和谐英语

大学英语四级阅读理解练习 三

2008-10-06来源:和谐英语
  Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
  Lincoln was a strong executive who saved the government, saved the United States. He was a President who understood people and when time came to make decisions he was willing to take the responsibility and make those decisions no matter how difficult they were. He knew how to treat people and how to make a decision stick and that's why he is regarded as such a great Administrative.
  Carl Sandburg and a lot of others have tried to make something out of Lincoln that he wasn't. He was a decent man, a good politician, and a great President, and they've tried to build up things that he never even thought about. I'll bet a dollar and a half that if you read Sandburg's mouth and mind that never even occurred to him. He was a good man who was in the place where he ought to have been at the time important events were taking place, but when they write about him as though he belongs in the pantheon(众神庙)of the gods, that's not the man he really was. He was the best kind of ordinary man and when I say that he was an ordinary man, I mean that as a high praise, not deprecation(贬低). That's the highest praise you can give a man. He's one of the people and becomes distinguished in the service that he gives other people. He was one of the people, and he wanted to stay that way. And he was that way until the day he died. One of the reasons he was assassinated(暗杀)was because he didn't feel important enough to have proper guards around him at Ford's Theatre.  
  16. According to the passage, Lincoln was __________.
   A) a man belonging in the pantheon of the gods
   B) deified(神化)by all the people
   C) as ordinary as all the other people
   D) a responsible person
  17. What's the author's comment on Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln?
   A) It's objective.
   B) It is unfair to Lincoln.
   C) It sang high praise of Lincoln.
   D) It's too exaggerating.
  18. What's the author's attitude toward Lincoln?
   A) Admiring
   B) Indifferent
   C) Critical
   D) Kind
  19. Which of the following titles suits the passage best?
   A) Lincoln一an Ordinary Man
   B) Lincolna一Great Politician
   C) Lincoln's Biography by Carl Sandburg
   D) How was Lincoln Assassinated?
  20. In the author's opinion,"an ordinary man"___________.
   A) is a mediocre(平庸的)person
   B) can never become distinguished
   C) indicates deprecation
   D) can be used to praise a person