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SAT OG Test 4,Section2
1.
To avoid being
------, composer Stephen Sondheim
strives for an element of surprise in
his songs.
(A) erratic
古怪的漂泊不定的人
(B)informal
(C) elaborate
(D) predictable
(E)
idiosyncratic
特质的
解析：
D
，作曲家史蒂芬为了避免作品过于通俗可见力求在他的
作品中加入令人
惊喜的元素。我们从后面的
surprise<
/p>
可以看出前面是为了避免古语通俗。
2. Because the pandas had already been
weakened by disease and drought.
a
harsh winter would have had----- consequences for
them.
(A) preventive
(B)
regressive
退化的
(C)
catastrophic
灾难性的
(D) unforeseen
未预见的
(E) moderate
解析：
C
，由于大熊猫已经受到疾病和
干旱的袭击，如果要再经历一个严冬会给
他们带来一长灾难性的结果。
< br>
many of the villagers, marriage
was a practical........ one not
necessarily
-------
of
love
but
nevertheless
grounded
largely
in
economic
advantage.
A) arrangement ..
devoid
安排，
缺乏
(B)
entertainment ..
disparaging
娱乐，蔑视
(C) attitude .. consisting
(D) bargain .. worhy
(E)
misfortune .. trusting
解析：
A<
/p>
，对于一些村民来说，婚姻是一个更为实际的计划，一个婚姻并不是
缺乏爱然而一定要有一定的经济优势。
is a
procrastinator, naturally inclined to -----
and to ....... discussions.
(A) meddle .. scoff
at
管闲事，藐视
(B)
temporize .. prolong
拖延，延长
(C) misbehave . .
disrupt
行为不礼貌，打扰
(D) sneer ..
terminate
嘲笑，终止
(E) withdraw .. intrude
in
撤退，闯入
解析：
B
，马吉是一个有拖延症的人，经常会延长我们讨论的时间。
5. Just as glass windows offer
buildings both light and insulation.
certain atmospheric gases .......
incoming sunlight and ....... heat
radiated from the ground. preventing
warmth from escaping.
(A) conduct ..
release
管理，释放
(B)
deflect .. transmit
专项，传播
(C) admit ..
contain
容许，含有
(D)
absorb .. dispense
吸收，分发
(E) resist .. trap
解析：
C
就像建筑物上的玻璃既透明又绝缘，可以容许一些来自太阳的大气气体
进入并保持来自地面的热量，不必流失热量。
6.
The
d
for
her
style
yet
ridiculed
for
her
vacuity.
often
moved naive listeners
with ------alone and led them to believe that her
speech had -----.
A) reason
.. dalliance
原因，嬉戏
(B) infelicity ..
conviction
不幸，定罪
(C) rhetoric ..
substance
华丽的辞藻，主旨
(D) pragmatism ..
futility
实用主义，无用
(E) boorishness ..
integrity
粗鲁的，正直的
解析：
C
，这个演讲者，他的风格值得表扬但是他的内容空白，
经常用一些华丽
的辞藻打动听众，
只能让他们相信他的演讲有内
容。
后面半句可以看出只能打动
那些天真的听众，
vacuity
就与后面的是相反的意思。
7.
The
actor
was
noted
for
his
------behavior:
he
quickly
became
irritated
if his every whim
was not immediately satisfied.
(A)
fastidious
挑剔的
(B)
sedulous
勤勉的
(C)
vindictive
怀恨的
(D)
petulant
暴躁的
(E)
mercenary
唯利是图者
解析
：
演员指出了他的举止很随意：
如果他的每一个想法没有得到满
足他很快就
会发怒。我们从后半句可以看他的脾气很暴躁，所以前面对应的是
D
暴躁的。
8.
Hayley
Mills's
films
have
been
called
-----.
Although
most
of
them
are
not so
sentimental as to deserve that description.
(A) treacly
甜蜜的
(B) cursory
粗略的
(C)
prosaic
平凡的，乏味的
(D)
meticulous
一丝不苟的小心翼翼的
(E)
consecrated
神圣的
解析
：
A
，海利的电影通常是
---
，尽管大部分并不伤感配不上这样的描述。后面
的
sentimental
可以看出是细腻的感情电影，
al
though
表示转折。
Questions 9-10 are based on the
following passage.
