捕最小的生物，可排除A选项。C选项“因为他们不想呆在丛林里”，文章没有提到这个内容，可排除。D选项“以便方便地进入丛林”，文章没有提到是为了方便进入丛林，才把总部设在河口，可排除
15、D选项。因此B选项为正确答案。2.【试题答案】C【试题解析】细节事实题。我们可以定位到文章第二段Dr. Causey insists that the couples success is due more to the number of viruses in the forests of the Amazon than to the skill he and his wife have developed during their eighteen years of work in Brazil.（Causey博士坚持认为，这对夫妇的成功更多是由于亚马逊森林里的病毒数量，而不是他和妻子在巴西工作的18年所培养的技能。）根据凯西博士的话语推测他们的成功离不开亚马逊森林里的病毒。C选项“亚马逊森林里有大量的病毒”符合文章内容，C选项正确。A选项“他们在巴西工作了18年”，文章所说他们的成功不是因为18年的工作所培养的技能，A选项排除。B选项“他们丰富而无可比拟的经验”，文章所说，不是由于他们18年所培养的技能，B选项可排除。D选项“他们精心挑选的亚马逊河口总部”，文章第二段没有提到此内容，可排除。因此C选项为正确答案。3.【试题答案】D【试题解析】判断推理题。D选项“目前，并非所有的病毒都对人类有害”，文章所说“有些目前在人体内繁殖而不使人生病的病毒”，D选项正确。A选项“丛林
