公共课考研英语英语考研英语模拟题23

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• 11The author asserts that the changes in readers’taste

  A.contribute to the incompatibility of essays with stories.

  B.often result in unfavorable effect, to say the least.

  C.sometimes come to something undesirable, of course.

  D.usually bring about beneficial outcome, so to say.

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• 12The author suggests that if the Stone Age should come up again

  A.the art of essay-writing would lose its foundation.

  B.the art and literature would most totally vanish.

  C.the art of story-telling would remain in caves alone.

  D.the life of art would be thoroughly drained away.

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• 13Essays are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

  A.careful arrangement and organization of chief ideas.

  B.remarkable concision and meaningful presentation.

  C.improbable condensation to any shorter accounts.

  D.flashes of wit and enlightenment of argumentation.

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• 14What chiefly distinguishes essays from articles may be in

  A.the different amount of words used in representation.

  B.the acute sensibility and keen insight of essayists.

  C.the distinction between animal and vegetable worlds.

  D.the variation of arguments about their meanings.

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• 15The essayists’main task seems to be

  A.the implied revelation and description of the truth.

  B.the free depiction and modification of their memories.

  C.the frank confession of what is concealed in their min

  D.D.the communication of their striking thoughts to readers.

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• 16The author’s purpose in the first paragraph is to

  A.explain the basic requirements for legislative issues.

  B.point out a possible moral dilemma facing a legislator.

  C.hint the clash between legislation and public concerns.

  D.show the disparity between legislators and constituents.

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• 17The second paragraph indicates that a legislator’s dilemma is

  A.more obvious than an actual one.

  B.more easily identified in reality.

  C.plainer than its real existence.

  D.hardly so factual as it seems.

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• 18The disagreement between a legislator and his constituents

  A.causes a moral problem merely in a democracy.

  B.usually reflects a debate about long-term goals.

  C.barely creates a moral dilemma in most cases.

  D.arises only when constituents are ill informed.

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• 19The author implies that a legislator should

  A.best serve his constituents anyhow.

  B.evaluate his electorate’s complaints.

  C.embody the public interests forever.

  D.follow his constituents’intentions.

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• 20The legislator who promotes industrialization of the rural district

  A.fails to understand the requirements of the region.

  B.advances his agenda at the cost of that of his voters.

  C.ignores the crucial issue of the community he represents.

  D.carries through the common views of his constituents.

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