That nineteenth-
century French novelist Honore
de
Ballae could be financially wise in his fiction
while
losing all his money in life was
an irony duplicated in
other matters.
For instance, the vcry women who had
5
been drawn to him by the penetrating intuition of
the female heart that he showed in his.
novels were
appalled to discover how
insensitive and awkward the
real man
could be. It seems the true source of creation
for Balzac was not sensitivity but
imugillaliOlI. Balzac's
10 fiction
originally sprang from an intui tion be first
discovered
as a wretched little school
boy locked in a dark
closet of his
boarding school: life is a prison. and only
imagination can open its doors.
文章大意：
19
世纪法国小说家巴尔扎克在他的小说方
面很有经济头脑而具有讽
刺性的是在现实生活中却非常麻木，他的创作铃铎多来自与想象
，而不是敏感。
长难词：
dupli
cate
复制品
appall
震惊
intuition
直觉
wretch
可怜的人
9. The
example in lines 4-8 primarily suggest that
(A) Balzac's work wa~ not especially
popular
among female readers
(B) Bulzac could not write convincingly
aboui
financial matters
(C)
Balzac's insights into character were not
evident in his everyday life
(D) people who knew Balzac personally
could
not respect him as an anist
(E) readers had unreasonable
expectations
of Balzac lhe man
< br>解析：
C
，我们看
4-8
行那些曾经被他作品里细腻的描述所吸引的女性非常震惊
的发现他在现
实生活中非常麻木和迟钝的。
所以巴尔扎克对于人物的描写不是来
自平时的生活中。
10. 10. The author
mentions Balzac's experience asa schoolboy in
order
to
(A) explain why
Balzac was unable to conduct
his
financial affairs properly
(B) point
out a possible source of Balzuc's
powerful imagination
(C)
exonerate the boarding school for Balzac's
lackluster performance
(D)
foster the impression that Balzac was an
unru ly student
(E) depict
the conditions of boarding school
life
during Balzac's youth
解析：
B
，
我们找到这一句
“
Balzac's10
fiction
originally
sprang
from
an
intui
tion
be
first
discovered
as
a
wretched
little
school
boy
locked
in
a
dark
closet
”
，我们可以看出巴尔扎克最初的灵感来
源是那个被锁在壁橱的可怜的小
男孩，这里就是强调他的灵感来源。
Dr. Jane Wright insisted in Imer
years thm her
father. surgeon Louis
Wright, never pressured her
to study
medicine: indeed he warned her how hard
becoming a doctor would be. His very
fame, within
5 and beyond the African
American community, made
her training
harder in some ways.
really makes it
very difficult:' Wright tuld an interviewer
soon after she graduated from medical
school
in 1945.
文章大意：主要描述莱特<
/p>
.
简医生在学医生涯中父亲所充当的角色，没有严格的
要求他去从医，
而是告诉他这条路会非常艰难，
而
事实证明在父亲的影响下他的
确付出了很大的努力。
11.
The
passage
suggests
that
Jane
Wright's
medicaltraining
was
made
more
difficult because
(A) her
father warned her not to study medicine
(B) her falher flaunted his success
(C) she did not spend adequate time
studying
(D) she shared her father's
desire for fame
(E) she was inevitably
compared to her father
解析：
E<
/p>
，整篇文章考察的是父亲在她从医的过程中所带来的影响，因为父亲是
美国黑人区非常著名的医生，
所以必定会与他作对比，
学医
的路就会变的更艰难。
12. The passage
is primarily concerned with Jane Wright's
(A) views of the medical profession
(B) childhood recollections
(C) perception of her father as a role
model
(D) reluctance 10 collaborate
with her father
(E) gratitude for her
father's encouragement
解析：
C<
/p>
，
这篇文章主要讲的是莱特
.
简的父亲在他学医过程中所充当的角色，
所
给与他
的指引。可以采用排除法其他四项在文中都没有提到。
Passage I
Passage 2
In nineteenth·century England.
