专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷405
选择题
Passage One
(1) On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this largess that accounts for the presence within the city\’s walls of a considerable section of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are to a large extent strangers who have pulled up stakes somewhere and come to town, seeking sanctuary or fulfillment or some greater or lesser grail. The capacity to make such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
(2) New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiator, the evangelist, the promoter, the actor, the trader, and the merchant. It carries on its lapel the unexpungeable odor of the long past, so that no matter where you sit in New York you feel the vibrations of great times and tall deeds, of queer people and events and undertakings. I am sitting at the moment in a stifling hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown. No air moves in or out of the room, yet I am curiously affected by emanations from the immediate surroundings. I am twenty-two blocks from where Rudolph Valentino lay in state, eight blocks from where Nathan Hale was executed, five blocks from the publisher\’s office where Ernest Hemingway hit Max Eastman on the nose, four miles from where Walt Whitman sat sweating out editorials for the Brooklyn Eagle, thirty-four blocks from the street \\
1.According to Para. 1, the author seems to believe that________.(B)
A. New York is not suitable for people to live in
B. whether an individual will enjoy living in New York depends on luck
C. most residents of New York lead an isolated life
D. New York is a city full of bizarreness and mystery
解析：事实细节题。根据题干提示定位至第一段。该段倒数第二句提到，纽约这个城市既可以毁掉一个人，也可以成就一个人，这在很大程度上取决于个人的运气。由此可知，一个人能否享受纽约的生活，取决于他的运气如何，故B为答案。
2.What figure of speech is used in the fifth sentence of Para. 2?(D)
A. Analogy.
B. Allusion.
C. Contrast.
D. Parallelism.
解析：语义修辞题。根据题干提示定位至第二段第五句。该句中的十个短句均为“…blocks(miles)from…”结构，作者通过这样的结构表明他的住所离纽约各个名人轶事发生地的距离都很近，以此说明纽约是一个各界名流汇聚的城市。在修辞手法中，一连串具有相似结构的短句连续出现，属于排比修辞手法，起到增强语气的作用，故D为答案。
3.Which of the following can BEST describe the main idea of Para. 4?(C)
A. The difference between New York and other metropolises.
B. New Yorkers can choose to attend the grand events.
C. The advantages of living in New York.
D. How to lead an independent life in New York.
解析：主旨大意题。根据题干提示定位至第四段。该段第一句总述，指出纽约的城市活动丰富多彩，但这些纷繁的活动不会影响或干扰市民的私人生活。后面继续论述，纽约市民可按自己的兴趣选择是否参与活动，而在其他大城市，居民们往往被迫参与各类活动，无法享受自由和私密生活。结合前一段内容可以得出，该段主要说明纽约与其他大都市相比所具有的优势，故C为答案。
4.What can be inferred from Para. 5?(B)
A. New Yorkers often move their homes to get fresh experience.
B. Living in New York can enrich people’s life and cheer them up.
C. Many people come to New York for comfort.
D. New York residents often feel isolated from the exciting events outside.
解析：推理判断题。根据题干提示定位至第五段。该段前两句提到，纽约从不会让人感到乏味，许多缺乏独立精神的人都能借助纽约各类丰富的活动来获取精神食粮，保持精神振奋，因此B为答案。
5.Which of the following sentences can summ
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