大学英语四级阅读理解练习 八
2008-10-06来源:和谐英语
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one's own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.
Nowadays a superficial traveller in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable.
Our local grocer's shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queuing up at a supermarket. And the shopkeeper knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value.
His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old age pensioner（领养老金者）who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more wealthy customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity（商品）outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it for them.
The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individual can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions（大批，许多）of industry or commerce.
6. The services available in villages nowadays are normally _________.
A) fewer but still very active
B) active in providing food for the village, and tourist goods
C) less successful than earlier but managing to survive
D) surprisingly energetic considering the little demand for them
7. The local grocer's shop is expanding ________.
A) because women spend a lot of their time there just gossiping
B) even though town shops are larger and rather cheaper
C) in spite of the fact that people like to shop where they are less well-known
D) for people get personal service in his shop
8.The writer implies that one disadvantage of town shops is that ________.
A) their prices are higher
B) people cannot telephone them
C) their staff may take less trouble to satisfy customers
D) one has to queue up to pay in them
9. How do the village grocer's assistants feel about giving extra service?
A) They tend to forget it.
B) They will not consider it.
C) It does not seem worth their while.
D) They take it for granted.
10. Another aspect of personal service available in the village shop is that _________.
A) there is a very wide range of goods available
B) rare goods are obtained whenever they are needed
C) special attention is given to the needs of wealthier customers
D) goods are always restocked before they run out
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Ernest Hemingway was born in a prosperous Chicago suburb, Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a highly-respected physician, and unusually keen amateur naturalist devoted to hunting and fishing. He actually taught his precocious (早熟的) son Ernest to handle a fishing line at three and a half and a gun not long thereafter. From the time the boy was six he proudly accompanied his father on vacations in the North Michigan woods, leaving an older sister, three younger ones and a baby brother at home with mother. Grace Hall Hemingway was, like her husband, a Christian, but they had few other tastes in common. She was determined that her oldest son, who had perfect pitch ----both his hearing and sense of smell were extraordinary sharp all his life although his eyesight was poor----should become a musician. Much of the lifelong opposition he felt toward his mother expressed itself in anger at her having kept him out of school a whole year in an unsuccessful attempt to force concentrated study of the cello (大提琴).
Ernest shared his father's love of the outdoors, greatly admired his skills and enjoyed his company, but was unhappily conscious that Dr. Hemingway never really dared oppose his wife. A bitter short story, "The Doctor and His Wife", gives a picture of their relationship and their son's reaction to it at an early age. In his late novel the hero, Robert Jordan, thinks sadly that his father was really a coward who finally proved his cowardice（怯懦）by committing suicide. (Dr.Hemingway, ill and aging, had shot himself some twelve years before the novel was written.)
I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one's own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.
Nowadays a superficial traveller in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable.
Our local grocer's shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queuing up at a supermarket. And the shopkeeper knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value.
His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old age pensioner（领养老金者）who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more wealthy customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity（商品）outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it for them.
The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individual can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions（大批，许多）of industry or commerce.
6. The services available in villages nowadays are normally _________.
A) fewer but still very active
B) active in providing food for the village, and tourist goods
C) less successful than earlier but managing to survive
D) surprisingly energetic considering the little demand for them
7. The local grocer's shop is expanding ________.
A) because women spend a lot of their time there just gossiping
B) even though town shops are larger and rather cheaper
C) in spite of the fact that people like to shop where they are less well-known
D) for people get personal service in his shop
8.The writer implies that one disadvantage of town shops is that ________.
A) their prices are higher
B) people cannot telephone them
C) their staff may take less trouble to satisfy customers
D) one has to queue up to pay in them
9. How do the village grocer's assistants feel about giving extra service?
A) They tend to forget it.
B) They will not consider it.
C) It does not seem worth their while.
D) They take it for granted.
10. Another aspect of personal service available in the village shop is that _________.
A) there is a very wide range of goods available
B) rare goods are obtained whenever they are needed
C) special attention is given to the needs of wealthier customers
D) goods are always restocked before they run out
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Ernest Hemingway was born in a prosperous Chicago suburb, Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a highly-respected physician, and unusually keen amateur naturalist devoted to hunting and fishing. He actually taught his precocious (早熟的) son Ernest to handle a fishing line at three and a half and a gun not long thereafter. From the time the boy was six he proudly accompanied his father on vacations in the North Michigan woods, leaving an older sister, three younger ones and a baby brother at home with mother. Grace Hall Hemingway was, like her husband, a Christian, but they had few other tastes in common. She was determined that her oldest son, who had perfect pitch ----both his hearing and sense of smell were extraordinary sharp all his life although his eyesight was poor----should become a musician. Much of the lifelong opposition he felt toward his mother expressed itself in anger at her having kept him out of school a whole year in an unsuccessful attempt to force concentrated study of the cello (大提琴).
Ernest shared his father's love of the outdoors, greatly admired his skills and enjoyed his company, but was unhappily conscious that Dr. Hemingway never really dared oppose his wife. A bitter short story, "The Doctor and His Wife", gives a picture of their relationship and their son's reaction to it at an early age. In his late novel the hero, Robert Jordan, thinks sadly that his father was really a coward who finally proved his cowardice（怯懦）by committing suicide. (Dr.Hemingway, ill and aging, had shot himself some twelve years before the novel was written.)
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