In
the
second
half
of
the
nineteenth
middle-class
women
century in England.
were usually assigned domestic
under the rule of Queen Victoria,
roles and faced severely
because of the long peace
limited professional career
and
the
increasing
prosperity,
more
options. or course, one
can
and more women found
point to England's monarch. Queen
themselves able to travel to Europe
Victoria, as a famous
unescorted. With the
5
example of a woman at work. and
60
increase in travel came an
millions of working class
increase in the number of
women worked for wages in factories
guidebooks, collections of travel
and private
hints, and
diaries by
homes. on farms, and in
stores and
travelers-many of which were
markets. But aristocrats
written by or directed to
were often exempt from societal
women.
strictures that bound
the
Although nineteenth-century women
middle class. and working-class
traveled for a variety
women
were usually
65
of
reasons.
ranging
from
a
desire
10 looked down on as not being
to do scientific research
to involvement in missionary
work,
as workers. As the nineteenth
undoubtedly a major
century
progressed. it was
incentive was the
desire to escape
assumed that a woman
engaged in
from domestic confinement
business was a woman
and
the
social
restrictions
imposed
without either her own inheritance
on the Victorian
or a man to
support her.
female in Britain. As
Dorothy
Middle-class women already
shared
Middleton observes, ''Travel
with upper-middle-
70
was an individual gesture of the
15
class men the societal
stumbling
housebound, man-dominated
blocks to active pursuit
Victorian
woman.
The
birds
of business.
which included the
of the
feeling that labor was
Victorian parlor found their wings
demeaning
and
not
suitable
for
those
and often took flight
in
with aspirations to
other
lands. In a less constrained
gentility.
But unlike a man, whose
environment
they achieved
self-worth rose through
physical and psychological freedom
his economic exertions. a woman who
and some measure of
did
likewise risked
75 autonomy. In
Celebrated Women
10
opprobrium for herself and
Travelersofthe Nineteenth
possibly shame for those around
Century
( 1883), Davenport
Adams
her.
Inequality
in
the
working
world
comments:
'
made it exceedingly
women
are in European countries by
difficult
for a middle-class women
restraints,
obligations,
to support herself on her
and
responsibilities.
which
are
too
own. let alone support dependents.
often arbitrary and
Thus. at
a time when
artificial ... it is
natural enough
occupation was becoming
a core
that when the opportunity
element in masculine
80
offers, they should hail even a
25 identity. any position for
temporary emancipation
middle-class women other than in
through trave1.
relation to
men was considered
By
the
latter
part
of
the
nineteenth
anomalous. In the 1851
century, women
census. the
Registrar General
travelers
began
to
be
singled
out
as
introduced a new fifth class
exemplars of the new
of
workers. exclusively made up of
social
and political freedom and
women:
prowess of women.
The fifth
class comprises large
85 Ironically,
Mary Kingsley and
numbers of the
population
other women travelers were
30
that have no occupation:
but it
opposed
to
or
simply
uninterested
in
requires no argument to
the
late Victorian
prove
that
the
wife.
die
mother,
the
campaigns 10 extend women's
mistress of an
political
rights. Thus, when
English family-fills
offices and
Mary Kingsley returned from
West
discharges duties of
Africa in 1895, she was
no
ordinary importance: or that
chagrined
to discover that she was
children are
or should
being hailed as a
be occupied in filial or household
90
woman
duties.
and in the task
Despite her often
outspoken
35 of education, either at
home or
distaste for the
at
school.
agitating for greater
This conception of women had been
freedom. the travel books that she
developing over a long
and
others had written
period. For example.
in the late
still
suggested.
as
Paul
Fussell
has
seventeenth century,
trade
argued.
tokens
used
by
local
shopkeepers
and
celebration of freedom.
small
masters in
family businesses carried
the
initials of the man's and the
40
woman's first names and
the
couple's surname. but by the
late eighteenth century. only the
initials of the male
proprietor were retained. This
serves to confirm the view of
one Victorian man. born in 1790.
that whereas his mother
had
confidently
joined
in
the
family
auctioneering business,
45
the increased division of the
sexes had
seen the withdrawal
of women from
business life.
Marriage
became.
more
than
ever.
the
only
career option
offering economic
prosperity for
women: in business.
women appear only as faint shadows
behind the scenes.
50
The absence of women in business
and financial records
makes
our knowledge of what
middle-class
women actually
did and how they
survived
economically quite
fragmentary.
What we do know is that
women's
ability to survive
economically on their own became
increasingly difficult in
55
the course of the nineteenth
century.
