boastful
unpretentious
deprecating
mysterious
第1题:
According to the text, the speech at the end of the tex t.__________
[A]demonstrates the author’s own view of life
[B]shows the popular view of Jack Lindsay
[C]offers the author’s opinion of Jack Lindsay
[D]indicates Jack Lindsay’s change of attitude
本题考查推理引申。最后一段主要围绕杰克·林德萨写作态度的变化展开论述。该段指出:战后,他的写作题材转向现代,但一度留于说教(didacticism),后来终于再次转变,开始认为社会问题的解决办法不再依靠政党。他赋予作品主人公的仅仅是一种政治觉悟,除此之外什么也没有了。文章最后引用了他小说中主人公的一番话,该主人公带着绝望的语气说道:“什么都得改,这样的生活我再也过不下去了,但是我该如何改变这一切呢?”引文之后,文章又总结到,杰克·林德萨作为一名艺术家,不再给出问题的具体答案。故[D]项是写作目的。[B]、[C]项太笼统,全文都是关于杰克·林德萨的评论,都是作者看待他的观点。[A]项文中未涉及。
第2题:
The author's attitude towards home-schooling is ______.
A.supportive
B.inquiring
C.neutral
D.suspicious
第3题:
The attitude of the author toward advertisers is
A. appreciative
B. trustworthy
C. critical
D. dissatisfactory
第4题:
What is the author's attitude towards IQ tests?
[A] Supportive.
[B] Skeptical.
[C] Impartial.
[D] Biased
第5题:
What is the passage mainly about?( )
A.The changes of the author's attitude to her mother's English.
B.The limitation of the author's perception of her mother.
C.The author's misunderstanding of“limited”English.
D.The author's experiences of using broken English.
第6题:
How would you describe the author's attitude towards current learning strategies?
A.Distanced.
B.Admiring.
C.Objective.
D.Ironical.
第7题:
It can be inferred that the author's attitude toward cell phone yakking is_________ .
A. approving
B. disapproving
C. encouraging
D. indifferent
第8题:
The attitude of the author is __________.
A. ironical
B. critical
C. appealing
D. militant
第9题:
The author's attitude towards the government's policy is ______.
A. negative
B. doubtful
C. positive
D. unknown
40.答案为D。从全文来看,作者对监狱犯人的现状并没有支持或反对,因此态度不明确。
第10题:
The author thinks that the Hutton enquiry is _____.
[A] also beside the mark
[B] hopelessly wrong
[C] illuminating in its way
[D] wide in scope
本题考查作者观点。第三段第二句提到,两项议会调查(其中之一是赫顿调查)用不同的方法进行阐述,但却没有一个涉及到关于这场战争的症结所在。由此可见,作者认为这些调查是不准确的。[A]beside the mark与文中none … has addressed the main issues是同义替换。[B]是该段第四句中对“政府关于萨达姆武器问题的档案”的评价。[C]虽然出现了文中类似的表达,但含义出现了偏差。[D]是该段第三句中对“外事委员会”的评价。