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1、2022年考博英语-中国传媒大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题Many animals have（）that help them escape from their enemies. The coats of some animals are colored to adapt to its surroundings.问题1选项A.adaptationsB.acquisitionsC.adjustmentsD.additions【答案】A【解析】考查名词词义辨析。adaptation “适应”; acquisition “获得，收购”; adjustment “调整，调节”；add
2、ition “添加，增加”。that后面是一个定语从句，用来修饰空格处的名词，“帮助它们逃脱敌人”，由此可知选项A符合题意。句意：很多动物具有适应性，能够帮助它们逃脱敌人。有些动物的皮毛能够适应周边环境而变色。2. 单选题The train was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the window seemed simply to prove that plains of Texas were pouring eastward. Vast flats of green grass, dull-hu
3、ed spaces of mesquite and cactus, little groups of frame houses, woods of light and tender trees, all were sweeping into the east, sweeping over the horizon, a precipice.A newly married pair had boarded this coach at San Antonio. The mans face was reddened from many days in the wind and sun, and a d
4、irect result of his new black clothes was that his brick-colored hands were constantly performing in a most conscious fashion. From time to time he looked down respectfully at his attire. He sat with a hand on each knee, like a man waiting in a barbers shop. The glances he devoted to other passenger
5、s were furtive and shy.The bride was not pretty, nor was she very young. She wore a dress of blue cashmere, with small reservations of velvet here and there, and with steel buttons abounding. She continually twisted her head to regard her puff sleeves, very stiff, and high. They embarrassed her. It
6、was quite apparent that she had cooked, and that she expected to cook, dutifully. The blushes caused by the careless scrutiny of some passengers as she had entered the car were strange to see upon this plain, under-class countenance, which was drawn in placid, almost emotionless lines.They were evid
7、ently very happy. “Ever been in a parlor-car before?” he asked, smiling with delight.“No.” she answered; “I never was. Its fine, isnt it?”“Great! And then after a while well go forward to the dinner and get a big lay-out. Fresh meal in the world. Charge a dollar.”“Oh. do they?” cried the bride. “Cha
8、rge a dollar? Why, thats too much for us arent it, Jack?”“Nor this trip, anyhow,” he answered bravely. “Were going to go the whole thing.”Later he explained to her about the trains. “You see, its a thousand miles from one end of Texas to the other; and this runs right across it, and never stops but
9、four times.” He had the pride of an owner. He pointed out to her the dazzling fittings of the coach; and in truth her eyes opened wider and she contemplated the sea-green figured velvet, the shining brass, silver, and glass, the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a pool of oil.
10、At one end a bronze figure sturdily held a support for a separated chamber, and at convenient places on the ceiling were frescos in olive and silver.To the minds of the pair, their surroundings reflected the glory of their marriage that morning in San Antonio; this was the environment of their new e
11、state; and the mans face in particular beamed with an elation that made him appear ridiculous to the Negro porter. This individual at times surveyed them from afar with an amused and superior grin. On other occasions he bullied them with skill in ways that did not make it exactly plain to them that
12、they were being bullied. He subtly used all the manners of the most unconquerable kind of snobbery. He oppressed them. But of this oppression they had small knowledge, and they speedily forgot that infrequently a number of travelers covered them with stares of derisive enjoyment. Historically there
13、was supposed to be something infinitely humorous in their situation.“We are due in Yellow Sky at 3:42.” he said, looking tenderly into her eyes.“Oh, are we?” she said, as if she had not been aware of it: To evince （表现出）surprise at her husbands statement was part of her wifely amiability. She took fr
14、om a pocket a little silver watch; and as she held it before her, and stared at it with a frown of attention, the new husbands face shone.“I bought it in San Anton from a friend of mine, ” he told her gleefully.“Its seventeen minutes past twelve, ” she said, looking up at him with a kind of shy and
15、clumsy coquetry （调情；卖俏）. A passenger, noting this play, grew excessively sardonic, and winked at himself in one of the numerous mirrors.At last they went to the dining-car. Two rows of Negro waiters, in glowing white suits, surveyed their entrance with the interest, and also the equanimity, of men w
16、ho had been forewarned. The pair fell to the lot of a waiter who happened to feel pleasure in steering them through their meal. He viewed them with the manner of a fatherly pilot, his countenance radiant with benevolence. The patronage, entwined with the ordinary deference, was not plain to them. And yet, as they returned to their coach, they showed in their faces a sense of escape.1.The descriptio