文章大意：
长难词：
stricture
狭窄
stumbling
障碍
demean
贬低
gentility
有教养的
exertion
发挥努力
masc
uline
男性
anomalous
异常的
census
人口的
mistress
女主人
filial
孝顺的
proprietor
业主
retain
保持记住
auctioneer
拍卖商
fragmentary
碎片的
unescorted
没人陪同
hint
暗示
confinement
限制
parlor
客厅
constrain
驱使
hail
招呼
emancipation
释放
chagrine
悲伤的
agitate
摇动
13.
Lines
18-21
suggest
that
for
Victorian
middle-classwomen.
(Al mutually exclusive
(B) constantly evolving
(C)
the two keys to success
(D) essential
to finding a husband
(E) easy to
achieve
解析：
A
，文章提到
“
But unlike a man, whose self-worth
rose through
his economic exertions. a
woman who did likewise risked
。。。
”这句的
意思是女人不能够像男人一样通过在商业上的努力实现自我价值这样会
招致蔑
视。
14. 14. In
line 24,
(A) military conquest
(B) pleasant diversion
(C)
vocation
(D) settlement
(El
political repression
解析：
C
，
occupation
在文章的意思是职业
工作
15. The author of Passage
I considers trade tokens(lines 37-38) as
evidence
against
the
prevalence
ofa
fifth
class
in
the
seventeenth
century
because they
(A) served as
legal currency
(B) were issued 10 both
middle-class and workingclass
women
(C) helped neutralize gender
stereotypes of the day
(D) failed to
identify women by their names and
positions
(E) identified men
and women as partners in business
解析：
E
，这一段提到“
in the late
seventeenth century, tradetokens used
by local shopkeepers and small masters
infamily businesses carried the
initials of the man's and the
”这里说到使用贸易令牌证明男女在这里是商
业伙伴，所以与
17
世纪的第五阶级实不符的。
16.
All
of
the
following
are
referred
to
in
Passage
I
as
evidence
of
womcn's
diminished social
status inVictorian England EXCEPT the
(A) disparity between men's and women's
career
opportunities
(B)
shame risked by women who wished to enter
commerce
(C) exclusion of
women's initials from trade tokcns
(D)
influence of the queen
(E) absence of
financial records documenting
women's
octivity
解析：
D
，这里采
用的是排除法，其他四项在文中都有提到，而
D
是女皇的影响<
/p>
文章中并没有提到。
17,
Which statement about British society, if
true,would most directly
support the
view described in lines 42-46 ?
(A)
Seventeenth-century women workers could raise
their status by assuming greater
responsibilities.
(B) Women wrote more
novels in the early nineteenth
century
than they did in the early eighteenth
century.
(C) Women and girls
worked in factories throughout
the
nineteenth century.
(D) The practice of
married couples jointly running
businesses died out in the early
nineteenth
century.
(E) In the seventeenth century, formal
academic
institutions were closed to
women.
解析：
D
，
42-46
的观点是
18
世纪这种女性参与商业的现象已经快要消退，那么
D
说的就是夫
妻共同经商的现象在
19
世纪初期已经消失了，所以支持了论点
。
18. In context,
(A) call out to
(B) gesture
to
(C) come from
(D) welcome
(E) summon
解析：
D
，
hail
在这里的意思是欢迎。
19. In Passage 2. Mary Kingsley
's attitude toward
women's rights
campaigns (lines 85·90) suggests
(A) a single-minded dedication to
equality between
thc sexes .
(B) a way in which dedication to one
cause can lead
to antagonism toward
another
(C) a striking inconsistency
between her identity as
a British
citizen and her identity as a woman
(D)
an understanding of the link between women's
struggle for freedom and the struggles
of other
groups
(E) a
contradiction between her personal motives and
the way her actions are interpreted
解析：
E
，这里描述的马莉。金斯利言语上反
对旅行，而当他从非洲西部回来之
后却发现已经被人们称之为新时代女性，所以在语言和
行动上是矛盾的。
20. According to
Passage 2. nineteenth-century British
women were motivated to travel by which
of the
foUowing?
I.
Educational pursuits
II. Humanitarian
concerns
III. Entrepreneurial interests
(A) I only
(8) III only
(C) I and II only
(D) I and
III only
(E) II and III only
解析：
C
，这里女性出去旅行的动机是处于追求教育，人文关
怀，这两点都有提
到，但是企业利润没有提到。
21. Which British traveler of the
Victorian era would best
illustrate the
argument made in Passage 2 ?
