2006考研英语命题预测题一

Section Ⅰ Use of English

Directions:

    Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1(10 points)

    The current French bestseller lists are wonderfully eclectique. In  1  , there is everything      2  blockbuster thrillers to Catherine Millet's "La vie sexuelle de Catherine M.", a novel which has been   3  praised as high art and   4    as upmarket porn. Then there are novels   5   the sticky questions of good and   6  ("Le demon et mademoiselle Prym") and faith versus science in the modern world ("L'apparition"). Philosophical   7  continue in the non-fiction list,  8  this week by Michel Onfray's "Antimanuel de philosophie", a witty take  9  some of philosophy's perennial debates. Those who like their big issues in small chunks are also enjoying Frederic Beigbeder's "Dernier inventaire avant liquidation", a survey of France's  10   20th-century books,  11  with Mr Beigbeder's 12   humour from the title on ("The 50 books of the century chosen by you and critiqued by me").

    In Britain, meanwhile, there is olive oil all over  the non- fiction list. It's a staple 13   for Nigella Lawson, a domestic divinity and celebrity  14 , whose latest  15  of recipes tops the list. Annie Hawes, in second  16  , took herself  17  to the sun- drenched hills of Italy to grow her own olives and write a book about them-as did Carol Drinkwater, just  18  the border in France. Fiction-wise, it's business as  19  , with the requisite holiday mix of thrillers, romance, fantasy-and Harry Potter, with "The Goblet of Fire" still burning  20  at  number three.

1. A. literature  B. narrative C. story D. fiction
2. A. on  B. from C. about  D. of 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
3. A. both  B. equally C. rather D. together
4. A. approved  B. admired C. derided D. scolded
5. A .attempting B, dealing C. tackling D. talking
6. A. .evil     B. sin    C. wickedness   D. bad
7. A. topics  B. ideas C. arguments  D. themes　
8.A. topped  B. covered  C. overdone  D. surpassed
9. A. of  B. by  C. at D. on
10. A good B. favourite  C. favorable  D. satisfying
11. A. dealt  B. handled C. touched D. managed
12.A. brand B. trademark  C. marked  D. obvious
13. A. ingredient  B. constitution  C. part D. factor
14.A. writer  B. novelist C. chef D. journalist
15.A. set  B. anthology  C. collection 　 D. album
16. A. rank B. place  C. point  D. status
17.A. up  B. on  C. off  D. in
18. A. above  B. around  C. about  D. across
19. A. usual B. usually  C. common  D. commonly
20. A. bright B. intense C. dazzling D. brilliant

Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

Part A
Directions:
    Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

    "MAKING money is a dirty game," says the Institute of Economic Affairs, summing up the attitude of British novelists towards business. The IEA, a free market think-tank, has just published a collection of essays ("The Representation of Business in English Literature") by five academics chronicling the hostility of the country's men and women of letters to the sordid business of making money. The implication is that Britain's economic performance is retarded by an anti-industrial culture.

    Rather than blaming recalcitrant workers and incompetent managers for Britain's economic worries, then, we can put George Orwell and Martin Amis in the dock instead. From Dickens's Scrooge to Amis’s John Self in his 1980s novel "Money", novelists have conjured up a rogue's gallery of mean, greedy, amoral money-men that has alienated their impressionable readers from the noble pursuit of capitalism.

    The argument has been well made before, most famously in 1981 by Martin Wiener, an American academic, in his "English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit". Lady Thatcher was a devotee of Mr. Wiener's, and she led a crusade to revive the "entrepreneurial culture" which the liberal elite had allegedly trampled underfoot. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, sounds as though he agrees with her. At a recent speech to the Confederation of British Industry, he declared that it should be the duty of every teacher in the country to "communicate the virtues of business and enterprise".
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