武汉大学真题2005年
(总分100, 考试时间90分钟)
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension
Directions: There are 5 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets.
The calendar used in Australia and in most other countries was
introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. It provides for 366 days in those years for which the year number when divided by 4 gives a whole number (i. e. without a remainder), those years are called leap years. All other years have 365 days. The Gregorian calendar further specifies that years whose year number is divisible evenly by 100 are not leap years, unless the year number is also divisible by 400.
In a leap year February has 29 days, whereas in a non-leap year it has 28 days. A decade is a 10-year period, such as I January 1885--31 December 1894.
1.
Which one of the following years was a leap year?
A 1880 B 1894 C 1906 D 1926
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答案:A
1880年是闰年，因为1880能被4整除，1894，1906年1926这三个数字均不能被4整除，因此1894年、1906年和1926年均不是闰年。
2.
Which one of the following years will not be a leap year?
A 2000 B 2024 C 2052
D 3000
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答案:D
2000既能被4整除，又能被400整除。因此，2000年肯定是闰年。2024年和2052均能被4整除，因此2024年和2052年均是闰年。3000虽然能被100整除，但不能被 400整除，因此3000年不是闰年。
3.
How many leap years will there be in the decade commencing 1 January 2019?
A 1 B 2 C 3 D 4
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答案:C
从2019年元月1日开始的10年间有3个闰年。2020年为第一个闰年， 2024年为第二个闰年，2028年为第三个闰年。
4.
Since 1582, the maximum number of leap years possible in any decade is ______.
A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5
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答案:B
从1582年起，任何一个10年的闰年的最大数目是3。做此题可采取排除法，C和D肯定不对。4年为一个闰年，4个闰年需要16年时间，5个闰年需要20年时间，远远地超过了10年，因此很容易排除。考生可以这样推理：20年里必定有5个闰年，其中的一个10年只有两个闰年，另一个10年必定有3个闰年。因此，从1582年起，任何1个10年的闰年的最小值是2，最大值是3。
When you meet Tim Winton, it's easy to understand his success at writing for teenagers. He likes surfing and fishing and camping and hanging out in the vast tract of sand dunes that borders the one-pub fishing town where he lives in Western Australia. He even looks like the big kid who sat behind you in high school and has the kind of laid-back manner and earthy conversation that you know appeals to those too young to be treated as kids but not grown-up enough to be admitted to the adult world. Winton's first foray into teenage fiction, Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo, is about to go into its second printing. Even more gratifying for the writer has been the response the book has prompted. He's had scores of appreciative letters \passages from the book to students in country high schools.
Writing for young readers has also enabled Winton to find a wider, non-literary audience. \
few-thousand-group of Australians who read, of whom half or all are professional or semi-professional readers. It's nice to get to people who aren't jaded, who will come at a story and read it for what it is. \don't have to deal with their education and their past and their biases.\ Winton was himself still a teenager when he started writing seriously at 16. Three years later, in 1981, he was named joint winner of The Australian Vogel Literary Award for his first novel, An Open Swimmer. Had he known when he was 16 how difficult it is to make a living as a writer, he would never have started. \be a writer, and I guess I lacked the imagination to think of anything else,\of how hard it is to make a living from the people you have to deal with.\ Neither lack of imagination nor inattention to detail is evident in Winton's writing. In That Eye, The Sky, he takes us into the turbulent soul of his 12-year-old protagonist, Morton Flack, with prose that sends you back to long, hot summer holidays in the country. The hot white day swims along real snow like the sun is breast-stroking through that blue sky when it should be going freestyle. Everyone hangs around the shade of the house listening to the trees in the east wind. The ground is wobbly with heat. The house ticks. You can hear seeds popping, grass drying up and fainting flat. You can hear the snakes puffing.
Other young protagonists have been given voice in Winton's short stories, so the transition to writing for teenagers, instead of about them, was a smooth one. \not so different in tone from the adult books,\kids, you end up talking down to them--you just use your own tone and be yourself, and if that doesn't work, it probably wouldn't have anyway.\
5.
Winton hopes to reach an audience (in Paragraph 4) that is ______.
A youthful and caring B unprofessional and jaded C educated and widely read D unbiased and spontaneous
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答案:D
温顿希望与没有偏见的、自发的读者建立联系。答案的依据是第四段最后两句。
6.
Which of these statements is best supported from the passage in Paragraph 5?
A It is best to start writing when you are youn
B Earning a living from writing requires painstaking effor C The decision to become a writer was carefully considere D The decision to become a writer was not carefully considere
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答案:D
想当作家的决定未经过深思熟虑。作者在第五段中说，要是他(指温顿)16岁时知道靠写作谋生是多么的艰难，他就不会着手写作了，这说明他想当作家的决定并未经过认真思考。B也有一定的迷惑力，但不如D深刻。换句话说，D包含了B。
7.
According to the last paragraph, the transition from writing for an adult audience to writing for a younger audience is easy for Winton because ______.
A he deliberately adopts a suitable tone B it has happened later in his writing career C he has written about young people before
D he has been preparing for this for much of his writing career
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答案:C
根据最后一段，从为成年人写作过渡到为年轻的读者写作，对温顿来说很容易，因为他以前写过年青人的情况。答案的依据是最后一段的第一句话。
8.
The kind of tone Tim Winton aims for in his writing is best described as ______.
A gentle B natural C humble
D self-conscious
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答案:B
温顿在写作中力图采用的口吻是自然的口吻。温顿在最后一段说：“为孩子们写作时如果你的态度不自然，你就是高人一等地跟孩子们讲话，就用你自己的口吻吧，要显得自然。”因此，应选B。
Robert Menzies was conservative Prime Minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 until his retirement in 1966. Menzies provoked a variety of responses during his political career. Views Ⅰ to Ⅳ below summarize some of those responses.
View Ⅰ The supreme twentieth-century statesman and politician, presiding with ease over the nation, and representing Australia abroad with dignity and aplomb.
View Ⅱ Authoritarian despite his professed liberal beliefs, he was the enemy of the workers, who stayed in office for seventeen years through a combination of unscrupulous opportunism, remarkable good luck, and the gullibility of the Australian people.
View Ⅲ Menzies imposed the values of a bygone age on Australia, with his devotion to Britain and the British monarchy, and his cautious conservatism. He suppressed a new, creative, energetic generation by cultivating smugness, fear and indifference in the Australia of the 50s and 60s.
View Ⅳ Downright democratic, something new and different but with an easy-going manner and aggressive independence.
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