(A) A
middle-class woman who tours Greece and
Egypt to examine ancient ruins.
(B) An aristocratic woman who lives in
the Asian
capital where her father is
the British
ambassador.
(C)
A young woman and her husband, both
missionaries. who relocate pennanenlly
in a
distant country.
(D) A
nursemaid who accompanies an aristocratic
family to its new home in New York
City.
(E) A young girl from a poor
family who is sent by relatives to make her
fonune in Australia.
解析：
A
，篇章
2
中提到女性
出去旅行的动机有追求教育和人文关怀，而这里提
到中产阶级的女性去希腊和埃及去查看
文化遗迹就是其中的内容所以支持了观
点。
22. The
which
group in Passage 2 ?
(A) Women who
worked as missionaries
(B) The
(C) The
(D) Dorothy
Middleton and Mary Kingsley
(E)
Davenport Adams and Paul Fussell
解析：
B
，
29
行中写道那
些第五产阶级的人是没有工作，没有任何意见的人，和
篇章
2<
/p>
中的笼中鸟是一个意思。
23.
Passage I and Passage 2 share a general tone of
(A) affectionate nostalgia
(B) analytical detachment
(C) personal regret
(D)
righteous indignation
(E) open
hostility
解析：
B
，这里
考察考生对于文章整体的把握，一直采用的是很公正分析，
A
怀
旧之情，
C
个人遗憾，
D
正义的愤怒的
E
公开的敌意
，都没有表现出来。
24.
The
information
in
Passage
1
supports
which
assumption
about
the
women
described in Passage 2
(A)
They were discouraged from pursuing careers in
their native country.
(B)
They sought to establish new businesses in
foreign countries.
(C) They
traveled with children and other family
members.
(D) Thcy were
universally admired by British women
from every class of society.
(E) They were committed advocates of
social reform.
解析：
A
，
篇章
1
支持篇章
2
中的哪一个假设，
篇章
1<
/p>
一直陈述不支持女性工作，
那么与
2
中的不支持在自己国家工作相符。
Section5
1.
Predictably, detail-oriented workers are -------
keeping
track of the myriad particulars
of a situation.
(A) remiss
in
怠慢的
(B) adept
at
善于
(C) humorous
about
幽默的
(D)
hesitant about
犹豫
(E) contemptuous
of
轻蔑的
解析：
< br>B
，可想而知，工作细心的员工会
---
跟进场景中每一个特殊的细节。这里
有单词
detia
l-oriented
可以看出善于查看细节。
2. The controversial tax fueled a
sustained ------that could not be
------- by the Prime Minister's
impassioned speeches.
(A) rebellion ..
challenged
反抗，挑战
(B) interrogation ..
fortified
疑问，加强
(C) conflagration ..
fostered
大火，培育
(D)
denial .. restrained
否认，抑制
(E) uprising ..
quelled
起义，平息
解析：<
/p>
E
，
富有争议的税收问题点燃了一直
---
就连首相充满激情的演讲也不能
--
。
由
sustained
可以知道这一直受到争议的问题，
后面是有激情的演讲，
所以应该
前面是起义后面是镇压。
ding
can
promote
the
expression
of
_________
genes,
those
that
make
an animal subject to disease or impair
reproductive efficiency.
(A) ineffable adj.
不可言喻的
(B) articulated adj.
清晰的，使相互连贯
(C) consummate adj.
圆满的
v.
完成
(D) presumptive adj.
假定的
(E)
deleterious adj.
有害的
解析：
E
，
近亲交配会增加—
基因，
这样会使动物容易生病或音响繁殖效率。
我们知道近亲交
配一定是不好的，从选项就可以进行排除。
4.
The
doctor
__________
so
frequently
on
disease-prevention
techniques
that his
colleagues accused him of __________.
(A) vacillated v.
摇摆，犹豫
...inconsistency n.
不一致
,
易变
(B) sermonized
v.
说教
...fidelity n.
忠诚
(C) wavered v.
动摇，摇摆
...steadfastness n.
坚定地，不动摇的
(D) experimented v.
实验，尝试
...inflexibility n.
顽固
(E) relied v.
信任
...negligence n.
