专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷420
选择题
Passage One
(1)He was an old man who fished alone in a boat in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy\’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat, which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his boat empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled lines or harpoon (鱼叉) and the sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
(2)The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown spots of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The spots ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
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1.Which of the following statements can best summarize the main idea of the fourth paragraph?(A)
A. The way people treated the old man and the fate of the fish caught by them.
B. The introduction of the places where the fish were killed.
C. The old man and the boy sat on the Terrace, drinking beer.
D. The old man showed other fishermen how to kill the fish they caught.
解析：文章第4段的内容包括两个部分：人们对老人的态度以及渔民们捕来的鱼如何处理。根据上述概括，本题应该选A。B和C只概括了第4段的部分内容，而不是对全段内容的概括。解答此类题目要注意选择概括性较强、意思较全面的表述。
2.Which of the following sentences contains a simile?(A)
A. The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. (Para. 1)
B. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. (Para. 2)
C. I can remember you throwing me into the bow where the wet coiled lines were… (Para. 5)
D. The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. (Para. 2)
解析：Simile指明喻，需要用like，as来表示一样东两像另一样东西，选项中只有A中的look like表达这个含义，把打了补丁的帆比喻成永远失败的旗子，所以本题选A。干扰项是B，这句话说老人眼睛的颜色和大海(的颜色)一样，用到了as一词，但这儿并不是指某物像某物，即并不是说老人的眼睛像大海．而只是普通的陈述。
3.The following words said by the boy show his love for the old man EXCEPT _________.(C)
A. It was papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him (Para. 3)
B. Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we’ll take the stuff home (Para. 3)
C. I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the noise of the clubbing (Para. 5)
D. If I cannot fish with you. I would like to serve in some way (Para. 5)
解析：男孩对老人的爱是文章一个突出的内容，文章中多次出现体现小男孩感情的语言，但是C是小男孩对以前和老人一起捕鱼时发生的一个危险事件的描述，小男孩仅仅描述了这次事件的细节，并不是他对老人感情的表达。所以本题应该选C。A中男孩意在说明他是在他爸爸的逼迫之下才离开老人的，该句体现了男孩对老人的不舍和爱。B、D也直接体现了男孩对老人的爱。
4.What can we infer from the boy’s words \\(D)
A. Turtle-ing does no harm to one’s eyes.
B. The old man deceives the boy about turtle-ing.
C. Turtle-ing requires many strange tricks.
D. The old man’s turtle-ing technique is good.
解析：根据题干定位到第7
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