疏忽
解析：
A
，医生这么频繁的
_________
疾病预防措施，他的同事称他为
_______.so..that
< br>引导的结果状语从句，就是说这个医生对于这个疾病的预防
措施老是变来变去，所
以指责他易变。
5.
A
judicious
biography
must
be
_________
representation
that
depicts
both the strengths
and the weaknesses of the subject, avoiding the
two
extremes of _________ and
indictment.
(A)
a polarized adj.
两极分化
...vindication n.
辩护
(B) an imaginative adj.
富于想象的
...discernment n.
洞察力，识别
(C) a holistic adj.
整体的
...censure n.
责备
(D) a complimentary adj.
称赞的
...animosity n.
敌意
(E) an equitable adj.
公平的
...eulogy n.
颂扬
解析
：
E
，
一本好的传记一定是
----
的代表既要描述他的强项也要描述弱项，
避免两个
---
和控告的极端。我们看后面的句子既要有弱点又
要有强项，所以应
该是公平的，后面两个极端一个是被控诉，另一个就是颂扬。
Questions 6-9 a re based on the
following passages.
Passage 1
Farm families are able to achieve
efficiency only
through a brutal work
schedule that few people could
tolerate. ''The farm family does
physically demanding
work and highly
stressful work at least 14 hours a day
5 (often at least 18 hours a day duri
ng harvest season),
7 days a week, 365
days a year, without a scheduled
vacation or weekends off,
and
farm alumnus Darrell McKigney. ''The farmer must
endure all of th is without ... any of
the benefits that most
IQ United States
labor unions demand.
instance, cannot
just take off for a two-week vacation and
not milk the cows.
things in
life:
literally consumes
them.
Passage 2
15 Americans
have distanced themselves from the
ethics and morals of food production.
except where it
serves them to think
nostalgically about family farms
as the
source of our better values. Little wonder that
a polltaken by The New York Times finds
a majority
10 of Americans seeing farm
life as superior to any other
kind of
life in this country. As consumers. Americans
have enjoyed relatively inexpensive
food. What wi1l
happen if family farms
disappear? What will we do
without
family farmers to watch over the system for
25 us, to be our dupes. and to create
that pleasant situation
through their
own great discomfort?
文章大意：篇章
1
描述农场人劳累的工作，时间长，没有假期，体力的超负荷工
作，
篇章
2
描写一些非农场人对于农
场人的看法，
认为他们的工作要好于其他工
作。也表明了农场人
的重要性，没有他们把控食物生产很难想象。
长难词：
brutal
残忍的野蛮的
alumnus
男校友
nostalgically
怀乡的恋旧的
dupes
受骗的
poll
投票民意测试
6.
Unlike Passage 2, Passage I is primarily concerned
with the
(A) ethical
implications of food production
(B)
harsh working conditions on many
farms
(C) need for farmers to form a labor
union
(D) plentiful and varied food
available in
the United States
(E) beliefs of many Americans regarding
farm life
解析：
B
，
篇章一整篇都在描写农户工作艰苦条件，<
/p>
假期很少。
从句子
“
The
farm
family does
physically demandingwork and highly stressful work
at least
14 hours a day5 (often at
least 18 hours a day duri ng harvest season)
”
也可看出来休息很少。
7, Both passages serve to discourage
the
(A) reliance on polls for accurate
informalion
(8) desire of many fanners
10 take annual
vacations
(C)
tendency of Americans to buy inexpensive
foods
(D) romanticization of
farm life by nonfarmers
(E) rise in
price of home-grown produce
解析：
< br>D
，篇章一着重强调农民的悲苦生活，篇章二描写一些美国居民悠闲的生
活，那么两篇都不鼓励非农场居民的悠闲生活。
8. The author of Passage I would most
likely assert
which of the following
about the
(line 19, Passage 2)?
(A) be bored by the routine chores
that are performed on a farm.
(B) They have little understanding of
the realities
of farm life.
(C) They admire the efficiency of the
average
family farm.
(D)
They wish to improve the arduous life of
many farmers.
(E) They are
impressed by the current research
on
economical food production.
解析：
< br>B
，篇章
2
中提到的大多数人认
为农场人的生活相对于其他工作来说是比
较好的，
而篇章
1
一直在强调农场人忙碌辛苦的工作，
所以篇
章
1
最可能统一的
观点是那大部分人是
没有体会到农场的真正生活的。
9, Unlike the
author of Passage 2. the author of Passage I
does which of the following?
(A) Explains a study.
(B)
Offers a solution.
(C) Argues a
position.
(D) Discusses a phenomenon.
(E) Quotes an authority.
解析：
E
，篇章
1
更
多的信息包括农场人工作的时间，假期都是有官方信息的，
所以引用了一些权威的信息。
Questions 10·15 are based
on the following passage.
This excerpt from a novel by a Chinese
American author
is about a Chinese
American woman named June. During
a
family dinner party attended by some of June 's
Chinese
American friends. Waverly, a
tax attorney. discusses an
advertisement that June wrote for
her.
Waverly laughed in a
lighthearted way.
June.
voice:
Satisfaction guaranteed . ...
5 She said this in such a funny way
that everybody
thought it was a good
joke and laughed. And then, to
make
matters worse, I heard my mother saying to
Waverly:
you. She must have
been born this way.
10 I was surprised
at myself, how humiliated I felt. I had
been outsmarted by Waverly once again,
and now betrayed
by my own mother.
Five months ago. some time after the
dinner. my mother
gave me my
15 chain. The pendant was
not a piece of jewelry I would have
chosen (or myself. It was almost the
size of my little finger,
a mottled
green and white color. intricately carved. To me.
the whole effect looked wrong: too
large. too green. too
garishly ornate.
I stuffed the necklace in my lacquer
box
20 and forgot about it.
But these days. I think about my life's
importance .
I wonder what it means,
because my mother died three
months
ago, sh days before my thirty-sixth binhdl1y.
And she's the only person I could have
asked to tell me
25 about life's
importance, to help me understand my grief.
I now wear that pcndl1nt every day. I
think the carvings
mean something.
because shapes and details, which I never
seem to notice until after they're
pointed out to me, always
mean
something to Chinese people. I know I could I1sk
30 Auntie Lindo. Aunrie An-mei, or
other Chinese friends.
but I also know
they would tell me a meaning that is different
from what my mother intended. What if
they tell
me this curving line
branching into three oval shapes is a
promegranate and that my mother was
wishing me fertility
35 and posterity?
What if my mother really meant the carvings
were a branch of pears to give me
purity and honesty?
And because I think
about this all the time, I always
notice other people wearing these same
jade pendants
- not the flat
rectangular medallions or the round white
40 ones with holes in the middle but
ones like mine, a two-inch
oblong of
bright apple green. It's as though we were
all sworn to the same secret covenant,
so secret we don't
even know what we
belong to. Last weekend, for example.
I
saw a bartender wearing one. As I fingered mine, I
asked
45 him,
'
I
asked him why, which is a nosy question that only
one
Chinese person can ask another: in
a crowd of Caucasians,
two Chinese
people are already like family.
50
mother's telling me I'm still worth
something.
And I knew by the wonder in
his voice that he had
no idea what the
pendant real1y meant.
文章大意：文章主要是描述作者与妈妈
发生的一些事情，晚餐中被朋友嘲弄后，
又被妈妈背叛了，
作者
收到自尊心的创伤，
而后又叙述妈妈送个他的一个垂饰所
带给作
者一系列的想法，妈妈实在告诉她人生重要的意义。
长难词：
lighthearted
无忧无虑的
outsmart
比。
。
更聪明
pendant
垂饰
mottle
斑点
intricately
杂乱的
，
精致的
garishly
华丽的
ornate
华丽的
lacquer
涂
漆
oval
椭圆形
pomegranate
石榴
medallion
奖章
covenant
契约
bartender
酒保
exasperate
恶化，激怒
10. In lines 1-4. Waverly
characterizes June's
advertisement as
being
(A) unsophisticated and heavy-
handed
(B) somber and convoluted
(C) clear and concise
(D)
humorous and effective
(E) clever and
lively
解析：
A
，从
Waverly
的话我们可以看出他们认为作者的想法是不精明的，笨
手
笨脚的。
11. In the
context of the passage, the statement
surprised at myself”(line 10) suggests
that June
(A) had been
unaware of the extent of her emotional
vulnerability
(8) was
exasperated that she allowed Waverly to
embarrass her in public
(C)
was amazed that she could dislike anyone so
much
(D) had not realized
that her mother admired her
friend
Waverly
(E) felt guilty about how much
she resented her own
mother
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